# Helena Blavatsky

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Russian Dolls: Rasputin and Blavatsky

EPISODE 149 | Russian Dolls: Rasputin and Blavatsky Russians are practical, artistic and deeply mystical. And they tend to fall under the sway of strong personalities. Like two people from the past - Rasputin, the so-called Mad Monk, and Helena Blavatsky, founded of Theosophy, which itself is the …

Stirring the Cauldron - Von Braschler-7 Secrets of Time Travel

Time remains the most misunderstood and mystical dimension of our experience of life. We never seem to have enough time, yet often it seems to drag by too slowly. Enthralled with the possibility of time travel and time machines, we long for the future or regret our past and wish for a way to break …

From Savitri Devi to the Devil to the NAR

John and Steve trace the ideological roots of mystical fascism and its unsettling influence on modern religious movements. They uncover how thinkers like Savitri Devi, Helena Blavatsky, and Alice Bailey shaped occult traditions that fed into Nazi spirituality—ideas that later resurfaced in Christia…

THEY BURIED IT: You Were Born With Powers That Defy Any Known Limit

Helena Blavatsky and ancient hermeticism documented how spiritual awakening reveals your divine nature already exists within, challenging the matrix of social programming that keeps humanity believing in artificial limitations. David Icke exposes how consciousness polices itself through fear-based …

From Savitri Devi to the Devil to the NAR

John and Steve trace the ideological roots of mystical fascism and its unsettling influence on modern religious movements. They uncover how thinkers like Savitri Devi, Helena Blavatsky, and Alice Bailey shaped occult traditions that fed into Nazi spirituality—ideas that later resurfaced in Christia…

S1E9 Jon Atack: From Theosophy to Scientology to Neo-Tantra

What do Scientology, Nazism, and neo-tantra have in common? Cult researcher Jon Atack traces the hidden lineage through Theosophy, Aleister Crowley, and early 20th century occultism. Jon explains how L. Ron Hubbard stole from Crowley's sex magick, how Alice Bailey's "ascended masters" influenced bo…

Garden of Thought E.368 Hyperborea

Prof. Chris Forth of the University of Kansas joins us to discuss all things Hyperborea. We're covering the bunk to de-bunk. And, as is the remit of this show, we shall travel in many directions.However, we do start with what Hyperborea literally means; historic roots in writings and legends/myths;…

Grief tech: What AI, aura photos and 19th-century spirit photographs have in common

The longer version: There were so many interesting threads to this conversation that we couldn't include in the final edit, including Erica's take on whether folks in the 19th century knew William Mumler might be a grifter (yes) — and whether that really matters (maybe not). Why do you think spir…

The Vocabulary of a New World: Helena Blavatsky and the Language We Are Still Building

In a gaslit New York parlor in 1875, a large, loud, utterly impossible Russian woman held a room full of skeptical Americans completely still. Helena Blavatsky was controversial, frequently dishonest, and sometimes flat-out wrong. She was also one of the most consequential figures in the spiritual …

The Eddy Brothers and the High Life Ski Club

In the early-to-mid 1870s, as interest in Spiritualism and psychic mediums swept the United States, William and Horatio Eddy, two enterprising brothers from the tiny village of Chittenden, Vermont, made headlines for their supposed psychic abilities. In time, the brothers attracted the attention of…