Rendering Unconscious is for you!

  One of the books I’m proudest of in terms of publishing is my wife’s anthology Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytical Perspectives, Politics & Poetry. Not only because my wife put it together but because it’s a highly interesting tome. It should be obvious to everyone that things aren’t quite right in the world today. More death drive than libido, to use psychoanalytical lingo. But why is this? Rendering Unconscious in no way presents set or simplified answers but rather encourages us to ask our own questions instead. Some texts are technically about psychoanalysis but most of them actually aren’t. There are texts about culture, poetry proper, formal experiments and many other things. In all, a fascinating read not unlike my own occultural journal The Fenris Wolf – always serving a smorgasbord of thought provoking and nutritious material. Vanessa also has a great podcast by the same name that has become very popular. Casual conversations with fellow psychoanalysts...

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Quantifying a void

  Can you quantify a void? I’m sure someone’s already trying, unaware of the sardonic humor involved. To be an empiricist means being outside the empire of actual certainty. In essence, what seems to be fact is nothing more than an accumulation of statistics. And then what? It’s great to be in places where the sun is warm and pleasant, where there are a lot of small birds twittering and flying around in energetic pride, where’s there’s great food and interesting things to see and take part of. That’s really all the certainty I need. That’s an empire of humble yet blessed life; decidedly devoid of void. And yes, that’s also a fact.   Become a Patron!

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Sensual Immersions

  More on geographic initiation… Looking, seeing, listening, hearing, touching, feeling, jumping, sitting, strolling, smelling, tasting etc. Sensual immersion is one key but not necessarily the most important one. Displacement is equally important; a semi-controlled neophilia. What are we looking for? Whatever we’re looking for can never really be found. Unless, perhaps, around the next corner. A recommended approach: keep looking. For what is the least important aspect of this particular initiation? You will know once you’ve found your desired Shangri-La, but then you will already be somewhere else. Amor fati, fellow traveler. Onwards, backwards, upwards, downwards.   Become a Patron!

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A healthy panic in the Moroccan mountains

  Joujouka is everything and more and then some. In part, it’s a projection from the assembled, steeped in romance. But in large part it’s very much the “real deal.” Because even if the origins of this “panic” relationship to history could be questioned, why should it be? The music and the performances are so vital and vibrant that there’s no question in anyone’s mind as to what’s going on around us. Bou Jeloud runs the show here; wrapped in goat skin, chasing the women around to have some fun while making them fecund over and over again. It’s a massively psychedelic tour de force reverberating through the millennia, centuries, decades, years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds. In this very moment, we are faced not so much with Bou Jeloud as any kind of “father of fear,” but rather as the ecstatic clarifier of the necessities of life. When life enhancement backs down to “pro life,” we know we are doomed. In Joujouka however, there is only life enhancement; still...

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