Exploring connections in high strangeness, fringe culture and the occult
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Sunday Mar 31, 2024
Sunday Mar 31, 2024
A brief missive from the upturned tortoise shell wherein a soup of syncs bubbles over. Audiobook vortices, the on-high writer writing the writer, and more reckless cosmic speculation.
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Saturday Mar 23, 2024
Saturday Mar 23, 2024
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In this third part of our Saucers of Despair series we delve further into Gnostic and Mithraic mysteries, the magic of boundary deities and markers, and identify the pilots behind the wheels of those Saucers— the Dark Gods themselves! Plus some film discussions: A Dark Song, The Caller, Alison’s Birthday, and a bit of the new Hellraiser...
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Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
In this interview with artist and recent Orgonon resident Sarah Chait, we discuss the life, work, and legacy of the great Wilhelm Reich, from his early involvement with Freud and leftist organizations in Europe to his landing in rural Maine and later prison time. Contemporary Reichian therapeutic practices, cloudbusting, orgone boxes, the tranquil surreality of summer at Orgonon, Reich's unique relationship to American art and culture, and more!
Plus: bonus Patreon discussion with Ben and David on recent synchronicities, the new Consensus Unreality print publication, and more!
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Outro Music by Aaron Dilloway
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Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Testing connections along the fairy and astral-Theosophical to UFO pipeline... Yep, still fully operational. NJ’s own W. Y. Evans-Wentz and his fairy faith research, The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, C W. Leadbeater’s astral scenery and non-human inhabitants, plus recent ufologick happenings and how they might be 21st century communications from elementals, ascended masters, or the ineffable unknown. As always, another head-spinner so we dove tailed the back-end with some TV talk.
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Sunday Jan 21, 2024
Sunday Jan 21, 2024
Unseen resonances, John Keel's early work, nefarious tendencies in the UFO subculture, and more in this conversation. Susan Lepselter's poetic-ethnographic book and John Keel's classics Jadoo and Operation Trojan Horse are consulted. Hermes fashions his lyre from a turtle. What's that mean for our turtle synchs? We discuss our newest exquisite corpse experiment and perform a new randonaut generation for the first time in a few years.
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Thursday Jan 11, 2024
Thursday Jan 11, 2024
In a classic wide-ranging CU discussion, we cover Kenneth Grant's bizarre ufological synthesis in his book "Outer Gateways", new MK Jessup weirdness, Jung's dense concept of the "psychoid" and how it relates to ufological events and the victims of artifact. We also talk on the trickster as applied to UFOs, "Operation Trojan Horse" the foundational survey of UFO related phenomena by John Keel, the doppelganger experiences, and the revival of our own brand of synchro-magic. First half is free, but sign up for our Patreon to catch the full episode, regular exclusive episodes, written content, discord server and more!
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Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
In this in depth conversation with artist and researcher Carmelo Pampillonio we talked conspiracy culture and the allure and line of synchronistic and paranoid thinking in the artistic process and otherwise. We spoke in length about the nature of banned content concerning conspiracies and how that informed Carmelo's recent project "Apophenic Realism". We also dove into all mess of subjects like chemtrails, artificial intelligence, language concerning the UFO question and the elusive Gateway Process Dossier. We hope you enjoy this tumble and have a great couple Holidays here, whichever you celebrate.
We have included some snippets of audio, book-ending the podcast, from Carmelo's recent project "Apophenic Realism"
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Monday Dec 11, 2023
Monday Dec 11, 2023
In this episode, we interview writer, musician, psycho-geographer, and English Heretic Andy Sharp. We discuss his two books, the immediate classic The English Heretic Collection and the recent mystic travelogue The Astral Geographic, diving into subjects and figures as wide ranging as Kenneth Grant, place-based ritual, Winston Churchill's druidry, Dion Fortune, folk horror, the trickster, film's feedback relationship with reality, and tons more.
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Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
A long, thoughtful saunter through some new and some familiar terrains. We dive headfirst into D. W. Pasulka's new book Encounters, with its of-the-moment diagnosis of the UFO culture, its odd Rosicrucian connections, new angles on the same old flying discs, and vaguely apocalyptic tone. AI, angelic visions, Jacques Vallee's library, squaring the circle, and more. Plus: Macer-Story's rare classic Congratulations: The UFO Reality; a look at the blending of occult fiction into occult "reality" through an excellent scholarly essay on the subject (linked below); a brief glance at the peculiar Rosicrucianism of Pensatia; synchronicities and dreams aplenty. A really fun, vital episode.
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Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
In this interview with photographer and Spiritualism archivist Shannon Taggart, we discuss her incredible book, SÉANCE and the long, buried history of America's innovative Spiritualist tradition. Topics covered include the intertwined histories of photography and Spiritualism, the Burned-Over District of New York, the connection between the explosion of American New Religions and the creation of the Erie canal, the power of synchronicity, photographing Loch Ness, hoaxing and fraud as invocation practices, an exploding cabinet, and much more.
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