Rune Soup

Before the second-rate synchromysticists ruin everything, let me tell you what I think about this Chinese space station crashing to Earth in the next few days: I don’t care. Yes, I sincerely ho...

https://runesoup.com/2018/03/fall-from-heaven/

Question: How can you tell when a military contractor is lying? Answer: His lips are moving. A couple of questions have already come through for today’s live video Q&A in the premium members ar...

https://runesoup.com/2017/12/flying-saucy-keep-your-heads/

Paul Stamets appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast the same day I gave my Dominant of Witchcraft presentation in Sydney, which I took as a good sign. It’s Joe at his least annoying in years so you ...

https://runesoup.com/2017/11/will-you-know-it-when-you-see-it/

If you’ve read any of Dr Farrell’s books or heard his interviews, you’ll know one of his turns of phrase is the “Tower of Babel moment”. The Tl;Dr of this concept in his modified Sitchi...

https://runesoup.com/2017/07/towers-of-interventionism/

Below you’ll see a video I found on YouTube of a good presentation with appalling audio that I did my best to clean up for the premium members film club. Definitely worth a look if you’re in ...

https://runesoup.com/2017/05/what-if-sometimes-its-aliens/

Those of you that have read Star.Ships or even just stuck around the blog for long enough will be aware that I consider the general AAT (ancient aliens theory) to be a dramatic oversimplificatio...

https://runesoup.com/2016/10/how-to-completely-miss-an-alien-invasion/

“The real task with dealing with extraterrestrials is to know when you’ve got one. It’s completely silly to search the galaxy with radio telescopes for a radio civilisation. I mean to my mi...

https://runesoup.com/2016/08/earth-is-outside-our-delivery-zone/

This was fun. Not only did I get to guest-host one of the very best podcasts out there (the best, maybe?) but it came with the opportunity to interview someone I have wanted to talk to for years:...

https://runesoup.com/2016/08/that-time-gordon-guest-hosted-skeptiko/

Villeneuve told me a nice story about the Devil who, strolling along with a companion, saw an excited crowd arguing in a village square. The young man went ahead to get some information and came ...

https://runesoup.com/2016/08/details-and-the-devil/

You know the story by now, if you have read your Archonology and/or listened to the podcast episode that I did with Chris Knowles: The core piece of actual technology hidden in the Breakaway/Deep...

https://runesoup.com/2016/08/stranger-jacques/

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” Those are the words of my neighbour in space, rather than time, William Butler Yeats. And they’re good. Certainly, they...

https://runesoup.com/2016/05/filling-pails-lighting-fires/

Funnily enough, this is something I thought I had already posted. Other bloggers out there will recognise the feeling: “Wait. Did I post that or just think it?” Anyway it turns out I only thu...

https://runesoup.com/2016/05/solving-prometheus-the-most-astrognostic-film-ever/

Yesterday was a Londonmancy day. ‘Correct use’ of a ritual landscape is not really something that can be bottled. Perhaps not much about magic can. Perhaps every magical system is the bottle,...

https://runesoup.com/2016/03/they-live-in-the-starlight/

My treat for completing two books last year was to buy myself Jacques Vallee’s collected journals: Forbidden Science vol 1 and vol 2. And I finished them just as my first book was coming out l...

https://runesoup.com/2016/03/o-circle-of-stars-whereof-our-father-is-but-the-younger-brother/

After Vasco de Gama had rounded the Horn of Africa, but before he made it to India, his caravels stopped in at Mozambique. The sailors were sick, supplies were running low… they probably would ...

https://runesoup.com/2016/02/how-to-trade-the-troll-market-offerings/

Paranormal nerds among you will be aware of Carl Sagan’s famous flip-flop on the possibly of extraterrestrial contact early in the development of human cultures. At first he was very open to th...

https://runesoup.com/2016/02/thickening-plots/

During the early colonial period, many Indigenous Tasmanians believed they would go to London when they died. You can understand the thinking in a way. Here were a group of ghostly looking humans...

https://runesoup.com/2016/01/king-billys-bones/

“So, you have solved many of the problems your science has been chasing. Disease, climate change. And as a consequence, much of your research is now redundant. Nevertheless you should be proud ...

https://runesoup.com/2016/01/last-of-the-demon-kings/

In this bumper episode, we talk to The Secret Sun’s Christopher Knowles about the Nine, Esalen, elite belief systems, alien cargo cults, Star Trek, tarot, psychogeography and what may or may no...

https://runesoup.com/2016/01/podcast-episode-6-talking-alien-cargo-cults-tarot-with-christopher-knowles/

Einstein declared by fiat that the aether did not exist and so it did not. Now, a century or so later and we are struggling to fit consciousness, psi results, morphic fields, how the EmDrive work...

https://runesoup.com/2016/01/empires-of-ambition-revisited/

How bad can a year be that opens with a new Bowie album? Probably still pretty bad. He has released a lot of albums. Nevertheless, today is both his birthday and album release day. Here’s the...

https://runesoup.com/2016/01/blackstar-2016/

The long-predicted law changes that allow for a dual speed -ie official/unofficial- internet continue to be passed around the world. Google has announced it is already using “AI” (ha!) as par...

https://runesoup.com/2015/10/super-asymmetry/

Imagine what you could achieve with unlimited money, sixty years and the capability to kill with impunity? What if your super-rich great grandfather found golf to be terribly boring but was reall...

https://runesoup.com/2015/09/there-is-something-to-all-of-this/

The feature image comes from this article about yet another ‘NASA keeps photographing weird things’ incident. When Chris problematises the misapplication or sold-short use of the term ‘cons...

https://runesoup.com/2015/08/jealous-plankton-envying-the-ocean-that-holds-them/