The Forest of Symbols

Who are you? Does Art hold the mirror up to Nature? Are you in a rivalry with your self? Are we all narcissists now?

This is a little PhaseGoht/Forest of Symbols collab intended for the Mirrors series that I wasn't able to fit in. Enjoy!

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As Above, so Below For the rest of this series and other bonus content, or to support the show, please visit https://www.patreon.com/symbolpod.

To interpret or not to interpret? Susan Sontag, 1966

In the penultimate episode, we step into the abyss. For the conclusion to this series and other bonus content, or to support the show, please visit https://www.patreon.com/symbolpod.

The continuing story of the false messiah as recounted by Gershom Scholem. For the rest of this series and other bonus content, or to support the show, please visit https://www.patreon.com/symbolpod.

With special guest William Blake. For the rest of this series and other bonus content, or to support the show, please visit https://www.patreon.com/symbolpod.

Scholem deals with moderate Sabbateanism, its revival/inversion of gnostic ideas, and I try to stay on point. For the rest of this series and other bonus content, or to support the show, please visit https://www.patreon.com/symbolpod.

The growing importance of the messianic idea in Jewish history; the story of Esther; the "Faustian" nature of the West, etc. To listen to the full series now or support the show, go to https://www.patreon.com/symbolpod.

Messianic & millenarian background to 1666; Rosicrucianism; Jupiter & Saturn; pneumatic spiritual elitism; the Reverse Ben Shapiro . . . To support the show and access bonus content (including this full commentary series), visit https://www.patreon.com/symbolpod.

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Author & podcaster Brad Kelly (https://twitter.com/bradkelly) returns to talk Art of Darkness (https://artofdarkpod.com/), the new McCarthy novels, the tarot in Blood Meridian, the Bung-Plug of the Void, and more. To support the show, and get early access to episodes and bonus content, go to https://www.patreon.com/symbolpod.

For destruction, ice is great. To support the show, and get early access to episodes and bonus content, go to https://www.patreon.com/symbolpod.

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A survey of most of the PKD reading and rereading done in preparation to guest on the Art of Darkness Podcast. To support the show, and get early access to episodes and bonus content, go to https://www.patreon.com/symbolpod.

The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was Spawning snow and pink roses against it Soundlessly collateral and incompatible: World is suddener than we fancy it. World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various. And the fire flames with a bubbling sound for world Is more spiteful and gay than one supposes— On the tongue on the eyes on the ears in the palms of one's hands— There is more than glass between the snow and the huge roses. To support the show, and get early access to episodes and bonus content, go to https://www.patreon.com/symbolpod.

Blood, Time, and the Cosmic Dance. To support the show, and get early access to episodes and bonus content, go to https://www.patreon.com/symbolpod.

With the gargantuan achievements of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, and the revolution of A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, it's easy to overlook Joyce's first breakthrough: the 1914 short story collection Dubliners. Here's why you shouldn't. To support the show, and get early access to episodes and bonus content, go to https://www.patreon.com/symbolpod.

One of the best I've done in this series so far. Stay tuned for more. Please visit https://www.patreon.com/symbolpod and become a patron for as little as $3 to listen to this and many other episodes today.