Self Portraits As Other People

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I am joined by my dear friends & creative co-conspirators Sean & Cass of Very Ape Pod, the infinitely quotable documentary filmmakers responsible for fringe America classics such as American Juggalo, Florida Man, Oxyanna, Wild Magic, & many more.

We explore what their lifestyle brand, the Church of Chill, is all about & how it came to be. We talk world-building, lore-smithing, community-cultivating, wild-tended spirituality, health & sacraments, & about how grief can fertilize life’s soil so that we may live life more fully in honor of the dearly departed.

All this may sound heavy, but it’s ultimately in service of having a more “fun & funny time,” to better “ride the wild” “through the static and distance” so that your relationShip can continue its “smooth sailing.” But we’ll have to “settle for perfection,” I guess.

In the Aftermyth we delve deeper into the memefied maxims of the Church of Chill, Sean’s outlaw ancestry, formative familial influences & more!

AFTERMYTH (Patreon only, part 2)

🎶 Electronic music by Jeff Cravath, all other music by Ungoogleably Yours.

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When a hawk is found dead high in a tree, ensnared by a kite-string and dangling like the Hanged Man of the tarot, a newly ordained minister is confronted with big questions about the nature of the soul. An encounter with the hawk's widow reveals the bird to be both a powerful symbol and a once-living being. Struck by her grief — raw and unsentimental, unlike human mourning — he begins to ask what makes us, as humans, believe ourselves more worthy than other animals. And whether he might hold space, and offer humanity, to grant the animal’s spirit its own place in eternity.

All music by me, except the subtle electronic soundtrack underlying my moment of doubt, which features a sample by Jeff Cravath. Oh, and Fairy did some plucking on the Sansula and back-up crooning during that first, channeled snippet of Don’t Leave Him Hangin’.

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When we think of occult, shamanic, or mystical beings, we tend to think in terms of spiritual abstraction, dissociated from the material world. But the occult simply means the hidden — the invisible world, whose effects on our fortune and health are real, even when the origins of their symptoms can't be detected with the naked eye. Long before the microscope, our ancestors were in relationship with that world: through ritual, altered states, the superstitions they hold, and the stories they told. 

In this conversation, two poet-philosophers compare notes on how the imagination mediates between microbiological cultures and human culture — how the interface of myth, folklore, and story lend form to a realm that is invisible, but physical. 

From fermentation to mythic mentation, this invisible world is not merely psychic or material in nature—it is meta-real. 

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Evolutionary catch-up & pre-game for the upcoming episode, Microbial Occultism", w/ guest Fishing in Space.

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🎣 From Fishing in Space:

🧙 Featured audio: “Hauntings, Curses and Witchcraft”

🕸️ Recommended vids:

✨ The Entoptic Temple pt 1

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✨ Read Paisley Ontology: Towards a New Psychonautics ✍️

🎵 contibutions:

✨ "Our Cell/Fish Origins" segment — NewFoundFrog by Jeff Cravath

✨ “Myth” segments — “75snpspravato” by Sandro Bolkvadze

📕: "Microbes: an Invisible Universe" by Howard Gest

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Eric Wargo, author of “Time Loops” and “Precognitive Dreamwork & the Long Self,” returns to Self Portraits As Other People to talk about his new book “From Nowhere: Artists, Writers, and the Precognitive Imagination.” We navigate the nebulous c-word and the various facets of its counterpart The Unconscious, the role the body plays in precognitive phenomena, themes of archetypal inversion, the need to strip away the time travel tropes that keep us from clear exploration, the implications of time travel trauma, and more. For those unfamiliar with Wargo’s work I recommend first checking out his previous appearance in ep 16: The Preciousness of The Prescient Present, for an entry level to his ideas.

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YT 🎥 catching precogs in a teacup

SPAOP ep16: Eric Wargo - The Preciousness of The Prescient Present

Video of our conversation: www.patreon.com/voiddenizen

Eric Wargo's essay series: Becoming Timefaring (Part 1)

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“My guest is the house that hosts me and I am the ghost that haunts it.”

This bi-coastal episode is a meditation on the meaning of home as a locational vibration, from the nomadic vantage point of a perpetual “stranger passing through town.”

