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Is the Holy Grail a crushed beer can in the gutter? JF and Phil consider the implications of Philip K. Dick's line, "the symbols of the divine initially show up at the trash stratum." Gnosticism, Aleister Crowley's Thoth tarot, Thomas Ligotti's "The Order of Illusion," Jack Smith's glorification of moldy glamour, saints' relics that look like beef jerky -- all this and more in the first of a two-part conversation.

REFERENCES

Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth
\nPhil Ford, "What Good News Do You Bring?"
\nPhilip K. Dick, The Exegesis
\nPhilip K. Dick, VALIS
\nStanislav Lem, Microworlds
\nJonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind
\nRobertson Davies, The Rebel Angels
\nThomas Ligotti, Noctuary
\nFriedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
\nFrank Darabont (dir.), The Shawshank Redemption
\nWeird Studies podcast, On Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' Part 1 and Part 2
\nRichard Wagner, Parsifal