Black Banner Magic
37 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 51 ratingsAn occult podcast for leftists and a leftist podcast for witches. Black Banner Magic is a member of the Revolutionary Left Radio network. Contact us at [email protected]
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Episodes
ACAB - All Cops Are Beasts
August 03, 2020 02:12 - 57 minutes - 65.2 MBIt was my intention to speak to many magically operant people around the U.S. working in multiple traditions and cosmologies but the final result was limited because intensive continued trauma condenses time. Meredith Graves returns to talk about the psychic control copaganda poses and the material conditions of the ethereal. http://www.thebronxfreedomfund.org/ https://brooklynbailfund.org/ Frater Pera is the second guest to discuss the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram and t...
Bonus teaser: Trash Goblins - Hellier S1E3
June 18, 2020 04:03 - 1 minute - 1.18 MBWe finally get spirit contact through radio divination in Hellier ep3 season 1 and we make goblin contact of our own. Also Peter and Rark learn that Nestor has another, longer running podcast they've never listened to, even though they're old friends. Much synchronicity! https://www.patreon.com/bbmpod @peterscorecard @zoozer6 IG: FutureCitiesInk @harvest_goth
INTRODUCING: Trash Goblins - Hellier ep1
June 15, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MBThis is the first episode of TRASH GOBLINS, the Patreon exclusive bonus series spinoff of Black Banner Magic. Nestor is joined by Peter Scorecard and Rark Muffalo to discuss trash cinema and television. We chose the Hellier series to start the trash mound and will work our way through low-budget horror cinema from the past and current paranormal documentaries. rate review ect blah blah big trash Patreon.com/bbmpod to access more episodes. @harvest_goth @peterscorecard @zoozer6
Army of Darkness: Memorial Day
May 24, 2020 01:10 - 55 minutes - 27.6 MBCharlie Wyseman from Magickal Mutual Aid fields questions I have about the occult practices of Memorial Day. Like, does the military engage in hero cults, spirit evocation and ancestor veneration? Yes. Do they consider it a remediation or healing practice? Of course not. Don't be silly. Happy Memorial Day 2020. Follow Charlie on Twitter @MagickCharlie and Magickal Mutual Aid @AidMagickal Follow me on Twitter @harvest_goth Patreon: patreon.com/bbmpod Intro: Metal Fingers - Datura Str...
Kindred Interdimensional Monitoring
May 10, 2020 22:34 - 11 minutes - 11.4 MBThe Nebraska Parks Department asks if you visit a Kindred Interdimensional Monitoring Point that you PLEASE CLOSE ALL PORTALS WHEN FINISHED TO HELP MINIMIZE INTERDIMENSIONAL CONTAMINATION report your findings to @harvest_goth on twitter patreon.com/bbmpod Panopticon - The Devil Walked the Woods
Los Espookys Rojo: Anarchism, Liberalism, Seances, and Strategies of the Mexican Revolution
April 26, 2020 23:48 - 1 hour - 109 MBWhat's 500 years to the immortal soul? Black Banner Magic, Jake from Pod Damn America, and Breht from Revolutionary Left Radio hit the beats of the Mexican Revolution. Going over Spain's social and religious colonization of the indigenous peoples that gave rise to the independence movement, the peasant farmers that rose up to lead the revolution to take back the land, and one spooky, weird rich kid that ended up president for a while. Intro song: Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio Outro so...
The Metaphysics of US Curse Week
April 20, 2020 18:18 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBIn this short episode I talk about the 3rd week of April phenomenon known as US Curse week, and the implications of serial killer David Berkowitz being the only known person to be rehabilitated by the US carceral state. Spoiler: he wasn't, it's another Evangelical grift. Song: Dead Boys - Son of Sam twitter: @harvest_goth patreon.com/bbmpod
Drone Thugs and Harmontown
February 29, 2020 15:25 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBThe First Great Plains Drone Flap existed between November 2019 and January 2020. The numerous government acronym agencies couldn't explain it much less claim responsibility. The few people in rural Eastern Colorado and Western Nebraska that saw the full phenomenon said it was harmless and there was no know physical contact; only visible conformation. Who were the drone operators, why did they drift eastward, what were they looking for, where did they go, and who funded them? Matthew and ...
