Allen Marcus | PODs, Dogefathers, & Neverending Stories - Swimming In Synchromystic Streams
Allen Marcus is a hermit-ec/syncromystic truth sluther. As heir-etics to the status quo reality, Allen and I take you through deep networks of neural processes and narrative pathways. In this rambling conversation, we seek to empower the theater of your imagination, and affirm your suspicions that everything is connected to everything.
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In this episode
Core themes
The Mystic, the Sinkhole and the Strings
Chance opens with the line that the mystic swims in the same waters in which the schizophrenic drowns, and he places the difference in learning to tell soul level synchronicity from the kind he has heard described on the Mysterious Universe podcast, where an entity seems to pull people along for its own amusement. Allen asks who is pulling our strings and whether we have autonomy, and Chance suggests that spirit and freedom are synonymous, so a sense of being controlled may simply be a lack of inspiration. Allen adds a pun on sinkholes, picturing an old sink captioned let that sink in.
Fire Spinning and the Flow of Synchronicity
Chance likens a flow of perpetual synchronicity to his experience as a fire spinner, where an instinct to avoid getting burned takes over his body and he can surrender to it the way a dancer follows music while still choosing his bearing. He says trouble starts when you push too far too fast or try to make something of what is not there, and he recalls from his festival days that it works better to let what you want come to you than to go hunting. Allen links the fire talk to the fire dancer puppets in Labyrinth.
Initiations and the Hunger to Belong
Allen recalls a youth group initiation in a church basement, spinning with a bat on his forehead, and concludes it was never really an initiation, only a suggestion, one of many we can choose to follow or not in order to hear that we are now part of the group. Chance answers with his high school football team's ritual of downing a shot glass of atomic hot sauce, noting that it was always an offer, and he wonders how many chickens the wing tradition sacrificed. Allen extends the pattern to online challenges, which he ties to loneliness after a year of lockdowns.
A Deep Swim Through The Neverending Story
Chance says he had just watched The Neverending Story (he corrects that at the end of the episode), which leads Allen to explain that he recorded an audiobook of Michael Ende's novel in an ASMR voice, promising a deep swim where pearls of wisdom wait in the mud beneath choppy surface waters. They stumble over the name of the talisman, Auryn, and Chance reports drawing air over air from his I Ching deck, a gentle voice with a penetrating influence. Allen calls himself an amateur humoridian and a fundamental YouTubeist, recalling dress up videos, unboxings and the Dogma 95 and mumblecore spirit behind them.
Elon, Doge and Patterns That Notice You
Chance recalls that a Weaving Spiders conversation made him want to talk with Allen about the Elon Musk Saturday Night Live skit, which Chance calls one of the craziest magic spells he has seen on network television. Allen cheerfully offers a free Dogecoin themed NFT while treating the doge father as a game we all play. Chance separates video game money from Monopoly money from actual money, and links El On to Saturn and to On, which he names as the god of a sun cult at Heliopolis. Allen tells of a photographer whose horse picture caught birds forming the same horse, asking what happens when the impossible notices us.
Quotes
“The mystic swims in the same waters that the schizophrenic drowns in.”
“This is a theater of the mind, and we want to paint some inspiring images inside your mind to encourage your creativity.”
“I feel that philosophically there's a strong case to be made that spirit and freedom are synonymous terms.”
“The waters at the top of the ocean or the lake or the river are choppy, but you deep dive down into the mud, and there are pearls of wisdom there, dear listener.”
“Learning how to play to your own strengths and not view your uniqueness as weakness, turn your uniqueness into your weapon.”
“In a materialistic world, the impossible happens and we notice it. And it notices us.”
“If you're doing stuff you love in your life, appreciate it. Recognize yourself for it.”
“We are flesh and blood mortals, just like you, listener, and we're not on some higher level club.”
Allen Marcus is a synchromystic researcher and co-host of the livestream show Weaving Spiders Welcome, exploring synchronicity and symbolic decoding.
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