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Episode 415 Satanic Panic 2.0

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Armed with Satanic Panic era Christian VHS tapes, warning about the dangers of New Age Music, Dungeons and Dragons, and Action Figures, Scream City makes its debut. Panic in Suburban Detroit is a nod to one member's experiences growing up outside of Detroit, in a very typical midwestern suburb. Although, as safe as any suburb can be, irrational fears haunted adults of the 1980s suburbs, from nightmare scenarios about the kidnapping of children from malls, to Dungeons and Dragons causing children to become possessed by the devil. In the 1980s, Satan was everywhere, at least according to many concerned parents and Geraldo Rivera. This track is the first in a series of pieces inspired by that place and moment in time.

Panic in Suburban Detroit

Break out your pentagrams and turn your crucifixes upside-down, because in this episode of "Music Raygun," Kirk and Paul are worshiping the prince of demons, Beelzebub, aka Satan!

Music Raygun

152: Hail Satan!

My guest this month is Dr. Joel Bordeaux.

Joel is a specialist in South Asian religions with a PhD from Columbia University (2015). He has published on East Indian Śākta traditions, early modern Hindu statecraft, Nath Yogi literature from Bengal, and Tibetan Buddhism in Anglophone popular culture. He is a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden, The Netherlands,  and a member of the research group Body and Embodiment in the Middle Bengali Imaginary based at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

As Zeena Schreck, the famous daughter of Anton LaVey of the Church of Satan, was recently interviewed by Jordan Peterson, I immediately thought of Joel and a presentation he gave three years ago about Zeena and her then-husband Nikolas as they relate to Tibetan Buddhism, Tantra and Left-Hand Path practices. I asked Joel if he’d like to re-visit this topic and to flesh it out, further expanding on this, in light of the recent media attention that Zeena has had. He graciously agreed.

In this discussion, Joel first gives a background of Anton LaVey & the environment of the Church of Satan wherein Zeena grew up, leading to Zeena taking the role of spokesperson for the Church during the Satanic Panic years, and then the circumstances that led to Zeena leaving the Church to forge her own path.

This takes us to other projects that Zeena and Nikolas were involved in, such as Radio Werewolf and the Temple of Set, their break from that group to form their own group called the Sethian Liberation Movement or ‘The Storm’.  Joel discusses in more detail the concepts of tantra and left-hand path traditions that are used in their practices and beliefs. Another important factor that is discussed is the role of Traditionalism within all of Zeena’s work.

In closing we discuss our takeaways from Zeena’s interview with Jordan Peterson. I hope you enjoy this conversation!

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Please visit www.rejectedreligion.com for program notes.

All Music & First Edit: Daniel P. Shea
End Production: Stephanie Shea

RR Pod E32 Free Dr. Joel Bordeaux: Zeena's 'Left-Hand' Path from Satanism to Buddhism

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Another episode of Janitor Driving Jalopies Drinking Java!

This time around they discuss HYSTERIA! which is Peacock's foray into STRANGER THINGS territory. Satanic Panic in the 80's is fertile ground for content, but how did the show ultimately turn out? Listen to find out!

Peacock's Hysteria! (Season 1) Review

This month’s Patreon Tier 2 guest is Peg Aloi. Peg is a freelance film and TV critic, a former professor of media studies, and co-editor (with Hannah Sanders) of The New Generation Witches: Teenage Witchcraft in Contemporary Culture (Routledge) and Carnivale and the American Grotesque: Critical Essays on the HBO Series (Macfarland). With Hannah she also co-organized two scholarly conferences at Harvard University on paganism, witchcraft and media. Peg's forthcoming book The Witching Hour: How Witches Enchanted the World is a cultural analysis of the witch in contemporary media. Peg was also one of the co-founders of The Witches' Voice and wrote about film and TV for the site for over a decade. Her long-running blog "The Witching Hour" can now be found on Substack. 

This conversation was inspired by a lecture in April of 2024 by Peg for The Last Tuesday Society called “The Satanic Panic: Its Roots and Branches,” that explored a number of disparate but often-related elements that converged to create the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and 90s, including Satanic-themed horror films. In this discussion, we pick up were Peg left off and explore how viewpoints surrounding Witchcraft and ‘The Occult’ have changed since that time until our present day. Peg talks about various instances within popular culture that have shown a shift in the ‘negative’ paradigm. This conversation spans several different areas, ranging from politics and society, education and scholarship, entertainment media, films and series, to magic and other ‘occult’ practices.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I did!

You can find the Full Episode with Peg Aloi at my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RejectedReligion 
The episode is also available for a one-time purchase. 

Theme Music and Editing: Daniel P. Shea
End Production: Stephanie Shea

RR Patreon T2 Free Content Peg Aloi: Contemporary Reception of Witchcraft and 'The Occult' in the USA

*This is the Free Content version of my interview with Dr. Jeff Howard. To access the entire episode, please consider becoming a Tier 3 ‘Garden of Arcane Delights’ member, or you can purchase this episode for a one-time fee. 

All Program Notes can be found at Patreon. www.patreon.com/RejectedReligion 

The Patreon page offers much more content as well, including a book club that meets 4 times per year via Zoom. If you are interested in esoteric topics, please check it out! 
~ Many thanks, Stephanie

Theme Music and Editing: Daniel P. Shea
End Production: Stephanie Shea

Patreon Tier 3 Free Content Dr. Jeff Howard 'Playful Occulture:' Magic & Gaming

Gear up, listeners, because we are talking about Longlegs--where the titular character is So evil, 
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A humble little podcast giving you the latest reviews, critiques, criticisms, and total freak outs in the world of entertainment, movies, comics and just about anything else you can think of.

Each episode of Music Raygun explores a different musical artist, topic or concept. Hosts Paul Ciampanelli and Kirk Pynchon watch and discuss related music videos, TV clips, commercials, interviews and other pop-culture ephemera on YouTube.

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Here’s a little story about a trio of janitors. 
Might have heard they worked at a well-known film school.
They picked up a few things other than trash. 
They might hate your movie, or if drunk think it’s cool.
Every now and then they get together for a lunch break. 
Trash talk some movie, or TV, or streaming.
Rodney and Jason and Sean – they all clean halls. 
If you listen close you can hear kids screaming: Film School Janitors!

2024 Music "Aries Beats - Escape" is is under a Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) license. 
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At your local top-tier film-and-TV school, these three lurk the halls… sweeping… scrubbing…mopping…

What you drop, they pick up.  But that’s not all they’re picking up.

You see, after twenty years of cleaning up after film students, they’ve learned something – most movies are garbage.

So whenever their lunch breaks align, they catch up on the latest Hollywood has to offer.

In between taking out the trash, they’re talking trash.

Rodney – Sean – Jason… They are The Film School Janitors

A podcast.  One of us loves horror while the other does not. Join us as we talk about horror movies and pair them with a themed cocktail.

Allison and Marie are two sisters who love to share a drink and a movie.

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