110. Pop Culture Magic: John Carpenter’s ‘They Live’ & Project SPEX w/ Literoin & Fr. Damiana

<p>Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata welcomes Literoin &amp; Fr. Damiana to talk about the John Carpenter movie, They Live (1988) and a pop culture magic experiment inspired by the film. What did you see when you “put on the glasses”?</p><p><br></p><p>Luxa shares about The Green Mushroom Project https://greenmushroomproject.com/ and Void House- creating consent centered magical spaces for conducting group work both in person and online, investigating the magical and alchemical properties of consent, and providing consent education to magically inclined people. </p><p><br></p><p>Thanks for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break by giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult . Or, Buy Me a Coffee.com is an option for a one time donation: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/luxoccultpod?new=1 </p><p><br></p><p>We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ and on BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/luxastrata919.bsky.social</p><p><br></p><p>Check out the Lux Occult YouTube Channel:</p><p>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlB</p><p><br></p><p>Merch! https://www.etsy.com/shop/IlluminIndustries</p><p><br></p><p>Community Protection Salt Ritual https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Atu6rNWkCSajdF6Fp6KYiMSHk7Sai-6IAlZfopNKFOU/edit?usp=sharing</p><p> </p><p>Music for Good: A Mixtape for MN Mutual Aid by Community Aid Network MN (CANMN) https://canmn.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-good-a-mixtape-for-mn-mutual-aid</p><p><br></p><p>Check out The Consent Academy https://www.consent.academy/</p><p><br></p><p>Find Luxa’s work published in Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience edited by Laura Tempest Zakroff and Ron Padrón https://revelore.press/product/serpents-of-circe-a-manual-to-magical-resilience/</p><p><br></p><p>Referenced in today’s episode:</p><p>Project Spex All Out of Bubblegum Ceremony https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mVTyd4yi9T9IqCAram2WdJ4AnznvExAbxEM4hes0Xz4/edit?usp=sharing</p><p><br></p><p>‘They Live’: John Carpenter’s Brilliantly Simple and Hugely Enjoyable Assault on Reagan’s America by By Sven Mikulec https://cinephiliabeyond.org/live-john-carpenters-brilliantly-simple-hugely-enjoyable-assault-reagans-america/</p><p><br></p><p>John Carpenter Wants Internet to Stop Misinterpreting ‘They Live’ https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/john-carpenter-they-live-twitter-internet-nazis-jewish-control-capitalism-1201764730/</p><p><br></p><p>They Live: John Carpenter&#39;s action flick needs to be saved </p><p>https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/jan/09/they-live-john-carpenter-neo-nazis</p><p><br></p><p>Gee, whiz: elephant relieves itself on floor of Texas Republican convention https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/13/texas-elephant-republican-convention</p><p><br></p><p>They Live Trivia https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/trivia/</p><p><br></p><p>The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wretched_of_the_Earth</p><p><br></p><p>Saw the TV Glow (2024) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Saw_the_TV_Glow</p><p><br></p><p>Abby Hoffman and Steal This Book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman </p><p><br></p><p>Albert Hoffman and LSD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann</p><p><br></p><p>Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud,_Not_Buddy</p><p><br></p><p>Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/#intcid=_wired-verso-hptrending_693ebede-53d6-4172-80db-00ed15bc0d62_popular4-2 </p><p><br></p><p>How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members https://www.wired.com/story/how-peter-thiels-private-dialog-club-secretly-ranks-its-mem