Podcast 15: How to Fake Your Own Death

(And Get Away With It!)

In this episode, I weave together many weird strands of myth and speculation related to twins, doubles, dopplegangers, the djinn, tulpas, Philip K. Dick, Fight Club, Jesus, Elvis, Paul McCartney, Alice in Wonderland, fairytales, the Apocalypse, Twin Peaks, Zoroastrianism, astral travel, gnosticism, Crowley’s Holy Guardian Angel, Jung’s shadow, alchemy - and well, if that’s not enough for you then I don’t know what is.

More succintly, this episode explores whether or not each of us has an “evil twin” and what do about it. Maybe buried somewhere in the rubble of this episode is some kind of truth, or if nothing else possibly some useful psychological tools to explore your own dark side and integrate it more fruitfully into your life. Beats me - I only work here!

[Art by John Forte]

alchemy, aleister crowley, alice in wonderland, angel, astral, bloddy mary, conspiracy, dark side, djinn, doppleganger, double, elvis, fight club, gnostic, guardian, holy, jesus, jung, looking glass, mirror, paul mccartney, philip k dick, pkd, reflection, shadow, simon of cyrene, substitution theory, thelema, thomas, travel, tulpa, twin, veronica, zoroastrianism

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8 Reader Responses

1. pmp Says:
   December 8th, 2006 at 3:08 pm

   sounds great! i haven’t paid any attention to your podcasts yet, but now i’ll definitely have to check em out this weekend. this one and the previous look like you’re getting into some rad stuff!

2. Tim Boucher Says:
   December 8th, 2006 at 9:57 pm

   Just found this from PKD:

   http://deoxy.org/gnosis10.htm

   Each of us has a divine counterpart unfallen who can reach a hand down to us to awaken us. This other personality is the authentic waking self; the one we have now is asleep and minor. We are in fact asleep, and in the hands of a dangerous magician disguised as a good god, the deranged creator deity. The bleakness, the evil and pain in this world, the fact that it is a deterministic prison controlled by the demented creator causes us willingly to split with the reality principle early in life, and so to speak willingly fall asleep in delusion.

   Framing it like Dick does here, perhaps we could say that the “self” that we normally identify ourselves with is in fact our “evil twin” and the higher self is the *real* us. So the higher self either has to kill, convert, etc the evil twin lower self…?

   John 15:12-13, “This is my commandment, that ye love one another as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

3. Tim Boucher Says:
   December 8th, 2006 at 10:05 pm

   And also from him:

   http://deoxy.org/plurifrm.htm

   These now whole creatures, composed equally of yin and yang, are what I term homoplasmates: The yin part is home (as we know ourselves to be now, only), and the light or yang part is the plasmate or energy part (vs. the physical). Thus renewed and complete microcosms mirroring the renewed and complete macrocosm are achieved. Reality is imparted to the otherwise irreal lower realm, and the upper realm now extends physically into the realm of matter. The integrity of the Godhead is restored; its two halves function in harmony; and the primordial split (or crisis) is resolved - healed.

4. Br. Thomas Says:
   December 10th, 2006 at 11:08 pm

   http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/sacred_heart_elvis.html

5. Tim Boucher Says:
   December 12th, 2006 at 2:55 am

   Oh yeah I saw that a while back somewhere along the way! Its always stuck with me

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