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From liminal radio livestream Sat 8th June, on the problems of language, expressing from the body, tuning into the body as a means to tuning into the needs of others, articulation as response to movements within the body, the perils of sophistry, moving from worldly delusion to stark raving reality, connecting to soul community, why …
A meaty & mirth-filled conversation with The Skrauss that takes us all around the houses, from finding spiritual purpose via material engagement to the history of suffering, siddhis, questions of the afterlife, octopus’ brains, enlightenment vs. embodiment, and why we are here at all. Part One: Hope Life (0 – 32 mins) Dressing for phone …
Read moreThe Liminalist # 202: Don’t Help Chicks to Hatch (with The Skrauss)
In the ever-escalating ideological war of narratives, everyone agrees we need to “make the world a better place”—or claims to. In a general way, there is even agreement about how to do so: we need to make the world a better place by coming up with (and enforcing) better narratives. And regardless of the ideological …
Return conversation with Alejandro Martínez Gallardo exploring the paradox of transcendence & immanence and how the body is an image of the divine, in contrast to the counterfeit technological, transhumanist-nihilist-materialist and occultist postmodern philosophies. Part One: The Signal of the Soul (0 – 31 mins) Douglas Rushkoff, Erik Davis, psychedelics, Philip K. Dick, Silicon Valley, …
Read moreThe Liminalist # 201: The Tension of Love (with Alejandro Martínez Gallardo)
Epic and long overdue talk with scholar of high weirdness Erik Davis, on the ins & outs, ups & downs of paranoid awareness, self-exploration and cultural examination, & the many different pathways through Chapel Perilous. Part One: Tightrope Walkers (0 – 33m) The inner chatter, meeting in Mexico, a gulf in worldviews, the podcast burnout, …
Read moreThe Liminalist 200: Shared Zones of Chapel Perilous (with Erik Davis)
It’s fair to ask who or what is being rendered unto here. The Catholic church came about when the Roman Empire coopted the original teachings of Christ and the apostles, and turned it into a vehicle of attention-management by which to establish a new form of institutional control. Now, with the UFO, the same thing appears to be happening.
Return conversation with Recluse of VISUP. Part One: Left & Right Wings of Geopolitics (0 – 36 mins) The Fabian Society, elites civil war in UK & US, le Cercle, Prisoner of Infinity, two formative experiences, a meeting with the king, dissociation and disembodiment, the question who am I, Chris Knowles, a murky background, an …
Read moreThe Liminalist # 199: Geopolitics & Metaphysics (with Recluse of VISUP)
Part One: UFO Club “In the end, the future may well be decided by the image which carries the greatest spiritual power.” —Fred Polak, quoted in epigraph to Changing Images of Man Once more unto the breach, dear friends. American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology was released in early 2019, by Oxford University Press. It is …
1: Culture Good & Evil (0 - 18 mins) Deadwood, love between men, VALIS in kibble, fanbases, art as perception management, letting go of hope, Dave Oshana, the UFO puzzle & American Cosmic. 2: Love in the Mud (18 – 41 mins) D.W. Pasulka & Whitley Strieber, a cognitive problem, networks of manipulation, copies of …
Conversation with Camille Blinstrub Part One: An Evenly Distributed Childhood (0 – 36 mins) Arriving in London, the Stan Kenton band, the British jazz scene, an evenly distributed childhood, Capitol Records, a fusion of jazz and classical, Max Jones & Melody Maker, Miss Lambert’s School, when Kennedy was killed, when the Beatles took over the …
Read moreThe Liminalist # 198: Spectrum of the Occult (with Camille Blinstrub)
Two days ago I heard about the decriminalization of psilocybin “victory” in Denver because it was being celebrated by some people in my social media sphere. Being the way I am, I questioned the assumption that this necessarily amounted to a good thing, and naturally I received a barrage of consternation and criticism. This seems …
Read moreManufacturing Consent to a Counterfeit Spirituality: The New Controlled Counterculture?
Conversation with Alex Witcombe on encounters with the unfathomable aspect of (human) nature. Part One: The Out of Body Police (0 – 30 mins) Attracting the inexplicable, Alex’s abduction experience, out of body experiences, strange vibrations, astral awareness, trouble-free state, an encounter with Baba, multiple selves, a goddess of herbs & dogs, the out of …
Read moreThe Liminalist # 197: Fourteen Days (with Alex Witcombe)
This week’s Liminal Radio live presentation (aired Saturday May 11 at 11 am PDT, 2 pm EDT, or 7 pm UK) is called “The War on Truth.” The reason being that I am mad as hell right now and choose to make no bones about it, but to make soup instead. I will talk about …
Science, Religion, Dogma “This figure of the algorithm as a quasi-mystical structure of implemented knowledge is both pervasive and poorly understood. We have never been closer to making the metaphor of fully implemented computational knowledge real than we are today, when an explosion of platforms and systems is reinventing cult practice and identity, often by …
Read moreThe Lost Language of the Body: Algorithms, Occultism, & the Limits of Knowledge
This week on Liminal Radio I discussed Peter Sellers’ best and least known film role, as a hungry ghost in Hoffman (1970), trauma, charismatic alters, lost souls in celluloid bardo realms, and how evil is the expression of the suffering of an inability to love. Synopsis of Hoffman here. Archive of last week’s show, TECHNO-LOGOS: …
Part two of return conversation with Dave Oshana, on surfing the wave of life. Part One: A Room without Shadows (0 – 34 mins mins) Dissembling, the false identity’s hold, pattern interruption, pain and drama management, asking to be blasted, attention-seeking mechanisms, capitulating to addiction, mistaken salvation, seeking a better dream, a mental idea of …
Read moreThe Liminalist # 196: Naturally Liminal (with Dave Oshana)
Part One: Identifying the Audience (0 – 25 mins) Theory of audience mind, introducing Dave to auticulture, a collection of individuals, responding to feedback, telegraphed needs as interferences, in thrall of a nightmare, differing aims, honing in on listeners, in disguise as a spiritual teacher, a Trojan Horse & monkey wrench, punk or rock & …
Read moreThe Liminalist # 195: Crossing the Threshold (with Dave Oshana)
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One more casual conversation with Gib Strange, on cults, autonomy, and enlightenment, Part One: Mimesis Good & Bad (0 – 28 mins) Energetic experiences of Dave, the context of “enlightenment,” the theory of collective mind, defining the inexpressible, what’s different about Dave, accidentally being somebody you’re not, under the laser-beam, mannerisms exposed, actors as people …
Read moreThe Liminalist # 194: The Many Cults of Culture (with Gib Strange)
Recently I have been reevaluating my need to always be focusing on the negative aspects of society when, overall, I have a positive outlook and a good feeling about human nature (if not humanity’s future). Are these two perspectives complementary or contradictory? I guess it depends how comfortably they co-exist within our psyches and how …
Read moreMind the Trap: The Way Through & Out of Paranoid Awareness