Warhorse

Wrapping up that which will never be wrapped requires some careful consideration--revolving doors are standard in dreamland. Fear, The Hunter, Dale Cooper, LaFond, the expansion of and another minor archeological dig for the detective archetype. 

On the quantum level this episode begins and ends everywhere. It is hounded across the plains by hobo demons, assaulted by worldly interruptions of all manner and awash with diabolical dream tones. We find ourselves aflame with strange connective contemplation not fit for standardized consumption, and quench the fire in the balms and salves of the true road to enchanted, mythic, dream-zone existence in a world seemingly on pause. 

In the melee arose the urgent apparent need for supplemental textual and spiritual ordering efforts resulting in the related mini-essay available for subscribers. Once more, to war unseen. 

Mystical numeral 7 gathers the remnant up from the moonlit wreckage of recent revelations. See them clung to the debris, shell-shocked by the ancient question--yet a strange vitality glowers from their shapes. And see them now become recharged to face silent wars. 

In hour one we crush Rene Girard, pay homage again to Mamet, break of the well-worn Joseph Campbell and square up to the dream where you wear one of his thousand faces. 

Hour two, Lynch's lifetime of ritual dedication to his art pulls us all through---if only you will listen. Recursion experienced with the aid of hallucinogens. Hunter Thompson, Old Man Cormac, and others uphold the superstructure of the narrative woven for listeners as we wind up engaged once again with the Criminal of Purpose, The Hunter, The Warrior, and The Master. 

Not to be missed episode according to the kids. 

Three segments: introduction to the dreamer and the dream; language of the dream and the ambiguity of reality; the Dream of the Criminal of Purpose. Section one we range far and wide of some rough country to collect together the many pearls of this multifaceted, and highly ornate treasure of an episode. 

Hour one is devoted to discussion of the dreamer and the dream. 

Hour two, we begin to bridge the chasm between pure abstraction and the practical. 

Hour three, we find the dream becomes concrete. The concrete becomes dream. (Subscription available through Patreon; Goldengoatguild.)

We take our cues from the master Michael Hoffman and riff through the first hour to set up the pay-off in hour two. A brief history of the Warrior's Way as an academic/modern conception, including the introduction of Robert S de Ropp. The daemon has worked overtime to dredge up some new heavy-duty armatures for extensive metaphysical dissection. You'll get the idea! 

Portland micro-covens, Eyes Wide Shut, and historical symbolism merge into high-falutin, and refined speculative notions of fecundity. Random sacrifice, orgies, and worse descend and derail us for Halloween into some fittingly bizarre territory. We exfil hard and fast. 

We gather all powers of concentration, such as they are in this dispersed age, in order to dial in hard on three points perhaps left more opaque than necessary in Episode 4. 

1-to know war, know peace. The nature of war is not defined (or even close) by state actors, which recall are mere aberrations of mind and entirely hollow beyond the individual minds that steer them. 

2-Conservatism masks fatalism and defeatism. Blood Meridian: "What's wrong with you is wrong all the way through you." One that may piss you off but one that may kill you if you don't square up to it asap. 

3-The point of fatherhood was always the hunter, the warrior, the master. Precision and ferocity. The idea of a job as stand-in for virtue or real duty is evil. 

The mountainmen of the early American West are, in my opinion and as is consistent the presentation here, the true heroes of the era. Their rightful place at the peak of the hierarchy of heroes was usurped by a strange, not entirely intentional, conspiracy involving pulp fiction novellas, Hollywood and, perhaps, convenience. 

After an extended opening homage to what might be the greatest single knife ever made--the Winkler Operator, we launch into the background and lives of Jim Bridger and Kit Carson, making the case that in these two men are exemplified not only the known and accepted qualities that arise around and within the hero, but also here we can can intuit something more rare yet---an interiority focused by time and severity of demands to result in a giftedness beyond the men themselves. We close the hour by taking not-quite-vicious-but certainly-painful swipes at a few celebrities. 

