The Liminalist # 295: The Tower of Song (with Ann Diamond)

Return conversation with Ann Diamond on where the evidence-body of Leonard Cohen’s legacy is buried, and why.

Part One: Circles of Hell (0 – 32 mins)

Bodies under McGill, Kevin Annett, MKULTRA, circles of Hell, pillars of Montreal, culture of crime, enter Leonard Cohen, a messiah complex, going to the dark side, 360 shades of gray.

Part Two: Among the Influencers (32 – 56 mins)

A shining light, among the influencers, Cohen’s circle, unseen Cohen stuff, evolution of “Hallelujah,” a foot in organized crime, Zen monasteries.

Part Three: Weaponized Art (56 mins – 1 hr 26 mins)

Peter Matheson, CIA Buddhism, monastic warehouses for traumatized agents, code of silence, controlled art market, CIA & expressionism, culture wars, weaponized art.

Part Four: Kitsch Limbo (1 hr 26 mins – end)

Canceling Cohen, Cohen’s two sides, a spiritual war, false idols, a teacher of human duplicity, don’t trust the packaging, healing the fragment, turning Cohen kitsch, Sebastian’s cult of celebrity, a satanic trap, the tower of song, articulating insanity, a death cult, the hummingbird.

Ann’s blog

Ann Diamond in the news

Bodies Under McGill, Current News Story

 

 

7 thoughts on “The Liminalist # 295: The Tower of Song (with Ann Diamond)”

  1. Thank you Kate and Jasun — and sorry we had to cut out a piece but one of these days I will put together a case for Leonard Cohen: programmed assassin. The borders of our imagination need constant stretching to encompass these End of Days scenarios that we are being treated to.

    16 Maps of Hell looks like a major step in that direction. Bravo to you. May you prosper in Spain–

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  2. Just remembered that Carlos Castenada was hiding up at Mt. Baldy at the same time…Is Anne going to report on the Kamaloops ?

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  3. Kevin Annett is a charlatan. He concocted the “ITCCS” – International Tribunal Into The Crimes Of Church & State, which existed nowhere else but in his head. As far as I’m concerned that tainted the rest of his work.

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    • I don’t believe Kevin is a charlatan — I think when you weigh his achievements the massive good he has done far outweighs the bad. I think he has taken too much on himself because he’s impatient and a bit megalomaniac — he sees himself as a Messiah rather than what he really is: a great investigator and truth-teller. But this is typical of people I’ve met in British Columbia — driven loners who go it alone and sometimes forget there is a world outside their own monologue. It’s the Gold Rush mentality — do or die — anything goes — larger than life dreams that sometimes succeed wildly but can lead to madness and defeat. Kevin never quits– nothing stops him — I believe he’ll be remembered for his writing and as the white man who broke the silence around Canadian genocide.

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