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Self Portraits as Other People is a hyper-creative, psycho-active variety show wherein multidimensional artist, filmmaker, voice-actor, and wordsmyth The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo engages his guests in social storytelling to mindfully and artfully investigate where the limits of language meet the fringes of Reality. The show intrepidly treads the terrain of the trickster, constantly defying, redefining, and refining itself. Each episode is its own schizovereign entity, but there are themes that are built upon from pod to pod--themes like Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind, Divination, Daemonic reality, Magic, Language, Psychedelics, Creativity, Dreams, Art, Poetry, Cinema, Ecology, literature, Animism, Precognition, Shamanism, and so on. Each episode is preceded by an intricately sound-scaped introduction that offers the invisible listener a lens through which to view the conversation that is to follow, along with otherwise cosmic, comedic, and contemplative content. The shownotes offer hyperlinked rabbitholes that will allow you to dig deeper into wonderlands touched upon on air. Occasionally a solo pod is bath-bombed into the stream to showcase stand-alone story fragments that have escaped from the dark archives of never before released materials, or from the vaults of "Patreon-only". Right from the start, SPAOP wasted no time jumping off the deep end into the highlands, linguistically levitating somewhere between the fatherland and the mothership, where laughing angels drink from the crying well and the cosmic giggle reflects its cracked smile on the surface of the shattered mirror-pool. If you're new here, and are wondering where to start, you are invited to listen in any order. Start at the last episode for the most cutting edge, newest now, and track back from there to witness the devolution, or start at the beginning and work your way up to the present, or pick a pod with a title & description that piques your curiosity. The choice is yours. We'd love to hear from you, so don't hesitate to reach out, and/or leave a review. www.theungoogleable.com

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Jesse Jacobs - Place-as-Character

2024/02/16

(Headphones recommended for optimal immersion in and enjoyment of the show's intro and outro ) Jesse Jacobs is an imaginative comic book writer and illustrator from Canada. His books include Crawl Space, Safari Honeymoon, By This Shall You Know Him, and New Pets. His compelling, cartoon worlds and their inhabitants call to mind the pataphysical taxonomies of works like the Codex Seraphinianus, Hieronymous Bosch, Hayao Myazaki, and Adventure Time. His work often contains ecological elements that deal with characters moving through and adapting to places that are alive, and the mysterious forces (big and small) that lord over them. We explore the trippy tropes of place-as-character, nature’s boundless beauty and dangers, and the sometimes-necessity of boarding-up-a-portal. Comparing notes on the creative process, psychedelic influences, and sharing recommendations of books, music, and films, we revel in a mutual admiration of each other’s work. I created audio play adaptations of scenes from his books Crawl Space and Safari Honeymoon for the intro and outro of the episode, musically assisted by Bear Glass and the voice talents of Taylor Stillwell and Kat Lakey. You'll soon be able to find these, as well as extended shownotes, on my IG, TikTok, YouTube, and Patreon (linked below) so follow along! Find/follow Jesse: www.jessejacobsart.com IG: @jacobs_comics Extended shownotes, links, pics, etc: www.patreon.com/voiddenizen Behind the scenes stuff: https://www.patreon.com/posts/analog-dialogue-98512429 The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo www.theungoogleable.com IG: void_denizen YT, Twitter, TikTok, etc: https://Linktr.ee/void_denizen SUPPORT SPAOP: -Subscribe -Share -Rate (*****) -Review -patreonize us (http://www.patreon.com/voiddenizen) -donate: Venmo (@voiddenizen) / paypal ([email protected])

Sophia Rokhlin - The PreScience of Animistic Worldviews

2023/12/26

I attended Sophia’s psychedelic psundsay psermon recently, on an actual Sunday in an actual church, in Asheville, NC. She may be an anthropologist, but she is no anthro-apologist, for this talk regarded “inter-species dialogues & plant consciousness.” & so we met up later that week to talk tardigrades, Jericho roses & the death & resurrection of words. To ponder prayer, spin recursive meme-o-spheres, encounter scary English angels in the polyglot-o-sphere & stand in “Uhhh” before the “awefullsome” in the realm of the sphere-its. We exchanged notes about what she calls “stacked spirit science” & we honored the ANTcestors with fancy-antsy words like “stigmergy” & “formication”. Even though all things that look/sound similar are connected, we managed to tell Huni Kuin from Loony Toons & Shipibo-Conibo from Evil-Knievel. We traced the riverine roots of the milk-mustached Drunk Monkey People’s circuitous designs back to the anaconda choirs of their creation myth (scales for days). We sat, as if in ceremony, w the riddle of sickness & the serpent’s place in amazonian&Asclepius’ lore. Snake oil or serpent medicine? We weighed the value of dream-tending vs. analysis & as we wondered how to concoct a cure for loneliness I remembered the psycho-magical Dream Theatre I used to facilitate, where we would often transcend Joseph Conrad’s maxim “we live as we dream—alone.” &just as Sophia & I considered questions that refuse to be answered & answers that refuse to be questioned, our pod-cast spell was interrupted by a phone-call from our friend comedian Shane Mauss. Sophia co-wrote the book When Plants Dream w Daniel Pinchbeck & has a bouncing baby blog on substack called NUMA. Find/follow Sophia: www.sophiarokhlin.com IG: @sophiarokhlin The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo www.theungoogleable.com IG: void_denizen patreon.com/voiddenizen -donate: Venmo (@voiddenizen) / paypal ([email protected])

