AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
A magician and podcaster, I have seen his name around but have never heard or read him I think. Get a real sense of him from his voice, very soft-spoken and gentle.
Some stuff on the intimate nature of podcasting, how one of the purposes of coming toegether over these very private feelings (art, spirituality) is to relieve the loneliness. All these attempts to describe the indescribable are doomed to failure, but that doesn't mean they don't serve a purpose.
Art and magic have in common this tendency towards group formation, among other things.
Hm, yes that is part of my attraction and repulsion both.
Kant: the esthetic feeling presents itself as universal, and so we must share it.
"the ineffable requires constant speech"
Barford made a remark around 27:00 that annoyed me, to the effect that psychotics view their hallucinations as a source of comfort. That is quite not the case in schizophrenia, from my understanding.
Spinozan modes? Sounds like something I should know about (and don't).