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Hosted by The Alchemical Actors · history · EN-US · 252 episodes
Discover the secret history of cults, witches, magicians, conspiracies and the supernatural with occultism scholar Rob C. Thompson. His crew of Alchemical Actors explore life’s mysteries with a blend of research, ritual, and old-fashioned radio drama.
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Signup to Generate a PitchDiscover the secret history of cults, witches, magicians, conspiracies and the supernatural with occultism scholar Rob C. Thompson. His crew of Alchemical Actors explore life’s mysteries with a blend of research, ritual, and old-fashioned radio drama.
Occult Confessions is hosted by The Alchemical Actors. The show has published 252 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "31.2: Jung the Alchemist" (16 October 2026, 53 minutes), "31.1. Carl Gustav Jung" (2 October 2026, 62 minutes), and "30.12: The Mario Mythos" (18 September 2026, 65 minutes).
Occult Confessions publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 59 minutes across 252 episodes.
Booking probability for Occult Confessions is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Occult Confessions requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Occult Confessions's contact route on record: verified email.
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The Alchemical Actors hosts Occult Confessions, a history show with 252 episodes published.
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Episode #2
Carl Jung made a fairly extensive study of Western alchemy and came to understand alchemical processes as explorations of the unconscious. The effort to liberate the spirit from the prima materia was a kind of descent...
Episode #1
C. G. Jung was a colleague of Freud's before they split over Jung's belief that there was more to the unconscious than Freud's sexual theory. Jung went on to theorize the existence of a collective unconscious, informed...
Episode #12
In the final episode of our Japan series and Rob's mini series on video games, Rob reads the first chapter of "The Mario Mythos" setting out his theory that game heroes have become the protagonists of postmodern mythic...
Episode #11
How did the early female heroes and princesses of the first decade of video games follow the paradigm of the goddess journey? In this episode, Rob talks about everyone from Ms. Pac-Man to the Dragon Quest heroes and...
Episode #10
Luke interviews Rob about his research project focusing on the mythology of the first video game heroes. The conversation ranges far and wide to encompass the nature of performance studies, Rob's early work on ghosts...
Episode #9
Church Secrets interrupted our friends at the Goddess Hour during a live performance at our theater. See if you can help solve the puzzles he created to keep them from performing their Moon Bath ritual. To view the full...
Episode #7
Kofuku no Kagaku or Happy Science was one of the most popular new religious movements in Japan in 1980s and became a major rival to the deadly Aum Shinrikyo organization. Its founder, Okawa Ryuho, claimed to be an...
Episode #6
Over a thousand Japanese legends were collected into thirty-one volumes around the turn of the first millennium. Rob selects three stories to share that shed light on the folklore and values of medieval Japan.
Episode #5
Neon Genesis Evangelion (as it's known in the US) drew on Western religious themes including the story of Adam and Lilith, the imagery of the cross, and the concept of angels in order to tell a story based in...
Episode #4
Pure Land Buddhism made its way from India to China and then Japan where it has become the country's most popular religion, specifically the Shin variant developed by the "shaved fool" Shinran.
Episode #3
Pure Land Buddhism is the most popular religion in Japan and is often regarded as parallel to Christianity in many wyays. In this episode, we uncover the origins of the Pure Land Sutras in India and trace their journey...
Episode #2
The goal of estoteric Buddhism is to achieve a sudden spiritual awakening through the use of secret rituals which might include mantras, gestures, or the visualization of Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and other deities, in the...
Episode #1
Shinto is the name assigned to Japan's native religion before the arrival of Buddhism. In this episode, Rob explores the legends of the kami including the story of the kamikaze, the origins of sumo wrestling, and the...
Episode #8
William Burke and William Hare murdered sixteen people in the space of about a year in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. Burke was thirty-six and Hare twenty-one-years old. Many of their victims were plied with alcohol...
Episode #7
Heather Lynn joins us to discuss the widely misunderstood ancient Sumerian gods, the Annunaki. The connections made between the Annunaki and aliens have perhaps distracted scholars from a far more plausible and...
Episode #6
A year after she completed the Secret Doctrine, Helena Blavatsky published the Voice of the Silence, one of the last to be completed in her lifetime. The Voice of the Silence relates portions of her understanding of...
Episode #5
Strange Ride is back and it's a Stranger Ride. Savannah reveals the conspiracy theory spawned by people who hated the ending to Stranger Things. Check out the Strange Ride channel for more deep dives on popular culture.
Episode #4
Rob is podcasting alone today in his attempt to tell the twisting and winding story of John King, the pirate spirit who led the materialization seances of the 1870s.
Episode #3
Rob and Savannah go back to the Secret Doctrine.
Episode #2
Gary Lachman, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with Blondie, discusses how he went from rock and roll to Colin Wilson's house on a journey to better understand the nature of consciousness. You can...
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