Extended Flow State: Making Art & Reading Together
Tonight's Vibe Rant is going down Flow State style, where everyone is invited to come on screen, show us their art process, and take turns reading from books or articles of their choosing.
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Core themes
An Extended Flow State of Art and Reading
Chance opened the evening as a special extended edition of Vibe Rant, joined by Gabe, Rachel and newcomer Martin. He explained that Flow State meant reading to each other, reflecting on the text and making art on screen, and he urged listeners at home to grab a pencil or canvas and create along with the show. Chance said the format was inspired by Jim Maiden and S.B. Alger, whose older show worked the same way. People shared art all night, from a spider and web T-shirt design to Chance's older marker drawings.
Secret Societies, Mechanism, and Mysticism
Gabe described his new video series on a rough history of secret societies, which ran fifty minutes, his longest yet. He color coded Gnostics in red and Hermetics in purple, equating science with the Hermetics, and argued that the groups blended around the Industrial Revolution and the World Wars. Chance said his intention was to demystify occult material, and he cited Wilhelm Reich's Ether, God and Devil, saying the mechanistic and the mystic were two imbalanced sides of one way of thinking. The conversation settled on the idea that higher realms might exist while this world could still be understood as heaven.
German New Medicine, Jung, and Dreams
Rachel read the introduction and first chapter of a book on German New Medicine, a framework that mainstream medicine does not accept. Afterward one participant questioned the book's tie between energy medicine and quantum physics but liked the idea that the brain rings echoed the concentric layers of the biofield, and another speaker said the premise matched how emotional experience showed up in the body. Kayleigh read from Carl Jung's Man and His Symbols, and later a guest read Jung on dreams, free association and the anima. The text argued that a dream should be examined as it appears, and one participant said Jung offered useful tools for shadow work.
Zanoni, Hermetic Call Signs, and Second Sight
A guest read the preface and introduction to Zanoni by Bulwer-Lytton, and participants then hunted for codes. The six Rosicrucian precepts were read aloud, and Gabe argued that HG, GH, pH and HP were call signs of Hermes and pointed to the twin pH's in Philadelphia. S.B. read from a printed Treatise on Second Sight, whose preface proposed that mountain apparitions came from atmospheric refraction, as with the specter of the Brocken. S.B. also described sensing that a friend was delayed on his way to a gathering, and another participant described a vivid visionary experience.
Superstition, Lincoln's Cabin, and Serpents
Early in the night a reader took the room through verses of the Havamal about lies and love, and later participants argued that old superstitions might have rested on real energetic knowledge. Chance read an article saying the Lincoln birthplace cabin was assembled decades after his death and moved between expositions. He argued that the name Abraham encoded the highest father of darkness, and participants traded theories about the Pinkertons and the assassination. A guest read Odin verses urging people to be only a little wise, and Gabe argued that the boot heel of Italy crushed the serpent's head. Chance later said he quit numbering his main show.
Quotes
“The goal is that you at home go get a pencil and a pen or a piece of paper or a canvas if you fancy. Do some kind of creative flow while you're listening to this and engage the left brain, right brain. The intake and the output and get into a flow state with us.”
“I really like how Wilhelm Reich in his book, Ether, God and Devil, talks about the mechanistic and the mystic as being two sides of an imbalanced thinking. So the mechanistic believes that they can reduce everything down to particles and functions and solve every part. And the mystic believes in things that are not in any way mechanistic or observable.”
“I just did a series on a rough history on secret societies. And I tried to essentially give them some chronological orientation. And then do a walk through on how they interact throughout culture and throughout history.”
“I think of Gnostics as the people who got kicked out of the Bible with their books. You know, you can kind of think of them as like the extra biblical texts.”
“I am going to start doing more rune readings on my own channel, just as something to do with the moon. But it'll be at certain moon phases, not all of them, because I won't be doing any for the new moon. New moons are personal. That's for you. That's for your intention setting. But I will draw some for the quarters and for the full.”
“If I'm stressed, I'll skip meditation and prayers and stuff like that, burning sage, you know, the good rituals. And it's funny because staying in flow, you really got to keep whatever it is that helps you flow going. But then once you're there and you feel good, it's an easy temptation to let something slide and let more slide.”
“I've found one, this is bizarre and who knows what it might make us think about. The article is Genuine Fake, Lincoln's Log Cabin.”
“I announced to the whole group of people making art that he was on his way because I could feel it. I knew he was leaving Walla Walla and coming up the hill. I just knew without any doubt, just information came to me. And then three or four hours later, he hadn't arrived.”
“In your story he specifies that he's buttoning up a grey coat, and so here we have the color grey is mercurial. We have him dressing in an unpresuming color, and in modern day spy craft the term a grey man is a person who dresses unassumingly on purpose to be unseen or unnoticed. So it's almost like the modern day spy craft is observing ancient precepts of the Rosicrucians.”
“Some of the call signs for Rosicrucians and hermetic knowledge, they really venerate Mercury, Hermes, and some of the signs for Hermes I have discovered are HG and GH, also pH and HP. These are all call signs of Hermes, and it's a long story to get into, but the name Philadelphia has twin pH's, which I just discovered on camera the other day.”
“But that's happened to me a few times in life. It's part of my family's history. If my mother would injure herself, sometimes one of her sisters would call her on the phone and say, what did you do to your arm or something? I'm getting pain over here. What's going on?”
“So I guess I could tell you a story, if you want, real quick, of the last time I had a very serious second sight experience. We were all at a big party in the mountains that we used to have every year. It was a big private kind of like not quite a rave, but a big private rave-ish DJ party.”
“I quit numbering my main show, but Vibe Rant has had numerical synchronicities not planned by numbering it. It's a very good question.”
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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