This episode is an exploration of song (aka "space-craft") as a tool with which to navigate landscapes and mindscapes, and as a means through which to gain entranced entrance into the mystic/mythic dimensions of the psyche. Travis is a true troubador, and together we explore the world of songcrafting, lyricism, the realms of fae, and the graceful race of ugly goblins that dance around in his mind.

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Links to songs mentioned in this episode:

1. Get to know Travis & his tunes thru this YouTube playlist of 1-take takeaway shows I shot of my favorite Travis tunes, including "Witty World", "Gold Dust", & "Silence The Song" in its unbroken entirety.

Literary references mentioned in this episode:

• The Spell of the Sensuous - David Abram

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I present you with a bonus feature to celebrate the launch of my brand new Patreon page and to tide you over while I finish up Episode 4 (coming sooooon). This little storytime transmission is only about twenty minutes long for a change! And though there's no guest, it is a self portrait as another person, because it's not my neutral voice narrating here, but an "altered ego", whose babble sounds like "the ranted banter you might overhear at a mixer of tricksters". His telling touches onto some of the recurring themes of the show--the limits of language, the fringes of reality, psychedelics, shamanism, literature as a metaphor for immortality, death and resurrection, etc-- as well as foreshadowing some of themes we'll discuss on the next episode, which will be titled "Current Channels and Rivers of Song".

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Desperation. Isolation. Desolation. Autonomy. Individuation. Imagination. These are some of the themes we cover in our conversation as we wade through both shadow and sunshine, casting our shades upon the Source and shielding our brow in salute of saucer and Self! Craig Deininger is a desert dwelling poet, a scholar of depth psychology and comparative mythology, a teacher, and a long time Transcendental Meditator. Join us as we talk the walk up to the precipice, beyond which you can only venture if you let your language off the leash and watch the words behave in wild and wily ways.

Notes & links

1. Bjork - The Gate (one of the greatest music videos ever)

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In this diffi-cultish episode we navigate the orchard of twisted beauty in which a shade-grown tree named Trius grew up, contorting his way into the light to produce the strange fruit we call art. Trius is a painter who was born into the infamous Moonie cult, and who has spent a great deal of his life trying to rid himself from the stains left by their indoctrinated worldview. We explore how the traumatic distortions of this origin story continue to play out in his psyche, and the role that art plays in the reclamation of freedom and mind. Also, he recently escaped from a Czech hospital that may or may not have been run by the mafia.

I have prepared a page full of shownotes and related artworks by Trius that you can dive into here: https://medium.com/@voiddenizen/self-portraits-as-other-people-ep-2-198a3c911a36

Learn more about Trius' art at www.triusart.blogspot.com

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After a lifetime of chronicling her dreams and establishing connections with recurring characters who provide guidance and appear to correspond to different parts of her autonomic nervous system, Loga was diagnosed with a rare pineal tumor. But, in light of the supernatural allure that surrounds its emergence, should we consider it a tumor, or a "spiritual growth"?

I have prepared a page full of shownotes and related artworks by Loga and myself that you can dive into here: https://medium.com/@voiddenizen/self-portraits-as-other-people-ep-1-7d61ca6df230

Learn more about Loga's art at www.hotherym.net or on IG: @eorhythm

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For writings, art, films, music, and shop visit: www.voidandimagination.com

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