Native American Trickster Tales Visual Audiobook. This is a curated collection of stories about the Trickster. In mythology and the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, human or anthropomorphisation) who exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge and uses it to play tricks or oth…

The 19th album from dungeon synth / dark ambient project Psyclopean. Imagine if Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd was obsessed with reading Jack Vance's Dying Earth books and watching reruns of In Search Of and early Doctor Who, and instead of band practice they played Dungeons & Dragons in a basement room hazy with pot smoke and plastered in blacklight p…

The Pyramid Texts are the oldest ancient Egyptian funerary texts, dating to the late Old Kingdom. They are the earliest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts. Written in Old Egyptian, the pyramid texts were carved onto the subterranean walls and sarcophagi of pyramids at Saqqara from the end of the Fifth Dynasty, and throughout the Sixth…

The Pyramid Texts are the oldest ancient Egyptian funerary texts, dating to the late Old Kingdom. They are the earliest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts. Written in Old Egyptian, the pyramid texts were carved onto the subterranean walls and sarcophagi of pyramids at Saqqara from the end of the Fifth Dynasty, and throughout the Sixth…

The Pyramid Texts are the oldest ancient Egyptian funerary texts, dating to the late Old Kingdom. They are the earliest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts. Written in Old Egyptian, the pyramid texts were carved onto the subterranean walls and sarcophagi of pyramids at Saqqara from the end of the Fifth Dynasty, and throughout the Sixth…

The Pyramid Texts are the oldest ancient Egyptian funerary texts, dating to the late Old Kingdom. They are the earliest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts. Written in Old Egyptian, the pyramid texts were carved onto the subterranean walls and sarcophagi of pyramids at Saqqara from the end of the Fifth Dynasty, and throughout the Sixth…

The Pyramid Texts are the oldest ancient Egyptian funerary texts, dating to the late Old Kingdom. They are the earliest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts. Written in Old Egyptian, the pyramid texts were carved onto the subterranean walls and sarcophagi of pyramids at Saqqara from the end of the Fifth Dynasty, and throughout the Sixth…

The Pyramid Texts are the oldest ancient Egyptian funerary texts, dating to the late Old Kingdom. They are the earliest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts. Written in Old Egyptian, the pyramid texts were carved onto the subterranean walls and sarcophagi of pyramids at Saqqara from the end of the Fifth Dynasty, and throughout the Sixth…

The Pyramid Texts are the oldest ancient Egyptian funerary texts, dating to the late Old Kingdom. They are the earliest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts. Written in Old Egyptian, the pyramid texts were carved onto the subterranean walls and sarcophagi of pyramids at Saqqara from the end of the Fifth Dynasty, and throughout the Sixth…

The Book Of Enoch - Definitive Reference w/ audio and text. An exclusive full audio narration by Matthew Schmitz. The Book of Enoch is an ancient Hebrew apocalyptic religious text, ascribed by tradition to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. Enoch contains unique material on the origins of demons and giants, why some angels fell from heaven, an e…

The Book Of Enoch - Definitive Reference w/ audio and text. An exclusive full audio narration by Matthew Schmitz. The Book of Enoch is an ancient Hebrew apocalyptic religious text, ascribed by tradition to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. Enoch contains unique material on the origins of demons and giants, why some angels fell from heaven, an e…

The Sibylline Oracles - Prophecies of the Ancient World. The Sibylline Oracles are a collection of oracular utterances written in Greek hexameters ascribed to the Sibyls, prophetesses who uttered divine revelations in a frenzied state. Fourteen books and eight fragments of Sibylline Oracles survive, in an edition of the 6th or 7th century AD. Get y…

The Sibylline Oracles - Prophecies of the Ancient World. The Sibylline Oracles are a collection of oracular utterances written in Greek hexameters ascribed to the Sibyls, prophetesses who uttered divine revelations in a frenzied state. Fourteen books and eight fragments of Sibylline Oracles survive, in an edition of the 6th or 7th century AD. Get y…

