Pit-yack, pitmatic: a dialect of English used in the counties of Northumberland and Durham in England. 'Pit yak' is a podcast about contemplative practice, mystical perceptions and cultural imagination, for psychonauts and dharma bums longing to illuminate these dimly-lit days of distraction with p…
The spirit of psychopomp Hermes is invoked in this interpretative play of cultural images, desire, and ways of looking. In this first part of visions of enchantment, expect poetic rumination on tourism, the first NASA image of earth from space, and objectification.
Part 2 of 'Reification' continues with an exploration of the icons and idols of modernity, fantasy and infatuation, Carl Jung and the anima, the divinity of music, autonomy of imaginal figures, religious reciprocity, creative expression, the value of myth in letting go of seriousness, and more
How might the act of reifying desires limit the opening of eros? Part 1 of 'Reification' explores the existential predicament of eros, the troubadour poets, the divine comedy by Dante, phenomenology of perception by Merleau-Ponty, metaphor, placebo, synesthesia, cosmic love, emptiness and much more
What possibilities for freeing desire from craving can be found in exploring and opening up the concepts of self and beyond? Cosmology, Leonardo Da Vinci, Muhammed Ali, immortality, hero archetypes, male depression, pornography
The grand introduction to the fantasies of freedom series begins with celebratory poetics, mystical absurdity, apocalyptic automatic writing and much more. Listen in and receive the sweet nectar of samsaric delight!