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Phenomenoumena episodes

  • Dario Argento's Suspiria Decoded

    In this episode, we turn our eyes (and ears) to Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977) and present a number of groundbreaking interpretations that show a few levels of hidden depth to Argento's amazing film. People cited include, in alphabetical order, Edward Bernays, Bruno Bettelheim, Jacques Ellul, Sigmund Freud, Fulcanelli, Brothers Grimm, Carl Jung, Satoshi Kon, Otto Rank, José Saramago, Shakespeare, Denis Villeneuve, Ken Wilber, and Slavoj Zizek. Please visit our Twitter account @phenomenoumena to see some of the images discussed on the podcast.

    39 min
  • Special Guest - Ken Shamrock (sort of...) - Counterintuitives Part 1

    In this first of a two-part episode, we launch from a brief conversation with UFC, PRIDE and overall MMA legend Ken Shamrock into a deep exposition of counterintuitive ideas in fields ranging from the martial arts to mathematics. People discussed include, in random order, Daniel Kahneman, Wittgenstein, Brian Eno, Ken Shamrock, Royce Gracie, Rickson Gracie, Nobuhiko Takada, Ouspensky, Kathryn Schulz, Plato, and Socrates.

    1 hr
  • Special guest - Coby Michael - A poisonous, magical path through plant psychedelics

    In this episode, we have a fascinating conversation with our special guest Coby Michael on his book The Poison Path Herbal: Baneful Herbs, Medicinal Nightshades, and Ritual Entheogens. Coby Michael is a practitioner of the Poison Path of occult herbalism and a cultivator of entheogenic herbs. He contributes to the Pagan Archives at Valdosta University, writes regularly for The House of Twigs, and maintains a blog, Poisoner's Apothecary, on Patheos Pagan.

    52 min
  • Diving Into Satoshi Kon's Paprika - What is the ecstasy that blooms in synapses? (fixed)

    Sorry about the reverb issue! It's been fixed. In this episode, we analyze the 2006 film Paprika, one of Satoshi Kon's animated film masterpieces. Paprika was a main influence on Christopher Nolan's Inception, and here we look at Kon's film at great analytical depth. Artists and thinkers discussed include Dario Argento, Baudrillard, Freud, Habermas, Jung, Akira Kurosawa, John C Lilly, David Lynch, Nagarjuna, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Wlber, and Zizek.

    1 hr 15 min
  • Diving Into Satoshi Kon's Paprika - What is the ecstasy that blooms in synapses?

    In this episode, we analyze the 2006 film Paprika, one of Satoshi Kon's animated film masterpieces. Paprika was a main influence on Christopher Nolan's Inception, and here we look at Kon's film at great analytical depth. Artists and thinkers discussed include Dario Argento, Baudrillard, Freud, Habermas, Jung, Akira Kurosawa, John C Lilly, David Lynch, Nagarjuna, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Wlber, and Zizek.

    1 hr 15 min
  • Decoding The Thirteenth Floor (1999) and Nick Bostrom's Simulation Theory

    This episode is a mindblowing mash-up of film analysis and philosophy as we discuss the 1999 film The Thirteenth Floor in connection with Nick Bostrom’s simulation theory. Other thinkers cited include, in alphabetical order, Baudrillard, Descartes, Philip K. Dick, Dostoyevsky, Gurdjieff, Kierkegaard, Lacan, Jaron Lanier, Leibniz, Ouspensky, Wilber, Zizek.

    1 hr 57 min
  • Becoming the Superman (Part 3 of 3)

    This episode concludes our truly in-depth look at man and superman. People referenced during the episode include Nietzsche, Ken Wilber, Ouspensky, Gurdjieff, Jung, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Laibach, Freud, and Nagarjuna.


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    1 hr 38 min
  • Becoming the Superman (Part 2 of 3)

    This episode is the second act of our truly in-depth look at man and superman. Thinkers referenced during the episode include Ouspensky, Gurdjieff, Nietzsche, Freud, Krishnamurti, Alan Watts and Ken Wilber.

    1 hr 14 min
  • Becoming the Superman (Part 1)

    This episode marks the start of a truly in-depth look at man and superman. Thinkers referenced during the episode include Ouspensky, Gurdjieff, Nietzsche, Freud, Schiller, Alan Watts and Ken Wilber. 

    52 min

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Thoughtful discussions of topics ranging from music and film to Eastern/Western philosophy, ecology, economics, physics, psychology, etc. to find a greater context for bringing forth a world with…