UNLOCKED—Hanussen (Pt. II): EJH & Crowley in Cairo, Mandrake Moonchildren, Hitler's Mass Hypno Lessons, Hanns Ewers, & the OSS Langer Report—A PPM + Things Observed Collab

Luke & I are back at it, picking up our saga of the life of psychic spy, Nazi Nostradamus, yacht orgy organizer, sexual blackmailer, & British intel asset Erik Jan Hanussen... This one contains some shocking & possibly novel speculations... Trust me, it's a heavy hitter. It's also especially Aleister Crowley heavy, which seems appropriate considering that we're unlocking it on the sex pest Mage & British spy's Birthday. Subscribe to the PPM Patreon in time for the release of Pt. III in a matter of days: patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping Def check out Luke's Things Observed wherever you get your podcasts! It's been a blast working together on this series. He's got a stacked back catalog brimming w/ addictive examinations of topics like assorted Titanic conspiracy theories, Roman Catholic high strangeness, & the Nazi spy chief Skorzeny, so give his Patreon a look & follow him on Twitter at @thingobserver. *Before we get into an index of what you can expect, quick note about the audio fidelity. Luke & I unfortunately ran into some difficulties—whether caused by faltering Internet bandwidth or else both of us unknowingly making ambient sounds on our end... You might notice the occasional plosive pop or a background ruffling in some places. It's infrequent & hopefully barely noticeable, or else at least not distracting. Either way, don't worry, we already have a plan in place to ensure we have top-notch audio quality for the final installment. Thanks for understanding this learning moment for the both of us.* As for the content of today's EP: We resume our investigation w/ EJH's dalliance in film & the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari-esque silent movie that he produced & starred in as a Sherlock Holmes-y type who must rescue young Viennese dancers from the "Indian fakir" forcing them into sexual slavery via hypnotic means—a curious inversion of Hanussen's own proclivity for pimping. We turn our attention to Secret Agent EJH; his hypnotic feeding of tobacco magnate Hans Hauser; their scheme to sell surplus military equipment to the Greeks post-WWI; Hanussen's debut as a Brit intel asset, likely via the SIS front Tobacco Co Ltd or else the manager of a bar for Brit officers in Cairo named P. Neufeld; his investigation of hashish smugglers for Anglo colonial authorities; & a breakdown of the itinerary overlaps & textual synchronicities that support my theory that EJH & Crowley met in 1922 in Cairo... + the possibility they got up to something espionage-related together. This leads to a discussion of the Nazi propagandist & novelist Hanns Heinz Ewers—a node connecting EJH & AC in the German occult-espionage nexus; his early horror trilogy, including The Sorcerer's Apprentice & Alraune (a creepy novel about a homunculus formed thru artificial insemination of a prostitute w/ the semen of an executed murderer)... We talk about the Nazi overtones of this Frankensteinian inversion & Ewers' apparent obsession w/ mandrake root... Which brings us to the Q of whether Ewers was an influence on the magickal workings of both Crowley & EJH, ofc—in Hanussen's case, the Levenda/ Toland-reported mandrake root ritual that he conducted on Hitler's behalf exactly 30 days before the Nazis took power. Plus folkloric mandrake etiology; the Hanged Man card of the Tarot, which EJH's counterspell likely evoked; & further mythic valences... We move to reports of EJH's hypnotic & performative tutelage of Hitler. Luke walks us thru some of the different vers. contained in David Lewis's book, b4 I append Walter Langer's claim (which the OSS supposedly sourced from Strasser) of EJH & Hitler meeting in the early '20s. We contend w/ the veracity of the OSS Report, before introducing some of the most stomach-turning claims contained therein: Hitler's supposed sadomasochism & coprophagia... Songs: | The Flaming Lips - "Are You A Hypnotist?" | | David Bowie - "Quicksand" | | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - "Satan Said Dance" | | Cannibal Corpse - "Under the Rotted Flesh" |