Jeffrey Epstein, Magick, and The Self

On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I converse with

Sirius White

, a Gen X fellow from Northern England who publishes at Antidote to Magical Thinking.

Sirius is also a recent admission to The Tortuga Society, having already established himself in just a few weeks as one of our organization’s most productive members.

If you enjoy the talk be sure to check out SW’s Extreme Individual Institute.

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Topics include:

• The Extreme Individual and principles of Radical Undoing, and how this relates to the work of Aleister Crowley

• Is SW’s concept of magick metaphysical or more of an archetypal thing?

• SW sees the process of radical undoing as a Nietzschean pursuit of True Self.

• The Psychopath’s Bible—the magnum opus of SW’s mentor Chris Hyatt

• How does radical undoing treat instrumental niceties and status-seeking?

• Are you being more honest when you’re radically unmediated or radically thoughtful about your behavior?

• The essential role of recursion and metacognition and theory of mind in maintaining higher order social scripts

• How SW compartmentalizes his life into different “boxes”

• The goal of radical undoing is making cognition less automatic—Walt pushes back asking if this results in prohibitive levels of cognitive load.

• The curse of sapience and how it relates to the Eden myth

  • Watch my show with

    Andrew Cutler
    about his theory that sapience originated in women experimenting with hallucinogenic snake victim

• Are blacks less metacognitive because of their lack of neanderthal admixture?

• SW clarifies goal isn’t to obviate consciousness so much as unexamined belief

• Our sense perception of the world is a map and not the territory

• Neurotype asymmetry is hugely significant and creates enormous qualitative differences in lived experience

• Walt wants to introduce SW to his friend Owen (

  BLOODΩSAPPHO
  )

  • Anyone who enjoys this episode should watch the one I did with Owen

• Current events in the UK—particularly in regards to mass immigration

• The predictive and explanatory power of cycle models and similar heuristics

• Does the UK have mass violence in its future? What role does density play?

• Can the UK decentralize like the US given the centrality of London?

• Why did everyone just suddenly start caring about Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein connection a few weeks ago when this was all public for years?

• People fixate on Epstein because he serves as a Sin Eater for ambient anxiety over Stepdad Shit that’s often significantly more nefarious

• SW argues Epstein was a money guy and the diddling was his weird side thing

• The causes of billionaire pedophilia

• We’re harsher on pedophilia today because of Zoomer arrested development

• Distinct types of pedophile—retardeds, porn addicts, and endocrine slime

• More neotenous adult pornstars with a more deliberately childish affect probably does increase the preponderance of hebephilia on the margins

• The failure of Gen X to seize institutional power from Boomers

• Zoomer cynicism towards traditional scripts and institutions

• Why SW and his wife live in separate homes

• Millennial romanticism vs. Gen X self-soothing

• The impulse in clever young men to despise every ritual and convention

• The role of jealousy and envy in a man’s 20s and 30s in fueling his motivation

• Young men need to optimize around flexibility

• Walt suggests that young guys who want a white collar lifestyle immediately begin thinking about how to start a scalable AI business