John Higgs | Talking Timothy Leary & Twentieth Century Weirdness

Rune Soup

Gordon White

Magic, Occult, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Paranormal, Ufo, Spirituality

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2016

⏱️ 88 minutes

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This week we speak to author John Higgs about the singular oddness that was the twentieth century -the century that gave us space travel, nuclear weapons, the internet, existentialism, quantum theory, chaos mathematics, some fairly impressive genocide events and the greatest material lift in quality of life for the most people ever.

Along the way we talk about Timothy Leary and the counterculture, meeting Robert Anton Wilson, Alan Moore's Fossil Angels and the shortcomings of transhumanism.

Very good times.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Roon Soup, a podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal.
0:07.0	Coming to you from...
0:09.0	My name is Gordon and I shall be your host. Enjoy.
0:26.7	Today on Roon Soup, we speak to John Higgs, author of, among other titles, I have America Surrounded, The Life of Timothy Leary, the K-Lef, Chaos, Magic,
0:31.3	and the Band who burned a million pounds and most recently
0:34.4	stranger than we can imagine making sense of the 20th century. John Higgs thank you very
0:40.1	much for your time.
0:41.1	Good to speak to you Gordon.
0:43.2	Yeah, do you know I was thinking and it's probably something that I guess Greg from Daily
0:48.9	Grail could answer but it's almost I think it's exactly a year or a year in a week since we were last hanging out in in cold
0:56.0	London.
0:57.0	Yeah it probably is something like that.
1:00.0	It was definitely old November wasn't it? The Daily Grail website though completely skews all my notions of time.
1:07.3	I remember in the late 90s.
1:10.2	It was a sort of a daily place to visit in the late 90s and all the sudden 20 years have disappeared and I
1:16.3	You know I've had a good time but I haven't had 20 years worth of time in that period
1:21.2	Well, I mean we're gonna come on to your book about the 20th century, but I guess thinking
1:26.4	about time and its passage is something you do.
1:31.0	Yes, that's a good place to start when it's 9 a.m. in the UK.
1:35.0	Well, we actually, we start with an easier question around here, which was, John, were you a weird kid?
1:41.0	As a kid, uh, I thought I was at the time.
1:47.0	You know, at the time I was the sort of little short kid who was into art and computers and things like that. With hindsight, you know, with what
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