On July 26th, 2026, Edward had just uploaded the 10th of The Monsoon 15, "Meccan Revelations - Part 85" and got a hankerin' to do that thing we did last time after only 3, namely, this.
GwydionInstagram NotificationsGwydions Astral Coffeehouse2026-07-09 | ...Black & Red • The First 33Gwydions Astral Coffeehouse2026-06-18 | On Chicken Philosophy, we read and kibbitz about five books at a time, on a rotation. It is visually depicted as a kind of Mandala, with 5 different colored Outer-Petals: Black, Purple, Orange, White, and Green, and three different colored Inner-Petals: Blue, Red, and White.
Pymander's main channel: youtube.com/@BuddhistBooksWendy Carlos 映画「時計じかけのオレンジ」 Theme from A Clockwork OrangeGwydions Astral Coffeehouse2026-06-02 | 1971年イギリス、アメリカ合作。スタンリー・キューブリック制作・監督・脚本で主演にはマルコム・マクダウェルが就きました。キューブリック監督が最も脂が乗りきっていた時期の作品群の一つと言えますね。
So anyway, all of that was copy/pasted from the video that, until today, was the only place on the internet where you could find this particular track from the Clockwork Orange soundtrack. I often use it in episodes of @ChickenPhilosophy and put the URL in the comments under "background music" and I was always a bit self-conscious about it because it used Wendy's dead-name in the title. That was the only thing I changed when I reposted it here. That and the image.
Which brings me to the reason I started typing here.... that description (I just ran it through Google Translate) left out the most important thing...
THE SOUNDTRACK TO TRON!!!
1982, that is. That was my entry point, so to speak.Episode 55: HummersGwydions Astral Coffeehouse2026-05-27 | Gwydion's Astral Podcast Episode 55: "Hummers" March 2nd, 2016
Gwydion hums some Planning to Rock and Tiger Lillies.
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Anyway, on February 22nd, Schlenchnünhiemer put Gwydion on trial for being derivative... of Schlenchnünhiemer before a jury of his peers (the other the voices in Edward's head). Gwydion pled guilty, and Schlenchnünhiemer returned the podcast to him.
Then... in shock from the ordeal... from February 23rd of 2016 until February 29th, Gwydion went through...
his D.J. Phase.
Then, he got over it. Then, after *a lot*... on January 24th, 2018, in Kathmandu, he recorded one... final... of, you know, that same style of episode. So that's at the end. After that Edward deleted Gwydion's Astral Podcast until he resurrected it in April 2023 with youtube.com/watch?v=-86_ngoy1EU
Pretty self-explanatory, no need for a description, it's all in the episode's title. On June 22nd, 2007, I took off my hat and invented a new character/persona called "Edward."
(This was originally uploaded in May of 2011, I accidentally deleted it from YouTube in early 2018, just re-uploading it.)Episode 151: Cylindrical BoxesGwydions Astral Coffeehouse2025-10-26 | Gwydion's Astral Podcast Episode 151: "Cylindrical Boxes" October 26th, 2025
In which Gwydion inadvertently redecorates or rearranges the background of Chicken Philosophy a little.
Hi guys, Gwydion 2025 here. So, this is part of an on-going every-once-in-a-while kind-of archival-type thing project-ish. Basically, I had a podcast, still do, (youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTCszXb49m6SzobA7BMT8jPvboP0Bgr8u) but it was gone for a while. I'll start over: Hi guys (using the gender-neutral form of "guys" here). Umm... So, things about this episode:
1. Episode 35 of Gwydion's Astral Podcast was originally titled "Coming Back Home" I think in reference to the idea of each of the personae returning to their "proper places" i.e. Edward to "Edward Reib's Podcast" (it was a thing, back then) BT to "The Esoterinerd Podcast," Gwydion to "Gwydion's Astral Podcast," and early efforts toward defining Pymander as a persona among the others as a synthesis of the others (long before Gwydion decided the Nyingma Monk-by-theft persona should be called Pymander).
2. I changed it, just now, for YouTube to "GoatScape" because it popped into my head while scrolling Instagram and I thought it was funny but, after Googling it, it's already a thing here and there so it isn't original but that never stopped me before. Basically I didn't want people seeing a Gwydion video called "Coming Back Home" and mistakenly thinking that I'm not currently living in my home, which is India.
