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#40 Humility, Spirituality & Q&A
We talk about humility, Patreon, embodiment, nonduality & enlightenment, guru abuse, emerging modern spirituality, & more.
Jason & I talk about humility, memetic mediation, Patreon goals & perks, acting from uncertainty, embodiment & trauma/baggage, map vs territory, individual vs group development, mindfulness, compassion, nonduality & enlightenment, tantric practice, guru abuse, emerging modern spirituality & the limitations of intellect, the void, subtle sensations & the brilliance of the mundane, constructed cognition, what we're both concentrated on at the moment, and more.
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Jared's The Good, the True, the Beautiful Series
B/A: #39 Enabling Collaboration with Richard Bartlett
#39 Enabling Collaboration
We talk with Richard Bartlett about local & digital collaboration, experimentation vs abstraction, mythopoetics, mediators & ambassadors, digital communitas, & more.
Jason & I talk with Richard Bartlett about what led to his interest in group dynamics, quarantine in Italy, local vs digital collaboration, social enterprise, metamodernism & an action-oriented critique, rivalrous dynamics, the commons, experimentation vs abstraction, GameB, hierarchies, efficiency vs resilience, counter-cultural group dysfunctions, the economic purity delusion, mythopoetic cultural influence, the meta-tribe, memetic mediators & ambassadors, connecting elements of COVID-19, digital/complexity natives, creating digital communitas, and more.
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Enspiral | Loomio | The Hum | Microsolidarity.cc
Elinor Ostrom's 8 Principles for Managing A Commmons
On Leaving the Church of Social Justice
B/A: #37 Dancing with COVID with Sarah McManus
B/A: #22 Meta-Rationality & Sexuality with Jessica
Rebel Wisdom: Predicting the Pandemic, Nora Bateson, Joe Brewer & Jim Rutt
What Is Baggage?
In this video, Andrew Taggart & I talk about spirituality & what dealing with our baggage looks like in spiritual development.
I had the honor to talk with Andrew Taggart about spirituality (specifically, Eastern meditative practices), we discuss what baggage is using three different frames.
#38 Nurturing Intellect
We talk with Anna Gat about her Interintellect (I.I.) project, adjusting to quarantine, unification in global crisis, enabling constraints, leadership & more.
Jason & I talk with Anna Gat about her background & the Interintellect (I.I.), the structure of I.I. salons & how they're adjusting to COVID-19, uncovering our true social needs in quarantine, local vs virtual community, unifying dynamics of global crisis, COVID paradoxes & artifacts, redefining extraordinary & genius, enabling constraints, adversity, governance, memetic mediation, our tribal histories, leadership, what Anna is working on now, and much more.
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Article on COVID Responsibility, You’re Part of History Now
Anna's article, As We May Adult
#37 Dancing with COVID
We talk with Sarah McManus about her emotional & psychological experience of contracting COVID-19 while in self-quarantine, emotional processing, cultural platforms, & much more.
Jason & I talk with Sarah McManus about her background, her emotional & psychological experience of contracting COVID-19, her ayahuasca shamanic apprenticeship in Peru, helplessness, emotional processing, the Bio-Emotive Framework, Buddhist practices & traditions, suffering, building & integrating new cultural platforms, reframing human development, pandemic fragility, learnings from Burning Man, dynamics of self-isolation, moving forward, chaos, order, and much more.
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Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything
Clean Up, Wake Up, Grow Up with Ken Wilber
INVISIBILIA Podcast: The Reluctant Immortalist
Star Trek The Next Generation S1E2
B/A: #35 Erotic Potential with Debby Friday
Nora Bateson on the Emerge Podcast
The Context Institute - videos on cultural operating systems
Collaborative "nucleation sites"
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#36 Twitter Q&A, Tragedy & Transformation
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#36 Q&A, Tragedy & Transformation
Answering Twitter questions on bio-regeneration, mindfulness vs neurotic emotional responses to CV, fragility, tribal exposure & apprenticeship, our contemplative practices & more.
Jason & I answer Twitter questions and cover bio-regenerational orientations, COVID-19 induced mindfulness, tragedy & transformation, emotional escape & capture vs wholistic engagement, pluralistic food systems, the potential of minority rule, the role of the curator, the fragility of capitalist systems, future forcing functions, collecting & utilizing mental models, kinetic & meta tribes, skin in the game, learning through failure, tribal exposure & apprenticeship, Jason & Jared's contemplative practices, and more.
