The Liminalist: The Podcast Between

Return conversation with filmmaker Rodney Ascher (Room 237, The Nightmare) on his new film Glitch in the Matrix & the many ins & outs of simulation theory.

Part One: Filtering Reality (0 - 30 mins)

Working on Glitch in the Matrix, Anthony Peake’s daemonic theory, sleep paralysis & simulation theory, video games & virtual reality, movies and consciousness, frontal lobe simulations, quasi-science and super-powers, technology & transformation, evolving ideas about simulated reality, intense world syndrome, unfiltered reality, necessary compartmentalization, enlightened perspectives, Erik Davis & P. K. Dick, literal believers, Nick Bostrum’s paper.

Part Two: When the Map Becomes the Territory (30 - 50 mins)

Radical technology, the internet of things, a mood of melancholy, the loss of doing nothing, nostalgia, how children used to roam, an energetic matrix, a digital map of the world, Pokemon, addiction to social media, overriding the programming, divided consciousness, Palmer Eldritch, technology as drug, the failure of satire, Face in the Crowd & Donald Trump

Part Three: A Continuum of Interest  (50 mins – 1 hour 13 mins )

Freudian theory of traumatic re-enactment, the legendary status of childhood, humanizing The Shining, uncovering connections, defining childhood moments, Room 237, The Shining, dissolving into abstraction, personal obsessions, Rodney’s sleep paralysis, unresolved mysteries, a laser light show, a continuum of interest, an evolving methodology, El Duce Tapes, the creative process.

Part Four: 2020 Hindsight (1 hour 13 mins – end)

A trilogy of interpretation, the limits of subjectivity, non-player characters or real people, the ultimate conspiracy theory, updating the world, ancestor simulation, depersonalization, the feeling of being an authentic avatar, acting as a non-player character, David Icke’s paranoia, finding the style, animation effects, ETA on the movie, 2020 hindsight.

Rodney's site

Songs: “Knob Wobbler,” by Gib Strange;  "A Prayer" by The Bones of L.R Jones; "Taking My Child" by Norman Fagg; "Hell's Heart" by Untitled red; “These Words” by Hazelwood Motel.

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.