42 - Self-Medicating at the Green Robin

This might be one of the most involved episodes we've recorded. We start out with a Gus Update, then move into discussions of lost civilizations, similarities in different mythologies, indecipherable languages, and dreams of green darkness.

Then, in part 2, we begin an incredibly ambitious and free-ranging conversation about language and the world of archetypes, how they might manifest both in characters and in human beings, and what a "choral reef" of lesser gods might look like. How might these beings interact through art?

This is pretty dense stuff, and one of my favorite conversations Kris and I have had so far. We're getting somewhere here, and really running up against the barriers of the language we have to describe it.

Part 1:

Maintenance Art / Black Phoenicians / The Handbags of the Gods / Strange Languages

Part 2:

Roko’s Basilisk / Archetypes as Psychic Resonances / The Etymology of “Character” / Lives of Archetypes

SHOW NOTES:

Drinking Blood

Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Maintenance Art Manifesto

Colette's libretto for Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges

Are Neanderthals Trolls?

Black Etruscans/Phoenicians

In the Dark Places of Wisdom by Peter Kingsley

Rapa Nui Walking Statues

Gobekli Tepe

The Handbags of the Gods

Rongorongo

Dagon’s Pope Hat

Bam Margera’s Rap Language

Sir Joseph Banks

Pascal’s Wager

Roko’s Basilisk

The Corpus Hermeticum

Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

Key 23 from The Invisibles (Incorrectly referred to as “Key 6” in the episode)

Carl Dennis

Symptoms in the Mind by Andrew Sims

Harold Pinter

Edward Albee

David Mamet