It has been a year full of change for us at IYHGYHE, much positive, although often spurred on by the negative. I recently re-read Jung's Seven Sermons to the Dead and saw it in a very different light than I believe I ever could have in the past. I document this here with a reading of the first four sermons as a type of New Years Celebration. In other news, the 2026 Practical Distillers and Alchemists Almanac is Available now here:
https://www.thealchemistcabinet.com/thewarehouse1
Keep an eye on www.thealchemistcabinet.com as it will be receiving extensive updates shortly. I intend to offer via the warehouse written charms and amulets, we will add artwork as a tab to explore, add direct links to podcasts and the One Piece At A Time Distilling Institute YouTube, and we will finish the Oracle deck this year (finally) and offer some merchandise featuring my original Artwork this year!
It has been a year full of change for us at IYHGYHE, much positive, although often spurred on by the negative. I recently re-read Jung's Seven Sermons to the Dead and saw it in a very different light than I believe I ever could have in the past. I document this here with a reading of the first four sermons as a type of New Years Celebration. I will release the second half this coming weekend.
There is within a commercial for the Practical Distillers and Alchemists Almanac for 2026 which we still unfortunately do not have on hand. It should arrive any time and I will update both www.thealchemistcabinet.com and our One Piece At A Time YouTube channel once we have it on hand.
Please have a happy and safe New Year, and never forget who you set out to be as a child. It is still in there!
Oh, you know, just being weird and celebrating the Solstice with stories as one is supposed to do!
On these dark and cold nights it would seem we have forgotten their purpose. We used to gather around the fire and tell stories, of better and of worse times. Of heroes and myths and monsters. I wish that would come back, so I am participating to the best of my ability. Here you will find a recounting of the Brothers Grimm 'The Golden Bird' and two new Black Forest inspired poems; "She Paints Flowers" inspired by Persephone and "Sentient Shadow" about the phenomenon most commonly called Dog Man.
Back again with a new episode! Tonight we dive once more into creative writing. Here I lay out three new pieces of mythology which I am working on for the 2027 Practical Distillers and Alchemist Almanac. There are elements of the Black Forest Fairytales of the last episode but also elements of the celestial and divine order.
This is something I truly enjoy writing and narrating. Your support is amazing in this work and I cannot thank you enough.
The 2026 almanac should be available for order in the coming week! Keep an eye on www.thealchemistcabinet.com for more information!
Enjoy!
Hey guys, I hope you all had a wonderful Spooky Season as we at IYHGYHE did! I have been working on a number of books including the 2027 Practical Distillers Almanac and have become quite taken with writing fairytales and poems expressing the Majik of this place where I live. I decided to narrate a few of these for you this evening. To be quite honest this is by far my most personal episode to date and I think represents the purist expression of my thoughts as of yet to be represented to the public.
We all have limits and boundaries to overcome in life and I think I may have found a way to overcome mine and bring the various disperate pieces together into a cohesive whole in coming years. I do hope you will enjoy them and please, please share them. They will all see some published form in the near future. Here you will hear a folk tale about a hidden fountain that produces ardent spirits with the help of a Clurichon. Folk Majik I leaned from my grandparents. A poem about a folk distiller on the edge of town. How the highway meets the sky in the Black Forest, and my personal favorite, Felix, the maybe friendly feral, feline, familiar!
A huge thank you to my friend Stephen Smith for inspiring me to pursue this path.
1. The Forbidden Kind
2. A Step At A Time
3. Where The Highway Meets The Sky
4. The Sovereign Man
5. Felix; the maybe friendly, feral, feline, familiar.
Keep an eye on The Alchemist Cabinet
in the coming days for an order link for the brand new 2025 Practical Distillers and Alchemists Almanac!!!
Kim is joined this week by YeOldGothWitch Jamie Walker who coined the phrase "Anybody else's mountain witch granny..." from Tik Tok. Follow Jamie under the same handle across all platforms
What if a Faustian deal backfires on ol' Scratch himself, at least initially? A little folklore from Ireland.
On tonight's Spooky Season Bonus Episode we skim the depths of Djinn folklore as an introduction to a much deeper dive planned for later this season.
Keep your eyes peeled on www.thealchemistcabinet.com as the brand new 2026 Practical Distillers Almanac will be dropping very soon!
It isn't often I just talk candidly about my form of Majik on the show, but this one just fits. We explore the Majik (SIC) of using an old Skeleton Key as a talisman and pendulum in the Vevay Indiana Cemetary to find the grave and access the knowledge of the spirit of an Absinthe Distiller in the 1830's!
A fun narrative reading of "The Well At Worlds End" , The Frog King, and The Frog prince. As always we enjoy reading a few Fairytales for Spooky Season because no one reads anyone enough Fairy Tales now days!
Thank you guys for supporting Kim and I. We really love this show but could use some serious help promoting it to the world if at all possible!
