The Liminalist # 49.5: The Pragmatic Nature of the Universe (with Guy Duperreault),

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Second part of conversation with Guy Duperreault, on Kalsched’s model of fragmentation of the psyche, putting Humpty back together, compartmentalization of awareness, living inside a fragment, social alters, moving towards wholeness, transitory despair, does the ego have will, waking up in the morning, poisons in the body, being wounded by the world, the relevance of causes, avoiding change, self-acceptance = change, aligning physical and spiritual pragmatism, relinquishing coping mechanisms, sabotaging self-examination, leaving the map, the difference between self-delusion and self-awareness, listening to dreams, how truths keep changing, the I Ching, the courage to face ourselves, deep delusion and fabricating signs, Philip K. Dick & the I Ching, Jonestown, killing the Buddha, the law of attraction and the pursuit of happiness, Oprah and the celebrity life, the world as guardian, discovering laughter, why we need to be tricked, getting past the ego, the function of the ego, talking about the mind, taking away language, Chomsky & Jung, the black box, autism and language, internalizing language, language as parasite, Chuang Tzu, the language conundrum, capitalism and the role of trust, manufacturing behavior, Thomas Hobbes and social engineering, the notion of currency, the language distraction an underlying melody, the Third Man phenomenon.

Songs: “El Mariachi”  by The Freak Fandango Orchestra; “Sun Hands,” by Local Natives“; “Breathing Static,” by Kirk Pearson & BIT.