We emerge puffy-faced and bleary-eyed
from a five-day internet blackout, unbathed, unshaven, clothes worn
ragged on our backs, only to realize it's Tuesday and thus time to
record a podcast. Having been able to do no research at all because
of the blackout, we decide that it doesn't really matter because
we've never done research for these shows anyway.
But Kyle recalls something from ancient times that may help us, an
archaic alchemical practice involving the use of caustic acids to
acquire organic fibres extracted from certain deciduous growths,
which are then embedded within the matrix of a special resin
aggregate. This is followed by the precise and minute application
of a special solution comprised of a mixture of obscure dark
powders from deep in the Punjab in India, which are completely
dissolved into carefully filtered and distilled alcohol. When this
is done properly, beneath the light of a waxing gibbous harvest
moon, with the precise performance of all ritual movements, burnt
sacrifices, and praises raised to the dark gods of hidden
knowledge, the result is an actual physical object shaped like a
small box, which contains within it all manner of complex and
secret knowledge and practices.
This thing, which the ancients were aware of and of which they made
plenty, was called a "book".
Mind =>
Blown
So the first two segments are spent discussing the contents of a
book Kyle has been going through(a little number some of you might
be familiar with called "
The Book of Enoch", by Enoch) as
well as a book Russ has been studying(called "
The Velikovsky
Heresies" by Laird Scranton). Actually, the discussion was
supposed to be focused on the Book of Enoch, but Russ keeps
bringing up the Velikovsky Heresies almost as if he's trying to say
"Hey, look, I can read books too" or something.
For the second hour our longstanding resident Show Observer and
Fact Checker extraordinaire, Mr. Brett England, B. Sci, EMT, MiB,
WtF etc etc joins us in-studio because the conversation wasn't
confusing enough in the first two segments. The three of us ponder
the origins of the esoteric traditions and make fun of materialists
before moving, in the final segment, to a minor expose on the
strange subject of Zoroastrianism and their singular god of the
winged disk and small asian cars, Ahura Mazda.
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The Book of
Bigoted Old Shaman |
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Kyle's phone
reads this to him at work |
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The 50th
Parallel is the curved red line crossing the upper part of the
map |
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The ruins in a
Siberian lake |
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Ahura Mazda: The
Man in the Winged Disc |
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Being depicted
on cylinder seals makes Ahura Mazda most happy |