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The Liminalist # 228: The Mystic Joiner (with Meta-Nomad)
For the fifth anniversary of The Liminalist, a conversation with Meta-Nomad of Hermitix podcast, on mystery podcasting and when love and kindness makes a comeback! Part One: The Quest for Reenchantment (0 – 28 mins) Differing approaches to podcasting, getting straight to the punch, attention economy, the philosophy of the strange hermit, the methodology of …
White Male Edgeman: Liminality, Group Identities, and Authoritarianism Left & Right
An older piece that appeared at Jim Kunstler’s blog & elsewhere but never here, to give auticulture aficionados something to chew on while I am away. “Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.” —Marshall …
The Liminalist # 227: Naguals in Hollywood (with Hunter Muse)
Conversation with Hunter Muse on her experience with Carlos Castaneda, the sorcery path, & on the edges of Hollywood insider weirdness. Part One: The Gospel of Carlos (0 – 28 mins) First encounter with the Castaneda group in Tempe, Arizona, witches party, talks at the Phoenix bookstore, the lure of the second attention, magical passes, …
The Liminalist # 226: The Psychology of the Rulers & the Ruled (with Larry Kummer)
Conversation with Larry Kummer on the changing political landscape in the US, the failure of democracy & the end of the Republic Part One: Elite to Rabble Relations (0 – 27 mins) Who was Fabius Maximus, the Fabian Society, American expansionism, military reform movement, big burn-out, false authorities, screwing up & moving up, falling institutions, …
John Brockman: Eminence Grise for a Globally Dominant Counterculture
Anyone today who thinks that scientists are the unacknowledged legislators of the world has been influenced by Brockman’s taste. ~ Andrew Brown, the Guardian, 2005 [O]ne name has stood out as Epstein’s intellectual enabler: John Brockman, the New York literary agent who ran Edge, billed as an elite salon of thinkers “redefining who and what …
