Pagan Centered Podcast – Episode 137 – Pop Culture Magic

2010
01.31

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01:07 Tapping into an idea someone is not ready for.
02:44 Opening a floodgate of stuff you’re not ready for metaphysically
03:00 Fantasy vs. reality, evil vs. no such thing as evil
03:28 Social media mob mentality
03:42 What is lacking is the idea of question with responsbility
04:36 There’s a lot of things in the fictional portrayl of metaphysics that is based on reality to a small degree
05:20 Breaking fiction/drama from reality
05:59 Accidentally summoning a deamon
06:25 How practical is our desire that people do research before trying stuff?
06:43 Determining why metaphysics works in specific scenarios, even with “Harry Potter Magic”
07:02 Once you learn the hard way or barely works, try something different
07:52 The controversy of when stuff from “Harry Potter” works.
08:43 Authors do research into metaphysics
11:19 The gods’ feelings about their inaccurate portrayl in pop culture. People thinking that a god’s portrayl in pop culture is their true identity.
12:20 If you’re going to claim to follow a god/goddess because of a representation in pop culture, why not look them up and see what they’re really about.
13:25 Inacurrate purposing of deities in pop culture.
14:26 Learning about gods as a result of encountering them in pop culture can be rewarding
15:15 Pop culture infliencing their own cultures to misinterpret their own gods
16:07 Many people don’t look at entertainment as a potential bastardization of myths
16:56 People forget to say “it’s just a story” and research what else is going on
17:10 Online games being played from all around the world as a worldwide social gathering
18:55 Pagan websites tend to be “what I believe in” – it seems covens rarely teach.
19:29 Children punished for imagination and non-conformance.
22:59 DND is a social experience
23:56 Games can be good for children
24:54 DND can open your mind to different experiences
25:26 It’s a small world.
26:35 Without today’s tools, such global experiences wouldn’t happen
27:51 People txting each other when they’re 5 feet apart.
28:20 Case study of a woman who would talk on the phone rather than be social at parties
28:54 Long-distance communication is a good thing, but if you’re in the same room, put your phone down and open your mouth.
29:27 People are going in reverse out of over-reliance on technology.
30:14 Using the internet to augment our interactions with people, not replace them
30:53 Case study of people getting obsessed with online DND
32:10 Woman divorcing her husband because he spends more time on WoW than with her
32:32 WoW, more important than sex?
33:12 Pop your zits, grab a trojan and get to work!
33:37 Dylan confiscating phones of those who would be too busy on their phones rather than person-to-person interaction
34:16 Turning off the electronics
35:10 How much social interaction does a child get nowadays?
36:05 The threat of physical presence
37:01 Being trained to not take risk
37:55 A re-analysis of Pop Culture Magic
38:21 Not worshipping the pop culture icons but using them as a focal point
39:21 Pop culture magic from a perspective other than Taylor Ellwood
39:47 Archetype wearing the mask of a Pop Culture entity.
40:33 Everything is energy
40:50 The internet as energy
41:23 metaphysical beings existing within the internet?
41:34 Web Bot, analyzing the internet to chart trends and predict human activity
42:13 Ghost in the Machine concept
42:42 The creepy results of functional AI
44:11 Ignore the beating
44:37 Is everything we do based on 0s and 1s?
45:07 Mathematically describing a human
45:54 Using math in metaphysics?
46:11 Numerology
46:24 The gold disc on the side of a spacecraft we sent into space, written in binary.
47:00 Creating thoughts and entities based off number schemes?
48:02 The basis of library science is translating data to numbers, and this is applied elsewhere
49:11 Metaphysics boils down to energy
50:11 Is it quantum physics or mental mindset that lets you accomplish an improbable task?
51:41 Just because you want something, alone, isn’t going to make it happen?
52:22 It’s sacreligious for a Christian to help themselves?
54:53 “The Secret” – study of 3 groups: visualize yourself fixing your problem, do whatever you want and research a fix to the problem
56:53 Finding the good of a bad situation
57:10 When a door closes in your face, there’s a window and it’s open.
58:33 Space Cadets / “Energy Stoned”
59:40 People letting metaphysics control them
59:51 Negative Reiki Master
1:00:02 Trolls
1:01:30 Dave is pissed, adding Google to the Asses Board – here’s why!
1:05:22 Remember, not all corporations are invincible
1:04:57 Joe’s intellectual exercise about Otherkin and Otakukin