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Episode 153: Celestial Machine: On the Temperance Card in the Tarot
Episode | September 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 19 mins
angelology, art, cybernetics, religion, technology
Phil and JF discuss the fourteenth arcanum, traditionally known as Temperance.
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Episode 94: All is Mysterious: On the Moon Card in the Tarot
Episode | March 17th, 2021 | 1 hr 14 mins
JF and Phil continue their series on the tarot with a discussion of the eighteenth major arcanum.
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Episode 60: Space is the Place: On Sun Ra, Gnosticism, and the Tarot
Episode | November 20th, 2019 | 1 hr 25 mins
esotericism, magic, music
JF and Phil discuss Sun Ra's strange and prophetic film, "Space is the Place."
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Episode 82: On The I Ching
Episode | September 16th, 2020 | 1 hr 29 mins
divination, i ching
Phil and JF discuss the great Chinese oracle.
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Episode 168: Visions of the Wasteland: On George Miller's 'Mad Max' Films
Episode | May 1st, 2024 | 1 hr 20 mins
apocalypse, cinema, civilization, science fiction
JF and Phil find glimmers of the Weird in George Miller's post-apocalyptic outback.
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Episode 90: 'The Owl in Daylight': On Philip K. Dick's Unwritten Masterpiece
Episode | January 20th, 2021 | 1 hr 9 mins
philip k. dick, philosophy. literature
Phil and JF discuss the novel that would have been Philip K. Dick's magnum opus ... if he had written it.
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Episode 89: On Ishmael Reed's 'Mumbo Jumbo,' or, Why We Need More Magical Thinking
Episode | January 6th, 2021 | 1 hr 19 mins
conspiracy, history, literature, magic
JF and Phil discuss Ishmael Reed's masterpiece of conspiracy fiction.
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Episode 54: Lobsters, Pianos, and Hidden Gods
Episode | August 28th, 2019 | 1 hr 17 mins
music, panpsychism, philosophy
JF and Phil discuss Errol Morris's fascinating essay, "The Pianist and the Lobster."
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Episode 47: Machines of Loving Grace: Technology and the Unabomber
Episode | May 22nd, 2019 | 1 hr 7 mins
cybernetics, technology, utopia
A wide-ranging conversation on technology, utopia, and the ethics of cybernetics.
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Episode 24: The Charlatan and the Magus, with Lionel Snell
Episode | August 28th, 2018 | 58 mins 23 secs
lionel snell, magic, ramsey dukes, trickery
Phil and JF discuss magic with occult thinker and practicing magician Lionel Snell, also known as Ramsey Dukes.