The 1st half examines the subconscious sonic textures through which places speak to us. I recorded this segment while going through a deep emotional process, in Los Angeles, shortly after finishing my intense anti-leishmanial medicine cycle, and before leaving for New York.

After a sonic interlude the 2nd half takes place in the insomniac city, where I quantum leap from sublet to sublet, and these temporary home-bodies I borrow from strangers—spaces “literally haunted by the absence of their presence”—become Self Portraits As Other People.

In addition to my own compositions the episode features original musical contributions by Jeff Cravath and Brian Aspell.

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In this improvised walk-and-talk monoloque I reflect on (and atone for) the time I met Werner Herzog at the premiere of lan Cheney’s documentary film “Arc of Oblivion.”

I use this anecdote as a jump off point to share thoughts about documentation, impersonation, Spiritualism as Proto-feminism, my time working as a photo double for the Riggs character in the Lethal Weapon TV show, the relative duration of objective vs subjective time, the parasocial reality of meeting celebrities, and the redemptive arc of self-esteem-punking oneself in order to give in to the humbling & the bumbling.

Ft. music by @bohemiancristalinstrument, Live 🎶 excerpt from FORM from their upcoming debut album

EntheoDjinn at the Alembic, 3.3.2024, ticket link and event description: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/entheodjinn-an-evening-with-the-ungoogleable-michaelangelo-tickets-836973619627?aff=oddtdtcreator

The Philosophical Research Society: https://www.prs.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baschet_Brothers

Thanks to Lenka for her PRS performance, and for letting me use the sound sample. Check out her @Bohemiancristalinstrument here: https://www.bohemiancristalinstrument.com/

The Best Werner Herzog Impression In The World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiUjYlYjYBI

Arc of Oblivion, Q&A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFI5bL8yQnQ

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xl61of

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In this improvised walk-and-talk monoloque I reflect on (and atone for) the time I met Werner Herzog at the premiere of lan Cheney’s documentary film “Arc of Oblivion.”

I use this anecdote as a jump off point to share thoughts about documentation, impersonation, Spiritualism as Proto-feminism, my time working as a photo double for the Riggs character in the Lethal Weapon TV show, the relative duration of objective vs subjective time, the parasocial reality of meeting celebrities, and the redemptive arc of self-esteem-punking oneself in order to give in to the humbling & the bumbling.

Ft. Live 🎶 sample by @bohemiancristalinstrument

EntheoDjinn at the Alembic, 3.3.2024, ticket link and event description: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/entheodjinn-an-evening-with-the-ungoogleable-michaelangelo-tickets-836973619627?aff=oddtdtcreator

The Philosophical Research Society: https://www.prs.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baschet_Brothers

Thanks to Lenka for her PRS performance, and for letting me use the sound sample. Check out her Bohemian Cristal Instrument here: https://www.bohemiancristalinstrument.com/

The Best Werner Herzog Impression In The World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiUjYlYjYBI

Arc of Oblivion, Q&A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFI5bL8yQnQ

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xl61of

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(Headphones recommended for optimal immersion in and enjoyment of the show's intro and outro )

Jesse Jacobs is an imaginative comic book writer and illustrator from Canada. His books include Crawl Space, Safari Honeymoon, By This Shall You Know Him, and New Pets. His compelling, cartoon worlds and their inhabitants call to mind the pataphysical taxonomies of works like the Codex Seraphinianus, Hieronymous Bosch, Hayao Myazaki, and Adventure Time.

His work often contains ecological elements that deal with characters moving through and adapting to places that are alive, and the mysterious forces (big and small) that lord over them.

We explore the trippy tropes of place-as-character, nature’s boundless beauty and dangers, and the sometimes-necessity of boarding-up-a-portal.

Comparing notes on the creative process, psychedelic influences, and sharing recommendations of books, music, and films, we revel in a mutual admiration of each other’s work.

I created audio play adaptations of scenes from his books Crawl Space and Safari Honeymoon for the intro and outro of the episode, musically assisted by Bear Glass and the voice talents of Taylor Stillwell and Kat Lakey. You'll soon be able to find these, as well as extended shownotes, on my IG, TikTok, YouTube, and Patreon (linked below) so follow along!

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