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#13 Problematizing Food Systems with Stephanie White
#35 Erotic Potential with Debby Friday
Donella Meadows' Leverage Points Paper
Donella Meadows' Dancing With Systems
The Patterning Instinct by Jeremy Lent
Jason's article, Integrating Mindfulness & Self-Inquiry
Jared's Guided Meditation on The Stoa
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#35 Erotic Potential
We talk with Debby Friday about her quarantine, the erotic, performance, CV impact on artists, death, tantra, creativity, ritual, the church of social justice & more.
Jason & I talk with musician, artist & writer Debby Friday about reflecting in quarantine, how she sees the erotic as a lifeforce, embodiment & performance, COVID-19 impact on touring artists & what Debby has been doing while social distancing, cultural habit, virus as a ghost, death denial & death drive, tantric practice, creativity, pop music, the power of ritual, the church of social justice, evoking spirit & much more.
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Debby's Article, TOGETHER, ALWAYS TOGETHER
Dave Chappelle Acceptance Speech
Debby Friday Tracks in episode
Finding Others on Voicecraft
Hosts of Both/And, Voicecraft, ZION 2.0 & The Stoa discuss COVID-19 implications.
Tim Adalin (Voicecraft) asked Jason Synder (Both/And), Collin Morris (ZION 2.0), Peter Limberg (the Stoa), and myself to join him to chat and make some sense out of COVID-19.
#34 Reimagining Religion
We talk with Nathan Spears about his journey from religion to atheism and back again, Orthodox Christianity, John Vervaeke, perennial philosophy & more.
Jason & I talk with Nathan Spears about his journey from religion to atheism and back again, Orthodox Christianity, modernizing religion, Vervaeke's four ways of knowing, the value of Christian language & story, bridging phenomenology & epistemology, the dynamics of belief, attention & intention, perennial philosophy, the body of Christ, and much more.
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Cognitive Science & the Sacred with Vervaeke & Pageau
God & Relevance Realization with Vervaeke & Pageau
#15 Being a Baha'i Creative with Samah Tokmachi
The Mind Illuminated by John Yates
Hammering Hot Iron by Charles Upton
People Mentioned
David Chapman, John Vervaeke, Daniel Thorson, Collin Morris, Jordan Hall, Guy Sengstock, Jonathan Pageau, Shinzen Young, David Bentley Hart
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#33 Chat & Twitter Q&A
Jason & I chat about our supporters, Both/And, spiritual practice, the 'self', embodied cognition, bioregional living, fluid politics, how Jason & Jared disagree, and much more.
Jason & I have a wide-ranging chat about our podcast supporters, how Both/And could evolve, informal vs formal spiritual practice, stream-entry & the path of awakening, exploring perspectives of the 'self', embodied cognition, enactivism, memetic mediation, bioregional living, collapse, xenophobia vs diversity, the future of localism, psychological/cultural development, fluid politics, silence, vulnerability, how Jason & Jared disagree, and much more.
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Jason's article, Integrating Mindfulness & Self-Inquiry
#32 Regenerating Earth with Joe Brewer
Elinor Ostrom's 8 Principles for Managing A Commmons
#23 Integral Psych & Culture with Mark Forman
The Imperfect Buddha | Daniel Ingram on Integral Theory
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#32 Regenerating Earth
We talk with Joe Brewer about perception/embodiment, abstraction & duality, trauma, conceptual frames, the invisible regenerative revolution, acting bioregionally & more.
Jason & I talk with Joe Brewer about the impact of conceptuality on perception & embodiment, the impossibility of understanding planetary collapse & what that means, getting lost in abstraction & duality, personal & ecological trauma, making & breaking conceptual frames, cancerous human thinking, the invisible regenerative revolution, the dynamics of coercion, top-down vs bottom-up regeneration, ecological succession, sustainable life-systems, acting bioregionally, and more!
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#31 Conscious Evolution
We talk with Rob Cobbold about what led him to Conscious Evolution, antinatalism, spirituality, consciousness, global governance, alt currencies, societal future, & much more.
Jason & I talk with Rob Cobbold about what led him to orient his life towards Conscious Evolution & what its core components are, the shortsightedness of antinatalism, spirituality & dualism, consciousness & ethics, limits of materialism & rationality, global governance, money, debt & interest, alternative currencies, societal flourishing, collapse & much more.
