Pop Apocalypse

• Women, Art, and the Spirit World - A Talk With Jennifer Higgie, Author of The Other Side

  For Episode 11 of Pop Apocalypse, we welcome Jennifer Higgie. Jennifer is the author of several books, including Bedlam, a novel about the artist Richard Dadd; The Mirror and the Palette, a history of women’s self-portraits; and The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World, a beautiful and personal study of the relationship between spiritual experience and art in the lives of modern women. In this career-spanning chat, Jennifer and I discuss her early career in painting, what inspired her to write Bedlam, and how the art world changed during her time at Frieze magazine. Then we dive into Jennifer’s latest book, The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World. We discuss the spiritual and artistic lives of women like Georgiana Houghton (20:35), Hilma af Klint (34:06), Ithell Colquhoun (46:09), and Hildegard of Bingen (52:53). Along the way, we touch on topics like fairies, Spiritualism, gardening, Carl Jung, spiritual ecology, Theosophy, ascended masters, angels, and much else.LINKSJennifer HiggieThe Other Side: Women, Art, and the Spirit WorldThe Mirror and the Palette: Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: 500 Years of Women's Self-PortraitsBedlamOthersGeorgiana Houghton's Evenings at Home in Spiritual SeánceAmy Hale's Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of the Fern Loved GullyJulia Voss's Hilma af Klint: A Biography

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• Music and the Esoteric Imagination - A Talk with Trey Spruance of Mr. Bungle and Secret Chiefs 3

  For episode 10 of Pop Apocalypse, we welcome the musician, composer, and producer Trey Spruance. We discuss (3:42)Trey’s early musical and occult explorations and how reading the philosopher Henry Corbin changed the course of his life. Trey then takes us through the esoteric dimensions of Secret Chiefs 3 (22:59) and how albums like Book M and Book of Horizons are filled with correspondences to Kabbalah, astrology, Hermetic magic, and Pythagorean musicology. Along the way, we touch on Trey’s work with John Zorn and Kronos Quartet, his conversion to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and the afterlives of Saint Cyprian the Mage.LINKSWeb of Mimicry websiteBook MBook of HorizonsBook of Souls: Folio AThe Book Beri'ah, Vol. 10: MalkhutXaphan: Book of Angels, Vol. 9PerichoresisLink to the G.I. Gurdjieff Conference at Harvard Divinity School, Dec 4-5th

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• Religion, Technology, and Extraterrestrial Intelligences – A Talk with Diana Pasulka

  For episode nine, we welcome to the show Diana Pasulka, Professor of Religious Studies at UNC – Wilmington. Her books American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology and Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences are both classics in the field of Religion and Technology studies. We discuss how Pasulka’s early work on Catholic purgatory led her to the study of UFOs, the spiritual practices of experiencers, and the role of government (dis)information and popular culture in the rise of UFO religion. On the way, we touch on A.I., revelations, St. Teresa of Avila, sleep paralysis, and the perils and possibilities of new technologies.LINKSDiana Pasulka's Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular CultureAmerican Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, TechnologyEncounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences"From Purgatory to the UFO Phenomenon: The Catholic Supernatural Goes Galactic"Keith Cantu's Om-gnosis video podcast

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• Dreams, Creativity, and Precognition – a talk with Eric Wargo

  For our eighth episode, we welcome the author Eric Wargo to the show. Eric is perhaps the world’s foremost expert on precognition. His most recent book, From Nowhere, examines precognition in its relationship to creativity in the lives of major authors and artists. We discuss the nature of time, dreamwork, memories from the future, and the four-dimensional brain. Along the way, we discuss figures like Virginia Woolf, Philip K. Dick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sigmund Freud, and the sculptor, Michael Richards.NOTESEric Wargo's work:Blog "The Nightshirt"From Nowhere: Artists, Writers, and the Precognitive ImaginationTime LoopsPrecognitive  Dreamwork and the Long Self: Interpreting Messages from Your FutureAn exhibit of Michael Richards' Sculpture

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• Psychedelics, California, and the Cultures of Consciousness - A Talk with Erik Davis.

  For episode 7, we welcome the writer and scholar Erik Davis (4:06) to reflect on the journey that led to his new book, BLOTTER: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium. We discuss Erik’s writing for the Village Voice in the early 90s, his breakthrough monograph Techgnosis, and how his home state of California informs his oeuvre. In the second half of the interview, we discuss the academic study of “the weird,” perils and possibilities for the psychedelic renaissance, and how BLOTTER is a love letter to LSD.LINKSBlotter book launch event 4/30Erik's websiteBurning ShoreBlotter: The Untold Story of an Acid MediumTechgnosis: Myth, Magic, and  Mysticism in the Age of InformationHigh Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the SeventiesLed Zeppelin IV 33/13Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern EsotericaVisionary State  

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