First part of in-depth exploration with ArchDruid John Michael Greer, on the end of industrialized society, making the transition, the prepper scene, the myth of progress, losing survival skills, the mechanistic view of the universe, an indifferent environment, mistaking indifference for hostility, a question of growing up, the culture of the futurism, manipulation by hope, ... Read moreLiminalist # 24: Mechanical Rabbits (with John Michael Greer)

Talking with parapolitical author and activist Michael Parenti, on how he got started, the US civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, becoming radicalized, Saddam Hussein as Washington’s poster boy/”worse than Hitler,” WMD and fear management foreign policy, Occupy Wall Street and the lair of the beast, recognition of the divide, 1% of 1%, the shrinking ... Read moreLiminalist # 23: Invincible Fabrications (with Michael Parenti)

Second part of conversation with Sheldon Solomon, on death as an adviser, coming to terms with death, tranquilizing with the trivial, Livingston’s blissful brush with a lion, life without apprehension, the birds and the bees, “The Ticker” death watch, how death awareness increases hostility, starting with a negative, exploring the dark side as a way to study ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 22.5: A Way to the Better (with Sheldon Solomon)

First hour of a two-part conversation with Terror Management Theorist Sheldon Solomon (co-author of The Worm in the Core), on Ernest Becker’s Denial of Death, the human capacity for thinking abstractly & reflecting on past and future, culture as the means to manage death anxiety, negative identity, Becker’s Escape from Evil, Rene Girard and how culture ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 22: The Cusp of Oblivion (with Sheldon Solomon)

Conversation with Random Dude, a fervent new listener/reader of all things autiliminalist, on trigger warnings, the Dreams End/Ty Brown vortex, the differing approaches to research, the individuatory journey, a quixotic endeavor, UK systemic abuse and liminality, Lloyd de Mause’s abuse statistics, polarization and destabilization in the UK, hijacking the dialogue, catharsis-healing, the idea of complete ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 21: The Door’s Ajar (w/ Random Dude)

A behind-the-scenes chat with ex-Great American Psychopath, Phil Snyder, on a non-dimensional line, the well-being of the body, straying from the line, running to the future, a baseline of anxiety, being hacked by negativity, the idea of being invaded, releasing tension, reacting to the bullshit and matching the bullshit, leaving comfort zones, acclimatizing to stress, ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 20: The Yes Behind the No’s (with Phil Synder)

Second part of a crossover conversation with James Howard Kunstler (part one here), on Seen & Not Seen and magical thinking, the Jiminy Crickett syndrome, a threshold moment in US history, de-industrialization in the 1970s, trying to get something for nothing, legalization of gambling, entitlement and comfort, being fed on fantasy, living inside an I-phone, ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 19: Onions & Brown Rice (with James Howard Kunstler)

Discussing with long-time sparring ally Doug Lain the CIA’s co-opting the modern art movement, flooding the cultural field as a means to drown out independent artists, poisoning the well, creating the criteria for aesthetic judgment, breaking with representational forms of art, Budd Hopkins-as-modern-artist, CIA’s funding of the far left, movies & the CIA, what it means ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 18: The Limits of Reason (with Doug Lain)

Part two of a searching dialogue with Louis Proud on the difficulties of being a paranormal researcher/writer; also on astral technology, Joe Fisher and the siren call of hungry ghosts, channeled material & audience-manipulating entities, Strieber’s The Key, using esoterica to make life more interesting, Louis’ school experience & childhood memories, Jasun’s getting armored up for ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 17.5: The Land of the Devils (with Louis Proud)

Part one of two-part conversation with the taciturn Louis Proud, on Prisoner of Infinity, Dark Intrusions and Rodney Ascher, Whitley Strieber and writing as a way to control the unconscious, Robert Louis Stephenson’s Brownies, a Faustian bargain with the entities of the unconscious, the million dollar question about imaginal beings, autonomous fragments of the psyche, the ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 17: This Property is Condemned (with Louis Proud)