The City is a Ceremony

2023/10/15

This, the shortest solo pod to date, relays the frenetically inspiring energy of New York City, as a storied palimpsest of ever evolving Lore. I'm gonna leave it at that and let the piece speak for itself. Music: Miles Davis - Bitches' Brew The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo www.theungoogleable.com IG: void_denizen YT, X, TikTok, etc: https://Linktr.ee/void_denizen SUPPORT SPAOP: -Subscribe -Share -Rate (*****) -Review -patreon (http://www.patreon.com/voiddenizen) -donate: Venmo (@voiddenizen) / paypal ([email protected])

Anemnesis By Jove (Solo Pod)

2023/08/06

( 🎧 ) I've been transitioning. First from my humble jungle abode to my father's neurodegerative memory palace in Miami, & now I've just landed in the urban jungle of NYC for my art show & performance on August 13th. I used to spend a lot of time here pre-911, was gonna move here even & am sure to recover memories long forgotten, parts of myself I stored for future visitation. That's the theme of this short ep: Anemnesis - the remembering of things from a supposed previous existence. I recite a chapter from my unfinished manuscript of Aya writings titled VR: Vegetal Reality, laid atop a dynamic ambient bedding of sound sculpted by Soularflair w/ field-recorded icaros sung in ceremony by the Shipibo shaman Cesar "Soimetza" Bardales woven into the design. This tale deals exclusively w/ the passage through places that can only be recalled while alert in the alterered state. So wear your purge bucket as a space helmet & join me as I journey past Jupiter without ever leaving the atmosphere of earth. The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo www.theungoogleable.com IG: void_denizen YT, X, TikTok, etc: https://Linktr.ee/void_denizen LINKS Art Show (event link) Video promo1 (Terence Mckenna) Video promo2 (Alan Watts) More excerpts from VR: Vegetal Reality The Athenaeum promo (Terence Mckenna) SUPPORT SPAOP: -Subscribe -Share -Rate (*****) -Review -patreon (http://www.patreon.com/voiddenizen) -donate: Venmo (@voiddenizen) / paypal ([email protected])

Nathanology - Dark Ecology and the Lyrical Intellect

2023/07/11

( 🎧 recommended ) Nathan Dufour Oglesby, PhD, aka Nathanology is a rap-educating professor of classics, performance philosopher, activist, & video artist. Nathan & I talk about the relationship between Language and nature, while discussing the nature of inter-generational relationships w one's eco/home. We touch upon the Mayan fable of the Toh bird (aka the Nathaniel bird) & the unforeseen consequences of “knaming” things—how our efforts to familiarize ourselves w the world can in effect estrange us from its true nature. We broach the topic of exploring intimacy w Inanimate objects & u’ll hear us refer to what A.N. Whitehead called “Intensities of experience” as well as what Tim Morton termed “dark ecology”. We ask questions like “Should we save the world of just savor what’s left of it?” & ponder the notion of Initiating oneself beyond statistic dissociation, into the pulsing reference of life's vital essence. We don’t offer any answers, but I think the questions do in a sense part the veil & allow for more of life’s mystery to reveal itself. Find/follow Nathanology: www.nathanology.net Twitter/Tiktok/IG: @nathanology_ Youtube:@nathanology Links: Nathan on This Podcast Is A Ritual The Language of Loss, poem She Unnames Them Big Window (Jeff Cravath) The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo www.theungoogleable.com IG: void_denizen YT, Twitter, TikTok, etc: https://Linktr.ee/void_denizen SUPPORT SPAOP: -Subscribe -Share -Rate (*****) -Review -patreonize us (http://www.patreon.com/voiddenizen) -donate: Venmo (@voiddenizen) / paypal ([email protected])

