Episodes 228
Avg. Duration 47m
Activity Highly Active
Since Dec 2018
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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About This Podcast

This Podcast is a Ritual creates a magical space for a wizard, his guests, his listeners, and an omnipotent future being to create a slightly better reality. Get initiated now by listening to the Opening Ceremony!

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How to Speak with the Dead (w/ Kadmus)

Mar 04, 2026 1h

From honored ancestors to long dead sages, real wisdom can be found beyond even the oldest elders in the land of the dead, a place one may prefer not to wander without a knowledgable guide.…

The Magic of Failing to Meditate (preview)

Feb 26, 2026 9m

The second chapter of The Magic of Meta (Hypnosis & Meditations) is here! In this installment, we dive deeper into developing concentration and focus by learning to appreciate the moments of…

How to Live in the Face of Death (w/ Tom Banger)

Feb 18, 2026 1h 1m

Tom Banger is an artist, writer, and occultural technologist whose wild life has wound its way through the counter cultural currents of punk rock, heavy metal, and magick. After receiving a serious…

The Magic of Meta (preview)

Feb 12, 2026 12m

The first installment of The Magic of Meta (Hypnosis & Meditations) is here! This is a new series of bonus content, released every other week on the Patreon, consisting of both a guided…

How to Deal with Death (w/ Becky Robison)

Feb 04, 2026 54m

We're all going to die and, unfortunately, this truth applies to parents and other legally intwined loved ones. Thankfully, Becky Robison, author of My Parents Are Dead: What Now?, joins the ritual…

What is Metta? (preview)

Jan 28, 2026 9m

Metta is a Buddhist concept ordinarily translated into English as "loving kindness." But beneath a surface some might dismiss as simplistic "peace and love" good vibes, metta meditation offers a deep…

How to Speak with Puppets (w/ Tyler Nacho)

Jan 21, 2026 59m

The ritual gets a little whacky as we're visited by Tyler Nacho, creator of the existential puppet show, Death to Realism, and the freaks only magazine Kill Pretty, as we learn how a playful puppet…

What's the Point? (practice)

Jan 14, 2026 59m

What's the point of magic? The Wizard finally answers this timeless question with an imminently practical, unbelievably powerful, and ludicrously simple hands-on magical ritual that you can do at…

What's the Point? (theory)

Jan 07, 2026 52m

After 7 years and hundreds of episodes, the Wizard finally gets to the point and lays out his "metaphysics of magic," a theory of everything that not only explains all of existence (at last!), but…

A Meta Modern Xmas Special (Re-Release)

Dec 17, 2025 46m

The secret power of any holiday tradition is repetition. Endless re-runs of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas or A Charlie Brown Christmas are what engraved them into the cultural consciousness as…

The Annotated Invocation (preview)

Dec 10, 2025 11m

In this special bonus follow up to The Invocation, the wizard pulls back the curtain and reveals his sources, discussing all of the books, movies, artists, and ideas that inspired this most recent…

The Invocation

Dec 03, 2025 1h 8m

This Podcast is a Ritual began 7 years ago with an Opening Ceremony. Now the true purpose of this ritual is revealed in... The Invocation! Tune in to this episode's magical frequency to better…

What Is Magic? (preview)

Nov 26, 2025 10m

Magic is one of the most confusing, confounding, and captivating words in our culture. Every human society works with magic in some way, but what it is exactly is still up for considerable debate. In…

What is a Large Language Model?

Nov 19, 2025 44m

Large Language Models, or LLMs, are infiltrating every facet of our society, but do we even understand what they are? In this fascinating deep dive into the intersection of technology, language, and…

This Prophecy is a Ritual (Re-Release)

Nov 12, 2025 57m

The Invocation pulls from the past to foresee a "slightly better" future. As November 30th, 2025 draws nearer, we take one more look back to see This Prophecy is a Ritual, an episode exploring where…

What is Meta-tation? (preview)

Nov 05, 2025 13m

Meta-tation is a new practice of imaginative expansion, using one's own natural curiosity to see the present moment from a wider perspective and open up new pathways to a "slightly better" reality.…

How to Psychoanalyze Psychoanalysis (w/ Dr. Vanessa Sinclair)

Oct 29, 2025 49m

Artist, occultist, and psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair joins the ritual for another probing exploration of the strange and symbolic realms of psychoanalysis itself as we move beyond Freud and…

A Slightly Better Episode (Re-Release)

Oct 22, 2025 55m

As we move ever closer to our "Invocation of the Listener" ceremony on November 30th, 2025, we're returning to the episodes that first set the stage for the expanding mythos of This Podcast is a…

What is Myth? (preview)

Oct 15, 2025 9m

Beyond magic lies myth, a series of stories and symbols a culture uses to understand itself and orient to a wider metaphysical reality. While early anthropologists tended to discard other cultures'…

What is Metafiction?

Oct 08, 2025 45m

The Wizard sat down at his desk to write a description for his new podcast episode, What is Metafiction?, exploring the literary genre of metafiction and its implications for magical practice.…

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How many episodes does This Podcast is a Ritual have?

This Podcast is a Ritual has published 228 episodes since December 2018, covering topics in Health & Fitness, Mental Health.

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This Podcast is a Ritual is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 47m.

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