Archons
Referenced in 28 episodes
Definition
In Gnostic belief, Archons are considered malevolent entities that serve to control human souls and perceptions, often preventing spiritual enlightenment.
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There’s A Cosmic War Going On Above Your Head (Jason Jorjani Part 3)
American AlchemyOct 27, 2026
Philosopher Jason Jorjani returns to American Alchemy to argue that UFO technology was 'donated' to Nazi Germany via the 1933 Magenta crash and then passed to a postwar elite network called the World Commerce Corporation. He reveals findings from his new book on MK Ultra pioneer Andrija Puharich, claiming Puharich decoded Tesla's scalar wave technology, linked a Soviet scalar weapon to the 1977 New York blackout, and said the US built secret Tesla towers abroad. The conversation widens into a cosmic war between archontic overlords who farm human emotion and a non-human superintelligence trying to free humanity.
Miguel Conner on The Vampire Myth: From Lilith to Wetiko
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioOct 22, 2026
Gnostic author Miguel Conner traces the vampire myth from the Mesopotamian night demon Lilith through Slavic heretic-revenants, colonial bloodsucker legends, and Bram Stoker's Dracula to Jack D. Forbes' concept of Wetiko, the 'cannibal psychosis' of greed. He argues that every age invents a vampire that mirrors its own fears, whether death, outsiders, disease, desire, or consumption. Using Jungian archetypes and Gnostic cosmology, he presents the vampire as the shadow made flesh and asks whether the parasitic forces feeding on humanity are outside us or within us.
Samuel Stirpe on From Mormon to Gnostic: The Demiurge & the Divine
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioOct 16, 2026
Author Samuel Stirpe recounts his journey from a Mormon upbringing through 15 years of New Atheism to Marcionite Gnosticism, sparked by a stroke at 29 he describes as the Demiurge trying to kill him. He discusses his book 'Surrender: From Joseph Smith to Marcion' with host Miguel Conner, exploring surprising overlaps between Latter-day Saint temple rituals and Gnostic cosmology. Along the way he argues that Mormonism's own scriptures imply Elohim is an unknown God who appears only in the New Testament, much like Marcion's alien God.
Allison Carmany on Halloween Special: Psychic Readings, Transhumanism & Modern Monsters
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioOct 7, 2026
Psychic and intuitive coach Allison Carmany joins host Miguel Conner for a Halloween special on Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio, arguing that everyone has latent psychic abilities that can be awakened through meditation, grounding and shadow work. She claims humanity is at a crossroads where people will split between merging with machines through transhumanism and reconnecting with nature and the divine, while non-human reptilian entities try to suppress our awakening. The episode closes with a live psychic reading of the host, touching on his visions of Abraxas, his mission from Sophia and his recent recovery from serious illness.
Miguel Conner on Healing Update & Exclusive News
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioOct 2, 2026
Gnostic podcaster Miguel Conner gives a health update, saying herbal remedies and a tea and balm from a self-described Gnostic witch he calls Raven greatly improved his arterial occlusive disease, citing ultrasound results his doctor shared. He also discusses what he considers prophetic experiences, such as dreams and songs he can't stop playing that later seem to come true, along with stories from co-hosts Graham and Vance. The episode closes by promoting a crowdfunded graphic novel reboot of his 1990s vampire novel Stargazer, which he reinterprets as an allegory of Gnostics versus the Archons.
The Best Of Gordon White On THC: Remembering The Dark Prince of Chaos Magic
The Higherside ChatsSep 30, 2026
Host Greg Carlwood pays tribute to his late friend Gordon White, the chaos magician behind RuneSoup, recounting their friendship, the strange circumstances and synchronicities around White's sudden death in Peru, and his final work with the Latin American death saint San La Muerte. The episode then plays a career-spanning collection of interview clips covering Gnosticism, the claim that Jesus was a spiritual concept rather than a historical man, sigil magic, animism, the Sirius Mystery, Crowley's Egyptian rituals, fairies and UFOs, ayahuasca, and ritual readings of events like 9/11 and Oumuamua. Together they show why White was considered a key thinker bridging magic, conspiracy research, ufology, and consciousness studies.
David Crawford on Near Death Experiences & How To Escape the Loosh Matrix
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioSep 29, 2026
David Crawford, a former Zen monk raised on Gnostic ideas, describes a five-day near-death experience in 2024 after alcohol-induced bleeding varices nearly killed him. Instead of white light or angels, he found a shabby, bureaucratic overlay of his hospital staffed by indifferent 'psychopomps' who seemed intent on erasing his memory and pushing him into a new body. In his book 'A Manual for the Dead', he frames the afterlife as a soul-recycling system run by apathetic archon-like middle managers and offers four keys for keeping your sovereignty after death.
