Academia Obscura
A podcast exploring the intersection of philosophy, esoterica, history, and consciousness—where ancient symbols meet modern thought. Academia Obscura dives into hidden knowledge, spiritual discipline, and the deeper forces shaping human experience, challenging listeners to question everything and live with intention.
Academia Obscura
Latest Episodes
Why This Economy Could Enter a Great Depression in Two Months
Chris delivers an urgent, wide-ranging economic and geopolitical warning, arguing that escalating conflict in the Gulf, energy shortages, rising interest rates, and fragile debt markets could converge into a severe global financial crisis. He c...
Hoover, Suez, and the October Problem
Two weeks ago I put a board full of blinking red lights up and said I wasn't predicting anything. Four of them changed color, and on Friday Kevin Warsh gave his first Jackson Hole speech as Fed Chairman and opened with a joke about not being Be...
Astrological Forecast for August 2026
August is not a month to coast on autopilot - it is eclipse season, and this forecast maps the exact pressure points that could reshape leadership, reputation, and strategy. If you want to know what the rest of 2026 is asking of you, this conve...
Blinking Red: The Risk Ahead for the US Economy
This week, a detour from the usual esoterica into something just as strange: the plumbing of the global financial system, and why so much of it is blinking red at once. Consider this a tail-risk field guide, not a doom prediction. Chris walks t...
Doublethink, Oil Shocks, and the Chocolate Ration w/ Stacy
Chris and his sister Stacy finally sit down to talk Orwell's 1984, using the novel as a jumping-off point for a wide-ranging conversation about authoritarianism, demagoguery, and how closely the book's mechanics (the two minutes hate, doublethi...