The Dark Watchers
Desert Oracle Radio
Ken Layne
4.9 • 852 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Where there are mountains, there are mysteries. Tonight we visit with some old friends who've long haunted the Indians, the Spaniards and the Americans. They are called the Dark Watchers, and as usual their world is part of ours, tied up in our own recent history of desert mystics such as Aldous Huxley and the ancient culture of the Esselen. Hosted by Ken Layne, with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.
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| 0:00.0 | Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, |
| 0:10.3 | now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert. |
| 0:16.9 | Night has fallen on the desert. |
| 0:23.1 | Did you get that last blast of winter out here in the American West? |
| 0:32.1 | Maybe the last blast you never know. |
| 0:37.1 | The heaviest I've ever |
| 0:39.3 | seen it snow |
| 0:40.6 | in the Mojave anyway |
| 0:43.5 | was in the |
| 0:46.3 | merry month of May |
| 0:48.1 | a dozen odd years ago |
| 0:51.7 | snowed in snowed in a dozen odd years ago. Snowden. |
| 1:00.0 | Well, whatever little bit of weather we get out here, this time of year, it is to be appreciated it's a beautiful thing when misty clouds are blowing around our east side mountain tops |
| 1:23.3 | like you're in the coast range, the coastal range, all of a sudden, |
| 1:33.0 | minus the fog, I suppose, and the humidity that goes with it. |
| 1:43.1 | But sometimes the wind blasting the house sounds like the waves crashing at Big Sur. |
| 1:52.4 | Like you're at sea. |
| 1:55.4 | A sea of sand. |
| 2:15.3 | And then in the morning you spend an hour or two picking up all the exotic and common bits of garbage that have caught on your fence if you have a little bit of fence If you have a little bit of fence. |
| 2:23.7 | It's nice when you pick up some old styrofoam soft drink cup, |
| 2:31.1 | and it comes apart in your fingers and blows into the ragweed that you're going to pull any day now. |
| 3:03.8 | Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Speaking of the sea and the wind, Some years ago, I spent some time alone in a narrow little cabin, built high up on the rocks over |
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