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How to cut a good deal with the devil ● What happens when you summon Satan? ● Is Satan a chick? ● What really happened with Robert Johnson, the Delta Blues Man — at the Crossroads? ● Who was Anton LaVey and where is the Church of Satan? ● Does Satan really exist, and if so, why? ● This episode can SAVE YOUR SOUL!
Don’t pretend it’s never crossed your mind. Preachers like to say it happens in a “moment of weakness,” but all they ever do is parrot each other. It happens in moments of extremes – extreme lust, or rage, or want or despair – when the wait for it Judeo/Christian ethos seems not worth the wait. You want action NOW – and will do anything to get it.
So you Google till your fingers bleed. Spells, incantations, conjuring, Grimoires, Malleus Maleficarum – all the stuff you’ve read about in books or seen snippets of in cheesy movies. And you chalk off a pentagram and find some black candles – eye of newt, toe of frog, jaw of bat – all the ingredients. And you recite the “magic words” and poof, before you stands… His (or her) Darkness. You know very well that there’s always a price. How much are you willing to pay? How tough a negotiator are you?
Deals with the devil are as old as time itself. Some very famous ones are etched in our culture. Faust. The Devil and Daniel Webster. Robert Johnson. Those never end very well.
It’s thought that many successful people get there with Satanic help. Do they?
Are there Satanists among us? There’s still a website for the infamous Church of Satan in San Francisco. Here it is…churchofsatan.com. Have a look. It’s retro, kitschy, campy and goofy. A lot of fun. Like stills from some old low-budget indie movie.
A lot of people think the Church of Satan was the Hotel California the Eagles sang about. (It wasn’t.) Some also believe its founder, Anton Szandor LaVey was BFF with the devil. Maybe they had a falling out. LaVey never got rich and his fame was generated by a lot of hard work and promotion. Nothing supernatural about it.
Here’s an interview with the infamous “Black Pope” himself. Seems pretty harmless, doesn’t he?
Once you listen to this episode, you’ll be ready to take a meeting with the Forces of Evil. Not that we recommend it.
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Come to the TNS Dojo this Tuesday, where we’ll tell you how to get over “the one that got away.”
Peace.