Weird Studies/Duncan Barford

26 May 2022 - 28 May 2022
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    • "Highly recommended – can't tell you why"
    • 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.
    • Magic and spiritual practice as taking the self apart and requiring reassembly.
    • Because magic is base it also is a good vehicle for spiritual development – ok, not sure I follow.
    • Ooh cites Technic and Magic, different ethical frameworks? Don't remember that part.