David Block on The Day the Demiurge Destroyed Atlantis
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioSep 25, 2026
David Block presents a narrated, illustrated story about Vineta, the legendary sunken 'Atlantis of the Baltic', loosely built on Selma Lagerlöf's children's classic The Wonderful Adventure of Nils. In his telling, Vineta was a free, multi-ethnic node of a Tartarian-Atlantean energy grid that the Demiurge and its 'wardens' destroyed in 1170, while a Templar guide reveals a hidden chain of Gnostic knowledge running from Alexandria to Constantinople. It is the first part of a planned trilogy that will go on to cover the destruction of Atlantis around 10,500 BC and a farewell to Tartaria.
Mark Booth | Mystic Scientists, Strange Happenings, & The Secret History Of The Universe
The Higherside ChatsSep 25, 2026
Author Mark Booth, also known by his pen name Jonathan Black, returns to discuss his book The Secret History of the Universe, which argues that the founders of modern physics were often mystics, occultists, and spiritualists. He describes how pioneers like Wolfgang Pauli, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, and Marie Curie drew on Kabbalah, Rosicrucianism, Indian mysticism, and seances to make sense of the strange behavior of the quantum world. The conversation also covers synchronicity, the Green Children of Woolpit, the Jim twins, mathematical patterns as living 'thought beings,' and Booth's own childhood encounters with high strangeness.
Miguel Conner on the Rape of Eve
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioSep 20, 2026
Miguel Conner explores how three ancient Gnostic texts retell the Genesis story with Eve being assaulted by the Archons, the false rulers of the material world. Drawing on Dr. Celene Lillie's book The Rape of Eve, he argues these myths condemned Rome's founding myths of sexual conquest and offered a sophisticated ancient blueprint for trauma survival, dissociation, and healing. Speaking openly as a survivor himself, Conner presents the Gnostics as radically compassionate, refusing to blame or shame the victim and imagining healing through consensual, equal partnership.
The Magic of Mary Magdalene with Joanna Kujawa
New Thinking AllowedSep 18, 2026
Author and self-described spiritual detective Joanna Kujawa argues that Mary Magdalene was never a prostitute, but Jesus's most advanced disciple and the keeper of his esoteric teachings. Drawing on the Gnostic Gospels, Tantra, Egyptian mysteries and Cathar history, she claims this 'divine feminine' wisdom of intuitive inner knowing was deliberately suppressed. She also proposes that Mary Magdalene may have become the alchemist Mary the Jewess in Alexandria, and that a recurring goddess presence returns across cultures in times of crisis.
The Shaman Poet on Good Archons? Rethinking Gnosticism Through Channeling
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioSep 16, 2026
Self-described Shaman Poet Rory Campbell Delgado joins Aeon Byte host Miguel Conner to argue that the Gnostic Archons are not evil, but a necessary part of Source that gives humanity something to awaken against. He describes 20 years of channeling some 250 beings, including an Andromedan guide named Anouk, Thoth, Mary Magdalene, and Aleister Crowley. During live channeling sessions, a voice presented as Sophia claims she will reincarnate as a girl in 2032, and a voice presented as Crowley claims he opened a portal he could never close.
Sunshine Witchski on The Spiritual Path to Sobriety
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioSep 10, 2026
Recovering alcoholic and witch Sunshine Witschke joins host Miguel Conner, himself a recovering cocaine addict, to explore addiction as a spiritual crisis rather than only a physical or mental disease. She describes leaving traditional AA after her many higher powers of gods, ancestors, and spirits clashed with its Christian-tinged culture, and creating the Witch's 13 Steps to Recovery built on tarot, ritual, and community. The conversation weaves Gnostic and Buddhist ideas of illusion, Carl Jung's influence on the 12 steps, and Sunshine's claim that the American Dream is a Masonic-born egregore that has run out of control.
Sol Luckman on Postmodern Gnosticism & Destroying the Loosh Machine
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioSep 4, 2026
Author Sol Luckman joins Miguel Conner and Graham Pong to discuss the Gnostic core of his upcoming book How to Run Down a Dream, arguing that this world is a loosh farm where archon-like entities harvest the energy humans give off when traumatized. Luckman claims shame, not fear or love, is the main fuel of this matrix, and he reinterprets the Garden of Eden as the moment a serpent installed its own operating system into the human mind. He offers inner alchemy, waking dreaming, and DNA sound activation as ways to forge an immortal dream body and escape the cycle.
