Michael Tsarion on Race, Jordan Peterson, and Why Conspiracy Work is Spiritual Work |372|

Summary: <a href="http://skeptiko.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/please-share-skeptiko3.jpg"></a><br> Michael Tsarion’s books ask tough questions about our occulted history and its impact on modern culture.<br> <br> photo by: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/rd-creas/6951584668/in/photolist-bAhFW5-74qpLo-9psw2n-4V14Pj-9pvxDC-7MBf5i-9QYaAz-9pvybh-a3Zaq-9pvy5E-9pvy9w-dYhtFv-rhccfo-9pvyeA-9pswn8-9GgR8E-rh6PRf-q8WDeU-yyyEU-8rSCp-6R1JJ-CgH5Yo-BVP25-btDfby-9D2NXx-hzVJ3m-5wnmQ2-9eFKGh-XnrkiE-H3h4rM-ank8s5-9b4xms-8ZEBsB-73QNcS-9pvxn9-9pvxpC-akpiZ3-9pvxs7-e4b4tV-9psvWK-5grAXR-dFZHc4-9pvxXd-9pswUe-9pvxjh-9pvxKC-2PmJ7V-miFXy8-7Lngim-nYmU2H">Skeptiko</a><br> What do you think about race? And what does it have to do with the extended consciousness stuff I’m always talking about?<br> (clip from the movie, Get Out) Hey Chris, I want to introduce you to some friends. This is a David and Marcia Wincott, Ronald and Celia Jeffries, Hiroki Tanaka and Jessika and Fredrich Walden.<br> Too many names to remember, but hi.<br> Do you find that being African-American has more advantage or disadvantage in the modern world?<br> It’s a tough one.<br> Yeah, I know man.<br> Hey man. They were asking me about me about the African-American experience, maybe you could take this one.<br> Sorry man.<br> Get out… (screams)… get out… get out!<br> That’s a clip from the 2017 Oscar nominated movie, Get Out. It is a movie that approaches some of these topics of race, genetics, blood lines, in a rather new and novel way. But from my perspective, from the Skeptiko perspective of consciousness and extended consciousness, it just sounds like bullshit. <br> Alex Tsakiris: I mean, I’m just going to be really blunt. I’m looking at a picture of you and I’m going Irishman? Man, this guy’s pretty brown skinned, and then I’m reading your background and you say in your bio that your grandfather was this, kind of, famous Sikh, right? <br> Michael Tsarion: That’s right. I am Irish with Norwegian background and part of my family comes from Northern India. When you say Sikh, that’ll pretty much nail it for people because within Sikhism there’s several different castes and the highest caste, the philosopher caste, was called Jat, and my ancestors came from the Jat Sikhs. So, these are a philosopher caste. This is a caste that is known to be pure Aryan and pure Caucasian. So even though the tone of the skin maybe off-white, you know, darker because of the hot climate and that my ancestors moved over to India, they are, in fact, Caucasians. So, on both sides of my family, it’s Caucasian blood there, partly from Norway and then the Norwegians came over. <br> Alex Tsakiris: This history, the land, the blood. You feel like that’s important to you? <br> Michael Tsarion: Yes, it’s important to me, yeah.<br> (later in the interview)<br> Alex Tsakiris: I’m with you on that, and I think you’re right to point that out and point all the corruption that often comes with religion, because it’s essentially about controlling people. No matter how good the idea is initially, it becomes institutionalized and it becomes this vehicle for control, because it’s pushing on all the same buttons, right? <br> So, your ‘spiritual’, whatever that means to you, development, opens you up and makes you vulnerable to some very human, cultish, manipulative kind of things, and we see that happening again and again. <br> But let me slow down because sometimes we get into talking inside baseball and people aren’t following, and let me tell you a little bit about my journey with Skeptiko, because when I approached these topics for myself, I was relying on science as you alluded to. I thought there were problems with the way that this fake dogmatic materialism was being applied, but I liked the method. <br> So, one of the first questions I came to was this question of con...