Desert Oracle Radio

Series produced by Desert Oracle

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DESERT ORACLE RADIO 

A moody road trip through the mysterious American desert. Weekly series hosted by Ken Layne, 28 minutes.

Created by the acclaimed Desert Oracle magazine in Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle Radio deals with the history and mystery of the American Southwest.


148 Pieces

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The Autumn Tint of Gold
From: Desert Oracle
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This autumn is getting off to a strange start, as here in the Mojave High Desert there are carpets of little yellow wildflowers thanks to the hurri...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Warriors, Poets & Ravens
From: Desert Oracle
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Early September, Jupiter tucked under the 2/3 moon at midnight, heaviest of La Luna’s many forms and phases: low over the eastern horizon, like the...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Dowsing Rod
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Ever seen a water witch at work? It’s a beautiful thing to behold. We have ancient reserves of great power within us.

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Hurricane Hilary in the High Desert
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When you look at the big red danger zone in the middle of the Weather Service maps this evening, you will see that we are in it, right up at the no...

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Where They Built the Bomb
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If you want to cool off in this brutal desert summer, you need to get up someplace higher, around 7,000 feet up — the high-desert plateau around Lo...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Waning Moon: UFOs & Their Pentagon Propagandists
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The United States military branches and intelligence agencies do not control what happens around the world all the time, much as they’d like to. T...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Wild Beasts
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Real gods require no faith, they just are: expressed in the life force of the pronghorn herd racing across the High Desert, the mountain lion trave...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
The Witch Beat
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Tonight we are talking about witches. And interesting religions, new & old. And especially California’s incredible occult countercultures—the esote...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
Under the Eye of Power
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Tonight we are talking about hidden things: secret societies, international conspiracies. Joining us by telephone from New York is the author Colin...

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Strange Things Happening Every Day
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We've got it all tonight: UFO calls from listeners, albino animals appearing worldwide, and something about reduced expectations and fried chicken....

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Haunted Highway
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There are no visitor facilities. Roads are mostly washed-out jeep tracks. There is no water. And there's no way out, unless you come back the way y...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Thru-Hiking With Tahquitz
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Where is she, tonight? It has been a month and ten days since she mailed this postcard from Idyllwild to Joshua Tree. All we can do is hope that th...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Space Radio (A Transmission)
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Tonight we are joined by Joshua Tree bookseller, author & publisher Jean-Paul L. Garnier of Space Cowboy Books, along with a transmission from poet...

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  • Added: May 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Who By Fire, Who By War
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It’s a beautiful spring in the desert, which naturally makes one dream of heading off to war. Maybe a secret war, a guerrilla war, an unknown soldi...

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Nature of Vision and Color
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The waxing moon is moving through the constellation of Leo, Mars is fading, and Venus hangs heavy in the western sky. Venus seems enormous, especia...

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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In the Egyptian Desert With the Desert Fathers
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During this beautiful springtime, let us be enlightened by the strange koans of the Desert Fathers. These were the 5th Century CE monks who started...

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Persistence of Tulare Lake
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During these many months of heavy rain & thick snowdrifts, we look around the southwest and notice all those playas, those alkaline dry lakes, bles...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Ecstasy of St. Minerva
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Regarding awe & mystery in the holy wilderness, and also these wild winter storms of 2023.

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Wolf Woman, Wild Woman
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Tonight we escape the freezing late-winter West and enjoy some time in the piney forests on the Tennessee River, in the Alabama counties where a st...

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Encounters With Coyote-Man
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For as long as people have lived in the desert southwest, they have told stories of Coyote, that peculiar personality that’s both a common wild can...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1

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