Jasun Epic Halloween conversation with Forrest Borie of Rodney Ascher’s The Nightmare, on Room 237, meeting Rodney, The Scooby Doo model of secularism, on the set of The Nightmare, the reenactments, watching the recreations, growing up with malevolence, a numinous trauma, developing a frame of understanding for sleep paralysis, Crucial Fictions, Dark Intrusions, dissociation/enlightenment, a lifetime …
Part two of conversation with liminal literary agent Gary Heidt, on morphing taboos, money as control, a de-meritocracy, money and immorality, an aristocratic shell, the exteriorization of the rich, organic robots & transhumanism, the Plutocracy, poison containers, the discomfort of interiority, when the medium and the message become one, seeking subjectivity, art as delivery device for propaganda, …
Part one of conversation with musician, conceptual artist, and literary agent Gary Heidt, on the authority of the cat, agents as necessary evil, an anomaly among agents, reaching an impasse, CIA controlling interests in publishing, setting the tone among the literati, changing editors, the single controlling node of Sessalee Hensley, pushing a bourgeoisie sensibility, domestic realism, …
Talk with comedian and activist against child abuse Barry Crimmins, of Call Me Lucky, who is Barry Crimmins? progressive comedy in the Reagan era, channeling anger into comedy, the process of remembering childhood abuse, breaking silence, speaking up for children, finding the context for craziness, explicating the “inexplicable,” 9/11 & US foreign policy, Hollywood revenge …
Part two of conversation with Bill Morrison, on the dark life of Bill’s dreams, Freud on daytime dreaming, Freud’s fiction-writing, the angles of ourselves, the mathematical quotient of the universe, the supreme power of Is, the Great Beyond, Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” Bill’s Christianity of horseshit, Moses & Mohammed, update on Jasun’s search, why everything is metaphor, …
First part of free-wheeling conversation with “Balloonman” Bill Morrison, on balloons and singing, free-association & pre-verbal expression, educational backgrounds, Bill’s early memories, in the sandbox & boxing ring, Victorian week at UK school, Bill living in Laurel Canyon, door-to-door salesman, vowing to be a comedian, improvisation & liminality, doing without an act, operating in survival …
Second part of conversation with Random Dude, on schools for the gifted, progressive schooling and natural education, the internet and audience cults, free-form psychic experimentation, harnessing the psyche, child sexuality, York University, counterculture-as-psyop, reservation schools, MKULTRA expendables, Kevin Annett, pending transhumanist atrocities, thought-policing, a cultural cut-off from memory, CIA & Moscow show trials, Orwell, Gene …
First part of a return conversation with Random Dude, on Quakerism, radical beginnings, belief in human goodness vs. belief in human wickedness, was Jesus good?, taking down social icons, Plato & secret societies, the Jekyll & Hyde archetype, inverting “good” & “evil,” the power of taboo, a Lucifer ritual, the Christian shadow, the push to …
Conversation with Ezra SB, on art as technology, data-encrypted music, constraint & choice in composing, Leonard Cohen & Donald Hebb experiments, Ann Diamond’s evidence of Cohen’s changing states, exploring archetypal realms, MKULTRA and the creation of multiple personalities, art as Promethean fire, Ezra’s background, the illusion of a central self, a useful implant, the task …
Second part of conversation with Benett F, on historical abuse in the UK, beyond the Dutroux affair, knowing thine enemy, Red Ice Radio and routing out psychopaths, the error of opposing the matrix, living inside a house of cards, how the system creates sociopaths, cultural engineering, what we know and don’t know about sociopaths, the …
Spontaneous dialogue with blogger and open-letter-writer Benett F, on sending open letters, the question of choice, people’s openness to ideas, reliance on group identity, negative identity, joining groups, superficial and deep liminality, a return to philosophical principals, changing beliefs, changing identities, the premise of knowledge, acclarism, Jed McKenna’s spiritual autolysis, intellectual (language-based) knowing vs knowing …
https://boxes.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/wp-content/uploads/Diamond4.mp3 Part 4: “Negative Space” | Download (Duration: 1:02:25 — 57.1MB) Third and forth parts of conversation with Ann Diamond on Leonard Cohen, MKUltra, cultural engineering. Part Three: In part three we discuss Cohen’s possible participation in Donald Hebb LSD experiments at McGill in 1951, Cohen the soldier of fortune, instilling discipline into a generation, Cohen’s first …
https://boxes.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/wp-content/uploads/Diamond2.mp3 Podcast. Part Two: “The Pied Piper of Montreal.” Download (Duration 1:10:00 — 64 MB) Parts one and two of a four-part epic exploration with author and survivor Ann Diamond. Part one: Intro by Jasun, psychic engineering and amnesia, the danger of hypnosis, healing through talking and writing, the Whitley Strieber vortex, the MKUltra program, Ann’s …
Second part of conversation with author and autism researcher Olga Bogdashina, on autism as a paradigm change, telepathy and “telepathy,” forbidden subject matter, Donna Williams and shadow senses, confusing science and scientism, William Stillman and The God Connection, the need for neutrality, physical empathy, autistic connection to animals, the authentic self, the biological roots of the …
First part of scintillating dialogue with the author Olga Bogdashina on autism as behaviors vs. autism as perceptual, Olga’s background, early diagnoses of schizophrenia, maintaining a neutral perspective, a dissertation on sensory perception, autism & language development, the problems of theory of mind, autism & spirituality, extra-consensual perception, reality construction, Intense World Syndrome, mini-columns in …
Part two of conversation with Temple Grandin, on the overlap artist and autist, speech delay in autism, Jasun’s bohemian background, encouraging artistic ability in children, video game addiction, limiting exposure to technology, learning computer programming, Temple’s emotional life, a preference for intellectual complexity, human psychodramas and US politics, social media and emotional amplification, moderating message …
Accompanying article: “An Encounter with the Improbable: Temple Grandin.” Part one of a two-part conversation with autistic author Temple Grandin, with introduction by Jasun on penetrating the membrane of the mainstream; on the auticulture audience, taking socialization, refusing handshakes, rejecting the social contract, kids today, learning basic skills, small talk among humans, early intervention, Temple …
Accompanying essay, “Invitation of the Mirror” Follow-up conversation with Motherless Brooklyn author Jonathan Lethem, on the novel-in-progress, working in the horror genre, late-Cronenberg parallels, Chronic City, personal fantasy informing fiction, Lethem’s characters as nonviable personas, deflationary fiction, crumbling castles, useless super-powers, & ineffective postures, the P.K. Dick vault, occult symbolism in Chronic City, the ephemerality of identity, …
(Companion essay, “The Margins & the Mainstream: Horsley on Lethem”) Outtakes: Lethem on Dissident Gardens and maternal lineage (15 mins) Download https://boxes.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/wp-content/uploads/Lethem-on-Dissident-Gardens.mp3 First of two conversations with author Jonathan Lethem, on meeting Lethem, Lethem “almost feeling stalked,” the transmigration of psyches, encountering Philip K. Dick, being colonized, reader-author intimacy, the genesis of Seen & Not Seen, …
(This podcast is accompanied by an article, “The World Itself: Powerlessness, Fantasy, Transportation Systems & Lost Masculinity in True Detective 2.” PDF here. Audio reading below.) Second part of in-dept exploration of True Detective season 2 with Heather Poirier, on the American Dream, ideology, and weaponized memes, the power of ideas, art as inoculation, The Counselor, a positive virus, connecting to …