Boundless Body Podcast with Brian Tierney

My conversation with Dr. Brian Tierney traces a winding path through the imaginal dimensions of philosophy, beginning with the etheric imagination as the subtle medium through which connection between self and world is actualized. Imagination emerges not as fantasy or escape, but as an onto-epistemic link between our inner life and cosmogenesis. Our discussion touches on the trickster’s role in evolution and the intimacy of death reflected in the perpetual perishing that makes true selfhood possible. Whitehead’s critique of the fallacy of misplaced concreteness is brought into dialogue with somatic practices, while Deleuze’s account of grounding reframes imagination as a participatory event rather than representation. The irony of non-dualism’s dualism, the creative tension of Dionysian chaos, and the thresholds where trauma and cosmos meet all flow into a deeper meditation on the madness driving philosophy—not as dysfunction, but as the ether through which events constellate, calling for ritual forms that dance between order and wildness.