Hermitix
by Hermitix
Hermitix is a podcast focusing on one-on-one interviews relating to fringe philosophy, obscure theory, weird lit, underappreciated thinkers and movements, and that which historically finds itself 'outside' the academic canon.The Hermitage (Hermitix adjacent, living magical community): https://the-hermitage.mn.coInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/jameshermitix/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hermitixContact: [email protected]
Episodes
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Carl Jung and Thus Spoke Zarathustra: The Challenge of Transformation with Paul Bishop
Professor Paul Bishop is the author of multiple books on the work of Carl Jung, Friedrich Nietzsche, alongside other texts on analytical psychology and German thought. In this episode we discuss Carl Jung in relation to Nietzsche's 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'.Bishop's book:...
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Ordinary Horror: The Aesthetics of Deformation with Andrea Capra
Andrea Capra holds a Ph.D. in Italian from Stanford University and was a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University’s Society of Fellows before joining NYU. He is a literary scholar whose work focuses on the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries.Capra is the author of Ordinary...
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Puer Aeternus with Jakob Lusensky
Jakob Lusensky is a Jungian analyst working in Berlin. In this episode we discuss Jung and the puer aeternus. Jakob's site: https://www.psychoanalystinberlin.com/Jakob's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast...%E2%81%A0---Become part of the Hermitix community:The Hermitage:...
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Classic Astrology with Matthew Kenney
Matthew “Merlin” Kenney is a professional classical astrologer and ritual magician who has spent the last 11 years of his life devoted to his craft. He studied classical philosophy and linguistics at university, and reads and translates Ancient Greek and Sanskrit, utilizing the insights of…
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Seeds of Equanimity with Michael Uebel
Michael Uebel, PhD, LCSW, studies intellectual history. He has taught theory and literature at the University of Virginia, Georgetown University, and the University of Kentucky. Currently an Affiliate of the Office for the Associate Dean for Research at the University of Texas-Austin, and an...
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The Life and Work of Victor Neuburg with Justin Hopper
Justin P. Hopper is an American-born British writer living in the East of England. He makes books, records and performances, as well as a podcast and other projects, based around the written or spoken word. A lot of it is related to interests in landscape, psychogeography and hauntology, as well…
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What Are Sigils? - Sigil Magic (The Hermitage Teaser)
A talk on sigils: https://thehermitage.school/The Hermitage is an online magical school that offers multiple courses across the Western magical tradition and leaves the path entirely up to you. There is no endpoint, no correct sequence, no single tradition that covers the terrain. The Hermitage...
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The Work of James Hillman with Jason Butler
Jason Butler is a licensed clinical psychologist and a practicing psychotherapist at Sage Integrative Health in Berkeley. He is the author of Archetypal psychotherapy: The clinical legacy of James HillmanButler's site: https://jasonbutlerphd.com---Become part of the Hermitix community:The...
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The Eros of Distance with Mads Højmark
Mads Højmark is Chief Advisor at Djøf and a Board Member at The Danish Society for Philosophical Practice (DSFP). Mads' LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hoejmark/ Mads at Philosophical Health International: https://www.philosophical.health/ Mythophil site: https://www.thaumas.dk/ ---Become...
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The Anarch as Katechon: Studies of a Liminal Figure with Patrick McNamara
Patrick McNamara (born 1956) is an American neuroscientist. His work has centered on three major topics: sleep and dreams, religion, and mind/brain.Book link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anarch-Katechon-Literary-Neuroscience-Evolutionary-ebook/dp/B0GSCBFQLC--- Become part of the Hermitix community:...
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The Body Holds Everything (The Hermitage Body & Energy Course Teaser)
A talk on body, energy, vital force, Wilhelm Reich, and the somatic relationship to magic; find the full course at: https://the-hermitage.mn.co/The Hermitage is an online magical school that offers multiple courses across the Western magical tradition and leaves the path entirely up to you. There...
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The Genealogy of Genealogy with Jason Josephson Storm
Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm is an American academic, philosopher, social scientist, and author. He is currently Professor in the Department of Religion and chair in Science and Technology Studies at Williams College. He also holds affiliated positions in Asian studies and Comparative Literature…
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The Watching Words by Peter Kingsley (Book Review)
The Watching Words by Peter KingsleyBook link: https://peterkingsley.org/product/the-watching-words-hardcover-2026/---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - patreon.com/hermitix Donations: -...
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Nonduality & Magic with Jay Basu
The Nonduality & Magic course can be found here: https://the-hermitage.mn.coJay grew up in east London, to an Indian father and a half-Russian, half-Polish mother. His father’s family in West Bengal were immersed in the Advaita Vedanta tradition as members of the Ramakrishna Mission, so there was...
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The Failure of Philosophy with Nick Trakakis
Nick Trakakis is an Australian philosopher who is assistant director of the Centre for Philosophy and Phenomenology of Religion of the Australian Catholic University. He has previously taught at Monash University and Deakin University, and during 2006–2007 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at...
