DatC #065 - Star.Ships with Gordon White

Hello and thank you once again for joining me down at the crossroads for some music, magick, and Paganism. Where witches gather for the sabbath, offerings are made, pacts are signed for musical fame and we cross paths with today’s most influential Pagans, occultists, and deep thinkers. I am your bewitching, bald headed, host Chris Orapello and tonight we meet with author, blogger, and podcaster Gordon White to talk about his new book Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits now available from Scarlet Imprint. Star.Ships is a pivotal book and a must read for any magickal practitioner who is interested in deepening the context of their work through a provocative look into history. Gordon tirelessly lays out a historic narrative which demonstrates the underlining bedrock of human civilization and western occultism while intelligently addressing the issue of academic materialism found in modern archaeology and anthropology. A defining text of the new magical renaissance, Star.Ships addresses the question of who we are now by tracing where we come from, and by drawing out the stories and the spirits that have journeyed and evolved with us. - Scarlet Imprint Featured Songs: “Porcelain Princess” by Sharon Knight "Maker of My Sorrow" by Eliza Rickman "Walpurgisnacht" by Faun "Snow Moon" by S.J. Tucker “A Will Of Its Own” by Wendy Rule “The Battle of Evermore” by Finvarra “Free” by Omnia "We Are Shangri-La" by S.J. Tucker Other Books Mentioned: "The Origins of the World's Mythologies" by Dr. E. J. Michael Witzel "Geosophia: The Argo of Magic" by Jake Stratton Kent "Grimores: A History of Magic Books" by Owen Davies Related Links: Rune Soup Scarlet Imprint Rune Soup on Facebook Gordon White on Twitter