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First part of conversation with Sync Book editor Alan Green, on liminality and the need to disappear, attention-seeking, Alan’s discovery of synchromysticsm, the Goro Adachi-Jake Kotze controversy, Kyle Hunt and the collision between white supremacy and synchromysticsm, internal conflicts within the sync community, feeding the beast, Jasun on ending SWEDA, the politics of sync, the alternate perceptions community, why ego is not a team player, juggling agendas, meeting Kotze, cold hearts in Winnipeg, Kephas the contrarian, hedging bets against oneself, Jasun & Alan’s mothers, what Jasun has against the sync community, the danger of irrelevancy, slap in the face syncs, fighting futility, Reality Sandwich’s granola crowd, balancing conspiracy with sync, the subtler signal, psychedelic mindsets, an excess of epiphany, St. Paul vs. Phil Dick, sync burnout, early daze of Gnostic transcendence, crossing over, seeking the real, Saturn and sync-heads, the mental pursuit, happiness as dissociation, co-opting the alternate community, audience cults, feeding the tulpas, which kingdom?
Part Two will air this coming Wednesday the 18th March.
Songs: “Barbed Wire Explosion in the Kingdom of Atlantis Medley,” “This Life Gives Force,” “Goodbye Oslo Rose,” by Richard Youngs.
Opening song: “El Mariachi” by The Freak Fandango Orchestra
Excellent. Thanks for the ideas (& music).
nice one. Dissociating feels goooood.
Ain’t the bug in the ointment that everything is connected and thus inter-causal?
And so you, we, can affect and change the totality.
Which gives meaning and empowerment to we.
And sync? Well, just another window….
I loved your human, honest interactions here guys.
This talk is pure gold
🙂 sweet.
There is definitely wisdom in asking “How many syncs do you need?”, but the idea that synchronicities are just the revelation of a basic truth of oneness provokes a fountain of derisory satire in me. How many massages do you need before you accept the truth of relaxation? How many crop circles will it take for you to get it? But the one designed for you, Jasun, is ‘you’ve seen a proof-of-concept demonstration of the camera and projector, how many movies do you need to watch??’
Ultimately, “How many syncs do you need?” is a way of saying “the medium is the message”, which truly is wisdom and the final answer (in the sense that it will always be right and always be relevant), but it is the beginning of wisdom. It is the direction to look in, the mental posture to assume in order to begin really learning. And, as a side-effect, the better to read and understand the medium’s content.
(MM later added a companion maxim which is unfortunately little-known: “the user is the content”)
In the case of my sync from last week*, the one-dimensional medium-message is: ‘You three are psychically enmeshed!” — to which I can only say ‘Duh. Did I really need the reminder?’ — which is why I attempt to interpret the content as a kind of waking dream.
*”One of the interviews in that book was done by a friend of mine whose birthday it was on the day you posted this… I didn’t want to just say ‘Happy Birthday’ without an accompanying link or image he might like, and I settled on a painting I had recently encountered of Jesus riding a Tyrannosaur… Unbeknownst to me, our best mutual friend (a poet and composer whose band I played in, and whose albums were produced by the birthday boy) had sent him a picture of a birthday cake with an image of Jesus cradling a baby Tyrannosaur!!
… the child becomes the VEHICLE of the man??”
which three is it tho? (question literal but also metaphoric)
the flip side of medium = message is message = medium.
Me, Jesus, and the Tyrannosaur (collective superego & collective unconscious/id)!
I can’t really know what you mean by it, but “the message is the medium” certainly gets straight to the heart of what I’ve learned about synchronicity…
Looooong story short: I’m much more of a ‘synchromaterialist’ than a ‘synchromystic’.