The Heretical Heathen Podcast

What do you encounter when you scry Raidho? This episode documents an unfolding vision: meeting a spirit guide dressed in white, descending through a winter landscape and into darkness, standing before Hel herself in the depths, and being carried upward along Yggdrasil by a cosmic bird to return home. Raidho reveals itself not as simple forward movement, but as a cyclical descent and return - a shamanic journey through multiple realms. We explore what the rune shows about true travel: not linear progression, but the spiraling wheel that moves through worlds.   Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ 

A heathen watches Naruto and discovers something deeper than a shounen battle anime. The series isn't really about its protagonists at all - Naruto and Sasuke are containers for something far larger: the eternal balancing of opposing forces. We explore the series as a meditation on suffering, examine Itachi Uchiha as an archetypal complex made flesh, and trace the Sharingan's connection to Maya - the illusory veil that appears across heathen cosmology and Western occultism. What does this anime reveal about the nature of perception, power, and the forces that move through us? Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/   

After appearing on Jesse's Random Heathen Ramblings podcast, I wanted to expand on some key points from our conversation. Heathenry has become ossified by dogma and textual authority, but living practice demands mystery. I also explore why aliens and anomalies might actually be our modern attempt at an authentic spirituality.   Check out the original conversation: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2bCpTgIZc612Ld4o5CbgFp?si=bN4vxftBS-eEpVPrLBSS-g   Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

What do you see when you scry Ansuz, the rune of divine speech and inspired communication? This episode documents a scrying session with the fourth rune of the Elder Futhark - exploring the visions and insights that emerge when gazing into Odin's breath. We discuss Ansuz's connection to language, prophecy, and the creative power of the word itself.   Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ 

Thurisaz is the rune of the giant, the hammer, the thorn — primal and protective, it guards as much as it reveals. In this episode, we bring that dual nature into our scrying practice, learning to work with Thurisaz not as obstacle but as guardian of genuine sight.   Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ 

In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates reveals what sophistry really is — not wisdom, but a turning away from the good that quietly hollows out the soul. When we choose the appearance of virtue over its reality, we don't just deceive others; we lose something in ourselves. This episode sits with that ancient warning and asks what it means for us today.   Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ 

Scrying the rune Uruz - primal strength, vital force, and the untamed power of the aurochs. We explore what emerges when you gaze into this rune's depths and how its wild energy manifests in vision.   Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ 

The runes aren't just symbols to memorize or cast - they're living forces that can be embodied. Rune yoga, or stadha, is the practice of assuming physical postures that mirror the shapes of individual runes, combining breath work and focused intention to internalize their power. We discuss the origins of this practice, how it differs from meditation or visualization alone, and practical techniques for incorporating runic postures into your own work. Whether you're new to the runes or looking to deepen your practice, embodying the staves offers a direct, visceral path to understanding.   Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ 

The art of seeing beyond sight. We discuss scrying - using mirrors, water, crystals, and other reflective surfaces to induce visions and access hidden knowledge. A practical guide to one of the oldest forms of divination.   music by Sonder by Purrple Cat | https://purrplecat.com/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Before he was the most controversial general in Athens, Alcibiades was just a young man with massive ambitions and an even bigger ego. In this episode, we break down Plato’s Alcibiades I. We explore the famous "Socratic intervention" where Socrates humbles a future superstar by asking a simple, devastating question: How can you govern a city if you don’t yet know how to govern yourself?   bedtime after a coffee by ikkunn (Barradeen) | https://soundcloud.com/ikkunwastaken/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/  

In an age of spiritual consumerism, can you simply choose any pantheon that appeals to you? Or do the gods of your ancestors offer particular channels of divine contact carved through millennia of reciprocal shaping? This episode makes the case for folkish heathenry - not as supremacy, but as rootedness in the specific paths our peoples have already cleared toward the sacred.   Incantation by Scott Buckley | www.scottbuckley.com.au Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  

  Most heathens blót because their ancestors did. And that's a real answer. But it's not the only one. In this episode we dig beneath the surface of sacrificial practice into the gift economy of Norse culture, Iamblichus and the theurgic tradition, henosis, sunthemata, and what it actually means to participate in the pattern of creation. Blót isn't just tradition. It's cosmology in action.   Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ 

A systematic examination of arguments claiming European paganisms cannot be closed practices. Through logical analysis, I demonstrate how each argument—from colonization to white supremacy to historical precedent—fails under scrutiny. What emerges is a pattern of sophistry masking racial double standards. A call for intellectual consistency and equal treatment in pagan discourse.   Legendary Epic Heroic | Heroic by Alex-Productions | https://onsound.eu/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

In this episode, I critique Seðian philosophy as presented by the Norroena Society, showing three fatal logical flaws: they deny unity exists while constantly affirming it, they reduce gods to physical beings (which is just atheism), and they deny objective morality while making moral prescriptions. I offer the Platonic framework as a coherent alternative that preserves real divinity and real ethics.     Sovereign by Kevin MacLeod | https://incompetech.com/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

In this episode, I share my personal journey into Heathen esotericism - from being the weird kid into ghosts and the paranormal, to discovering ceremonial magic and Heathenry, to synthesizing them into the Heathen Golden Dawn tradition. If you've ever wondered how someone ends up practicing Norse ceremonial magic, this is that story.     Hearts of Iron by Alex- Productions | https://onsound.eu/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/  

I tackle one of modern Heathenry's most controversial topics: working with Loki and the Jotun. Drawing on cross-cultural wisdom traditions and observable patterns, I explore why "you become what you worship" and what happens when people align themselves with forces of chaos - especially those already struggling with mental health.   Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/redemption License code: 7OHARP6824EQOXRK

Welcome to Heretical Heathenry! An introduction to the podcast, the host, and why we need a different conversation about Heathen practice and occultism.