Terry Robinson chats with Josh Heath, COO of High Level Games and host of Werewolf: The Podcast discuss the occult.
Show Notes
- How different game lines in World of Darkness handles the occult
- The Eldritch horrors of H.P. Lovecraft
- Aleister Crowley’s Thelema and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- The Yazidis
- Neo-Paganism
- Occult understanding vs occult knowledge
- Orders within the World of Darkness most associated with the occult
- Secrets and mysteries
- Initiatory magic
- Expressions of the occult in Vampire: The Masquerade
- The Sabbat
- The Cain and Abel/vampire paradox
- The Tremere
- Vaulderie and Quintessence
- Nephandi
- Guide to the Sabbat: A Sourcebook for Vampire the Masquerade
- Mudang
- RPGs as storytelling and LARPs as theatre; “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”
- Yoga as an occult practice; hidden knowledge; wisdom passed down in lineages
- Mystery cults bearing the hallmarks of the occult
- Jack Tripp
- Opus Dei
- Sufism; Kabbalah
- The Wyrm; Gnosticism
- Street level occultism
- The Arcanum
- Rituals in society and rituals in occult; Snowhaven
Books to read to further your occult knowledge:
- The Mystery-Religions
- Three Books of Occult Philosophy
- Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation
- Songs of the Shaman: The Ritual Chants of the Korean Mudang
- The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order
- The Book of the Law
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