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 conditioning process, movie immersion and celebrity bonds, self-examination as deconditioning, uncoupling perception from the survival drive, SyNAPSE and the online simulation of a human brain, self-awareness without an agenda, the AI threat, Starfish head cheese, the rights of neuron puddles, Ardrey’s African Genesis and how self-awareness arose, cognition as the weighing of interests, theory of mind & awareness of the other, consciousness as result of conflicting motor commands, the Prismatics, a binary universe, consciousness as the result of a split, snowballing complexity, sleep crimes, self-consciousness as a flashlight, the fallacy of identity, the pond scum of selfness, how pedophiles may lay the ground rules for the Singularity, becoming post-human, the instinctive recoil, Jasun’s spider transformation vision, penetrating the border of skin, brain-mutating cabbies, neurodiversity and social factors, autistic brains, dysfunction and innovation, autistic deficit in white matter, high IQs in damaged brains, why Peter Watts never mentions autism, Behemoth and language, pre-DNA life, new forms emerging through fiction, Watts’ intuitive rescue fiction writing, walking the high wire.
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 up without judgment, permanent adolescence and the violence of pop culture, taming females, the difference between autism and Asperger’s, schizophrenia as diagnostic waste basket, language as environment, lack of concreteness in NT use of language, language-as-consensus, the question of empathy, the neotenous period, varying environmental factors, engineered netoeny, going back to the Pyramids, pre-natal indoctrination, Philip K. Dick and Blade Runner, the paradox-parable of empathy, the rules of psychology, prescription in lieu of description, militarization of psychology, religion and money, defining science, imagination and knowledge, quantum mechanics and the supernatural, the powerlessness of words, the uncertainty principal and quantum superimposition, visual thinking, disappearing into nature, Asperger’s and atheism, the cusp of language, co-opting the spiritual, the animal connection, the internalized pyramid, man groups, depletion and fragmentation due to over-crowding, the benefits of isolation, seeking status within the Status Quo, questioning hierarchy, capitalist parenting and labels, being outnumbered, the option of walking away, autistic ambassadors, the neoteny spectrum, homo erectus and varying temporal zones, legacy brains, species bifurcation and genocide, taking away Native Americans’ connection to the land as soul murder, what growing up really means, Maslow’s developmental stages, the danger that adults might revolt, being divorced from experience, Aristotle’s advice to the confused, children of the desert.
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 the underworld, the death drive, Oedipus, the scapegoat mechanism, and the structure of detective fiction, class structure, expanding agency, and Frank’s failed ascendancy, transportation and double society, Frank’s naive bid for legitimacy, the inaccessibility of multi-generational lines of power, ancestral poisons, tearing apart the tropes, intentional opacity of plot, season two’s midway slump, sound and texture in season 2, parallels with The Counselor, the bleakness of defeat, the irony and futility of Greek tragedy, Pizzolatto’s sowing of doubt & fanning the tiny flame of hope, killing Frank, Frank’s will to power and the walk into the abyss, Woodrugh and the power of concealment, confounding expectations, season 1 backing away from the implications of conspiracy, social engineering and unrevealed hidden agendas, the ancient impulse, the impossibility of justice, a Pavlovian system, the protecting wall, controlling Woodrugh, the reward-and punishment control system, Antigone’s quest to bury her brother, Ray & Antigone’s core pain, who is in who’s underworld, the art of handling people by keeping them triggered, gods like men/men like gods, everybody gets touched, innocence unregained, what is immortality, money & children, children as currency, how Woodrugh is handled, masculine impotence and lack of autonomy, the id and the eternal return, Woodrugh’s death plan, the American Dream and the child within, the puer aeternus, the new Eden, “new year, new you,” being locked in the past, having all your boxes ticked and fate sealed, getting to the core pain, acceptance of pain and maturation, autonomy through defeat, the beginnings of integrity, Ray’s broken pieces, Colin Farrell’s facial hair, why cops are less effective, the necessity of sacrifice, the false hope of leaving the underworld, Pizzolatto’s use of names and language, conspiracy culture and season 1, everybody becomes an investigator, the absence of interrogations in season 2, fair play in detective fiction, Mad Men a soap opera about social engineering, Don Draper’s Esalen epiphany and the spiritualization of advertising, Snow Crash and weaponized memes, The King in Yellow, the wages of the American Dream.
