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Coast to Coast - May 22 2017 - Global Conflicts - Medieval Psychedelia & Witches
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DATE: Monday - May 22, 2017
HOST: George Noory
GUESTS: Craig Hulet, Thomas Hatsis
In the first half, analyst of geopolitics and foreign policy Craig B. Hulet
offered commentary on conflicts all over the globe, and what is behind them.
Reacting to the recent terrorist incident outside a concert in Manchester,
England, he suggested that such attacks are a kind of "blowback" by insurgents
who have grievances against the West, often related to attacks in their own
countries. 9-11 was more of an act of "international guerrilla warfare," he
explained, as the Twin Towers represented government and corporate ideology as
opposed to attacks in cities that are targeted at the general populace. "I think
we're on the brink of something far worse than acts of terrorism. I think we're
going to see another 9-11 in our future," he added.
Hulet expressed concern with China, citing their build-up of forces in Africa
that will be almost impossible to merge with or defeat without military force.
Pakistan just gave them a lease on an open port on the Persian Gulf for 40
years, he added. "China has also built up the most fearsome naval force the
world has ever seen," he continued, and this is not being covered in mainstream
media. There's an ongoing effort to keep Americans from realizing that it's US
foreign policy that's created the current deleterious situations in China, the
Middle East, and Africa, he opined. On the Trump presidency, Hulet remarked that
he, as well as whoever might have been elected to this "imperial" office, serves
as a distraction for the American people, and the world, from the issues that
really matter.
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historian of witchcraft, magic, Western religions, contemporary psychedelia, and
medieval pharmacopeia. In the latter half, he explored how herbs, and psyche-
magical ointments have triggered powerful visions of both the divine and the
diabolical, as well as delved into the history of witchcraft through the
centuries. He spoke about the "witches' ointment," a condemning theological
Catholic term for the psychedelic or psychoactive plants used by witches to
commune with fertility goddesses, and practice a form of shamanism and healing
during medieval times.
Hatsis recalled a case from the 1400s, in which a Italian woman named Matteuccia
di Francesco was burned at the stake for giving abused wives a potion to bedevil
their husbands as retribution for the way they were treated. Up until the 1400s,
he noted that people in Western European villages who used psychoactive plants
for shamanistic purposes were widely respected in their communities. A member of
PEERS, the Portland Entheogenic Exploration and Research Society, Hatsis said
the organization helps spread useful information about "spirit plants" and
psychedelics, including safety precautions. Plants such as henbane and mandrake,
which are legal, can put people in a very lucid or visionary sleep state, he
reported.
News segment guests: Roger Stone, Jerome Corsi, Steve Kates
Highlighted Podcaster-- Patrick Keller, The Big Seance
WEBSITE(S):
craigbhulet.com
psychedelicwitch.com
BOOK(S):
The Hydra of Carnage
The Witches' Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic
Roller Derby: The Sensation That Caused a Book!
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