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Time War: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick; CCRU; Cern; Gnostic Revelation
May 16, 2026
1h 03m 55s
Psychic Antiquing, Stumbling Into Ritual, Urban Explorations and Divining Reality with Erick Van Ficken
May 4, 2026
3m 32s
Esoteric Zines, Divination and Soul-Making with Nynnmah
Apr 28, 2026
1h 02m 35s
Phasing: The Silver Bridge, Mothman, High Strangeness, Cryptid Prophecy
Apr 23, 2026
9m 52s
Lying Moons; Terminal Boredom; The Book of The Law
Apr 13, 2026
1h 02m 21s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 5/16/26 | Time War: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick; CCRU; Cern; Gnostic Revelation | Live from the empire which never ended... an episode about time, its (non)existence, the Exegesis of Philip K Dick and its relevance to our moment (which is the same moment as ever), Nick Land’s time-war theories, the many worlds theory, CERN, and a brief eulogy for a recent loss in the weird podcast community. Hurry and listen! Join our Patreon to access 2 exclusive episodes monthly, written content, our full 6 year episode archive, discord and our printed Journal of Shells magazine. Its the best and only way to support the show and it’ll only cost you a few bucks. https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality | 1h 03m 55s | ||||||
| 5/4/26 | Psychic Antiquing, Stumbling Into Ritual, Urban Explorations and Divining Reality with Erick Van Ficken | Join our Patreon for just $5 and access 2 exclusive episodes monthly, our full 6 year episode archive, written content, discord server and more. Plus: our Print Club Tier includes our Journal of Shells esoteric magazine subscription and other printed and recorded items in the mail. Its the best and only way to support the show. https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality The mind behind the music and performance project Coteries joins Dave again for a sprawling conversation on magic, ritual and living the many lives. Erick brings a great wealth of stories on new methods to scrying and divination, tales of urban exploration and antique picking and endlessly haunted zones. Another enchanted conversation, never to be missed! https://coteries.bandcamp.com/album/absentia | 3m 32s | ||||||
| 4/28/26 | Esoteric Zines, Divination and Soul-Making with Nynnmah | Join our Patreon for just $5 and access 2 exclusive episodes monthly, our full 6 year episode archive, written content, discord server and more. Plus: our Print Club Tier includes our Journal of Shells esoteric magazine subscription and other printed and recorded items in the mail. Its the best and only way to support the show. https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality In this interview we spoke with the excellent zine maker and occultist Nynnmah. We unraveled streams of inspiration and divination in creating miniature cosmologies on paper. Nynnmah describes her works as an exploration of myth and the process of soul-making through the creative act. Her works include: Psychosexual and Esoteric Symbolism in Nosferatu, On Unicorns, Phantasms of Eros, Emblematic Monstrosities, Anatomy of Descent and Dweller on The Threshold and can be found at the link below. https://linktr.ee/nynnmah Intro music by Treatment https://treatmentforu.bandcamp.com/ | 1h 02m 35s | ||||||
| 4/23/26 | Phasing: The Silver Bridge, Mothman, High Strangeness, Cryptid Prophecy | The first in our new ”Phasing” series of short audio and video. Alongside our weekly full length episodes we’ll provide our shorts revisiting subjects often mentioned on the show. First up: Gray Barker’s important novelistic report on the Mothman happenings of 1967, The Silver Bridge, and why it shows how much weirder that folklore is than we give it credit for today. Your Mothman plushie might be a thoughtform... or a big, oily bird. Join us on patreon.com/consensusunreality for our full episode archive, 2 exclusive episodes a month, written content, printed Journal of Shells Magazine and more! | 9m 52s | ||||||
| 4/13/26 | Lying Moons; Terminal Boredom; The Book of The Law | The moon is in the news again! In this episode, however, we talk two stories by Izumi Suzuki, one by Arkady Strugatski, and meditate on the unfurling world around us. Plus we briefly revisit The Book of the Law and some thoughts on Crowley and his legacy as his name makes yet another cycle of rounds in the occultural sphere. Terminal boredom, the difference between life and cybernetic construct, living in someone else’s dream, and more. The voice of the void is speaking to you from the dark reaches of space. Check out https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality for 2 exclusive episodes a month, our full 6 year episode archive, written content, printed Journal of Shells publication, discord and more.. | 1h 02m 21s | ||||||
