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🗓️ 30 March 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Everyone’s favourite gnostic raconteur, Miguel Conner, returns to the show this week to discuss his latest book, The Occult Elvis.
The book becomes an entryway into a wide-ranging discussion on the role of shamans, cultural transformation, fate and the destiny of America. (Mere trifles!)
00:00 Introduction to the Occult Elvis
04:03 The Spirituality of Rock Music
07:54 Elvis as a Magician and Shaman
11:52 The Blue Light Phenomenon
15:54 Elvis's Influence on American Identity
19:53 Elvis's Mystical Interests and Books
23:47 The Legacy of Elvis in Modern Culture
34:37 Exploring Fate and Free Will
37:56 The Wounded Healer: Elvis and Addiction
40:06 The Search for Self: Elvis's Identity Crisis
46:52 Elvis as a Cultural Trickster
51:10 The Archetype of the Shaman in Modern Fame
57:52 Elvis: A Reflection of Post-War America
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0:00.0 | This week, we welcome back, author, speaker, researcher, Gnostic Racconteur, and podcast host, friend of the show, Miguel Visconna, welcome back. |
0:31.2 | Always good to be back here. |
0:34.2 | Yeah, for a conversation that I never thought I would ever have |
0:37.9 | About an occult shamanic Elvis having read the book |
0:45.4 | I get it |
0:46.1 | So, okay, this makes sense |
0:48.7 | But my first question was actually going to be before I read the book |
0:51.7 | Whatever Possessed you to write this book, |
0:55.8 | but then it turns out that was, it's almost a literal question. So should we begin there? |
1:01.5 | Sure, sure. Yes, there is a book where Gordon and Elvis Presley share some space and actually |
1:08.7 | work together. Remember writing the book asking I ask you for the definition of magic, |
1:14.6 | and it was perfect definition, co-creating with the universe. |
1:18.6 | And I even remember telling you that my thesis |
1:22.6 | is that Elvis is the greatest magician in modernity. |
1:26.6 | If we take that definition, |
1:28.6 | and the book shows if you take any definition, |
1:32.1 | I think Elvis is superior to John D. Crowley, all those cats. |
1:37.6 | But of course, we have to, there are certain rules, right? |
1:41.1 | For example, rock music was never meant to be a form of entertainment. |
1:46.1 | And this is something that not Chris Knowles is noted, but even writers in those days were like, |
1:52.2 | you know, this is just tent revival, Holy Spirit, evangelical Christianity, obviously. |
2:01.6 | And that's what it was. |
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