Episode 66: On Diviner's Time - a podcast by Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

In the paper discussed in this episode, Phil Ford coins the term "diviner's time" to denote a particular feeling that will be familiar to anyone who has engaged in divinatory or magical practice, namely the feeling that it all means something, that the universe, with all its chaos and randomness, nevertheless contains -- or is itself -- a kind of music. This episode goes deep down the rabbit hole as Phil and JF try to wrap their heads around conceptions of time, causality, and meaning that are very different from our usual understanding of those terms.
REFERENCESPhil Ford, "Diviner’s Time" (https://www.patreon.com/posts/33549091) (Patreon exclusive)
Karl Pfeifer (director), Hellier (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1FwIuicx88)Joshua Ramey, "Contingency Without Unreason: Speculation After Meillassoux" (https://philpapers.org/rec/RAMCWU-2)
E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Witchcraft-Oracles-and-Magic-Among-the-Azande)Jung, "On Synchronicity"
Jung, [Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle](https://archive.org/stream/223463118SYNCHRONICITYAnAcausalConnectingPrincipleJung/223463118-SYNCHRONICITY-An-Acausal-Connecting-Principle-Jungdjvu.txt)_
Bruno Latour, An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns (http://modesofexistence.org)Grant Morrison (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTMFBYXmvMk) on chaos magic, the occult, and sigil creation
Austin Osman Spare's sigil theory (https://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/chaos/spare/aosig.html)Eric Wargo, [Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious](https://www.amazon.com/Time-Loops-Precognition-Retrocausation-Unconscious/dp/1938398920/ref=sr11?keywords=time+loops+wargo&qid=1582046494&s=books&sr=1-1)
Alan Chapman, [Advanced Magick for Beginners](https://archive.org/stream/advanced-magick-for-beginners-alan-chapman/advanced-magick-for-beginners-alan-chapmandjvu.txt)_
William James's essays in psychical research: bibliography (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674267084&content=toc)
Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency (https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=After+Finitude:+An+Essay+on+the+Necessity+of+Contingency&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8)
Toronto World Youth Day 2002 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Youth_Day_2002)Crowley, [Magick Without Tears](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagickWithoutTears)Leibniz's concept of pre-established harmony (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-established_harmony)
Matthew Segall on the Greek concepts of time, "Minding Time: Chronos, Kairos and Aion in an Archetypal Cosmos" (https://footnotes2plato.com/2015/05/15/minding-time-chronos-kairos-and-aion-in-an-archetypal-cosmos/)Richard Lester (director), Hard Day's Night (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058182/)
Freud, "The Uncanny" (https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/freud1.pdf)Rudolf Otto, The Idea of the Holy (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rudolf-Otto/The-Idea-of-the-Holy)
Eric Voegelin, The New Science of Politics: An Introduction (https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo3622811.html)Mircea Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return, or, Cosmos and History (https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Eternal-Return-Cosmos-History/dp/0691097984)
Charles Taylor, [A Secular Age](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASecularAge)

Further episodes of Weird Studies

Further podcasts by Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

Website of Phil Ford and J. F. Martel