Ep162: The Hermeticist - Martin Faulks

Martin Faulks is an author, hermeticist, meditation adept, and memory expert.

Available on Youtube, iTunes, SoundCloud & Spotify – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast’.

Martin recalls his upbringing in Norwich England, including his childhood love of martial arts, the dissonance between an intellectual home life and school yard bullying, and an intuition for something more in life.

Martin shares his first steps in practicing hermeticism according to Franz Bardon's methods, and offers the fruits of his unbroken daily practice of over thirty years. 

Martin also reveals elemental personality strategies for facing adversity and how to balance them, how to find one’s authentic self amidst society's mixed messages of approval, and how the Renaissance era memory techniques of Giordano Bruno can be used today as a path to enlightenment. 


Topics include:

00:00 - Intro
00:56 - Upbringing in nature 
03:40 - Childhood love for martial arts 
06:57 - An intuition for something more 
08:14 - Bullying at school vs intellectual home life 
11:36 - Learning to learn 
13:06 - Testing martial arts claims 
15:58 - Discovering Franz Bardon and hermeticism 
18:44 - Genuineness is a super power
22:02 - Coming home to hermeticism 
24:24 - Developing awareness beyond the normal level 
29:40 - Were there enlightened world leaders in the past? 
31:51 - Elemental strategies to get ahead 
35:17 - Correcting elemental imbalance 
38:43 - First steps on the hermetic path
41:14 - Sources of authority 
42:46 - Martin’s rigorous practice regime 
45:18 - Initial exercises of Franz Bardon’s system 
51:44 - How to discover your authentic self 
54:37 - Mixed signals of societal approval 
01:00:07 - Esoteric aspects of hermeticism 
01:03:50 - Everything is real 
01:06:59 - Meetings with extraordinary people
01:07:53 - Proving Giordano Bruno’s memory wheel system 
01:13:20 - Renaissance era memory techniques for enlightenment 


To find out more about Martin Faulks, visit:

 - https://martinfaulks.co.uk/ 

Music ‘Deva Dasi’ by Steve James

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