The Two Tongues Podcast

In this episode we examine the opening chapter of Erich Neumann's great book The Origin and History of Consciousness...the book that Jung said he'd wished he'd written. We cover the stories we tell about the birth of the cosmos--our creation myths--and learn how they are really covert stories about the birth of consciousness. These stories center around the symbol of the Uroboros, the snake eating its own tail, the union of opposites. Neumann helps us to make sense of this and for that we say, thank you. Enjoy :)

This was a spicy one! Chris and Kyle return to politics. We cover Showtime's series--Billions--, Jordan Peterson, manipulation of the masses, Capitalism and much, much more. Enjoy :)

In this episode we return to Carl Jung's Red Book. We go back into Jung's psyche to discourse with the Spirit of the Depths and with Jung's Soul. We find ourselves in civil war; a place where death is inevitable. It is this inevitability, however, which guarantees immortality, because death always begets life. We struggle with paradox, fear and ambiguity and find on the other side an image of ourselves that is also an image of God. Next we see that same spirit in others and in the world around us. Ever closer we come to the secret, to the truth of what God is. Look within, find God there and it will seize you. Do you want it to seize you? Enjoy :)

On this episode we pretend to know about guns and have an interesting exchange about marijuana and Catholicism. We discuss the power of ritual and the ways of seeing the magic in the world. Jordan Peterson comes up, of course, and a few negative remarks about the British. Covered everything except for Monkey Pox. Enjoy :)

This episode is the exciting conclusion of our 3-part series on Sir Humphry Davy's book "Last Days of a Philosopher." In this installment we get to know "The Unknown," the unnamed and mysterious stranger we introduced in the last episode. We question time, recoil at the knowledge that everything is complicit in death, decay, decomposition and entropy. The good news, we learn, is the promise that by understanding and obeying change we can learn to command it. When we do, we will be as gods, wielding the power of nature and transforming the cosmos and ourselves as we desire. Gene editing, terraforming...this is only the beginning. Enjoy :)

Chris and Kyle reunite after a week off for an explosive episode! How did that happen? Well, someone brought up abortion and the rants ensued with torrential force. No idea how that happened, but that's not all. We managed to squeeze in Russia, the slave trade, and a self-congratulatory review of the podcast's new website www.thetwotonguespodcast.com Enjoy :)

This episode picks up where we left off, right after Sir Humpry Davy tells us his crazy sci-fi revelation of traveling to space with a sun-being and observing the beings existing on other planets. Here we introduce a mysterious stranger who adds a scientific filter for Davys vision. They discuss sentience and matter, god and man, how they exist and in what relationship until bit by bit a theory of Panpsychism emerges.

This episode picks up where we left off in Jung's "Red Book." Jung had burrowed within himself and suffered there until he succeeded in manifesting his Soul. But just as he succeeded in this, he realized that he and his Soul are in civil war. Jung (and all of us) are at war within ourselves, perpetually. But why? To die, so that you can be reborn. And what does this even mean? Find out here! Enjoy ;)

In this episode Chris and Kyle discuss the new film "The Northman," among other things; we weigh in on the Ukraine-Russia conflict and, to not be outdone in controversy, we discuss traditional gender roles and speculate on their origins. Men are expendable, everyone manipulates everyone else and may God have mercy on our souls. Enjoy :)

In this episode we explore the wildest account from the most reasonable of scientists. We take a look at Sir Humphry Davy's dying words, which recount his very own mystic experience! From the guy that invented the Davy Safety Lamp and presided over the Royal Society of England, from a guy knighted by the Monarch of Great Britain, we hear accounts of aliens, of space travel, of fire-beings! You read that correctly. We even hear evidence of the existence of Black Holes...150 years before the first one was discovered. Enjoy :)

Chris and Kyle are back after a 2 week hiatus. Your patience has paid off. We talk instincts, manipulation, politics and capitalism. But wait, there's more. Then Matt joins for the second hour where we talk movies, movies, movies. Enjoy :)

In this episode we pick up where we left off in Carl Jung's "Red Book." The spirits within continue to speak with us as we sink deeper and deeper into ourselves. Jung traces the flight of his soul from other people to events in the world, right back into the labyrinth of his own thoughts. His soul was living everywhere except for within himself. So this is where we tread today, down, down, into the wilderness of Jung's Self. It is a desert there, desolate and terrifying, but there is hope and it rises! Enjoy :)

Think you know Carl Jung? Think you understand his psychological theories, Archetypes, the Collective Unconscious and all of that? Well...think again! In this episode we delve into Carl Jung's "Red Book," which contains his deepest thoughts, longings and questions. It is a conversation with the forces and powers within; it was never intended to be published, but was after Jung died. Now we can have look into Jung's own psyche. Follow me, down, down to the depths; where we will speak to the spirits that live within us and they will speak back. Enjoy :)

