Paranoid American Podcast 001: Chance Garton of InnerVerse Podcast
I joined the Paranoid American Podcast for its very first episode to talk about the creative process, the power of music and vibration, and the science behind tuning forks.
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In this episode
Core themes
Tuning forks, frequency, and permission
The host and Chance began with a giant tuning fork strike and a discussion of 432 versus 440, including whether the odd fractions needed to build a chromatic scale from 440 might explain dissonance. Chance explained that he mostly worked with clients remotely, using the fork as a detection tool for stuck energy, and said he no longer needed the fork to find it. He described asking each client for permission before moving stuck energy and said coherent sound had a benefit of its own. He added that the forks might give skeptics a little more belief in the process.
The body as a message from the mind
Chance described his view that the body sits inside the mind rather than the other way around, so that nothing happening in the body is accidental. He said he began reading life events the way one reads dreams, and that the body works to keep homeostasis. Chance credited Eileen Day McKusick and her book Tuning the Human Biofield for the biofield anatomy he built on. He described the outer world as a mirror of the inner world and said inner direction of outer events was, in his experience, the healthiest place to stand. The host linked this to the name InnerVerse.
Life force, God, and the letter theta
Chance said he had come to believe that life force energy, which he also called chi or prana, was what he meant by God, and he pointed to a sacred fire tradition and to metronomes falling into sync as examples of order in nature. He then explored the Greek letter theta, which he noted was also the name of a brainwave band and, in his reading, tied to the cosmos, death and the skull. He linked the skull to wisdom, and he named Godfrey Higgins as the researcher whose skull he would most want to consult.
Creative flow and showing up
The host asked how Chance handled creative blocks. Chance answered that he took symbolic action instead of waiting for a favorable wind, and he listed chewing calamus root for his voice, using a throat chakra fork, and doing twenty or thirty minutes of Qigong before sessions as his own flow starters. His number one tip was to show up consistently in small amounts and set a low bar for success. Chance said he knew he had made it when his inner monologue turned kind, and the host suggested giving a harsh inner voice a cartoon villain voice.
Conspiracy questions and a consent based view
The host ran a rapid fire round called the paranormal conspiracy probe, and Chance answered yes, no, or maybe to each question. On dinosaurs he first said he did not actually know either way, then said he did not really buy the standard account, citing mid nineteenth century forgery and museum skeletons built from a few bones. Chance said he did not much care about the Kennedy assassination and wanted conspiracy content to expand what people felt was possible. He described his own view that reality is consent based and that belief in the boogeyman shapes experience.
Quotes
“The reason that I wanted to have you on first is to hopefully invoke a little bit of that magic creativity to kick this thing off with a big bang.”
“The further into denial of reality that you go, the more you ignore the messages that are always evident. That's the thing about truth: it cannot be hidden. It's always there.”
“I'm curious as someone that's interested in mythology and etymology and just philosophy and religion, what is truth? Which was a famous quote by Pontius Pilate, but I'm curious, is truth an objective or a subjective thing to you?”
“Truth with the capital T, I would basically equate that with existence with a capital E, that the truth is the self-evident, self-existing, self-generating totality of all life, creation, the universe and everything.”
“I've always had this fascination with analog versus digital. Is there really something special and magical to an analog signal of a vibration versus a digital reproduction of it?”
“If you row the boat saying, I'm going that way, wind or no wind, then the wind is like, all right, we're going that way. But if you just wait, the wind is like, I'm waiting for you.”
“Show up, set the bar low for yourself and what you consider a win or success, that way instead of beating yourself up with the pressure of I have to achieve X, instead you're congratulating yourself for I pooped.”
“What you expect about life and what you believe about yourself fully informs the pattern of stuff that happens to you, in the sense that you're happening to it.”
