Podcast appearances and mentions of daniel thorson

Daniel Thorson spent 5 years in residential training at The Monastic Academy with 2 years in cumulative silent retreat. He has decades of deep engagement with contemplative practice, systems theory, and transformative work. He's also the beloved host of The Emerge Podcast and writes at The Intimate Mirror, where he's exploring how people can develop a secure attachment with reality.Resources:* Spirituality is Secure Attachment with Reality* AI for Emotional Unfolding* Steve March on Self-Improvement vs Self-unfoldment* https://x.com/dthorsonYouTube: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themetagame.substack.com

After many years, I sat down with Daniel Thorson whose Emerge podcast was an inspiration and leading voice in the liminal web/sensemaking/metacrisis space. This was a really special podcast & Daniel brought ro bear his unfoldment practice and the spirit of his substack Intimate Mirror to create a really unique space. We explored: life after monastic academy. Buddhism and trauma. The masculine wound in the west and our relationship with masculine authority. What it means to connect with essence. True safety as found in ‘making the leap' into the the divine. What Daniel learned about the metacrisis through years of enquiry with leading heart-minds in the liminal web.Don't miss this one.Be sure to subscribe for more at:Daniel's substack & work with Daniel at: The Intimate Mirror https://intimatemirror.substack.com/Jacob's substack:www.culturepilgrim.substack.comThe Resonant Man:www.theresonantman.substack.comJacob Kishere Website [Re-launch pending]www.jacobkishere.com

In this episode of Ordinary People Rufus Pollock talks with Daniel Thorson. Daniel shares his unique journeys of finding faith, meaning, and personal growth through unexpected avenues of meditation, living at a Goenka center, and participating in the Occupy Wall Street movement. They delve into the critical roles of trust, courage, and support in navigating life's uncertainties and explore the intersection of Buddhism and technology, pondering the potential for online spaces to foster contemplative practices, and sustaining personal and societal transformation through commitment and deep inquiry.#monastic #emerge #buddhism #friendship #inquiry #technology #socialtransformation #courage #faith #meditationAbout Daniel ThorsonDaniel Thorson is a writer, a Monastic at Monastic Academy and the creator and host of the podcast Emerge – Making Sense of What's Next, where he explores meaning, responsibility, and human development in the age of automation and climate collapse, and the relationship between inner and outer transformation. About Rufus PollockRufus Pollock is an entrepreneur, activist and author as well as a long-term zen practitioner. He is passionate about finding wiser, weller ways to live together. He has founded several for-profit and nonprofit initiatives including Life Itself, Open Knowledge Foundation, and Datopian. His book Open Revolution is about making a radically freer and fairer information age. Previously he has been the Mead Fellow in Economics at the University of Cambridge as well as a Shuttleworth and Ashoka Fellow. A recognized global expert on the information society, he has worked with G7 governments, IGOs like the UN, Fortune 500s as well as many civil society organizations. He holds a PhD in Economics and a double first in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge. Find out more about his work on his website: rufuspollock.com.Ordinary People is a podcast series that delves into the lives of individuals who have defied societal expectations and embarked on extra-ordinary paths despite their seemingly ordinary backgrounds. Join us as we dive deep into their lives, uncovering their motivations, beliefs, practices, and moments of transformation. We demystify hero worship and share accessible narratives of real individuals who have transcended societal expectations and norms. Each guest delicately navigates the balance between introspection and worldly engagement. Listeners are offered empowerment, kinship and inspiration for embarking on their own extra-ordinary journey.Chapters00:05 Personal growth, meditation, and systems change with a focus on alienation and finding meaning in life06:48 Occupy Wall Street movement, Buddhist geeks, and hope, and power18:02 Creating a modern monastery to address planetary crisis27:18 Personal growth, breakthroughs, and the importance of faith and support39:41 The importance of friendship in personal growth and spiritual development47:19 Creating intentional communities for personal growth and service59:07 How to help people stay in a community and work through conflicts1:05:02 Commitment and transformation through structured programs1:10:53 desires through inquiry, letting go of preferences and avoiding manipulation.1:20:59 The nature of truth and goodness in a secular humanist society and its relationship to religion, culture, and personal transformation1:31:27 Truth, meaning, and values in post-conventional society This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit news.lifeitself.org