This is our final installment on Dr. Sojstedt-Hughes "Modes of Sentience." It was a hell of a ride! We questioned our assumptions and our reality, pondered eternity and sentience and became acquainted with Spinoza, Whitehead and Davy. What now? What's left? How about...wait for it...a speculative trip through hyperspace? How about a grand unified theory of Space and Sentience? Oh, I'll feed you baby bird. Let's go! Enjoy :)

Kyle and Chris are in peak form on this one. We talk sex, psychedelics, ancient Egyptian Pharaohs, Don't Say Gay legislation and Shane Mauss. Enjoy :)

We continue our exploration of Dr. Sjostedt-Hughes "Modes of Sentience" in this episode. We tackle substance vs process (and try our best to help all you dogmatic materialists out there see the "light of process"), admit to being bamboozled and explore a potential solution via psychedelic experience. Pepper in a little, mythology, the World Tree and Shamanism and there you have it. Enjoy :)

Kyle and Chris are back together after taking a week off so that Kyle could heal up from a knee injury. We talk current events, the good, the bad and the ugly. Oh, also the balls on Poland, leaving a legacy and what could God be if not a "being"? Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris tackles chapters 4 and 5 of Peter Sjostedt-Hughes' Modes of Sentience. Dr. Sjostedt-Hughes gives me a run for my money in describing the mystic experience and in highlighting its influence on Western philosophy. We talk Plato on acid, turn-of-the-century scientists huffing nitrous oxide and Nietzsche writing letters under the pseudonym Dionysus. Enjoy ;)

This episode covers Chapters 2-3 of Peter Sjostedt-Hughes book Modes of Sentience, which is all things Alfred North Whitehead. We talk Spinoza, God as "Process" and quantum physics. Oh, and there's a vocabulary lesson involved. Enjoy :)

Josh joins Chris and Kyle again for another inflammatory conversation (brace yourself). We talk Atlantis, railguns, polar shift, solar flares and a whole lot of histories mysteries. Enjoy :)

This episode rounds out our exploration of David Chalmer's The Conscious Mind. In Part 2 David left us eagerly anticipating a non-reductive explanation of consciousness. Did he deliver? Find out here. Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris' bother Josh redeems himself for blowing off our 1 year anniversary episode. We talk putting hydraulics on cars, getting robbed at gunpoint and a series of philosophical questions about what types of characteristics we admire and detest and why. Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris introduces the ideas of Dr. Peter Sjostedt-Hughes of TEDx fame, who focuses on psychedelics, metaphysics and panpsychism. This one focuses heavily on the idea of panpsychism. What is it? What it is not? And an explanation of all the various 'isms' that come along with any philosophical problem. Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris and Kyle have interview number 2 with the great Daniel Torridon of the Onion Unlimited Podcast. We talk spiritual ascension, Hinduism and dream interpretation. This was a fun chat, as anticipated. Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris and Kyle discuss current events; Chairman Trudeau and the Canadian last stand for individual sovereignty and voluntary, representative democracy. We also find time to compare the results of our ancestry DNA tests, recap Chris' first EPCOT experience and get mystical with an introduction to Henri Bergson. Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris finally gets to Part 2 of David Chalmers Conscious Mind. We talk "zombies," "supervenience" and just what the hell that means. We then let David take us on a counter-argument destroying rampage where he undermines everyone else's arguments in order to strengthen his own. What's he arguing? That Consciousness does not depend on the physical laws of the universe and cannot be explained by them either! Enjoy :)

Kyle and Chris back together again in Season 2. We talk punk rock cover songs, the Freedom Convoy, Thaddeus Russell's podcast with Michael Millerman, but we weren't done yet. We talk Consciousness, thought experiments, aliens...AND we tell the positive news stories rapid fire style. Enjoy :)

This episode wraps up the essays Chris wrote when preparing for starting a podcast way back when. In this one we refute those people who think consciousness emerges from complex electro-chemical activity in the brain. We then provide a topsy-turvy counterexample claiming that the cosmos actually emerges from consciousness. Oh, and we sprinkle in a bunch of interesting facts about the Proto-Indo-European peoples, language and religion. Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris continues reading the essays he wrote when first exploring starting a podcast. We talk about the development of the eye from single-celled organisms to our very own peepers; we discuss the phenomenal qualities of our subjective experience that do not seem to be found "in the world," but rather within ourselves. We ask the question: If a tree falls in the forest with no one around to hear it, does it make a sound? And we try to answer it. Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris continues reading the essays he prepared way back when he first contemplated starting a podcast. This one involves the insights he gained from a float tank experience on the nature of God and Being. He talks Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, John Wheeler and E.N. Sokolov. Enjoy :)

