The Source Family: The Hollywood Cult Built Around a Charismatic Guru
In late nineteen-sixties and early nineteen-seventies Los Angeles, Jim Baker opened The Source, a health-food restaurant on Sunset Boulevard that became the financial engine and social doorway for a c...
16 Okt 27min
The Ku Klux Klan’s Secret Rituals: How a Terror Group Built a Hidden Fraternal System
This episode examines the first Ku Klux Klan of Reconstruction, not the later organization revived in nineteen fifteen. In Pulaski, Tennessee, around May or early June eighteen sixty-six, a small circ...
9 Okt 25min
The Thule Society: The Occult Circle at the Edge of Early Nazism
In Munich after the First World War, the Thule Society presented itself as a selective association for Germanic antiquity while promoting völkisch racial nationalism, antisemitism, and counterrevoluti...
2 Okt 25min
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: The Occult Society That Shaped Modern Magic
In Victorian Britain, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn offered a private path into occult study through graded initiation, ritual, symbolism, and restricted instruction. Founded in 1888 by Willia...
25 Sep 21min
The OTO: The Occult Order Behind Aleister Crowley
Ordo Templi Orientis, or OTO, is often remembered through Aleister Crowley, but it began before him in the early twentieth-century world of European occult fraternities, irregular Freemasonry, Rosicru...
18 Sep 29min
The Knights Templar: The Secret Order That Became Too Powerful
In France, on Friday the thirteenth of October, thirteen hundred and seven, King Philip the Fourth ordered the mass arrest of the Knights Templar, one of medieval Christianity’s most privileged milita...
11 Sep 28min
The Solar Lodge: The LSD Cult Linked to a Child Locked in a Box
In nineteen sixty-nine, deputies entered a remote desert property near Vidal and Blythe, California, connected to Solar Lodge, a small occult initiatory group led by Georgina “Jean” Brayton. The group...
3 Sep 27min
The Unification Church: How the Moonies Built a Global Religious and Political Network
On July eighth, twenty twenty-two, former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated during a campaign speech in Nara. The accused killer said his anger came from his family’s financial ruin ...
28 Aug 29min
