Welcome to the new Kakophonos.
In 2001 the pan-esoteric organization called Psychopomp – which we created for the purpose of spreading magickal education – toyed with the idea of creating an online radio show. There were fine examples under other genres already on the Internet using various mediums.
Then around 2005-2006, Apple Inc’s iPods and iTunes became hot, and provided a medium and a forum that we had been waiting for. Rod MacPherson and myself launched the Kakophonos Podcast for the first time. It was originally conceived as a Psychopomp Production, but really, Psychopomp was no more, as a creative endeavour, by that time. Perhaps it will be resurrected some time in the future.
We published a few Kakophonos episodes in 2006-2007, had fun doing it, and gathered a cult following towards whom we were most grateful, before closing up shop for various practical and personal reasons.
Today, Kakophonos is winding up for another incarnation that we’re really excited about. My feeling today, looking back, is that although we deemed the subject matter quite broad within the pan-esoteric genre, the genre itself was a bit narrow and exclusive for the general listener, in my opinion. We dealt with all things pagan, magickal, and mythological, etc. We want to broaden the topical spectrum into other arenas.
This reminds me of the Ars Magicka Open Stage that I ran early in the decade in Toronto. It was the city’s only occult-themed open stage monthly event. Unfortunately – and perhaps inevitably – the various criticisms we received from one group was that “it was too pagan.” Another group complained that it was “too Ceremonial.” None of this was true of course (or rather, that both statements were simultaneously true), and said more about the perspective, resistance, and agenda of the individual complainers than it did the reality and aim of the event: that of cross-exposure of subject matter for the audience, that would normally be passed-over or ignored, and possibly cross-pollination of knowledge. Ars Magicka actually became ever more broad in its monthly topics and speakers, and spontaneous guests as we went along.
We wound up delving deeper into Pagan traditions and High Magick of course, but we also explored the paranormal, Tantrayoga, Feng Shui and geomancy, various forms of divination, cryptozoology, UFOlogy, astrology, astrophysics, psychedelia, Holy Qabalah, Gematria and numerology, meditation, dreams, reiki, prophesy, altered consciousness through sacred drugs, sex magick, and many other topics too numerous to list here. “Too pagan” indeed!
Well, I think we will do the same here, and broaden our horizons to include these subjects, and many more, in our new incarnation of the Kakophonos Podcast. Really, if you think about it, most if not all of these subjects are, arguably, applications and studies into the dynamics of consciousness itself. Any of these aforementioned subjects beg the old and legitimate clichés about the meaning of life, who we are, and why we are here.
Kakophonos does not propose to answer these questions definitively, but to join you in exploring them, together.
Hello again friends. We are back from our fantastic summer holidays and are endeavouring to catch up with the episodes for you. Unfortunately, we have been, and are continuing to experience technical difficulties during this very potent Mercury Retrograde period.
Stay tuned for the much delayed August episode, where we will be respectfully celebrating Isaac Bonewits’ “Greater Feast,” and will begin an exciting adventure through the TAROT, with your mystical tour guide, Oraia Sphinx, of Media Astra Ac Terra.
