The Mycelium Forum – ”Sins Of The Fathers” – With Karl Haikara (Sol Nox Podcast)
Welcome to the Mycelium Forum of the Mycelium Signal Podcast, which features open-ended conversations with fellow occultists and artists. Tonight marks the seventh conversation with Colorado-based Karl Haikara of the Sol Nox Podcast.
Please note: This episode was originally recorded for the Sol Nox Podcast.
Episode length: 1 h 50 min
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Key themes in this episode:
- Konstantin’s liminal dreams
- The Backrooms (2026 film)
- Qliphoth — the ”shells” of Kabbalistic cosmology, the empty husks left after divine vessels shattered
- Confronting your Shadow — Jungian integration of the disowned self
- Nietzsche’s Last Man (der letzte Mensch) — the complacent, comfort-seeking antithesis of the Übermensch
- Intergenerational trauma and the cycle of evil; the Mark of Cain
- Horror fiction as a trojan horse for occultism
- Occult pragmatism vs. occult/spiritual materialism
- The human psyche not as a monolith but a legion
- Goetia vs. Goêteia — the original ancient Greek chthonic sorcery tradition
- Philip K. Dick’s Black Iron Prison concept
- The growing occult mycelium network
Works discussed in this episode:
The Backrooms — Kane Parsons (2026)
Liminal-space horror film; referenced as a contemporary map of the disorienting, rule-less terrain the conversation otherwise approaches through Kabbalah and Jungian psychology.