In hour two we examine further this gift: what is its nature, can we access it today, what would be the route thereto? We discuss the value in building and altering routines with respect to the Trivium, and posit an imaginative exercise involving a crossroads, a witch, and personal power. Predation, preparation, prepackaged presumptions--dealt with. As well, on offer is another prime exercise within the expanding folder labeled Criminal of Purpose. And as a countermeasure, we talk a glimpse into the state of what is, with derogation, referred to as flyover country. Is it diminishing, is it any better off than the cities? 

Peterson, Von Neumann, female fecundity, the untapped powers--physical and psychic--in finding the perfect walking gait. We reverse the order a bit, giving the non-subscriber a taste of the practicals generally retained in hour two. We tie up the trivium to the basic rubric of the missing metaphysical maturation process of mankind and, we think, close the case (and thereby, scythe-like, swapping away huge chunks of grifter culture and despite the esoteric predilections of the podcast providing some substantial simplification for listeners) on the importance of the triune structure inherent to reality. 

But it's not all cosmic weaving. We drop some very concrete practical-realm observations and tips to deploy in your daily life in the ongoing efforts to raise powers of awareness, hunt personal power and lay the Venn diagram neatly over the gray area between material and etheric considerations. 

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Episode 2 arrives as Bitcoin rises, job markets plummet, propaganda reaches levels of retardation previously thought impossible--even as division and aggravation simmer throughout the Western World. We ignore most of that and plunge deep into the literary archetype of the detective how he situates in our times and in Twin Peaks symbolism. We relate Season 3 particulars to Erich Von Neumann, portals (inner and outer), female fecundity, and our strategies of survival. 

In the subscriber's hour we carry the manifold threads forward, expanding into the archetype and reality of the hunter. We lay great yardages of foundation regarding the ongoing investigation into and expansion upon the concept of The Criminal of Purpose. We lay out tactics, observations, look at the hunting grounds and eventually turn toward another section of hardcore (with mods for the beginner) practical work. We give subscribers an other exercise. Episode 2 traverse diverse territories, keep the main themes running while slipping in a few new, large strands to run us forward. Subscribers can keep their eyes peeled for a private addendum. 

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Working from a rough outline that is largely jettisoned five minutes in, we cover an enormous amount of metaphysical, literary, and survival-based material. Picking up from the Pilot Series Finale we do serious work to further detail Inner Portals. We are found returning to Junger and building-out several conceptual tangents stemming from The Forest Passage. We term these Inner Survival Strategies. Fine fitment of related concepts such as Eliade's Sacred and Profane provides, for careful listeners, more treated space and description of the inner realms and their applicability to our world.

You'll find this material nowhere else. 

The Mold, Daemons, Hierophanies and basic Narrative Theory all get a reduction treatment which is served up in the subscriber's second hour where we pivot into accessing the multiplicities within, leveraging this realm into ritual to expand our survival options long and short term. As well, we go into finer detail on stress and sauna work in addition to continuing with the themes related to Musashi's Criminal of Purpose. 

We're just getting the Warhorse warmed up now. 

In the finale to the Pilot Series, with coyotes singing after the storm, dogs by my side, and fine weapons arrayed for comfort this recording arises from the times we live in--the propaganda, the strange pervasive tension, and the faint green glow of the divine fighter waiting in his shadowed corner. Here we stretch out--- and deliver exactly two solid hours of uncut, unedited monologue following a rough outline based on the topics of David Lynch, Heidegger, Michael Hoffman, the cliffhanger of episode 4, and our pillars of discussion thus far. 

We splice breathwork to deathwork and supplant our will back into ritual in an act of direct defiance in the face of technocracy. We detail the reality of true portals, touch on Ernst Junger, diversity, cuttlefish, cymatics, fractals, the essence of the artist, and drop some examples to help illustrate the fine points in the operation of re-binding our intuitive/emotional and reasoning centers to integrate along the panentheistic Jornada del Muerto.