Did you know that early Communist Russia almost became a Buddhist theocracy? That's just a fraction of the craziness that sets the foundations for later "Soviet Psychotronic Super Science"! I just had to get into the story of "Red Shambhala" & this is it! Don't hate the Great Player, hate The Great Game! It's history comrades...Enjoy!

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Closing theme: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Earl Scruggs plus a bunch of other dudes on their respective banjos!

SOURCES: "Red Shambhala" by Andrei A. Znamenski & "Modern Occultism in Late Imperial Russia" by Julia Mannherz

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My brain hurts...maybe I shouldn't have ate those brains? This episode covers everything in it's provocative title AND MORE! Listen to Mike pretend to speak Chinese! Oh, and one last "tidbit" of a programming note. All the jars along the walls in "ye olde timey apothecary shoppe" in the thumb art? Gonna go out on a limb and say that probably around 80% of them? Various jars of misc. animal piss. It's a safe assumption. ALSO! Coverage of yet another occult/ritual murder(s?) tied to this topic! AND YES! The terms "ragu/jazz" in this particular context are indeed code for menstrual blood and seminal fluid, respectively. Now here's your SOURCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_cannibalism#See_also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_medicines_derived_from_the_human_body

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacamantecas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumia_Abu-Jamal

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SOURCES (part 2): Yomiuri Shinbun, Sept 11–14, 1934: “Asakusa Lens Sect Under Fire”

Mainichi Shinbun, Oct 1934: “Families Warned of Spirit Fraud”

Tokyo Metropolitan Police Memo, File #1183-9-1934, partial summary republished in:

Sakai, Eiji. “Occult Photography and Grief Commerce in Showa Japan,” Jōhō to Bunka, Vol. 5, 1998.

Abe, Ryuji, Dark Lenses: Spirit Photography in Japan 1900–1950, Tokyo University Press, 2004.

Wakayama Prefectural Mental Health Archive

Case file: “WAK-PMH-1936-43-K” — Entry on Kagawa Seiji

Diagnosis under prewar code: “精神神秘病第七号”

Tenri University Religious Studies Archive

Collection: "Shin Shūkyō Shiryō-shū" (New Religions Documents Collection), folder on Kagawa

Hand-copied excerpts of Kagawa’s scrolls labeled: “KAMIKAGAMI-A-6/7”

Wakayama Shinbun (Local newspaper), Oct. 3–9, 1936 issues

Kōyasan University Thesis Series:

Ichijō Masami (1969): “Mirror and Sky in Proto-UFO Mysticism”

“Shūkyō to Seishin Byōri” (Religion and Psychiatric Illness), Nihon Iryō Shakai Gakkai, 1981

Grapard, Allan G.

The Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History (University of California Press, 1992).

Teeuwen, Mark and Rambelli, Fabio

Budddhism and Iconoclasm in East Asia: A History (Continuum, 2003).

The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality (Princeton University Press, 1998).

Hori Ichiro

Japanese Folk Religion (University of Chicago Press, 1968, translated).

B. Modern Revivalism, Fringe Thought, and Ultra-nationalism

Amino Yoshihiko

Rethinking Japanese History (University of Tokyo Press, translated by Alan Christy).

Miyata Noboru

Ueda Masaaki

Connections to State Control and Secret Research

Barrett, David P. & Shyu, Larry N. (eds.)

Unit 731: Japan's Secret Biological Warfare in World War II (Free Press, 1989).

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Genyōsha (Black Ocean Society)

Kaplan, David. Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld (1991)

Kaplan & Dubro, Yakuza: The Explosive Account of Japan’s Criminal Underworld

H. Neill McFarland, The Rush Hour of the Gods (1970)

Kokuryūkai (Black Dragon Society)

Richard Deacon, A History of the Japanese Secret Service (1983)

Boyé Lafayette De Mente, The Japanese Samurai Code

Walter Skya, Japan’s Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism (2009)

Tenkōkai (Heavenly Light Society)

Ian Reader, Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan: The Case of Aum Shinrikyo

H. Byron Earhart, Japanese Religion: Unity and Diversity

Ōmoto (Omotokyō)

Nancy K. Stalker, Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburo, Omoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan

Helen Hardacre, Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan

Hitonomichi Kyōdan (Way of the Human Path Sect)

Winston Davis, Japanese Religion and Society: Paradigms of Structure and Change

Ulrich Möhwald (ed.), Changing Japanese Suburbs

Taireidō (Great Spirit Path Movement)

Jean Herbert, Shinto: At the Fountainhead of Japan

Ichiro Hori, Folk Religion in Japan: Continuity and Change

Ian Reader, Religion in Contemporary Japan

Helen Hardacre, Shintō and the State, 1868–1988

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