Filmmaker and writer JF Martel, cohost of Weird Studies, guides a Dungeon Master practice in this episode. Topics include surrendering to a story in speculative fiction, the nature of imagination, and exploring the dark underbelly of our imaginations. The discussion touches on dream yoga, Jungian archetypes, and the imagination as a sense organ.

JF Martel, host of Weird Studies podcast, joins Thaddeus Russell to discuss the crisis of art, reclaiming it, imposter syndrome, artifice in the modern age, ancient cave art, Jung's archetypes, Van Gogh's sunflower paintings, reductivism, art and religion, and navigating the future.