Expanding Mind – Patterns of Transformation

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Expanding Mind – Patterns of Transformation

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May 2, 2019

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A talk with experience designer Ida Benedetto about transformative games, trespassing, rules for sex parties, active introversion, magic circles, funerals, and queer spirituality.

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May 2, 2019

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Expanding Mind - Cocreating Spiritual Worlds - 05.18.17: Transpersonal psychologist Jorge Ferrer talks about participatory spirituality, the problems with perennialism, the transpersonal evidence of psychedelics, and his new book Participation and the Mystery: Transpersonal Essays in Psychology, Education, and... by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Enlightened Resilience - 06.15.17: Futurist, Ethereum programmer, and critical infrastructure guru Vinay Gupta talks about global poverty, practical enlightenment, galvanizing visions, and the wisdom of uncertainty. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Occult Control Systems - 04.20.17: Hypermedia researcher and author Konrad Becker talks about algorithms from hell, the madness of rationality, media seances, and the martial art of freedom. http://world-information.net/en/ by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Psychedelic Pedagogy - 07.13.17: Research scientist and UK sociologist Tehseen Noorani talks about hearing voices, pharmacological biases, studying psilocybin studies, and the importance of trickster teachers. His talk at Psychedelic Science is available here. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Diamond Truths - 04.03.17: Spiritual leader and integral theorist A. Hameed Ali talks truth in the post-truth era, the method of inquiry, science fiction, and his new book The Alchemy of Freedom,written under his pen name A. H. Almaas. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Studying the Dead - 08.10.17: Grateful Dead scholar and professor Ulf Olsson talks about improvisation, self-organization, pirate ships, and his new book Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation (University of California Press). by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Paranthropology - 06.01.17: Anthropologist Jack Hunter talks about possession, parapsychology, permaculture, and the elusive ontology of spiritual beings. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Imaginal Landscapes - 10.12.17: Scholar, writer, and mythographer William Rowlandson talks about Jorge Luis Borges, magical trees, Yankee mysticism, and the power of the weird and murky. https://williamrowlandson.wordpress.com/ by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Into the Muck - 09.21.17: Israeli therapist, spiritual teacher, and psychedelic activist Galia Tanay talks about deep dharma practice, the problems with mindfulness, acceptance and commitment therapy, and how psychedelics shape the self. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Cross Cultural Qawwali - 05.11.17: North American Qawwali musician Tahir Faridi Qawwal talks about sacred improvisation, the mystic bliss of qawwali music, breaking into tradition, and building bridges between East and West with his group Fanna-Fi-Allah. www.fanna-fi-allah.com by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Indian Talking Machine - 06.22.17: Musician, sound artist, and 78 collector Robert Millis talks about hunting for records in India, the spectral mysteries of 78 records, Sublime Frequencies, and the sacred universe of Indian classical music. https://robertmillis.net by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Game Transfer Phenomena - 05.04.17: Psychologist Dr. Angelica Ortiz de Gortari talks about earworms, closed eye visuals, virtual reality dreams, and the many ways that computer games bleed into the offscreen lives of gamers. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Desert Oracle - 04.26.18: A conversation with Ken Layne, the maestro of the Desert Oracle podcast and field guide, about Joshua trees, desert Christianity, Edward Abbey, military secrecy, and the mysterious (and smelly) Yucca Man of local legend. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Trans-Millenia Consort - 11.23.17: Legendary electronic musician Pauline Anna Strom talks about space music, intuition and imagination, being blind, and her new compilation Trans-Millennia Music (Rvng Intl.) by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Big Sur Encounters - 05.29.17: Musician and Gnome Life label head Fletcher Tucker talks about living through the Big Sur landslides, hunting for songs, and his haunting new eco-folk record Cold Spring. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Psychedelic Science - 04.27.17: Neuroscientist and former psychedelic researcher Matthew Baggot talks about anxious mysticism, the MAPS conference, the default mode network, and the blind spots within psychedelic research. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Talismanic Bookseller - 04.13.17: Occult book dealer and underground musician Richard Bishop talks about modern grimoires, scorpion gods, Orientalist imagery, and hunting down physical books in the age of the Internet. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Radical Technologies - 09.11.17: Designer and technology critic Adam Greenfield talks about magic bullets, the melancholy of machines, Tesla’s Autopilot, and his must-read new book Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life (Verso). by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - The Zombie Complex - 06.29.17: Artist, author, and educator John Cussans talks about zombie cinema, revolutionary transgression, the politics of race, and his new book Undead Uprising: Haiti, Horror and the Zombie Complex. by Expanding Mind
56 min listen
Expanding Mind - Cosmic Triggerer - 07.20.17: Performer, director and playwright Daisy Campbell talks about Robert Anton Wilson, the dangers of synchronicity, her father Ken’s 1976 production of Illuminatus!, and her resoundingly successful recent staging of Cosmic Trigger: the Play. https://cosmict... by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Marvelous Moments - 08.03.17: Performer, writer, and MC Mark Petrakis, aka Spoonman, talks about San Francisco Dada, avant-vaudeville, spontaneous spirituality, and the importance of disregarding precision. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Divination for Troubled Times - 08.31.17: Professional “psycho-diviner" (and former Expanding Mind co-host) Maja D’Aoust talks about solstice magic, liquid archetypes, artificial intelligence, and her hypnogogic new Tarot deck White Witch Tarot. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - The Fifth Wall - 07.27.17: Novelist, poet and conceptual artist Rachel Nagelberg talk about trauma, technology, ayahuasca, and her intense and resonant debut novel The Fifth Wall. http://www.rachelnagelberg.com/ by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - On Beyond - 05.21.18: A conversation with designer and snowboarder Sijay James about archaic revivals, neotribal design, mystic powder, flow, and falling with style. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - The Voyager Golden Record - 10.05.17: Futurist, science journalist, and Boing Boing co-editor David Pescovitz discusses space exploration, world music, Carl Sagan the stoner, and his participation in the recent release of the Voyager Golden Record, forty years after the original Voyager prob... by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - For the Wild - 11.30.17: Religious scholar Sarah M. Pike talks about wilderness conversion, Hare Krishna hardcore, feral wonder, and her illuminating new book For the Wild: Ritual and Commitment in Radical Eco-Activism (University of California). by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Coyote Poetics - 11.02.17: Poet and wilderness writer Andrew Schelling talks about his new biography Tracks Along the Left Coast (Counterpoint), which tells the story of Jaime De Angulo (1887-1950): Big Sur bohemian, California Indian anthropologist, and great Coyote poet. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Psychedelic Bridges - 04.12.18: A conversation with Brazilian anthropologist, conference programmer, and chacruna.net editor Bia Labate. We cover peyote politics, the bureaucratization of psychedelics, the legalization of ayahuasca circles in the United States, and working with indige... by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Out There - 03.08.18: A conversation with Burt Shonberg biographer Spencer Kansa about LA bohemia, psychedelic art, Marjorie Cameron, gumshoe biography, and his new book Out There: The Transcendent Life and Art of Burt Schonberg. http://burtshonberg.com/ by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Morbid Anatomist - 11.16.17: Writer, photographer, and curator Joanna Ebenstein talks about Goth obsessions, memento mori, Santa Muerta, and her extraordinary new illustrated collection Death: A Graveside Companion (Thames & Hudson). by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind – Patterns of Transformation

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