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Black Hoodie Alchemy

Author and researcher Anthony Tyler investigates esoterica and the unexplainable, from ancient history all the way up to the latest in brain sciences, psychology, and folklore"s carry-over into the modern era -- with heaping spoonfuls of psychedelia, horror, and a bit of true crime.

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120: Love in Philosophy & a very Skeptical Look at...

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2026/02/01

Welcome back to the next edition of Black Hoodie Alchemy! Continuing with last week's theme, we are analyzing another book by the controversial author Robert Greene, known for his works like The 48 Laws of Power, The 50th Law (co-authored with 50 Cent), and the topic of discussion today: The Art of Seduction. And with Valentine's Day just a couple weeks away from the time of release, it seems like as good a time as any for a wildcard episode such as this!(This is a sociological and literary

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119: '48 Laws of Power' & the Complexity of Human...

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2026/01/05

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! It's a fresh New Year and hopefully a clean slate for this show-host, who had a total slog throughout 2025 all the way to the end -- but I'm happy to finally be back! And hopefully 2026 will prove to be a much more consistent year for myself, the show, and everyone else that had to really grit their teeth through the last year. This episode's topic is about none other than author Robert Greene's infamous work The 48 Laws of Power, and if you'd like to

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118: Serial Killers, Demonology & Analytic Psychology...

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2025/11/05

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy! For this episode, I'm sharing a recent guest-spot I did on Joe Rupe's Lighting the Void⁠ for his week-long Halloween themed broadcasts.Joe hit me up just a couple hours before his show and asked me if I wanted to jump on to talk about serial killers and abnormal psychology (a topic I analyzed in part with my book HUNT MANUAL), so without much preparation I pulled up some notes and found myself in the zone for the full chat! Listeners had really great feedback to

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117: 'Beyond the Wall of Sleep' by H.P. Lovecraft...

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2025/10/27

Happy Halloween -- but also, give this a listen any time of year if you're a fan of cosmic, existential horror and esoteric spirituality! To help celebrate this year on The Fringe FM, Joe Rupe of Lighting the Void invited me to read a short story of my choosing, and the first one that popped into my mind was this lesser known Lovecraft story that has always been my favorite. Not only do the events of the story occur on the day before and of my real-life birthday, but they also speak to every part of

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116: VERMIN CLASS UNITE - Political Division is a...

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2025/10/18

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! This week, we have a huge wild-card episode with the only political show I've ever done and probably will ever do. Really, the whole point is actually approaching politics from an apolitical standpoint. There really are no politics -- there are just common people and the ultra elite. The vermin and exterminators. Anarchism (society without structured rule) sounds nice at times, but it will inevitably create a power vacuum. Communism might sound nice in

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146:27

111: Son of Sam, Satanic Cults & 'The Ultimate Evil'

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2025/05/07

For this episode of Black Hoodie Alchemy, I'm finally covering a topic I have teased here and there since the beginning of the whole show-run! At last, I am covering the sprawling, Charlie-Kelly-in-the-mailroom-style conspiracy theory that suggests that David Berkowitz did not act alone in the Son of Sam Murders of NYC. But make no mistake, this frenzied mailroom vibe comes not from the incredulity of the research, but from the sheer state of mind that tackling all of this topic's many threads will

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110: Outer-Space in Philosophy & Metaphysics

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2025/04/26

Welcome back, folks! This week I'm doing an episode that I feel like I probably should've done a long time ago -- but everything comes in due time, and here it finally is! Two and a half hours hashing out outers-space through the lens of philosophy, alchemy, and metaphysics. Diving into topics like the symbolism of outer-space from ancient to modern day; the possibilities and pros/cons of colonizing other planets; whether or not human survival for any deep length of time in space is possible; the

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109: New Age 'Prosperity Gospel' is Mental Illness

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2025/04/20

Welcome back -- at long last! Ending another unexpected break, I bring you an unexpected episode just in time for a 4/20-Easter combo, and this should mark the beginning of regular weekly or (at least) bi-weekly episode releases. I've had a lot going in my life recently, most of which has been very trying. It's brought about a lot of change, mostly for the better in the long run, but not before manifesting as horrific chronic pain for a couple months. More updates in the episode!But as for the

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106: Winter in Psychology & Hermetic Symbolism + The...

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2024/12/14

Welcome to the final Black Hoodie Alchemy episode of 2024 -- and we're all back in action! I'm joined by both my cohorts, Seedperson1 and Chris Fiato, and this time around we're getting deep into the analysis of the winter season itself. Starting with the crucial role that cold temperatures play in studying chemistry, we move into the psychology of prolonged cold and darkness in the winter, considering what it does to the mind and body in a variety of different ways and bringing that with us into

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105: The Paris Catacombs & the Psychology of Creepy...

