Consensus Unreality

The first in our new "Phasing" series of short audio and video. Alongside our weekly full length episodes we'll provide our shorts revisiting subjects often mentioned on the show. First up: Gray Barker's important novelistic report on the Mothman happenings of 1967, The Silver Bridge,  and why it shows how much weirder that folklore is than we give it credit for today. Your Mothman plushie might be a thoughtform...  or a big, oily bird. 

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The moon is in the news again! In this episode, however, we talk two stories by Izumi Suzuki, one by Arkady Strugatski, and meditate on the unfurling world around us. Plus we briefly revisit The Book of the Law and some thoughts on Crowley and his legacy as his name makes yet another cycle of rounds in the occultural sphere. Terminal boredom, the difference between life and cybernetic construct, living in someone else’s dream, and more. The voice of the void is speaking to you from the dark reaches of space. 

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In this episode we touch on recent sci fi reads: "The Electric Ant" by Philip K. Dick, "The Man Who Would Not" by James E. Gunn and "You May Dream" Izumi Suzuki. We explore some diverse themes including sentient AI, reality refraction, simulacra and first contact. We also chat on the poetry of Kenneth Grant, and speculate on many avenues of weirdness. A classic patreon ramble. 

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Watch what you say in the forest, you don't know what you're feeding. In this conversation on Bogna Konior's book The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet, we talk about living in an age of strategic secrecy, ufological allegory, and hidden AI game theory mind control. Does this experiment in extreme nihilism reflect our current moment? Listen to find out. 

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In this interview with returning guest, artist and writer Shannon Taggart, we discuss her recent article and continued work on SORRAT, one of the most misunderstood and fascinating groups in parapsychological history. From their founder John Neihardt’s important Black Elk Speaks and Cycle of the West, through the tragedy which inspired the founding of SORRAT and the inner workings and later works of the group, we dive deep into this strange history. We also chat at length on Shannon’s thoughts on photography’s artistic legacy in the modern era, its inherent paranormality, her work at Lily Dale, and the photographic manifestations of Ted Serios. A lengthy and wide ranging conversation with one of the best in the biz! 

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Dave and Ben are stuck in a time loop... this episode presents the 500,000th precise replica of a conversation on Philip K. Dick's "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts," time weirdness and existential novelty, eternal returns, seances from the future, the inevitable return of IPAs, and more. We revisit the strange future incursions in The Dodleston Messages and compare similar interference channeled through the Scole Experiments.

Steven Intermill, curator and director of the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft, joins us for a wide ranging conversation on Ray Buckland, Michael Bertiaux, Nema, American occultism, occult book and object collecting, his work in noise project Telecult Powers, leg lamps, and more. Make sure to check out the astounding Buckland Museum next time you’re in Cleveland, or visit them online at ⁠https://bucklandmuseum.org⁠

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A brief summary of our latest Journal of Shells: cybernetics and automata, spirit and machine. There’s still time to join our Print Club on Patreon! 

 

Plus, on Patreon: The space age’s corpse treated as a saint in Ballard’s Dead Astronaut; another diagnosis of the paranoid American in recent film Bugonia; syncs and thoughts galore. 

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In this continuation of our discussions on artificial unrealities, we visit William Gibson's cyberspace. We talk Neuromancer, its influence and prophecies, and the feedback loops fiction and reality create when they meet in the human mind. 

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With some help from Philip K. Dick’s classic novel Ubik and cult favorite anime Serial Experiments Lain, we discuss the intellectual genealogy and current situation of our slipping reality. AI psychosis, corporate rulers, gods from the machines, and more..

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