Rejected Religion Podcast

Rufus Harrington joins Stephanie in a bonus Patreon Tier 2 episode that returns to Wicca through Doreen Valiente, who sits at the center of the discussion.

This episode treats chaos magic as something built out of scholarship, invention, and whatever tools people already have nearby. The conversation stays grounded in practice, and the moderator keeps it moving without letting it drift into abstractions for their own sake.

Rejected Religion's Patreon Tier 2 episode with Dr. Matteo Polato treats Hellier as more than a mystery box. Stephanie starts with real curiosity about Matteo's article, and Matteo follows that thread into the show's own logic.

Ike Baker speaks from the Cicero line of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and his role as an administrator at the Asheville, North Carolina temple, using that background to present Aetheric Magic as a full system of elemental, celestial, and alchemical practice.

Stephanie Shea frames a deceptively simple question with steady control: how video games carry religion, and what players and makers do with that material once it enters the game world.

Dr. Sue Terry's discussion draws a clear line between occult modernism and literary craft. It presents Florence Farr as a polymath and Mary Butts as another forceful example, showing how ritual, research, and feminist purpose can deepen fiction instead of just making it strange.

Rejected Religion treats tarot as a serious interpretive practice while still letting its playfulness show. Safa Mirar's move from Iran to the Netherlands, along with the first encounter with a Hobbit tarot deck, gives the episode a grounded personal thread before it broadens…

Rejected Religion treats elemental beings as a serious meeting point between magic and environmental history. Stephanie Shea gives Chaling Janssen room to move from Paracelsus to an environmental reception history of elemental beings, and the discussion keeps tying philosophy to…