The Liminalist: The Podcast Between

Talking with James Howard Kunstler on JHK’s painting and the meditative state, art as documentation, the trap of the picturesque, the human imprint, challenging conventional thinking, mystification on campus, Amherst protests against free speech, Princeton inveighing against Woodrow Wilson, race, gender, & privilege, prioritizing correct English, JHK gets flamed on social media, the fashion on ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 46: Dogma Hostages (with James Howard Kunstler)

Post-Vancouver-workshop, face-to-face conversation with John Maguire & Misty Greer, on the workshop, meditative foreplay, conditioning the space, unintentional ritual magic, beware the toad, acknowledging social anxiety, dissolving intimacy, the practice of navigating queasiness, levels of awareness, naked intimacy of strangeness, the suffering spectrum, gauging levels of engagement, keeping the safe space, the danger of turning experience into ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 45: Seeking the Transmission (with John Maguire & Misty Greer)

Second part of conversation with Alan Green, on intimacy and sex, student sex workers in the UK, modern feminism, working in the adult film industry, the different sides of sex work, Jasun’s sexual individuation journey, shaman porn in Guatemala, sacred whores, the life-cycle of a porn star, Children of God sexual abuse, Sebastian Horsley and ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 44.5: Zen & the Art of Accepting Defeat (with Alan Green)

First part of three-hour conversation with Alan Green, on “how are you?”, breakdown or breakthrough, connecting in vulnerable states, Occult Yorkshire, “What about Jimmy Savile?”, the JFK assassination, conspiracy that never crosses the finish line, growing up Catholic, child-molesting priests, the breakthrough of historical truth, British networks of abuse, victim compensation in the UK, buried ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 44: Something to Touch (with Alan Green)

Part two of highlights from No Such Thing as a Lightworker Shadow Work Shop, on the mushroom network, cellular awareness, being a storyteller, the difference between humans and trees, being imprinted, the shape of identity, transmission-talk, the soul or the unconscious, experiencing authenticity, the end of the quest, local & non-local awareness, the infinite self, ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 43.5: When the Soul Lands

First part of an edited recording of “No Such Things As a Lightworker” Shadow Work Shop with Jasun Horsley in Vancouver, BC, November 21st, 2016, starting in the darkness, what we know, this is not a performance, one among eleven, our reasons for being here, finding our place in reality, it doesn’t get weird enough, wading ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 43: There Is No Other (Shadow Work Shop)

Long-form conversation with independent filmmaker Alex Cox, on Alex in winter wonderland, diegetic sound, Oxford days, the changing climate at Oxford, an environment of the oligarchy, the idiot rich, film school years, Repo Man, Harry Dean Stanton and Saturn return, Stanton’s character, how Hollywood agents operate, Repo Man as prototypical punk cinema, Sid & Nancy ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 42: Hollywood Transgressor (with Alex Cox)

Part two of conversation with Miracle Jones, on Rudolph Steiner, Lucifer and the gift of the imagination, imagining the implicate order, uncovering reality and healing, turning fiction into a system, American culture, Harry Potter,  mirror neurons and writing, P. K. Dick and amphetamines, the intimacy of books, how Jasun met his wife, Dream’s End, marriage stories, taking ... Read moreThe Liminalist 41.5: Blind Love (with Miracle Jones)

Part one of conversation with Miracle Jones, on reading Prisoner of Infinity, trauma splitting, a double world, Whitleyville, writers from Texas, Strieber’s literary journey from fiction to nonfiction, how consciousness works, trauma and becoming a fantasist, Charles Dickens, the occult fabric of the 20th century, a great book of history, the doors that internet opens, early ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 41: Eel Vibes (with Miracle Jones)

Part two of liminal conversation with author and underground artist William Gillespie, on being a writer, the multiple personality game, the Kubrickon & what Stanley Kubrick was doing, the problem with Charlie Kaufman, David Foster Wallace, writing for validation, the myth of the writer, being a community writer, the desire for posterity, a writer’s frustrations, ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 40.5: The War on Language (with William Gillespie)