Are We More Than We Think?

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There is an absence of a big picture, since with the decline of religion. Can it happen without religion? Can we have a secular mythology? Will that simply happen on small, micro communities or will people split up into their own interest groups? I mean, it's obviously another massive mass of questions. But how do you think about that? Is it poss like what needs to be true? What needs to happen for us to start developing the a sense of the big picture again?

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.