{"podcast":{"title":"Ultraculture With Jason Louv","slug":"ultraculture-with-jason-louv-174665","podcast_index_feed_id":174665,"rss_url":"https://audio.magick.me/feed.xml","website_url":"https://ultraculture.org","image_url":"https://audio.magick.me/ultraculturepodcast-2.jpg","author":"Jason Louv","episode_count":229,"summary":"Jason Louv brings together thinkers from the worlds of spirituality, high technology and the counterculture with some of the most challenging issues we face today. Change your focus, change your reality.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T20:19:04.579792+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ultraculture-with-jason-louv-174665"},"episode":{"title":"Ep. 239: Mitch Horowitz on Human Decline, Esoterika & the False Self","slug":"ep-239-mitch-horowitz-on-human-decline-esoterika-the-false-self","published_at":"2026-07-13T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ultraculture-with-jason-louv-174665/ep-239-mitch-horowitz-on-human-decline-esoterika-the-false-self","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ultraculture-with-jason-louv-174665","url":"https://podcast.magick.me/episode/239","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/https://audio.magick.me/ep_239.mp3","summary":"Mitch Horowitz returns to Ultraculture for a conversation with Jason Louv about his theory of human decline, the limits of spiritual optimism, and the resistance faced by paranormal researchers. They discuss practical esoteric methods, astrology and ghosts, Mitch's criticism of ideological skepticism, the state of parapsychology, Wikipedia's treatment of anomalous research, Blavatsky's influence on Gandhi, and the self-development programs behind political and spiritual figures. Start Jason's free 15-minute Why Magick course. Five lessons, free account required, no card: https://magick.me/p/why-magick?utm_source=ultraculture&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=episode-239-mitch-horowitz&utm_content=show-notes Topics: Human decline and spiritual optimism | Practices Mitch returns to | Astrology, ghosts, and evidence | Skeptical cognitive bias | Parapsychology and institutional resistance | Theosophy, Gandhi, and historical memory | Lenin and self-development Transcript: https://audio.magick.me/ep_239.vtt","meta_description":"Mitch Horowitz returns to Ultraculture for a conversation with Jason Louv about his theory of human decline, the limits of spiritual optimism, and the res…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6025,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ultraculture-with-jason-louv-174665/episodes/ep-239-mitch-horowitz-on-human-decline-esoterika-the-false-self/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ultraculture-with-jason-louv-174665/ep-239-mitch-horowitz-on-human-decline-esoterika-the-false-self.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}