Episode 37: Entities, with Stuart Davis

Weird Studies

Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.8 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Several years ago, on New Year’s Eve, a tall, purple-robed praying mantis appeared to multidisciplinary artist Stuart Evan Davis as he meditated while running a fever. “Remember who you work for,” the entity said after beaming a zettabyte of information into Stuart’s febrile mind. Though it lasted less than a minute, the encounter sparked a series of life-changing -- and hair-raising -- events worthy of a Philip K. Dick novel. JF and Phil talk to Stuart Davis to get his thoughts on nonhuman intelligences, the artistic cosmos, a movie trilogy the Mantis commissioned, and Stuart’s brilliant audio documentary, Man Meets Mantis. Header image by OLJA, Wikimedia Commons Stuart Davis Official Website Stuart Davis, Man Meets Mantis Stuart Davis, “Something from Nothing” course Jasmine Karimova, singer-songwriter Ramsey Dukes, The Good, The Bad, and the Funny John Mack, psychiatrist and abduction phenomenon researcher Jacques Vallee, ufologist John Keel, paranormal researcher Weird Studies episode 2, “Garmonbozia” Norman McLaren, Spheres Remedios Varo, artist Leonora Carrington, artist JF Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice Special Guest: Stuart Evan Davis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Specter Vision Radio.
0:03.3	Welcome to Weird Studies, an art and philosophy podcast with hosts Phil Ford and J.F. Martell.
0:21.8	For more episodes and to support the podcast, go to Weird Studies.com. Hi, this is Phil.
0:53.1	Today, JF and I have the very great pleasure of talking with Stuart Davis,
0:57.5	a screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, painter, songwriter, meditator, rock star, and, we can only assume,
1:06.1	astronaut, pirate, and president of the United States., no joke, he also invented a language.
1:13.5	If you look him up on the internet, you better pack a lunch,
1:16.8	because you're going to find yourself, hours later,
1:18.9	slipping ever further down the rabbit hole of his extraordinary, multifaceted creativity,
1:24.3	with no end in sight.
1:26.2	But if you only have, say, 74 minutes, go listen to his
1:30.0	audio documentary Man Meet's Mantis, which is the subject of our show today. On New Year's Eve,
1:37.5	2010, Stuart encountered an eight-foot-tall praying mantis entity, and this kicked off a series
1:43.0	of synchronicities and episodes of high
1:45.6	weirdness that would not be out of place in a Philip K. Dick novel. But this is not fiction.
1:51.7	It's not a put-on. Stuart is talking about things that actually happened to him.
1:56.7	J.F. and I have been talking about incorporeal entities since our first full show. But in this
2:02.0	episode, Rubber meets Experential Road, and here we talk about them, not as an idea, or as figures
2:08.3	in artistic representation, but as things in our own lives. Stuart is the rare soul, fearless enough
2:16.1	to talk openly about his own paranormal experiences.
2:20.3	Most people are not so fearless and for good reason, as the actual experience of incorporeal beings
2:26.3	marks the line between what consensus metaphysics can accept from the world and what it can't.
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