The Liminalist: The Podcast Between

Conversation with Joseph Domenick on behind-the-scenes power abuse in Hollywood, initiation methods, cultural bondage, and the many levels of glamour magic.

Part One: The Gay Mafia (0 – 28 mins)

Power abuse in Hollywood, casting couch, military & CIA involvement, everybody knew about Weinstein, conspiratainment, Kevin Spacey’s video, using an audience base for leverage, #MeeToo as limited hangout, Bryan Singer’s prolific pedophilia, David Geffen & Barack Obama, the Gay Mafia, social media celebrities, a new media space without regulatory bodies, a twink factory.

Part Two: A Perfect Storm (28 – 59 mins)

Tom Sizemore, Heidi Fleiss, sensitive types vs fully-functioning sociopaths, Jimmy Savile, Chuck Zito, bodyguard to the stars, cock-talk, erectile dysfunction, the effects of pornography, sexual freedom in Laurel Canyon, ultra-wealth, hedonistic desensitization, normalization of perversion, the domination drive and pedophilia, the desire for power over others, seeking the rationalizations, modern Spartan methods, celebrities and warriors, a modern aristocracy, a perfect storm, the exploited & the exploiters, what powers the industry.

Part Three: Living in a Dream World (59 mins – 1 hr 33 mins)

Overt terror tactics, the difference between Hollywood and a Mexican drug cartel, David Fincher’s background, Stagedoor Manor, talent schools as child brothels, cognitive dissonance & Hollywood values, what trauma does, living in a dream world, Barack Obama’s thralls, a world of pretenses, surrounded by fakes, American misery, power fantasies, virtue signaling, addicted to solving the mystery, worldly success, Paul Schrader’s knowledge, how to rationalize one’s way to success.

Part Four: A Taste of Ambrosia (1 hr 33 mins – end)

Compromised faculties, what insiders know, two different cultures, Randy Quaid, the many levels of increasing pressure & compromise, rich people brain, on-set auditions for children, watching the watchers, the power of glamor & desperation, a taste of ambrosia, an all-you-can-eat Caesar’s place buffet of victims, a microcosm of the darkness, Wes Craven’s CIA operative son-in-law, Diligence, Bill Fay big-time producer, Al Ruddy, mafia-approval for The Godfather, fractures in the façade, mobster encounters in Hollywood.

16 Maps of Hell: The Unraveling of Hollywood Superculture

Songs: “Pirates” and “Smile” by Entertainment for the Braindead;  "Dreams to Tell" by The Bones of JR Jones; "Beneath the Rose" by Micah P. Hinson;  "I'm in Love" by The Blacks; “Changes” by Short Hand.

Conversation with Luke Dodson on the many snares, pitfalls and red herrings of the counter-cultural/psychedelic scene, the trajectory of the artist, the lure of self-destruction, and two lost soul brothers.

Part One: Dawn Toads (0 – 29 mins)

Erik Davis, Jeffrey Kripal, Prisoner of Infinity, Kripal’s spiritual bypassing, valorization of trauma, The Toad of Dawn, DMT tough love, Davis, Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson’s proto-transhumanism, Leary’s cure of homosexuality, psychedelic skepticism, Aldous Huxley and the Fabians, J.B. Priestley, the Albany Trust, Pedophile Information Exchange, Huxley’s Island, “benign” population control with drugs.

Part Two: Among the Compromised (29 mins – 56 mins)

The genesis of Prisoner of Infinity, mapping the culture, Jan Irvin vs. Charles Upton on unified conspiracy theory, the trap of demons, Anthony Peake, hidden presence of intelligence agencies, gauging how compromised someone is, Esalen, the entheogen as reduction of God to the immanent, encounters with nonhuman entities, the valorization of DMT, no pathway to God, digital geometry, fairyland, Extinction Rebellion, Bruce Parry, the life of a forager, transcendental egoists.

