E3P1 Tommy Cowan: The Occult World of William Burroughs -Time, Space, Code Words and...Insect Time?

[@acidcommunist1675]

This has to be the most underrated podcast

[@rejectedreligion]

Thanks!! I’m so happy you’re enjoying the content!

[@jayt7178]

Dope name.

[@Blissblizzard]

@@jayt7178 Dopey name.

[@viktorbostrom5356]

I work at a museum in sweden and recently happened upon a Burroughs calculator-machine-thingy down in the vaults. The machine is placed high on a shelf and looks down on you quite menacingly. Only yesterday I wrote to a friend and said that he should come see it, that it looks like some kind of mechanical spider and that its easy to imagine Tiny Baby Bill Burroughs crawling around on the floor, 6 months of age and already capable of identifying the idiocy of the habbit of counting money. Its also easy to imagine at that very moment a cat curling up with Tiny Baby Bill Burroughs all alone on the floor in front of the calculator.

[@Privatecitizen157]

Hi brother, was the thing you found a mechanical calculator? One of Williams uncles was an inventor and he made some gizmo that was part of the adding machine. I would love to see what you found

[@viktorbostrom5356]

@@Privatecitizen157 It's a Burroughs calculator from the nineteenth century, the invention of his grandfather, the machine that paid for Burroughs education, roaming around and in extension a huge part of my picture of the world and the beyonds.

[@zetetick395]

It was invented by William Burroughs Sr (Bills maternal grandfather) - it's known as an 'adding machine' and was a technological predecessor of the cash register (in retail)

[@Hastenforthedawm]

One of my favorite writers. Nova Express is my favorite "novel" if it can even be called that.

[@markmccann8322]

Keep the content coming. Your podcast is underated. That's a understatement

[@rejectedreligion]

Thank you so much. I greatly appreciate the listen!

[@MatthewLeviStevens]

Anybody interested in the content of this podcast should probably check out my book, 'The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs' (Mandrake of Oxford, 2014.) Best Wishes to All! Matthew Levi Stevens

[@WoodwoseTransmissions]

Absolutely amazing book!

[@dearyayres8583]

I’ve been researching and compiling information together about this very subject. While seeking out materials for a video short I came across this podcast. I’m excited to see I’m not the only one who can see a greater message in Burroughs writing and other arts. He was consistent in his theme always pointing to the same subject matter. Any concise and thorough critique of the man or his work should not be without this factor yet most productions either skip over it completely or briefly dismiss it as ramblings whose origin is found inside a drug induced delirium. This realm is ever changing. Just in the last few years humanity has underwent a profound and complex paradigm shift. The total effects of this shift are still unknown but we should never underestimate just how mind blowing the truth could be. I for one consider anything as a possibility and from what I’ve experienced first hand these few fast moving years, insect overlords sounds about right!!!

[@rejectedreligion]

I'm so happy this resonated with you! Thank you for taking the time to listen.

[@zephyrcublee]

He was SO AHEAD OF HIS TIME ...YET COULD ONLY COME FROM THE 60S

[@WinnipegTouristDept]

"Just in the last few years humanity has underwent a profound and complex paradigm shift." -- How so?

[@bertustander260]

Really enjoying these podcasts! Thanks for the content.

[@rejectedreligion]

Thank you for listening! 👍🏼

[@davidantonsavage6207]

Other bands named after WSB writings... Clem Snide, Soft Machine, The Insect Trust, Dead Fingers Talk, Nova Mob

[@rejectedreligion]

Thanks for this information! Much appreciated!

[@davidantonsavage6207]

@@rejectedreligion and as far as I can tell, no other author has more band names in honor of his writing save William Shakespeare. PS here's another band; William S. Burroughs Hurts.

[@zetetick395]

@@davidantonsavage6207 Also Steely Dan (maybe also Salt Chunk Mary - Mark Linkous' band before he started Sparklehorse) kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpi5o5WXlM1_Z9E

[@astorcrombusnebulus7380]

Not to mention Steely Dan as well as the term Heavy Metal.

[@davidantonsavage6207]

@@astorcrombusnebulus7380 in fact, I think the only other author to out pace WSB in band name refs is that other William and he had a 300 year head start.

[@pinecone9045]

Great work Rejected Religion thank you!

[@BritishJuche]

Only just found your podcast - this is great stuff, thanks a lot for your time and effort

[@rejectedreligion]

Hi there! So happy you found me! Thank you so much!

[@janaenae1338]

he starts at 4:30

[@JulioAvalos3000]

I'm very glad I found your podcast. Thank you.

[@jmd76family]

Listening on Burroughs bday!

[@alchemisoulofficial]

As far as Insect Time and Archons appearing with others, there is not only considerable overlap but direct influence on the CCRU so far as that goes.

[@yamantaka0124]

From what I remember, Terence Mckenna in True Hallucinations documents his brother Dennis’ encounter with an insectoid alien, under the influence of psilocybin and a MAOI inhibiting concoction, via telepathy.

[@rejectedreligion]

Thanks for that information!

[@markprice748]

Many thanks for this non-sensational empirically responsible talk. Much appreciated.

[@LeonyMaeBacaro]

This is a great job. Not easy to digest in one run. Regards. Adlai

[@JCKnuckles]

Exceptional podcast 👏🏽 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@rejectedreligion]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@laketon]

OMG! Thanks a lot for incredible content!

[@10rrtyyssx769]

Love this. Great hour spent

[@rejectedreligion]

Thank you! Hope you enjoy Part 2 as well!

