The Best Of Gordon White On THC: Remembering The Dark Prince of Chaos Magic

Summary

Host Greg Carlwood pays tribute to his late friend Gordon White, the chaos magician behind RuneSoup, recounting their friendship, the strange circumstances and synchronicities around White's sudden death in Peru, and his final work with the Latin American death saint San La Muerte. The episode then plays a career-spanning collection of interview clips covering Gnosticism, the claim that Jesus was a spiritual concept rather than a historical man, sigil magic, animism, the Sirius Mystery, Crowley's Egyptian rituals, fairies and UFOs, ayahuasca, and ritual readings of events like 9/11 and Oumuamua. Together they show why White was considered a key thinker bridging magic, conspiracy research, ufology, and consciousness studies.

Key takeaways

• 1Gordon White died of an apparent heart attack in Cusco, Peru around May 6-9, while researching the third book of his 'Dot Trilogy' (after Star.Ships and Ani.Mystic), planned to cover cunning folk traditions.
• 2White was working with San La Muerte, a skeletal folk saint venerated in Paraguay and Argentina, and planned to have a human-bone amulet implanted under his skin during the August 13-15 feast days.
• 3White claimed Zecharia Sitchin's Anunnaki work was backed by the Rockefellers, with Sitchin housed at 30 Rockefeller Plaza for a time.
• 4White argued Jesus never physically existed, describing the Gospel of Mary as reading like 'the transcript of a seance,' and credited Chris Knowles with the phrase 'Jesus fan fiction.'
• 5He claimed Aleister Crowley performed the Headless Rite (renamed the 'Bornless Rite') in the Great Pyramid, aligned with Orion, and 'accidentally switched on the spaceship' before receiving the Book of the Law.
• 6White said the CIA stole Robert Temple's English translation of 'The Pale Fox' while Temple was researching 'The Sirius Mystery.'
• 7He cited the Scole Experiments, Dr. Eugene McCarthy's pig-chimp hybrid hypothesis, and Oumuamua as the 'real' 2017 disclosure event, linking it to the Las Vegas shooting as a 'Vega ritual.'
• 8A posthumous RuneSoup course on Jesus was scheduled for release in October, assembled from footage White had already filmed.

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Transcript excerpt

Well, hi there and hello, Hireside Chatters. Let me tell you right now, I strongly dislike clip shows. I skip pretty much every one I come across, whether it's a podcast I like that doesn't want to do the usual work that week or one of the burnt episodes from the Seinfeld Archive. I don't like them because it's just recycled stuff I've already seen. And if that's your sentiment, too, I get it. And today, my lofty goal is to overcome that. So I've never done a clip show. In fact, the closest has been the THC 100th episode special where I went and had fresh 15 minute rapid fire interviews with my favorite 12 or so guests from that first 100 episodes rather than just pulling clips. So anyone who really hasn't gone that far back in the archive, that is a good one. And I really don't know anyone else who's done it. And given how crowded podcasting is today, I actually think it would be harder to do now anyway. Regardless, I am not a fan of this format in general, but I know I have the best collection of Gordon White interviews that will ever exist. And he had such a uniquely diverse scope of knowledge as well as a highly charged quick wit. And even I listened back to a lot of these and it felt like I was hearing him for the first time because he was so quick and our interviews were so densely packed, it's not uncommon for me to miss a lot. When Gordon died, a lot of the people who held him in high regard did various forms of tribute. ...

Excerpt from The Higherside Chats, Sep 30, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.