S2 #13 / Phil Hine on Queerying Occultures

Today we welcome back the great Phil Hine on his new book
Queerying Occultures.


What is Queerying Occultures? 'Queerying' is a portmanteau word
from 'Queer’ and 'Query'—classic Phil Hine word play. Occulture
is another portmanteau word meaning 'Hidden Culture' (from
‘Occult’ and 'Culture').


The occult is Queer. Historically. Intrinsically. Radically.
Wonderfully Queer. Yet at times this essential fact can feel
unacknowledged in wider Occulture dialogues. Addressing this,
Phil Hine’s Queerying Occultures is a collection of queer-themed
essays exploring, questioning and reflecting on the diverse
trajectories that might arise from applying queer questioning to
occultural themes and practices. Drawing on perspectives from
Queer Theory, history, Continental Philosophy, and shared
experience, Hine explores subjects as diverse as Shamanism and
gender-variance; the rise of the Queer Pagan approaches; the
uncomfortable history of occult homophobia; Queer perspectives on
Tantra, Pan, Sacred Spaces, and Crowley in Boy Bar Berlin. This
far-reaching, necessary book is both a celebratory resistance
text and indispensable investigation of the Queer in Occulture.


In the Plus show we get into the Aghori, ideas on the left hand
path and the innate queerness of the left hand path. The Shivite
story of the woman who became a ghoul. We get into the history of
Masquerade balls, and discuss the relationship between the battle
brothers Cuchullian & Ferdia and the curse of Macha of birth
pain on the men of Ulster


If you want to hear the plus show, it’s very simple to do, simply
join the patreon and get the entire Plus show back catalogue and
all the bonus show extras. If you are watching this on YouTube or
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