Exploring connections in high strangeness, fringe culture and the occult
Episodes
Monday Aug 25, 2025
Monday Aug 25, 2025
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.
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Joshua Cutchin
https://www.joshuacutchin.com/about
Saturday Aug 16, 2025
Saturday Aug 16, 2025
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!
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Mike Bruno Music
Monday Aug 04, 2025
Monday Aug 04, 2025
In this interview with Gregory Mallozzi, we re-enter the Law of One and Don Elkins rabbit hole. Greg's new podcast series on Elkins fuels the conversation, and we dive deep into the strange life of Andrija Puharich, with detours through archiving the paranormal, robot voices, and more.
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The Cosmic Clock
CARE (Center for Rare and Exotic Archives)
https://exotical.substack.com/
Intro Music by Treatment
Tuesday Jul 15, 2025
Tuesday Jul 15, 2025
In this interview with historian of religions Timothy Grieve-Carlson, we discuss the history of cryptozoology, Pennsylvania's deep history of the weird, and much more. Christian mystic Kelpius and the Ephrata Cloister receive particular attention, as well as the religious implications of alien abduction experiences, Whitley Strieber's Communion letters archive, and the Rosicrucian phenomenon. Is Bigfoot Cain? Find out!
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Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
Kristen Phillips, artist, writer, fabricator, and Philosophical Research Society events manager joins us for a deep dive on PRS, synchronicity, and more. We talk the legacy of Manly P. Hall, the genius of Arthur M. Young, artist Claire Pierpoint and a wild sync, aviator-mystics, Kristen's approach to art and her ongoing work The Membrane, and more. A packed conversation on many CU-classic themes!
Plus: a bonus Ben-Dave patreon discussion on Rosicrucianism, Martinism, George Hunt Williamson, and more.
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The Liminal Credential
Monday Jun 16, 2025
Monday Jun 16, 2025
Tesla's ghost is in the public domain! Will Mullany of Molasses Industries joins CU to chat about unconventional DIY electronics, ghosts in machines, the weird powers of low frequency electricity, the synchronicity of picking, and more. Cybernetics, control and chaos, intentionality vs. randomness, the human body as feedback node... A classic Consensus Unreality talk.
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Molasses industries
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Saturday May 31, 2025
Saturday May 31, 2025
For this weeks episode Dave interviews the mind behind the music and performance project Coteries, Erick Van Ficken. Ficken has a long history of paranormal experiences, and esoteric encounters culminating in a lifelong pursuit of spiritual exploration. In this sprawling interview Ficken enlightens on integrating the dark side of the occult and paranormal and the masterwork of facing your fears. We also chat on performing experimental music, experiences living in haunted houses, encounters with the famed Marfa Mystery Lights and much more... You can hear cuts from Erick's releases "Sound for Isolation 26" and "Oris Circumcisio" in the episode. Linked below is Erick's latest release.
https://easyridersnoise.bigcartel.com/
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Wednesday May 21, 2025
Wednesday May 21, 2025
Friday May 16, 2025
Friday May 16, 2025
We are celebrating 5 years of Consensus Unreality this summer, and we thought it might be good to frame the show once again for people who haven't been keeping up, or have never heard. (Don't worry, if you have been keeping up, its still worth a listen!) We are a podcast first and foremost, although we now have an ongoing print material project on our Patreon which includes our quarterly Journal of Shells and other recorded and printed materials. On the podcast we try to unearth new connections between things esoteric, mythological, occult, highly strange and fringe in cultural nature. In this episode hear us elaborate on some of that process and what we think separates us a bit from the crowd. We'll have more interviews and public episodes streaming soon, but the bulk of our work, strange magickal dabbling, writing and talking- goes down on Patreon.
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Intro music by Treatment
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Tuesday Apr 29, 2025
Tuesday Apr 29, 2025
I am Ra. Closing the book on Don and Carla for now: we discuss the Law of One, situating it within a continuum of channeled literature, noting its influences and eventual influence. Is it Christian mysticism? New Age syncretic remix? UFO cult? Exotica? Plus a bonus Patreon discussion on hypnosis, the midcentury New Age figure Harry J. Gardener and his Harmony Grove event, apes, and more.
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