The Heretical Heathen Podcast

Most people approach rune magic through divination - casting runes to see what they "say" about the day. But that's backward. You end up projecting meaning onto events, getting lost in interpretation. My approach inverts this: meditate on a rune, then observe your actual day and find events that genuinely correspond to it. This teaches you to spot runic forces and archetypal patterns already at work in reality. Once you develop tha...

What do you encounter when you scry Raidho? This episode documents an unfolding vision: meeting a spirit guide dressed in white, descending through a winter landscape and into darkness, standing before Hel herself in the depths, and being carried upward along Yggdrasil by a cosmic bird to return home. Raidho reveals itself not as simple forward movement, but as a cyclical descent and return - a shamanic journey through multiple rea...

A heathen watches Naruto and discovers something deeper than a shounen battle anime. The series isn't really about its protagonists at all - Naruto and Sasuke are containers for something far larger: the eternal balancing of opposing forces. We explore the series as a meditation on suffering, examine Itachi Uchiha as an archetypal complex made flesh, and trace the Sharingan's connection to Maya - the illusory veil that appears acro...

After appearing on Jesse's Random Heathen Ramblings podcast, I wanted to expand on some key points from our conversation. Heathenry has become ossified by dogma and textual authority, but living practice demands mystery. I also explore why aliens and anomalies might actually be our modern attempt at an authentic spirituality.

Check out the original conversation: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2bCpTgIZc612Ld4o5CbgFp?si=bN4vxftBS-...

The runes aren't just symbols to memorize or cast - they're living forces that can be embodied. Rune yoga, or stadha, is the practice of assuming physical postures that mirror the shapes of individual runes, combining breath work and focused intention to internalize their power. We discuss the origins of this practice, how it differs from meditation or visualization alone, and practical techniques for incorporating runic postures i...

Before he was the most controversial general in Athens, Alcibiades was just a young man with massive ambitions and an even bigger ego. In this episode, we break down Plato’s Alcibiades I. We explore the famous "Socratic intervention" where Socrates humbles a future superstar by asking a simple, devastating question: How can you govern a city if you don’t yet know how to govern yourself?

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In an age of spiritual consumerism, can you simply choose any pantheon that appeals to you? Or do the gods of your ancestors offer particular channels of divine contact carved through millennia of reciprocal shaping? This episode makes the case for folkish heathenry - not as supremacy, but as rootedness in the specific paths our peoples have already cleared toward the sacred.

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Most heathens blót because their ancestors did. And that's a real answer. But it's not the only one. In this episode we dig beneath the surface of sacrificial practice into the gift economy of Norse culture, Iamblichus and the theurgic tradition, henosis, sunthemata, and what it actually means to participate in the pattern of creation. Blót isn't just tradition. It's cosmology in action.

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A systematic examination of arguments claiming European paganisms cannot be closed practices. Through logical analysis, I demonstrate how each argument—from colonization to white supremacy to historical precedent—fails under scrutiny. What emerges is a pattern of sophistry masking racial double standards. A call for intellectual consistency and equal treatment in pagan discourse.

Legendary Epic Heroic | Heroic by Alex-...

In this episode, I critique Seðian philosophy as presented by the Norroena Society, showing three fatal logical flaws: they deny unity exists while constantly affirming it, they reduce gods to physical beings (which is just atheism), and they deny objective morality while making moral prescriptions. I offer the Platonic framework as a coherent alternative that preserves real divinity and real ethics.

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In this episode, I share my personal journey into Heathen esotericism - from being the weird kid into ghosts and the paranormal, to discovering ceremonial magic and Heathenry, to synthesizing them into the Heathen Golden Dawn tradition. If you've ever wondered how someone ends up practicing Norse ceremonial magic, this is that story.

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I tackle one of modern Heathenry's most controversial topics: working with Loki and the Jotun. Drawing on cross-cultural wisdom traditions and observable patterns, I explore why "you become what you worship" and what happens when people align themselves with forces of chaos - especially those already struggling with mental health.

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