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INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY FILMS
THE BEAST OF LOCHNESS is a new film featuring a team of researchers exploring Boleskine House. Separating historical facts from modern pop-culture, this investigation deep-dives the self-proclaimed Beast, Aleister Crowley, revealing what he really got up to in Scotland.
PHENOMENOLOGY is a seven part documentary series following a team of explorers investigating the archaeology and mythology associated with a 400-year-old unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in Colombia.
ONLINE PRESENTATIONS
Discussing the mythological archetype of the triple moon goddess and the defeminization of the Holy Trinity.
Dandelions are one of the most colorful, perverse and mythologized medicinal multi-tools from the ancient world. After collecting the nutritional power-flower I'll prepare its roots, leaves and petals and make and a cup of old American colonial tea.
In mythology the blackberry was associated with the devil and in faerie lore the Púca was a mischievous supernatural entity that spat on the fruits rendering them toxic. This episode gets to the roots of the myths, medicines and practical applications of the blackberry bush.
For 5000 years the rose has evoked passion, magic and love with its erotic fragrance and beauty. Join Chia and I making ancient Egyptian rose water to keep your hair and skin glowing like Cleopatras, discussing the rose's applications in mythology, symbology philosophy and religion.
CLAN MYTHOLOGY PODCAST
In this darker version of the classic fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin, the little baby stealer uses black magic to create a portal to hell. Will the queen survive? Will the devil claim her baby?
American writer Joseph Campbell would have called this story a classic example of the 'hero's journey'. From Brazilian forest folklore this twisted tale is loaded with inspiring archetypes and supernatural motifs, magical riddles, giants, animals, robbers and of course - the fairest princesses in the land.
Rapunzel is a German fairy tale first published in 1812 from the collection assembled by the Brothers Grimm, which was an adaptation of Giambattista Basile's 1634 "Petrosinella".
Am Fear Liath Mòr is the legendary "Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui", a giant shadowy entity that thrusts mountaineers into states of terror and panic. This episode examines the environmental circumstances which cause the reported apparitions and emotional changes, bringing the mountain monster firmly into reality.
In this short film Ashley explores locations in the far north of Scotland associated with mermaids, finfolk and selkies. Beginning at a magical island in Orkney we venture to a mediaeval churchyard in Caithness for a supernatural experiment at a legendary selkie's grave.
The hit television series Outlander featured a stone circle acting as a time portal, but in reality, these ancient devices once served as 'time keeping' devices and this episode explores two such Neolithic standing stone settings in Caithness, Scotland.
ARCHETYPES AND PSYCHOLOGY OF MYTHOLOGY
In 1899, occultist Aleister Crowley converted Boleskine House on Loch Ness into a functioning Egyptian temple for acting out an ancient ritual known as the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage. What exactly did the self proclaimed "Great Beast" achieve during his time at Loch Ness?
A timeworn Scottish myth tells of a powerful Highland wizard being decapitated and buried in a circular grave at the end of a loch. Using an 18th century map I was able to locate this legendary wizards grave, and bringing myth firmly into reality, discovered a curious artifact which we will study up close in this feature.
In this episode Ashley talks with bestselling crime writer Douglas Skelton about the myth of Sawney Bean, the 16th century Scottish clan leader whose 48 members were reportedly executed for the cannibalization of over 1,000 innocent Scots. What truth lies in this hyper-violent Scottish myth?
This episode gets to the heart of Ashley's 2019 search for Captain Morgan's legendary lost treasure on San Andrés Island in the Caribbean Sea of Seven Colors. Don't forget to Subscribe and press the bell for alerts on new episodes.
Todays's episode gets up close to my allegedly 'cursed' ancient Egyptian artifact which is associated with Tutankhamun's Curse and a series of bizarre synchronistic occurrences. What do mythologists, psychologists and statisticians have to say about the ancient phenomenon of curses, hexes and jinxes? Don't forget to Subscribe and press the bell for alerts on new episodes.
Beginning with an ancient flood myth this feature discusses indigenous spiritual beliefs, lunar astronomy, environmental, ecological and psychological archetypes; some of world mythology's richest ingredients. This episode discusses triple moon goddesses in world myths, legends and folklore and why ancient moon goddesses were worshiped in three aspects.
A fading Norse myth identifies a remote grassy hillock with the otherworldly home of Odin's legendary Valkyries. Comparing the surrounding landscapes with the environmental archetypes detailed within the myth, the hillock is revealed as an ancient lunar observatory.
An enduring Celtic myth tells of a piper being seduced by the Queen of the Fairies and entering a magical seven year contract. Within the structure of this story lie a set of precise astronomical conditions which bring this folk tale firmly into reality.