| 4/6/26 | Electric Ant Dreams; Refracting Consciousness PATREON PREVIEW | In this episode we touch on recent sci fi reads: ”The Electric Ant” by Philip K. Dick, ”The Man Who Would Not” by James E. Gunn and ”You May Dream” Izumi Suzuki. We explore some diverse themes including sentient AI, reality refraction, simulacra and first contact. We also chat on the poetry of Kenneth Grant, and speculate on many avenues of weirdness. A classic patreon ramble. Join our patreon for our full episode archive, ongoing exclusive episodes, written content, discord and more. Plus in our print club tier you can get our Journal of Shells esoteric magazine mailed directly. https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality | 4m 11s | ||||||
| 3/30/26 | Virtual Nihilism; Dark Forest Theory of the Internet Patreon Preview | Join Consensus Unreality Patreon for just $5 a month and get access to biweekly exclusive episodes, our full 6 year episode archive, written content, discord and more. Plus we present our printed Journal of Shells magazine exclusively through our Print Club Tier. Its the best and only way to support the show. https://www.patreon.com/consensusunreality Watch what you say in the forest, you don’t know what you’re feeding. In this conversation on Bogna Konior’s book The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet, we talk about living in an age of strategic secrecy, ufological allegory, and hidden AI game theory mind control. Does this experiment in extreme nihilism reflect our current moment? Listen to find out. | 10m 24s | ||||||
| 3/23/26 | Photographic Hauntings, SORRAT, and American Parapsychology with Shannon Taggart | Join Consensus Unreality Patreon for just $5 a month and get access to biweekly exclusive episodes, our full 6 year episode archive, written content, discord and more. Plus we present our printed Journal of Shells magazine exclusively through our Print Club Tier. Its the best and only way to support the show. https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality In this interview with returning guest, artist and writer Shannon Taggart, we discuss her recent article and continued work on SORRAT, one of the most misunderstood and fascinating groups in parapsychological history. From their founder John Neihardt’s important Black Elk Speaks and Cycle of the West, through the tragedy which inspired the founding of SORRAT and the inner workings and later works of the group, we dive deep into this strange history. We also chat at length on Shannon’s thoughts on photography’s artistic legacy in the modern era, its inherent paranormality, her work at Lily Dale, and the photographic manifestations of Ted Serios. A lengthy and wide ranging conversation with one of the best in the biz! https://www.shannontaggart.com/ | 1h 30m 55s | ||||||
| 3/16/26 | Finality Loops; Broken Time: Tempunauts; Dodleston Messages; Scole Experiment | Join our Patreon to unlock all our exclusive episodes, written content and more.. For just $5 come aboard, support the show and help us unlock the mystery. https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality Dave and Ben are stuck in a time loop... this episode presents the 500,000th precise replica of a conversation on Philip K. Dick’s ”A Little Something for Us Tempunauts,” time weirdness and existential novelty, eternal returns, seances from the future, the inevitable return of IPAs, and more. We revisit the strange future incursions in The Dodleston Messages and compare similar interference channeled through the Scole Experiments. | 52m 09s | ||||||
| 3/6/26 | Witchcraft, Occult Relics, and More with Steven Intermill of Buckland Museum of Witchcraft | Steven Intermill, curator and director of the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft, joins us for a wide ranging conversation on Ray Buckland, Michael Bertiaux, Nema, American occultism, occult book and object collecting, his work in noise project Telecult Powers, leg lamps, and more. Make sure to check out the astounding Buckland Museum next time you’re in Cleveland, or visit them online at https://bucklandmuseum.org Join Consensus Unreality Patreon for biweekly exclusive episodes, printed magazines and more https://www.patreon.com/consensusunreality | 1h 14m 57s | ||||||
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| 2/23/26 | Space Age Relics, Ghost Automata, New Paranoid Cinema | A brief summary of our latest Journal of Shells: cybernetics and automata, spirit and machine. There’s still time to join our Print Club on Patreon! Plus, on Patreon: The space age’s corpse treated as a saint in Ballard’s Dead Astronaut; another diagnosis of the paranoid American in recent film Bugonia; syncs and thoughts galore. Join our Patreon for this full episode, printed Journal of Shells, our full episode archive, and ongoing exclusive content. https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality | 10m 52s | ||||||
