End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)

Richard Kaczynski, PhD is an author and lecturer in the fields of social psychology, metaphysical beliefs and new religious movements.  He is known for his biography of the occultist Aleister Crowley, Perdurabo:  The Life of Aleister Crowley, described by The Times Literary Supplement as "the major biography to date".  This podcast will focus on Richard's scholarly presentment of Crowley's The Sword of Song which was just released by Inner Traditions. In other wide-ranging academic pursuits, Richard has held positions as assistant professor at Wayne State School of Medicine, research associate and affiliate at Yale Universities' Department of Psychiatry and adjunct faculty at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry.  He has published dozens of articles in academic peer reviewed journals in areas ranging from national program evaluation of comprehensive work therapy, and multi-site clinical trials of treatment efficacy for bipolar disorder (STEP-BD), schizophrenia (CATIE) and Alzheimer's (CATIE). To connect with Richard and his many offerings, please see:  https://richard-kaczynski.com/   This podcast is available on your favorite podcast feed, or:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-317-richard-kaczynski-phd-the-sword-of-songaleister-crowley Have a blessed weekend!

Troy Valencia is an accomplished researcher, author, musician, and practitioner with a unique interdisciplinary background in science, psychology, and traditional Bwiti spiritual practice.  He holds Master's degrees in Analytical Chemistry and East-West Psychology and is completing his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.   Troy is also the founder of Root & Wisdom, an Iboga platform in Costa Rica with his wife Joaly Trinidad, and the founder of Sacred Roots Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to supporting Indigenous peoples and communities.  Of Gabonese lineage on his paternal side, Troy integrates his cultural heritage with scientific and psychological expertise.   This podcast will focus on his new work, Living Beyond the Mind:  The End of Personal Suffering (2025).  For more information about Troy and his blessed life, please see:  https://rootandwisdom.com/our-team/ https://www.instagram.com/troyvalencia_/ This podcast is available your favorite podcast platform, or here: https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-316-troy-valencia-living-beyond-the-mindbwitiremembering Have a blessed weekend!  

Mike de la Rocha is a strategist, musician, author, and one of the most effective change makers of our generation.  As co-founder of Revolve Impact (an award-winning social action and creative agency), he participated founding Artists for 47, a coalition assembled to pass California's historic proposition 47 that has impacted more than 1 million people and led to the largest record change effort in U.S. history, launching the Justice Policy Network, the country's first bi-coastal fellowship focused on increasing the number of leaders in government advancing a new safety agenda, and producing #SchoolsNotPrisons.  Mike's impact portfolio includes serving as Director of Strategic Partnerships for Californians for Safety and Justice, Legislative Deputy for (future Congressman) Tony Cardenas, and Policy Advisor for the L.A. Human Rights Commission.  His work in utilizing music for social change spans four continents where he has worked alongside notable cultural icons such as Harry Belafonte, Dolores Huerta, and John Legend.  He is one of Good Magazine's top 100 people changing the world, a 2017 recipient of the AFL-CIO's Justice, Peace and Freedom Award, and a top innovator in America as listed by Stanford Social Innovation Review. This podcast will focus on his new book:  Sacred Lessons, which comes out next month and is available for preorder from Simon and Schuster.  Check more of Mike's work out at:  https://linktr.ee/mrmikedelarocha Have a Blessed Week!  Link to the show:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-315-michael-de-la-rocha-sacred-lessonsrevolve-impact-onnotice

Ananda is the author of Here For The Joy (2022) and Good News About the World Falling Apart (2025) the latter work being the subject of this podcast. Ananda went to Andover, Oberlin and Yale Law School and later taught English at St. Ann's School in Brooklyn.  In 1994, he left the city for upstate New York where he worked as a carpenter and mechanic and started seriously following his bliss.  He retired from carpentry when he hit 56, but never stopped teaching:  twelve years guiding students of shamanism at Spirit Hollow, the nature and spirituality center he co-founded, and the last twenty years and counting as an adjunct instructor of anthropology, history and mythology at the Community College of Vermont. For more information about Ananda and his many offerings, please see:  https://anandaforest.com/ This podcast is available on your favorite podcast feed, or here: https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-314-ananda-forest-good-news-about-the-world-falling-apart-the-third-turning-of-human-consciousness Have a blessed week!

Originating in the Netherlands, The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo is a creator of cosmic, comedic, and contemplative content, here to serve the Lore.  Also known as a "Bardo Bard," he is a multidimensional artist, he utilizes pareidolic divination, wit, wordplay, and a 6th sense of humor to mindfully investigate where the limits of language meet the fringes of reality.  His work finds expression through visual art, written and spoken word, music, film, puppetry, uncanny impressions, performance, and Oracular Interactions.   He is the host and creator of the podcast Self Portraits as Other People, the narrator of Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind: The Julian Jaynes Society podcast, and the author of The He & The She of It, Impatient Transformations and his new work, Lore Spores Vol. 1--which the subject of this podcast.  For more information check him out at:  https://www.theungoogleable.com/ The cover art is the work of the guest, and it is a helpful image to the oracular interaction which will transpire on the podcast as is the spirit of Dion Fortune, who successfully resisted the egregore of German Fascism in the 1940s by not directing energy into it and supporting other egregores:-)   This podcast is available on your favorite podcast feed, or here:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-313-the-ungoogleable-michaelangelo-lore-spores-vol-ipareidolic-divinationoracular-sensibilities-andor-interactions Have a blessed week!

