The Nick Margerrison podcast

Interview with Jon Ronson from the archives. I’m quite obviously a huge fan of his work. The film we discuss has been posted on Youtube and, while it’s there, I suggest you take a look. Link at the bottom. Title of the film is “Reverend Death”. The second half of the podcast is the story of watching the Boston attack via Twitter. It’s based on a blog entry on www.margerrisons.blogspot.com called ‘Watching tragedy unfold online… #blamethebombers’. Thanks to all the tweeters who helped us all make sense of that particular night. You know who you all are. Do join me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/nickmargerrison -- Jon Ronson film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VR7mK5hZwU "Reverend Death" Music used in podcast: http://www.youtube.com/mmmontagemusic

This interview really struck me at the time. I was taken aback by how mundane everything was as the best friend of a serial killer told me about his time as a boy playing games and mucking about. MUSIC: http://www.youtube.com/mmmontagemusic TWITTER: www.twitter.com/nickmargerrison

Still one of my favourite websites to browse. This interview amuses me because of the gap between a true believer in the field and a casual observer such as myself's realities. Teleportation devices are real? Ace. MUSIC from: http://www.youtube.com/mmmontagemusic www.twitter.com/nickmargerrison

A belief system is sometimes tricky to spot in the cut and thrust of your average cult member's life. There's nothing wrong with beliefs it's just important to remember how alike to fantasy they are. These two interviews are on the same theme. One of them is about a tribe in the middle of nowhere and the other is from a writer who scribbled out an ace book a few years ago called "Don't Get Fooled Again". Original interviews with: Daniel Everett Richard Wilson MUSIC from: http://www.youtube.com/mmmontagemusic Follow me on twitter here: www.twitter.com/nickmargerrison

Without doubt Stewart Lee cut a heroic figure in my life for a certain period. He was obviously brilliant yet had been totally abandoned by the mainstream for no clear reason. It fascinated me that someone who was so obviously a genius in his field was playing small rooms and doing wilfully odd things at gigs. This interview was done just before he hit the bigtime for a second time. It's an interesting little period piece in that sense. However, it's very much a fan interview so I suggest you go watch some of his stuff on YouTube first. NM MUSIC: http://www.youtube.com/mmmontagemusic

This interview with "Prophet Yaweh" is marked with an "explicit" rating. It's potentially VERY offensive. The point of it is to suggest that you can and do create your own reality by projecting your intent outwards. If your intent is to call down a UFO or ET or Demon, you'd be surprised at the apparent results. I don't suggest you call one, I do think the 50p experiment in the previous podcast might be a better idea. "and the only reason I was abducted by aliens in Kathmanduin 1994 was because I went to Kathmandu in 1994 to be abducted by aliens! And it works right? And these fuckers, they will turn...

This podcast features an interview with Jerry Gandalfo, an expert in Voodoo. It also contains part 2 of Essays For The Discordian Occultist. This is an audio version of the series I wrote for the Disinfo.com website. They're easily found there. Music you can hear in the background: http://www.youtube.com/mmmontagemusic My twitter: www.twitter.com/nickmargerrison

This week's episode of The CON features a couple of interviews with David Shayler. It also contains a cracking comment on the Lucid Dreaming episode which leads me neatly into why that is to be your first step into "the occult". If you wanna tweet me I'm @nickmargerrison NM CREDITS: The track at the end, Benjy's Silver Bullets, is here: http://benjyssilverbullets.com/ Music you can hear in the background: http://www.youtube.com/mmmontagemusic

Last week's interview with Timothy Good has kind of kicked off a bit of a UFO trip for me at the moment so it's that aspect of the Margerrison archives we're plumbing the depths of again this week. I also try to explain my Meme launching attempts. And we get to another interesting lucid dreaming experience. I'm followable on: www.twitter.com/nickmargerrison The Adam Entwistle track we end the podcast with is here: http://everythingmustgrow.tumblr.com/post/41744551890/fractal Music you can hear in the background: http://www.youtube.com/mmmontagemusic

We got some vital feedback to last week's episode in the form of a comment on my blog ( www.margerrisons.blogspot.com ) which is read out in this week's episode. If you have been trying the lucid dreaming experiments outlined last week put your results into the comments section and we'll look at your experiences soon. If you do go check out my personal blog, or maybe you're even reading this on it now, there's a big grey iTunes button you can click on to subscribe to the podcast. A side note here, I forget to mention in this podcast that the interview seems to be me in my full on "true believer" mode where I totally went for the idea that ET's were real. I'm not so sure on all that these days but still consider it possible. Nick Margerrison FURTHER READING: Timothy Good is here: http://www.timothygood.co.uk/ I reference a film in this podcast, it's here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnNSe5XYp6E