Towers and Babble with Mark Steeves (My Family Thinks I'm Crazy Podcast)
On Vibe Rant 21 we hung out with Mark Steeves, the intrepid creator of My Family Thinks I'm Crazy Podcast. Later in the livestream, Gordan Hamil from the Weaving Spiders and Mike Winner from Alfa Vedic called in. This was a gem!
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In this episode
Core themes
Airships, Ley Lines, and a Disney Carousel
Mark recapped the Sonora Aero Club, a group he described as financially connected people possibly from Germany or Prussia who built airships outside mainstream trade, and he suspected they were working with lost ancient technology. He tied the story to ley lines, saying the activity clustered along certain paths, and he relayed a book's claim that Disney's California carousel once sat where stress lines crossed. Mark speculated that the spinning ride might have shaped a toroid field around the park. He also said Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower and the Statue of Liberty sat on similar energy corridors. Chance listened and asked questions throughout.
Wordplay, Watchers, and the Naval Classes
Chance relayed an etymology project he admired, which he said traced puns from language to language linking seraphim, dragons, watchers, angels and sailors. He argued that the same pattern appeared in the words fairy, ogre and reptile, and that Ferris wheels echoed the seraphim wheel. Chance also played with the words naval, noble, classes and classified, saying they all pointed back to ranks of ships and society. He admitted that not every conclusion in that research might hold, but said most were hard to argue with, and he hoped to interview its author someday.
Comics, Spider-Man, and Superhero Origins
Chance called comics the best way to experience fiction, arguing that readers supply the motion between the frames themselves. The talk began with Spider-Man: No Way Home and moved to Mark's reading of Our Gods Wear Spandex, which Mark said traced superhero archetypes back to theosophy and nineteenth century spiritualism. The group debated whether Spider-Man or a Jedi had the better powers, and a voicemail from Gabe sided with the Jedi. Later in the show Gordy retold a Jack Kirby horror story about the Easter Island statues and credited Kirby with a mystic streak.
Vibe, Art, and the Flow State
Chance said the only thing a person controls is their own vibe, and he credited his own steady energy for how the world responded to him. Mark agreed that looking inward comes first when life goes wrong. Mark then showed freehand wire wrapped crystal pieces, said he began with copper wire from his father's basement, called the work a meditation, and said an artist was designing a shirt reading my family thinks I'm crazy. Chance showed a selenite wand and invited everyone to the Weaving Spiders flow state, where guests read aloud and make art together.
Vortexes, Lemuria, and Stone Beings
Mike Winner called in and told Mark and Chance that he believed his home in the Six Rivers forest sat on a sacred vortex holding echoes of Lemuria, and that Sasquatch used such vortexes to move between planes. Chance described his remote tuning practice and the acupuncture chart he had bought for it, and Mike suggested bringing him onto AlphaCast. Later Mark proposed that the Easter Island statues and the animal shaped boulders of New England might be beings that solidified, drawing on a book by Mark Booth. Chance linked the word navel to the idea of the placenta as a vessel.
Quotes
“The Sonora Aero Club is this mysterious group of somewhat connected, somewhat financially, let's say in the upper echelons and possibly from that part of the world, Germany, Prussia, who were involved in this manufacturing of airships.”
“So it's just kind of funny how you buy stuff like this, like intending to find information, then you find out you're a lot closer to the mystery than you might've imagined.”
“So it's this great fusion of the experience of having the movie playing in your head of a novel, but with a lot more details given to you. So it's like the ultimate, in my opinion, a good graphic novel or a comic book is the best way to experience fiction for me.”
“There's gonna be a shirt that says, my family thinks I'm crazy on it. And just that, maybe only that, instead of the podcast attached to it. So then you could wear it in your life and people will just see that and be like, oh, my family thinks I'm crazy too.”
“So I say this all the time, really the only thing you have any control over that matters or that is true or exists in life is your vibe, is your energy. So I focus on keeping my energy clear, strong, healthy and positive and fun and funny too.”
“Everything that happens in my personal universe is 100% the result of how well I'm taking care of myself and what thoughts I entertain, what behaviors I pursue.”
“As somebody who never went to festivals to sell my stuff, I kind of feel like I made all this stuff and I sold them to some stores, but I never really found my niche to let these find a proper home.”
“It's all freehand and I really didn't learn from anybody. The story behind it is I found this really heavy copper wire in my dad's basement. And I was like, you know what, I'm going to take this and I'm going to make my own wrap.”
“Personally, I really wish I could say I would be Spider-Man, but I'm real handy with the sword. I've got to go with Jedi.”
“I just got an acupuncture chart of all the different meridians and nexus points on the body, like a big poster to go in the room where I do my tuning practice because usually I'm working with people remotely. So doing that physically on their body wouldn't be an option necessarily, but I just want that reference point because it will help me with the whole rest of the biofield.”
“I believe we are in a sacred spot and I believe we are in an area with the remnants of Lemuria a million years ago and there's still some reverberations of those energetics in this area.”
“So Jack Kirby was a total mystic, right? He wrote X-Men, he wrote the first bunch of years and most, created most of our popular culture as far as comic books go, because he did the whole style of the dynamic style of the heroes coming out to you. And the Kirby crackle, the cosmic things where he introduced the Watchers.”
“I like to bring someone on that I've already had as a main InnerVerse guest and we do the more casual hangout and we take the calls from the listeners or look at memes or it's kind of different every time.”
Gabriel, known on air as Slick Dissident, co-hosts InnerVerse's Vibe Rant show and is a longtime recurring guest on the podcast. He teaches occult symbolism and tarot on his YouTube channel, ranging across the Major Arcana, the esoteric Enneagram, mythology and archetype, mystic linguistics, and the symbolism hidden in popular film. He is best known for Tarot-tories, his own system mapping the 22 Major Arcana and zodiac archetypes onto the geography of the United States.
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