Leishmaniasis (Solo Pod)

2023/05/22

Jungle life is not without its perils, or as Werner Herzog put it, the jungle is “an unfinished country. It's still prehistorical. The only thing that is lacking is the dinosaurs here. It's like a curse weighing on an entire landscape. And whoever goes too deep into this has his share of this curse.” Some of this curse has fallen upon me, it seems, and I am working hard to lift it. In the Mexican jungle, deforestation unleashed Leishmania, a parasite vectored by a sandfly, and I am infected by its flesh-eating affliction Leishmaniasis. Marked by volcanic lesions on my left cheek and right hand I'm undergoing an impatient transformation (TM) while sapping insight from these unsightly sores for eye-sight. As I wait for medicine to arrive, I examine my experience (as well as this Herzogian notion of the “unfinished country”) through shamanic, ecological, and pragmatic lenses. The horror! The Horror! The… WONDER HORROR… Seated at the lotus feet of my dis-ease, I embrace it as my teacher. In classic SPAOP-fashion, I explore themes of inter-species diplomacy and delve into the delicate balance between a parasite and a symbiot. I also examine the intersections of psychedelic ecology and ecodelic psychology, as well as the thin line between parasitology and parapsychology, while contemplating the merits of redemption for both the parasite and myself. The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo www.theungoogleable.com IG: void_denizen YT, Twitter, TikTok, etc: https://Linktr.ee/void_denizen WAYS TO SUPPORT SPAOP: -get your copy of Impatient Transformations here: www.theungoogleable.com/books -Subscribe -Share -Rate (*****) -Review -patreonize us (http://www.patreon.com/voiddenizen) -donate: Venmo (@voiddenizen) / paypal ([email protected]) Ft. music by Soularflair (https://soularflair.bandcamp.com/) & me (incl. Void Denizen instrumental)

Marcel Kuijsten - Julian Jaynes and the Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

2022/10/06

( 🎧 &"introspectacles" recommended 4 optimal immersion & enjoyment ) There are few words in circulation with as many disparate & ill-defined interpretations as “consciousness” & no one, as far as I’m concerned, has narrowed down a more concise definition thanJulian Jaynes in his 📖 The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Marcel Kuijsten founded the Julian Jaynes Society & has, along w a range of experts in various disciplines, continued to distribute, distill, explain, & expand upon Jaynes’ work through a number of publications that clarify the theory, dispel misconceptions, & present a growing body of evidence to support it. His latest 📖 is titled Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind. All of this complex material is meticulously researched & articulated, & in this episode Marcel & I do our best to navigate & outline the theory’s various facets & examine its implications. During the intro I relay the story of my time “playing dead for a living” on the set of Westworld, a show about a themepark of AI-cowboys-gone-wild, which heavily leans on Jaynes’ theory to fulfill its narrative arc. Find/follow the JJS: Twitter: @julianjaynessoc https://www.julianjaynes.org/ ✍🏻 "From Mind's Eye to Ai" Extended Shownotes (🎶 credits, art,links,resources) The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo www.theungoogleable.com IG: void_denizen YT, Twitter, TikTok, etc: https://Linktr.ee/void_denizen WAYS TO SUPPORT SPAOP: -Subscribe -Share -Rate (*****) -Review -patreonize us (http://www.patreon.com/voiddenizen) -donate: Venmo (@voiddenizen) / paypal ([email protected]) Ft. music by Soularflair, Jeff Cravath & me

JF Martel - Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

2022/08/21

(( headphones recommended for optimal immersion and enjoyment )) “Art is the only truly effective means we have of engaging, in a communal context, the psyche on its own terms,” writes jF Martel, the co-host of the Weird Studies podcast and the author of the brilliant book “Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice”, in which he distills a clear, working definition of art, in relation to its antithesis, artifice. Treating the episode as a book report, we use the philosophy put forth in its pages as a springboard to examine the implications of ai-generated images, and the potential consequences of outsourcing one’s intuitive sensibilities to a dreaming machine. Correction: Titanic was 1911, not whatever year I proposed Find/follow JF: Twitter: @JF_Martel www.reclaimingart.com podcast: www.weirdstudies.com Extended shownotes (art, links, resources) NEWish From The Ungoogleable: My latest essay: Dreamtime Screentime: Pareidolic Deities & Dead Channels Buy my book The He & The She Of It The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo: www.theungoogleable.com IG: void_denizen YT, Twitter, TikTok, etc: https://Linktr.ee/void_denizen WAYS TO SUPPORT SELF PORTRAITS AS OTHER PEOPLE: -Subscribe -Share -Rate (*****) -Review -patreonize us (http://www.patreon.com/voiddenizen) -donate: Venmo (@voiddenizen) or paypal ([email protected]) All music by Ungoogleably Yours, except the Leonard Cohen karaoke backing track, ripped from YT. Outro "Eclipse (Halfway)" by Void Denizen (spotify)

