Episode 55

The eighth of eleven episodes in which Miriam returns to ramble with me on my mind map. The six topics we randomly generated this time were left- and right-handedness, "cultural self-harm", fractality in nature, MK Ultra, ley lines and Conlon Nancarrow. We continue discussing the fading of "childhood's magic" and the wider "disenchantment" of the world before moving on to teddy bears, statues, "household gods" and theurgy.

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Some relevant links:

• lyrical themes in progressive rock
• Roger Dean (album cover artist)
• moving statues
• household gods
• Rachel's theft of the teraphim (household gods) in Genesis 31
• theurgy (in a wider sense than the visual-art-based one referred to)
• Sonia McNally (local artist)
• Our Lady of Canterbury
• Caroline Scott/Mother Concordia (ecclesiastical sculptor)
• Jungian "shadow" concept (not the one I was talking about)
• dowsing
• cults of saints
• ancestor worship
• little people
• hairy frogfish (Antennarius striatus)