Mycelium Signal #11: Humility Before The Sacred
– With Dr. Martin Locker | Part 2/2

NOTE: This is a direct continuation from the first part of my conversation with Martin Locker. Please listen it before embarking on with this one:

https://rihmastosignaali.podbean.com/e/mycelium-signal-11-humility-before-the-sacred-with-dr-martin-locker-part-12/

In this episode, we discuss the following topics:

• The importance of humility before the Sacred (Horror).
• ‘4D reality’ (direct experience) vs. virtual reality (an entertainment experience).
• The liminal sense of danger of a cottage vs. a city apartment while sleeping alone.
• The everyday grind and the shallowness of its remedy, hedonistic pleasures.
• The limits of pleasure and pain in their physical and metaphysical forms, inspired by Ulver’s song ”Eos.”
• An analogy of building with timber vs. stone (churches of old).
• The problem of not seeing the stars while living in a city, with Konstantin’s recount of his epiphany in remote Lappland at night.
• The ecologist Derrick Jensen’s quote, ”You can’t plug a void with a void.”
• Prof. John Vervaeke’s ”Awakening from the Meaning Crisis” lecture series, diagnosing the world’s metaphysical illness (Martin’s take).
• Opening oneself up to the potential of being judged—a humility in front of the world, the Divine ‘patiently waiting behind your door.’
• The medieval mystical text ”The Mirror of Simple Souls Who Are Annihilated and Remain Only in Will and Desire of Love” by Marguerite Porete, a French Beguine and mystic.
• The experience of being lifted from the quagmire of mundane human existence, broadening one’s mental and spiritual horizons.
• The disturbing and exciting experience of getting to know oneself in an isolated, liminal setting, peeling off the mask of consensus reality.
• The misuse of the word ‘kind,’ the performative act of kindness vs. true kindness, and ‘self-invented moral glory.’
• Ernst Jünger’s quote: ”When humans try to act as angels, they turn into devils.”
• Martin’s critique of the misunderstanding of Carl Jung’s concept of Shadow Work as an ego-building exercise.
• Konstantin’s story about his harrowing non-dualistic epiphany of ‘being simultaneously a prisoner and a prison guard,’ and the radical fusion of two opposing perspectives.

At the end of this episode, we play Martin’s ambient track: “From the Hilltop Priory to Gleaming Vale” from the album “PYRE: NUMEN – Radieuses Pyrénées.”