The Sibylline Oracles - Prophecies of the Ancient World. The Sibylline Oracles are a collection of oracular utterances written in Greek hexameters ascribed to the Sibyls, prophetesses who uttered divine revelations in a frenzied state. Fourteen books and eight fragments of Sibylline Oracles survive, in an edition of the 6th or 7th century AD. Get y…

The Sibylline Oracles - Prophecies of the Ancient World. The Sibylline Oracles are a collection of oracular utterances written in Greek hexameters ascribed to the Sibyls, prophetesses who uttered divine revelations in a frenzied state. Fourteen books and eight fragments of Sibylline Oracles survive, in an edition of the 6th or 7th century AD. Get y…

Fragments Of The Lost Writings Of Valentinus - Valentinian Gnostic Texts. Valentinus was the best known and, for a time, most successful early Christian Gnostic theologian. He founded his school in Rome. According to Tertullian, Valentinus was a candidate for bishop but started his own group when another was chosen. Valentinus produced a variety of…

The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds is a Persian poem by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur. The title is taken directly from the Qur'an, 27:16, where Sulayman and Dāwūd are said to have been taught the language, or speech, of the birds. In the poem, the birds of the world gather to decide who is to be …

The Outsider - Classic H.P. Lovecraft short story, immersive audiobook. "The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. In this work, a mysterious individual who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decide…

The Witchcraft Of Ulua - Clark Ashton Smith - A Zothique Dark Fantasy, Weird Fiction Audiobook. "The Witchcraft of Ulua" is a short story by American author Clark Ashton Smith as part of his Zothique cycle, and first published in the February 1934 issue of Weird Tales. Zothique, vaguely suggested by Theosophic theories about past and future contine…

The Raven - Edgar Allen Poe - Animated Audiobook Poem. "The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow descent i…

Melchizedek - Nag Hammadi Library Gnostic Full Audiobook. In the Bible, Melchizedek, also transliterated Melchisedech or Malki Tzedek, was the king of Salem and priest of El Elyon. He is first mentioned in Genesis 14:18–20, where he brings out bread and wine and then blesses Abram and El Elyon. This tractate elaborates on the role of Melchizedek as…

Havamal - The Words Of Odin The High One - Ancient Nordic Viking Wisdom Audiobook. Hávamál is presented as a single poem in the Codex Regius, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age. The poem, itself a combination of numerous shorter poems, is largely gnomic, presenting advice for living, proper conduct and wisdom. It is considered an i…

Havamal - The Words Of Odin The High One - Ancient Nordic Viking Wisdom Audiobook. Hávamál is presented as a single poem in the Codex Regius, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age. The poem, itself a combination of numerous shorter poems, is largely gnomic, presenting advice for living, proper conduct and wisdom. It is considered an i…

Havamal - The Words Of Odin The High One - Ancient Nordic Viking Wisdom Audiobook. Hávamál is presented as a single poem in the Codex Regius, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age. The poem, itself a combination of numerous shorter poems, is largely gnomic, presenting advice for living, proper conduct and wisdom. It is considered an i…

The Dialogue Of The Savior - Nag Hammadi Gnostic Text Audiobook. The Dialogue of the Saviour is one of the New Testament apocrypha texts that was found within the Nag Hammadi library of predominantly Gnostic texts. The text appears only once in a single Coptic codex, and is heavily damaged. The surviving portions indicate that the general content i…

Zosimos of Panopolis (also known by Zosimus Alchemista, i.e. "Zosimus the Alchemist") was a Greco-Egyptian alchemist and Gnostic mystic who lived at the end of the 3rd and beginning of the 4th century AD. He was born in Panopolis (present day Akhmim, in the south of Roman Egypt), and flourished ca. 300. He wrote the oldest known books on alchemy, w…