| 2/13/26 | Virtual Incursions: Neuromancer, Cyberpunk, Close Futurism | In this continuation of our discussions on artificial unrealities, we visit William Gibson’s cyberspace. We talk Neuromancer, its influence and prophecies, and the feedback loops fiction and reality create when they meet in the human mind. Join our Patreon for just 5$ to access our full episode archive, weekly exclusive episodes, written content and more.. Plus- our Printed Journal of Shells.. Volume 7 shipping shortly https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality | 43m 49s | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | Reality Deterioration: Ubik, Serial Experiments Lain, AI Psychosis, Fake Worlds | With some help from Philip K. Dick’s classic novel Ubik and cult favorite anime Serial Experiments Lain, we discuss the intellectual genealogy and current situation of our slipping reality. AI psychosis, corporate rulers, gods from the machines, and more.. Full 2 hour episode, full episode archive, ongoing exclusive episodes, printed magazine subscription and more at https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality | 56m 53s | ||||||
| 1/8/26 | Paranormal Year in Review: Research and High Strangeness Patreon Plus Episode | 2025 in the rearview, 2026 a big tunnel painted on the side of a mountain. Here’s our lengthy public/ Patreon split episode recapping highlights and weirdnesses from a mixed up, wacky year. Plasmoids, out of body experiences, and tons of great interviews. It’s like a whole year in under two hours! Patreon discussion of our personal strange experiences, looking forward to ’26, and much more. Join our patreon to access the second half of this episode, our full episode archive, and over 150 hours of exclusive episode audio + our printed Journal of Shells publication https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality | 1h 00m 33s | ||||||
| 12/19/25 | Solid State Intelligence, John C. Lilly Revisited, ECCO, 3I/Atlas PATREON PREVIEW | ECCO is calling. Will you answer? SSE is at your door. Do you let it in? Hear our advice in this breezy discussion of our beloved mad scientist mystic John C. Lilly. The spiritual insights of a Vitamin K. psychonaut; eerie AI prophecies; coincidence and synchronicity; and more! Here this full episode and over 150 hours of exclusive episodes on Patreon, plus join our Print Club to receive our printed Journal of Shells publication and more.. https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality | 9m 14s | ||||||
| 12/12/25 | ESP, Remote Viewing, Parapsychology + Patreon: Savior Battles, Gnosticism, Punched by Bigfoot | SRI, PEAR, Duke, Monroe, and all that! An episode on remote viewing, ESP, psychics, and more. We even try it out ourselves, with an interesting result. This is your brief primer on the expanded mind. Plus: a lengthy Patreon addendum on Gnostic emo, further mindreading experiments, Bigfoot straight up punching you, and more! Join our Patreon for just 5$ a month and access over 150 hours of exclusive episodes, including the Patreon portion of this one, written content, discord and more.. https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality And for 10$ a month our Print Club Tier will also get you access to our quarterly Journal of Shells publication, which features new writings and artwork and curated archival texts dealing in the many subjects we speak on. Issues are currently limited to the Print Tier, so its the only way to obtain this limited publication. | 53m 45s | ||||||
| 11/23/25 | Out of Body Experiences, Hemi-sync, and the Loosh Harvest | The loosh harvest was good this time! A conversation on Robert Monroe’s Far Journeys, including its role as a 20th century paranormal ”theory of everything,” its introduction of the concept of ”loosh,” its strange worldbuilding, and more. Plus: our own thoughts and experiences on Hemisync, the Gateway Experience, etc. Join our Patreon for just 5$ a month to access regular exclusive episodes, written content discord server and printed publications https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality | 1h 01m 53s | ||||||
| 10/28/25 | Halloween Table Tipping, Orb Photography, Horror Films, Synchronicity Tail Spins and More.. | The Halloween 2k25 special! In this lengthy public/Patreon split episode, we talk Dave’s recent trip to table-tipping and spirit photography boot camp at Lily Dale; obscure Czech films and seasonal pumpkin slashers; the nature and effects of paranormal experiences; poetry’s spiritual dimension; Voynich; the thinning of the veil; and lots more! Unlock all our exclusive episodes, written content and printed publications at https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality | 55m 33s | ||||||
