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PhenomenoumenaDario Argento's Suspiria DecodedIn this episode, we turn our eyes (and ears) to Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977) and present a number of groundbreaking interpretations that show a few levels of hidden depth to Argento's amazing film. People cited include, in alphabetical order, Edward Bernays, Bruno Bettelheim, Jacques Ellul, Sigmund Freud, Fulcanelli, Brothers Grimm, Carl Jung, Satoshi Kon, Otto Rank, José Saramago, Shakespeare, Denis Villeneuve, Ken Wilber, and Slavoj Zizek. Please visit our Twitter account @phenomenoumena to see some of the images discussed on the podcast.
2022-04-0138 minPhenomenoumenaYou Never Know What You Think You Know - Concluding CounterintuitivesIn this episode, we wrap up our talk about counterintuitive concepts with a lot of brain-twisting material. Thinkers cited: William Ian Beardmore Beveridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Immanuel Kant, Plato, Rudy Rucker, Erwin Schrodinger, Ken Wilber, and others.
2022-02-2558 minPhenomenoumenaSpecial Guest - Ken Shamrock (sort of...) - Counterintuitives Part 1In this first of a two-part episode, we launch from a brief conversation with UFC, PRIDE and overall MMA legend Ken Shamrock into a deep exposition of counterintuitive ideas in fields ranging from the martial arts to mathematics. People discussed include, in random order, Daniel Kahneman, Wittgenstein, Brian Eno, Ken Shamrock, Royce Gracie, Rickson Gracie, Nobuhiko Takada, Ouspensky, Kathryn Schulz, Plato, and Socrates.
2021-12-2159 minPhenomenoumenaSpecial guest - Coby Michael - A poisonous, magical path through plant psychedelicsIn this episode, we have a fascinating conversation with our special guest Coby Michael on his book The Poison Path Herbal: Baneful Herbs, Medicinal Nightshades, and Ritual Entheogens. Coby Michael is a practitioner of the Poison Path of occult herbalism and a cultivator of entheogenic herbs. He contributes to the Pagan Archives at Valdosta University, writes regularly for The House of Twigs, and maintains a blog, Poisoner's Apothecary, on Patheos Pagan.
2021-11-0951 minPhenomenoumenaDiving Into Satoshi Kon's Paprika - What is the ecstasy that blooms in synapses? (fixed)Sorry about the reverb issue! It's been fixed. In this episode, we analyze the 2006 film Paprika, one of Satoshi Kon's animated film masterpieces. Paprika was a main influence on Christopher Nolan's Inception, and here we look at Kon's film at great analytical depth. Artists and thinkers discussed include Dario Argento, Baudrillard, Freud, Habermas, Jung, Akira Kurosawa, John C Lilly, David Lynch, Nagarjuna, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Wlber, and Zizek.
2021-10-161h 14PhenomenoumenaDiving Into Satoshi Kon's Paprika - What is the ecstasy that blooms in synapses?In this episode, we analyze the 2006 film Paprika, one of Satoshi Kon's animated film masterpieces. Paprika was a main influence on Christopher Nolan's Inception, and here we look at Kon's film at great analytical depth. Artists and thinkers discussed include Dario Argento, Baudrillard, Freud, Habermas, Jung, Akira Kurosawa, John C Lilly, David Lynch, Nagarjuna, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Wlber, and Zizek.
2021-10-151h 14PhenomenoumenaDecoding The Thirteenth Floor (1999) and Nick Bostrom's Simulation TheoryThis episode is a mindblowing mash-up of film analysis and philosophy as we discuss the 1999 film The Thirteenth Floor in connection with Nick Bostrom’s simulation theory. Other thinkers cited include, in alphabetical order, Baudrillard, Descartes, Philip K. Dick, Dostoyevsky, Gurdjieff, Kierkegaard, Lacan, Jaron Lanier, Leibniz, Ouspensky, Wilber, Zizek.
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PhenomenoumenaBecoming the Superman (Part 3 of 3)This episode concludes our truly in-depth look at man and superman. People referenced during the episode include Nietzsche, Ken Wilber, Ouspensky, Gurdjieff, Jung, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Laibach, Freud, and Nagarjuna.Please also visit us on Twitter:https://twitter.com/phenomenoumenaAnd Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/join/Phenomenoumena
2021-07-301h 37PhenomenoumenaBecoming the Superman (Part 2 of 3)This episode is the second act of our truly in-depth look at man and superman. Thinkers referenced during the episode include Ouspensky, Gurdjieff, Nietzsche, Freud, Krishnamurti, Alan Watts and Ken Wilber.
2021-07-091h 13PhenomenoumenaBecoming the Superman (Part 1)This episode marks the start of a truly in-depth look at man and superman. Thinkers referenced during the episode include Ouspensky, Gurdjieff, Nietzsche, Freud, Schiller, Alan Watts and Ken Wilber.
