Waking from Death Adrian and Brett

A quick bonus update from the hosts following our summer hiatus on some candid topics.

We discuss Byung-Chul Han's 2017 "Agony of Eros" and dig into what's wrong today about love.

Discussed:

Dating culture

Lars Von Trier's "Melancholia"

We do a survey of nothingness as a philosophical, religious, and mystical concept.

Discussed:

Jean-Paul Sartre "Being and Nothingness"

Sartre vs Kant on nothingness, 'the outside'

Conservation of Energy and Mass

State changes in systems

Sensory gating

The Void in world religions west and east



Closing music: "Cometa" by Murcof

We explore transcendence in philosophy, religion, and pop-culture.



Discussed:

Transcendence vs immanence

Gnosticism, pleroma, and the purified state compared to Eastern traditions

Demons as memes

Magick as psychology, religion as cognitive science

Kant - Critique of Pure Reason

Kant vs Sartre

Terry Davis and Temple OS

Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray and Time Cube

Theater as transcendent experience:

-Laura Albert and Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy

-Antonin Artaud

Closing music "The Heart is Deceitful above all Things" by Miss the Occupier

We talk paradoxes from logic, sciences, and pop culture; Christianity as transgression, politics as religion.





Discussed:

Zeno's paradoxes of motion

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Monism vs dualism

Gödel's incompleteness theorems

Spinal catastrophism by Thomas Moynihan

Daniel C. Dennett - The Mind's Eye - Teletransportation paradox

Immanuel Kant - Transcendental idealism

We discuss Lorcan Finnegan's 2019 horror film "Vivarium"