Part Three: A History of Delusions (56 mins – 1 hr 32 mins)

Mind expansion, harm to the body, a history of delusions, how deep does the trauma go, the regressed and progressed part, Oshana & the transmission, nutrition over flavor, aboriginal uses of entheogens, Gordon Wasson, learning about plants, the stuff of life, Ayahuasca, a predator’s relationship to psychedelic plants, fools rushing in, psychedelics & psychotherapy, the crucial fiction, gathering trinkets of power, seeking poetic inspiration, Blake & true reality, mapping the infinite, Dostoyevsky’s dilemmas, mistaking the ancestral for the eternal, therapeutic artwork.

Part Four: The Tortured Artist (1 hr 32 mins – 2 hrs 6 mins)

Personal vs. impersonal writing, egomania vs narcissism, Seen & Not Seen, tuning into the witness, seeing one’s life as raw material, processing awareness, viewing life as a work of art, Borges + LSD, magical writing, a fictional barrier of armor, 2012, The Invisibles, narrative affinities, lost brothers, Sebastian’s crucifixion, the path of self-destruction, The Sorrows of Young Werther, the origin of modern suicide and the collapse of the Christ myth, self-scapegoating, the tortured artist, summer of discontent.

Part Five: (2 hrs 6 mins – end)

Copycat suicides, Sebastian’s death, glorifying suicide, an intimate & tragic connection, suicide as imposed meaning, The Room, salvaging a futile life through an act of will, condemnation of our teenage self, an ancestral convergence.

Luke's blog

Songs: “Pirates” and “Smile” by Entertainment for the Braindead; "For Your Safety & Security" & "Thorns of Love" by Pyramid Youth; "Fury of Light" by The Bones of JR Jones; (Luke D); “Changes” by Short Hand.

Return conversation with Sheldon Solomon on terror management theory, Trump, trauma, the false identity’s necessary fictions, and the quest for embodied wisdom.

Part One: The Alchemy of Hate (0 – 28 mins)

Two ways to look at terror management theory, existential terror and culture, Ernest Becker, advertising & status, perpetual terrorization of the commercial life, charismatic leaders, ridding the world of evil, Hitler’s strategy, alchemist of hate, turning fear into rage, when history repeats, Bush & Trump, Steve Bannen, harnessing terror, the Fabian Society, the orange swan, Hitler on steroids, America on the ropes, a bag of pus, where the buck stops, blaming Trump’s supporters, a latent pathology, terror focalization.

Part Two: A Momentary Cessation of Reason (28 – 54 mins)

Scapegoating death, fear of the unknown, a death-denying culture, the certainty of religion, American fundamentalists, a flight from death, the price of certainty, Prisoner of Infinity,  crucial fictions, Alan Wheelis, fear of identity death, unfinished business, fear of Hell, false ceremony masters, liminality & ceremony, Trump rallies, a momentary cessation of reason, Nietzsche prediction, 200 years of stark chaos, the global village burning, the Borg, carbon-based conduits in an international network of affect.

Part Three: Cave of Shadows (54 mins – 1 hr 24 mins)

Reading Heidegger, everything is affect, the primary mode of perception, coming to terms with death, fear of life, embodied wisdom, Norman O. Brown, eternity and time, the perennial now, the meaning of life, Life Against Death, an absence of repression, what prevents embodiment, the body as appendage, Freud & neoteny, the price of intelligence, proneness to anxiety, John Bowlby & raw terror, Cartesian dualism, transhumanism, the secular drive, storming heaven, studying trauma & dissociation, Joseph Chilton Pearce, the implant that fears death, character armor, the two selves, cave of shadows.

Part Four: The Future of Death (1 hr 24 mins – 1 hr 40 mins)

The ultimate question, Heidegger again, tranquilized by the trivial, anticipatory resoluteness, an ongoing adventure, the life of the dog, the future of death, a Mobius strip of time, death as advisor, infinite long shots, Dave Oshana.

Part Five: Back on Track (1 hr 40 mins – end)

Planet of the Humans, death anxiety & the environment, green movement as front for oil industry, irrationality as default setting, everything begins with relaxation, reasons to panic, means of managing annihilation anxiety, learning to relax, a natural support system, the right track.

https://www.skidmore.edu/psychology/faculty/solomon.php

Songs: “Pirates” and "Smile" by Entertainment for the Braindead; "Energy Hunters Unicorn Hard-on Mystic Materials Refuck" by Foot Village; "Illogical Boogie" by Coconut Monkeyrocket; "PTSD Blues" by Ex Luna; “Changes” by Short Hand.

