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Anarchy with Common Sense
"Anarchy with Common Sense," our first episode explores "work" -- as well as the material obsession with career, status, and money (or the lack of any of these) -- as the true opiate of the masses. We talk about the Great Work of magick as the true opportunity to grow what you care about without fighting shadows. Sometimes that opportunity comes to you through the sudden tragedy of illness; sometimes it comes to you in the only week you've had off work in years. Why is that? What is that about? The conversation explores the Great Work through the lenses of personal experience and spiritual practice, amidst the backdrop of late-stage capitalism in the West.
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Texts mentioned:
Magia by Alan Chapman
The Lost Soul by Olga Tokarczuk and Joanna Concego
Magick Without Tears by Aleister Crowley, edited by Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford
The Baptist's Head by Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford
The Last Night: Anti-work, Atheism, and Adventure by Federico Campagna
Be Creative by Angela McRobbie
The Red Book by CG Jung
The Introduction to the Black Books, by Sonu Shamdasani and CG Jung
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage
tao te ching by Ko Hsüan (Aleister Crowley)
Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson
Neurologic by Timothy Leary
The Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolph Steiner
Seven Lectures on Inner Development by Valentin Tomberg
Meditations on the Tarot by Valentin Tomberg
The Occult of Personality Podcast by Greg Kaminsky
The Qabbalistic Tarot by Robert Wang
The Mystical Qabbalah by Dion Fortune
Preorder Cameron's book "Interruption"
Read Justin's essay "Spiritus Contra Spiritum"
Show Art by Beck Corrigan
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Music by Justin Little
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