Conversation with James Corbett that makes the most of James’ vast and erudite knowledge on deep global politics, collective brainwashing, long-term social engineering, the technocracy movement, and what he calls “turnkey totalitarianism.” Looks at the deeper psychological and emotional mechanisms being exploited, coopted and undermined by decades of conscious sociopolitical manipulations.

Part One: Manipulating the Mass Mind (0 – 24 mins)

The long-term effects of propaganda, the need for public consent, Edward Bernays, selling smoking to women, an invisible government, hijacking the ability to discern, pre-conscious insanity, 1984 & doublethink, Al Qaeda as US’s latest ally, the inception of cognitive dissonance in childhood, exploiting mass anger & fear, Osama Bin Laden & the scapegoat mechanism, US financing of the Soviet Union, a coming clash with China.

Part Two Enforced Freedom (24 mins – 50 mins)

Charles Galton Darwin & The Next Million Years, Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, electronic implant control, the technocracy movement, the internet of things, a scientific outlook, individual freedom as the means to totalitarianism, the transformation of American Society, registered in Japan, conflating freedom with convenience, the hell-road of progressive values, the pendulum effect, conditioned choices, manufactured feminism, parental division 

Part Three: False Solutions to Real Problems (50 mins – end)

Transgender transformation, the eradication of the family, false solutions to real problems, a collective double-bind, a sense of helplessness, the medical-industrial complex, a future orientation, disowning the past, lost gold standard irrational hope, technology & passivity, spectator politics, the pull of a lever, Obama & Trump, lining up for our enslavement, turnkey totalitarianism, the robo-nanny, the UFO as transcendental technology, believing the unbelievable, self-propagating propaganda.

The Corbett Report

Songs: “Knob Wobbler,” by Gib Strange; “20 to 48 Hours,” by Party People in the Can; “Goodbye Oslo Rose,” by Richard Youngs; “These Words” by Hazelwood Motel.

From liminal radio livestream Sat 8th June, on the problems of language, expressing from the body, tuning into the body as a means to tuning into the needs of others, articulation as response to movements within the body, the perils of sophistry, moving from worldly delusion to stark raving reality, connecting to soul community, why I go to Finland.

Songs: “Bodhi Song” by Rose Windows; “Hope Is a Thing with Feathers,” by Trailer Bride; “Goin’ Out West” & “Foggy Minded Breakdown” by The Blacks.

A meaty & mirth-filled conversation with The Skrauss that takes us all around the houses, from finding spiritual purpose via material engagement to the history of suffering, siddhis, questions of the afterlife, octopus' brains, enlightenment vs. embodiment, and why we are here at all.

Part One: Hope Life (0 – 32 mins)

Dressing for phone interviews, dandyism, an agreement not to complain, pressure to be positive, Canadian pennies, taking on a thrift store, a failed radio station, God’s laugh, our plans, (edit 9 mins) the anti-hoper from Hope, experiencing despair, demolishing delusion, Tigger & Eeyore, making the world a better place, giving back to community, a natural social system, combining material problems with philosophical ones, dismantling the CIA for fun.

Part Two: Contemplating the Infinite (32 mins – 1 hr 04 mins)

Stripping in the fields, grandmothers & mothers, running from the Russians, inconvenience & suffering, the cost of convenience, helping the chicken hatch, what makes the world better, the abortion controversy, caesarian birth, are things getting worse, arguments against, spiritual suffering, layers of artifice, killing a rat, running from the score, the myth of progress, dealing with death & neutralizing the sociopathic drive, the afterlife, galactic consciousness, how conscious are we when we’re dead, basically enlightened.

Part Three: Siddhi Life (1 hr 04 – 1 hr 34 mins)

Connected to the physical world, Norman O. Brown, facing death, consciousness in the body, the quanta of thought, octopus’ brain, Dave Oshana & the false identity, a neurological body, body sentience, kids & smart phones, a symbiotic entity, neurotic gods, siddhis as temptations, parallelism, focused & unfocused awareness, no-mind, a super-slow operating system, William Blake, the miracle of boredom, Game of Thrones, the mind’s promises, bait & switch of the mind.

Part Four: Invisible Community (1 hr 34 mins – end)

Positive disintegration, an internal colonization, microbes in the body, speaking on tongues, the natural fragrance of the body, signing with the angels, refining enjoyment, being wholesome, letting the body lead, mind-sex, losing the flow in sex & conversation, discovering connections via technology, unrepresented layers of experience, meaning & futility, a non-social purpose, an invisible community, what we are here for, why we have a body, dropping out of Dave Oshana, the embodiment cheesecloth, American Cosmic, a detrimental metaphor, a technological stutter.

Skrauss site: ImageForHire.com

Songs: “Knob Wobbler,” by Gib Strange; "Lucifer Rebellion" by Hypatia Lake; “Cloudy Shoes,” by Damien Jurado; “Lonely Alibi,” by Sky Parade; “These Words” by Hazelwood Motel.

Return conversation with Alejandro Martínez Gallardo exploring the paradox of transcendence & immanence and how the body is an image of the divine, in contrast to the counterfeit technological, transhumanist-nihilist-materialist and occultist postmodern philosophies.

Part One: The Signal of the Soul (0 – 31 mins)

Douglas Rushkoff, Erik Davis, psychedelics, Philip K. Dick, Silicon Valley, Burning Man, & transhumanism, (4:30 edit “alex”) reprogramming the body, drugs & religion, unearned knowledge, nothing but nature, the body connection to the eternal, the question of essence, transhumanism-nihilism, the image of God, the world as sacrifice, the immanent & the transcendent, experiential religion, body symptoms as soul manifests, chronic fatigue, processing infinity, original trauma, the signal of the soul, immersion in occultism, hacking the psyche, cleaning the mirror, being as rhythm, divine song.

