Return conversation with Gib Strange on increased liminality, identity politics, and the unintentional embodiment of the trickster.

Part One: The Unsmooth Criminal (0 – 27 mins)

Seeing The Joker, the aesthetic layer, Joaquin Phoenix’s performance, a scientifically designed movie, a hybrid movie, a split in the character, a low bar of expectation, Batman’s sociopathic parents, Tell Me Who I Am, kill the rich, a poke in the eye to woke culture, an accidental hero-leader of the revolution, deciphering the ideological slant, a wrench in the system, the spirit of anarchy, Joker-psyop, police at the premiere, Crispin Glover on Letterman, the smooth criminal.

Part Two: The Futility of Rhetorical Revolt (27 mins – 59 mins)

Mimesis & copycat killings, Bernard Goetz killings & The Joker, the Hinckley, Jr., Taxi Driver, revolution & transgression, Bataille, shooting into crowd, avant-garde violence, proactive nihilism, defying social reality, the Zodiac killings, baiting the press, mass shooters, Kaczynski’s manifesto, Woody Allen’s cover, rationalizations for terrorism, peaceful protest as a ruse of social engineering, the extinction rebellion, the Weather Underground, the Unabomber, environmentalist Bond villains, rhetorical revolt, the Occupy movement, undirected rage, activist frustration, bad government and bad parenting, false politicization, the wrong facts, the failure of participatory democracy, democracy of the internet, the shadow of populism, Trump’s platform, Brexit, the demon Trump, the trickster, the leaders we deserve.

Part Three: The Deep Human State (59 mins – 1 hr 23 mins)

The power of narratives to transport us, the shadow dyad, the desire for the Batman, the unofficial arm of justice of the deep state, antifa in Portland, Joker as revolutionary force, Fassbender on capitalism & terrorism, the deep human state, taboo & body mutilation, virtue signaling, the splintering of LGBT, Temple of Satan, freedom of expression & taboo-breaking, internal tensions, the basic trauma, the Black Dahlia & the Chelsea grin, Tell Me Who I Am, Joker’s trauma & body dysphoria, gay marriage, taboo & progressiveness, accelerated progression, embodying the liminality, entering the uncanny valley,

Part Four: Navigating Chaos (1 hr 23 mins - end)

Rites of passage, establishing of identity, circumcision, the unified Jewish identity, born into the global village, identifying with marginal culture, connecting to the eternal, socially accepted forms of rebellion, seeking a sense of continuity, the Burning Man ethic, the opposite of primitive, the bride of Christ, collective humanity, scientism & physicality, a hyper-object, the internet of things, every grain of sand, a virtual infinity, a time of chaos, a tolerance threshold for chaos, Phil Snyder's GAP, heroes, psychos, & clowns.

Outtakes: Taxi Driver, King of Comedy, & What It Takes to Enter the Big Time

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Gib's latest episode of Notes from Uncanny Valley

Songs: "Pirates" by Entertainment for the Braindead; "Devil Overcoat" & "Change...

Conversation with Carl Raschke on negative identity formation via cultural aesthetics.

Part One: From New Age to Satanism (0 – 25 mins)

Jasun’s emerging from occultism, from movies to paranoia, the hidden side of culture, pushback against Painted Black, mapping the countercultural spirituality, from the New Age to Satanism, police sources, researching Painted Black, no middle ground, propaganda mills on the left, the Wiccan community, the Omega Foundation, book sales.

Part Two: The Pearl in the Oyster (25 – 50 mins)

A scholar of postmodernism, a contemporary Bataille, moral panic, satanic ritual abuse, warring PR campaigns, The Witch-Hunt Narrative, getting quoted, becoming an authority, buying off academics, the occult underground & organized crime, off-the-books government, satanism as negative protest, the Satanic Temple, SJW-Satanists, the trope of Satan, the Illuminati, Richard Ramirez, negative identity, from Wicca to Neo-Nazism, black occultism & fascism, self-worship, recalibrated postmodernism and toxic identity politics, a reverse patriarchy, Crowley & Gardner, peekaboo & plausible deniability, Hail Satan, the hidden side of the Satanic Temple,  Zeena LaVey, satanism as drug, media-incompetence

Part Three: A Downward Spiral (50 mins – end)

Immersed in occultism, the allure of transgression, negative identity, Crowley’s traumatic imprint, Nietzsche, threshold drugs, addictive personalities & magical thinking, cultural narcissism, no typology for satanism, a downward spiral, the trajectory of cocaine consumption & satanism, Escobar & the CIA, satanic culture, school shootings, from sensationalizing to ignoring, symbolic furniture, the Cathars, Gnosticism & Satanism, phonies rush in where academics fear to thread, ideology & aesthetics, identity formation via cultural aesthetic, public deception and self-deception, candidacy for Satanism, neoliberalism & identity politics (Carl’s next book), how Carl came to Christianity.