Conversation with Nina Power, on vulnerability, sacrifice, the freedom to fail, sun worship, and journeys to the underworld.

Part One: Service of the Sun (0 – 35 mins)

An excruciatingly personal text, a strange form of strength, erasing personal history, the best protection, ego dissolution, unrequited love, submission and sacrifice, the freedom to fail, the power of the scapegoat, narcissism and social revenge warriors, the quantification of suffering, the position of the nothing, Diogenes, initiatic models of denunciation, Kierkegaard & David Icke, into the Moroccan abyss, subjective destitution, anxiety and time, giving up alcohol, the boy who cried wolf, the desire for a master, loyalty to the sun, verticality, witches' relation to the devil, God’s support, Turner on the sun, Spinoza & the immanent God, mapping the mind of God, a fragment of the whole.

Part Two: Amor Fati (35 mins – 1 hr 7 mins)

Immanence without transcendence, the vacuum created, the transhumanism project, a war on Nature, human hubris, Promethean mimesis, over-identification with the body > rejection of the body, John Locke & bodies as property, the body as image, planes & dimensions of existence, anti-human agendas, nature & human nature, space travel, the astral temptation, ancestral possession, repetition compulsion, amor fati, given to Lucifer, freed from fate, the perfect life, guilt and debt, the Christ model, living without guilt, shame vs. guilt, parental expectations, emotional incest, the quest for validation.

Part Three: Hazed by the Universe (1 hr 7 mins – 1 hr 42 mins)

Childhood insomnia, birth trauma, the original wound, when love gets inverted, self-isolation, the need for love & the drive for success, an excess of love, onanistic enjoyment of writing, the pain of not connecting, a chain of souls, resonators of love, being saved, rewiring the libidinal economy, replacement, shadow copy demons, Pluto & Persephone, a lake on fire, a period of psychoanalysis, hysterical blindness, the psychopomp, equality of life and death, we are the dead, fear of what we cannot see, the illusion of self-ness, finite modes in the infinite, pan psychism, acceptance of turbulence, the ordeal pit, warrior initiation rites.

Part Four: When the Copy Becomes the Counterfeit (1 hr 42 mins – end)

Re-traumatization & de-traumatization spectrum, sacrifices to and sacrifices for, recognition of the sacred, Peter Tiel & Rene Girard, mimetic rivalry and social media, violence & religion, the Silicon valley gods, the legal system as replacement for religion, mob behavior in the virtual world, virtualizing consequences, the puppet masters, the responsibility of pioneering, technology and disembodiment, the spiral of moral hazard, life before the internet, beautiful boredom, a day without words, the original technology, the curse of language, technology as extension of human nature, the second womb, the evolution of the counterfeit, voice without a body, the need to remember, anamnesis, entry into language, the loss of touch, un cri du coeur.

Nina's site.

Songs: “Pirates” by Entertainment for the Braindead; "Warbler" and  "Cold to the Touch" by Amanita Dodola; "Endlessly" by Bigott; “Changes” by Short Hand.

Conversation with Vincent Cafiso of Joy Zipper on the creative drain and pressures of success within the music industry, and moving beyond the masks.

Part One: Italian Stallions (0 – 33 mins)

Putting things to rest, learning guitar at 13, art as higher calling, Seen & Not Seen & identity creation, early depression, finding a band, wild on stage, the Italian Stallions, MTS, Jane’s Addiction, “Out of the Sun,” aspiring to be cult leader, playing the Garage in London, My Bloody Valentine, enter hallucinogens, shoe gazer rock, My Favorite Sex, John Sykes & VH1, playing CBGBs, no security in a band, delivering pizza, early recording, enter Tabitha, a double voice.

Part Two: Turned on Power (33 mins – 1 hr 6 mins)

The origins of Joy Zipper, Matty Skylab, getting signed in London with Eye Q, music for therapy, early songs, the importance of numbers, 8 & infinity, outsider art, Vinyl, making it big in England, a Lynchian element, acid & rootlessness, first doing LSD, Alan Watts & Castaneda, a religious bent, success at thirty, Brick Lane, early performances as Joy Zipper, using anger for courage, The Swans, fighting success, Bobby Bluebell, too much death in the songs.

