Hi, this is against everyone with Connor Habib, a podcast featuring my conversations with

countercultural figures and presenting complex, spiritual, political, and philosophical ideas

and their intersections in an engaging and accessible way. I can't believe that this is the 150th episode of this show.

So I'm going to just talk for a while on this episode,

and I'm going to go pretty in-depth about the occult view of the dead, dying, death, its political importance,

all that. So, you know, obviously we are living in a time where there's a kind of mass

consciousness about death and the dead that's

permeated our everyday actions, our laws, the political sphere. And I wanted to lay to rest just

for this episode, the podcast as it is with a guest, with a living, and so instead have the dead

as guests on the show. Now, I'm not going to do a Ouija board. In fact, I'm going to speak out

against that a little bit towards the end of the episode. But this is more about inviting the dead in, understanding the dead, the presence of death in our psyche, and talking with the dead, and how all that is the most important, or one of the most important tasks of our time.

There are multiple layers to this, of course. On the one hand,

you could turn to the death positive movement to understand some of this, which has been spearheaded

by my good friend Caitlin Doty, who's been on the show multiple times. Think about how differently

we would have handled disaster and corpses and funeral rights and rituals and regulations

throughout the past year if we had a different feeling about death.

Or you can think about death from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Peter Rollins, Todd McGowan, Elliot Morgan, people have been on the show, certainly do that.

And we can think about the ways our politics in

everyday lives would be changed if we accepted the Freudian concept of the death drive or

the Lacanian concept of the death drive and the lack. You know, accepting the presence of absence

and the longing for absence in our lives. That probably would have changed things in the past year. But I want to

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