Jason Louv · Author · Teacher · Wizard
Learn to use it, and learn who's using it on you. Jason Louv teaches more than 15,000 students at Magick.Me, curates Bound by Fear, an archive of spiritual-abuse cases, and wrote John Dee and the Empire of Angels. He appears in Netflix's The Midnight Gospel.
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Now · 2026
Research · June 2026
A cipher manuscript from John Dee's library generates its own 36 tables from a verse in its eighteenth section. Jason's paper reconstructs all 46,656 cells with no free parameters, solving a function the cryptographer Jim Reeds could only derive empirically in the late 1990s.
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Archive · Ultraculture
The other half of the headline: who uses belief on people. A public archive of court proceedings and official findings on spiritual abuse, with more than 1,400 case pages across every tradition and more than 140 countries, each tied to the record. Jason is the curator.
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Podcast · since 2015
Episode 240 ·
Angel Millar joins Jason Louv to discuss the supernatural woman who appears to men in dreams across Norse sagas, Celtic myth, and the Western esoteric tradition, drawn from his new book with Lua Valentia. They get into what makes a tradition a tradition and why traditions resist change, the difference between having a personality and having character, hypnotism and mesmerism as branches of ceremon
Episode 239 ·
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 o
Episode 238 ·
Jason and his wife Temple react to and dismantle a viral video by ex-occultist-turned-Christian Jacque Marino, who appeared on Allie Beth Stuckey's show claiming shadow work is dangerous spiritual self-harm. Temple, a shadow-work practitioner, walks through the core misconceptions point by point—not to attack Marino, but because these critiques echo the 1980s Satanic Panic and reflect a fundamenta
The book · Inner Traditions, 2018
Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World
Western civilization's long obsession with the Apocalypse, traced through three magicians: John Dee, astrologer to Elizabeth I; Aleister Crowley; and the rocket scientist Jack Parsons. The story of the Enochian angelic system, from Dee's scrying sessions at Mortlake to the founding of the British Empire and beyond.
"A mind-spinning, glorious work of occult genius."
The research continues in Jason's 2026 paper on the Book of Soyga, a cipher manuscript from Dee's library.
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Media & speaking
Writing
A summary of Jason Louv's sourced survey of how Vodou-influenced beliefs are used to control trafficking victims, now published at endvoodootrafficking.org.
All cultures are erased, leaving behind only a few fossilized footprints. Which works of our time will endure, and who will decide what gets remembered?
What is the post-COVID reality? Notes written in May 2023, three years after the height of the pandemic, on loss, isolation, and the arrival of the AI age.
Harmland on Substack ·
In Defense of Surveillance: Some Thoughts on Encryption TechnologyHarmland on Substack ·
Is A DARK SONG the Worst Film About Magick EVER...?Harmland on Substack ·
Null ConstructJason Louv's Hurt Locker on Medium ·
Remembering Michael BertiauxFive short lessons on what magick is and how people practice it, starting with something to try yourself.
