{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F91e9e15a-2c36-4408-80e3-7001398643b1","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Surviving Lockdown with Alexx Bollen","description":"Returning regular guest Alexx Bollen joined me in Creston Park in Southeast Portland for a socially distant interview. Our primary topic was dealing with depression during the COVID-19 lockdown, but we got into a number of different topics, including synchronicities, chaos magic, microdosing, and Randonautica.\n\nNote that there is some wind noise and plenty of background park noise in this episode. We recorded outdoors and it had been a while, so unfortunately we just have to live with it!\n\nWe discuss the general state of Portland during the lockdown. What's it like on the ground? Where are the people? How are the parks? What happened when the federal government invaded our city? When we get into the politics, we really just wanted to make a few things clear:\n\n\nWe don't want to live in a police state.\nWe don't want to be murdered by our government.\nWe don't want anybody to be murdered because of bigotry.\nBlack lives matter!\nThe narrative should not be that Portland is burning down.\nThis should not be a partisan issue!\n\n\nAlexx and I both acknowledge that none of you are here to hear us talk about politics, and for that we apologize. But politics gets into our occult communities, and if we are not paying attention, then suddenly we get Neo-Nazis and alt-right assholes running corners of our occult world.\n\nThough Alexx and I both had mixed results with Randonautica, we brainstorm some interesting techniques for expanding upon the theme. One that I think is a worthwhile effort is to combine the random destination of Randonautica with the defixio technique from Patrick Dunn's Magic Power Language Symbol. If you are in Portland, Oregon, join me in trying this out at ///senses.deflection.lived.\n\nLinks\n\n\nThe Alexxcast\nPeriphery by Alexx Bollen\nMicrodosing and Depression\nAdventures in Randonauting on the Alexxcast\nRandonauts find a dead body\nReed College campus closed\nwhat3words\n///senses.deflection.lived\nMagic Power Language Symbol by Patrick Dunn\nIntroduction to Sigils\n\n\nThe featured image for this post is from Rawpixel.\n\nSupport me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/arnemancy\n\nListen on Podcrypt","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/024b81bd-b48c-4835-8311-7026f374317c/alexx-bollen-moon-glitch-bar.jpg"}