Rediscovering Enchantment w/ Laura Shapiro & Recluse

Enchantment, sacred dance, Gurdjieff, dancing deities, Charles Taylor, porous self, buffered/bounded self, porous self vs the bounded self, historic divide with the rise of secularism, Industrial Revolution, Protestant reformation, enchantment in non-Western cultures, the commonality of the mystical expanse in human culture/history, Deism, Deism as dividing line, artistic movements, Romanticism, magical realism, Aleister Crowley, chaos magic, the value of Crowley's lifestyle vs magical system, Oscar Janiger, Richard Alpert, LSD, Timothy Leary, John Lilly, ketamine, the physical changes in our brain w/ rise of secularism, quantum physics and the brain, the brain as a quantum computer, high weirdness, UFOs, ultraterrestrials, Mandela effect, the use of technology to "pierce the veil," neuroplasticity, the future of enchantment, Sidney Gottlieb, MK-ULTRA Mach II

Music by: Keith Allen Dennis

https://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/

Sources:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14INbZAe57xs-OSVDBm2zaVqaTyNtu-c4me5zTHLjU9g/edit?usp=sharing

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