The Aether

Gabriela Herstik is an author, sex witch and my former neighbor during a time when magic & synchronicity in my life began to accelerate. Actually, If it wasn’t for our connection back in 2022 I might not have found 22 Teachings School of Hermetic Science & Magical Arts where I would go on to deepen my study of Tarot, Ritual & High Magic. Her work explores the intersection of the erotic and the esoteric, making magical practice both accessible and deeply embodied. She is the author of Inner Witch, Sacred Sex, and The Goddess of Love Tarot, and her writing has been featured in Vogue, Nylon, Vice, and many more. In this conversation, we explore desire, receptivity, and the power of honoring the body as a gateway to magic and personal agency, particularly for femmes, sex workers & marginalized communities. Join Slut Coven & more of Gaby's work: Slut Coven Membership gabrielaherstik.com Support the Show: Patreon.com/theaetherpod SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ekram Ibrahim is a Journalist, and Harvard Kennedy School graduate whose work spans global affairs, human rights, and ancient wisdom. As the host of the podcast Courage Codes, she explores mythology, spirituality, and inherited belief systems as tools for awakening inner sovereignty. In this conversation, we explore Egypt, its symbolism, mysticism, and enduring spiritual legacy, moving toward a deeper understanding of Ma’at and the interconnectedness of all beings. Courage Codes Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6IPj90VrVIt2YpvAwD1iXa Connect with Ekram: EkramIbrahim.com Instagram.com/EkramIbrahim Support the show: Patreon.com/theaetherpod SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this solo episode, I reflect on where I am post-interstellar healing, and the experiences that have led me into a deeper relationship with intuition, parallel lives, and personal transformation. Returning to Reality Transurfing by Vadim Zeland, I explore what it means to align with a new version of self and what happens as the body begins to catch up. Reality Transurfing via Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Reality-Transurfing-Steps-I-V-Audiobook/B0CT142B7F?srsltid=AfmBOorDwCVcQMW4UbVlWngVi3yl0Q0cXjLRFnA1K0zFyK6eVWH5u7Dk The Sleepy Physicist via YouTube: https://youtu.be/v1CTJnzYb9k?si=KtBAHjTkEnLkMDMT Work with YeahBoiii: YeahBoiii.com SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“You know it because you know it.” This week, I’m joined by author Marco Visconti, whose work includes The Aleister Crowley Manual and Aleister Crowley’s Mysticism. This discussion gets into the reality of working within Thelema, what that means and what it actually asks of us. We talk about why Crowley’s work is so often misunderstood and misinterpreted, and the difference between building a practice and committing to something that fundamentally changes us. We get into the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, why that experience can’t be externally validated, and why real growth on this path requires disruption, solitude and a willingness to be transformed. This is a grounded and thoughtful exchange around magicianship and what it really means to be a steward of the work. 🖤 The Aether: giving form to the formless Support the show: Patreon.com/theaetherpod More from Marco: marcovisconti.org SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Believe in the way of the new reality that is coming every day. We have seen what will happen, and it is whatever you want.” I first met YeahBoiii back around 2012, when we were both in very different vehicles. This conversation was a timely reconnection. One that became imperative to my growth and evolution. For the past three years, I’d been moving through inexplicable full-body pain, chronic injury, fatigue, and emotional overwhelm. After trying everything, I had arrived at an impasse. When YeahBoiii reached out in support of the show, I had no idea where it would lead. My session with him & his nonhuman team was about 3 hours total, split between two sessions, followed by a 10-page integration report. It’s something I am still actively working through. YeahBoiii’s Interstellar Healing is like nothing I’ve ever experienced. His work reveals the architecture of the path you came here to live, illuminating what’s been carried across lifetimes and clearing what stands in the way of your highest potential. His purity, authenticity, and unapologetic expressiveness have only expanded since choosing this reality: living in solitude in a castle in Spain and offering support through his communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. What a ride. What a gift. Welcome back to The Aether. It’s going to be an incredible season. More on Interstellar Healing: ⁠Yeahboiii.com⁠ 🖤 The Aether: giving form to the formless 📡 Brought to you by @spectrevisionradio 🎶 Theme Music: latelife @youngyeller ✍🏽 Episode art: @lexmflee SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠ ⁠linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🥂✨ Happy New Year to all The Aether listeners & thank you for an incredible 2025 January 1 marks a turning point In this episode, I reflect on the movement from the inward work of the Hermit year into the embodied sovereignty of the Magician. We began with Ep. 0 | The Spirit of Aether: zero, breath, potential held. We leapt with The Fool’s energy & moved through silence, incubation, and the slow organization of will. An initiatory episode for a new season: The year of The Magician, granting us agency, as the tools are now laid out before us. 