How dangerous is AI? Are Large Language Models likely to subvert our children?  Is Generalised AI going to wipe out all life on the planet?  I don't know the answers to these. It may be that nobody knows, but this week's guest was my go-to when I needed someone with total integrity to help unravel one of the most existential crises of our time, to lay it out as simply as we can without losing the essence of complexity, to help us see the worst cases - and their likelihood - and the best cases, and then to navigate a route past the first and onto the second. Daniel Thorson is an activist - he was active in the early days of the Occupy movement and in Extinction Rebellion. He is a lot more technologically literate than I am - he was active early in Buddhist Geeks. He is a soulful, thoughtful, heartful person, who lives at and works with the Monastic Academy for the Preservation of Life on Earth in Vermont. And he's host of the Emerge podcast, Making Sense of What's Next. So in all ways, when I wanted to explore the existential risks, and maybe the potential of Artificial Intelligence, and wanted to talk with someone I could trust, and whose views I could bring to you unfiltered, Daniel was my first thought, and I'm genuinely thrilled that he agreed to come back onto the podcast to talk about what's going on right now. My first query was triggered by the interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Bankless podcast - Eliezer talked about the dangers of Generalised AI, or Artificial General Intelligence, AGI, and the reasons why it was so hard - he would say impossible - to align the intentions of a silicon-based intelligence with our human values, even if we knew what they were and could define them clearly. Listening to that, was what prompted me to write to Daniel. Since then, I listened many times to two of Daniels own recent podcasts: one with the educational philosopher Zak Stein on the dangers of AI Tutors and one with Jill Nephew, the founder of Inqwire, Public Benefit Company on a mission to help the world make sense. The Inqwire technology is designed to enhance and accelerate human sensemaking abilities. Jill is also host of the Natural Intelligence podcast and has clearly thought deeply about the nature of intelligence, the human experience and the neurophysiology and neuropsychology of our interactions with Large Language Models. I've linked all three of these podcasts below and absolutely recommend that you listen to them if you want more depth than we have here. What Daniel and I tried to do today was to lay things out in very straightforward terms: it's an area fraught with jargon and belief systems and assumptions, and we wanted to strip those away where we could and acknowledge them where we couldn't, and lay out where we are, what the worst cases are, what the best case is, given that we have to move forward with technology, switching it all off seems not to be an option—and how we might move from worst to best case. With this latter in mind, I've included a link to Daniel's new project, the Church of the Intimate Web which aims to connect people with each other. I've also - because it seems not everyone listens to the very end of the podcasts - included a link to our membership programme in Accidental Gods where we aim to help people connect to the wider web of life. I definitely see these two as interlinked and mutually compatible. So - trigger warning - a lot of this is not yet impinging on public awareness and we're not yet aware of how close we are to some very dangerous edges. This podcast leads us up to the edge so we can look over. We do it as gently as we can, but still, you'll want to be resourced and resilient before you listen. The Emerge Podcast https://www.whatisemerging.com/emergepodcastEmerge with Zak Stein https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/emerge-making-sense-of-whats-next/id1057220344?i=1000610403148Emerge with Jill Nephew https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/emerge-making-sense-of-whats-next/id1057220344?i=1000613784941Bankless with Eliezer Yudkowsky https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bankless/id1499409058?i=1000600575387The Church of the Intimate Web https://tome.app/the-church-of-the-intimate-web/the-church-of-the-intimate-web-a-response-to-the-global-intimacy-disorder-clhgc8h1l1b2p5k3z9ppbitfyAccidental Gods Membership https://accidentalgods.life/join-us/The Soul's Code by James Hillman https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-soul-s-code-james-hillman/1563087?ean=9780553506341

