Hi, this is Against Everyone with Connor Habib, a weekly podcast featuring my conversations with countercultural figures and presenting complex, philosophical, spiritual, and political ideas and their intersections in an engaging and accessible way.

Well, hello, friends. Are we all in a constant state of anxiety? Here in Ireland, this very day, this episode is going up.

We're about to get a new update on our COVID regulations. So these regulations come out every once in a while. And, you know, the week before

everybody just gets in this big flurry speculating what's going to be said, what should be said,

and how it's all going to play out. And I'm sure wherever wherever you are it's sort of a similar thing with your state

or your country and um you know will they do this will they do that and never mind the announcement of

the regulations what about after the regulations what's going to happen after this regulatory

period passes um what about the summer?

Will I be able to travel? What about, you know, when are restaurants going to open? If they're not

open where you live? What about gyms? What about this? What about that? Everything is this projection

into the future. I mean, anxiety is a relationship to the future, and it's a relationship to the future

that is very often felt in our bodies. I mean, really felt in our bodies. You know that feeling that

you get, and it might be different for you on your body than where it is for me, but that anxious

feeling locates itself. And so, in other words, anxiety is a form of bodily

felt fortune-telling. We are trying to anticipate the future to imagine it, and it's not really so good

of a method. That's what anxiety means to me, at least in

part, that people are trying to tell the future everywhere, but they're very limited in what

options they have, what symbols they might see, what kinds of language they might use to describe

it. So anxiety has that bodily symptom as well.

So we feel it somewhere on our anatomy. One of the things that people have turned to in our time

in to maybe deal with this anxiety is a magical toolkit right whether that's

astrology or taro or other forms of divination these are in a sense a way of laying out the shape

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