In this special episode I am talking to Dr. Rick Strassman, leading expert in DMT-Research. We were talking about his new book, 'The Soul of Prohecy', about his DMT-research, about the properties of the DMT-experience, the evolutionary purpose, ethics and a lot more ... enjoy!
Noga Erez is a singer/songwriter from Tel Aviv/Israel. Her music deals with the conflicts of the world, is uncompromising, fascinating and authentic. Noga and I had an intersting chat about creativity and her debut album 'Off the Radar'
Dr. Chris Ryan is a bestselling book-author and podcaster. He wrote 'Sex at Dawn' and 'Civilized to Death', and is host of the 'Tangentially Speaking'-Podcast.
I had the distict pleasure to talk with him about our love of Spain, the pitfalls of civilization, civilization as a self-replicating superorganism, living the Nomad-life, developmental psychology and the developmental age of us humans today. Maybe we all are just sixteen. Which might explain our problems.
Dr. Gad Saad is a evolutionary psychologist and Professor of Marketing at Concordia University in Montreal. He writes a blog for Psychology Today and hosts a popular YouTube channel titled "The Saad Truth", where he comments with a lot of humour on the culture war we are facing today. In this episode we are talking about some ideas of his new book 'The Parasitic Mind', and if and why the immunological system might fail in our society.
Stephen Hicks is a Professor for Philosophy and author of the very good book 'Explaining Postmodernism'. Logically, we talk a lot about the history, aspects, traits and problems of postmodernism.
Ken Wilber, founder and creator of Integral theory, is guest on the show!
We did try to make sense of the cultural polarisation of 2018: What are the chances, stressors and problems of our time?
What does integration of left and right values mean?
Beyond an integral observer stance: What could an integral political party look like?
Jordan Peterson, Jonathan Haidt and the Intellectual Dark Web: What is their evolutionary function?
In this episode I had the distinct pleasure to talk to the godfather und founder of Spiral Dynamics, Dr. Don Beck. We talked a bit about his upcoming new book 'Spiral Dynamics in Action' about the current state of affairs of our culture, Trump, the Ken Wilber controversy, and more. Check it out!
David C. Korten is a luminary in the field of economics, a member of the Club of Rome, an author of the order and essentially meets all the criteria for being considered 'wise'. I am quite happy that he took the time to talk to me about his new book, about cosmologies and stories, and about our possible futures.
Today, technology allows us a new form of design: one that designs subjects, not objects; people, not things. By designing the information someone consumes, we can frame their opinions. By designing the interactions they have with digital devices, we can frame their thinking. This is known by not only tech giants but by military intelligence. And now, it is time that it becomes known by designers - especially those at the vanguard of dying paradigms
Zak Stein is a philosopher of education working at the interface of psychology, metaphysics, and politics. He has published two books, including Education in Time Between Worlds, along with dozens of articles.
This is the second in a three part series of conversations based on The book Sex, Masculinity and God co-written by Cadell Last.
The Nation-State System – why it acts as a block to our further evolution and how we can transcend it.
The SIMPOL Solution, spearheaded by the Simultaneous Policy (SIMPOL) Organization, gives voters around the world a new way to pressure their leaders to address global problems ranging from climate change to mass immigration and gross income disparities.
The talk will unpack the title itself: what is the structure of feeling in our time and how does it relate to a shifting *consciousness of time*, itself? What does a new relationship with time do for enabling us to actualize new futures? How does this moment make sense in the context of the whole (process) of cultural evolution in which we are situated?
A history of the good, the bad, and the ugly of the Men's movement with Fr. Michael Butler and a Q&A about Men's issues in general.
Cadell Last is an anthropologist, philosopher and therapist focused on biocultural evolution, mind-matter relation and future speculations. He earned his PhD in interdisciplinary and complexity studies at the Evolution, Cognition and Complexity group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is also the author of over a dozen academic publications and two books: Global Brain Singularity and Sex, Masculinity, God. You can find more about his work at cadelllast.com."
THE PSYCHE IS DEAD! LONG LIVE THE PSYCHE!
Ole Bjerg (b. 1974) is an Associate Professor in Philosophy and Economics at the Copenhagen Business School. His writings span a range of topics such as money, banking, central bank digital currency, bitcoin, sustainability, conspiracy theory, poker, addiction, ethics, and now also men. A list of previous books in English include Parallax of Growth (Polity Press 2016), Making Money (Verso 2014) and Poker: The Parody of Capitalism (University of Michigan Press 2011). He was born in Jutland but now lives in Copenhagen with his wife and two sons.
The Philosopher Queens began as a manifesto written by Rachel Haywire. The manifesto expresses discontent at the impoverishment of feminine archetypes in the popular discourse, and prophesies the rise of the femme fatales who will take their place as Philosopher Queens.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson is Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto and author of Maps of Meaning: The Achitecture of Belief. He entered the public sphere when he decided to take a stand against PC-Culture, Identity Politics and the pathologies of postmodernism. In this podcast we are talking about a wide array of topics, all pertaining to the end of postmodernism.