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Sex, Ecology, Spirituality by Ken Wilber
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig
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#30 Aesthetic Embodiment
We talk with Rachel Haywire about her presidential candidacy, art & philosophy, the memetic tribal landscape, memes & aesthetics, embodiment & pain/suffering, VR & much more!
Jason & I talk with Rachel Haywire about her presidential candidacy, what led her to art & philosophy, the art right, her view of the memetic tribal landscape, the power of memes, her critique on Jared & Jason's meta tribe, the role & power of aesthetics, psychic fascism, the challenges & benefits of embodiment, pain & suffering, spiritual materialism, embodied VR, politics as aesthetic, tribal immune systems, memetic fashion, the 'NPC' meme, transgressive arts, and much more!
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My Jim Rutt Show Interview
It was a pleasure to be interviewed on The Jim Rutt Show! We take a deep dive into spirituality.
I had a great conversation on The Jim Rutt Show about the value & dynamics of spirituality. We dove deep on a bunch of topics ranging from the confabulated self, altered states vs altered traits, the equation & dynamics of suffering, embodiment/intuition, attention & awareness, the pleasure of concentration, and much more.
#29 Reducing Suffering
We talk with Evan Sandhoefner about utilitarianism, pluralistic ethics, suffering & how it may affect animals & humans differently, consciousness, ethical meat production, & much more.
Jason & I talk with Evan Sandhoefner about what led him to utilitarianism & effective altruism, the flexibility of utilitarianism & some critiques, pluralistic virtue ethics, whether suffering is necessary & how it may affect animals & humans differently, whether we should remove wild predators to prevent animal suffering, creating unintentional animal suffering, consciousness, ethical meat production & factory farming, localism, universal explainers vs computers, intelligence, and more.
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The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger
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#28 Grokking Holochain
We talk with the Commercial Director of Holochain, David Atkinson about why he joined the Holo team, elements of Holochain, how they compare to the blockchain, & much more.
Jason & I talk with the Commercial Director of Holo/Holochain, David Atkinson. They cover what led David to the Holo team, systems thinking, biomimicry & evolution, the core elements of Holochain, how it compares to the blockchain, scalability, centralization vs decentralization, some potential impacts of this tech, its current phase of development, and much more.
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#27 The Future of Work
We talk with Paul Millerd about work & its connection to meaning & dignity, locality, work-life boundaries, work as service, group complexity, chaos, & much more.
Jason & I talk with Paul Millerd about his career path, Jared's recent leap to self-employment, the incentives of benefits & healthcare, history of firm-based vs contract work, expectations of work & its connection to meaning & dignity, local community, the boundary between work & life, basic income, consumerism, GDP determined lifestyles, shared local commons, self-determination theory, the 40-hour workweek, the pathless path, work as service, the complexity of teams & the role of chaos, and much more.
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If work dominated your every moment would life be worth living?
On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt
Zachary Stein on The Musing Mind Podcast
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#26 The New Left
We talk with Michael Brooks about his show, why politics needs spirituality, markets vs capitalism, centralization vs decentralization, & much more.
Jason & I talk with Michael Brooks about what his show (TMBS) is about, his history with Integral Theory & meditation, his political perspective, the Kurdish situation in Rojava, dangers of idealism & ahistorical thinking, why politics needs spirituality, Michael's view on today's political narratives, his recent meditation retreat, how the Four Quadrants of Integral could impact political discourse, markets vs capitalism, centralization vs decentralization, fractal localism, and much more.
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Exiting the Vampire Castle by Mark Fisher
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#25 Horrorism & Culture
We talk with the anonymous horrorist, Zero about his new book, his creative process, the self & culture, contemplation, pain & suffering, hierarchies, cultural colonialism, & much more.
Jason & I talk with horrorist, Zero HP Lovecraft about why he started writing & where his alias came from, his new book, his creative process & influences, the horrorist aesthetic, the unknowability of our own values, the self & culture as software, media's impact on culture, his view on the future & contemplative development, euphoric depersonalization, the role of pain & suffering, societal hierarchies, cultural colonialism & design, chaos & order, and much more.
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#24 Religion, Creativity & Deleuze
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#24 Religion, Creativity & Deleuze
We talk with political scientist Justin Murphy about being an independent creator & a libertarian communist, human equality, his new book Based Deleuze, and more.
Jason & I talk with political scientist Justin Murphy about his path to becoming an independent artist & intellectual, what it means to him to be a libertarian communist, foundations of intrinsic human equality, his unique take on Gilles Deleuze in his new book Based Deleuze, creativity, Urbit and more.
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