3. This episode, back in February of 2016, was the very first time that the name Schlenchnünhiemer was mentioned in any way after "I" had stopped using the name sometime in the early to mid 90s. It was a poetic pen-name, as well as what we used to sign at the bottom of drawings and shit, back then. Edward once called him "proto-Gwydion" which I've never forgiven him for, and I never will. Shortly after this episode, Schlenchnünhiemer "took over" Gwydion's Astral Podcast, renaming it "Schlenchnünhiemer's Astral Podcast" and writing a new poem under that name, the first and only poem written by Schlenchnünhiemer since the 90s, which was called youtube.com/watch?v=mzThQrtgl4w
4. I can't think of anything else. Just that anyone familiar with @ChickenPhilosophy in present day might be amused to hear Edward, Gwydion, BT and Pymander interacting 9 years ago and slowly evolving toward the personas they are today.
5. Oh! I thought of something. After revisiting youtube.com/watch?v=mzThQrtgl4w just now, it occurs to me that 2016-2017 era Gwydion's Astral Podcast might be considered my own "Black Books Period." Maybe.
switching between 1. gwydion singing yesterday to whoever clicked thumbs down on esoterinerd 136 2. edward yammering in the late not-so-great "Edward Reib's Podcast" episode 82 circa a month or two before leaving California 3. digital anologue digital mirroring recording mirroring (hint: it's you) 4. driving home from the cult in 2006 while listening to random selections from my YouTube playlist these last few days (in 2025)
I usually don't break it down so clearly but today I decided to, and it was a little more organized than usual. Weird.
a snapshot on the radio: the flag thing from like 2003, the evolution of Pymander, random shit floating in the astral bubble around my head today, plus music.
Gwydion continues to celebrate Groundhog Day by reciting John Dan Reib's short story The Betrayal, listening to Christian Death, and some Russian Orthodox chants, basically.
Writing this description in 2025 anyway: this poem was an expression, and has since become a sort of landmark in memory, of a transition from categorizing things in terms of astrological, elemental, sephirotic, and other similar boxes to an embracing of the omni-slithering organic complexity impossible to grasp and dissect like a frog with little pins with labels on all of its parts, and a choice to experience that frog of life, existence, death, non-existence, whatever, all-of-the-above, as it is in the present moment, rather than filtering everything through some kind of simple (even if by simple we mean thousands of categories) system which pre-exists and has been learned, memorized, repeated, and taught to others, to accept that half-assed way of experiencing things as having been the crutch that it was, to let it fall on the cement ground of the subway platform with a clatter, and to jump down go running down the tracks laughing, screaming, weeping, and tearing open my heart to experience this moment in its rawness, without some mercurial filter system keeping myself separate like a hard drive behind eyeballs experiencing nothing but my own processings of yester-minute.
You know what I mean? Anyway, hope y'all are doing well.
Today is a special occasion. For the first time, an episode of Gwydion's second channel, @gwydionspoetry has been found worthy, by Gwydion, to be reposted in the form of an episode of the famous "Gwydion's Astral Podcast."
On @gwydionspoetry it is called "gwydion's poetry 18" and the description reads:
Amazon music.amazon.com/podcasts/15cae204-1b50-4eaf-9dbd-51ca5c37dc7c/gwydions-astral-podcastWere All DEVOGwydions Astral Coffeehouse2025-02-07 | A lifelong fan of DEVO, I remember I had a copy of this on Beta (sorry, FBI) as a kid and watched it hundreds of times and, well... I just found it again on archive.org and thought y'all over here on YouTube might wanna see it too, so... there you go. Obviously, I don't own any of the rights, yadda yadda (or perhaps gabba gabba, in this case) check out @DEVOvision & @DEVOsGeraldVCasale if you're into it.
Anyway, much of the original upload was blocked world-wide, so I opted to tell the YouTube robot to trim all those segments out. Soon, I'll list here in the description what all was cut out, at which time-stamps they would have been (sort of) and where you can find those missing parts elsewhere on YouTube.
End of line.Were All DEVOGwydions Astral Coffeehouse2025-02-07 | So I watched "The Truth About De-Evolution" on YouTube and thought I was losing my mind because there were parts mssing and videos that came out after... let me back up... when I was like 7, back in '85, we had this pirated Beta, you know, when you play from one Betamax and record it on another Betamax... old school, anyway, so, I watched this Devo movie/video compilation hundreds of times as a kid, but according to the Internet, "The Truth About De-Evolution" didn't come out until 1993, and was missing Dr Detroit and the part where they were being crucified for like a minute was cut down to a split-second, and so I KNEW there was a missing movie out there somewhere. Well, I found it, including the bit in this short, and here's how to find it: Go to archive.org and search for: We're All Devo VHS, and you can re-live part of my childhood. Or, live it, for the first time. Or part of your childhood, if you've ever seen this clip before. That is all. End of line.Gwydion’s DeskGwydions Astral Coffeehouse2025-01-28 | ...My New Office/Temple 😎Gwydions Astral Coffeehouse2025-01-24 | ...