Episode 5

The first of several episodes in which Miriam and I ramble conversationally around a mind map I made recently. The six topics we randomly selected (not all covered in this episode): "mystery", "(Aleister) Crowley", "lunar/solar consciousness", "Rome as self-replicating entity", "number mysticism", "vibrational frequencies".

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Some relevant links:

• Philip K. Dick, VALIS (1981)
      [the appendix from VALIS]
• Martin Heidegger
• Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
• obelisks
• Cleopatra's Needle (London obelisk)
• Robert Graves, The White Goddess (1948)
• Thomas Pynchon, V. (1963)
• Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary (2009)
• pufferfish (Tetraodontidae)
• W.B. Cutler WB, "Lunar and menstrual phase locking" Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 137 (7) (1980) 834–839.
• E. Friedmann, "Menstrual and lunar cycles", Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 140 (3) (1981) 359
• S.P. Law, "The regulation of menstrual cycle and its relationship to the moon", Acta Obstet. Gynecol. Scand. 65 (1) (1986) 45–48
• M. Zimecki, "The lunar cycle: effects on human and animal behavior and physiology", Postepy. Hig. Med. Dosw. 60 (2006) 1–7