Show Notes

A solid 90+ minute talk with Gordon White of RuneSoup fame about his new book Star.Ships: A PreHistory of the Spirits.

Previous appearance

• Breaking down the Breakaway Civilisation with Gordon White

Works mentioned

• The Origins of the World’s Mythologies by E.J. Michael Witzel
• Eden in the East: The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia by Stephen Oppenheimer
• The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture by William Irwin Thompson
• City of the Moon God by Tamara M. Green

Jacques Vallée short list

• The Invisible College: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered about UFO Influence on the Human Race
• UFOs: The Psychic Solution
• Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds
• Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults

Films referenced

• Cloud Atlas

TV Shows mentioned

•  Isaac Asimov’s Probe

Musical Sample: source.

Would you like to know more?

You can read my write-up of Star.Ships at Daily Grail.

BONUS UPDATE

If you were intrigued by our brief discussion of prison planet life under Universal Basic Income, I highly recommend reading the prequel novella for The Expanse series, The Churn… in which this theme features heavily.