Mike is a journalist and Adjunct Professor of English at City Tech (CUNY).  He is the author of numerous books including:  For All We Know:  A UFO Manifesto; Mescalito Riding His White Horse (Independent Press Favorite Award); Falling From Trees (Independent Press Favorite Award); The Hated Ones; Sleeping with Fishes, Call Me Guido, Freud's Haberdashery Habits, and Hallucinating Huxley. This podcast will focus on his new release: UFO Symphonic--Journeys Into Sound (Feb 2025). For more information about Mike and to connect with his wonderful work, please see:  https://mikefiorito.com/. This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-312-mike-fiorito-ufo-symphonic-journeys-into-sound Have a blessed week!

Joshua is the author of The Realized Light of the Twelve Dimensions: Cosmic Rebirthing and Our Celestial Destiny (2024), which is the subject of this podcast.  He is also a film director: Tenzin (2021), which addresses the struggles of Tibetans.  He has practiced and taught traditional Tibetan Buddhism, holographic recapitulation, psychic integration, and healing at temples, spiritual centers, and group retreats for more than 10 years.   He offers Akashic readings, and is a Pleiadian Channel, contemplative therapist, and multidisciplinary artist.  He holds a course on how to work with the Akashic Records and invites you to contact him directly for more details or to book a session at:  Joshreichmann@gmail.com. https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Joshua-Reichmann @Joshreichmann This podcast is available on your favorite platform, or here: https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-311-joshua-reichmann-the-realized-light-of-the-twelve-dimensions Have a blessed week!

Tobias Churton is Britain's leading scholar of Western Esotericism.  He is a filmmaker, composer and founding editor of the magazine Freemasonry Today.  Appointed Honorary Fellow of Exeter University in 2005 to serve as a faculty lecturer in Western esotericism, he holds a master's degree in Theology from Brasenose College, Oxford, and created the award-winning documentary series and accompanying book The Gnostics, as well as several other films on Christian doctrine, mysticism, and magical folklore.  Invited to contribute to the debates and published work of Prof. Gabriele Boccaccini's world leading "Enoch Seminar" in 2018,  The Books of Enoch Revealed is the second of two books inspired by the latest Enoch scholarship, and joins Churton's prolific list of 28 books, commissioned and written, that include biographies of Elias Ashmole, William Blake, Aleister Crowley, and G.I. Gurdjieff.     This podcast focuses on his newest release:  The Books of Enoch Revealed: The Wicked Watchers, Metatron, and the Fruits of Forbidden Knowledge (2025). For more information about Tobias, please see:  https://tobiaschurton.com/1_home.html This podcast is available on your favorite podcast feed, or here:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-310-tobias-churton-the-books-of-enoch-revealedthe-watchersmetatron Have a blessed weekend!

Hari-kirtana das is the author of two books on yoga philosophy, In Search of the Highest Truth:  Adventures in Yoga Philosophy (2017) and Journey Into the Bhagavad Gita:  A Guide to Exploring Timeless Principles of Transcendental Knowledge and Integrating Them Into Your Life (2024)--the latter being the subject of this podcast.  Hari has been practicing devotional and other yogic disciplines for over 40 years and is a frequent speaker on the relevance of yoga's ancient wisdom to life in the modern world.  He is lived in yoga ashrams and spiritual communities, and has a 800-hour yoga teacher certification form the Jivamukti Yoga School. You can learn more about Hari-kirtana and his many other offerings at:  https://hari-kirtana.com/coming-events/ and you can download a free chapter of his book on the Bhagavad Gita here:  https://hari-kirtana.com/books/ This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-309-hari-kirtana-das-bhagavad-gitatimeless-principles-of-transcendental-knowledge Have a blessed weekend!

Robert Falconer is a pioneering consultant and international educator in Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy.  He brings over five decades of transformative psychological expertise and a heartfelt commitment to healing and understanding the complexity of human experience.  Falconer has authored several influential books including Many Minds, One Self, co-written with IFS founder Richard C. Schwartz.  Falconer's book The Others Within Us, the subject of this podcast, is a groundbreaking work which centralizes "porosity" as a key component to healing. Falconer draws from personal experience and extensive clinical practice.  He is a respected international trainer who has led workshops in many countries, including Australia, Japan, Pakistan, Mexico, China, Europe and Canada.  He has also taught all over the US, including the Fort Beltnap Sioux and Northern Cheyenne reservations.  Falconer champions a holistic view that recognizes the inherent spiritual nature of psychological healing.  Now in his mid-70s, Falconer remains an active teacher and thought leader.  His work challenges Western therapeutic paradigms and advocates for a more comprehensive understanding of human consciousness.   For more information about Richard, please see:  https://robertfalconer.us/ This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here:https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-308-robert-falconer-porous-mindspirit-possessioninternal-family-systemsthe-others-within-us Have a blessed weekend!