| 10/14/25 | Ouija History and Witchboard Curses with John Kozik + Patreon Afterword | In this interview with John Kozik of the Salem Witch Board Museum, we follow the planchette of history across the board of time (sorry) to answer some questions about the history, lore, and power of talking boards. Will ouija have its tarot moment? Can a teacup channel the spirits? Why is a Stranger Things branded board the most haunted in Kozik’s museum? Find out within! https://www.salemwitchboardmuseum.com/ Plus a Patreon afterword talking on Recent Divination experiments, analog Randonauting and horror movie excursions.. https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality Intro music by Treatment https://treatmentforu.bandcamp.com/album/pond-life | 51m 40s | ||||||
| 10/7/25 | Technological Mediums, Channeled Etherships, Haunted VHS Tapes PATREON PREVIEW | In this Patreon exclusive, we talk ghosts and ghouls, ether ships. A meditation on technology as haunt inducing mediums, Mark Probert’s ethereal channelings, Colin Wilson’s Leap in the Dark and vintage paranormal television, and more! A classic grab bag CU conversation. Full episode, over 150 hours of exclusive episodes, written content, full archive and more at https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality | 11m 15s | ||||||
| 9/30/25 | Unfolding Alternate Realities, Ong's Hat, Synchronicity and more with Joseph Matheny | A deep and roving interview with the great artist and writer Joseph Matheny. We talk: the origins of his legendary Ong’s Hat project in the very early days of the internet; mail art, collaboration, and finding new media; the trajectory of ARGs and the internet; the power of synchronicity and art in driving a life’s path; location and folklore; much, much more. Not to be missed! Hear this first hour on Spotify, Youtube, Apple The Full Episode and much more at https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality | 1h 04m 17s | ||||||
| 9/22/25 | Weird Fiction, Divination and the Magic of Place: Algernon Blackwood; Pan; Geomancy | In this double feature episode — half public, half Patreon-only— we celebrate the equinox with a discussion of Algernon Blackwood’s ”The Willows” and ”The Wendigo”, as well as the ageless fascination of Pan. In the Patreon section, things get spooky and bibliomantic, including the announcement of a new CU divination key. Hear the second part of this episode and access tons of exclusive content, written material, printed zines and more on Patreon.com/consensusunreality or unlock at the top of our Spotify Page | 46m 57s | ||||||
| 9/8/25 | The Crossroads of Fairy Lore, Photographing Djinn and Tracing the Dark Song with Darragh Mason | In this interview with Spirit Box podcast host Darragh Mason, we travel deep into crossroads to discuss his important recent book Song of the Dark Man. We also spoke about extreme experiences in photography; documenting the Djinn; fairies; magick and more. Not to be missed. Plus: tune in for an exclusive Patreon follow-up, where Ben and Dave reflect on some of the startling and captivating aspects of the interview, Alien: Earth, TikTok-viral demon boxes, Occult travels and more! Join our Patreon for our full episode archive, ongoing exclusive episodes, written content, printed publications, discord server and more. Its the only way to support the show, and we do a ton of exclusive stuff over there. https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality | 1h 09m 10s | ||||||
| 8/25/25 | Fourth Wall Phantoms and the Truth About Aliens with Joshua Cutchin | This episode is about you, the listener. Our third interview with the prolific and brilliant Joshua Cutchin focuses on his newest book, Fourth Wall Phantoms, with conversation on the fictionally charged nature of paranormal encounters, feedback loops of imagination and reality, the power of narrative, ideas as entities, and more. Exclusive afterword, full episodes, full archive, printed materials and more at: https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality Joshua Cutchin https://www.joshuacutchin.com/about | 1h 17m 34s | ||||||
| 8/17/25 | The Loch and the Grail with Mike Bruno Patreon Episode Preview | An exploration of dragons, serpents, and myth, Nessie, the depths, reptilian evil, wormy good, and the quest for the grail. After 3 years, we’re joined again by friend of the show Mike Bruno, musician, birdcatcher, and mystic. Don’t miss it! Full episode, full archive and tons of exclusives available at https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality Mike Bruno Music https://mikebruno.bandcamp.com/ | 16m 41s | ||||||
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2 placements across 2 markets.
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2 placements across 2 markets.