The Heretical Heathen Podcast

Heretical Heathenry explores Norse paganism, ceremonial magic, and philosophy for people who don't fit into the usual camps. Host Robert Nox examines Heathen theology and occult practice through the lens of the Heathen Golden Dawn tradition, tackling uncomfortable questions about tradition, boundaries, and what it means to practice with integrity in the modern world.

The Heretical Heathen Podcast is a religion podcast hosted by Robert Nox, with 26 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Robert Nox hosts The Heretical Heathen Podcast, a religion show with 26 episodes published.

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  Episode #27

  Meditation at the County Fair: A Spiritual Practice

  Aug 17, 202619 min

  The county fair mirrors meditation practice. Just as you focus on a single point while navigating internal distractions—discomfort, unwanted memories, seductive pleasures—the fairgrounds pulls your attention in countless directions: food, music, crowds, chaos. Some things push you away, others pull you in. This is Odin's journey through the nine realms: learning to stay centered when everything demands your attention. The fair teaches what meditation teaches: presence amid distraction.

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  Episode #26

  Big Trouble in Plato's Cave

  Aug 11, 202621 min

  After some drama in the Platonist community involving an infiltrator, we turn to Hagalaz—and discover something far more significant. The scrying journey: walking through a storm, encountering a luminous Buddha face in the clouds, following her through a cornfield to a temple where she offers water. Then: cosmic Odin, waiting. "Welcome to the second aett," he laughs.

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  Episode #25

  Heathen Golden Dawn Explained: What Actually Works

  Aug 6, 202620 min

  After covering frustrations with the Heathen Golden Dawn system, a listener reached out asking for balance. This episode explores the genuine strengths of the practice: what it offers, why it works for serious practitioners, and what Western paganism gains by having structured, systematic ceremonial work. Sometimes the criticisms are valid—and so are the benefits.

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  Episode #24

  Wunjo Scrying: Meditation, Joy, and Rejection

  Jul 30, 202625 min

  After discovering proper meditation practice through Dr. Jared Jones' Buddhist-informed approach, we scry Wunjo—the rune of joy and fellowship. The journey: a bar, a wintery cliff, a fall through seasons, emergence in a spring pond where people bathe in harmony. But then comes a theater, and a jarring rejection—figures physically force you back to your astral temple. They don't want you there. Wunjo reveals itself as more complex than simple joy: it's about belonging, about community that includes and excludes, about the cost of genuine fellowship.

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  Episode #23

  When the Gods Go Silent: Dark Night of the Soul

  Jul 23, 202617 min

  What happens when the gods stop speaking? When dreams cease, when the usual channels of connection close, when you're left with only silence and practice. This episode explores the dark night of the soul—spiritual dryness, disconnection, the absence of numinous experience. We discuss what this means, how to maintain practice when there's no feedback, what Eastern traditions like Hinduism understand about this that Western paganism often misses, and what the actual failings of contemporary pagan communities reveal about spiritual maturity. Sometimes the silence is where real work begins.

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