The Farm and the State of High Weirdness

Christopher Knowles of The Secret Sun and myself were back on the Farm this past Friday with our hosts, Frank Zero and Jeremy Knight of ZeroKnight. Jeremy graciously handled the technical aspects so that the rest of us could gab for nearly an hour an a half. On the whole, I felt the results were quite excellent despite Frank and I having personal stuff that effected our prep and Knowles being a little under the weather. Regardless, this podcast turned out much better than our first effort, which wasn't to shabby in and of itself. This time around, everyone seemed more comfortable together, leading to the chat taking some epic turns.

We started out discussing Andrija Puharich and The Nine, and from there things started to take on a life of their own. The various blue-bloods who backed Puharich were considered, as well as the Pentagon behavior modification program he cut his teeth in. Knowles addressed Puharich's old stomping grounds of Maine and all of the strange stuff that was going on in the surrounding area, as well as the mysterious Rear Admiral Herbert B. Knowles (no relation to Chris). Naturally, I found time to expound on the differences between ARTICHOKE and MK-ULTRA. From there, Chris started to breakdown some of the more Nine-centric Hollywood productions, most notably the Star Trek franchise (especially The Original Series and The Animated Series) and the original The Outer Limits. Naturally, the creators of these two franchises, Gene Roddenberry and Leslie Stevens respectively, got a lot of air time as well.

Puharich

From there, Frank delved into some of the mysterious tropes that appeared in the cartoons we kids from the 1980s and 1990s grew up with. I then started to break down the murky origins of the Association of Former intelligence Officers and its sinister Las Vegas chapter. This led to a discussion of the Las Vegas shooting of 2017, To the Stars Academy, and the sinister Mellon family of Pittsburgh. Things wrapped up with Chris and I discussing Lovecraft and what he may have been up to during his numerous journeys across the US. I also found the time to elaborate on the occult significance of the atomic explosion at Trinity.

All in all, pretty epic. The chat can be found here. Please check it out and like it. We'd like to make these chats a regular thing if the interest is there. Certainly, they're a lot of fun for us and here's hoping you guys are enjoying them as well.

For more information on the topics discussed, it is recommended you listen to the first podcast as this one builds off of the earlier one.

Also of interest:

• The Office of Security: A Tale of Sex, Drugs, and High Weirdness series
• The Office of Security Meet The Nine Part One and Two 
• The Fringe: The Strange and Terrible History of the Far Right and High Weirdness series, especially Part Two
• The House of Mellon Part IV: A Death in the Family and The Dark Enlightenment and More Mellon Madness
• The New World? -Occult Volusia County

Also of interest is the classic Lucifer's Technologies series on the Secret Sun that largely inspired my fringe series.

A big thank you again to Chris, Frank, and Jeremy for making these chats possible. And with that, I shall sign off for now. Until next time dear readers, stay tuned.

Take Me to the Farm

I'm very excited about this most recent podcast. It was a kind of round table discussion with Frank Zero and Jeremy Knight of ZeroKnight and the great Christopher Knowles of The Secret Sun. Frank and Jeremy are of course collaborating with me on my forth coming book while Chris is a legend who has been an enormous influence and inspiration for my own research. Needless to say, I was uber excited for this podcast, as I'm sure my nerves at the onset (and five or so cups of coffee I had had previously) will attest too.

We managed to cover a host of topics in a chat that went just a little over an hour. They included D-Wave, Gordie Rose, Elon Musk, and how credible some of the claims surrounding these entities truly are; cybernetics and its ties to behavior modification experiments; Nick Land, the Cybernetics Culture Research Unit (CCRU), "accelerationism" and the remarkable decree of influence these things have had; Jack Kirby and the potentially arcane influences of his comics; the black oil trope in fiction; Kenneth Grant, his potential ties to Peter Tompkins, and the vast influence he has had on the likes of Peter Levenda and Colonel Michael Aquino; the specter of the mysterious Sovereign Order of Saint John (SOSJ) lurking behind Tompkins and Levenda; SOSJ "interrogation specialists" Cleve Backster; other curious SOSJ knights such as Philip J. Corso, Carl Maria Stanley and fellow travelers such as arch child rapist David Ferrie; fiction depictions of ARTICHOKE and MK-ULTRA.; contemporary paganism; Colonia Dignidad; Epstein; Le Cercle; and so much more.

The podcast can be found here. A YouTube version with a slideshow can also be found here.

More information on the topics discussed, check some of the following:

The JFK Assassination: A Strange and Terrible Journey series
Bavaria, the Thule Society, the SOSJ, and the Making of a Revolutionary Faith series
The Office of Security: A Tale of Sex, Drugs, and High Weirdness
The Office of Security Meet the Nine Parts One and Two
Fringe: The Strange and Terrible History of the Far Right and High Weirdness series
The Lovecraftian Enlightenment
The Dark Enlightenment and More Mellon Madness

Well, that should be enough to keep those of you just joining the party preoccupied for the time being. Again, I would like to give a big thank you to Frank, Jeremy, and Chris for making this happen. It was great fun and hopefully we'll be able get together for another round table discussion in the near future. I hope everyone enjoys this one as much as I enjoyed recording it. Until next time dear readers, stay tuned.