(This podcast is accompanied by an article, “The World Itself: Powerlessness, Fantasy, Transportation Systems & Lost Masculinity in True Detective 2.”PDF here. Audio reading below.)
Second part of in-dept exploration of True Detective season 2 with Heather Poirier, on the American Dream, ideology, and weaponized memes, the power of ideas, art as inoculation, The Counselor, a positive virus, connecting to internal wounds, art-as-science, the tropes of advertising, the ongoing work of inoculation, localizing the problem, the price of being an inoculator, the good news for Nic Pizzolatto, trying to solve algebraic problems using arithmetic, the many aspects of Nic Pizzolatto, the Pizzolatto transmission, history and progeny, the struggle of writing, an infinite regression point, liminalism and deconstruction, fatal flaws, sex in True Detective, Pizzolatto’s life changes, gaining access to the Hollywood underworld, Vinci as metaphor for the entertainment industry, the secret occult history of US transportation, the circulatory system for money, Earth biosphere, weaponized meme carriers, the pattern of bruises on Lera Lynn’s arms, the Greek chorus, the main theme of True Detective, the secret that protects itself, Jasun’s dis-enmeshing from the mother’s psyche and becoming a husband, the lost object, Frank’s last walk, the loss of male authority & female generative power, dead mothers, relating to shadows, the difference between male and female mother-bondage, Antigone’s mother, Woodrugh’s mother, emotional incest, the male child as husband surrogate, the weight of history, Medea’s children, Orpheus and Eurydice, rescuing the female principle, the paternal intervention, what does it mean to be a father, Tony Chessani, Ray’s intervention for Chad, the rape of Persephone, Ray-as-Orpheus, Nails as father figure, reparenting, the Virgin Mary and Santa Muerte, the thread running through season 1 & 2, Lloyd de Mause, psycho-history & child development, analyzing credit sequence images, the controlling intelligence behind True Detective, “White Water 1999,” an archetypally selected detective.
Audio reading of “The World Itself” (38 mins) Download mp3
Songs: “PTSD Blues,” by Ex Luna; “Beat The Devil’s Tattoo (Live)” by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club; “Palida Luna” by Lidya Mendoza; “My Least Favorite Life,” by Lera Lynn; “Kill!” by The Raveonettes; “Bad Vibrations,” by The Black Angels; “The Rose,” by Conway Twitty. On audio reading: “Lately” by Lera Lynn; “The Angry River” by The Hat ft. Father John Misty & S.I. Istwa; “Descent into the Inferno,” by Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel.
Outtakes: Lethem on Dissident Gardens and maternal lineage (15 mins) Download
First of two conversations with author Jonathan Lethem, on meeting Lethem, Lethem “almost feeling stalked,” the transmigration of psyches, encountering Philip K. Dick, being colonized, reader-author intimacy, the genesis of Seen & Not Seen, the message in Chronic City‘s bottle, reading as co-creation, mining the author’s unconscious, resonating interpretative fields, the price of interpretation mania, an invitation thousands are ready to decline, Moby Dick and the bottomless pit of unreading, the quest for validation, accepting marginalization, the contact that counts, the imaginary chasm between margin and mainstream, Lethem unprepared for being overrated, the obnoxious pantheon, the Tunes, the pursuit of voices, something about the signal, VALIS in the kibble, an ambivalent relationship to culture, enmeshment in commerce, being a culture maker, the spider and the fly, prison guards as well as prisoners, Jasun’s no. 1 fan, David Byrne and the enmity of the fan, the responsibility of the writer, Lethem’s early cult fan-base, what’s wrong with Jonathan Lethem, two views of freedom, living outside of ideology, getting to the real, where culture and nature meet, filling the void, exalted dead objects and negotiating fulcrums, Seen & Not Seen as a moving marker on a journey, accommodating trauma, trauma puppets, writing as self-confrontation, the long goodbye, Steve Carlton’s too-late hello, the Mets as capitalist bribe, social engineering, temporary autonomous zones, purity and impurity, matching affinities, Marvel comics and the upside of enchantment, interpretive fusion in comic reading, an inconsequential gap of nothingness, the action of the reader, the ungodly resources of the creative spirit, gaps in consciousness, breathing stories into dead space.