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Not negative enough: Suffering, love, and the feminine with Julie Reshe
Julie Reshe is a Ukrainian-born philosopher, a practicing negative psychoanalyst, and a public intellectual. She is currently a visiting professor at University College Cork and University College Dublin. She is also a Director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis at the Global Centre for Advanced...
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Death Drive & Self-Sabotage with Todd McGowan
This episode I'm joined once again by Todd McGowan to discuss the death drive.Book link: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=self-sabotage-how-we-try-not-to-flourish--9781509573363---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix:Patreon -...
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A Life of Magic: Chaos, Games, & Ritual with Lionel Snell
Ramsey Dukes is the current and most well-known pen name of Lionel Snell, a contemporary English magician, publisher, and author on magic and philosophy.Lionel was born to a Kibbo Kift couple as WW2 was ending and lived his childhood in a converted water mill deep in the Gloucestershire…
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Somatics & Spirituality with Devaraj Sandberg
Devaraj Sandberg is a body-based therapist, author and workshop leader with a radical perspective on psychology and authenticity. He champions new ideas, loves working with people and is a digital nomad.Devaraj's site: https://bioenergetics.org.uk/author/devaraj/Devaraj's Youtube @DevarajSandberg...
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Ancestor Worship - Why The Dead? (Hermitage Course Teaser)
A talk on ancestor worship; find the full course at: https://the-hermitage.mn.co/The Hermitage is an online magical school that offers multiple courses across the Western magical tradition and leaves the path entirely up to you. There is no endpoint, no correct sequence, no single tradition that...
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One, No One and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello (Book Review)
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise -...
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The Black Pilgrimage: Cosmos, Current, Cultus with David Beth
David Beth was born and raised in Africa, living all over the world in service of the spirits. He was initiated as a priest of Haitian Vodou (Houngan Asogwe) in Port au Prince, Haiti and is the current Heresiarch of the Kosmic Gnosis – an esoteric current focused on chthonic mysteries and magic....
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Science, Mystery, and Mysticism with Mark Booth
Jonathan Black is a British author, known for his books The Secret History of the World and The Sacred History: How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made Our World. He is in the charge of Century, an imprint of Random House UK.Book link:...
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The History of the Tarot (Hermitage Course Teaser)
A talk on the history of the tarot, find the full course at: https://the-hermitage.mn.co/The Hermitage is an online magical school that offers multiple courses across the Western magical tradition and leaves the path entirely up to you. There is no endpoint, no correct sequence, no single…
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Alexandre Kojève and the End of History with Luis Javier Pedrazuela
Luis Javier Pedrazuela is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Quantitative Methods at CUNEF Universidad. He holds a degree in Philosophy and Humanities from Universidad de Deusto. After a long career in the private sector, he earned a PhD in Philosophy from Universidad Carlos III…
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The Pagan Journey with Christopher McIntosh
Christopher McIntosh is a British-born writer and historian, specializing in the esoteric traditions of the West. He has a doctorate in history from Oxford University, a degree in German from London University, and a diploma in Russian from the United Nations Language School. The author of many...
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What Is Chaos Magic? (Hermitage Course Teaser)
A talk on chaos magic, find the full course at: https://the-hermitage.mn.co/The Hermitage is an online magical school that offers multiple courses across the Western magical tradition and leaves the path entirely up to you. There is no endpoint, no correct sequence, no single tradition that…
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Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (Book Review)
Review of Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2…
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Stuart Wilde, Chaos Magick, and Non-Duality with Tommie Kelly
Tommie Kelly is an Irish artist, musician, and writer who has had a lifelong interest in all things Occult and Spirituality. Kelly's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/tommiekellySubstack: https://tommiekelly.substack.com/Site: https://www.adventuresinwoowoo.com/---Become part of the Hermitix...
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Women, do they exist? What do they want? / Lacan and the Ineffable with Judith Gurewich
Judith Feher-Gurewich, Ph,D., practices psychoanalysis in Cambridge, MA. She is affiliated with the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and is a member of the Association de Formation Psychoanalytique et de Recherches Freudiennes: Espace Analytique in Paris. Dr. Gurewich is the Director of the Lacan...
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Conversations with Gods, Deities, and Avatars with Kingsley Dennis
Kingsley L. Dennis, PhD, is a full-time writer and researcher. He is the author of over twenty-five books and numerous articles on a lot of stuff.Book link: https://spirit.aeonbooks.co.uk/product/sage-talks/95400Dennis' Substack: https://substack.com/@kingsleyldennis---Become part of the Hermitix...
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Keiji's Nishitani's 'The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism' with Joseph Turner
Joseph Turner is a PhD student in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in the dialogue between continental and Japanese philosophical traditions. His dissertation explores the development of a political ontology that bridges Nishitani Keiji's concept of...
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The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: History, Practice and Horus No. 5 with Melissa Seims
Melissa Seims is an author specialising in the history of modern witchcraft, especially Gardnerian witchcraft of the 1950s and 1960s and the mysterious Coven of Atho. She is also a specialist on the influential 1888 Golden Dawn Temple, known as Horus No.5 in Bradford. Her latest book, 'Light in...