Carl's site.

Songs: "Gotta Cheer Up (Live @ KEXP)" by Cotton Jones; "Dancing in the Dark" by Buck Curran; "Day Three" by Kristin Hersh.

Conversation with Matthew Alford on the pathological drives and dark rituals of the political & cultural elite

Part One:  Looking into the Abyss (0 – 36 mins) 

Getting banned from the US, a run-in with Homeland Security, Henry Kissinger’s travel restrictions, the rules for Lear jets, flight-shaming, extinction rebellion, climate change & the Pentagon’s carbon emissions, demilitarizing the planet, Cowspiracy, malign social appendages, rational solutions, the sociopolitical, psychological, & biological, government responsibility to be rational, the ruling class pathology, Jasun’s family background, food and geopolitics, British aristocracy & bloodlines, Jimmy Savile, the evil men do, Savile’s early years, the club scene in Leeds, Mass Observation, UK dance halls and wartime propaganda, looking into the abyss, Aleister Crowley’s path of transgression, Ayn Rand’s lonely death, the will to power, Kirk Douglas & the rape of Natalie Wood, Rand & Crowley’s affinity for evil.

Part Two: The Law of the Jungle-Lords (36 mins to end)

Kirk Douglas & the good life, lovely Keanu, evil & unhappiness, evil & success, Hollywood initiations, ascending the levels organized crimes, agents of propaganda, the power of narratives, the uber-elite and occultism, magic & belief, NLP & magical thinking, OCD behavior, touching wood, satanic ritual & anomalous behavior, wartime trauma, the nature of evil, cryptocracy’s rituals of brutalization, Jeff Bezos’ fried iguana, Silicon Valley blood-boys, Richard Dawkins cannibalism, breaking taboos, the law of the jungle-lords, using taboo in comedy, offensive humor vs. subversive humor.

Matthew's Facebook Page for The Writer with No Hands

Songs: "Applegate" by Little Teeth; "Bad Moon Rising" and "Rake" by Buck Curran.

Return conversation with Martin Jolly, on the mind, body, life force, and libido and bringing all the levels into healing alignment.

Part One: Continuity of Being (0 – 27 mins)

Fixed idea of enlightenment, talking to and about the ancestors, ancestral approval, conceptual vs. experiential, energy bodies, energy healing, unrooted experiences of energy, Dave’s checking method, a fluid correspondence, squid-prodding, stimming the false identity, spiritual complacency, hitting a nail, false identity’s experience, discontinuity of the mind, an absence of friction, listening in to bodies, Dave’s emptiness, an opportunity to let go.

Part Two: A Snake Chasing its Tail (27 – 55 mins)

An experience on a park bench, when thoughts go retrograde, problems in the body, sitting with a straight back, the pain-components of personality, how can I heal, lining up the bodies, a bit of Armageddon, becoming whole, internal pain management, the meaning of minding, shifting contexts, an unhidden language, there is no mind, the problem of rubbish, Dave’s babbling, writing a book about Dave, the false identity & toxic thoughts, the need for intellect, upcycling the mind, the sense of identification, inner noise.

Part Three: Letting the Life Force Lead (55 mins – 1 hr 11 mins)

The libido and the will to live, a body of feeling, the despair of the ego, childhood trauma, in the dead of night, sex & marriage, a triggered libido, addressing the situation, serving up a facial, recalibration of the libido, the Viagra industry, the opportunity of powerlessness letting the life force lead.

Part Four: (1 hr 11 mins – to end)

Firing a gun, hatred for guns vs. love for Clint Eastwood, Clint's hair, Seen & Not Seen, a visceral lesson, sex & guns, the reality of sex, fantasies of polymorphous perversity, an ancestral influence, the sexual spectrum, birth trauma, laughing births, the function of the blog & podcast, what are people seeking, filling the void, new forms of engagement, the thirst for experience, what babies have, a feeling of incompleteness, a split in the body, post-retreat momentum, finding a purpose, beyond self-respect.

Songs: “Crooked” by Kristin Hersh; "Beirut," "Seadrift," and "Redbird" by Arborea; "Say What You Will" by Hazelwood Motel.