• Is Ancient Magic Really More Powerful?The Truth About Old vs New Magic
    2026/08/30

    s ancient magic really more powerful, or are we mistaking age for effectiveness?In this episode of Angela’s Symposium, we challenge one of the most persistent assumptions in occult and esoteric communities: that older spells, rituals and magical systems must be more authentic, powerful or effective simply because they are ancient.Drawing on the academic study of magic, ritual and Western esotericism, we explore magic as a form of “ritual technology”, examining how traditions evolve through adaptation, experimentation, transmission and innovation. From the Greek Magical Papyri and Solomonic magic to Wicca and chaos magick, we ask what actually makes a ritual powerful, and whether modern magical practices can sometimes be better suited to contemporary practitioners than ancient ones.If you are interested in witchcraft, ceremonial magic, grimoires, occult history, Paganism or the academic study of esotericism, this episode offers a different way of thinking about the relationship between tradition, authenticity and magical efficacy.CONNECT & SUPPORT💖MY COURSES 👩🏻‍🎓 https://drangelapuca.com/coursesWEBSITE 🔗 https://www.drangelapuca.com/BOOK A TUTORING OR A LECTURE 📖https://drangelapuca.com/servicesSUBSTACK ✉️ https://substack.com/@drangelapucaBECOME MY PATRON! 🎩 https://www.patreon.com/angelapucaSUPPORT ME ON KO-FI ☕️https://ko-fi.com/drangelapucaONE-OFF DONATIONS 💰 https://paypal.me/angelasymposiumJOIN MEMBERSHIPS 👥 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPSbip_LX2AxbGeAQfLp-Ig/joinMY PODCAST 🎙 https://open.spotify.com/show/2TKoWTGe6OKRokHN2zUIxM?si=dd9f50a734b14f86MY MERCH 👕 https://drangelapuca.creator-spring.com/FOLLOW ME👣- YouTube (@drangelapuca)🌟- SUBSTACK 💌 https://substack.com/@drangelapuca- Instagram (@drangelapuca) 📸- TikTok (@drangelapuca) 🎵- Twitter (@angelapuca11) 🐦- Facebook (Dr Angela Puca) 👥


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  • No Nonsense Spirituality with Britt Hartley
    2026/08/24

    What happens to spirituality when belief in traditional religion falls away? Can ritual, mysticism, awe, contemplation, divination, sacred stories and experiences of transcendence still have value without requiring supernatural explanations?


    Britt Hartley is a religious deconstruction educator, author, and atheist spiritual director who helps people rebuild meaning, identity, and family culture after faith. She is the author of No Nonsense Spirituality and a doctoral student whose work explores existential crisis, secular spirituality, and life beyond traditional religion.


    In this livestream, we will explore Britt’s concept of secular spirituality and her attempt to navigate a fascinating middle ground between organised religion, atheistic scepticism and contemporary alternative spirituality. We will discuss religious deconstruction, nihilism, meaning-making, mysticism, ritual and the psychology of spiritual experience, as well as the question of whether practices traditionally associated with religion and the occult can remain meaningful when their supernatural interpretations are suspended.


    We will also venture into some particularly interesting territory for Angela’s Symposium: astrology, Tarot, psychedelics, intuition, altered states of consciousness, the Divine Feminine, cognitive bias, the relationship between mystical experience and metaphysical claims, and Britt’s distinction between useful spiritual tools and what she describes as “woo”.


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    00:00:00 No Nonsense Spirituality Introduction

    00:01:23 Meet Britt Hartley

    00:05:20 From Mormonism to Atheist Spirituality – Britt Hartley’s Story

    00:07:49 Hard vs Soft Polytheism: Can Atheists Be Pagan?

    00:09:07 Why Humans Create Gods: Religion as a Human Project

    00:12:33 Is Spiritual Atheism Actually a Form of Paganism?

    00:13:34 Sufism, Shinto, Christian Mysticism and Spiritual Atheism

    00:16:48 Chaos Magic, Fictional Deities and Spiritual Scepticism

    00:19:42 Can Ritual Work Without Belief?

    00:22:51 The Science of Ritual Without Metaphysical Belief

    00:26:16 Why Practise Spirituality If You’re an Atheist?

