{"id":11341,"date":"2020-03-05T16:36:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T23:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11341"},"modified":"2020-03-05T16:36:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T23:36:48","slug":"goblins-goat-gods-and-gates-weird-studies-does-hellier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11341","title":{"rendered":"“Goblins, Goat-Gods, and Gates”: Weird Studies does “Hellier”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I wrote about my encounter with 2019’s take-off[[It doesn’t seem right for say “went viral” right now, don’t you think?))paranormal web series hit Hellier<\/em> in this post, “Don’t Follow the Lights across the Moor, said the Monk<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Now my favorite podcasters, J. F. Martel and Phil Ford of Weird Studies,<\/em> have produced the episode on Hellier <\/em>and related things \u2014 with them, there will always be related things. Usually they send me to the library website with a bunch of interlibrary-loan requests.<\/p>\n

It is called “Goblins, Goat-Gods, and Gates.”<\/a> And you see will that there is a references list.<\/p>\n

The podcasters write:<\/p>\n

On the night before this episode of Weird Studies was released, a bunch of folks on the Internet performed a collective magickal working. Prompted by the paranormal investigator Greg Newkirk, they watched the final episode of the documentary series Hellier<\/em> at the same time — 10:48 PM EST — in order to see what would happen. Listeners who are familiar with this series, of which Newkirk is both a protagonist and a producer, will recall that the last episode features an elaborate attempt at gate opening involving no less than Pan, the Ancient Greek god of nature. If we weren’t so cautious (and humble) in our imaginings, we at Weird Studies might consider the possibility that this episode is a retrocausal effect of that operation. In it, we discuss the show that took the weirdosphere by storm last year, touching on topics such as subterranean humanoids, the existence of “Ascended Masters,” Aleister Crowley’s secret cipher, the Great God Pan, and the potential dangers of opening gates to other worlds … or of leaving them closed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, I haven’t listened to it yet. Weird Studies<\/em> episodes are saved for long drives, and M. and I are going to the city tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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