Follow-up conversation with Motherless Brooklyn author Jonathan Lethem, on the novel-in-progress, working in the horror genre, late-Cronenberg parallels, Chronic City, personal fantasy informing fiction, Lethem’s characters as nonviable personas, deflationary fiction, crumbling castles, useless super-powers, & ineffective postures, the P.K. Dick vault, occult symbolism in Chronic City, the ephemerality of identity, Lethem’s resistance to coherent spirituality, allegories and the air of meaning, Henry James’ golden bowl, Ubik, Dr. Seuss, invitation to a mirror, Kafka-as-secular-spiritual writer, staying on the threshold, liminality in children’s fiction, cults, reality creation, & fiction writing, parallels between spiritual teachers and authors, the Norman Mailer problem, a voice hologram of self, Lethem’s changing literary identities, two minds on either end of the reading experience, a dangerous tightrope, the Wizard of Oz & Santa Claus as homeopathic antidote to Christianity, dreaming worlds, mirror neurons & varying levels of immersion, the essay-film, the investigations of voice, Valis and the line between fiction & nonfiction, Lethem & Horsley divergent traumas & strategies, Lethem’s reverse amnesia, living a detective story, different stations, the nonfictional element in Lethem’s fiction, Motherless Brooklyn, the thinking mind inside the fiction, Lethem characters drowning in critical apparatus, As She Climbed Across the Table, The Disappointment Artist & the loss of the mother, a dance with an absent partner, Lack the sentient void, rival images of loss in Chronic City, an embodiment of emptiness, Lethem’s flirtation with Zen Buddhism, the gain of loss, dervish operations, a permanent autonomous zone, when the therapy is over, debunking the guru.
Part one of a two-part conversation with autistic author Temple Grandin, with introduction by Jasun on penetrating the membrane of the mainstream; on the auticulture audience, taking socialization, refusing handshakes, rejecting the social contract, kids today, learning basic skills, small talk among humans, early intervention, Temple & Mr. Spock, the difference between facts and morality, removing the hands-on classes from schools, autism politics, ABA treatment, the Judge Rotterberg Center, Christian Smith and jump-starting language, the ableist view, giving back to the community, Grandin’s anxious years, going on antidepressants, combatting anxiety with hard work, the autistic aversion to lying, Silicon Valley & Neuro-Tribes, bottom-up thinking, socially-condoned lying, the body’s natural way of being, Grandin’s 4 classifications of social rules, the sins of the system, Grandin’s spirituality, the different kinds of thinking, the meaning of life according to Temple, Grandin’s imaginary friend, kite-flying in childhood, sensory sensitivity in autistics, the comparison between autistics and animals, sensory-based memory, Grandin’s visual thinking in action, the two streams of communication, reading body language, life after medication, becoming a celebrity, Hollywood awards ceremonies, two Lear jets does not buy happiness, working on the HBO movie, Claire Danes’ channeling abilities.
Part two of conversation with Temple Grandin, on the overlap artist and autist, speech delay in autism, Jasun’s bohemian background, encouraging artistic ability in children, video game addiction, limiting exposure to technology, learning computer programming, Temple’s emotional life, a preference for intellectual complexity, human psychodramas and US politics, social media and emotional amplification, moderating message boards, the disappearing art of debate, the need for civil discourse, mistaking emotions for facts, business gossip & science magazines, generational distrust in science, studying cattle behavior, teaching the scientific method in schools, Google scholar, Temple’s policing for method, using data bases for research, nurturing curiosity, Temple’s major in psychology, the psyche and the body, Temple’s unconscious, test-running equipment in the mind, Fukushima, advising on relationships, Temple’s interior oracle, mathematical mind and visual thinking, weighing the scales of justice, animal sensitivity and ESP, Donna Williams and facilitated communication, meeting Tito, portrayal of autistics as criminals, the danger of scapegoating, Temple’s early motivation, vegetarianism and slaughterhouses, changing standards in the meat industry, the liminality question, autism on the margins, Einstein and the opportunities for autistics to flourish.
