Episode 68: On James Hillman's 'The Dream and the Underworld'
In 1979, the American psychologist James Hillman published The Dream and the Underworld, a polemical meditation on the nature of dreams. Rejecting the orthodoxies of both Freud and Jung, Hillman argue...
18 Mar 20201h 15min
Episode 67: Goblins, Goat-Gods and Gates: On 'Hellier'
On the night before this episode of Weird Studies was released, a bunch of folks on the Internet performed a collective magickal working. Prompted by the paranormal investigator Greg Newkirk, they wat...
4 Mar 20201h 23min
Episode 66: On Diviner's Time
In the paper discussed in this episode, Phil Ford coins the term "diviner's time" to denote a particular feeling that will be familiar to anyone who has engaged in divinatory or magical practice, name...
19 Feb 20201h 32min
Episode 65: Touched by that Fire: On Visionary Literature, with B. W. Powe
B. W. Powe is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and professor at York University, in Toronto. His work, though it covers an immense range of topics from politics and poetics to magic and technology,...
5 Feb 20201h 20min
Episode 64: Dreams and Shadows: On Ursula Le Guin's 'A Wizard of Earthsea'
In her National Book Award acceptance speech in 2014, Ursula K. Le Guin intimated that, far from being superseded by digital technology, fantastic fiction has never been more important than it is abou...
22 Jan 20201h 18min
Episode 63: Faculty X: On Colin Wilson's 'The Occult'
At its simplest, what Colin Wilson calls Faculty X is "simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present." Yet its existence is evinced in all those phenomena that modernity...
8 Jan 20201h 19min
Episode 62: It's Like 'The Shining', But With Nuns: On 'Black Narcissus'
The 1947 British film Black Narcissus is many things: an allegory of the end of empire, a chilling ghost story with nary a spook in sight, a psychological romance, and a meditation on the nature of th...
18 Des 20191h 34min
Episode 61: Evil and Ecstasy: On 'The Silence of the Lambs'
The Welsh writer Arthur Machen defined good and evil as "ecstasies." Each one is a "withdrawal from the common life." On this view, any artistic investigation into the nature of good and evil can't re...
4 Des 20191h 7min
