The Liminalist # 7: Chapel Perilous (with Adam Gorightly)

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Exploring conspiracy lore & liminality with long-time researcher Adam Gorightly, on the spectrum of JFK assassination research, the JFK alternate reality vortex, Kerry Thornley and the dubious evidence of the Garrison investigation, David Ferrie, Clay Shaw, the three tramps, syncs-as-“evidence,” E. Howard Hunt, mixing fact and fiction, the UFO theater, how the cover-up was embedded in the assassination plot, a trail of false clues, Kubrick & Room 237 and how to seed illusory narratives, the quantum interpretation of reality, a slippery slope, how rationality is the first casualty of conspiracy research, Sandy Hook, conspiracy-as-entertainment, suspending belief, Thornley’s liminal journey, Oswald & Thornley as matching patsies, the UFO-disguise, the two kinds of crazy-making, satanic ritual abuse and discrediting the witness, Whitley Strieber and Crucial Fictions, defenders of the UFO narrative, how spooks cover their tracks, writing on the margins, the toxicity of social media, Hunter S. Thompson and the creation of consensual prisons, liminal writing vs. being established, speculative conspiracy theory, the Moon landing and the impossibility of knowing, cognitive dissonance, re-contextualizing the evidence, self-destroying artists, sorting the seeds of truth and illusion, the key to Chapel Perilous.

Additional material (direct downloads): Adam on Ira Einhorn; Jasun on the JFK assassination and liminality.

Songs: “Dancing Pollos” by Gumbel, “En Paz” by Prójimo Bill, “El Mariachi” and “Monkey Said” by The Freak Fandango Orchestra