SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! HEYYYOOO! This episode is a look at the various beasties that one might encounter whilst amidst walkabout amongst the astral plane! Not only that, but it's also full of tons of handy dandy tips and tricks on how to defend one's self whilst amongst thust realmst! All of it presented by a man in the midst of losing his voist! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

*Astral Larvae & Elementaries: Franz Bardon, Initiation into Hermetics

*Artificial Elementals & Dissolution: Dion Fortune, Psychic Self-Defense

*Astral Spiders & Spatial Webs: C.W. Leadbeater, The Astral Plane; Phantoms & Monsters archives

*Disincarnate Shells & Earthbound Spirits: C.W. Leadbeater, The Astral Plane; Victorian Spiritualist literature

*Etheric Lampreys & Chakra Parasites: Bio-energetic research/astral projection archives

*Siren Forms (Glamour Mimics): Renaissance grimoires/Spiritualist guide records

*Mirror-Walkers & Doppelgängers: Traditional folklore/paranormal double archives

*The Dweller on the Threshold: Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Zanoni (1842); Helena Blavatsky; Rudolf Steiner

*Choronzon (Demon of the Abyss): John Dee & Edward Kelley Enochian diaries (16th C.); Aleister Crowley, The Vision and the Voice (1909)

*The Hat Man: Phantoms and Monsters sleep paralysis archive

*Solar Plexus Clown Gliders (SPCG): Internet creepypasta/iceberg lore & Jean Baudrillard, Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?

*Servitor Mechanics & Chaos Magic: Austin Osman Spare; Peter J. Carroll; Phil Hine

*Rogue Protection Servitor: Occult Corpus archives

*Viral Wealth Servitor & Ghost-Weapons: Early 2000s IRC/message board occult chat logs

*LBRP, Star Ruby & Middle Pillar: Golden Dawn/Aleister Crowley's Thelema texts

If you are currently struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, shake off those astral parasites and dial 988.

HEYYOOOOOOO! WASSUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOKS! This episode covers the life and work of good old "Bob" Monroe and his creation of "The Gateway Process" and "hemi-sync" technologies! This episode acts as the primer for what comes next, as we begin to dip our toes into THE ASTRAL REALM! If you wanna get up in there, then get this all up in you! PASS THE LOOSH PLEASE! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

*Journeys Out of the Body (1971)

*Far Journeys (1985)

*Ultimate Journey (1994)

*Analysis and Assessment of the Gateway Process–Lt. Col. Wayne M. McDonnell, US Army Intelligence/Security Command (1983; declassified by CIA in 2003)

*Oliver Fox–Astral Projection (1939)

*Egyptian Book of the Dead (approx. 1550 BCE)

*Hindu scriptures (including the Upanishads/Yoga Sutras of Patanjali)

*Tibetan Book of the Dead

If you're currently struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, follow the silver cord back to your body and dial 988.

Wanna learn it? Listen up! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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All music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com

SOURCES:

Fisher, Joe, The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts, Paraview Press, 2001.

Eliade, Mircea, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, Princeton University Press, 1964.

Harner, Michael, The Way of the Shaman, Harper & Row, 1980.

Iamblichus, De Mysteriis, Translated by Emma C. Clarke, John M. Dillon, and Jackson P. Hershbell. Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Fortune, Dion, Psychic Self-Defense, Weiser Books, 1930.

Crowley, Aleister, Magick in Theory and Practice, Castle Books, 1929.

Jung, C.G., The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Princeton University Press, 1969.

Crabtree, Adam, Multiple Man: Explorations in Possession and Multiple Personality, Praeger, 1985.

Wilson, Colin, Afterlife, Caxton Editions, 2000.

Barrett, William, Deathbed Visions. Methuen & Co., 1926.

Moody, Raymond, Life After Life, Mockingbird Books, 1975.

Whitton, Joel, and Fisher, Joe, Life Between Life, Doubleday, 1986.

Grof, Stanislav, Realms of the Human Unconscious, Viking Press, 1975.

Monroe, Robert, Far Journeys, Doubleday, 1985.

Klimo, Jon, Channeling: Investigations on Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources, North Atlantic Books, 1987.

Cassian, John, Conferences, Translated by Boniface Ramsey. Newman Press, 1997.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Translated by Robert A.F. Thurman. Bantam Books, 1994.

Patanjali, The Yoga Sutras, Translated by Swami Satchidananda. Integral Yoga Publications, 1978.

Records of the Society for Psychical Research, London.

Operational Records of RAF Bomber Command, 1939-1945. Public Record Office, Kew.

Goodman, Benny. Personal correspondence and interviews, 1986.

Didwell, Norman. Interviews regarding 99 Squadron, 1986.

You're all fucked up. Call 988.