The Liminalist # 108: The Crowley Assignation (with William Ramsey)

Part one of two-part conversation with author William Ramsey, on Aleister Crowley’s cultural impact, 9/11 and numerology, Robin Bryans’ The Dust Has Never Settled, Lord Tredegar & Black Masses, Peter Levenda & the Crowley wall of denial, The World’s Tragedy, comparing Crowley to Ted Bundy, de-emphasizing AC’s pathology, Betty Ma’s testimony, Crowley’s appeal to the …

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The Liminalist # 107.5: Embracing Impermanence (with Keith Gordon)

Part two of conversation with Keith Gordon, on getting movies made, Mother Night, getting Nick Nolte, SOP agent behavior, Singing Detective & Robert Downey Jr., remaking Dennis Potter, TV vs. movies, Brett Easton Ellis, working in TV, turning down Marvel movies, trying to get a TV show set up, how networks make money, a conglomeration …

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The Liminalist # 107: One Man’s Heaven (with Keith Gordon)

First of a two-part conversation with actor and director Keith Gordon, on over- and underrated directors, Dressed to Kill, Home Movies, working with Brian DePalma, Gordon as science-wiz-kid, making Home Movies, growing up in the theater, 2001: A Space Odyssey, working in MOMA, random opportunities, Jaws 2, informal training, Bob Fosse and All That Jazz, …

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The Liminalist # 106.5: The Unsaid & the Unseen (with Frances Hutchens)

Part two of conversation with Frances Hutchens, on public trauma-sharing, being triggered by death, love & violence, trauma-based culture, domestic murder scene, parkour and body work, premeditation, a pawn in the game, inter-generational trauma, the option of consciousness, an abuse spectrum, the unsaid and the unseen, ancestral patterns, a ripening of patterns, MKULTRA school, pressure …

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The Liminalist # 106: Love, Sex, & Contractual Agreements (with Frances Hutchens)

Conversation with Frances Hutchens, on sex contracts, contractual relationships, courtship, changing sexual roles, the looking-for-sex field, how writing de-romanticizes, how culture defines romantic love, contentment unsung, alchemical marriage, why do young people get married, the divorce season, big weddings, the culture of blame, the desire for certainty, freedom of prostitutes, marriage & the eternal, the …

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The Liminalist 105.5: Uneasy Alliances (with Holly Grigg-Spall)

Part two of return conversation with Holly Grigg-Spall, on a culture in crisis, the Hollywood liberal set’s new mission, celebrity-stands, Holly’s circle, the luxury of disagreeing, being beholden to others, many invisible thresholds, becoming part of a cultural edifice/audience cult, losing control of the branches, the danger of agendas, putting a handle on oneself, Steve …

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The Liminalist # 105: The Hollywood Threshold (with Holly Grigg-Spall)

Return conversation with Holly Grigg-Spall on liminality or Illuminati?, the Hollywood threshold, where saying yes can lead, the women’s march, reminders of female biology, identity bearings, polarization & ideological grouping, obliged responses to Trump, losing friends over ideology, a 4-yr freak-out, being unmoored by peer pressure, the main thing is to panic, Trump the trigger-monster, …

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The Liminalist # 104.5 (A Life of Keepers, with Susan Frey)

Part two of conversation with Susan Frey,  on discerning benevolence from malevolence, an inner compass, deconstruction, a sensation of being, reinforcing the signal, celebrity culture, the coming generations/generation gaps, positivistic values, trauma rationales, the desire to be the one who fixes, immortality, harvesting organs, fear of death, avoiding the reckoning, the load of an unlived …

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The Liminalist # 104: A Liminal Life (with Susan Frey)

Part one of a conversation with Susan Frey, PhD, on meeting Jim Kunstler, Susan’s five careers, the backdoor to the healthcare system, sick buildings, designing healthy schools from the inside out, Common Core and education as programming, neurotic patterns, the problem with agendas, ethic-free agendas, community-building, theater of absurd realism, human-animal chimeras, Trump the pig-human, …

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The Liminalist # 103: The Lovecraft Paradox (with Heather Poirier)

Return conversation with Heather Poirier, on writing as detective work, discovering HP Lovecraft, cosmic indifference and the real horror, The Dunwich Horror, levels of accessibility, the Lovecraft Project, Lovecraft’s writers circle, the end of anthropocentricism, August Derleth, indifference vs. malevolence, the way the cosmos rocks, the question of ethics, a harmless life, Lovecraft’s Roman values, …

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The Liminalist # 102: Everything Happens at Night (with Alison Miller)