Jake Kobrin - Interfacial Magick

2022/07/30

(( headphones recommended for optimal immersion and enjoyment )) Proficient in both digital & traditional media, Jake is one of the few formally trained visionary artists. I was his guest on ep.10 of The Quarantine Sessions, a podcast he began hosting at the onset of the pandemic. Nowadays he sporadically casts pods as solo spells, wherein he discusses his study & practice of Magick. Alongside a curated pantheon of experts and professionals Jake also facilitates Online workshops & in-person retreats that focus on the intersection of art, mindfulness, & the western esoteric tradition. We talk about his recent ventures into co-creating w/ Midjourney, where text-prompted spells generate AI-art. We relate the process to divinatory practices, & consider that perhaps egregorial entities are the mind’s own AI agencies. We also touch upon his rarely discussed experience w/ hook suspension. Though it’s not his main avenue of expression, Jake also plays music, & I included one of his piano compositions in the intro to showcase the scope of his multivalent talent. Find/follow Jake: IG: @.kobrin. www.jakekobrin.com Extended shownotes (art, links, resources, etc) NEWish From The Ungoogleable: My latest essay: Dreamtime Screentime: Pareidolic Deities & Dead Channels Buy my book The He & The She Of It The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo: www.theungoogleable.com IG: void_denizen YT, Twitter, TikTok, etc: https://Linktr.ee/void_denizen WAYS TO SUPPORT SELF PORTRAITS AS OTHER PEOPLE: -Subscribe -Share -Rate (*****) -Review -patreonize us (http://www.patreon.com/voiddenizen) -donate: Venmo (@voiddenizen) or paypal ([email protected]) All music by Ungoogleably Yours, except the "Leibnitz" piano piece by J.Kobrin Outro "Tragic Magic" by Void Denizen (spotify)

Dave Green - A Draw-Bridge Between (The Waking State & The Lucid Dream)

2022/07/02

(( headphones recommended for optimal immersion and enjoyment )) Dave Green’s simple line drawings come across as iconographic glyphs. These drawings are recreations, upon waking, of drawings he created in a lucid dream state. Lately he has been experimenting with giving his pen & paper to other people in his dreams to see what they create. His art has been featured in BBC Science Focus and DreamTime magazine. He has lectured about his work at the Tate Modern & is the subject of an upcoming documentary by the World Science Festival. We talk about dream practices, artful means of building bridges between worlds, & creating one’s own custom, divinatory lexicon through which to smuggle objects across the borders of waking & dream. Watch Dave's 20min illustrative demonstration of his lucid art practice: https://youtu.be/9SDXyn11Zcs Find/follow Dave: IG: @davegreen5000 www.dave-green.co.uk NEWish From The Ungoogleable: My latest essay: Dreamtime Screentime: Pareidolic Deities & Dead Channels My new film San Pedro Buy my book The He & The She Of It The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo: www.theungoogleable.com IG: void_denizen YT, Twitter, TikTok, etc: https://Linktr.ee/void_denizen WAYS TO SUPPORT SELF PORTRAITS AS OTHER PEOPLE: -Subscribe -Share -Rate (*****) -Review -patreonize us (http://www.patreon.com/voiddenizen) -donate: Venmo (@voiddenizen) or paypal ([email protected]) All music by Ungoogleably Yours

Paradise Has Parasites (Solo Pod)

2022/05/11

(( headphones recommended )) Time for a solo pod! In the spirit of modular storytelling this episode offers five written/spoken/sound-scaped vignettes. All the stories are based in the Ayahuasca experience, sourced from my private stash. Not unlike an audiobook, the dark, poetic prose intends to take the audience on an immersive listening experience, enchanting them into an altered state. The main tale takes place at the intersection of parapsychology and parasitology, and revolves around my visionary encounter with a parasite who, during a 2014 sojourn in the Peruvian amazon, held my body and mind hostage. The segments are tentatively titled as follows: Sharing Circle The Man In The Jungle The Secret Cannot Be Contained In The Beginning Was The Shhh... Colonel Carapace: in Cherished Memory of a Perished Parasite Extended shownotes (artwork/writings/resources): https://www.patreon.com/posts/64830146 a special thanks to Mike Brancatelli of Mike-a-delic (my guest in ep 10) for lending his voice talent in servive of this episode's intro, where he portrays Erik Davis (my guest in ep13) NEW: My latest essay: Dreamtime Screentime: Pareidolic Deities & Dead Channels My new film San Pedro Buy my book The He & The She Of It Support SPAOP: -Subscribe -Share -Rate (*****) -Review -patreonize us (http://www.patreon.com/voiddenizen) -donate: Venmo (@voiddenizen) or paypal ([email protected]) The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo: www.theungoogleable.com IG: void_denizen YT, Twitter, TikTok, etc: https://Linktr.ee/void_denizen All music by The Ungoogleable except Whim & Will, music byTravis Puntarelli (IG: @balladir)

