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Though it is seldom acknowledged in the weirdosphere, there is a difference between weirdness and mystery. Most of the time, the Weird confronts us with a problem, an impersonal epistemic obstacle which we can always believe would go away if we just closed our eyes and whistled past it with our hands in our pockets. Mystery, however, is always personal. It envelops us; it addresses us as persons. Mystery is as present within us as it is out there. It is there when you open your eyes, and even more so when you shut them tight. Maybe it had us in its grip before we were even born. In this episode, JF and Phil make radical mystery the focus of a discussion ranging over everything from unique kinds of tea and spelunking mishaps to antisonic demon pipes and malevolent radiators.

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REFERENCES

For information on JF's new course, Groundwork for a Philosophy of Magic, go to [Nura Learning](www.nuralearning.com).

Phil Ford, \u201cRadical Mystery: A Preliminary Account\u201d
\nJ.F. Martel, \u201cReality is analog\u201d
\nJohn Keel, The Mothman Prophecies
\nGabriel Marcel, Being and Having
\nImmanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
\nEugene Paul Wigner, \u201cThe Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics\u201d
\nLouis Sass, Madness and Modernism
\nPeter Kingsley, Catafalque
\nRudolf Otto, The Idea of the Holy
\nSteven Spielberg (dir.), Raiders of the Lost Ark
\nDogen, \u201cInstructions for the Cook\u201d
\nAlan Watts, The Way of Zen
\nWeird Studies, Episode 56 with Jeremy Johnson