Liminal Currents

Liminal Currents is built around long-form conversations with occult authors and magicians. The center of gravity is not quick explanation. It is the slow unfolding of how a person found a path, tested it, inherited pieces of it, rejected other pieces, and turned the remainder into practice. Brian Gathey acts as host and guide, opening with personal context and then giving guests enough room to follow the deeper thread. The show’s interests are broad but recognizably esoteric: chaos magic, the left hand path, demonolatry, Thelema, tarot, Lilith, Hekate, runes, ritual space, paganism, psychology, and art as magical work. Its strongest episodes often make doctrine feel human. Ad Ullman’s left hand path conversation, for example, moves toward compassion, ethics, and the question of where standards come from when authority is internal. W. Adam Mandelbaum brings a brisker current, connecting modern demonolatry with changing waves in magical culture. Idlu Lili’s appearance leans literary and mythic, with extended readings around Lamia, Lilith, Hekate, and spiritual beings whose stories resist simple moral sorting. Ian C. Edwards brings psychology, philosophy, and presence into the discussion, treating the space between people as something transformative in itself. Ran’s rune conversation uses the giants as a way to rethink Norse material from an outsider position, while rejecting romanticized or exclusionary ideas of the past. Lon Milo DuQuette’s episode centers Thelema, tarot, and the long arc of magical writing. The show can be dense. It can also be funny, affectionate, and surprisingly grounded. Rather than selling mystery as atmosphere, Liminal Currents keeps returning mystery to books, rituals, relationships, and choices. Its best quality is the trust it places in a guest’s full answer.