EPISODE · Jul 3, 2026 · 2H 25M
110. Pop Culture Magic: John Carpenter’s ‘They Live’ & Project SPEX w/ Literoin & Fr. Damiana
from Lux Occult · host Luxa Strata
Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata welcomes Literoin & Fr. Damiana to talk about the John Carpenter movie, They Live (1988) and a pop culture magic experiment inspired by the film. What did you see when you “put on the glasses”?Luxa shares about The Green Mushroom Project https://greenmushroomproject.com/ and Void House- creating consent centered magical spaces for conducting group work both in person and online, investigating the magical and alchemical properties of consent, and providing consent education to magically inclined people. Thanks for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break by giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult . Or, Buy Me a Coffee.com is an option for a one time donation: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/luxoccultpod?new=1 We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to [email protected] or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ and on BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/luxastrata919.bsky.socialCheck out the Lux Occult YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlBMerch! https://www.etsy.com/shop/IlluminIndustriesCommunity Protection Salt Ritual https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Atu6rNWkCSajdF6Fp6KYiMSHk7Sai-6IAlZfopNKFOU/edit?usp=sharing Music for Good: A Mixtape for MN Mutual Aid by Community Aid Network MN (CANMN) https://canmn.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-good-a-mixtape-for-mn-mutual-aidCheck out The Consent Academy https://www.consent.academy/Find Luxa’s work published in Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience edited by Laura Tempest Zakroff and Ron Padrón https://revelore.press/product/serpents-of-circe-a-manual-to-magical-resilience/Referenced in today’s episode:Project Spex All Out of Bubblegum Ceremony https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mVTyd4yi9T9IqCAram2WdJ4AnznvExAbxEM4hes0Xz4/edit?usp=sharing‘They Live’: John Carpenter’s Brilliantly Simple and Hugely Enjoyable Assault on Reagan’s America by By Sven Mikulec https://cinephiliabeyond.org/live-john-carpenters-brilliantly-simple-hugely-enjoyable-assault-reagans-america/John Carpenter Wants Internet to Stop Misinterpreting ‘They Live’ https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/john-carpenter-they-live-twitter-internet-nazis-jewish-control-capitalism-1201764730/They Live: John Carpenter's action flick needs to be saved https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/jan/09/they-live-john-carpenter-neo-nazisGee, whiz: elephant relieves itself on floor of Texas Republican convention https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/13/texas-elephant-republican-conventionThey Live Trivia https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/trivia/The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wretched_of_the_EarthSaw the TV Glow (2024) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Saw_the_TV_GlowAbby Hoffman and Steal This Book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman Albert Hoffman and LSD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_HofmannBud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud,_Not_BuddyLeak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/#intcid=_wired-verso-hptrending_693ebede-53d6-4172-80db-00ed15bc0d62_popular4-2 How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members https://www.wired.com/story/how-peter-thiels-private-dialog-club-secretly-ranks-its-members/
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