Self Portraits As Other People - Paradise Has Parasites (Solo Pod)

Paradise Has Parasites (Solo Pod)

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05/11/22 • 53 min

Self Portraits As Other People

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Time for a solo pod! In the spirit of modular storytelling this episode offers five written/spoken/sound-scaped vignettes. All the stories are based in the Ayahuasca experience, sourced from my private stash. Not unlike an audiobook, the dark, poetic prose intends to take the audience on an immersive listening experience, enchanting them into an altered state. The main tale takes place at the intersection of parapsychology and parasitology, and revolves around my visionary encounter with a parasite who, during a 2014 sojourn in the Peruvian amazon, held my body and mind hostage.

The segments are tentatively titled as follows:

Sharing Circle
The Man In The Jungle
The Secret Cannot Be Contained
In The Beginning Was The Shhh...
Colonel Carapace: in Cherished Memory of a Perished Parasite

Extended shownotes (artwork/writings/resources): https://www.patreon.com/posts/64830146

a special thanks to Mike Brancatelli of Mike-a-delic (my guest in ep 10) for lending his voice talent in servive of this episode's intro, where he portrays Erik Davis (my guest in ep13)

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The segments are tentatively titled as follows:

Sharing Circle
The Man In The Jungle
The Secret Cannot Be Contained
In The Beginning Was The Shhh...
Colonel Carapace: in Cherished Memory of a Perished Parasite

Extended shownotes (artwork/writings/resources): https://www.patreon.com/posts/64830146

a special thanks to Mike Brancatelli of Mike-a-delic (my guest in ep 10) for lending his voice talent in servive of this episode's intro, where he portrays Erik Davis (my guest in ep13)

NEW:

My latest essay: Dreamtime Screentime: Pareidolic Deities & Dead Channels

My new film San Pedro

Buy my book The He & The She Of It

Support SPAOP:

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All music by The Ungoogleable except Whim & Will, music byTravis Puntarelli (IG: @balladir)

Previous Episode

Kent Osborn - Sonic Space Craft

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Aside from facilitating plant medicine ceremonies & vending shamanic paraphernalia, Kent Osborn is also a painter & writer. He published a book of his Ayahuasca-inspired, visionary art called InKENTations, & wrote Shinan, which chronicles the different "kené"--the circuitous designs distinct to the Shipibo tribe of the Ucayali region of Peru. The patterns of the Kené are inspired by the shamans' icaros (healing songs).

This episode consists of a conversation I recorded in 2014, in San Fancisco, when Kent returned from his first Shipibo-flavored Ayahuasca ceremony in Lima. He passionately and humorously shares an experience he had with a powerful shaman, wherein he crafted objects w/ his voice & ecountered ancestral spirits. I counter his wonder-filled account w/ a tale of one of my own early Aya experiences, in which the voice also played a central role in navigating & crafting space.

Extended shownotes includes Kent's art & a piece of writing called "Icaro Casino", a case study, complimentary to ep 17, that dissects the assumptions behind our beliefs & the origins of chance, gambling, & divination.

Find/follow Kent: IG: @inkentations / @shinan_visionary_art www.kentchimedicina.com

NEW:

My latest essay: Dreamtime Screentime: Pareidolic Deities & Dead Channels

My new film San Pedro

Buy my book The He & The She Of It

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Next Episode

Dave Green - A Draw-Bridge Between (The Waking State & The Lucid Dream)

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Dave Green’s simple line drawings come across as iconographic glyphs. These drawings are recreations, upon waking, of drawings he created in a lucid dream state.

Lately he has been experimenting with giving his pen & paper to other people in his dreams to see what they create.

His art has been featured in BBC Science Focus and DreamTime magazine. He has lectured about his work at the Tate Modern & is the subject of an upcoming documentary by the World Science Festival.

We talk about dream practices, artful means of building bridges between worlds, & creating one’s own custom, divinatory lexicon through which to smuggle objects across the borders of waking & dream.

Watch Dave's 20min illustrative demonstration of his lucid art practice: https://youtu.be/9SDXyn11Zcs

Find/follow Dave: IG: @davegreen5000 www.dave-green.co.uk

NEWish From The Ungoogleable:

My latest essay: Dreamtime Screentime: Pareidolic Deities & Dead Channels

My new film San Pedro

Buy my book The He & The She Of It

The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo: www.theungoogleable.com

IG: void_denizen

YT, Twitter, TikTok, etc: https://Linktr.ee/void_denizen

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