VYS0033 | Battle-Owl vs Sci-fi Centipede - Vayse to Face with Loren Fetterman - Show Notes In this episode artist, illustrator, esoteric free-thinker and Hine's tattoo-artist of choice, Loren Fetterman, completely blows Hine and Buckley's minds in a mushroom cloud of psychedelics, synchro-mysticism and inner astrology. Loren gives Hine and Buckley a whirlwind tour of his unique, self-styled brand of magick, detailing how he brings back and integrates life-changing ideas from this trips, how he invented a mirror point calendar system and bone watch to track his own personal symmetry, how he uses insight meditation to understand the recurring fractal cycles and patterns which form his life and wider reality and how he summoned a Battle-Owl to defeat an attacking Sci-fi Centipede formed entirely from his baby photos... (recorded 13 December 2023) Thanks to Loren for being so generous with his time and insights and thanks, as always to Keith for impressive work on the show notes - give Keith a follow on bluesky: @peakflow.bsky.social Loren Fetterman online Loren’s website (https://www.lorenfetterman.com/) Loren on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/lorenfettermantattoos/) Article Based in Loren's Disertation (https://rerc-journal.tsd.ac.uk/index.php/religiousexp/article/view/43) Hine’s Intro Goth subculture - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goth_subculture) Blind Date (British game show) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Date_(British_game_show)) Graham Skidmore (’Our Graham’) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Skidmore) Tattoo artist - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattoo_artist) Synchromysticism - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchromysticism) Mixed martial arts - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_martial_arts) Caged Fighters 2: Johnathan Proctor vs Loren Fetterman - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq1eRT3wK_k) The Paradox of Confiding in (Near) Strangers - PsychologyToday.com (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-waves/201709/the-paradox-confiding-in-near-strangers) UFO conspiracy theories - Disclosure - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_conspiracy_theories#Disclosure) Ceremonial (Ritual) magic - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceremonial_magic) Meditation - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation) Shadow work - Insider.com (https://www.insider.com/guides/health/mental-health/shadow-work) Psychedelic drug - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_drug) Todmorden - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todmorden) Where is Loren from, and what was the point at which he realised that there was more to life, and reality, and consciousness, than is described in consensus reality? Berlin - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin) Fall of the Berlin Wall - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Berlin_Wall) Sky News report (1989): The Fall Of The Berlin Wall - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpubkTiD6c4) Virginia - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia) Game design - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_design) Dungeons and Dragons - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons) Martial arts - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_arts) Psychedelic drug - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_drug) Ninja - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja) The Matrix (1999 film) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix) The Matrix (1999) Official Trailer - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKQi3bBA1y8) The Last Samurai (2003 film) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Samurai) The Last Samurai (2003) Official Trailer - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UzIBKT217o) Psychedelic experience - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_experience) Entity encounters and the therapeutic effect of the psychedelic mystical experience - AKJournals.com (https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/4/3/article-p171.xml) Kundalini - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini) Qigong (chi gung) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qigong) Shaolin Monastery - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaolin_Monastery) How to make a Qi (Chi) ball - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYuw9opgU1c) Jiddu Krishnamurti - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti) Charles Webster Leadbeater - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Webster_Leadbeater) Theosophical Society - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophical_Society) The Luminous Life Of The"Anti-Guru": Jiddu Krishnamurti - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZRxYyS8alU) Truth is a Pathless Land by J. Krishnamurti - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1175786.Truth_Is_a_Pathless_Land) Meditation - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation) The Shamanic Journey - ShamanLinks.net (https://www.shamanlinks.net/shaman-info/about-shamanism/the-shamanic-journey/) Animal Spirit Guides - PsychicLibrary.com (https://psychiclibrary.com/animal-spirit-guides/) Astral projection - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_projection) Lucid Dreaming - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream) Kenshō - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensh%C5%8D) Time - Stanford.edu (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time/) Cyclic view of time in the philosophy of history - Britannica.com (https://www.britannica.com/science/time/Cyclic-view-of-time-in-the-philosophy-of-history) Religious Studies - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_studies) Rudolf Steiner - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner) Qi (Chi) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi) Imagination - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagination) Shaolin monk bends spears with neck - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKDCzjie7QU) Tai Chi - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_chi) Bad trip - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_trip) Pure Guava (1992 album) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Guava) Ween (band) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ween) Mind–body dualism - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_dualism) What is the link between imagination, creativity, and reality, and can imagination and creativity be used to manipulate reality? Western esotericism - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_esotericism) Eastern esotericism - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_esotericism) Materialism (philosophy) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism) Theory of forms (Platonic