JMG on the Dodcast

[ecosophia]

Yes, I'm podcasting again, this time on the Dodcast with host Luke Dodson.  Our theme was two of my weirdest (but hopefully also most entertaining) nonfiction books, The Secret of the Temple and The Ceremony of the Grail. It was as always a good lively hour of conversation, plunging into the deep places of history and coming out with scraps of a forgotten technology and an archaic body of legend and lore. Interested?  Check it out here.

Comments

[lukedodson]

Great talking to you, JMG!

Demons aren't whatever you want them to be...

[francis_tucker]

Wonderful podcast, you two!

I don't know how often you check your DW account, Mr. Dodson, but allow me to congratulate you on your lovely response to Naomi Wolf. If anyone reading along would like to view it, here's the link:

https://flintandsteel.substack.com/p/where-have-the-gods-gone

I've been trying to inform my friends on the religious right here in America that if they still subscribe to the Pat Robertson/Ted Cruz assumption that everyone who is spiritually something Other than a garden-variety evangelical protestant Christian must without question be in the thrall of the radical left and may therefore be marginalized and maligned with impunity... well, they may need to get ready to make some room on the sofa.

Re: Demons aren't whatever you want them to be...

[lukedodson]

Why, thank you!

[mythicprovince]

JMG,

Well - you do have a way of keeping your readership busy. :)

But, on a related matter. I listened to an older interview you did with TheHighershipChats. It crossed my mind, when talking about appropriate technology, you said you have a collecion of book titles per that subject. Is there any chance that you might put out a list of these titles and their authors? I have looked on the website for inter-library system with my public library; the list was sad. I remember there was options, but - it has been 'a few' years since those days.

Maybe, giving us some kind of list might help for us wanting to build our own library.

Regardless - thanks for - keeping us busy.

[(Anonymous)]

Good job Luke. Thanks for taking things in a different direction.

[lukedodson]

Thanks!

[thinking_turtle]

Thanks, these podcasts are very enjoyable!

One question struck me as food for thought, around 18:30 into the podcast:

Dodson: "The main problem with contemporary physics is you're just building up this house of cards, trying to make the equations work."

JMG: "I remember in the 1970s when the first wave of books claiming physicists were talking about the same things as Eastern mystics. And I was looking at that, going, eeeehm, maybe not?"

As I remember, theoretical physics is a mental game, where people sharpen their brains as weapons. These mental skills are useful in areas like finance or consulting, where people compete within arbitrary hard rules, like legal agreements or the material world. I'm less familiar with Eastern mystics, but it seems to me they also train to sharpen their brains.

In the podcast you say that theoretical physics and eastern mysticism are obviously not talking about the same thing. I feel like I'm missing something basic. I'd like to learn more about this. How can I learn about the difference?