Wednesday, October 5, 2022

October 5, 2022

 Greetings!

This summer, I sat down for a podcast interview with psychologists Daniel Chadborn and Thomas Brooks, both of whom are professors at New Mexico Highlands University.  Messires Chadborn & Brooks host the Psychosocial Distancing Podcast, a podcast that creates "a space to discuss the implications and applications of psychological principles", as they argue in their mission statement.

I spent a very enjoyable hour with my hosts discussing the psychology of magic & religion.  Naturally, I also talked about my two books H. P. Lovecraft and the Black Magickal Tradition and  Aliens, Robots & Virtual Reality Idols in the Science Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov and William Gibson.

In particular, we focused on the following specific topics:

* The enduring influence of Lovecraft's works on modern day religiosity/occultism

* The meaning of being human

* The belief in secret societies of witches & devil worshippers and how that plays out in popular culture in the 2020's

You can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Goggle Podcasts, Overcast, Radio Public & Copy RSS.

JLS

https://anchor.fm/psychosocialdistancing/episodes/Episode-99-Lovecraft-and-the-Occult-A-Conversation-with-John-L--Steadman-e1lhgcn

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