Eliphas Levi and the Inverted Commas: 'Breadtube is a Grift'
January 26, 2020 03:18 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBThe breadth of the Western Esoteric Tradition seeds from one 19th century socialist revolutionary Catholic seminary drop out and most of it is made from whole cloth. Eliphas Levi is responsible for every metal band and magician's misinterpretation of Baphomet, the number of the Beast, Satan and Lucifer, "Good & Evil" and yet worse, he lived through a failed European social revolution. Now 21st century media personalities are cashing in on the symbolic rhetoric of leftist revolutionary moment...
UNLOCKED: Prison Ghost Industrial Complex
October 17, 2019 00:39 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBUNLOCKED: I wanted to add an ironic prison ghost tour to my central Missouri roadtrip in July but the tours were canceled due to extensive structural damage from a tornado and flooding. Hell yeah! This prison held Emma Goldman and Kate O'Hare for their anti-war actions in speaking against the WW1 draft. Instead of the tour, I walked along an abandoned service road and talked about the right wing Christian concept of ghosts, the death penalty, and libidinal orgone energies. Plus, I pitch a ...
Ghosts of Violence and Synchronicity
August 25, 2019 07:35 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBI take a circuitous route through the direct actions of the anti-capitalist, anti-fascist Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Group) in West Germany to discuss Carl Jung's synchronicity, high strangeness as a form of PTSD in the collective unconscious, and what could possibly be a reason for mass shooting survivors finding themselves in a quantum entanglement of trauma. Outro music: Wizo - Rote Armee Fraktion Support the show on Patreon and you're supporting the OFF! bail fund too. patreon...
Ghosts of Violence and Synchronicity
August 25, 2019 07:35 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBI take a circuitous route through the direct actions of the anti-capitalist, anti-fascist Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Group) in West Germany to discuss Carl Jung's synchronicity, high strangeness as a form of PTSD in the collective unconscious, and what could possibly be a reason for mass shooting survivors finding themselves in a quantum entanglement of trauma. Outro music: Wizo - Rote Armee Fraktion Patreon.com/bbmpod Twitter: @harvest_goth Email: [email protected] ...
David Lynch's Transcendental Meditation Against Prisons
August 05, 2019 02:29 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBMy old friend Nick Battles talks about Transcendent*l Medit*tion (tm), David Lynch's foundation subsidizing TM programs in prisons, schools, military barracks, and hospitals (all the places Foucault called centers of punishment). We discuss the benefits of non-productive activities like meditation and hiding in the bathroom at work (#hitbraw), the profit motives of those presenting non-productive meditation, and pop culture reification. In the Patreon extention, we also discuss the influe...
bonus ep promo Imposter Syndrome and Glamour Spells
July 21, 2019 21:57 - 50 seconds - 780 KBThoughts on imposter syndrome and glamour spells and tricking natzis. patreon.com/bbmpod Twitter: @harvest_goth Email: [email protected] Join the #weirdleft community on Discord https://discord.gg/Pz6akeN
Soviet TV Psychics with Hannah Gais
July 20, 2019 21:29 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBHannah Gais talks about her article for The Baffler about healing psychics on Soviet TV on the precipice of the fall of the USSR, and the conspiratorial thinking still present in Russian and U.S. cultures. Follow Hannah on Twitter @hannahgais and read her in New Republic and The Baffler patreon.com/bbmpod Twitter: @harvest_goth Email: [email protected] Join the #weirdleft community on Discord https://discord.gg/Pz6akeN 2/3rds of every dollar raised through this Patreon ...