Part Three: Dodging the Bullet (1 hr 6 mins – 1hr 42 mins)

Music course at Leeds college, denial of death, second album American Whip, David Holmes (DJ), 13 Amp, Tony Doogan, Kevin Shields, the move to Glasgow, getting bought out by Universal, Lucien Grainge, Amy Winehouse, dodging the bullet, being branded as a cash cow, invented narratives in the media, a New York Times article, going analog, Mark Kramer, difference between analog and digital, celluloid vs. digital film, something about analog.

Part Four: Onset of Paranoid Awareness (1 hr 42 mins – 2 hr 10 mins)

The Stereo and God, Fischerspooner, success as heroin, the pressure to perform, recording in Toe Rag, Hackney, The Heartlight Set, trying on optimism, an underachiever, being dropped by Universal, organized crime and the music industry, indebted to the industry, becoming paranoid, listening to Art Bell, 2007, a heavy fall, song placements, David Icke, Matrix 1.0, the people in power, Dave McGowan & Laurel Canyon, Jan Irvin, pushing the 60s, Leonard Cohen in Cuba.

Part Five: Aging Out/Settling In (2 hr 10 mins – 2 hr 29 mins)

Deconstructing Cohen, questioning cultural influences, creating replicas, giving up autonomy to the culture, creativity colonized, aging out of the industry, breaking the contract, getting infected, “All the Saints,” Jonathan Richman, finding community, aspiring to enter the canon, the lack that drives, seeking the wholesome, enlightenment finally.

Part Six: When Love Comes Back (2 hr 29 mins – end)

The difficulties of going back, the buried treasure, the trauma, the essential Vincent, finding the people, mask-wearing in videos, wanting to be seen but unseen, Sebastian’s test, the light side of fame, connecting to humanity, a lost love feeling, the quest for coolness, coming in from the cold, love without risk, being on retreat, losing the false self, the final pop.

Joy Zipper YouTube channel

Songs: “Pirates” by Entertainment for the Braindead; "Out of the Sun," "33," "The Power of Alan Watts," "Warped & Shock" and "Chasing Time," by Joy Zipper. “Changes” by Short Hand.

Return conversation with Sam Hyde on life in New York during covid-19 and the great social reboot. 

Part One: The Fire Behind the Smoke of Covid-19 (0 – 28 mins)

A skeptical approach, seeking the fire behind the smoke, New York before, during, & after the lockdown, Sam catches the corona virus, sink & alone for three weeks, layers of sirens, multiple deaths of old people, the hospital system in New York, Plandemic, a bomb hits New York, comparing different c-theories.

Part Two: A Prison of Our Own Making (28 mins – 1 hr 3 mins)

Protests, citizen compliance, what people believe, a trip to the grocery store, mapping social engineering to predict the future, creation of a subculture, new Apple tracking device, engineers of our own enslavement, state support for covid, the new Great Depression, indentured slaves, the end of the growth model, new rules for an old game, the choice of two dystopias, invasion of the body snatchers, dream-seeding, the new feudalism, the technological tipping point.

Part Three: Denial Tea Shop (1 hr 3 mins – 1 hr 38 mins)

The lack of community, autonomy and community, a hub of non-conformity, civilization’s end, drinking denial tea, leaving the city, the geographical cure, growing up off the grid, multiculture as monoculture,  Jasun from Guatemala to Hampstead, culture as climate, variety as spice of life, losing paths of movement in the global village, back to covid, 9/11, people in denial, Sam in moment-to-moment crisis.

Part Four: New Maps for Old Journeys (1 hr 38 mins – end)

Reality-checking depression, insect-brain, the taste of a tangerine, super-focus sickness, the sound of the street, ripple effects in reality, disrupting the standard operating system, as within so without, when structures don’t hold, biological limits to perception, non-confirming evidence, a vector of increasing disbelief, watching the second tower fall, a portal created, loss of icons, finding our place in humanity, divine human intervention, destiny vs. fate, the letting go, straight edge occultism, John de Ruiter vs. Dave Oshana.