Conversation with Alison Miller, therapist and author of Healing the Unimaginable, on discovering ritual abuse, meeting inner children, dissociative identity disorders, False Memory Syndrome, how widespread is ritual abuse, the therapeutic community’s awareness of organized abuse, psychologically sophisticated organized crime, Elizabeth Loftus & the agenda to discredit memory, Lori Handrahan & the child porn industry, …

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The Liminalist # 101: When Two Rams Meet (with French Radio Constellation)

Epic return conversation with French Radio Constellation guy, comparing Aries, pioneers and leaders, goats & sheep, learning the rules, the use of clichés, technique & improvisation, the Internet & autonomy, releasing a CD, publishing The Blood Poets, David Bowie’s post-Scary Monsters period, loving Elvis, Hunky Dory & occultism, Crowley & Nietzsche, Crowley’s malevolence, liberation through …

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The Liminalist # 100.5: The Territory of Belief (with Joseph L. Flatley)

Disclaimer: Joseph Flatley is currently in collaboration with known Satanist, disinformationalist, and advocate of “false memory syndrome,” Lucien Greaves (Douglas Mesner). I have attempted to ascertain whether Flatley is merely gullible or knowingly complicit with such organized deception and malevolence, & have had to conclude the latter. For this reason I have removed this podcast …

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The Liminalist # 100: Where’s the There? (with Joseph L. Flatley)

Disclaimer: Joseph Flatley is currently in collaboration with known Satanist, disinformationalist, and advocate of “false memory syndrome,” Lucien Greaves (Douglas Mesner). I have attempted to ascertain whether Flatley is merely gullible or knowingly complicit with such organized deception and malevolence, & have had to conclude the latter. For this reason I have removed this podcast and …

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The Liminalist # 99.5: Simon’s Denial (with Tom Mellett)

Part two of conversation with Tom Mellett, OTO ritual on Discovery Channel, Jim Wasserman, crashing RFK’s funeral, wandering bishops, Levenda-as-Zelig, Intelligence pranking, the Trickster & crazy wisdom, Peter Levenda’s ambiguous intelligence affiliations, Tom’s stint in military intelligence, Sims Bainbridge, The Process Church, & religious engineering, the power of speaking truth, the Levenda agenda, higher directives, …

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The Liminalist # 99: Sinister MacGuffins (with Tom Mellett)

First of a two-part conversation with Tom Mellett, on Peter Levenda, Arthur Young, and The Nine, Ruth Hyde Paine, New York City rapport, Levenda joins Facebook, Simon’s Necronomicon, a 40-year hoax, the UFO nutshell & the uncertainty principle, Dexter Forces, conflicting levels of reality, Schrödinger’s Cat, the non-fiction narrative, a stake in the Crowley game, …

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The Liminalist # 98: The Art of Dying (or: Cosmologies to Confuse, with James Kunstler)

Return conversation with James Howard Kunstler, on creating cosmologies to justify behaviors, the new urbanist movement, landscape urbanism, the architectural cutting edge, cosmologies to confuse, architecture that makes people feel bad, melting designs, zero capacity for adaptive re-use, the sunset of the techno-industrial age,  the illusion of permanent progress, the enlightenment watershed, imposing empiricism, how …

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The Liminalist # 97.5: The Inertia of Power (with Nicolas Hausdorf)

Part two of conversation with Nicolas Hausdorf, on Jasun’s version of optimism, powerlessness, the freedom to investigate, predetermined by trauma, concentrated violence, evading World War III, long-term social engineering plans, an unusual kind of insanity, the question of faith, a sense of the infinity, the logic of eternity, the power of healing/art, drunken spider webs …

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The Liminalist # 97: The Anthropological Limits to Bullshit (with Nicolas Hausdorf)

Talking with Nicolas Hausdorf, author of Superstructural Berlin: A Superstructural Tourist Guide to Berlin for the Visitor and the New Resident, on Doug Lain & Zero Books, patterns of cultural programming, the gulf between university & the internet, in the domain of the plausible, drawing out cultural poisons, poisoning the attraction of Berlin, a culture …

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The Liminalist # 96: Original Shame & The Progression of Trauma (with Jason B)

Talking with Jason B on marijuana use and checking out, porn addiction, a reverse bucket list, the question of sublimation, the problem of ejaculation, celibacy in marriage, Sex Addicts Anonymous, sex addiction & heroin addiction, shared nose-picking habit, seeking symptoms of trauma, the need for sensation, the effects of cannabis, weed hangovers, uses & effects …

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