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AEWCH 323: MITCH HOROWITZ on YOUR TRUE ESOTERIC SELF
Jun 23, 2026
Unknown duration
AEWCH 322: MARK BOOTH (AKA JONATHAN BLACK) on OCCULT INFLUENCES IN MODERN SCIENCE
Jun 9, 2026
1h 28m 20s
AEWCH 321: JOSHUA RIVERS & SHULI BRANSON on WHAT WE MUST LOSE TO GAIN THE WORLD
Jun 4, 2026
1h 57m 23s
AEWCH 320: A NEW SPIRITUAL SOCIETY, PT 4 - The spiritual heart of ECONOMY
May 7, 2026
1h 12m 32s
AEWCH 319: A NEW SPIRITUAL SOCIETY, PT 3 - The spiritual heart of POLITICS
Apr 29, 2026
44m 46s
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| 6/23/26 | ![]() AEWCH 323: MITCH HOROWITZ on YOUR TRUE ESOTERIC SELF | Friends, “The hour is late. It is time for unwanted guests to leave.” That's a line from this episode's guest, MITCH HOROWITZ, in his latest book, Esoterika: Formulas Against the False Self. The book as I see it, is a book of ethics. And its central question is: how do you navigate who you are and what your ethics are when you touch the continuously transformative fires of spiritual pursuits?In that sense, it is a book for anyone exploring their spirituality.In it, Mitch traces his own inner (and outer) conflicts with spiritual maxims. Particular to Mitch is the conundrum of: How do I get what I want, yet retain my integrity? What do I do when there's a conflict? And where does magic come in?This is a great discussion and one where we navigate our own tensions of belief and disbelief; will and surrender.Support the show via patreon.com/connerhabib | — | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | ![]() AEWCH 322: MARK BOOTH (AKA JONATHAN BLACK) on OCCULT INFLUENCES IN MODERN SCIENCE✨ | occult influencesmodern science+3 | MARK BOOTH | THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE: HOW ANCIENT WISDOM MADE THE WORLDThe Secret History of the World+2 | — | occultscience+3 | — | 1h 28m 20s | |
| 6/4/26 | ![]() AEWCH 321: JOSHUA RIVERS & SHULI BRANSON on WHAT WE MUST LOSE TO GAIN THE WORLD✨ | transformationpoetry+3 | JOSHUA RIVERSSHULI BRANSON | BUSY BEING BLACKTHE BREAKUP THEORY+1 | — | transformationcapitalism+5 | — | 1h 57m 23s | |
| 5/7/26 | ![]() AEWCH 320: A NEW SPIRITUAL SOCIETY, PT 4 - The spiritual heart of ECONOMY✨ | economicsspirituality+3 | Erin Ryan | — | — | economicsspirituality+4 | — | 1h 12m 32s | |
| 4/29/26 | ![]() AEWCH 319: A NEW SPIRITUAL SOCIETY, PT 3 - The spiritual heart of POLITICS✨ | spiritualitypolitics+3 | — | A NEW SPIRITUAL SOCIETY | — | spiritual heartpolitics+4 | — | 44m 46s | |
| 4/21/26 | ![]() AEWCH 318: A NEW SPIRITUAL SOCIETY, PT 2 - The spiritual heart of CULTURE✨ | spiritualityculture+3 | — | — | — | spiritual societyculture+4 | — | 42m 27s | |
| 4/14/26 | ![]() AEWCH 317: A NEW SPIRITUAL SOCIETY, PT 1 - An Introduction To Social Threefolding For Our Time & Renewing Culture, Politics, and Economy✨ | spiritual societysocial threefolding+4 | — | — | — | spiritualitysocial change+3 | — | 26m 06s | |
| 3/12/26 | ![]() AEWCH 316: On Child Abuse & Political Conspiracy✨ | child abusepolitical conspiracy+3 | — | Epsteinpatreon.com/connerhabib | — | child abusepolitical conspiracy+3 | — | 58m 36s | |
| 2/4/26 | ![]() AEWCH 315: J.F. Martel / Only Art Can Save Us Now✨ | artcreativity+3 | J.F. Martel | Weird StudiesJ.F.'s book | — | artJ.F. Martel+5 | — | 2h 04m 39s | |
| 1/21/26 | ![]() AEWCH 314: ASAD HAIDER on IDENTITY, DESIRE, AND MAGIC✨ | identity politicspolitical theory+4 | Asad Haider | Mistaken Identity: Mass Movements and Racial Ideology | — | identitydesire+5 | — | 1h 21m 44s | |
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| 1/7/26 | ![]() AEWCH 313: PILAR LESKO on HOW TO DEAL WITH BIG CHANGES✨ | changeChristianity+3 | Pilar Lesko | AEWCH 313 | — | changeChristianity+3 | — | 2h 03m 38s | |
| 12/30/25 | ![]() AEWCH 312: 312: MITCH HOROWITZ + TONS OF SPECIAL GUESTS on NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS!✨ | New Year's resolutionsesoteric scholarship+3 | Mitch HorowitzFederico Campagna+9 | — | — | New Year's resolutionsMitch Horowitz+5 | — | 2h 05m 24s | |
| 12/17/25 | ![]() AEWCH 311: RUDOLF STEINER'S RADICAL SOCIAL-POLITICAL PROJECT with AARON FRENCH & HENRY HOLLAND✨ | Rudolf Steinersocial-political project+5 | Aaron FrenchHenry Holland | SUNY PressHarvard University+1 | — | Rudolf Steinersocial reformer+5 | — | 2h 34m 43s | |
| 12/10/25 | ![]() AEWCH 310: THE PARANORMAL IS NORMAL with BEN MACHELL / THE SPIRIT-ERA & ITS AFTERMATHS, PT 4✨ | paranormalspirituality+5 | BEN MACHELL | Chasing the Dark: A 140-Year Investigation of Paranormal Activity | — | paranormalspirituality+6 | — | 1h 30m 50s | |
| 12/2/25 | ![]() AEWCH 309: FAKIRS AND FAKERS with RAPHAEL CORMACK / THE SPIRIT-ERA & ITS AFTERMATHS, PT 3✨ | spiritualismoccult+4 | DR. RAPHAEL CORMACK | Durham UniversityHoly Men of the Electromagnet | — | spiritualityoccult+5 | — | 1h 20m 01s | |