🗡️🪙🍷🪄 The Aether: giving form to the formless Episode Art by Lex Lee SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Content warning: This episode includes discussion of depression and suicide. Please take care while listening, and give yourself some extra grace this holiday season. In this episode, I mark a significant chapter of The Aether. Punta Monterrey, Mexico | November 4, 2025 My most potent & undeniable psychic confirmation event. Included is my emotional, real-time testimonial as I reflect on the three-week pause which allowed me sufficient time for real processing and somatic integration following such a jarring & life altering experience. I speak candidly about moving through a dark, extended period of depression, attachment, unresolved grief, and the quieter aftereffects of this mediumistic work, even when supplemented by daily ritual. At the center of the episode is a recorded conversation with the woman I was paired with during the exercise that became this confirmation event. The Aether: giving form to the formless. Episode Art By Lex Lee Mental Health Support: 988lifeline.org befrienders.org My Ketamine Therapy Program: 5-sessions: https://checkout.betterucare.com/introduction 9-sessions: https://checkout.betterucare.com/2141 Use Code NICK50 at checkout for $50 off your first treatment after the necessary intake process. Want to Travel with me in 2026? Start here: https://trovatrip.com/trip/survey?hostId=66c980e6a6d47b6b62b14591&host=Nicole+Johnstone&listId=66c980e6a6d47b6b62b145a2 Join us LIVE on Christmas Day! (Info TBD) SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Solo Episode. A recalibration. Episode Art By: Lex Lee SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author and researcher Mike Clelland returns to The Aether to share with me the story of his “confirmation event,” a night sleeping out under the desert stars that set in motion a phenomenal chain of deeply anomalous experiences, marking the moments when his life changed forever. This is a multi-layered account that left me fascinated. What begins in quiet awe, with what could be UFO contact and a psychic flash of a map marked by three precise points, unfolds into a pattern of synchronicities, each later aligning with a distinct, reality-altering event. The map, the owls (of course), a foreign stranger turned friend who would not only bear witness but share with Mike an unforgettable experience, a set of hypnotic regression sessions, and the unseen intelligence weaving through it all converge here in one of the most extraordinary accounts of synchronicity, alien intelligence, and modern high strangeness I’ve encountered. Someone asked me what has changed in my life after all my research and writing. I thought for a moment and said, "I now live in a magical universe." -Mike Clelland More of Mike's work: https://mikeclelland.com Hidden Experience Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/389xS095h0og3tr80pst7c The Messengers: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733980814 The Unseen (Novel): https://www.amazon.com/Unseen-Mike-Clelland/dp/B0C5G9NGWZ/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this follow-up conversation, filmmaker Ivan Nevesenko returns to The Aether to discuss the evolution of his upcoming feature film, inspired by the mythic descent into the underworld. Together we discuss art as an alchemical process, what it means to choose the descent consciously, to hold faith in the process of becoming, and to move forward through the unknown with trust. More of Ivan's work: katascopefilms.com Episode Art by Lex Lee SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of The Aether, I sit down with psychic practitioner Madison Lang (@liminalpsychic) to explore the mechanics of subtle perception. We discuss clairsentience, psychic anatomy, and how focused energy work can deepen our awareness of unseen dimensions. Madison shares how their training at the Boulder Psychic Institute helped them move from overwhelm into discernment and clarity, and why treating psychic sensitivity as a system rather than an abstraction transforms it into a tool for healing and integration. This conversation is for anyone interested in psychic development, intuitive healing, subtle body work, or the intersection of spirituality and nervous system regulation. Welcome to The Aether: giving form to the formless. More of Madison's work: liminalpsychic.com Boulder Psychic Institute boulderpsychicinstitute.com Episode Art by Lex Lee SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the first installment of Transmissions — our listener-submitted storytelling series — nick welcomes Ivory, a recording artist raised in a devout Christian household and shaped by a lifetime of unusual experiences. From an angel’s embrace to a haunted house to hearing her name called by unseen voices, Ivory reflects on how these moments continue to guide her sense of reality and connection to spirit. Find more of Ivory's work here: https://bio.site/poisonivory Episode art by Lex Lee SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of The Aether, host Nicole Johnstone is joined by multidisciplinary artist and educator Peter Bussigel to explore the phenomenon of spoon bending — also known as psychokinesis. Nicole and Peter recount their firsthand experience at Lily Dale, where ordinary spoons bent effortlessly in their hands, blurring the boundary between matter and mind. In a shared exploration, the conversation shifts into Peter’s creative practice, where art, sound, and form intersect with the unseen forces of intention and embodied consciousness. Together, they examine the role of intention, creativity, and the mind’s miraculous ability to influence the physical world. This is The Aether — giving form to the formless Find Peter’s work at triangleline.com Episode Art By Lex Lee SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices