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.
Lucifer Is Just Another Way of Saying Jesus Isaiah 14:12 calls him Lucifer. So does 2 Peter, and so does Jesus, about himself, in the very last chapter of Revelation. Same Latin word, three different targets: a dead Babylonian king, a New Testament believer's heart, and Christ. In this episode I trace how "Lucifer" started as Jerome's plain Latin translation for "morning star," how church fathers built the devil's origin story by stitching together a funeral song about the king of Babylon, a...
4 Sept 2026
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 connects those risks to Japan’s rates, the unwind of leveraged investing, vulnerabilities in U.S. military and industrial capacity, weakening dollar influence, and the possibility of China increasing pressure on Taiwan. Throughout, he urges listeners to ...
30 Aug 2026
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 Ben Bernanke. This one's narrower. Two pieces of history doing two different jobs: Suez 1956 is how the fire starts. Hoover 1931 is how the fire department makes it worse. In 1931 Britain left gold on September 21st, the New York Fed hiked October 9th an...
1 Aug 2026
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 conversation with astrologer Victoria Martin gives you the clearest playbook yet. Host Chris returns with Victoria Martin for a sharp, highly specific look at the August eclipses, the Mars-Neptune tension that follows, and the Sirius conjunction arriving at ...
24 Jul 2026
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 the whole dashboard one warning light at a time: an energy crunch running through the Strait of Hormuz, an AI stock bubble held up by companies financing each other in a circle, a munitions shortage that leaves Taiwan more exposed than ever, a debt load ...
15 Jul 2026
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, doublethink, Big Brother as an idea rather than a person) map onto the current moment. From there the conversation ranges into Fed leadership and monetary policy, the Israel-Gaza war and the politics propping up Netanyahu's coalition, the unfolding Iran standoff...
3 Jul 2026
My Faith: Part 1
26 Jun 2026
The Ancient Queens of Sumeria w/ Demetria Nanos
In this episode of Academia Obscura, host Chris Little interviews Demetria Nanos, head administrator for the Fellowship of Isis in Chicagoland and a board member of the International Pagan Society (IPS), about what sets IPS apart and its five pillars, focusing on education and scholarship. Demetria explains IPS’s integrative approach connecting spirituality with science, economics, history, and cultural context, using examples from the Bhagavad Gita, karmic ideas, and tantric perspectives. Th...
23 May 2026
2026 Astrology Forcast w/ Victoria Martin
Host Chris interviews Chicagoland astrologer Victoria Martin, who has practiced since the mid-1970s and full-time since 1982, including a 20-year run as Bloomberg Business News’ on-staff astrologer interpreting statistical commodity-market charts. She explains her forecasting style as a “weather report,” her preference for working with about 100 fixed stars rather than 12 zodiac signs, and her emphasis on new and full moons, eclipses, and mass psychology. Martin outlines an intense start to 2...
3 May 2026
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