Part Two: The Paradox of the Incarnation (31 mins – 1 hr 02 mins)

The birds and the bees, interacting with the environment, art-as-self-expression, a lost sense of beauty, light, order, & integrity, the mind, heart, & the body, Jeffrey Kripal & a materialist view of the soul, conceiving of the transcendental, soul as breath, talking & breathing, the mind thinking about mind, pure awareness, Dave Oshana, what enlightenment might be, the logos & the vesica piscis, pure sensations without labels, a thoughtless self, a world of becoming, the difference between contradiction and paradox, to save the appearance of the world, knowing God without dissolving into the One.

Part Three: A Historical Process of Transhumanism (1 hr 02 – 1 hr 32 mins)

Post-gender, mind-based duality of language, union of the sexes, the tension of love, avoiding the fundamental problem, entertainment as meaning, a hedonistic ethic, how the mind came into being, the collective mind, body & soul union, the matrix of culture, social media & disconnection, non-mediated relationship, creating hybrid beings, the medium & the message, the world-as-objects, objectifying ourselves, the Trinity, the dance of relations, a state of endlessness, learning to die, having all we need, the question of consciousness, passing for human, formative trauma stories, what goes into the body, when science turned Nature into a corpse, circumcision, dissociation.

Part Four: The Divine Thought (1 hr 32 mins to end)

Mind-based systems of knowledge, Carlos Castaneda & the secrets of sorcery, consciousness-as-soul, poetry & rhythm, the deepest thoughts, eliminating trauma, letting off gases, karmic imprints, Dave Oshana & enlightenment part two, getting to the counterfeit, the traps of the systems of power, nihilism and the pursuit of power, becoming contemplatives, an ideological war engine, confusing freedom with power, service and choosing the good.

http://cadenaaurea.com/ (Alejandro's site)

Songs: “Knob Wobbler,” by Gib Strange; "Rancho Electronico" and "Ama de Casa un Poco Triste," by Heavy Nopal; "Estrella Polar" by Pablo Robledo; “These Words” by Hazelwood Motel.

Epic and long overdue talk with scholar of high weirdness Erik Davis, on the ins & outs, ups & downs of paranoid awareness, self-exploration and cultural examination, & the many different pathways through Chapel Perilous.

Part One: Tightrope Walkers (0 – 33m)

The inner chatter, meeting in Mexico, a gulf in worldviews, the podcast burnout, the lost art of conversation, polarization in the information age, connection across difference, the weaponization of everything, a free speech absolutist, the tightrope walker, emotional traps, attraction-resistance to paranoia, considerations about who to talk to, a big responsibility, what comes with mastery, a pattern of response to pop culture, a curation of a sensibility, who are the listeners, how conspiracy theory is constructed, intellectual ethics, religion and paranoia.

Part Two: From Conspiracy to Complicity (33m – 1 hr 12m)

From conspiracy facts to metaphysical theory, the many wings of chapel perilous, the Aeolus period, excess imbibing of dodgy memes, Jimmy Savile, being liminal, eliciting affect, the harrowing psychological dimensions, social complicity vs. conspiracy, comparing backgrounds, woven into the system, Erik’s father, climate change, a fringe operator in the system, antipathy-affinity for paranoia, circling abysses, infection with paranoid memes, what circles we move in, mimetic creatures, an early blueprint of self-marginalization, disinheriting, an open podcast, the stake for victims, between metaphysical control and human control, a healing journey, a partial rebellion, common sense realism, intense ontological pluralism, what do we know about institutions, Illuminatus.

Part Three: Living in the Shadow (1 hr 12m – 1 hr 40 m)

Ethics and how to move in the world, tiers of control, the CIA uncongealed, a space of connection, a duck in conspiracy waters, the problem with relying on intuition, getting grounded, increased cognitive dissonance, the hidden forces of the unconscious, different levels of consciousness, what controls our actions, high-mountain psychoanalysis, an uncanny way of existing, living in the shadow, consciousness and agency, a manipulation of consciousness, fragmentation of the psyche, embedded in an intelligent creation, a felt sense of the benign, horribly coopted, path of surrender, pluralistic possibility, a demonic Archon, everyday benevolence.

Part Four: Anthropologists of the Bizarre (1 hr 40 m – 2 hr 03m)

Radical acceptance, VALIS in the kibble, the world as temptation system, the path of transgression, doing penance, a scary step, impermeable barriers, Esalen-influenced spirituality, the healing ethic of the 70s & trauma, shamanic dismemberment, the language of trauma, a sense of responsibility, an anthropologist of the bizarre, honoring the scars, the many dimensions of reality, a condition of multiplicity, affirming the wounds, the pure and the impure, Sebastian Horsley & the natural end for nihilism, back to the body, an ability for ambiguity, Strieber & Crowley, a compassionate response.

Part Five: A Relationship with Poison (2 hr 03m – to end)

Abduction experiences, the full demonic control download, the poison path, mistaking element for essence, recognizing colonization, compassionate immanence, the oneness move, a relationship with the damaged, taking on toxicity, proximity to the fallen, transmutation of toxins, remaining in the trouble, the hard edge, age & wisdom, using toxins to detoxify, a dearth of role models, path of service, Erik’s pedagogy, waiting for orders, on threshold, embodied engagement & relating, a commitment to encounter, dropping the mask, human connection, going beyond language, weaving a tapestry, worthy opponents, shared zones.