First part of scintillating dialogue with the author Olga Bogdashina on autism as behaviors vs. autism as perceptual, Olga’s background, early diagnoses of schizophrenia, maintaining a neutral perspective, a dissertation on sensory perception, autism & language development, the problems of theory of mind, autism & spirituality, extra-consensual perception, reality construction, Intense World Syndrome, mini-columns in the autistic brain, reduced pruning process & sustained sensation, Huxley & the brain as reducing valve, Jasun’s night terrors and sensory overload, autistics’ aversion to nail-cutting, adapting to changing seasons, autistic super-senses, whose reality is real? the body as barometer, Chronic fatigue syndrome & suppressed perceptions as symptoms, emotions as physiological responses, how emotions create atmosphere, absorbing disowned feels, poison containers, long-term relationships and transference, autism and connectedness, the social construct of “people,” instinct and intelligence terminal points in evolution, intuition & merging, Donna Williams and autistic resonance, the body’s internal guidance system, emotional intelligence & IQ tests, intellectual engagement, sensory-based language, communicating with aliens, energetic intelligence and connecting, the many forms of language, an eye for detail and difficulty with generalization, quantum mechanics and entanglement, the Grinch and naming the indescribable, vast regions of signals, the language of the interiority of the body, character armor trapping poisons in the body, the pros and cons of socialization, the autism bridge.
Second part of conversation with author and autism researcher Olga Bogdashina, on autism as a paradigm change, telepathy and “telepathy,” forbidden subject matter, Donna Williams and shadow senses, confusing science and scientism, William Stillman and The God Connection, the need for neutrality, physical empathy, autistic connection to animals, the authentic self, the biological roots of the psyche, the two hemispheres of the brain relating to two distinct personalities, the dream life of the double, the unaccessed interiority of autism, scapegoating autistics, the murder of autistic children, the parent-child continuum, different cultural responses to schizophrenia, Asperger’s and autism, a spectrum of spectrums, first autism diagnosis (1925), Grunya Efimovna Sukhareva’s four psychopathies, a one-word oxymoron, the perceptual spectrum, a narrowing bandwidth for discussion, anti-extremist laws in UK, outlawing conspiracy theory, co-opting the language and closing down debate, the power of the victim, the instability of liminality, use of language, scapegoat mechanism, spreading delusion, a perceptual journey, optimistic pessimism, identity construction and movies, the features of the high-functioning autistic/Aspergerian personality, the perfect scapegoat, seen and not seen.
Podcast. Part Two: “The Pied Piper of Montreal.” Download (Duration 1:10:00 — 64 MB)
Parts one and two of a four-part epic exploration with author and survivor Ann Diamond.
Part one: Intro by Jasun, psychic engineering and amnesia, the danger of hypnosis, healing through talking and writing, the Whitley Strieber vortex, the MKUltra program, Ann’s background in Quebec, Nazis in Quebec, liberal politics, fascist governments, & military intelligence, Kenneth Hertz, Ewen Cameron and the McGill experiments, LSD brainwashing, secret files in the library, the local artist community’s involvement in MKUltra (Allan Moyle, Stephen Lack), the Air Force connection, Ann’s early memories of torture, Cameron’s downfall and the closing of MKUltra, satanic ritual abuse in underground military base, Ann’s account being published by McGill and winning prize, finding confirmation accounts from other survivors, the CKLN conference and testimonies of MKUltra survivors, Dr. Mengele at McGill in 1962, the perks of entering the MKUltra program, gifted children, Strieber’s disguised narrative, Communion and the engineering of Strieber as a lifetime actor, accelerating evolution through trauma, the engineering of a generation, destroying files, more survivor testimonies, encoded programming, Clinton commission investigates experiments in human radiation testing in 1994, Ann’s family under attack, nocturnal aural hallucinations and psychic driving, a black hole in the family history, meeting Leonard Cohen, Cohen’s powers of musical mesmerism, just one of those things?, showcasing the worst cases of mind control abuse, random encounters with Cohen, Cohen in the Allan Memorial Institute, Ann’s childhood out of body experience, entering Cohen’s circle, sparring in the kitchen, becoming real with Cohen.
