There must be something else going on here, but i don't expect to have a specific kind of answer to it. The mind boggles like that's it. You and i are having this conversation because 15 billion years ago, less than nothing blew up for no reason. So it's, i don't know about you, but i find that dissatisfying. But am so this lost knowledge, in a way, is what see, it's lost knowledge n imagination in two different ways. There's knowledge of the world, of experience, of reality that nation can provide, and then there's knowledge about imagination itself that's lost.
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.