The Most Holy Trinosophia - Count of St. Germain Esoteric Alchemy Audiobook with Text and Images. La Très Sainte Trinosophie, The Most Holy Trinosophia, or The Most Holy Threefold Wisdom, is a French esoteric book, allegedly authored by Alessandro Cagliostro or the Count of St. Germain. Dated to the late 18th century, the 96-page book is divided in…

The Diamond Sutra is a Mahāyāna sutra from the genre of Prajñāpāramitā sutras. Translated into a variety of languages over a broad geographic range, the Diamond Sūtra is one of the most influential Mahayana sutras in East Asia, and it is particularly prominent within the Chan tradition, along with the Heart Sutra. Please consider supporting my work…

Songs of Kabir is a 1915 book consisting of 100 poems of Kabir, the 15th-century Indian poet and mystic, translated to English by Rabindranath Tagore. In this book Kabir has combined the philosophies of Sufism and Hinduism and the words contained therein are beautiful and intimate. A truly wonderful text for anyone on a path of Truth or deep spirit…

The Making Of Gold - Francis Bacon - Alchemy Audiobook with text and music. This section on the making of gold is included Century IV of Francis Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum, or a Naturall Historie in ten Centuries, London, 1627, which was part of Bacon's unfinished Instauratio Magna. Please consider supporting my work and download this audio as part of …

Hermetic Arcanum - The Secret Work of the Hermetic Philosophy - Full alchemy audiobook with text for reference. The Hermetic Arcanum (Arcanum Hermeticum) was originally written in Latin and published in 1623 by Jean d'Espagnet, signed using the motto “Penes nos unda Tagi”. Espagnet was an Alchemist and Mystic, and the Arcanum describes the procedur…

The Fountain Allegory Of Bernard Of Treviso - Esoteric Alchemy Audiobook with text. "Alchemical texts often use elaborate extended allegories as a means of communicating key philosophical points, or to illustrate a particular alchemical process. In these allegorical texts a figure, with which the reader is supposed to identify, goes on an journey i…

The Dhammapada is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya, a division of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. The title, "Dhammapada," is a compound term composed of dhamma and pada, each word having a nu…

The Burden Of Isis - Ancient Egyptian Full Audiobook w/ Text and Music - Being the Laments of Isis and Nepthys. Of all the Egyptian religious beliefs that existed from the Prehistoric period down into Roman times, the oldest and the one most held in veneration was that connected with the worship of Osiris, Isis and Horus. These three, though primar…

The Book Of Lambspring - An Esoteric Alchemical Manuscript - Full Alchemy Audiobook. This is a well known work which was first published by Nicholas Barnaud in 1599. It consisted of a series of 15 verses outlining the alchemical process. It was later issued by Lucas Jennis as part of Dyas chymica tripartita, 1625, and this was illustrated with a se…

The Book Of Alze - Alchemy Full Audiobook with text. The work was originally published by Johann Grasshof (Hermannus Condeesyanus) in "Dyas chymica tripartita" in Frankfurt, Germany in 1625. That same year, a Latin translation of the work was also included in the publication of the Musaeum Hermeticum (or Hermetic Museum). Even at that time, the wor…

The Atma Bodha of Shankara-Acharya - Transcendental Ambient Dark Screen Version. Ātma-bodha is a short Sanskrit text attributed to Adi Shankara of Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy. The text in sixty-seven (sometimes translated in sixty-eight) verses describes the path to Self-knowledge or the awareness of Atman. Please consider supporting…

Thomas Vaughan's Allegory Of The Mountain - Esoteric Alchemical Text. A short allegory from Thomas Vaughan Lumen de Lumine, or a New Magical Light, London, 1651. Using Thomas Vaughan's allegory of the mountain as a backdrop and drawing insights from the myth of Demeter and Persephone, this text elaborates on the challenging and paradoxical path tow…

