The Other in Us Doesn't Use Language, but It Speaks

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i often find that i have a song going through my head, and then i realize it's appropriate to the sit on it. It doesn't speak directly in the way that i'm trying to, but it takes stuff around it that you can use to communicate something. The more you do that, the more you realize there's you colond, you have an ally. You're not alone. Like the old football song, you never walk alone. It's like there is somebody else there. It's you, but tis that you're not familiar with.

Gary Lachman is a writer and philosopher, whose work focuses on human imagination and the history of occult ideas. In this episode we discuss:

- Moving between the rational and the imaginative modes of consciousness - The rise of meme magic in politics and how Trump, Putin others have used it - How to make sense of a world dominated by philosophies of nihilism

We also discuss Gary’s experience in the rock band Blondie in the mid 70s, how the internet shapes reality and the history of some of the most important ideas about consciousness.