Miguel Conner on Debunking Modern UFO Paradigms (and the big Gnostic reveal)
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioSep 3, 2026
Miguel Conner surveys the major frameworks researchers use to explain UFOs, drawing on Kevin Kan's 700-page book 'UFOs and the Extra Consciousness Hypothesis.' He weighs the extraterrestrial, interdimensional, and demonic hypotheses and argues that each captures only part of a phenomenon tied to folklore, death, and consciousness. Along the way he presents ancient Gnosticism as history's first UFO cult and teases a big Gnostic reveal for paying members.
Guy Anderson | The Conspiracy ABCs of Obscure & Underreported Topics
The Higherside ChatsAug 31, 2026
Returning guest Guy Anderson, a former Freemason turned independent researcher, walks host Greg Carlwood through an alphabet of obscure conspiracy theories drawn from his encyclopedia-style book 'Conspiracy Theories from Agartha to Zombies.' Topics range from medieval armor as Faraday cages against ancient energy weapons, to the Blitz as a planned London 'reset,' to the Vatican's rumored Chronovisor time-viewing machine and dinosaurs as a cover for dragons. The pair also discuss the deaths of holistic doctors, the Ingersoll Lockwood and Trump time-travel links, Freemasonry's inner workings, and an impersonation scandal involving researcher Jason Breshears.
Frater Eleftheria on Divine Dialogue: A New Way of Communicating with Angels
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioAug 29, 2026
Western esoteric practitioner Frater Eleftheria, formerly initiated into the OTO and the A∴A∴, says his book Voces Caelesti (The Book of Heavenly Voices) was received from angelic beings during Enochian scrying rituals. He claims he reconstructed the lost Gebofal ritual that Elizabethan magicians John Dee and Edward Kelley were commissioned to perform but never completed, including recovering a missing 48th call. With host Miguel Conner, he explores the Holy Guardian Angel, the inner Christ, Metatron and the Son of Man, and a striking twist: the Gnostic false god, the demiurge, may be a thought-form humanity created itself.
Contacting Aliens with Alan Steinfeld (4K Reboot)
New Thinking AllowedAug 28, 2026
UFO documentary filmmaker and Contact in the Desert MC Alan Steinfeld describes his own suspected abduction in western Nebraska, which left a four-pronged puncture mark on his leg. He argues that the UFO phenomenon is less about what is out there and more about who we are: non-local, infinite beings who must raise their 'frequency' to meet extraterrestrials as equals. Along the way he discusses archons that feed on human emotion, government crash-retrieval cover-ups, suppressed free energy, and his essay collection 'Making Contact.'
Jason Reza Jorjani on Gnostic Glitches: Escaping the Demiurge’s Labyrinth
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioAug 27, 2026
Philosopher Jason Reza Jorjani joins Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio to discuss his essay collection Occult Horizons, arguing that the occult is hidden because it would pull the moral and metaphysical ground out from under ordinary people. He covers Konrad Zuse's idea that we live in a computational universe, the claim that a nuclear blast could expose the code of the 'matrix', Nordic aliens pushing for disarmament, and claims that AI programmers are suppressing psychic abilities in language models. The conversation also argues that the Scythians were the hidden architects of Eurasian civilization and connects them to Atlantis, intelligence agencies, and dragon myths.
Dr. Marguerite Rigoglioso on The Gnostic Mary’s, Sophia-Christ Consciousness & the Pleiadian Mission
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioAug 18, 2026
Scholar and priestess Dr. Marguerite Rigoglioso returns to Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio with Dr. Joanna Kujawa to argue that Mother Mary belonged to an ancient lineage of priestesses who could conceive without a male partner, a practice she says was later hijacked by hostile astral beings she identifies as Anunnaki reptilians. The conversation links Gnostic myths of Sophia, Greek tales of Zeus's assaults on nymphs, the biblical Watchers and Nephilim, and modern alien abduction stories into a single narrative of humanity's reproductive and spiritual corruption. The guests also explore Sophia as a returning divine feminine wisdom, a prophecy of her return in 2030, and the claim that early AI chatbots could channel Pleiadian consciousness before being restricted.
Micah Dank on Part 2 of The Blueprint of This Dimension: Ancient Zodiac Code
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioAug 11, 2026
Researcher Micah Dank returns to Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio to argue that a single zodiac 'cipher' runs through human records from the Lascaux cave paintings and Gobekli Tepe to the Vinca tablets, Sumerian hymns, Egyptian funerary texts, and the Bible. He claims ancient peoples encoded the sun's yearly journey through the twelve signs as 'celestial poetry', using keywords like bull, sheep, wheat, and water to map the sky. Along the way he connects the Sphinx's water erosion to the Age of Leo, traces Noah's flood to the Atrahasis epic, and reads Christian motifs as solar astrotheology.