[@zetetick395]

The Exterminator (1960) - essentially a booklet of cutups / foldins is reprinted in full in Burroughs' / Gysins' book The Third Mind. (which was printed more widely)

[@rejectedreligion]

Thanks for that bit of info!

[@MrGunwitch]

Superb.

[@Tyler.i.81]

Burrows is very interesting. He had a interesting life his heroin addiction and the occult I understand very well.

[@jillfryer6699]

Burroughs. Actually.

[@lewistyler462]

You know, sometimes I feel like a bug.

[@WoodwoseTransmissions]

Listening to this again after a while, still amazing. Crowley believed the sexual drive was the engine of our energy and works. It would then align that, if one in childhood is sexually abused, that energy is altered in some way; the internal leys which this energy uses like a highway are mutated, their shape changes, and therefore the outcomes of operations, magical, psychological or otherwise, are different to how they would otherwise be.

[@Blissblizzard]

Crowley was an animal, so he functioned on an animalistic level, that is the level of a disturbed over domesticated animal not an animal in the wild. Libido is a derivative force, actually parasitic when out of balance, Abuse of minors does not have hydrolic impacts, that's C19th Freudian mechanistic legacy metaphors. Abuse of minors is the do "what thou wilt", only made functional by "the slaves will serve" call and response. Children are shattered by being treated as not human and often physically scarred. "Energies" are misinterpreted sensations and emotionality and mania. The elites writesl their poncey tracts and " slaves who serve" (unwittingly) wallow in the reflected glory and eat up every word as gospel. Slaves particularly lap up "Wu" it would seem.

[@pinecone9045]

@@Blissblizzard Right when I read that I thought Freud too. Sexuality is a component of libido which is the psyche's energy in a broader sense (Jung etc). Freud was unhealthily focused on the sexual only and particular element of that sexuality which comes from his heritage.

[@Blissblizzard]

@@pinecone9045 Freud's childhood was an insane mixture of extreme neglect and privilege, and yeah, the more he railed against "the black tide of occultism" the more he was generating his own cloying grey cultic sludge on sabbattean cultural bones, good call.

[@WoodwoseTransmissions]

Quality stuff, thank you

[@rejectedreligion]

Thank you for listening!

[@midianpoet]

Very interesting, thanks for Your podcast !

[@rejectedreligion]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@midianpoet]

@@rejectedreligion Really thanks, coincidentally I'm reading a lot of Burroughs material right now and thanks to you I realized how MUCH is connected with Magic and Crowley, sometimes they basically say the same things in different ways. Thanks!

[@AlienBigCat23]

Lewis Marker wasn't a prostitute. He was barely gay at all, yet tried reciprocation because he found Burroughs fascinating.

[@MyCheriAnolani]

Getting ready for Tommy Cowan’s visit w/ Juan Ayala’s KZbin Channel Juan on Juan Podcast ⭐️ fyi I was the 420th 👍🏼

[@otigerlily]

Lol, I am doing the same, looking forward to Juan’s show this afternoon! #421

[@MyCheriAnolani]

@@otigerlily P A & Juan same time?!! What do we do? Juan never goes this late? It’s not on purpose do you think lol or or this is weird! Oh and btw I’m totally proud of you, have you figured out how to grab a link?!!

[@otigerlily]

No I have not figured it out yet, lol! I know you are busy so I didn’t want to ask but I’d love to know how! Lmao thank you! Yes what a dilemma about the guys double booking their shows! @@MyCheriAnolani

[@MyCheriAnolani]

@@otigerlily just hit share(video) copy link then go back into Juan’s chat room and press select and poof the Link has been put into chat….the only thing is you wanna write the title and wherever you got the link from like Old World Florida etc.

[@otigerlily]

Thank you so much! You are the best My Cheri! :)@@MyCheriAnolani

[@zephyrcublee]

Naked Lunch was,as Burroughs describes (in book The Job) written then put together Then he "cut up" into peices all his words,sentences, etc (*literally/physically) then Peiced it all together and that is how he made Naked Lunch...according to Burroughs himself (*read THE JOB...Where he is interviewed and tells.) Part of his Magic cut up as he first did w sound voiced words n A TAPE PLAYER. HE decided to try the written

[@ptathholroyd4128]

no, the cut up novels are Ticket that exploded, nova express etc

[@philosophie8744]

My understanding is that the naked lunch was complied by Ginsberg as Burroughs was in Tangier and would send bits of writing to Ginsberg who helped him compile it into one book. The cut ups books are the soft machine , the ticket that exploded and the nova express, not naked lunch thou it was made out of different pieces of writings it wasn’t made using his cut up method

[@sallylauper8222]

"Routines"

[@will-love-lvx]

Goddamn those insects on the periphery!

[@wizardtooth666]

What are you people doing not talking about the best book wild boy’s . Or the latter western land series?

[@uncleobscurenobody8861]

I feel like this could gain so much from looking at 'Cities of the Red Night'

[@Caligari...]

42:30 cut up ' " The Exterminator" not " Exterminator " This woman is laughing at the genius Burroughs cut ups !

[@donq2957]

Who is this man. I'm getting undercover spook.

[@WoodwoseTransmissions]

lol why?

[@AlienBigCat23]

Sadly most info in this overview is out of date and superseded

[@isaacmorales1419]

really?

[@AlienBigCat23]

Yess

[@uncleobscurenobody8861]

This poor lady, lol