Politics of the Ocult in Two Thousand and Eight

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Rites: I'm already starting to see, you know, a right wing christian ideas becoming more prominent in the states. And then obviously, we've seen so many things happen in the last decade. So what's that been like for you? Rites: Almost it really had last decade in politics and society, really has been a justification, a concretization of some of the ideas that you were picking up on in two thousand an eight.

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.