Part Two: “The Pied Piper of Montreal.”
Ann on on-again, off-again love affair with Leonard Cohen, Cohen-worship on Hydra, the Nikos Ghika palace and the Cohen curse, Henry Miller’s The Colossus of Maroussi, Cohen’s Rothschild backing, adopting Ann as a stray waif, Cohen in Hampstead meeting Jacob Rothschild, Cohen the storyteller, the CIA & cultural warfare in Greece, Life magazine and Operation Mockingbird, Filed Commander Cohen’s strange revolutionary timing, writing “Chelsea Hotel” in Asmara, life at Bill’s Bar, Cohen’s strange affinity for Ronald Regan, Cohen’s extreme rightwing politics, “Reagan’s In, Lennon’s Out,” Cohen in Tel Aviv, supporting the bombing of the King David hotel, “kill or be killed,” speaking literally and being taken for a poet, Jimmy Savile and glamor magic, auto-absolution via veiled confession, psychological manipulation and the trauma mechanism, being backed by power, brazenly exploring the dark side, learning from Lord Byron, Cohen’s stand-up poetry act and the mirth response, MKUltra imagery in “Teachers,” gorillas in the room, the JFK assassination, Marita Lawrence, & the Cuba connection, MKUltra kids, human-engineered synchronicity, assigned to a generation, Cohen’s abiding interest in young people, The Ernie Game, the Pied Piper of Montreal, Arthur Lipsett and Ryan Larkin, the MKUltra train of fame and fortune, David Cronenberg and crimes of the future.
Part 4: “Negative Space” | Download (Duration: 1:02:25 — 57.1MB)
Third and forth parts of conversation with Ann Diamond on Leonard Cohen, MKUltra, cultural engineering.
Part Three: In part three we discuss Cohen’s possible participation in Donald Hebb LSD experiments at McGill in 1951, Cohen the soldier of fortune, instilling discipline into a generation, Cohen’s first career, Cohen in the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) during the Yom Kippur war, Cohen & Ariel Sharon, Cohen’s lullaby, masquerading as peacenik, how glamor magic works, Cohen’s Maoist critics, dazzling European audiences, Cohen as conservative representative to radical youth, 1970 timeline, calming the audience at Madison, Wisconsin, Cohen the pacifier, his anti-communism, Cohen timeline beginning with his Jewish elite family background, living in the Montreal red light district & hanging with the pimps and gangsters, the Jewish mafia, the McGill years, early writing, early income, transitioning from writer to singer, Life magazine 1960 Hydra photospread, John H. Hammond II background, juxtaposing Cohen’s career trajectory with Jasun’s, Cohen-charisma, Cohen’s autistic grace, trauma-created charisma, placing anomalous charm in the right context, Irving Layton’s backing, delivering Cohen an audience, National Film Board of Canada’s history of propaganda, promoting LSD, The Ernie Game, John H. Hammond again, FBI’s unwitting investigations of CIA operatives, Pump Up the Volume & Allan Moyle, The Rubber Gun, pedophiles at McGill, the Hounds of Montreal, Cohen as mentor to the young art crowd.
Part Four, “Negative Space”: Art as technology, discovering Cohen, Jasun’s story, disinheriting fortune, disappearing from the map, matching trauma and implicate order, worshiping artists, the items of identity, weaponized memes, uncovering the hidden narrative, Disney programming, Mickey Mouse-as-negative space, the exalted state, the limits of art, not trusting good feelings, self-expression vs. art, abusing the creative impulse, sociopaths and forgiveness addiction, ice that melts the heart, Cohen’s confessional, two separate careers, born into a crime syndicate, Cohen’s struggle, being an icon, changing perceptions of the entertainment industry, Open Secret, the conspiracy of culture, the populated margins, leaving the map, creating a safe space through dialogue, eloquence as a means to integration, pawns of culture, generation X & baby boomers, an astrological interlude, blaming previous generations, betrayed by Cohen, Leonard the lightbringer, Cohen’s fear/hatred of women, the last man standing, the legacy of a false narrative, reaching out to Cohen, resigned t Hell, a shot at redemption, Kelley Lynch, will Leonard be listening, back to the beginning.