| 11/25/25 | ![]() AEWCH 308: LITERATURE AS OCCULTISM with ALLAN JOHNSON / THE SPIRIT-ERA & ITS AFTERMATHS, PT 2 | This is the second episode in a series called THE SPIRIT-ERA & ITS AFTERMATHS in which I look at the way spiritual, technological, and occult flourishings at the turn of the 19th into 20th century are still with us today.In the second installment in the series, I talk with ALLAN JOHNSON Professor of English Literature at University of Surrey, meditation coach, and author of the excellent book, The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature: Immanence, Occultism, and the Making of the Modern WorldIn that book, Allan states: “The occult has always walked the perilous line between desiring a textual form while resisting the possibility that this form can ever be completely achieved.”One of my big frustrations with spiritual influencers is that most of them don’t seem to have a good grasp of art, but particularly literature. They do something like this: they read literature that has magical CONTENT and create metaphors and analogies that - all-too conveniently - mirror the lessons of their own esoteric view. And they generally reach for the usual suspects: Tolkien, Le Guin, Coehlo, etc.But the location of esoteric strength in literature is less in the content and much more in its FORMS and STYLES. These forms were brought to us most prominently in modernist fiction - in James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, and more. But also by poets like TS Elliot, Ezra Pound, and WB Yeats.In the works of modernist writers, the reader’s involvement is demanded to complete the text. These are writers who initiate us as we read their works.This conversation with Allan offered the chance to explore ideas I'd been longing to talk about for years, I'm so excited to share them with you here.SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREONBuy Allan's book | — | ||||||
| 11/18/25 | ![]() AGAINST EVERYONE WITH CONNER HABIB 307: ON THE IMPORTANCE OF GHOST HUNTING with ALICE VERNON / THE SPIRIT-ERA & ITS AFTERMATHS, PART 1 | This is first episode in a series called The Spirit-Era and Its Aftermaths. Across the next few installments of AEWCH, I’ll be investigating the way the spiritual, technological, and occult flourishing at the turn of the 19th/20th century is affecting our lives to this day. The Spirit-Era was a time marked by spirits, of course. But also miracles, hucksters, paranormal investigators, and genuine spiritual teachers. There were seances and fakirs, performances of incredible feats in private and on stages both which were thought to be revelations of different worlds, or worlds that could be possible.The intelligentsia of the time might go to see spirits materialize in dark rooms. They might write novels inspired by meeting notorious occult figures. Or maybe they would decide to form societies to investigate the afterlife. Many of the Spirt-Era's most famous artists and writers found themselves inspired by and even joining occult orders. New occult organizations and forms - some with anarchist aspirations, others connecting to labor rights movements, still others taking fascist turns, - were rising and falling.Like in our own era, new technologies emerged and others became popularized. The telephone became more available, and so, later, did the car and motion picture with sound. But also there was the fortune cookie, bringing a sort of precogniostic levity to the everyday. These innovations marked changing experiences of time and space across the planet.Plagues, wars, sinking ships. It seemed like there was never a moment of rest. I’m sure you can relate.Two themes ran through the Spirit-Era: the shifting relationship of the spiritual and material, and the deep understanding that everything was changing, so anything might be possible.In these episodes, we won’t just be trying to learn from history to avoid repeating it, but rather to deeply consider the Spirit-Era and conjure its best aspects.Because within the spectacle, there were many revelations to be had. Some of them we take for granted in our everyday lives, and forget they were handed to us by people who took the great risk or the absurd plunge into the era's spiritual possibility.We’ll look at the ways paranormal investigations pushed on science, how esotericism informed advancing literature and performance. We’ll even investigate whole world views with their own coherence, that developed at the time, and see why we can learn so much from them.And we'll look at why so many of these boundary-pushing advances are stigmatized today. One reason I’ll mention now: The Spirit-Era is difficult for us because it isn’t part of the past, but something beyond us. A future where we allow ourselves to think