idealism) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_forms) Qi (Chi) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi) Ayahuasca - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca) Ayahuasca entities - Soul-Herbs.com (https://www.soul-herbs.com/ayahuasca-entities/) Telepathy - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathy) VYS0032 | O Buddha, Where Art Thou? - Vayse to Face with Roger Jayamanne (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0032) Tibetan Buddhism - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhism) Is Life a Dream? - PsychologyToday.com (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mysteries-consciousness/201907/is-life-dream) Dreams Are More Real Than Anyone Thought - PsychologyToday.com (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/biocentrism/202108/dreams-are-more-real-anyone-thought) How have Loren’s first-hand experiences influenced the way in which his personal practice has developed? First principle - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_principle) Bob Ross - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ross) How Magic Works: A guide in theory and practice - MagicalExperiments.com (https://www.magicalexperiments.com/blog/how-magic-works-a-guide-in-theory-and-practice) Enlightenment (spiritual) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_(spiritual)) Initiation: Religious and spiritual - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiation#Religious_and_spiritual) Astral plane - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_plane) Angel - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel) Invocation - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invocation) Evocation - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evocation) Mother Ayahuasca: Mysterious Meeting With Divine Mother - BeholdRetreats.com (https://www.behold-retreats.com/post/mother-ayahuasca) How to develop a practice in Loren’s self-guided style How to Keep a Dream Journal – Benefits, Apps and Examples - Find-a-Therapist.com (https://www.find-a-therapist.com/dream-journal/) Archetype - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archetype) Synchronicity - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity) Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44905.Writing_Down_the_Bones) Zen - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen) What are the patterns of life and time, and where do they come from? Golden ratio - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio) Fractal - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal) Space-time May Have Fractal Properties on a Quantum Scale - Phys.org (https://phys.org/news/2009-03-spacetime-fractal-properties-quantum-scale.html) Introduction to the fractality principle of consciousness and the sentyon postulate, National Library of Medicine (https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3741678/) Cosmology - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology) Eternalism (philosophy of time) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time)) Exploring the Block Universe Theory: How Life Resembles a Movie - Medium.com (https://medium.com/ponderthisio/exploring-the-block-universe-theory-how-life-resembles-a-movie-an-in-depth-guide-5c9412b4974a) Free will - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will) Harmonic - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic) Interval (music) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(music)) Musica universalis (Music of the spheres) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis) Paul Weston’s website (https://www.paulwestonglastonbury.com/) Gregorian calendar - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar) Talking Magical Timing and Personal Synchronicity | Paul Weston - Rune Soup podcast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdHjmmjU0A) Loren’s devices: The Timepiece and the Calendar Planetary Archetypes, PandoraAstrology.com (https://pandoraastrology.com/planet/) I Ching - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching) Bagua (trigrams) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagua) Terence McKenna - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna) The Invisible Landscape by Terence McKenna - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/191375.The_Invisible_Landscape) Steampunk - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk) Live action role-playing game (LARP) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_action_role-playing_game) Aura (paranormal) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_(paranormal)) Garuda - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda) Muay Thai (Thai boxing) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muay_Thai) Newcastle upon Tyne - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle_upon_Tyne) What is cage fighting? - Speak-MMA.com (https://speak-mma.com/blog/what-is-cage-fighting/) Waveform - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waveform) Goethe quote: “Music is liquid architecture…” - AZQuotes.com (https://www.azquotes.com/quote/825473) Neidan (Chinese internal alchemy) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neidan) Chakra - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra) Taoism (Daoism) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism) Dark Night of the Soul: Contemporary understanding - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Night_of_the_Soul#Contemporary_understanding) Tantra - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra) Astrology - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology) Perennial philosophy - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_philosophy) Time travel, timeloops, and Loren’s day-to-day relationship with time Time travel - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel) Timeloops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious by Eric Wargo - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41132463-time-loops) Temporal paradox - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_paradox) Śūnyatā (philosophical concept, “emptiness”) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9A%C5%ABnyat%C4%81) First Cause - Britannica.com (https://www.britannica.com/topic/first-cause) Pratītyasamutpāda (Buddhist doctrine, dependent origination) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prat%C4%ABtyasamutp%C4%81da) Origami - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami) Multi-verse - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse) Loren’s initiatory mega-trip Psilocybe cubensis - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe_cubensis) Big Bang - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang) Photon - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon) Star system - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_system) Tattoo - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattoo) Tesseract - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract) Non-dual