Songs: “Pirates” by Entertainment for the Braindead; “Dreams to Tell” & "Ticket Home" by The Bones of J.R. Jones;  "New York Seville" by Bigott; “Changes” by Short Hand.

Back with the world’s most-recurring Liminalist, Gib Strange.

Part One: Therapy for Golem (0 - 28 mins)

Difference between face to face and text-based communication, autistic children, what transmits unconsciously, inter-relational tensions between Gib & Jasun, Dave-related projects, losing friends, jokes about suicide, an unwitting cry for help, getting to the high ground, when the enemy speaks through us, the enlightenment bully, therapy for golem.

Part Two: Waiting for Gibran (28 mins - 1 hr 3 mins)

Not-doing sympathy, jam for prisoners, the risks of empathy, lacking a support system, the love field, the two types of sharing, life in the lockdown, Stranger’s passing, cat-love, embodiment, spiritual jargon, mindful narcissism, the thing beyond language, talking about God, waiting for Godot, Cedomir & Martin & the enlightenment, experiences in the body, a negative frame for enlightenment, shifting allegiance.

Part Three: Transcendental Connections (1 hr 3 mins – I hr 28 mins)

The absence of an image, the dark and edgy, the anti-light brigade, the shrinking world of Jasun Horsley, Gary & Cary, an attachment to the past, talking about Dave, finding transcendental connections, acknowledging the exit, blocked collaborations, where two or more are gathered together, two opposing forces, leveling up, a lot to say about Hell. 

Part Four: Invisible Architecture (1 hr 28 mins - end)

Technology and nature, goodbye to podcasting, scaffolding for invisible architecture, the bridge between heaven and hell, levels of sensitivity, Dave’s power of deconstruction, Gib’s resistance, requirements of a support system, what might upturn Gib’s world, awakening to reality, bad connections, to exfinity and beyond.

Gib’s site: https://notesfromtheuncannyvalley.com/

Songs: “Pirates” by Entertainment for the Braindead; “Broken Land” by The Bones of J.R. Jones;  "Dreams" by Dodola; “Jenny the Game” by Dead Cinema; “Changes” by Short Hand.

Conversation with listener Tim K on writing, language, ironism, the nature of evil, Christianity, the life force, and community life.

Part One: Crucial Fictions (0 – 32 mins)

The writing & speaking process, Sebastian Horsley’s sticky notes, precomposed speech, the Leo life as performance, the dandy as human billboard, identity-creation, Seen & Not Seen, the mechanics of speech, internalized the brother’s voices, writing with the body, philosophical pursuits, driven by a feeling of inauthenticity, the path of relentless self-doubt, writer-to-reader direct interface, where true voice comes from, Whitley Strieber, truth & language, a cry for help disguised as performance, crucial fictions, the stories we tell ourselves, what are we before the trauma?

Part Two: Truth Has No Temperature (32 mins – 1 hr 4 mins)

Secret knowledge, The Satanic Bible, occult language & trauma imprints, words as carrier-pacifiers, traumata as empowerment narrative, distress signals disguised as answers, sentences vs. vocabularies, the ironist, the contingency of language, nihilism and the abandonment of integrity, inversion and oppositional identity, language as disruptor, no temperature for life force, the mind as commentator at race track of life, economy & responsibility of language, writing as ineffective speech, the imaginary reader, let’s talk about evil, theodicy, on the fence with Satan.

Part Three: The Vocabulary of Religious Discourse (1 hr 4 mins – 1 hr 42 mins)

Entities & the literal-minded, Satan as eggregore, God’s plan, the nature of evil, the original flinch, Lucifer’s huff, original wound, A Wandering God, from nomads to sedentary, the origins of othering, transitional objects for children, graven images, Zen, Oshana, enlightenment, what does transmission look like, playing with ideas, naming the Tao, finding one who notices, switches the emphasis, a positive feedback loop, letting language be there, reading the ancients, back to irony, calling a spade a trowel, living with ambiguity, the bottomless trauma, the question who am I, your own best-kept secret.