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2024/12/08

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy! This week we're blowing the dust off of an episode recorded in early October. Unfortunately, it was temporarily shelved when I got blindsided by 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week for over a month! If you'd like to hear all about that, just give last week's episode a listen. That in mind, I'm now happy to report that I'm rested, back in a normal routine and ready to hit the ground running with more BHA. This episode, my cohort Chris Fiato and I get into another

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99.999: A Metaphysical Review of 'DONNIE DARKO'...

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2024/07/28

Thanks for tuning in! This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we're taking a break from the intense rabbit holes of research involving extra-sensory perception, parapsychology, outlier physics and so much more. That's right, this week you're getting another surrealist comedic break from reality with the return of Jeff Mamba - Mind Jockey (AKA Steve Buschemi AKA Jefferson Tillamookslinger AKA Shnelius Maximus)! Being a self proclaimed 'classy movie critic', Jeff sits down with returning-guest Justin Otto

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99: The Monroe Institute Revisited & the...

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2024/07/20

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, Seedperson1 and Chris are helping me wrap up our multi-episode deep dive about the modern scientific research done on extra-sensory perception in general. Over the last month, we've talked about Jung and synchronicity, chaos magick, quantum and chaos theory, JB Rhine and Duke University's decades of study into ESP, and the CIA's Project Stargate, which involved the heavy funding of the Stanford Research Institute (associated with the college) and The Monroe

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98: CIA Remote Viewing, Astral Projection & 'The...

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2024/07/13

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, Chris Fiato and Seedperson1 join me once again to help build off the recent conversations we've had about the connected web of: synchronicity, Hermeticism, psychology, physics, and even things like clairvoyance, remote viewing, ESP in general, and astral projection. After discussing JB Rhine and his ESP research at Duke University, we are now diving headfirst into the waters of the CIA's research into remote viewing, astral projection, and all forms of extra

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97.666: Your Haunted Pineal Gland on 'Juan on Juan'

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2024/07/07

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy! This week, to help supplement what we've been talking about on this show lately, I share with you my most recent appearance on the 'Juan on Juan' podcast (and one of the few guest spots I've had the time to do this year). If you didn't hear my first chat with Juan, you can check that out right here too! I share with Juan some of my favorite research as of late, talking to him more about heuristic comparative religion, evolutionary psychology, dreams, trance

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114:30

97: Investigating Parapsychology, Remote Viewing &...

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2024/06/30

This show description will be updated here soon. In the meantime -- listen to this episode anyway, champ. This week's featured music is from the homies Ronnie Pontiac and his wife Tamra Lucid! Night Prowler - Lucid NationLas Vegas - Lucid NationCoyote - Lucid NationLA River - Lucid Nation --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

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141:53

92: Stalin's Cannibal Island & The World's Most...

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2024/05/26

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we are going for the jugular and making this a chat with a heavy LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED warning, trigger warning, and all that fun stuff. The full descriptions of gore will be left out of our discussion here, but the fact of the matter is that these stories in and of themselves are so gory, terrifying, and true that even talking about them at any length requires a legitimate WARNING. And with that out of the way, my cohort Chris Fiato joins me with a strong

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116:58

86: Dive Manual - Empirical Investigations of...

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2024/04/13

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we have a podcast-swaparoo with my homie Joe Rupe, host of Lighting the Void, and we're both celebrating the fresh release of my audiobook Dive Manual: Empirical Investigations of Mysticism. With the paperback released in 2020, Joe has lended his narration and editing talents to help me bring this book into audio form, and since he took the time to read the entire thing -- including all the outtakes and re-reads -- he now has quite a bit to say about it all. I

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85: American Spirituality & Working for Manly P. Hall...

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2024/04/08

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we have another special guest: the wonderful, talented and laid-back Ronnie Pontiac. Ronnie is the author of books like 'American Metaphysical Religion: Esoteric and Mystical Traditions of the New World', he's part of the punk rock duo Lucid Nation with his wife Tamra Lucid, and he also just so happened to work as the great Manly P. Hall's research assistant and substitute lecturer for the last seven years of Hall's life. For the first half of the show, we talk

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114:09

84: Surreal Memories & the Inner Mysteries (feat....

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2024/04/01

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! This week is coming in from the Black Hoodie Alchemy patreon feed, which I have decided to roll into the main feed of the regular show. Given the inconsistency of my own schedule, not wanting to split my show feeds apart, and the fact that patreon listenership can be a long game sometimes -- I am consolidating things just a bit! With my cohort, friend, BHA listener and fellow alchemist, Seedperson1, this week we dive into the deeper aspects of alchemy in

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116:44

83.666: Frankenstein, The Elephant Man & Logotherapy...

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2024/03/24

This week, I share with you my most recent guest appearance on my longtime friend Joe Rupe's show, Lighting the Void. By telling the traditional story of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (which is far more alchemical and esoteric than the Universal rendition), the heartbreaking and triumphant story of Joseph 'Elephant Man' Merrick, and discussing some of Viktor Frankl's survival of the Auschwitz concentration camp (and development of logotherapy), we try to understand the struggles in our own personal

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