Kent Osborn - Sonic Space Craft

2022/03/14

(( headphones recommended )) Aside from facilitating plant medicine ceremonies & vending shamanic paraphernalia, Kent Osborn is also a painter & writer. He published a book of his Ayahuasca-inspired, visionary art called InKENTations, & wrote Shinan, which chronicles the different "kené"--the circuitous designs distinct to the Shipibo tribe of the Ucayali region of Peru. The patterns of the Kené are inspired by the shamans' icaros (healing songs). This episode consists of a conversation I recorded in 2014, in San Fancisco, when Kent returned from his first Shipibo-flavored Ayahuasca ceremony in Lima. He passionately and humorously shares an experience he had with a powerful shaman, wherein he crafted objects w/ his voice & ecountered ancestral spirits. I counter his wonder-filled account w/ a tale of one of my own early Aya experiences, in which the voice also played a central role in navigating & crafting space. Extended shownotes includes Kent's art & a piece of writing called "Icaro Casino", a case study, complimentary to ep 17, that dissects the assumptions behind our beliefs & the origins of chance, gambling, & divination. Find/follow Kent: IG: @inkentations / @shinan_visionary_art www.kentchimedicina.com NEW: My latest essay: Dreamtime Screentime: Pareidolic Deities & Dead Channels My new film San Pedro Buy my book The He & The She Of It Support SPAOP: -Subscribe -Share -Rate (*****) -Review -patreonize us (http://www.patreon.com/voiddenizen) -donate: Venmo (@voiddenizen) or paypal ([email protected]) The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo: www.theungoogleable.com IG: void_denizen YT, Twitter, TikTok, etc: https://Linktr.ee/void_denizen All music by The Ungoogleable except Canto De Flores by Heather Marie Freed (IG: @velvetspires)

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Baxter the Sage 2024/02/16

Contact High

This podcast is indeed psychoactive. Michaelangelo has an exquisite ability to weave language in a way that is worthy of clothing the ineffable myster...

★★★★★

vagabondsketchbook 2023/07/15

Always surprising me, deep and lighthearted

Always love to see Michelangelo’s interesting guests, really great stuff. Also the podcast has a lot of care put into it, its well produced and creati...

★★★★★

Elliot j C 2023/06/02

Thoughtful & expansive storytelling and conversations

You can tell the host puts so much care, creativity and humor in these pods. I love the themes, stories and sound design of each episode. Always playf...

★★★★★

CurlsintheSquatRack 2023/02/22

Eclectic and Enlightening

A unique and well produced podcast on a variety of fascinating topics. 5 stars.

★★★★★

ajwalkerart 2023/01/05

Great auditory experience.

Michelangelo is funny, insightful and hyper creative and it shows in this podcast. It is highly immersive and the production of it is great, incorpora...

★★★★★

GrahamGrayish 2022/05/22

Grand Archduke of Unwasted Time

Hey y'all, I wrote this review last night, pre-itunes download, and it's every bit as true: I listened to my dear friend the YouWishHeWasGoogleable M...

★★★★★

kittydust 2021/12/09

Creative and catchy

Love the soundscapes and creative storytelling by the Ungoogleable Michelangelo. Funny show too. Very talented individual with a unique podcast and ar...

★★★★★

questionmarcc 2021/11/15

Wonderful show

A vivid wordsmith with cunning creativity in sharing stories, psychedelia knowledge, incredible impressions, art, music, hilarious literal LOLing mome...

★★★★★

kentchito 2021/06/05

✨💖✨

Excellent word smithing in a theatric mind opening journey! Great job hermano🤠

★★★★★

Deep Entropy 2021/03/31

Weird Warped Wisdom

Ungoogleable phrenetic phonetic fanaticism fondling in the dark of unknowability with a sense humor to shed light on the depths of mystery. Just list...

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