in ways that dissolve the material realm as we know it, and try to understand the forces - whether social, dialectical, economic, or spiritual - fully anew.The Spirit-Era reflects the past and the future through smoke and mirrors. Yes, the tools of illusionists and frauds. But amongst the trickery, the truth of light and surface is there. In the aftermaths of the Spirit-Era, we continue to use its insights and gestures to figure out what we think is real, what is solid, and where illumination comes from.Welcome to this series.On the first episode, I talk with ALICE VERNON, author of Ghosted: A History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking. The book is vast in scope, and considers the many emotional resonances we have with paranormal investigation, ghost-hunting, and why it is important to us. We start in the 1st century, and go all the way to AI in this wide-ranging conversation about the topic. But the Spirit-Era here is unavoidable. People grieving, hustling, debunking, and believing all surround the seance tables, inviting new presences, new technologies, and new methods of investigation.I’m so happy to present this series and episode.SUPPORT THE SHOW VIA PATREONBuy Ghosted: A History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking by Alice Vernon | — | ||||||
| 10/28/25 | ![]() AEWCH 306: WHAT IS HORROR? with PHIL FORD & J.F. MARTEL of WEIRD STUDIES | Friends,When I was on my book tour for Hawk Mountain, I did an event with Andrea Lawlor where we spoke, at length, about horror. In the Q&A, someone raised a hand and asked:WHAT IS HORROR?Andrea and I both laughed. We found ourselves at a loss.Horror :Once you consider it, it’s not clear.There’s the assumption that horror is scary. Sometimes that’s true. But obviously what’s scary for you might not be scary for me, and vice versa, so that can’t define the genre. We say horror has certain elements, but there are different kinds of horror to define its contours, whether it's body horror, slasher horror, cosmic horror...We might turn to the familiar face of horror - the monster - to see what they reveal to us. But while vampires, werewolves, zombies express, through their differing powers and weakness, different theories about horror, they can't give us a picture of what it is really. They're contained by it.Horror: Always on, always available, always around us. So… what is it?I asked my friends PHIL FORD and J.F. MARTEL - the cohosts of the WEIRD STUDIES PODCAST - onto the show to walk into the dark - or is it the blinding, malevolent light? - with me, and with you, to see what we would find there.Weird Studies is, in my experience of it, anyway, a horror podcast. In fact, my last conversation with Phil and J.F. was on Weird Studies and about horror: on Weird Studies 144, we looked into Clive Barker's Hellraiser and the book it's based on, The Hellbound Heart.But it's not a horror podcast because it’s always focused on horror; many episodes are about topics and artworks that seem less than horrific (their series on each card in the major arcana of the tarot, for instance, or their episode on Herman Hesse’s novel about enlightenment, Siddhartha). But there is a quality on each episode - a quality which we discuss in this conversation - of the threat of art, philosophy, image and sound. The way they invade our lives. Rearrange our organs Destroy the world we knew. In other words, we might think of horror as a position in time, something approaching or orbiting. Or as something creates shadows by blocking the light, or by creating a void where an object once was. You can hear me going in many directions again. Conversation with Phil and J.F. inspires that in me - being pulled in many directions at once. That's another way of thinking of horror: horror as blob; as spreading epidemic, as destroying giant, vaster than the safety of our shelters.This is what I love about talking with Phil and JF and about Weird Studies, and also why I often think of their podcast as the only true sibling to mine. In conversation with them, everything a springboard for everything. A web of connections. Or maybe better said, a transforming activity, everything metamorphosing into everything else through membranous, visceral, and expansive moves.Please support this show on patreon.PATREON.COM/CONNERHABIBYou can also find an almost complete list of the books, movies, etc we mention on this episode there. | — | ||||||
