On this episode, Kris and I discuss initiation rites throughout the world, with an eye towards distinguishing childhood from adulthood in terms of agency when dealing with uncertainty.
We finish up with some practical questions: what’s the best way to know how many gumballs are in a gumball machine? Why are there so many large insects in the Solomon Islands? Does sex magic work?
We continue our quest to acquire new and interesting questions…
Part 1
Death Thinking / Initiation Rites/ Rumspringa / Bull Jumping
Part 2
Land Divers / Developing Agency in Uncertainty / Hieroglyphic Silence
Carpenter bee
Boeing CH-47 Chinook
Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders by Samuel Delaney
François Rabelais
Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul
“Spiritual Politics of the Dead”
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Weird Studies
J.B.S. Haldane
Bar/Bat Mitzvah
Quinceñera
Rumspringa
Maasai Warrior Ritual
Hamar Bull Jumping
Pentecost Island Land Divers
Taschen Sale
Random Number Generators
William S. Burroughs Mini-Documentary
Brion Gysin
“Hieroglyphic Silence”
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