Self Portraits As Other People

When we think of occult, shamanic, or mystical beings, we tend to think in terms of spiritual abstraction, dissociated from the material world. But the occult simply means the hidden — the invisible world, whose effects on our fortune and health are real, even when the origins of their symptoms can't be detected with the naked eye. Long before the microscope, our ancestors were in relationship wit...

Evolutionary catch-up & pre-game for the upcoming episode, Microbial Occultism", w/ guest Fishing in Space. Find/follow Fishing in Space : ✨ Youtube/TikTok: @fishinginspace ✨ IG: fishing_in space Preparatory viewing / reading / listening: 🎣 From Fishing in Space: 🧙 Featured audio: “Hauntings, Curses and Witchcraft” 🕸️ Recommended vids: ✨ The Entoptic Temple pt 1 ✨ How to Destroy Parasite...

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Eric Wargo, author of “Time Loops” and “Precognitive Dreamwork & the Long Self,” returns to Self Portraits As Other People to talk about his new book “From Nowhere: Artists, Writers, and the Precognitive Imagination.” We navigate the nebulous c-word and the various facets of its counterpart The Unconscious, the role the body plays in precognitive phenomena, themes of archetypal inversion, the...

“My guest is the house that hosts me and I am the ghost that haunts it.” This bi-coastal episode is a meditation on the meaning of home as a locational vibration, from the nomadic vantage point of a perpetual “stranger passing through town.” The 1st half examines the subconscious sonic textures through which places speak to us. I recorded this segment while going through a deep emotional process,...

In this improvised walk-and-talk monoloque I reflect on (and atone for) the time I met Werner Herzog at the premiere of lan Cheney’s documentary film “Arc of Oblivion.” I use this anecdote as a jump off point to share thoughts about documentation, impersonation, Spiritualism as Proto-feminism, my time working as a photo double for the Riggs character in the Lethal Weapon TV show, the relative dura...

(Headphones recommended for optimal immersion in and enjoyment of the show's intro and outro ) Jesse Jacobs is an imaginative comic book writer and illustrator from Canada. His books include Crawl Space, Safari Honeymoon, By This Shall You Know Him , and New Pets . His compelling, cartoon worlds and their inhabitants call to mind the pataphysical taxonomies of works like the Codex Seraphinianus ,...

I attended Sophia’s psychedelic psundsay psermon recently, on an actual Sunday in an actual church, in Asheville, NC. She may be an anthropologist, but she is no anthro-apologist, for this talk regarded “inter-species dialogues & plant consciousness.” & so we met up later that week to talk tardigrades, Jericho roses & the death & resurrection of words. To ponder prayer, spin recurs...

This, the shortest solo pod to date, relays the frenetically inspiring energy of New York City, as a storied palimpsest of ever evolving Lore. I'm gonna leave it at that and let the piece speak for itself. Music: Miles Davis - Bitches' Brew The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo www.theungoogleable.com IG: void_denizen YT, X, TikTok, etc: https://Linktr.ee/void_denizen SUPPORT SPAOP: -Subscribe -Share -Ra...

( 🎧 ) I've been transitioning. First from my humble jungle abode to my father's neurodegerative memory palace in Miami, & now I've just landed in the urban jungle of NYC for my art show & performance on August 13th. I used to spend a lot of time here pre-911, was gonna move here even & am sure to recover memories long forgotten, parts of myself I stored for future visitation. That's t...

( 🎧 recommended ) Nathan Dufour Oglesby, PhD, aka Nathanology is a rap-educating professor of classics, performance philosopher, activist, & video artist. Nathan & I talk about the relationship between Language and nature, while discussing the nature of inter-generational relationships w one's eco/home. We touch upon the Mayan fable of the Toh bird (aka the Nathaniel bird) & the unfor...

Jungle life is not without its perils, or as Werner Herzog put it, the jungle is “an unfinished country. It's still prehistorical. The only thing that is lacking is the dinosaurs here. It's like a curse weighing on an entire landscape. And whoever goes too deep into this has his share of this curse.” Some of this curse has fallen upon me, it seems, and I am working hard to lift it. In the Mexican...

( 🎧 &"introspectacles" recommended 4 optimal immersion & enjoyment ) There are few words in circulation with as many disparate & ill-defined interpretations as “consciousness” & no one, as far as I’m concerned, has narrowed down a more concise definition thanJulian Jaynes in his 📖 The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Marcel Kuijsten founded the Jul...

