Jasun

This podcast is accompanied by a two-part article, “The World Itself: Powerlessness, Fantasy, Transportation Systems & Lost Masculinity in True Detective 2.” First of a two-part psycho-exploration of Nic Pizzolatto’s True Detective season 2 with Lovecraftian Heather Poirier, on comparisons to season 1, the armature of espionage, plot as a delivery device, the implacability of archetypal forces, Greek tragedy and …

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Solo interlude, Jasun by the lake, on anger, creative compulsion, ennui, the fatigue of ego, & Kevin Smith’s pig heaven. Songs: “Hello the Fuck Out There” by FrenchRadio Constellation; “Fingers,” “Monkey on Your Back,” “Home,” by Clinic.  

Conversation with Aspergerhuman blogger Bo Moore, on alexithymia, emotion and language, autism and Asperger’s as imports from other symptomologies, studying animal behaviors to understand humans, emotions as reaction to environment, freeze response, society as a predatory environment, early Homo Sapiens and socialization via agriculture, juvenilization of humans, wild humans, neoteny and domestication, differential development, growing …

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Second part of conversation with science fiction author Peter Watts, on the possibly mal-adaptive nature of consciousness, meat robots, cognitive capacity, Julian Jaynes and mounding fullness, consciousness vs. self-awareness, conditioning experiments, the cognitive feats of corbetts, the Cambridge declaration and self-aware octopi, why sex feels good, fractal geometry and healthy environments, does consciousness subvert the …

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(Original photo by  Maria Nygård) Here comes Behemoth-author Peter Watts, for the first hour of a roving and rifting conversation with Jasun about killing Jake (the One) and integrative therapy courtship, Lonesome Bob’s death ballad, Peter’s  marine biology years, the initial impetus, Peter’s childhood “Everyone can have their own aquarium!” epiphany, astronaut dreams, getting off …

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No podcast this week; a few idle musings about future guests, rich man’s fantasies, True Detective, depression, lucid boredom, UFOs, and God, to tide listeners over until next week. Songs: “El Mariachi” and “Monkey Said” by The Freak Fandango Orchestra; “Six Sticks,” by Halloween; “Invisible Rock,” by Kevin Blechdom; “The Spase Dogs,” by the Vivisectors.

Part two of conversation with Archdruid John Michael Greer, on time, the narrated self, and the inception of language, the occult path, the ubiquity of liminality, the three rays of Druid myth, the liminality of time, time & timelessness, life on the margins, banishing uncertainty, rising ocean levels and ice sheets, the flows that unite, …

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First part of in-depth exploration with ArchDruid John Michael Greer, on the end of industrialized society, making the transition, the prepper scene, the myth of progress, losing survival skills, the mechanistic view of the universe, an indifferent environment, mistaking indifference for hostility, a question of growing up, the culture of the futurism, manipulation by hope, …

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Talking with parapolitical author and activist Michael Parenti, on how he got started, the US civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, becoming radicalized, Saddam Hussein as Washington’s poster boy/”worse than Hitler,” WMD and fear management foreign policy, Occupy Wall Street and the lair of the beast, recognition of the divide, 1% of 1%, the shrinking …

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Second part of conversation with Sheldon Solomon, on death as an adviser, coming to terms with death, tranquilizing with the trivial, Livingston’s blissful brush with a lion, life without apprehension, the birds and the bees, “The Ticker” death watch, how death awareness increases hostility, starting with a negative, exploring the dark side as a way to study …

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First hour of a two-part conversation with Terror Management Theorist Sheldon Solomon (co-author of The Worm in the Core), on Ernest Becker’s Denial of Death, the human capacity for thinking abstractly & reflecting on past and future, culture as the means to manage death anxiety, negative identity, Becker’s Escape from Evil, Rene Girard and how culture …

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Conversation with Random Dude, a fervent new listener/reader of all things autiliminalist, on trigger warnings, the Dreams End/Ty Brown vortex, the differing approaches to research, the individuatory journey, a quixotic endeavor, UK systemic abuse and liminality, Lloyd de Mause’s abuse statistics, polarization and destabilization in the UK, hijacking the dialogue, catharsis-healing, the idea of complete …

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A behind-the-scenes chat with ex-Great American Psychopath, Phil Snyder, on a non-dimensional line, the well-being of the body, straying from the line, running to the future, a baseline of anxiety, being hacked by negativity, the idea of being invaded, releasing tension, reacting to the bullshit and matching the bullshit, leaving comfort zones, acclimatizing to stress, …

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Second part of a crossover conversation with James Howard Kunstler (part one here), on Seen & Not Seen and magical thinking, the Jiminy Crickett syndrome, a threshold moment in US history, de-industrialization in the 1970s, trying to get something for nothing, legalization of gambling, entitlement and comfort, being fed on fantasy, living inside an I-phone, …

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Discussing with long-time sparring ally Doug Lain the CIA’s co-opting the modern art movement, flooding the cultural field as a means to drown out independent artists, poisoning the well, creating the criteria for aesthetic judgment, breaking with representational forms of art, Budd Hopkins-as-modern-artist, CIA’s funding of the far left, movies & the CIA, what it means …

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Part two of a searching dialogue with Louis Proud on the difficulties of being a paranormal researcher/writer; also on astral technology, Joe Fisher and the siren call of hungry ghosts, channeled material & audience-manipulating entities, Strieber’s The Key, using esoterica to make life more interesting, Louis’ school experience & childhood memories, Jasun’s getting armored up for …

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Part one of two-part conversation with the taciturn Louis Proud, on Prisoner of Infinity, Dark Intrusions and Rodney Ascher, Whitley Strieber and writing as a way to control the unconscious, Robert Louis Stephenson’s Brownies, a Faustian bargain with the entities of the unconscious, the million dollar question about imaginal beings, autonomous fragments of the psyche, the …

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Part two of a candid dialogue with Neil Kramer, on meth-head living without the meth, Neil’s racial ideas, Jasun’s path of disillusionment, how the 2nd matrix was built, speaking to newcomers, Neil’s reasons for doing Red Ice, the deterioration of information in the Alternate Perceptions Community,  mainstreaming the underground, shrinking audiences, the fate of Ufology, …

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Part one of conversation with philosopher for living Neil Kramer, on laying down the terms of engagement, what this podcast is (for), personal development within the underground mainstream, Neil’s audience, the Kramer canvas, the inspiration of action, the life of a consulting philosopher, the death of the publishing industry, Neil’s idea of a successful day, …

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Part two of talk with Getting Out author Mark Ehrman, on fighting for the right to withdraw, rendering unto Caesar, hashtag robots, the Je Suis Charlie lockstep, how to defeat the opposition, nurturing independent thought, deconstructing conspiracy, getting past projection, instinctive perception management, the continuum of inner and outer, chasing quantum particles, leaving language-based reality, …

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