Soviet TV Psychics with Hannah Gais
July 20, 2019 21:29 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBHannah Gais talks about her article for The Baffler about healing psychics on Soviet TV on the precipice of the fall of the USSR, and the conspiratorial thinking still present in Russian and U.S. cultures. Follow Hannah on Twitter @hannahgais and read her in New Republic and The Baffler Support the show on Patreon and you're supporting the OFF! bail fund too. patreon.com/blackbannermagic Twitter: @blackbannerpod Email: [email protected] Join the #weirdleft community on ...
Hail Satan? the movie
June 28, 2019 03:47 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBEvyn and Thom from Satanhaus, and Alib Gibarra from Order of the Eight join me to discuss the art house documentary produced by The Satanic Temple aptly titled Hail Satan? I'm not a Satanist despite what the reply guys on Twitter say, so I am glad to have bona fide Satanists, one being a former TST member, to give some inside perspective on this documentary and the broader Satanic world view. We talk perceptions, actions, Satanic music, and arming the left. Follow @satanhaus to see some ...
Witches Demystifying Abortion
June 07, 2019 02:59 - 45 minutes - 20.7 MBSyd Casey is a street medic, a doula, and a nursing assistant at an NYC reproductive health clinic that provides abortions and other services, such as STD testings, medical screenings and vasectomies. Syd is also a witch retaining the old knowledge of self managed abortions. We talk about how the witch hunts of Medieval Europe and Colonial US led to the exclusion of women from most formalized medical training until the late 1860s, with exception to performing reproductive health procedures...
Witches Demystifying Abortion
June 07, 2019 02:59 - 45 minutes - 20.7 MBSyd Casey is a street medic, a doula, and a nursing assistant at an NYC reproductive health clinic that provides abortions and other services, such as STD testings, medical screenings and vasectomies. Syd is also a witch retaining the old knowledge of self managed abortions. We talk about how the witch hunts of Medieval Europe and Colonial US led to the exclusion of women from most formalized medical training until the late 1860s, with exception to performing reproductive health procedures...
Cat Bee and the Marxist Mage
May 12, 2019 04:07 - 1 hour - 30.4 MB"our motto must be: reform of consciousness not through dogmas, but by analysing the mystical consciousness that is unintelligible to itself, whether it manifests itself in a religious or a political form." It might sound like a Terence McKenna quote, but it is Karl Marx in a letter to Arnold Ruge in 1843 as the two clarified the aims of their journal German-French Annals, where Marx first published the essays that formed his conception of historical materialism, political emancipation an...
Real Sartreposting Hours feat Coffee with Comrades and Rev Left Radio
April 27, 2019 16:39 - 1 hour - 78.1 MBWe recorded this episode in mid March 2019 while Pearson from Coffee with Comrades was visiting in Omaha, NE during Spring break. This freeform conversation first aired as a Patreon bonus for Rev Left Radio and is now unlocked and I'm excited to share this episode wherein we cover quite a bit: climate change effects happening in the now, fascist violence, and death. It's a heavy weight but filled with militant joy. Anyway, enjoy! Support Rev Left Radio on Patreon & follow on Twitter. Su...
Adorno and Nu Atheism s2e1
April 27, 2019 00:28 - 1 hour - 31.4 MBBreht from Revolutionary Left Radio continues the discussion from our roundtable episode featuring Coffee With Comrades cohosts Mel and Pearson, and this time I talk about the collective unconscious and how it appears to us, and we drill down on the cult of rationality that created the New Atheist movement and its role in promoting Islamophobia over criticism of other religions, and their support of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We also discuss how those reactionary ideas of ration...
Adorno, Astrology, and Nu Atheism s2e1
April 27, 2019 00:28 - 1 hour - 31.4 MBBreht from Revolutionary Left Radio continues the discussion from our roundtable episode featuring Coffee With Comrades cohosts Mel and Pearson, and this time I talk about the collective unconscious and how it appears to us, and we drill down on the cult of rationality that created the New Atheist movement and its role in promoting Islamophobia over criticism of other religions, and their support of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We also discuss how those reactionary ideas of ration...