A General Look At Alchemy - an introduction to the origin of alchemy. Starting with the “Father of Alchemy” Hermes Trismegistus, an Egyptian Sage from an unknown period, through Biblical figures, the Rosicrucians, and to our days practices of alchemy. The book also describes a series of concepts found in texts related to alchemy such as: The seven …

Initiatory Vibrations - A Collection Of Gnostic Chants And Meditations - full album - ambient music. Gnostic Chants And Meditations from numerous texts, along with some original compositions to to help with meditation, ritual or relaxation practices. (A side note: The Gospel Of The Egyptians is also known as "Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit…

WISDOM - an original poem and dark ambient short film containing esoteric symbolism and mythological archetypes, played out in three acts with each act containing seven couplets and fulfilling the cycles of death and resurrection in the physical and psychological realms - of the relationship to the world and the self/ego. Knowledge is there for tho…

Psyclopean returns to the weird and surreal realm of Lovecraft's Dreamlands to embark on the Voyage Of The White Ship. Sit back and enjoy an uncanny journey of the psychedelic tones of dark ambient, dungeon synth, and 70's and 80's Berlin school music. Available at https://altrusiangrace.bandcamp.com/album/voyage-of-the-white-ship Please consider s…

Psyclopean - Sundown At Tumba Ridge - Lovecraftian spaghetti western themed dungeon synth. "I RECENTLY HAD THE INCREDIBLE FORTUNE OF BEING CHOSEN TO RESTORE THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK TO A LOST SPAGHETTI WESTERN FILM FROM 1969. NOT MUCH IS KNOWN ABOUT THE MOVIE, IN FACT THE FILM ITSELF IS NOT FULLY INTACT. WHAT WE DO KNOW INVOLVES A BRUTAL MURDER, AN …

Still Waters is the first full length album from Altrusian Grace Media. It is an emotional ambient journey through the depths of our most vital element. The goal here is to create an unstructured liminal musical experience that provides the listener a powerful backdrop for meditation work, dream work, entheogenic practices, and thorough self explor…

Matthew Schmitz - The Stars Beyond The Sky - the second solo album from Matthew Schmitz entitled The Stars Beyond The Sky is a collection of original acoustic ambient folk songs. Extremely laid back and relaxing, TSBTS features longer, more intimate compositions perfect for relaxing in the summer evening twilight, or autumn's morning mist. Ideal mu…

The first solo album from Matthew Schmitz (of Sleestak/Altrusian Grace Media) entitled The Sky Beyond The Mountain is a collection of original acoustic ambient folk songs. The music draws upon spontaneous arrangements and sketches that embody the subtle emotions connected to visions, dreams, and childhood memories. Available for download at https:/…

Psyclopean - Skies Over Zothique (full album) Clark Ashton Smith inspired dark ambient / dungeon synth. Psyclopean dives deep into a dark musical exploration of the weird fiction of Clark Ashton Smith. Strange melodies, haunting chords, and uncanny arrangements present themselves in these six audio sketches. Download the album at https://altrusiang…

Relaxing Sad Flute Music in a Peaceful Rainy Forest, ambient, meditation, yoga, nature, study, and deep sleep. Calm original music for your chill activities. Please consider supporting my work and download this audio as part of the ESOTERIC AND OCCULT WISDOM - MASTER COLLECTION (an ongoing collection of Gnostic, alchemical, Hermetic, and related oc…

Strange soundscapes evoking half-forgotten twilight dreams permeate this incredible album by two of the leading artists in the genres of cosmic dark ambient and nostalgic dungeon synth. Soaring retro synths and darkened drones join to take the listener on a mythical weird fiction journey. Please consider supporting my work and download this audio a…

Psyclopean - The Outsider - Lovecraft weird fiction dark ambient | dungeon synth mythos music. Lovecraft's classic tale of despair, loneliness, and horror transposed into a soundscape of sorrow and dread. The Gothic Stories of H.P. Lovecraft - https://amzn.to/2QnpHMS Please consider supporting my work and download this audio as part of the ESOTERIC…