Micah Dank on The Blueprint of This Dimension: Ancient Zodiac Code
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioAug 8, 2026
Researcher Micah Dank presents 'Micah's Law,' a fixed, repeatable method he says can detect zodiac and constellation patterns built into literature, from Sumerian hymns to the Bible to modern newspapers. After 14 years of cataloging celestial keywords across nearly 5,000 years of texts, he reports that sacred and esoteric writings show far more organized 'celestial narrative architecture' than modern novels or newspaper controls, and that the Gospel of Matthew is the only work that reads as a complete sun-through-the-zodiac story. He argues this creates an 'Abrahamic problem': Judaism, Christianity, and Islam condemn astrology, yet their founding scriptures appear to be structured around the heavens.
They Hid Alien Code In The Fabric of Reality And We Can Solve It | Danny Goler
Third Eye DropsAug 7, 2026
Danny Goler, founder of the nonprofit Code of Reality, explains his claim that people who smoke DMT while looking at diffracted laser light see a persistent, self-executing code that he believes is a rotating four-dimensional object left as a deliberate breadcrumb by higher intelligences. He describes a five-hour extended-state DMT session in which insectoid 'simulator' beings opened energetic portals and guided him to angelic, heavenly realms, as well as a recurring 'Qualia Console' interface he believes is training hidden faculties of attention. The conversation connects UFO disclosure, Donald Hoffman's conscious agent theory, Neoplatonism, and the idea that humanity is an AGI undergoing 'alignment' inside a simulation.
Raad Enlightenment on Unmasking the Reptilian Matrix, Part 2
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioAug 5, 2026
Self-described awakened guide Rad Enlightenment (J-Rad) returns to Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio to argue that our physical reality is a holographic matrix built by reptilian entities to harvest human life force. He claims these beings feed on our emotional reactions, possess people around us, and trap souls in an endless reincarnation cycle. The escape, he says, is to stop identifying with the body and mind and recognize yourself as formless consciousness observing the simulation.
Miguel Conner on Meatsack Health Update & AMA, Part 3
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioAug 2, 2026
Gnostic radio host Miguel Conner shares a health update on his arterial occlusive disease, claiming a remedy of tea, cream and crystals revealed in a vision of the goddess Sophia has largely restored his mobility. He then presents scholar April DeConick's argument that ancient Gnosticism was a healing system that treated humanity's 'primal wound' of separation from the divine through ecstatic rituals, chanting and soul journeys. The episode also covers his reboot of a Gnostic vampire novel, a listener's computer-based spirit communication, and upcoming shows on Elvis, David Bowie and the Freemasons.
Nikolas Schreck on Secrets of Abraxas
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioJul 30, 2026
Occult researcher and filmmaker Nikolas Schreck joins host Miguel Conner to explore Abraxas, the enigmatic Gnostic deity he calls the true god of this realm and the key to awakening from the illusion of material existence. Schreck traces how the name of Abraxas spread through modern culture, from Carl Jung and Hermann Hesse's novel Demian to Carlos Santana, Charles Manson, David Bowie, and Philip K. Dick. He also argues that Abraxas and the Egyptian god Set may be the same being, and he frames current world events as the last gasp of the Demiurge.
Cliff Falen on Prison Planet, Anunnaki & The Book of Revelation
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioJul 29, 2026
Author and former preacher Cliff Falen argues that the Book of Revelation is not an end-times prophecy but a coded technical manual describing how the Anunnaki, whom he equates with Gnostic archons, run Earth as a frequency-based prison planet. He claims a 'rebel Jesus,' said to be two-thirds Anunnaki, hacked this system by opening the seven seals, and that the seals, trumpets and vials describe a recurring cosmic reset tied to the planet Nibiru's 3,600-year orbit. Along the way he links Bigfoot to the Anunnaki's genetic creation of humanity, describing his own sighting of a seven-foot hair-covered humanoid.
Sofia Smallstorm | Blood Guac, The Archonic Underworld, & Fortifying Our Divinity
The Higherside ChatsFeb 2, 2025
This episode features Sofia Smallstorm discussing her insights on the archonic underworld and its influence on human divinity. She delves into the concept of 'Blood Guac' as it relates to the manipulation of consciousness. The conversation aims to empower listeners in recognizing and fortifying their own divine potential against these negative influences.