Prosper Bonhomme talks Romani magic and history
January 31, 2019 16:19 - 57 minutes - 132 MBI had the opportunity to speak with Prosper Bonhomme, a writer, traveler, and Romani egoist anarchist. They write professionally for Gods & Radicals and personally on their blog. They also ethically collect animal carcasses to prepare and sell the skeletal remains for magical and ritual use. I'm excited for this talk because prior to our discussion I didn't have as deep of an understanding of Roma history or culture as I should considering many of us use the techniques and traditional Roma...
Summoning Meredith Graves
January 21, 2019 06:10 - 1 hour - 32.5 MBMeredith Graves is the director of music for Kickstarter. She is also the singer of Perfect Pussy, runs her own record label, and is a former MTV News journalist. But wait, there's more! Meredith is also a practicing witch in the Solomonic grimoire tradition. She recently published an article in the resurrected horror magazine Fangoria on how Hollywood consistently gets demon summoning wrong on film. Meredith's dog is the President of Hell, the Goetic demon Glasya-Labolas or Caacrinolaas, ...
Perchta the Belly Slitter
January 06, 2019 22:29 - 17 minutes - 39.8 MBWelcome to 2019, you made it! Announcement number one: I am scaling back the show from weekly to every other week, plus a Patreon exclusive episode. That's 2 regular and one bonus episode. But there is a new Patreon tier which includes a weekly card reading from me on the Weird Left discord voice chat. A content warning about this episode up top. Between the 2:50-6:14 mark, I address sexual assault and the predatory issues that surfaced about a repeat guest to this show, Dr Bones. If sex...
The Invisibles Committee with Gareth
December 18, 2018 23:36 - 1 hour - 158 MBGareth from Death // Sentence podcast joined me to discuss the chaos magic occult classic comic series The Invisibles and possibly made a comics reader out of me. The Invisibles was Grant Morrison's first major creator-owned title for DC Comics and it drew from 1990s rave, punk, and conspiracy cultures. His intent was to create a hypersigil to improve the culture in a more positive direction. Follow Gareth on twitter @DeathSentencePC Listen at www.deathsentence.co and on Soundcloud htt...
Sigil Magic with the Anarchawitch
November 25, 2018 20:42 - 28 minutes - 65.3 MBWe are talking sigil magic this time with the wonderful anarchawitch herself, a 20 year old nonbinary trans girl from the Pacific southwest, she is a hacker and an eclectic Wiccan Taoist witch here to talk with us about sigil magic. Chaos magic is but one form of sigil work she lays down, and this episode makes a perfect companion piece to the RevLeft episode on post-structualism and post-modernism as it illustrates the theory that shaped the early writers laying down chaos magic(k). So...
Antifa Satanism and the Order of The Raven
November 19, 2018 19:46 - 49 minutes - 114 MBThe three-headed episode on Satanism! In the first section I give a brief overview of the major satanic groups of the late 20th and early 21st century. Then we have an audio reading of the 3rd installment of essays by Trident Antifa on the alt-right connections to the leadership of The Satanic Temple. In the last half, I interview three members from The Order of the Raven, a new group of socialist and antifascist Satanists that arose during the ascendancy of Trump. Trident Antifa's full ...
Hexes on Kavanaugh and Ouija Boards for Kids
November 07, 2018 17:16 - 50 minutes - 117 MBJake Flores sent a reportback from the hex on Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh at Catland Books, an occult bookstore in his Bushwich Brooklyn neighborhood. To see Jake Flores on his stand-up tours, visit his website: http://www.feraljokes.com Follow him on Twitter @FeralJokes, @MrCleoPod, & @PodDamnAmerica At the 16:22 mark of the beast, I talk to Dr Bones about his charity work with Ouija Boards for Kids, a foundation that provides children the tools to contact the dead. Call 510...
