Jasun Part two of conversation with a Ross Dixon, on the degeneration of Game of Thrones, the reduction of the real, departing from the books, the golden age of The Simpsons, decreasing powers of discernment, a cynical marketing strategy for sandwich-making, compulsive questioning, the student’s job, can enlightenment be taught, yoga and culture, posture obsession, the …
First part of two part conversation with Ross Dixon, on the yoga thing, Sinister Yogis, getting down to earth, dynamic yoga, sticking with sensations, a constant inquiry, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, the continuum of physical, emotional, mental distress, a disappearing line between subject & object, the Feldenkrais method, the Yoga Industry, drinking the Huxley Kool-Aid, recognizing …
Part two of conversation with Marshall Poe, on the new dominant religion, free speech and hate crime, pornography and liberalism, student prostitution, the difference between freedom and licence, the N-word, assless chaps & gay pride, the reduction of the State, political parties in the US, teaching the Chinese about transgender, politics as theater, bloodlines and …
First part of a two-part conversation with Marshall Poe of New Books Network, on A History of Communications, Wikipedia, not being the next Malcolm Gladwell, contesting the effects media, attributes of the media, speech, writing, print, radio, and Internet, media and social organization, giving rise to new forms of culture, the psychological effects of reading, …
Jason discusses The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children, by Ross E. Cheit, on the McMartin preschool case, the death of academic research, discrediting child witnesses and debunking psychological research, a mosh-pit of denial, complicity or ignorance, a foundational case in the witch-hunt narrative, Abbey Mann and Indictment, implicating Oliver Stone, …
Part two of a conversation with VISUP on the dissociative drive, transhumanism and religion, original trauma of transferring from spirit to matter, Satanism old and new, false memory syndrome, denial of the unconscious, legitimizing child abuse, cycles of abuse, cycles of belief, Islamic networks, binary opposition and liminality, no end goal of the elite, keeping …
Part one of a two-part conversation with alternate researcher Recluse, of VISUP, on how the Volusia Investigative Society on Unexplained Phenomena began, Recluse’s incorporeal dreaming, childhood & the paranormal, trauma & psychism, hallucinogens & aliens, LSD experiments on children, Ewen Cameron’s subjects, Project Pelican, Naval Intelligence & Bluebird, Morris Allen, Artichoke and MK-Ultra as separate programs, …
Part two of conversation with Jamieson Webster, on calcified neuroses, the closing down of speech, the loss of conversation, the power of the Trump spectacle, conditions for contact, the crisis of the unconscious, seeking the trajectory back inward, embodied guidance, finding coherence, psychoanalysis & the spiritual quest, a permanent state of enlightenment, the question of …
Two-part conversation with author & psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster, on discovering psychoanalysis, finding someone to listen, working with dreams, the absence of psychoanalysis in psychology programs, practicing clinical psychology, the school of Lacan, defining the psyche, a fetishized idea of mind, everything consciousness isn’t, shredding the ground, the recognition of the unconscious, recognizing embodied voices, expressing …
Part two of a return conversation with Jonathan Lethem, author of A Gambler’s Anatomy, on the struggle to be a somebody, Chase Steadman’s celebrity vs. Bruno’s wanna-be-ness, the unknown face, the desire for anonymity, distrusting popularity, a termite operator or a failed elephant, Dissident Gardens, Lethem’s bid for the mainstream, being marketed, a multi-genre author, …
Part one of a return conversation with author Jonathan Lethem, on the religious sense and being scarred by reality, an international lexicon, defining oneness, the astronauts’ betrayal, writing outside oneself, negative capability, the noose of trauma, A Gambler’s Anatomy, a novel in code, Nabokov & the Lolita puzzle, Lethem’s rebus, in the presence of the …
Part two of a “conversation” with Sara Scott’s The Politics and Experience of Ritual Abuse: Beyond Disbelief, on substituting anger for love, the rage of powerlessness, the slave morality of goodness (Satanism credo), automatic disbelief and death awareness, death denial, religion, & science, death-as-entertainment, ritual sacrifice as a throwback, the bereavement industry, the progression of …
Jasun reads from Sara Scott’s The Politics & Experience of Ritual Abuse: Beyond Disbelief, and discusses who defines the narrative, superordinate and subordinate testimonies, political power and narrative creation, the incoherency of ritual abuse narratives in the context of the dominant narrative, how we put our unthinking trust in figures of high status, the question …
Talking with Gabriella Coleman on Anonymous as Hive vs. Hydra, the wisdom of crowds, innate intelligence, spontaneity & play, liminality & the tricksters, moral ambiguity, the Janus face of Anon, a moral threshold, the need for liminal zones, teenage anons, the Anonymous paradox, avoiding naming, the war on Scientology & early days of Anon, Anon’s …
Two disillusioned sorcerers look back on past follies, off the cuff chat with Mitch Fraas from January 2016, on the Grateful Dead, CIA, & LSD, creating the counterculture, the pendulum of social engineering, Burning Man, a sucker born every minute, the cosmic convergence, the Josue Arguelles let-down, audience cults, generating hope, Terence McKenna & Jan …
Animation by Simon Prades The second part of a conversation with Michael Lesher, on a culture of abuse hidden within a culture, ritualized sexual dominance, the difference between pedophilia and dominance as motivation, Alice Miller & parent-child relations, the norm of parents using children for satisfaction, the commandment to honor thy parents, choosing to align …
First part of two-part conversation with Michael Lesher, author of Sexual Abuse, Shonda, and Concealment in Orthodox Jewish Communities, on being a traitor to one’s religion, a pervasive problem, the differing cultures of abuse, institutional inattention, Shonda, shame, and scandal, a self-concealing problem, a shameful reality, challenging self-image, hierarchy in religious communities, the fear of …
Part two of return conversation with author Peter Watts, on the flashlight trying to find the darkness, consciousness as a function of matter or as an energetic template for matter, MKULTRA fragmentation, the impossibility of being two subjects, alien walk-ins and alien hand syndrome, psyche vs. brain, the brain as meat, dissecting the psyche, non-scientific …
Part one of a return conversation with sci-fi author Peter Watts, on UFOs, being abducted, Michael Persinger’s helmet, magnetic fields, sleep paralysis, Prisoner of Infinity, abduction narratives and sexual abuse, Hynek and close encounters, a third party entity, creating a new religion, space culture, MKULTRA, screen memories, psychic fragmentations, brain and body sense, the sensed …
Part two of my conversation with fellow survivor of Jimmy Savile’s Britain, Cathi Morgan, on the Wallaces, Cecil Rhodes’ diamond mines, the thick skins of the elite, planning for disclosure, throwing their own to the wolves, addressing the conscious and the unconscious with the media, normalizing aberrant behaviors, what happens when the pillars of society …