12 - Strange Loops - a podcast by Captain Frodo

The path we walk in todays episode goes from the gutters and all the way into sacred, religious territory. We start with the lowbrow, in the trash stratum, we explore the gutter, dreaming of the stars. We then explore dreams and the night, and its transformative powers, before morphing from the dream landscapes into transcendent experiences and how they have the power to change your life and your view of the world.
Before we start our main walk we try to understand what a metaphor is, and what kind of metaphors are the most fertile. We also get another poem by The Australian Master Showman turned poet, Shep Huntly, called the Reprobates Lament.

Show notes:
Scott Nery's blog - A daily source of ideas, and inspiration.
Shep Huntly - poet and Showman. This is his website, but if you want to find his poems look him up on Facebook.
Art inspired by dreams
Freud - the Interpretation of Dreams
Mircea Eliade Interesting dude, philosopher and historian of Religion
a chapter from Eliade's book the Sacred and the Profane, on homogeneity of space and hierophany.
Johns Hopkins study - on trancendental experiences drug induced and non drug induced.
 
 

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