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In the paper discussed in this episode, Phil Ford coins the term "diviner\'s time" to denote a particular feeling that will be familiar to anyone who has engaged in divinatory or magical practice, namely the feeling that it all means something, that the universe, with all its chaos and randomness, nevertheless contains -- or is itself -- a kind of music. This episode goes deep down the rabbit hole as Phil and JF try to wrap their heads around conceptions of time, causality, and meaning that are very different from our usual understanding of those terms.

REFERENCES

Phil Ford, "Diviner\\u2019s Time" (Patreon exclusive)

Karl Pfeifer (director), Hellier
\\nJoshua Ramey, "Contingency Without Unreason: Speculation After Meillassoux"
\\nE. E. Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande
\\nJung, "On Synchronicity"
\\nJung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle
\\nBruno Latour, An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns
\\nGrant Morrison on chaos magic, the occult, and sigil creation
\\nAustin Osman Spare\'s sigil theory
\\nEric Wargo, Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious
\\nAlan Chapman, Advanced Magick for Beginners
\\nWilliam James\'s essays in psychical research: bibliography
\\nMeillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency
\\nToronto World Youth Day 2002
\\nCrowley, Magick Without Tears
\\nLeibniz\'s concept of pre-established harmony
\\nMatthew Segall on the Greek concepts of time, "Minding Time: Chronos, Kairos and Aion in an Archetypal Cosmos"
\\nRichard Lester (director), Hard Day\'s Night
\\nFreud, "The Uncanny"
\\nRudolf Otto, The Idea of the Holy
\\nEric Voegelin, The New Science of Politics: An Introduction
\\nMircea Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return, or, Cosmos and History
\\nCharles Taylor, A Secular Age