    00:33:40 How to Build a Secular Spiritual Practice

    00:37:05 Situational Belief: Can Belief Be Used Temporarily?

    00:41:22 Belief as a Spiritual Tool Without Dogma

    00:43:59 Belief, Cognitive Bias and the Western Mind

    00:49:03 Spiritual Tools Without Metaphysical Truth Claims

    00:51:57 Nihilism, Phenomenology and What Is Really Real?

    00:55:39 Philosophical Nihilism, Spiritual Experience and the Self

    00:57:19 Is Belief Another Tool for Spiritual Practice?

    00:59:05 Religious Trauma, Trance and Feeling Safe Without Belief

    01:04:36 Does Everyone Need Religion or Spirituality?

    01:08:17 The Paradox of Atheist Spirituality and Religious Belief

    01:13:29 Clothing, Makeup and Adornment as Spiritual Practice

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  • Advanced Rune Magic with David Linder
    2026/08/17

    What lies beyond using runes as simple symbols for divination or spellcraft?


    In this livestream, I speak with David Linder, author of Advanced Rune Magic: The Greater Mysteries of Nordic Spirituality, about the Elder Futhark as a path of experiential knowledge and self-transformation.


    David approaches the twenty-four runes as interfaces with Runa, the greater Mystery. Drawing on the Rune Poems, Eddic mythology, historical context, meditation, galdor, talismans, and lived practice, he explores how runes can shape not only magical workings but the practitioner’s character, relationships, and engagement with the world.


    We will also examine where historical reconstruction ends and personal gnosis begins, how modern practitioners can create responsibly within a living tradition, and why Odin’s ordeal on Yggdrasil offers a powerful model of sacrifice, initiation, and the reconstruction of the self.


    Is rune magic ultimately about changing circumstances, or about becoming someone capable of changing the world?


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    00:16:24 How Do You Really ‘Know’ a Rune?

    00:21:40 Experiencing Runes: Galdr, Trance and Runic Practice

    00:23:57 Rune Magic, Animism and Signs from Nature

    00:27:57 Odin and Rune Magic as Self-Transformation

    00:31:08 Historical Sources vs Personal Gnosis in Norse Magic

    00:35:09 Can We Reconstruct Ancient Rune Magic?

    00:41:01 Mystical Experience vs Rational Decision-Making

    00:43:55 Christian Influence on the Rune Poems and Eddas

    00:46:10 Creating New Myths in Modern Norse Paganism

    00:48:54 Rune Magic, Fate and the Three Norns

    00:52:16 Hagalaz: Chaos, Destruction and Transformation

    00:56:12 Dagaz and the Dangers of Spiritual Extremes

    00:58:56 The Dark Side of Odin: What Should Practitioners Emulate?

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    01:04:30 Rune Practice, Compassion and the Greater Good

    01:07:59 Odin, Shiva, Ásatrú and Galdr

    01:09:03 What Does It Mean to ‘Win the Runes’?

    01:11:47 David Linder, Living Runes and Further Resources

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  • The Grimoire Tradition: A complete guide
    2026/08/09

    In this episode, I offer a complete guide to the grimoire tradition: what grimoires are, where the term comes from, how these books of magic developed, and why they became so central to the history of Western esotericism.


    We will explore major texts such as the Key of Solomon, the Lesser Key of Solomon or Lemegeton, the Ars Goetia, the Sworn Book of Honorius, the Picatrix, the Arbatel, the Book of Abramelin, the Heptameron, the Grand Grimoire, the Grimoire of Pope Honorius, and the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses. Rather than treating grimoires as mysterious books that simply appeared from nowhere, I look at them as living technologies of magical authority, shaped by clerical manuscript culture, print capitalism, occult revival movements, and contemporary magical practice.


    We will also look at how grimoires moved from medieval monastic and clerical settings into cheap printed chapbooks, Victorian ceremonial magic, Wicca, chaos magic, and modern occult practice. Along the way, I explain why many grimoires were attributed to figures such as Solomon, Moses, Honorius, Albertus Magnus and Peter of Abano, and what those false attributions tell us about authority, antiquity and magical legitimacy.


    Finally, I discuss how modern practitioners can approach these texts today: not as timeless manuals dropped from heaven, but as historical artefacts, ritual technologies and sources of magical imagination that have been copied, edited, adapted and reinvented for centuries.