The Unmasking Dr. Bones Act of 2018
October 29, 2018 06:12 - 1 hour - 162 MBHe didn't spend many years in the graveyard to get called Mister. No! The one, the only, the unique Dr. Bones is here to talk about psychic warfare, a strip club wizard, ritual tools and practices, and his patron saint, the protector of the lumpenproletariat, Jesus Malverde. Dr. Bones, as you are no doubt aware, is a Hoodoo-slingin’ Florida native and Egoist-Communist spitting pure vitriol and sorcerous wisdom at a world gone mad. He lives with his loving wife, a herd of cats, and a house ...
Tarot and Mental Health with AK
October 22, 2018 15:30 - 44 minutes - 102 MBAK is in the studio to talk about the tarot, these funny little pieces of paper and how they interact within our worlds. We also discuss the DIY scene, self-care, how they use the tarot as a personal coping mechanism, and how I am bad at reading body language. AK can be found on Twitter @666ofswords and they are also 1/2 of the @omahazinefest (the fourth annual fest is March 16 2019 btw, so if you make zines, register a table now because they go fast!) omahazinefest.org Correction note: ...
Posadism with A.M. Gittlitz OR Mars Doesn't Attack
October 14, 2018 21:36 - 50 minutes - 115 MBA.M. Gittlitz joined us to discuss Posadism, space communism, non-human intelligence, and the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis. In the Patreon extended chat we also talked about the anti-communist black magic wizard that secretly ran Argentina's death squad during the Peron regime that targeted J. Posadas. A.M. is the producer of The Antifada, a freelance writer, and independent researcher on countercultural, radical politics, and the paranormal. A.M. tweets at @spaceprole and can also be hea...
Mutual Aid Magick
October 08, 2018 00:47 - 45 minutes - 105 MBCharlie Wyseman and Snakebird Sean are anticapitalist magick weirdos from the dirt fields of West Virginia. Their pantheistic practice has roots in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Santeria, as well as Egyptian Kamet, mystical Buddhism, Conjure, Kabbalah, pre-European tree worship, and that olde time grandma magick passed down through generations all over the world. Sean and Charlie run a program called Mutual Aid Magick, providing magick powders, jar spells, recipes, and more to leftists of all strip...
Mutual Aid Magick
October 08, 2018 00:47 - 45 minutes - 105 MBCharlie Wyseman and Snakebird Sean are anticapitalist magick weirdos from the dirt fields of West Virginia. Their pantheistic practice has roots in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Santeria, as well as Egyptian Kamet, mystical Buddhism, Conjure, Kabbalah, pre-European tree worship, and that olde time grandma magick passed down through generations all over the world. Sean and Charlie run a program called Mutual Aid Magick, providing magick powders, jar spells, recipes, and more to leftists of all strip...
Tarotsplaining with Jake Flores
September 29, 2018 04:28 - 1 hour - 143 MBIn this episode, I talk with comedian and drunk psychic, Jake Flores. Jake hosts Mr Cleo Pod, a call-in tarot card reading show. We talk about his experiences with the tarot, goth socialism, and the time Department of Homeland Security made a home visit after he told a joke on Twitter. Jake is also the host of Pod Damn America. To see Jake Flores on tour, visit his website: http://www.feraljokes.com Follow him on Twitter @FeralJokes, @MrCleoPod, & @PodDamnAmerica Outro Song: Kill Your ...
Black Banner Magic: An Introduction
September 28, 2018 17:36 - 7 minutes - 16.9 MBIntro and Outro Music by Church Fire, a witchy band out of Denver, Colorado. You can listen to and support them here: https://churchfire.bandcamp.com Support Black Banner Magic and the Omaha Freedom Fund! and get access to a monthly bonus episode, by visiting our patreon here: Patreon.com/BlackBannerMagic Contact us at: [email protected] Black Banner Magic is officially affiliated with, and a proud member of, The Revolutionary Left Radio Media Network. ----- 2/3rds ...