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Desire & The Real: Sade, Lacan, Bataille with Tim Themi and Bryan Counter
Dr Tim Themi is a PhD in Philosophy & Psychoanalysis from Deakin University. He also holds Honours degrees in Philosophy from La Trobe University and in Chemical Engineering from University of Melbourne. His doctoral dissertation, supervised by leading Lacan translator Prof Russell Grigg, brought...
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Q&A Session: 30k Subs, The Hermitage Launch, and more...
Q&A audio from a live session on YouTube on 10/07. The Hermitage: https://the-hermitage.mn.co/
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Introducing: The Hermitage
The Hermitage is an online magical school that offers multiple courses across the Western magical tradition and leaves the path entirely up to you. There is no endpoint, no correct sequence, no single tradition that covers the terrain. The Hermitage offers courses and guidance rather than a...
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Eliphas Levi's 'The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic' with John Michael Greer
This episode I'm joined once again by writer and occultist John Michael Greer to discuss The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Levi.Greer's commentary: https://spirit.aeonbooks.co.uk/preview/95405Greer's translation (with Mark Anthony Mikituk) :...
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An Introduction to the Work of Gordon White
Gordon White (1981–2026) was a chaos magician, shamanic practitioner and permaculture farmer based in Tasmania. His website and podcast, Rune Soup, remain as portals into the world of modern magic offering lessons, lectures, discussion and community with hundreds of hours of material to learn…
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Mysticism, Philosophy, and Vegetal Life with Simone Kotva
Simone Kotva is Senior Lecturer in theology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is the author of Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy (2020), also with Bloomsbury, and writes at the intersection of Christian theology and Continental philosophy and theory. She has...
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Steiner, Sex, and Spirit! with Conner Habib
Conner Habib, is an American writer, podcaster, academic, activist and former pornographic actor of Syrian and Irish descent. He hosts Against Everyone With Conner Habib, a podcast where he discusses current events and politics, as well as philosophy, science and spiritual ideas by himself or…
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An Introduction to Plotinus with Max Wade
Max completed his PhD at Boston College in spring 2025 and currently teach philosophy at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. He primarily work in the history of philosophy, with my primary area of specialization in ancient Greek and Roman metaphysics and natural philosophy. He has also done...
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The Paradox of Spiritual Seeking with Mitch Horowitz
Mitch Horowitz is a PEN Award-winning historian, writer, and lecturer who explores the intersections of metaphysics, ethics, and self-transformation. Launch event is Sunday, June 21, at 7 pm in NYC. This is a free RSVP:...
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The Pendulum by Tasos Leivaditis (Book Review)
Review of The Pendulum by Tasos LeivaditisBook link: https://editionsmaudites.com/books/the-pendulum/---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod…
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Ludwig Klages' The Spirit as Adversary of the Soul with Paul Bishop
Professor Paul Bishop is the author of multiple books on the work of Carl Jung, Friedrich Nietzsche, alongside other texts on analytical psychology and German thought. In this episode we discuss the work of Ludwig Klages, in particular his magnum opus, 'Der Geist Als Widersacher Der Seele' or…
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Friedrich Georg Jünger and the Failure of Technology with Thomas Crew
Having begun his BA in German at King’s College London, Thomas Crew completed his degree at Royal Holloway, spending an intercalated year studying philosophy and teaching English in Berlin. He took his MA in European Culture and Thought at University College London, which was generously funded by...
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Liber Null and Chaos Magic: On the Work of Peter Carroll
A talk on Peter J.
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Crowley: Qabalah, True Will, and the Holy Guardian Angel with Ian Rees
Ian Rees is a psycho-spiritual psychotherapist practising in Glastonbury Somerset UK. He has been a therapist for 30 years and spent 10 before that working in Probation Work and Social Work at all levels from Field Worker, Manager to Education Advisor for Mental Health at national level. He is an...
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J. Allen Hynek, Vallee, Steiner, and UAPs with Aaron French
Aaron J. French is a post-doctoral researcher in Religious Studies at the University of Erfurt in Germany. His main research focuses on the History of Esotericism, the History and Philosophy of Science, Sacred Space and Architecture, modern German Philosophy, and Science and Technology Studies.…
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Ramsey Dukes Rides Again! / Magick, Science, and Virtual Reality with Lionel Snell
Ramsey Dukes is the current and most well-known pen name of Lionel Snell, a contemporary English magician, publisher, and author on magic and philosophy.Lionel was born to a Kibbo Kift couple as WW2 was ending and lived his childhood in a converted water mill deep in the Gloucestershire…
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'Lacan is about pain' with Judith Gurewich
Judith Feher-Gurewich, Ph,D., practices psychoanalysis in Cambridge, MA. She is affiliated with the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and is a member of the Association de Formation Psychoanalytique et de Recherches Freudiennes: Espace Analytique in Paris. Dr. Gurewich is the Director of the Lacan...
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Hermitix is a podcast focusing on one-on-one interviews relating to fringe philosophy, obscure theory, weird lit, underappreciated thinkers and movements, and that which historically finds itself 'outside' the academic canon.The Hermitage (Hermitix adjacent, living magical community): https://the-hermitage.mn.coInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/jameshermitix/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hermitixContact: [email protected]
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