awareness - MindOwl.org (https://mindowl.org/non-dual-awareness/) Kundalini - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini) Carl Jung - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung) Active imagination - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_imagination) Who is Philemon? - PhilemonFoundation.org (https://philemonfoundation.org/about-philemon/who-is-philemon/) The Red Book (Jung) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Book_(Jung)) Arcturus - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus) The Starseed Signals: A Scientific-Occult Mystery (magazine article by RAW) - RAWilsonFans.de (http://rawilsonfans.de/en/the-starseed-signals/) Seven rays (concept): In Theosophy - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_rays#In_Theosophy) Pleiades in folklore and literature: Modern beliefs - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades_in_folklore_and_literature#Modern_beliefs) Out-of-body experience - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-body_experience) Subtle body - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtle_body) Frank Fools Crow - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Fools_Crow) The Dismemberment Journey - ShamanLinks.net (https://www.shamanlinks.net/blog/dismemberment-shamanic-journey/) Soul flight - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_flight) How to Know Higher Worlds By Rudolf Steiner - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6265729-how-to-know-higher-worlds) Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha by Daniel Ingram - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4129848-mastering-the-core-teachings-of-the-buddha) Etheric body - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etheric_body) Waldorf education - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education) Sakshi (witness) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakshi_(witness)) Imaginative Cognition and Inspired Cognition (Steiner lecture) - RSArchive.org (https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA209/English/UNK1960/ImaCog_index.html) W. B. Yeats - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats) A Vision - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Vision) A Vision by W.B. Yeats - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/947771.A_Vision) Allen Ginsberg - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg) Howl (poem) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl_(poem)) Howl (poem): 1957 obscenity trial - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl_(poem)#1957_obscenity_trial) Georgie Hyde-Lees (wife of W. B. Yeats) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgie_Hyde-Lees) The Phases of the Moon - YeatsVision.com (https://www.yeatsvision.com/Phases.html) Daniel Ingram’s website (https://www.integrateddaniel.info/) What is insight meditation, and how can someone start their own practice? Clarification: Insight Meditation vs. Concentration, Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/comments/2i7dm2/clarification_insight_meditation_vs_concentration/) Insight Meditation: Where The Attention Goes, InsightTimer.com (https://insighttimer.com/blog/what-is-insight-meditation/) Śūnyatā (philosophical concept, “emptiness”) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9A%C5%ABnyat%C4%81) Anattā (“non-self” ) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatt%C4%81) Concentration Meditation: Peaceful Resistance Against Invasive Tech - MindfulStoic.net (https://mindfulstoic.net/concentration-meditation/) Mantra - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantra) Body Scan Meditation - PositivePsychology.com (https://positivepsychology.com/body-scan-meditation/) S.N. Goenka - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._N._Goenka) Goenka Meditation Retreats and Information - AnmolMehta.com (https://anmolmehta.com/goenka-meditation-retreats-and-information/) Samatha-vipassana (“insight meditation”) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samatha-vipassana) Mahasiddha - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahasiddha) Loren’s recommendations Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha by Daniel Ingram - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4129848-mastering-the-core-teachings-of-the-buddha) A Path with Heart by Jack Kornfield - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143675.A_Path_with_Heart) How to Know Higher Worlds by Rudolf Steiner - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6265729-how-to-know-higher-worlds) Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism by Valentin Tomberg - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408555.Meditations_on_the_Tarot) The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/581256.The_Life_Divine) The Tindalos Asset by Caitlín R. Kiernan - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49247277-the-tindalos-asset) The Fountain (2006 film) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountain) Beer Biceps podcast (https://beerbiceps.com/podcast/) The Power of Tantra - My Deep Dive with Rajarshi Nandy - Beer Biceps podcast (https://beerbiceps.com/2023/09/30/the-power-of-tantra-my-deep-dive-with-rajarshi-nandy/) Buckley’s closing question Rudolf Steiner - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner) Anthroposophical Society - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthroposophical_Society) Goetheanum - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goetheanum) Rivendell - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivendell) Eurhythmy - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurythmy) Foucault’s Pendulum (novel) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum) Siddhartha (novel) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_(novel)) Hermann Hesse - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse) Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence) Dark City (1998 film) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_City_(1998_film)) Dark City (1998) Official Trailer - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt9HkO-cGGo) Ad Astra (2019 film) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Astra_(film)) Ad Astra Official Trailer - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6AaSMfXHbA) The Lighthouse (2019 film) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse_(2019_film)) The Lighthouse Official Trailer - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyag7lR8CPA) Vayse online Vayse website (https://www.vayse.co.uk/) Vayse on Twitter (https://twitter.com/vayseesyav) Vayse on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/vayseesyav/) Music From Vayse - Volume 1 by Polypores (https://vayse.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-vayse-volume-1) Vayse on Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/vayse) Vayse email: vayseinfo@gmail.com Special Guest: Loren Fetterman.