Andrew Sage

Once in Germany, I was confronted with seemingly occult words and symbols.

People spoke in odd incantations.

I came across a map that appeared via my black scrying mirror, the iPhone, which upon deciphering led me to an old power plant warehouse in East Berlin.

I entered this dark, looming building, and inside the air was thick with smoke and incense.

Figures dressed in all black emerged from the fog, witches, wizards, and magicians.

I followed them into a candlelit room where hooded occultists conducted a ritual welcoming us to the 2025 Occulture Conference.

Occulture is a bi-yearly conference that's once every two years, focusing on the intersection of occultism and culture, pop or otherwise.

This is arguably the most prestigious occultism conference in the world.

I have been wanting to attend for years, and I was finally able to go this go-round, on the condition that I make four podcast episodes.

The two that I'm releasing this week and next will cover some of the core magical and topical currents throughout the conference, mostly via a panel discussion between myself and three other attendees.

And then before Christmas, I'll have two fully scripted episodes interrogating these concepts further and discussing the use of occult practice in 2025.

So to start, let's meet our panelists.

I should introduce my magical travel team for this conference.

Let's start with Delta, a Belgian magician and artist which I recruited to join me in this wacky adventure.

Delta, say hi.

What do you do, Delta?

What's your magical specialty, I suppose?

Well, it's kind of a mix of... Into the microphone.

It's kind of a mix of things where...

Part of it is just... Into the microphone.