Rediscovering Enchantment w/ Laura Shapiro & Recluse (Patreon)

Enchantment, sacred dance, Gurdjieff, dancing deities, Charles Taylor, porous self, buffered/bounded self, porous self vs the bounded self, historic divide with the rise of secularism, Industrial Revolution, Protestant reformation, enchantment in non-Western cultures, the commonality of the mystical expanse in human culture/history, Deism, Deism as dividing line, artistic movements, Romanticism, magical realism, Aleister Crowley, chaos magic, the value of Crowley's lifestyle vs magical system, Oscar Janiger, Richard Alpert, LSD, Timothy Leary, John Lilly, ketamine, the physical changes in our brain w/ rise of secularism, quantum physics and the brain, the brain as a quantum computer, high weirdness, UFOs, ultraterrestrials, Mandela effect, the use of technology to "pierce the veil," neuroplasticity, the future of enchantment, Sidney Gottlieb, MK-ULTRA Mach II

Music by: Keith Allen Dennis

https://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/

Sources:

Buffered and Porous Lives
Charles Taylor
(The essay that led me to Taylor’s work and inspired my Brain Plasticity theory)
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A Secular Age
Charles Taylor
The culmination of Taylor’s work on secularity
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The Psychedelic Experience
Timothy Leary & Richard Albert (later to become Ram Dass)
Required reading for all psychonauts
https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPsychedelic-Experience-Manual-Based-Tibetan%2Fdp%2F0806538570&data=05%7C01%7C%7C269ac7d4084446ceb9fe08daf73e2a28%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638094143602839992%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=SiK2DfY4cZfH0ahfODFHWe36kXRx9U9pcL5qmfG1bYY%3D&reserved=0


Be Here Now
Ram Dass (aka Richard Alpert)
An introduction to interiority that changed the world.
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LSD: A Journey into the Asked, the Answered, and the Unknown
Richard Alpert, Sidney Cohen M.D., Lawrence Schiller, Jessica Hundley
Richard Alpert, Sidney Cohen M.D., Lawrence Schiller, Jessica Hundley
“Out of print for more than half a century, LSD: A Journey into the Asked, the Answered, and the Unknown, is now available in a commemorative edition, with candid commentary, a new introduction by counterculture journalist Jessica Hundley, and a photographic portrait of a generation.

An important moment in history, just reissued.

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Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain
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The Ending of Time: Where Philosophy and Physics Meet
J. Krishnamurti & David Bohm
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Wholeness and the Implicate Order
David Bohm
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The Scientist: A Metaphysical Autobiography
John C. Lilly
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Mysteries
Colin Wilson
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“Quantum paradox points to shaky foundations of reality”
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“Mystical Experiences Open a 'Door of Perception' in the Brain”
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“Uncertainty, Unknowability, and Free Will in Kabbalah and Quantum Mechanics” (part 1)
https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chabad.org%2Flibrary%2Farticle_cdo%2Faid%2F5288155%2Fjewish%2FUncertainty-Unknowability-and-Free-Will-in-Kabbalah-and-Quantum-Mechanics.htm&data=05%7C01%7C%7C269ac7d4084446ceb9fe08daf73e2a28%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638094143602839992%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ac4MoV6eTxpcg56R3b7tUZHMUycpv9EC%2Ftu5db7dFxk%3D&reserved=0

“Did Kabbalah Anticipate the Physics of David Bohm?” (part 2)
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“Kabbalah and the Enigma of Consciousness” (part 3)
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“Does Quantum Mechanics Reveal That Life Is But a Dream?”
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“What Is Neuroplasticity?”
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Wave Neural - Sonal
(The “helmet” that’s restructuring my brain)
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Ketamine therapy
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(If you’re in LA, I highly recommend https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ketaminehealing.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7C269ac7d4084446ceb9fe08daf73e2a28%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638094143602839992%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8vjHhBOTHUxPf221Z0tqPZ08%2F0474byeWZc9ksEBy7k%3D&reserved=0 )

Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
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Movies:

Altered States

Altered States (1980)

Meetings with Remarkable Men

Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979)

Everything Everywhere All At Once