Aug 3, 2021
What power might we have to conjure our own creations from the void? Is it possible to, even inadvertently, focus so much energy and attention on an idea or an image, that we draw it forth from the darkness of a nameless space and into a coffee shop or a gas station on our daily route?
On this episode, we recount reality-bending experiences from sci-fi and comic authors and artists such as Philip K Dick, Alan Moore, and Barry Windsor-Smith, who incorporated their incredible brushes with the paranormal into their work. And with the help of Jeffrey J. Kripal’s ‘Mutants and Mystics', we begin to examine the fraying threads at the edges of our reality and ask the question, “who is writing who?”.
Could the tales of creators bumping into their own creations be just a small footnote within the pages of a compendium of collected high-strangeness stories that all point to staggering truth about life itself?
So, Fill up the inkwell and brush off the moleskin, cause we’re gonna conjure us some cosmic adventure!
Also.. Sex Magic Consideration, Escaping a Drunken Car Chase, and Everybody Loves Keanu Reeves
FULL SHOW NOTES:
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3:12 | Real Mermaid Encounters, Sirens and Strange Seas
TIMESTAMPS:
4:02 | Topic Introduction - Authors’ reality-altering paranormal
experiences
7:11 | Angels and Free will
Correction from Jinn Episode
9:57 | Authors receive hidden
knowledge by supernatural force - VALIS - Phillip K Dick
12:29 | QUESTION OF THE DAY: can
reality and characters be written into existence?
13:16 | Jeffrey J Cripple Quote:
“Re-enchanting” the academic field, Bringing the magic
back
Mutants and Mystics: Science
Fiction, Superhero Comics, And The Paranormal
14:50 | Alan Moore - infusing magic
and occult into Pop Culture
16:27 | Alan Moore runs into his
character, Constantine, in real life
18:46 | Keanu Reeves a nice guy or
supernatural being?
19:45 | The paranormal writes us as we write the paranormal
25:28 | Kripal on Alan Moore’s
magical experience
27:08 | Alan Moore talking to Goetic
demons on magic mushrooms
29:53 | Expansion Preview - Real
Mermaid Encounters, Siren Stories and Strange Seas
21:22 | Expansion Clip - the darker side of mermaids
34:05 | Pop Culture created from
private paranormal experiences | Jeffrey Kripal - Doug
Moench
35:25 | Planet of the Apes comic
book writer conjures black-hooded intruder
39:21 | Creating Tulpas, Thought
Forms, and Golems
42:43 | Crisis Apparitions/ ghost
encounters decrease with the rise of television and technology
distraction
44:05 | Conan the Barbarian - time
travel visions
50:28 | Barry Windsor-Smith and the
Black Waves of Time
58:22 | How to trick drunk drivers
during a car chase
1:00:17 | Disentangling the mind
from the brain, post-humanism challenge
1:04:04 | The Start Trek Transporter
Paradox and the Tuvix Conundrum
1:06:21 | Phillip K Dick - VALIS -
his real experience with gnosis
1:09:59 | Phillip K Dick Simulation
Theory Clip
01:12:32 | Phillip K Dick meets
Kathy, triggers cascade go gnostic experiences
1:14:50 | Boto Encantado - mythical
man-dolphin from Brazil
1:16:08 | Phillip K Dick - Parallel
timelines inspired by past lives and future visions
1:18:30 | Was Phillip K Dick
psychotic? On drugs? Mental Illness VS Reality
Revelations
1:24:35 | Hello JO! and Thank You,
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