The Illuminati poisoned well, the roots of MKUltra, Cohen’s beliefs, Sabbatai Zvi as Cohen’s historical twin, Nathan of Gaza, the Sabbatean sect and links to Weishaupt’s Illuminati, the missing Hydra winter of 1980, a holocaust of the gentiles, spreading ugly rumors about Ann Diamond, Irving Layton’s admission, Cohen’s Prozac period & the Allan Memorial psychiatrists, the energetic effects of Prozac.
Spontaneous dialogue with blogger and open-letter-writer Benett Freeman, on sending open letters, the question of choice, people’s openness to ideas, reliance on group identity, negative identity, joining groups, superficial and deep liminality, a return to philosophical principals, changing beliefs, changing identities, the premise of knowledge, acclarism, Jed McKenna’s spiritual autolysis, intellectual (language-based) knowing vs knowing without language, the English language’s many words for “good,” the writer’s dilemma and liminalism, the languified life, returning to a visceral, language-free state, the goal of escaping civilization, creating an enclave, a return to telepathy, the end of seeking, that which ruins everything (ego), a larger participation in existence, is this the afterlife?, Benett’s vision of a perfect life, enactments for embodiment, trauma and fragmentation, living metaphors, recognizing original trauma, the formation of the psyche and the defense mechanism of identity, amnesia and trauma, the role of a doula, Joseph Chilton Pearce’s babies in shock, a culture of denial.
Second part of conversation with Benett Freeman, on historical abuse in the UK, beyond the Dutroux affair, knowing thine enemy, Red Ice Radio and routing out psychopaths, the error of opposing the matrix, living inside a house of cards, how the system creates sociopaths, cultural engineering, what we know and don’t know about sociopaths, the social engineers’ philanthropic goal, ideological agendas, ambiguity and liminality, good and evil, the quest for wholeness, pre-tribal living (a return to), civilization as process, the shaman class and false ceremony masters, Stanford prison experiment, the missing link in social development/decline, trauma and language, animal goals, intuitive language of birds, removing language, the danger of restrictions, the accident of mass society, society as extension of nature, creating a world in his own image, consentient desire, overlooking the unconscious, a thousand failed intentional communities, the task of deconditioning, a total commitment to non-violence, the urgency of escape, peaceful parenting, motivations vs. intentions, the spiritual perspective, you & the universe, the energy of acceptance, the metaphor of marriage, letting the Tao guide us, beyond instinct.
Conversation with Ezra Sandzer-Bell, on art as technology, data-encrypted music, constraint & choice in composing, Leonard Cohen & Donald Hebb experiments, Ann Diamond’s evidence of Cohen’s changing states, exploring archetypal realms, MKULTRA and the creation of multiple personalities, art as Promethean fire, Ezra’s background, the illusion of a central self, a useful implant, the task of integration, using art to garner unearned feelings, Ewen Cameron & psychic driving, psychic infiltration, a life seeking validation, the whip of the critical voice, the superhero as dysfunction, hijacking the life force, the power of the fragment, creating charisma, what is disembodiment, the reality of the psyche, Cohen’s central deception, worship of the female body, missing the boat, how false ceremony masters reinforce the followers’ neuroses, surrendering to self-rejection, the two faces of Leonard Cohen, marketing the fragment/selling the whole, Cohen’s cosmology of sexuality, his treatment of women, worshiping women to destroy them, sublimated hatred, transferring brain states, music as masking, weaponized information, administering shocks, shadow content, astromusic, Masonic music codes, the Illuminati and the music industry, the vault of the adepts, 2nd matrix building, creating community, the shadow of ambition, the energy of being and the energy of doing, the soul and the measure of the value of the transmission.
