(AKA: Super-Secret Time-Travel Podcast, Extended Version)
As promised, more baseless metaphysical speculation than you can shake a stick at on the subject of time and time-travel. A fun way to while away the Christmas blues and shake up your relatives! Consider it my Christmas gift to you.
Have I finally cracked? You be the judge!
Subjects covered include: The Mahavishnu Orchestra, externalizing the internal monologue, delusional rambling, thought, David Icke, the Reptilian Brain, the exercises from Headless.org, moving the earth, standing upside down, “Dancing on the Ceiling”, reptilian shape-shifting aliens, Donnie Darko, trails in time, Star Trek, the holodeck, virtual reality, limits of language (strap on - it gets pretty bumpy), being up way too late at night, 2006 seeming like a long time ago, PKD, Ubik, “what is time?”, yoga, tantra, Enemies.com, body, tree, root, crown chakra, serpent, mouth, “turning around” in time, Tractates Cryptica Scriptura, entropy, change, survival instincts, erasing personal history, sacrificing the future, timeline jumping, Isaac and Abraham, how the eye works, right-side-up versus upside-down, time as an artifact, secretion or waste product… And golly gee, God only knows what else. Merry Christmas!
Backwards is the new forwards!
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11 Comments
Tim, this is the best podcast yet. I always felt left out when I saw comments saying that there was synchronicitybetween their thoughts and your posts, but now, f in eh, I know what they mean. I have had some experiences like you describe regarding ‘donnie darko’ time, and have come to the temporary conclusion that time is something of an illusion. I believe Burroughs talked of a ‘pre-recorded universe’ in which all things have happened already. It is all memory so to speak.
Tim, this is the best podcast yet. I always felt left out when I saw comments saying that there was synchronicitybetween their thoughts and your posts, but now, f in eh, I know what they mean. I have had some experiences like you describe regarding ‘donnie darko’ time, and have come to the temporary conclusion that time is something of an illusion. I believe Burroughs talked of a ‘pre-recorded universe’ in which all things have happened already. It is all memory so to speak. Or as I understand it, everything happens simultaneously.
PKD wrote a book called counter clock world, in which time progressed in reverse, and corpses were born. Have you read this?
And regarding the upside down thing (as my my slow witted brain processed this podcast), Bucky Fuller said something along the lines of “up and down are an illusion. It is only in, out, and around that are real.” It makes sense that our perception is flawed in this sense because we have only relatively recently become aware of our universal place. There are no straight lines in nature and so on.
Also, David Icke has never claimed to be able to see lizards. He is a poor judge of evidence for sure, but (and I have read most of his books) he hasn’t said such a thing as far as I know.
Interestingly, he has however, in his book ‘Tales from the Time Loop’, recounted an ayahuasca vision in which he was told time is “all at once”, like a pre-recorded dvd.
Please forgive me if this makes no sense. I have consumed my body’s weight in lovely alkyhole and am feeling rather wierd. But the bizarre transcends, and often takes hold of the body as if it were alive and in control.
Merry christmas friend.
Hey no, this makes total sense, especially after another Christmas evening full of some more alkyhole meself. Even better in the second telling. Cheers mate!
I look much forward to listening.
With regard to the PKD book about time going backwards: there is a similar such story (told in graphic novel form) written by Daniel Quinn, the author of Ishmael. It is called “The Man Who Grew Young,” in which a non-aging narrator watches all of civilization’s history from current day (”the brink of the crash”) on backwards. People are “born” when they arise from their coffins (or whatever), and likewise “die” when they return into their mother as babies.
Not necessarily anything super special or original, but I wanted to share. A brief overview (with some graphic excerpts) can be found here http://futurepositive.synearth.net/stories/storyReader$192
Oops, sorry about the double post.
I forgot to add also that the british political comedian Rob Newman has created a stand up act called ‘No Planet B: A History of the World Backwards’, which can be read in its entirety here: http://www.robnewman.com/history.html. Which is probably similar to that Daniel Quinn work.
Oh man… more fun with words. Up and down, head in the clouds, feet off the ground. Hopi clowns descend ladders backwards once a year. They purge the negative annually, we feign the positive annually! Having a merry ole time.
But seriously, to me it sounds like you might be confusing time with consciousness. C’est possible?
Uh, I don’t know. What does it matter!
Clearer diction, finer fiction! But all roads lead to Rome.
up, down, in, out………….i hope all roads don`t lead to rome. too many catholics. give me some john mcglaughlin though……..and billy cobham. what a monster. and regarding co-incedance, i think our consciousness is a co-incedance making engine. when we start to notice them we then transcend the matrix hallucination. notice more co-incedances and stay out, up, or whatever switch occurs…….longer.
maybe co-incedances are a glitch in the program……..or signposts on the path.
In the beginning was the word… And the word was butthole pod-casts…
En arche en ho podcasts butthole, kai ho podcasts en pros ton butthole, kai theos en ho logos podcasts.
my first podcast experience:
tried to hold your thoughts as the only voice in head… then Cher started in my head… then Stream of mindtextation for the latter part of you verbalized experiment. This was written second- but it comes first. I just found your pages and I am very glad to enter into a similiar themed mind space full of such different idea objects than my own.
my notes and impressions:
Queque Cher: “If I could turn back time… find my way”
Erase your past future
creepy listening and writing– reminds me of of
sacrifice your future it looks good- but it is only in your head (but not really in your head*)
you have to kill yourself… but you have to still be here and able… don’t go to far. razor’s edge
*objects hitting your head and you stay still
Upsidedown— your perceptions are so triggered…..
how do you know where to go if you trust these idea objects that trigger?
you get barnicules…. you die
you stay clean and free— LIVE FOREVER!!!! (hyperbolic statement)
thanks for sharing tim
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