| 10/22/25 | ![]() AEWCH 305: JUSTIN DECLOUX & WILL SLOAN (IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB) on GHOSTS IN MOVIES | Friends,Is there any ghost lore in your town or where you grew up?Have you ever seen a ghost?What are ghosts, anyway?Three questions, three different ways to approach (or be approached by ghosts).Ghosts are at the heart of our folktales, our fears, and our fiction. And belief in them is almost universal. Unlike aliens, UFOs, cryptids, and other strange entities, belief in ghosts cuts across all demographics and borders. We're afraid of ghosts and fascinated by them.As you probably know from listening to this show, or if you’ve read my novel Hawk Mountain, horror is deeply important to me: in forming my imagination, my way of thinking, and even my lens on spirituality. To that end, this is one of two podcasts on the topic. This time, I just wanted to be personal, to have fun, to explore the pleasure of horror and the many springboards it gives us for conversation. To that end, I invited the hosts of my favorite movie podcast (maybe favorite podcast ever) THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB onto the show, JUSTIN DECLOUX and WILL SLOAN.This marks the second crossover between our shows, as I appeared on episode 422 of The Important Cinema Club to talk about working with director Joe Gage.We ask the three questions up top, and explore three completely different representations of ghosts in movies:A Chinese Ghost Story (1987 dir. Tony Ching Siu-Tung)The Eclipse (2009, dir. Conor McPherson)I Am A Ghost (2012, dir. H.P. Mendoza)We summarize each movie, and then go in... tons of directions. I loved recording this episode, and I hope you do too. Next time, onto the more theoretical-serious kind of fun.Aside from The Important Cinema Club, Justin and Will have many projects.Justin is the author Radioactive Dreams: The Cinema of Albert Pyun, and has a Blu-Ray distribution company, Gold Ninja Video. He's also the director of films including Impossible Horror , which Will is in, and Teddy Bomb. Will's new book is Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA, and he has a great substack here.An episode that ties into this one, and that has more of my ghost stories in it than this one is AEWCH 138 with Edward Parnell, talking about ghosts embedded in the landscape. And I mention a great book towards the end, Paranormal America: Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture.SUPPORT THIS SHOW: PATREON.COM/CONNERHABIB | — | ||||||
| 10/15/25 | ![]() AEWCH 304: WHY AM I A CHRISTIAN? with LAURA SCAPPATICCI | On the second of two back to back episodes on christianity in the world today, I talk with my sister, LAURA SCAPPATICCI, host of the podcast THAT GOOD MAY BECOME. We ask each other three questions about how christianity came into our lives, even though we were raised with no religion... and how that christianity is sometimes at odds with our communities and even, absurdly enough, at odds with the way christianity is itself of perceived today.This is a very personal episode, and I'm so happy to share it with you.Laura was last on the show on AEWCH 225 when she interviewed me about Rudolf Steiner as part of my series on esoteric christianity.SUPPORT THE SHOW VIA PATREON. Thank you! | — | ||||||
| 10/7/25 | ![]() AEWCH 303: LAMORNA ASH on REVIVING CHRISTIANITY IN A TIME OF BROKEN REVIVAL | On the first of two back to back episodes on christianity in the world today, I talk with writer LAMORNA ASH whose latest book, Don't Forget We're Here Forever: A New Generation's Search for Religion chronicles her conversations with christian converts and the newly faithful in the still-secular UK. In the process of writing the book, Lamorna has her own reevaluations of christianity and her own beliefs as a queer person. Of these conversations, Lamorna writes, “They taught me how to believe the belief of others.” It’s a beautiful sentiment and means that Lamorna is untangling the many ways to believe and understand.But it raises questions, too.How to believe others’s beliefs if they are threatening? If they are aimed against you? And what about when those beliefs are aligned with powerful political forces… can they be said to even be beliefs then, and not just coerced behavior?Please support the show via patreon: Patreon.com/connerhabib | — | ||||||
| 9/24/25 | ![]() AEWCH 302: FEDERICO CAMPAGNA on THE MAGICAL STRENGTH HIDDEN IN DEFEAT | I'm so excited to welcome philosopher and author Federico Campagna back to the show! Together, we find the magic in defeat and the strength that it offers, using his new book, Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons on Escaping History as a springboard for our wide-ranging and empowering discussion.Federico gives many potent examples of the hidden strength in defeat. Whether it’s through Egyptian gods or the writer Joseph Roth, esotericists or people who felt the mythic effects of being defeated by Alexander the Great. We witness again and again options that become available for seeing and creating new worlds only when - as Federico writes of the people in the book:“Instead of clinging to the values of a vanishing world, or embracing the new rising power, they dared to migrate to the grand zero of the imagination where ideas and values can be extracted anew from the infinite virtuality of the possible.”May this episode bring you strength and magic, even in the most unexpected of places and conditions!SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: patreon.com/connerhabib | — | ||||||
