guruilla » Tue Jan 05, 2016 1:33 pm wrote:Thinking to ask Levenda back onto the Liminalist podcast.
Any particular questions or subjects that RI-ers would like to have him address?
This is what we covered last time:the cultural dissonace of traveling, alternate approaches to writing, the lens of liminality, Levenda’s knack, teenage years, political and religious awareness, writing and synchronicity, the river of Tao & the writer’s mission, endless doubt, breaking the vow of silence, the dangers of inadvertently contributing to the cover-up, conspiracy culture, the Moon landing and the liminality of not-knowing, how the mainstream press has failed us, cherry-picking conspiracy-theorists, blood and documents, the loss of faith in institutions, pedophilia in the UK, a liminal period, rising mimesis, charisma and false ceremony masters, mimetic control, Mercury the trickster, Lord of the Crossroads, idolizing serial killers, Hannibal Lecter and the shadow of the shaman, betrayed by science, “Trust me, I”m a doctor,” the Golden Dawn Rule, the dummy’s guide to spiritual enlightenment, the novitiate and learning to trust the unconscious, shamanic dismemberment, anthropology infiltrated, academia in entropy, the closing down of spirituality, navigating the snake pit of the unconscious, the desire for certainty, Ayn Rand’s sociopathic ideal, identifying the scapegoat, on shifting sands, the end of idols, celebrity empowerment participation, Hollywood and Might is Right, the victory of technology over morality, negative identity and the scapegoat mechanism, a multiplicity of consciousness, the antithetical other, Americanism and the need for an enemy, the 3rd Reich and the US, manifest destiny, Rene Girard applied to geopolitics, a displaced people (US/Israel), living in a haunted house, communicating through attacking, using language as a perceptual weapon, displacing cultures, counter-cultural warfare, nation-abusers, validating the crime by repeating the crime, killing the savage.
Jimmy Savile and false individuation through violence, magical taboos, banishing the soul by desensitization, shamanically internalized violence, the serial killer as failed shaman, Jung and schizophrenic society, identification with community, Paul Bowles on the Arab unconscious, diverging psychologies, Americanism and homogeneity, “Star Trek” and colonialism, psychology disguised as politics, weaponizing Islam, Eisenhower and Dulles, the sorcerer’s apprentice, seeing as transforming, erasing the borders between subject and object, erasing liminality by embracing liminality, crossing the abyss, secular and sacred space.
Kubrick again, 2001-as-propaganda, religion-as-dissociation-mechanism, Ludendorff and war as the natural state, growth through conflict, Jasun’s magickal path, spirituality as pathology, the problem of individuation, saints’ visions of unresolved psychological material, right/wrong or real/unreal, Kubrick’s show and tell, the bid to conquer space and religion weaponized, space race as cultural warfare, Roman Catholic missiles, US thinking in boxes, William Sims Bainbridge and Galactic Religion, seeding memes through pop culture towards space colonization, the myth of inter-species communication, autism and ETs, Levenda’s idea of entertainment, scenes of devastation in the Hunger Games, identifying with fantasy victims.
Back to Girard, divinizing the scapegoat, Native Americans and autists, self-dehumanization, self-inflicted trauma, groups bound together by multiple trauma, how the US was founded by trauma victims, Mars tourism, infecting the Universe, the serial killer’s traumatic reenactment as US policy, Levenda’s middle way, becoming conscious of unconscious agency, becoming separate from compulsion, Catholic mass as trauma-reenactment, Levenda’s early communion experience, the body as focal point, blood and Eros, evolutionary engineering and the cure that almost works, psychism vs. enlightenment, the two Tantras, Crowley and the Black Brothers, Jasun’s failed will to power, the spiritual smorgasbord of psychic fragmentation, embodiment as the only thing that works, imaginary Rosicrucians and the doctors of the soul.
http://auticulture.com/the-liminalist-1 ... r-levenda/
In a recent interview on the Higher Side Chats radio show, Levenda implied being a witness to certain non-ordinary or high-strangeness events in association with ritual magic, suggesting that certain individuals in power are also aware that these rituals produce results and have honed their effectiveness. I'd be curious if he would go into greater detail about these events that he has witnessed.
Perhaps this is described in one of his books that I've not yet read, but if not then it might be a good avenue to inquire about.