(( headphones recommended for optimal immersion and enjoyment )) “Art is the only truly effective means we have of engaging, in a communal context, the psyche on its own terms,” writes jF Martel, the co-host of the Weird Studies podcast and the author of the brilliant book “Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice”, in which he distills a clear, working definition of art, in relation to its antithesi...

(( headphones recommended for optimal immersion and enjoyment )) Proficient in both digital & traditional media, Jake is one of the few formally trained visionary artists. I was his guest on ep.10 of The Quarantine Sessions, a podcast he began hosting at the onset of the pandemic. Nowadays he sporadically casts pods as solo spells, wherein he discusses his study & practice of Magick. Along...

(( headphones recommended for optimal immersion and enjoyment )) Dave Green’s simple line drawings come across as iconographic glyphs. These drawings are recreations, upon waking, of drawings he created in a lucid dream state. Lately he has been experimenting with giving his pen & paper to other people in his dreams to see what they create. His art has been featured in BBC Science Focus and Dr...

(( headphones recommended )) Time for a solo pod! In the spirit of modular storytelling this episode offers five written/spoken/sound-scaped vignettes. All the stories are based in the Ayahuasca experience, sourced from my private stash. Not unlike an audiobook, the dark, poetic prose intends to take the audience on an immersive listening experience, enchanting them into an altered state. The main...

(( headphones recommended )) Aside from facilitating plant medicine ceremonies & vending shamanic paraphernalia, Kent Osborn is also a painter & writer. He published a book of his Ayahuasca-inspired, visionary art called InKENTations , & wrote Shinan , which chronicles the different "kené"--the circuitous designs distinct to the Shipibo tribe of the Ucayali region of Peru. The patterns...

((( headphones recommended for optimal immersion and enjoyment ))) I’d describe Eric Wargo as an oneiric archeologist. He’s the author of “Time Loops: Retrocausation, Precognition, and The Unconscious” as well as a recent handbook for interpreting message from the future received in dreams called “Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self.” I resonate with the ideas he puts forth so much that I’ve...

((headphones recommended for an optimal listening experience)) Gib Strange is a writer of post-ironic, meta-modern fiction. His witty work is filled w/ carefully balanced, tessellated paradoxes & insightful observations. He released parts of his novel, Notes From The Uncanny Valley , as an audiobook-disguised-as-podcast. It’s a "coming-of-information-age" kinda tale, permeated by a feeling of...

((((headphones recommended for an optimal listening experience)))) Jennifer Sodini is the author of "the Amenti Oracle: Feather Heart Deck and Guidebook" and "Everyday Amenti". She's the host of the "Radio Amenti" podcast, and has recently contributed writings to Rolling Stone magazine. She's also the social media mogul who founded the platform Evolve & Ascend, which received an overhaul just...

"Set in Amsterdam, a heroic dose of magic mushrooms sets the hero's journey of a young artist in motion, as he undergoes a perceptual apocalypse that dismantles the known world from the inside out." This is the audio version of this illustrated text: medium.com/@voiddenizen/the-tr…e-fall-e23e8e8be41e Outro music: Monkey Business by Void Denizen (available on Spotify & Bandcamp) Support SPAOP:...

(((Headphones recommended for optimal enjoyment))) Anthony Peake is the author of 11 books. Their names should clue you in to the kind of subject matter that saturates his research. His titles include Is There Life After Death: The Extraordinary Science of What Happens When We Die , The Daemon: A Guide To Your Extraordinary Secret Self , The Hidden Universe , The Out Of Body Experience , The Infin...

(((Headphones MANDATORY for optimal enjoyment))) After ep. 6 w/ Stuart Davis & his mantic antics, you probably thought you’d never encounter another esoteric Davis on this show. But you were wrong because the esoteric Erik Davis is in the (haunted) house! Erik is a prolific writer, speaker, cultural critic & social analyst, best known for his books TechGnosis , High Weirdness , Nomad Codes...

(((Headphones MANDATORY for optimal enjoyment))) Everybody loves Ramin. In my humble o’pineal, his creations deserve a Best Of The Web award. Why can’t YOU be more like Ramin? You’ve seen him tell an animated tale of timeline confusion on his way back from Dee EmTeeness on “Tales From The Trip” (DMTv). You’re already familiar with his podcast the Rainbow Brainskull Hour, and OF COURSE you know his...