Conversation with organized ritual abuse survivor Wendy Hoffman, author of The Enslaved Queen, on being fragmented, finding internal structures, connecting to inner parts, a special friend, a pre-existing soul, learning to dissociate, splitting the mind, maternal rejection, landscape layers, remembering, current contact, a foam of a life, a life unknowing, dream and nightmare, mother-beatings, Michelle ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 110: A Life Unknowing (with Wendy Hoffman)

Part two of conversation with David Livingstone, on religion and dogma,  the imposition of human rights, pluralistic empires, control vs. suppression, sensitivity to the body’s intelligence, boundaries & consensus, the vice of kings, the fundamentals of fascism, transgender & transhumanism, the message, the unknown treasure, Lurianic Kabbalah, the myth of progress, the devil’s plan, the ... Read moreThe Liminalist 109.5: The Unknown Treasure (with David Livingstone)

Part one of a two-part conversation with researcher David Livingstone, on occultism, discordianism, & transhumanism, how science was shaped by occultism, a post-Christian era, dogmatic empiricism, mapping cultural trends, collecting circumstantial evidence, Tavistock & the development of social psychology, occultism as ideology, the scientific method vs. scientism, the ideology of science, Nick Bostrom & H-plus, ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 109: The Dupes of the Superman (or Smokeless Fire; with David Livingstone)

Part two of conversation with William Ramsey, on subtle infiltration, a psychotic break, Sebastian Horsley & the hidden aristocratic lifestyle, Temple of Psychic Youth & adolescent appeal of occultism, Harry Potter as sorcery vehicle, trauma, Satanism, and identity politics, negative identity, the pendulum, Christopher Isherwood, a post Crowley nexus, Lord Tredegar, Augustus John, instrument of ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 108.5: Instrument of Aristocracy (with William Ramsey)

Part one of two-part conversation with author William Ramsey, on Aleister Crowley’s cultural impact, 9/11 and numerology, Robin Bryans’ The Dust Has Never Settled, Lord Tredegar & Black Masses, Peter Levenda & the Crowley wall of denial, The World’s Tragedy, comparing Crowley to Ted Bundy, de-emphasizing AC’s pathology, Betty Ma’s testimony, Crowley’s appeal to the ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 108: The Crowley Assignation (with William Ramsey)

Part two of conversation with Keith Gordon, on getting movies made, Mother Night, getting Nick Nolte, SOP agent behavior, Singing Detective & Robert Downey Jr., remaking Dennis Potter, TV vs. movies, Brett Easton Ellis, working in TV, turning down Marvel movies, trying to get a TV show set up, how networks make money, a conglomeration ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 107.5: Embracing Impermanence (with Keith Gordon)

First of a two-part conversation with actor and director Keith Gordon, on over- and underrated directors, Dressed to Kill, Home Movies, working with Brian DePalma, Gordon as science-wiz-kid, making Home Movies, growing up in the theater, 2001: A Space Odyssey, working in MOMA, random opportunities, Jaws 2, informal training, Bob Fosse and All That Jazz, ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 107: One Man’s Heaven (with Keith Gordon)

Part two of conversation with Frances Hutchens, on public trauma-sharing, being triggered by death, love & violence, trauma-based culture, domestic murder scene, parkour and body work, premeditation, a pawn in the game, inter-generational trauma, the option of consciousness, an abuse spectrum, the unsaid and the unseen, ancestral patterns, a ripening of patterns, MKULTRA school, pressure ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 106.5: The Unsaid & the Unseen (with Frances Hutchens)

Conversation with Frances Hutchens, on sex contracts, contractual relationships, courtship, changing sexual roles, the looking-for-sex field, how writing de-romanticizes, how culture defines romantic love, contentment unsung, alchemical marriage, why do young people get married, the divorce season, big weddings, the culture of blame, the desire for certainty, freedom of prostitutes, marriage & the eternal, the ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 106: Love, Sex, & Contractual Agreements (with Frances Hutchens)

Part two of return conversation with Holly Grigg-Spall, on a culture in crisis, the Hollywood liberal set’s new mission, celebrity-stands, Holly’s circle, the luxury of disagreeing, being beholden to others, many invisible thresholds, becoming part of a cultural edifice/audience cult, losing control of the branches, the danger of agendas, putting a handle on oneself, Steve ... Read moreThe Liminalist 105.5: Uneasy Alliances (with Holly Grigg-Spall)