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Happy Spooky Season!
It seems to us like it is about time we got around to the topic of the Trickster on some deeper historic level here at IYHGYHE, considering the events surrounding the experiences that spurred this podcast in the first place detailed in episodes 2 and 3 of Season 1.
We decided we would dedicate a couple of episodes to exposition thereof as well as a telling of some mythology (Greek and Navajo here) related to Trickster type entities; of course, a little Orphic hymn to Hekate never hurt anything either.
Join us as we dive into this invaluable 'Spiritual Intelligence' that who cannot be ignored.
#tricksterspirits #hekate #hermes #navajo #thegambler #thecoyote #preternatural #supernatural #mythology #folklore
Spooky Season starts here! Tonight we present some field recordings of the Washington County Actors Theatre Crown Hill Cemetery Walk from some field recordings we did at the recent event! Featuring Bradie Shrum, Lee Sinclair, Nancy McCoy, and Mattie Gladden!
Kim is joined by Colleen Coffman-Author, Paranormal Investigator, and Special Effects Artist. Find her book The Adventures of a Sketch Book Diary at https://hangar1publishing.com/collections/colleen-a-coffman
A short hyper-localized episode featuring Daniel Main of the Washington County Indiana Actors Theatre detailing the upcoming Crown Hill Cemetary Tour and Salem Indiana Murder and Mayhem on the square event!
I can't express truly how wonderful the work that Daniel and Charity do is. Both of this events are no misses for Kim, Penny, and myself and are highlights of the beginning of "Spooky Season"!
Hey! We are back, finally! In episode 1 of the newest season of IYHGYHE, we interview our neighbor to the west in Paoli, Indiana; Chance Martin, about his Bigfoot research group and upcoming events!
This is a great episode as we haven't had a lot of Bigfoot related content over the years, and not for a lack of trying. Finding someone local with firsthand encounters who is actively researching other local encounters is truly a treasure trove.
As always, we truly appreciate the support of our listeners and we hope you enjoy the show. Please like, rate, and share the show as it helps us promote the show to a larger audience and means the work to both Kim and I.
Be sure to tune in for all the bonus Spooky Season and Main Season material headed your way in the coming weeks and keep an eye onThe Alchemist Cabinetfor the brand new 2026 Practical Distillers and Alchemists Almanac which will be available for order in October!
You can find chance here: (3) Orange County Bigfoot Group (O.C.B.G.) | Facebook
Also, be sure to keep up with Indiana's newest craft distillery Old Homestead at: Old Homestead Distilling Co.#ghosts #paranormal #Indiana #bigfoot #paoli #ifyouhaveghostsyouhaveeverything #alchemistoftheblackforest #alchemistalmanac #washingtoncounty #sasquatch #bigfootresearch
Indiana is home to numerous paranormal groups. Tonight Kim is joined by Southern Indiana's own Access the Paranormal. Kim stumbled on their video on TikTok recording from Mitchell, Indiana, Spring Mill State Park. Danny joined Kim, and briefly Alan, to discuss paranormal investigation and their approach. Access the Paranormal takes a truly unique approach in that they invite and encourage the public to join them. They teach them how to use and analyze equipment and evidence, and debunk.
Give this awesome episode a listen. You can find Access the Paranormal on Facebook, YouTube and TikTok. Don't forget the "the" otherwise you'll be following someone in Australia.
We are joined once again by our good friend; author, poet, and seed saver Stephen Smith to discuss his various paranormal encounters! I have truly enjoyed speaking with Stephen on this episodes and greatly enjoy his writings as well, it was a pleasure to give him this platform and I look forward to many more conversations to come.
Don't forget, you can still buy the 2025 Practical Distillers and Alchemists Almanac as well as The Alchemist Cabinet Vol 1: Philosophy and the Black Forest Method books at www.thealchemistcabinet.com
and be sure to check out www.oldhomesteaddc.com for all the updates on our new distillery!
For about the past year I have been recording an occasional video from my porch diving into the deep distilling history of The Black Forest of Southern Indiana; stories of preacher-distillers, murders, mystery, and Spirits production in general. I thought that compiling them into a volume of IYHG might be a worthwhile endeavor and a fun listen. Understand that these were recorded on my porch from my cell phone not utilizing a microphone so the quality of the audio isn't the best in the world, but I think you will find much to enjoy in the stories themselves.
#ghosts #distilling #blackforest #alanbishopdistiller #alchemy #alchemistoftheblackforest #whiskey #brandy #murder
Kim sat down with Canadian Practitioner Joan Dohey to discuss Reiki Practice, and Soul Genesis. Join in to learn more and follow Joan at https://facebook.com/joan.dohey
#ifyouhaveghosts #ghosts #spiritual #ecoteric #reiki #soulgenesis #cryptid #ufo