Episode 77

The third in a series of episodes wherein Juliet and I begin by jointly consulting the I Ching (ancient Chinese oracle), getting hexagram 4 "Youthful Folly", and then see where that goes. Juliet continues outlining Timothy Leary's "eight-circuit" model of consciousness and we consider how this might relate to the fool archetype. This leads to a discussion of neo-shamanic "reality selection", and after we somehow tangent off into considering the exponential acceleration of time and daft fashion trends, she makes a rather startling assertion about the true nature of the Universe!

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Some relevant links:

• I Ching
• the sixty-four hexagrams
• hexagram 4: "youthful folly"
• oracles and divination
• Antero Alli
• A. Alli, Angel Tech: A modern shaman's guide to reality selection (1986)
• Timothy Leary
• Leary's eight-circuit model of consciousness
• Robert Anton Wilson
• shamanism
• neo-shamanism
• cybershamanism
• Church of the Subgenius
• the "Luck Plane" (SubGenius concept)
• Terence McKenna
• accelerating change
• the proliferation of heavy metal genres
• lichens