Part Four: The Shocking Gulf Within (1 hr 42 mins – end)

Jay Dyer and Orthodoxy, Tim’s trajectory, community projects, thrift store, relating to community, the invisible community, a continuum of consciousness, bar vs. café in community, bees make honey what do humans make, rediscovering instinct, the beginnings of working together, clearing the slate via human acceptance, possessed by trauma, out there and in here, the shocking gulf within, colonized by culture, to write or not to write, more of a tactician, something to deliver, hell of academia.

Songs: “Pirates” by Entertainment for the Braindead; "A Prayer" by The Bones of J.R. Jones; "Song for Obol" by Arborea;  “Changes” by Short Hand

Conversation with Franz Ruppert on the fundamentals of trauma, family constellations, resonant fields, cooperative vs competitive social arrangements, dark alliances, & finding the light within.

Part One: A Traumatized Life (0 – 22 mins)

Blocked relationships, a constant state of stress, family constellations, inner world access, resonant fields, bonding relationships, trauma in the womb, survivors of abortion attempts, a biography of adaptation, an everywhere and nowhere proposition, what happens to the body, sub-systems of the organism, the psychic sub-system, information processing & memory, the transference of knowledge into action, body and psyche communication, the loss of responsibility, the amassing contradictions of the traumatized life.

Part Two: The Inner Cosmos (22 –  48 mins)

The fundaments of trauma, the objectification of women, the conditions of motherhood, multi-generational trauma, patriarchy & matriarchy, competition society, identity-oriented psychotherapy, moving the focus from outside to inside, cooperative system, traumatized mothers and sons, identifying traumatizing situations, a trauma-sensitive society, ignorance of the inner cosmos, society & the individual, resonating peace, a three-way split, group work.

Part Three: The Loss of Play (48 mins – 1 hr 10 mins)

Nested in a support network, the illusion of individuality, family constellations & the ancestors, the mystery of connecting, senders & receivers of information, the openness of a healthy psyche, co-consciousness, John Bowlby, safety and exploration, unsafe mother-bonding, neoteny, the loss of play, a survival driven world, nationalism, children’s preference for cooperative games, forced competitive spirit, homogenization, teamwork, bringing out individual qualities, living in accordance with abilities.

Part Four: (1 hr 10 mins – end)

When competition leads to conflict, running away from oneself, the advocation of trauma, the darkness of consciousness, belief in evil, a hell-womb, study of a mass-killer, Hitler’s biography, surrounded by death, at home with death, dark alliances, trauma-based knowledge for dealing with difficult realities, satanic circles and pedophile rings, the importance of biography, a live online conference, an international men’s group.

Franz Ruppert online

Songs: “Pirates” by Entertainment for the Braindead; “What Else is New" by by Art of Flying; “Heaven is a Ghost Town” by Krestovsky; “The Source” by Art of Empathy“; “Changes” by Short Hand

Return conversation with Ashley H, on impressions of Dave Oshana, the transmission, ancestral loads, embodying the life force and connecting hell to heaven. 

Part One: Questions of Enlightenment (0 – 24 mins)

The changing iterations of Dave Oshana, the necessity of identity, the influence of words, the normality of Dave, questions of enlightenment, beyond our comprehension, a dangerous red herring, human responses, a rough East End lad, a taste of transmission, responding to a call, a visit to an old man, passing on the transmission.

Part Two: Airless Places (24 mins – 51 mins)

Waking up into gloom, people in groups who seek good feelings, when the life force withdraws, the men who died, inherited morning blues, the courage to stay in hell, a place of hopelessness, the fear of being swallowed up, dreams of dystopia, airless places, imprisoned in a version of being alive, awakening from nightmare, the use of will, the power of desperation, an internally generated hell.

Part Three: Ancestral Darkness (51 mins – end)

Back to Nature, from contentment to enlightenment, a healthy ego, accepting hell, the horrors of the human heart, becoming the marriage of heaven and hell, perceptions around hell, addictions & the use of the life force, the damned parts of the human body, the father’s nihilism, the ancestral darkness, seeking balance in family systems, optimism & the dark, Emerald’s tale, overground with underground, dialogues with the dead, a huge divide, evolution in action.

Songs: “Pirates” by Entertainment for the Braindead; "Just Like Anything" by Malcolm Middleton; "Road to Nowhere" (cover); “Changes” by Short Hand