In this episode Kyle and Chris celebrate 1 year of podcasting. We had a gang of guests lined up to join, who all promptly bailed on us in the last minute. We made the best of it though and even had a girl on the podcast. Sexism, Schmexism. We talked 90's television, Jordan Peterson (of course), Rogan vs Spotify, Hillary Clinton, professional wrestling and much, much more. Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris reads the second part of the essay he prepared as a sort of monologue, when he was first considering starting a podcast. This one covers the mystic experience, evidence for the illusory nature of perception, a mystic description of God and then ties it all up with parallels from quantum physics. Enjoy :)

In this episode Kyle and Chris critique the public school system...but not just them. The media-industrial complex, scientific "certainty" and much, much more. Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris reads a short essay he prepared years ago when first entertaining the idea of starting a podcast. He provides solid reasons for doubting subjective reality, posits an objective reality called--The Ultimate--and, once he's convinced you that perception is illusion...he introduces the "Mystic Experience." But also purposefully leaves you hanging. Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris and Kyle talk about ritual magic, the appeal of nature and just how deep that runs in humanity. We get hippie-dippy, of course, and end with the leftover pieces of "God's Debris" that we didn't get to in the first part. Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris opens up the Pandora's Box of the Hard Problem of Consciousness by introducing David Chalmers' "The Conscious Mind." We point out the lack of real scientific inquiry into the problem and toy around with a thought experiment involving a super-complex, self-replicating AI Robot. Enjoy :)

In this episode Kyle and Chris discuss Scott Adam's little book--God's Debris. The wisdom of Dilbert...a novel theory of gravity...a novel theory of light...and a whole lot of Pandeism. Who knew? Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris compliments the description of his own mystic experience from Episode 83 with a whole bunch more from history. We delve into William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience, point out that William James had a mystic experience of his own--courtesy of medically administered nitrous oxide (did you know that)--and conclude that the mystic experience may be "the truest of insight into the meaning of this life." Enjoy :)

In this episode Kyle introduces us to his newfound interest in Northern European Paganism, specifically the Nordic-Germanic stuff. Then we gracefully move into the notes from Chris' first mystic experience and try to explain what that kind of experience is like for those who've never had it. We end with a little ditty from Heilung. Enjoy :)

This episode concludes our 4 part series of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. It was an interesting ride. I'm still not sure if I fully understood all of Hegel's arguments, but I can say one thing for sure...Hegel was a mystic. Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris and Kyle interview Daniel Torridon, host of the Onion Unlimited Podcast. A former Jehovah's Witness turned Pandeist, Daniel brings quite the interesting perspective to our discussion of what "God" means...and what that means for all of us. Enjoy :)

This episode is Part 3 on my exploration of Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit." Shit is getting thick...and rather mystical. Enjoy :)

This was an episode that began as a phone call we decided to record, but then Kyle showed up and made it a party. We talked Atlantis, Black Church and ancient cave paintings depicting magic mushrooms. Enjoy :)

This episode is part 2 of my exploration of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirt. This episode pits Iain McGilchrist's psychological work on brain functioning against Hegel's exploration of Self-consciousness. I then tie both back to my own mystical understanding of God and material reality. Strap in! Enjoy :)

In this episode Kyle discusses his recent encounter with the Jehovah's Witnesses and we analyze the Harry Potter books. Sprinkle in a bit of politics and Bob's your uncle. Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris finally takes a stab at Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. We talk Consciousness, Being and God (the holy trinity as far as I'm concerned) and do our best to make sense of it. How'd we do? Find out here. Enjoy :)

Happy Thanksgiving All. Let's call this one a brief history of light. We talk about the quantum nature of light and its association with the Big Bang and then link all of it back to the mythological "Creation." Prometheus as Lucifer, the Sun God and much, much more. Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris reconnects again with his buddy Josh Hamilton. They discuss parenting, the origins of language, the Book of Enoch and the proposition that all languages originated with primordial (perhaps pre-Adamic) mother tongue. Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris and Kyle recap their weekend and then jump into the results of their couples personality test (courtesy of Jordan Peterson's "Understand Myself"). We then top it all off with some hippie dippy nonsense for all the Chris fans out there. Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris tries to answer 2 questions: what did Jesus teach that justified the birth of an entirely new religion from Judaism AND what did Muhammad teach that justified the birth of Islam? Have you ever wondered? Find out here. Enjoy ;)