Dr. Shelley A. Kaehr joined me for the Finding Hermes Podcast. She shared her new, fascinating, and helpful book, Ancestral Energy Healing: A Guidebook. She discussed exercises and prompts to heal family relationships, connect with ancestors, and make better decisions using rituals, meditations, and trance work. Your ancestors are speaking to you r…

When Mitch Horowitz arrives at Virtual Alexandria, it’s always a time to tap into your Hermetic Nous. He’ll discuss his ideas on our illusionary reality, his upcoming Discover TV series, Alien Encounters, and his new book, Happy Warriors. He’ll share iconic voices of esoteric spirituality and ideas of the most remarkable figures in positive-mind sp…

Cormac McCarthy remains a great crypto-Gnostic, just as Blood Meridian remains the great American novel and Gnostic Gospels simultaneously. We’ll go deep into the Terra Damnata for the Gnostic themes in McCarthy's work, going beyond Blood Meridian to such works as The Road and No Country for Old Men. I can’t think of anyone better than Ian Cattanac…

Ready to do some needed shadow work? You’ll get there when Maja D’Aoust arrives to share her new book, Astrology of the Shadow Self. The shadow self is an inseparable part of the human being – a concept known from ancient Egypt to classic Hinduism and recently rediscovered by modern psychology. Maja will show you how to find out the shadow polariti…

David Block returns from Mordor with crucial information for the Virtual Alexandria. The Lord of the Rings is an epic saga. The fictional world of Middle-earth is, however, more than fiction. The profound truth between the lines is more visible today than ever before. Technology and transhumanism rule the day, and in Middle-earth, Sauron rules the …

Ready to delve into Jason Reza Jorjani’s thought-provoking new book, Philosophy of the Future? He will share the six original concepts at his core, including the Spectral Revolution, Novel Folklore, Being Bound for Freedom, and the World State of Emergency. We'll examine the philosophical problem of the future from various angles, touching on ontol…

Sylvia Plath is considered one of history’s greatest poets of modernity. Yet much of her life has been censored by secular forces. The truth is that Plath was steeped in mysticism and occultism: Hermeticism, Kabbalah, pagan magic, astrology, and more. She was a psychic who employed the Tarot and other esoteric disciplines. Julia Gordon-Bramer enter…

Stop counting the carpet hexagons of the Overlook Hotel, Truthers! Steven Snider moonlands on the Virtual Alexandria to discuss his latest book, The Minotaur: A Kubrick Odyssey. He will correct many of the conspiracies surrounding the famed director, from the Apollo 11 mission to The Shining/Eyes Wide Shut theories to his involvement with the Deep …

Honored to have researcher and Gnostic priestess Billie Steigerwald at the Virtual Alexandria. We’ll go deep into the Orphic underworld to procure the treasure guarded by the dragon-headed snake. This quest will entail understanding the Gnostic idea of evil, the cosmologies of luminaries like Simon Magus, and the influence of the Orphic/Elusynean m…

James Brantingham honors the Virtual Alexandria to discuss his new book, A Gospel of the Hebrews. In our journey, we'll explore the Gnostic sects that influenced this work, such as the Sethians, Valentinians, and Ebionites. James will connect the dots to Gnostic beliefs and beginnings. We aim to understand the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew and its intri…