Hello, friends. I want to start this episode by talking about what this show and my writing

and my project overall has been about all this time. And you've probably heard it come up on the show

before if you listen to the show a lot, which is just asking the question, what is the

human being and being honest with our answers and letting our cultural and political and

economic thoughts, feelings, and actions unfurl from that. It is a spiritual project which finds a lot of

alignment with the project of anthroposophists, Rosicrucians, other Christian esotericists,

but, you know, I also have to say it's my own project. I have my headquarters

in a lot of esoteric and occult traditions, but of course I have my own things that I'm interested in,

literature, horror, postmodern philosophy, weird French films, and so forth.

So punk rock, you know, it all comes together what I'm trying to do.

And another way of saying all of that is that I'm trying to draw on all the sort of aspects of reality of being

human that rupture the existing order and help me create a door to a different kind of world,

or maybe even help me recreate the world entirely.

Look, obviously, I don't think I'm doing this on my own.

I don't think that I am just some, you know,

Alistair Crowley, El Ron Hubbard, John Whiteside Parsons person trying to tear a fabric in space-time in desert

to release Babylon or the Antichrist or whatever. I don't think that would be very good and useful, and I also don't think I could do it.

But I do think that creating connections between myself and other people, and are useful and I also don't think I could do it.

But I do think that creating connections between myself and other people that are interested in sort of tilting the prism of, you know, that we have available to us and letting the light

to refract in different ways and newly newly colorful ways, so that we can

see anew and start again is really important. A way of talking about this, another way still,

is reconstructing reality. And that's what I talk about a lot in this episode with

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