InPresence 148Chaos Magick

…My best guess is that chaos magicians, I guess they call themselves that, and parapsychologists will probably have a lot to talk about. Now, Gary Lachman, in his book Dark Star Rising, points to several factors which I think are relevant here. One is, you could call it meme magic. In fact, practitioners on the alt right who do this, do call it meme magic. You may recall during the election, this meme of Pepe the Frog, this big green frog appeared widely in the media and Donald Trump himself used that image. I’m showing you a graphic of Donald Trump merging with Pepe the Frog.…

Philip K. Dick: ProphetwithJames Tunney

…Just to go back briefly to the remark I made about the hypnagogic state, I certainly didn't mean it in a disparaging way and I don't think the writer that I'm citing meant it that way either. Even if it was drug induced the hypnagogic state seems to be a very elusive and rare state of consciousness. I know the esoteric historian Gary Lachman, whom I've interviewed about Swedenborg and about Carl Jung, felt that they both were gifted in being able to maintain a sustained hypnagogic state and that accounted for the wondrous visionary experiences that they were able to report.…

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