Decoding The Thirteenth Floor (1999) and Nick Bostrom's Simulation Theory

In this episode, we turn our eyes (and ears) to Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977) and present a number of groundbreaking interpretations that show a few levels of hidden depth to Argento's amazing film. People cited include, in alphabetical order, Edward Bernays, Bruno Bettelheim, Jacques Ellul, Sigmund Freud, Fulcanelli, Brothers Grimm, Carl Jung, Satoshi Kon, Otto Rank, José Saramago, Shakespeare, Denis Villeneuve, Ken Wilber, and Slavoj Zizek. Please visit our Twitter account @phenomenoumena to see some of the images discussed on the podcast.

In this episode, we wrap up our talk about counterintuitive concepts with a lot of brain-twisting material. Thinkers cited: William Ian Beardmore Beveridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Immanuel Kant, Plato, Rudy Rucker, Erwin Schrodinger, Ken Wilber, and others.

In this first of a two-part episode, we launch from a brief conversation with UFC, PRIDE and overall MMA legend Ken Shamrock into a deep exposition of counterintuitive ideas in fields ranging from the martial arts to mathematics. People discussed include, in random order, Daniel Kahneman, Wittgenstein, Brian Eno, Ken Shamrock, Royce Gracie, Rickson Gracie, Nobuhiko Takada, Ouspensky, Kathryn Schulz, Plato, and Socrates.

In this episode, we have a fascinating conversation with our special guest Coby Michael on his book The Poison Path Herbal: Baneful Herbs, Medicinal Nightshades, and Ritual Entheogens. Coby Michael is a practitioner of the Poison Path of occult herbalism and a cultivator of entheogenic herbs. He contributes to the Pagan Archives at Valdosta University, writes regularly for The House of Twigs, and maintains a blog, Poisoner's Apothecary, on Patheos Pagan.

Sorry about the reverb issue! It's been fixed. In this episode, we analyze the 2006 film Paprika, one of Satoshi Kon's animated film masterpieces. Paprika was a main influence on Christopher Nolan's Inception, and here we look at Kon's film at great analytical depth. Artists and thinkers discussed include Dario Argento, Baudrillard, Freud, Habermas, Jung, Akira Kurosawa, John C Lilly, David Lynch, Nagarjuna, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Wlber, and Zizek.

This episode is a mindblowing mash-up of film analysis and philosophy as we discuss the 1999 film The Thirteenth Floor in connection with Nick Bostrom’s simulation theory. Other thinkers cited include, in alphabetical order, Baudrillard, Descartes, Philip K. Dick, Dostoyevsky, Gurdjieff, Kierkegaard, Lacan, Jaron Lanier, Leibniz, Ouspensky, Wilber, Zizek.

This episode concludes our truly in-depth look at man and superman. People referenced during the episode include Nietzsche, Ken Wilber, Ouspensky, Gurdjieff, Jung, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Laibach, Freud, and Nagarjuna. Please also visit us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/phenomenoumena And Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/Phenomenoumena

This episode is the second act of our truly in-depth look at man and superman. Thinkers referenced during the episode include Ouspensky, Gurdjieff, Nietzsche, Freud, Krishnamurti, Alan Watts and Ken Wilber.

This episode marks the start of a truly in-depth look at man and superman. Thinkers referenced during the episode include Ouspensky, Gurdjieff, Nietzsche, Freud, Schiller, Alan Watts and Ken Wilber. 

In this episode, we follow up on the Amiga talk in the previous episode with broader and more philosophical perspectives looking at the world at the levels of technology, politics, education and consciousness. The discussion focuses on where the world is heading and ideas for a better future world. We cite the works of Brooks Adams, Richard Baldwin, G.I. Gurdjieff, Alan Kay, Laibach, Thomas Malory, Douglas Rushkoff, John Ruskin, Doug Stanhope, Ken Wilber and Robert Anton Wilson, among others. We also discuss Ro Khanna, Rand Paul, Bernie Sanders and make special mention of Wil Wheaton in a short section on the science-fiction connections of the Amiga to Star Trek: The Next Generation and NASA.