Podcast Appearances
Podcast Appearances
Talking about Ernst Jünger and the paranormal on MindMatters, and on hot button topics with the Substack crew
Today, a brief roundup of some of my latest podcast appearances.
As some of you know, I’m a regular co-host on the Mind Matters podcast/YouTube show. Lately, we have talked about Ernst Jünger’s Forest Passage, a short book chock-full of insights that I highly recommend (I wrote about it here).
We did three shows on it, which you can listen here or on your preferred podcast platforms:
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We also did a show based on a post I wrote here (one of my most popular ones) about the paranormal in general, and the great book The Myth of Disenchantment in particular:
Tonic Discussions Podcast with the Substack Crew
For those who don’t know, our exquisite little Substack crew over at Deimos Station (a group chat that paid subscribers get access to) has started podcasting as well. You’ll find it on your podcast player by searching for Tonic Discussions or on our YouTube channel called Tonic Seven. Among other topics we have already talked about climate change, the trans issue, and education.
We do a show every Sunday: check it out.
Speaking of Sundays: I might take next Sunday off, but I’ll hopefully be back in two weeks with a new post. See you around!
I normally post a new essay every Sunday. If you want to support what I’m doing here, the best way is to choose a paid subscription. You’ll also get access to the full archive and to our group chat.
OK, I've listened through the 1 hour mark on the video that was also at sott.net. It is June the 16th day of the 23rd year per present day calendar sensibilities. I don't know if I will watch the rest of the video, but I'm gonna pick out 3 of the 4 numbers typed above and read from that page from the "Forest Passage" book. Why not - this has some uncertainty to it. Now the book is not that long, I don't think it even has more than 200 pages, so the page number I choose to maximize my chance of actually reading something from a page in the book is: ??? (figure it out for yourself).
Here is what it says:
Upp....I got it wrong - the book doesn't even have 100 pages. But you figured 123 as the page # didn't you? If not, maybe you weren't reading close enough. So, now I conduct the same exercise, but this time knowing what I know, I choose the following page: 63. From the top:
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"...active, skeptical, inartistic, a natural-born debaser of higher types and ideas....."
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Holy Moly - I need to read this book from cover to cover.
BK
I still have to finish watching the rest of this, but I'm going to randomly open to one of the middle pages in the book, which I now have a hard copy paperback version.....page 43 "19":
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"Here is another objection to consider: Should we count on catastrophe? Should we - if only intellectually - seek out the most distant waters, the cataracts, the maelstroms, the great abysses?"
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Well - sorry if this question has already been discussed, but I can answer it: Yes and no. It just depends on context of the situation. So that answer could logically be considered a "qualitative yes", but there are some abysses, most don't emerge from....so - there is that to consider.
BK