First part of a return conversation with Random Dude, on Quakerism, radical beginnings, belief in human goodness vs. belief in human wickedness, was Jesus good?, taking down social icons, Plato & secret societies, the Jekyll & Hyde archetype, inverting “good” & “evil,” the power of taboo, a Lucifer ritual, the Christian shadow, the push to integrate everything, far right leaders, creative conflict, the liminal space of mental institutions, conflict between group & individual, MKULTRA & DARPA, Hermeticism, Jimmy Savile at Broadmore, the outing of Savile and possible agenda behind current UK revelations, the normalization of child abuse, the predator’s disguise, psychological warfare and epistemic disorientation, false polarization during liminality, the destabilization agenda, a nation triggered, 4th generation warfare, the sacred pinnacle of the individual, how transgenderism is stealing women’s voices, society as laboratory, the power block pendulum, the psychological and biological principals of social engineering, gender politics and ideological purges, the underlying mechanism of victimization, sovereignty, the paradox of taboo-breaking, good-living in a corrupt society, containing the world, getting back to kings, the Enlightenment, embodying the lawmaker, reason & the Id, the guardian’s control system, the goal of no-end, the fundamental split, John de Ruiter, symbiotic slavery, the royal cloak, sick reciprocity, truth at an ego level, the secret gizmo of transhumanism, purity & impurity, the drive for wholeness as a drive for annihilation, primordial drives to get back to the womb, recognizing the split, strengthening the soul-signal, the end of the quest.
Second part of conversation with Random Dude, on schools for the gifted, progressive schooling and natural education, the internet and audience cults, free-form psychic experimentation, harnessing the psyche, child sexuality, York University, counterculture-as-psyop, reservation schools, MKULTRA expendables, Kevin Annett, pending transhumanist atrocities, thought-policing, a cultural cut-off from memory, CIA & Moscow show trials, Orwell, Gene Sharp and soft persuasion, the removal of context, the psyche-soma wars, how technology creates its own agenda, Heidegger’s standing reserve, the hacker response, the social credit system in China, Stephen Kent on SRA, how Christians wind up as satanists, fighting witchcraft with witchcraft, rule-breaking systems, normalizing taboos and creating new ones, the myth of the old seers, control via emotions, emotional venting posing as argumentation, sentient fragments, occultism and psychology, tuning forks in infinity, the psychic as scapegoat, the example of LSD, cultural funneling, the allure of taboo, tobacco as taboo, psychism and technology, what gives hope and what reduces hope, what is happening with this podcast, the validation of participation, genuine humility, hanging out by the water cooler, the fundamental hope for embodiment.
First part of free-wheeling conversation with “Balloonman” Bill Morrison, on balloons and singing, free-association & pre-verbal expression, educational backgrounds, Bill’s early memories, in the sandbox & boxing ring, Victorian week at UK school, Bill living in Laurel Canyon, door-to-door salesman, vowing to be a comedian, improvisation & liminality, doing without an act, operating in survival mode as a comedian, stealing from sources to create material, guts instead of material, being a somebody & being a nobody, going out on the wire without a net, the endless challenge of spontaneity, Dave McGowan, Laurel Canyon, social engineering, weirdness in the canyon, defending the official story, how can we be fooled, Leonard Cohen as an example of cultural engineering, the many agendas of the CIA, something insidious in the air, who are the mind-controlled, Wild west government, sickness in family and government, Jasun’s family background & UK hidden history, Bill’s extended family, a teaching of self-involvement, a valley of intrigue, the world as it seems, living is a farm, infiltrated communities, an amalgamation of memories, the layers of identity, the final cover-up, the voice of the soul, doing cover versions, being freed up by the script (identity), the absurdity of the world, being a good person, Bill’s dark dreams.
Part two of conversation with Bill Morrison, on the dark life of Bill’s dreams, Freud on daytime dreaming, Freud’s fiction-writing, the angles of ourselves, the mathematical quotient of the universe, the supreme power of Is, the Great Beyond, Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” Bill’s Christianity of horseshit, Moses & Mohammed, update on Jasun’s search, why everything is metaphor, the literal devil, the war between light & darkness, the journey of zero distance, Buddha under the tree, letting go of self-reflective identity, facing non-existence, the absurdity of the quest, Bill on 9/11 & the CIA, humanity’s doom, creating a people’s Utopia, giving up hope, Bill on aging, losing short-term memory, the upside of aging, losing one’s juices, moving closer to death, a world without Bill, leaving it all behind, envisioning death, that which does not recognize death, what happens to identity, the natural age of enlightenment, letting go of the need for control, the not-value of control.
