Ultraculture With Jason Louv

Jason and his wife Temple react to and dismantle a viral video by ex-occultist-turned-Christian Jacque Marino, who appeared on Allie Beth Stuckey's show claiming shadow work is dangerous spiritual self-harm. Temple, a shadow-work practitioner, walks through the core misconceptions point by point—not to attack Marino, but because these critiques echo the 1980s Satanic Panic and reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of what shadow integration actually is. Shadow work, they explain, isn't about "becoming your shadow" or indulging destructive impulses; it's about consciously integrating the aspects of self that the ego rejects due to societal conditioning and shame. Discomfort and pain are signals—pointers to dysfunction, injury, or unprocessed trauma—and the practice is to remain curious rather than flee into substances or distraction. They trace shadow work's lineage through Jung's Red Book, William James, and modern somatic therapy, emphasizing the role of professional guidance and the scientific validation of approaches like CBT. The conversation pivots to analyzing the born-again experience itself as a psychological reframing—a subroutine that accomplishes real shifts in identification and self-narrative—and draws parallels to other "safe haven" movements, from Teal Swan to fundamentalist Christianity. They discuss monotheism's assumption that non-Christians embody evil, the fastest-growing religions in America, and the question of personal responsibility in how adults frame their childhood and past. Ultimately, this is about the return of radical fundamentalism—Christian and otherwise—and the cost of binary thinking in a complex world. Topics: What shadow work actually is and what it isn't | Integration vs. indulgence | Pain and discomfort as diagnostic signals | Jung's Red Book and the psychological lineage of shadow work | Somatic therapy and the role of professional guidance | The born-again experience as psychological reframing | Safe-haven movements and cultic dynamics | Monotheism and the demonization of the Other | The Satanic Panic returns | Personal responsibility and narrative reframing in adulthood | Fundamentalism across traditions. Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPiPg1Ufm-s

Private investigator and author Joseph Flatley joins Jason to discuss his new book on Timothy Leary's occult legacy. They cover Leary's Eight Circuit model of consciousness, its roots in his psychology work at Harvard and the psilocybin experiments that got him kicked out, and how Leary synthesized Freud, Jung, and Maslow into a single map of the human mind before expanding it into four "post-terrestrial" circuits dealing with cosmic consciousness, the Akashic records, and states traditionally accessed through magic and yoga. Flatley walks through how Leary mapped his 24-stage model onto the tarot major arcana (including two cards Leary invented: the Star Maker and the Velvet Hole), and how the system corresponds to the Kabbalistic Tree of Life and the four worlds. They get into the Starseed Transmissions, where Leary and fellow inmate Wayne Benner performed Enochian-style workings in Folsom Prison while Robert Anton Wilson was simultaneously doing Holy Guardian Angel invocations in Chicago and receiving telepathic impressions of Leary's escape. The conversation turns to Leary's SMI2LE formula (Space Migration, Intelligence Increase, Life Extension), how it prefigured the Silicon Valley transhumanist movement, and the uncomfortable question of how "follow your bliss" collapsed into consumer culture. They assess the boomer occult legacy honestly, discuss Antero Alli's critique that practitioners ignored the lower four circuits, and consider whether the internet and always-on digital life might be the actual evolutionary shift Leary was pointing toward. Topics: The Eight Circuit model and its 24 sub-stages | Leary's tarot correspondences and the Tree of Life | The Starseed Transmissions and Enochian magic in Folsom Prison | SMI2LE and the tech industry | Boomer occultism: what to keep and what to leave behind | Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising | Info-psychology as a technical manual for consciousness | Leary's deathbed and Doug Rushkoff's account. Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0z0lxbP4I8

Alan Chapman's new edition of Aleister Crowley's Magick Without Tears got his publisher sued by the OTO. We talk about that, the real story behind the Book of the Law, and whether this world is a Bardo we're just passing through. Topics: The OTO copyright lawsuit | The Book of the Law and Rose Kelly | What practical magic gets wrong | The Great Work as lineage | Global awakening — why it won't happen the way people think. Alan Chapman: https://barbarouswords.com

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Yes, hello. Welcome back to the Ultra Culture podcast. I am Jason Louvre. Hi. How are you? How's it going? Gonna try something a little different in this show reading really old books. We are taking a passage from one of the most legendary books on Magic of All Time, Transcendental Magic, by Elephase Levy. Possibly the most popular and important book on Magic of the 19th century.

Yes, hello. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm Jason Louve. My guest today is Gabriella Herstich who is returning for her second visit to the show. She is an author columnist and witch based in Los Angeles. She's also the author of Interwitch, a modern guide to the ancient craft and many many other books, including her new upcoming book, Sacred Sex, The Magic and Path of the Divine Erotic.

Yes, hello, it's Jason Louvre. Welcome back to the Ultra Culture podcast. Today we have back on one of our most popular guests ever, Bailey J. This is her third time on the podcast. She is wonderful. She's a great friend of mine and we had an awesome conversation about all kinds of stuff. This is marked E for explicit on Apple iTunes and so closure ears if you're not into that.

Yes, hello, welcome back to the Ultra Culture podcast. My guest today is Noah Lampert, who I've been friends with for actually a long time now. He runs the podcast Synchronicity with Noah Lampert. And Noah is a super, how do I describe Noah? He's a super, super positive guy. That's the main way that I would describe him.

Yes, hello. It's Jason Louvre. Welcome back to the Ultra Culture Podcast, the ever-expanding, ever-accelerating, ever-improving, and ever-more-awesomeing Ultra Culture Podcast. So, my guests today are the ghost maidens. They are Twitch performance artists. I think that's the best way to describe them. They do kind of non-stop long form off the wall performances on Twitch.

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Yes, hello, it's Jason Louvre. Welcome back to the Ultra Culture podcast. Our guest today is Dot Darling who is kind of blowing up on Instagram. She's a very young influencer in the occult and magic and has accumulated quite a sizeable following with her Instagram. She's also working on a new book which we talk about in this episode.

Yes, hello, it's Jason. We're welcome back to the 101st episode of the UltraCulture podcast. Yes, it only took us like five years to get to 100 episodes, but we're on a roll now as You've probably noticed we're putting putting episodes out every Monday weekly and that is thanks to the team at UltraCulture and I wanted to take this episode Since we have now hit over a hundred to kind of Check in an...

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Yes, hello. This is episode 95 of the Ultra Culture Podcast. Welcome back. Do Democrats eat babies? It is improbably a question that has been on everyone's mind for the last couple years. And the topic of this show is actually not whether Democrats eat babies, but obviously they do.

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Let's see how it was everyone's new year. Good, hopefully, and holiday season, you all, winter equinox, solstice, there's not a rhetorical question. I'm, I'm, I'm curious about your lives and I care about you. Hello. Hello. Hi, for me, what's good? Very good. I started the, uh, adapt initiative for a holiday. That's what I did. Great. And I stay home because there's lockdown here in Europe.

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Yes, hello, it's Jason Louvre. Welcome back to the Ultra Culture podcast. We have a great episode for you. I'm talking to Angel Malar. Yes, I'm actually back to interviews. Angel is putting out a book called The Path of the Warrior Mystic Being a Man in an Age of Chaos. You can pre-order it on Amazon or Barnes and Noble or Indybound. It's coming out in November.

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