    This is an academic, historically grounded introduction for anyone interested in grimoires, ceremonial magic, Solomonic magic, the Goetia, occult books, Western esotericism and the history of magical practice.


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  • Can Process Philosophy Explain How Magic Works? With Dr Darren Iammarino
    2026/08/05

    Can Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy offer a new way of understanding how magic works?


    Join me live on Saturday, 1 August 2026, at 12 pm EST for a fascinating conversation with Dr Darren Iammarino of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego.


    We will explore the philosophy of magic between 1875 and 1975, beginning with Spiritualism, Theosophy, William James, and the emergence of spirit and energy models. Our central focus will be Whitehead’s process philosophy and its potential to explain magic through an informational and relational model of reality, in which events, consciousness, agency, and influence are interconnected processes rather than isolated substances.


    We will also consider how yoga, Tantra, and the Yoga Sūtras conceptualise siddhis, or supernormal powers, alongside the influence of perennialism on modern Western interpretations of magic.


    Can process thought help us move beyond the familiar opposition between supernatural and psychological explanations? Could magic be understood as participation in a dynamic and interconnected cosmos? Join us live and bring your questions for the discussion.


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    00:12:45 Actual Entities, Prehension, & Subconscious Experience

    00:14:17 What is Process Philosophy? (Alfred North Whitehead Explained)

    00:14:43 Meaningful Coincidence vs. Causal Magical Influence

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    00:38:25 Atheistic Magic, Panentheism, & Process Theology

    00:42:58 Sigil Magic, Chaos Magic, & Altered States of Consciousness

    00:51:43 Perennial Philosophy vs. Religious Pluralism

    01:01:19 Why Esoteric Practitioners Should Study Process Philosophy

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  • Lughnasadh vs Lammas: The Truth About the First Harvest Festival
    2026/07/26

    Was Lughnasadh really an ancient Celtic fire festival, and is it actually the same celebration as Lammas?


    In this video, I separate historical evidence from modern Pagan reconstruction. I explore the medieval Irish assemblies associated with Lugh and Tailtiu, the English Christian origins of the Lammas loaf-mass, the folklore collected by Máire MacNeill, and how Wicca brought these distinct traditions together on the modern Wheel of the Year.


    Join me if you are interested in Paganism, witchcraft, occultism, Celtic religion or harvest festivals, and discover how we can celebrate the season meaningfully without mistaking modern mythology for ancient fact.


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  • Can AI Become a Magical Familiar? Witchcraft, Tarot and the Algorithm
    2026/07/19

    In this video, I explore one of the strangest and most fascinating questions emerging in contemporary occultism: what happens when witches, tarot readers, and magical practitioners begin treating AI not just as a tool, but as an oracle, assistant, mirror, or even a familiar-like presence?


    Drawing on the history of familiar spirits, digital religion, WitchTok, AI-assisted tarot, and theories of agency and animism, I ask whether artificial intelligence can meaningfully participate in magical practice, and where the real dangers lie.


    Is the algorithm just reflecting us back to ourselves, or is something more interesting happening in the relationship between magic, technology, and meaning?


    Perfect for anyone interested in witchcraft, tarot, AI, digital religion, occult studies, and the future of magical practice.


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  • What Is Theurgy? The Ancient Philosophy Behind Ritual Magic
    2026/07/12

    Was ritual magic ever taken seriously by philosophers?


    In this episode, I explore Neoplatonism and theurgy, the ancient ritual philosophy that challenged the idea that spiritual ascent happens through contemplation alone. From Plotinus and Porphyry to Iamblichus, Proclus, and the Chaldean Oracles, we will examine how late antique philosophers understood ritual, divine symbols, sacred matter, and the soul’s return to the divine.


    Rather than treating theurgy as superstition or irrational magic, recent scholarship has shown that it was a sophisticated philosophical system in which ritual, embodiment, and material objects played a central role in spiritual transformation.


    I also discuss why this matters for contemporary practitioners of magic, Paganism, polytheism, and Western esotericism today. Can ritual truly connect the human and divine? Is theurgy different from sorcery? And what happens when philosophy becomes a sacred practice?


    Join me as we uncover the ancient philosophy behind ritual magic.


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