2021-06-1851 minPhenomenoumenaLooking Ahead to the Future of Technology and Intellectual Capital (Part 2 of 2)In this episode, we follow up on the Amiga talk in the previous episode with broader and more philosophical perspectives looking at the world at the levels of technology, politics, education and consciousness. The discussion focuses on where the world is heading and ideas for a better future world. We cite the works of Brooks Adams, Richard Baldwin, G.I. Gurdjieff, Alan Kay, Laibach, Thomas Malory, Douglas Rushkoff, John Ruskin, Doug Stanhope, Ken Wilber and Robert Anton Wilson, among others. We also discuss Ro Khanna, Rand Paul, Bernie Sanders and make special mention of Wil Wheaton in a short...
2021-04-301h 32PhenomenoumenaLooking Back on the Computer of the Future (Part 1 of 2)In this episode, we go on a 1980s-90s cyberpunk adventure, starting with world’s-first translations from Japanese to English of excerpts from a book by Susumu Hirasawa. We explore the reality underneath the marketing in the home computing war of the era, discussing Douglas Engelbart and the Mother of all Demos, Halt and Catch Fire, the Stanford Research Institute, Xerox PARC and much more, all while taking an in-depth look back at the machine that was the computer of the future - the famed Amiga.
2021-04-1653 minPhenomenoumenaSpecial guest - Richard SmoleyIn this episode, we invite special guest Richard Smoley, a Harvard and Oxford-educated author, to discuss his most recently published book, A Theology of Love: Reimagining Christianity through A Course in Miracles – A Spirituality Based on Love Not Fear. “A Course in Miracles” is a channeled work by Helen Schucman which most recently entered public consciousness through 2020 presidential candidate Marianne Williamson, a follower of A Course in Miracles who famously told then-President Donald Trump “You have harnessed fear for political purposes, and only love can cast that out.” This interview is uncut. We also touch on the works of Chogyam Tr...
2021-03-261h 41PhenomenoumenaVeganism, Ecology and PsychedelicsIn this episode of the Phenomenoumena podcast, Gino and Ray have a highly nuanced and thought-provoking conversation centering on veganism accompanied by thoughts on ecology, psychedelics, and the future of the world. Thinkers cited include Stewart Brand, Joseph Campbell, Immanuel Kant, Stanley Krippner, Terence McKenna, John Rawls, Peter Singer, and Slavoj Zizek.
2021-02-261h 44PhenomenoumenaHaving GuestsIn this bonus episode of Phenomenoumena, the co-hosts discuss the nuanced issues involved with having guests on the podcast. We also talk about the controversial "race and IQ" debate and give some spoilers about coming episodes. We refer to Chogyam Trungpa, Joe Rogan, Robert M. Price, Stephen Hawking, and others.
2021-02-0827 minPhenomenoumenaLacan, Gurdjieff & the Wolf of Gubbio"Lacan, Gurdjieff & the Wolf of Gubbio" is an encompassing and insightful conversation delving into psychology, philosophy and much more. Thinkers and artists cited include: Moishe Postone, Ouspensky, Freud, Sean Homer, Slavoj Zizek, David Lynch and others.We need your support to continue creating new content. Please visit our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Phenomenoumena
2021-01-281h 29PhenomenoumenaThe Episode About UsThe Phenomenoumena episode that introduces the hosts of the show and much more.We truly need your support to continue creating new content. Please visit our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Phenomenoumena
2021-01-2843 minPhenomenoumenaSpecial guest James ForshawThis new episode of Phenomenoumena features James Forshaw, security researcher in Google's Project Zero. He has many years of experience in the security field, from cracking game consoles to exposing a $100,000 exploit for Microsoft. He's the creator of the protocol capture tool, CANAPE, and gives talks at hacker conferences like Black Hat and Chaos Computer Congress. We need your support to continue creating new content. Please visit our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Phenomenoumena
2021-01-271h 34PhenomenoumenaStanley Kubrick's The Shining DecodedIn this episode of the Phenomenoumena podcast, we give a groundbreaking analysis of Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining (1980) from multiple perspectives which are grounded in the details of the film. We explore mise en scene and other considerations which will be revealed upon listening. We invoke the works of Oscar Ichazo, Joseph Campbell, Arthur Schopenhauer, George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii (Ouspensky), Posidonius, David Lynch and Stephen King, among others.
2021-01-071h 16PhenomenoumenaMicrogeny Recapitulates CosmologyIn this episode of the Phenomenoumena podcast, we deal with the concept that the unfolding of each moment embodies the unfolding of the entire cosmos. We explore meditation, ritual and sacred and mundane time through the work of Mircea Eliade and in various cultural contexts, including the Book of Genesis, tarot cards, the days of the week, the eight-circuit model of consciousness as described by Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson, Japanese festivals and the two truths of Buddhism. This includes a critique of the mindfulness industry and its relationship to Wall Street speculation.
2020-12-1238 minPhenomenoumenaIn Praise of IdlenessIn his essay "In Praise of Idleness," Bertrand Russell argues for shorter work days and fewer days of work per week. In this premiere Phenomenoumena podcast, we discuss the details and reflect on Russell's observations, which are, if anything, even more relevant today than they were in 1932 when this thought-provoking essay was authored.
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