Highlights from fourth live video meet-up, with Martin J, Nick Kalani, Jeff Gentry, and Chris S., on self-censoring, being trapped on the Internet, fear of exposure, echoes in eternity, what are the consequences of being seen and heard, talking around trauma, subject to a malicious force, aspects of conflict, a perceived enemy, being vulnerable as ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 133: Living Inside an Invisible Control System (from 4th Liminalista Live Meet-Up)

Part two of conversation with Gib Strange, on email correspondence and similarities between Jasun & Gib, the pathology of the cinephile, the forgetting chamber, the need for social skills, Jasun’s filmmaking experience, a shared immersion experience, pre-identity consciousness, separating from the mother, movies as transitional space, the Truman Show delusion, the evolution of schizophrenia, living ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 132.5: The Gaze of Big Mother (with Gib Strange)

First of a two-part conversation with Gib Strange, on Unknown Valley artwork, faceless faces, novel rejections, the choice to podcast, back to oral storytelling, the appeal of podcasts, listening to The Liminalist at night, spoken word performance, loneliness & alienation, depersonalization, the cats arrive, fleeing a sense of unreality, deflation & impotence, lost memories of ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 132: Escaping into a Borrowed Identity (with Gib Strange)

Part two of the third live Liminalist online meet-up, with Frances Hutchens, Nick Kalani, and Christopher S., on being a social outcast, speaking one’s mind, the death of common sense, group think & a sense of reality, Jordan Peterson the spokesgoat, a tendency to say no, finding the appropriate expression outside of social mandates, the ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 131.5: What’s Worth Not Being Yourself?

First of two-part audio recording of the third Liminalista Video Meet-up (from October 14th 2017), with Frances Hutchens, Nick Kalani, and Christopher S, on what people want from Auticulture, being burned out on geopolitics, social liberation & liminality, focusing on Jasun’s books, mind and body, Frances recovering  from sinusitis, Jasun triggered by Seen & Not ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 131: The Question of Presence (or the Curse of Social Media)

Part two of conversation with Kelvin Gregory, on growing up working class, Straus & Beethoven, an interest in high culture, spontaneous ecstasy, Panama aristocracy, growing up on an army base, testing for talented kids, a summer of Strieber, prodigy sister & speed-reading, MKULTRA schools for the gifted, Jimmy Saville, Leonard Cohen and hidden confessions, John ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 130.5: The Specifics of Social Engineering, or: Trojan Horse Culture (with Kelvin Gregory)

First of a two-part conversation with Kelvin Gregory, on shunning social media, the Alt. Perceptions Community margins, occult rituals, Morris Berman in Mexico, Jonathan Lethem,  languishing in development hell, Blood Poets, library electronic resources, James Howard Kunstler, finding a different kind of listener, getting back to old magic, erupting Mount Helens, a spontaneous astral projection, ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 130: Reading in Tongues (with Kelvin Gregory)

Selected highlights from second live online video meet-up for Liminalistas, on experimental projects, group chemistry, social liberation & enlightenment, discomfort in social situations, winning & losing, how others perceive us, comfort in action, everyone’s trauma, Dave Oshana & confronting anxiety, moving outside comfort zones, life as social engagement, awakening to neurotic patterns, following the energy, ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 129: Social Liberation & the Invasion of the Mind Parasites (Liminalista Live Meet-Up)

Part two of conversation with Darren Westlund, on Paul Bowles & the supernatural, the problem with Yoga in the west, extreme individualism of the West, do Arabs have an unconscious, the veneer of civilization, East vs. West, getting pulled back into the mind, early aptitude for dissociation, exhaustion from integration, suffering and spiritual “progress,” integrating ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 128.5: Enlightenment or Endarkenment (with Darren Westlund)

First of a two-part conversation with Darren Westlund (Derek Swannson) on using pseudonyms, being a local celebrity, Kingsburg consternation, writer’s syndrome, representing Sebastian Horsley, DMT & what it’s like to die, big lucid dreams, Robert Monroe’s astral bag of tricks, developing the double, your own personalized tulpa, Buddhism & the multiplicity of selves, David Foster ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 128: Your Own Personalized Tulpa (with Darren Westlund)