| 9/17/25 | ![]() AEWCH 301: UNA MULLALLY on HOW TO SAVE YOUR CITY | Friends: We need ideas which are not just radical or "revolutionary." We need ideas, feelings, and actions that work on many levels; that are systemic; that have multiple potentials for realization, and have enough points of articulation that they can touch on their own fabric and maneuver to witness themselves. And what better place to start then the ground beneath your feet: where you live?After all, you see the place you live every day. It's entered you as a daily language of patterns. It's become a set of expectations for your feet as you move through the morning. It lives in your lungs and gives your eyes nourishment. And I'm sure it also frustrates you sometimes, makes you feel blocked and angry. You might feel threatened there or bored. But I hope you also find joy, surprise, and feel held by where you live, greeted by each of its days.When my friend and collaborator - the artist, organizer, and journalist UNA MULLALLY - released her new 10-part podcast series SAVING THE CITY , I found in it a perfect representation of that transformative ideal we need.I also knew that Una and I had different ideas of what we wanted from cities. I like cars, I have trouble with a lot of bigger cities that Una loves. I even like an area of Dublin that Una has... let's say, different feelings about. But this is exactly right for transformation of a place- discussing with your neighbors what you want, what your concerns are, but most importantly what would bring you joy, piece of mind, excitement, potential, opportunity in the cityThis is a long episode, and like a city, it encourages a sort of wandering. Stop along the way any time you want, think about how it will apply to where you live whether it's a city or somewhere else. I'm so excited to share this episode with you. THIS SHOW DEPENDS ON LISTENER SUPPORT. PLEASE PLEDGE TO SUPPORT THIS SHOW TODAY ON PATREON | — | ||||||
| 9/2/25 | ![]() AEWCH 300: GRANT MORRISON or WHO ARE YOU IN THE MAGICAL APOCALYPSE?! | Friends, When I started Against Everyone With Conner Habib, there were a few guests I wanted to have on more than just about anyone.Happy to say, now, on episode 300, one of those central figures to my imagination has arrived for the conversation.GRANT MORRISON doesn't need much introduction. He's* a rebel artist, spiritual visionary, comic book writer, magician, novelist, and nonfiction writer. The first time I ever heard of Grant Morrison was here, over twenty years ago. in a talk he gave. And then I met him shortly after (I tell you the story in the intro to the episode). His work, and just his being, has been a guidepost for me since I encountered his work.PLEASE DO SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREONGRANT'S WEBSITE***A note on Grant's pronouns: I talked with him after the episode about his preferred pronouns, and he said that the "they/them" pronouns were often used by other people when identifying him, but that he found himself using he/him just as much because both gender expressions seemed to limit what he felt his identity was. | — | ||||||
| 7/31/25 | ![]() AEWCH 299: ADAM BECKER on THE STUPIDITY OF TECH & A.I. | Friends,After writing my previous episode, AEWCH 298, where I laid out my thoughts on how to reflect on A.I. to get to beyond the basic, boring conversation, I read ADAM BECKER's excellent book, More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity .I immediately invited him on the show, and I wish I would've read it before. Even though there is plenty of overlap, Adam's vantage point offer a full vision of tech culture, and reveals just how deeply anti-science is is. That impact comes from the fact that Adam is great writer but also an astrophysicist, and author of the excellent popular book on quantum physics, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics.We talk about how we got here in science and technology, why technology has been conflated with science, how conspiracy and science intersect, and what physics has to do with all of this.Of course the conclusion is that A.I. is not super smart, not supported by smart people, that the fantasies of tech billionaires are bonkers, and that the singularity is not near because it's not even a thing.SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: patreon.com/connerhabib | — | ||||||
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