Angie Speaks New Year Updates!
Happy 2024! Here are some updates on what's been going on and what to expect!
Happy New Year Substack crew! Sorry it has been a while since last posted and updated you here. 2023 was a year of transformation, challenges and learning but I have a feeling that 2024 is going to be a year of New Beginnings!
Here are some updates from 2023 and some announcements about what to expect from me in 2024!
2023 was an incredibly busy year for me. After having gained experience writing for Newsweek and working for Glenn Greenwald in 2022, I got valuable experience working at a magazine in London this year. I’m a novice writer in a realm full of seasoned journalists and MFA holders from prestigious institutions who have had the kind of learning experiences I could only dream of. 2023 was my year of “training” so to speak, where I gained valuable experience in the realm of journalism and caught a glimpse into the workings behind the scenes.
I can’t say my experience working at the magazine was all rainbows and roses. There were many limiting and frustrating aspects of being under the umbrella and constraints of an official publication. The experience and discipline aspect is what I was really looking to cultivate and it helped strengthen my confidence as a writer and my desire to become more prolific.
Hey- maybe one day I will start my own magazine. :P
Speaking of prolific, 2023 was also the year I signed my first BOOK DEAL! Yes! That’s right!! I’m excited to announce that Repeater Books has offered me a Book Deal and i’m currently working on my very first drafts! This is incredibly exciting news and will be the primary project for me moving into 2024 aside from my podcast and the work I do on the Angie Speaks YouTube channel! Keep your eyes peeled for more to come on my upcoming book!
In 2023 I also ditched my old podcast Low Society (It stank too much of the Bernie Era) and I started a new podcast/ Live Show called “Mystic and the Machine”. My boyfriend Jake and I go live every week to discuss themes surrounding the rapidly accelerating technological dystopia and how it is impacting our spiritual and psychological terrain. We have had some AMAZING guests on from brilliant YouTube sensation Comic Book Girl 19 (AKA DanikaXIX) to Quinn’s Ideas (AKA Ideas of Ice and Fire). I’ve linked the episodes below. CBG19 Episode
Go head over to the Mystic and the Machine YouTube channel and subscribe to us! We have some amazing guests planned for the new year as well, including our upcoming episode with Gordon White from the legendry esoteric podcast “Rune Soup”.
As a feature on both the Mystic and the Machine and Angie Speaks Patreon subscriptions, I host a weekly BOOK CLUB as well! Book Club has been one of my favourite things to host over the last few years and has been a massive driver behind my current body of work. So far we have read ‘Sexual Personae’, ‘The Red Book’, ‘The Tao Te Ching’ and now we are currently tackling the ‘Tibetan Book of the Dead’ (Bardo Thodol). I have put out the first two episodes of our Tibetan Book of The Dead discussions for free out on the Mystic and the Machine YouTube Channel- links here: Book of the Dead 1 Book of the Dead 2
If you like what you see and are interested in joining our weekly book club which takes place every Sunday at 10:30pm London time 5:30pm EST, then you can gain access to my discord through joining me on either the Angie Speaks or Mystic and the Machine Patreon. They are both my projects so you get automatic access to every perk once you join! Patreon You also get access to the video and audio library of previous Book Club episodes so don’t worry If you can’t make it live- you get access to the repeat Via Patreon.
Updates on Angie Speaks YouTube! Well I have started off strong with a very prolific end to 2023 and hope to keep up that momentum in 2024 with one video a month! If you have missed them so far I have two new videos on my YouTube Channel!
Love in the Digital Age: Transcendence or Escapism: This video explores how our modern fixation on Love, Sexuality and Romance is a feature of the search for transcendence in the Post- Secular age. Love and sexuality are one of the last avenues where a modern secular individual can experience transcendence and a sense of the sacred. In this video I examine the upsides and dangerous pitfalls of this mystical impulse.
2) Jung on UFOs and the Dawn of the Post-Secular Age: This video is Part 1 of a deep exploration into CG Jung’s writings on the psych-spiritual significance of the flying saucer archetype and what it means about the emerging Post-Secular impulse that’s brewing in our collective unconscious.
Continuing on with the esoteric themes of the Post-Secular age, accelerating techno-capitalism and our ongoing search for transcendence in a disenchanted terrain, these themes will persist in my body of work moving into 2024. I’m deeply eager to move further into these fascinating motifs surrounding our collective search for God in peculiar and sometimes dangerous places and how this intersects with technological acceleration, cultural friction and political fragmentation. Make sure you’re subscribed to my YouTube channel to stay updated and notified when I drop new content! Much Love from me to all of you and here’s to a brilliant 2024