TODAY'S GUEST   Today, I'm speaking to Richard D. Bartlett, aka Rich Decibels.   During the Occupy movement in 2011, Rich caught a glimpse of a different way of being together — more compassionate, more intelligent, more creative, inclusive, and animating than he'd experienced as a student worker or citizen up to that point. Since then, he's been on a mission. In 2012 he co-founded Loomio, a digital tool for deliberation and decision-making in groups of 3-300 people.   In 2016 he co-founded The Hum, a management consultancy for organizations without managers. The Hum has recently published an online training course that shares what they know about working in highly decentralized organizations. Rich is also a Director and longstanding member of Enspiral — a network of people supporting each other to grow up and to get paid for doing meaningful work.   Rich has a daily writing practice. He writes about how people work together, at any scale, from relationships, to organizations, to social change, and he's prolific on Twitter and on Medium. His fascinating book (currently in beta) is called Patterns for Decentralized Organizing and can be downloaded from Leanpub.   EPISODE SUMMARY   In this conversation we talk about: How growing up in a strict fundamentalist Christian upbringing, and decoupling from that, shaped his outlook. His complex relationship with atheism and religion today. How he discovered love and solidarity in activism. Technologies of organizing. Forming decentralized decision-making processes. Nihilism in the face of dysfunction as a form of cowardice. Loomio, and collective decision-making software. Status and hierarchy. Shifting culture through fermentation. And the concept of stewardship.   We spoke in mid-June 2022, and I was excited to talk to Rich since he's been introduced to me by Daniel Thorson, whom I interviewed here in episode 10. I've been following his writing on Twitter and find the idea of decentralized work and collaboration fascinating, exciting, and challenging.   It's perhaps the greatest question of our time: now that we're all connected and have incredible tools of self-organization, how can we make better decisions together? How can we outcompete centralized organizations? And how can we benefit from the wonderful richness of so many brains without descending into chaos, nihilism and mob rule?   This conversation is one of a dozen or so weekly conversations that we already have lined up for you with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, entrepreneurs, and activists who are working to change our world for the better. So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to RemakePod.org to subscribe.   And now let's jump right in with Richard D. Bartlett.   TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS   [5:23] Life in the Present [8:07] Early Childhood Community [10:33] A Complex Religious Journey [18:37] The Occupy Movement [23:45] A Transformational Insight [28:21] Cowardice and Courage [30:40] Membership Groups [35:16] Intersecting Communities [41:06] Status and Hierarchy  [44:35] Fermenting the Right Culture [48:21] The Stewardship System [51:58] A Short Sermon   EPISODE LINKS Richard's Links

Zak Stein and Daniel Thorson discuss the myriad risks of emerging AI tutoring technologies. AI tutoring is being developed now and will be deployed over the course of the next two to five years, bringing radical changes to our educational systems. This conversation explores the risks of this emerging technology while simultaneously proposing how, if designed correctly, this technology could solve the meta-crisis. Timestamp 0:00 - Intro 5:20 - Shift in Awareness of AI 10:08 - GAI Risk 15:51 - AI Alignment & Human Alignment 17:18 - Risks of Generalized Nature of AI 19:08 - Accelerating Misaligned Institutions 20:26 - AI Assistance & Anthropomorphism 25:35 - Instantaneous Media Interfacing 29:48 - AI Tutoring Risk 38:44 - Obsoleting Human Relationship 41:52 - AI Perfecting Propaganda 43:22 - Humanity's Educational Relationship 46:21 - Breaking the Human Nervous System 50:14 - AI Tutoring Risk Continued 55:17 - Building Aligned AI Tutoring Technology 59:56 - Importance of Non-Anthropomorphizable AI 1:02:10 - Irreducibility of Human Goodness 1:04:42 - The Limits of Computationalism 1:07:10 - AI Tutoring Guardrails 1:11:44 - Implementation of AI Tutoring Technology 1:17:36 - AI Planetary Tutoring System 1:21:59 - Solving the Meta-Crisis with AI Planetary Tutoring 1:25:06 - The Emergence of the New Human 1:29:18 - Right Relationship with Emerging AI Technology 1:35:18 - Conclusion ⁠Support the Emerge Podcast on Patreon⁠ ⁠Learn more about the Anti Fragile Heart Retreat at the Monastic Academy⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/emerge/support

This is a special episode with Daniel Thorson — who I initially came across through his super podcast called 'Emerge'  and later learned that he was living as a full-time monastic at the Monastic Academy in Vermont — where after a series of conversations, he persuaded me to come and sit for a 10-day retreat — which I just returned from myself recently.I found this was an immensely rich conversation, and I'm grateful to Daniel for opening up about some of the experiences he had recently during 73 days of solitude and silence (which he described as the most profound experience of his life) — during which he had some brushes with insanity but emerged (no pun intended) on the other side with some very hard-won insights to share.~~

The tendency to hedge is a modern disease. This rich discussion re-inspired me to go all-in with my life.Daniel Thorson is dedicated to monastic practices and lives at The Monastic Academy in Vermont — a wisdom institution that trains trustworthy people. At the start of the 2020 pandemic, he became an overnight focus of media attention after he emerged from a silent retreat and tweeted, “I'm back from 75 days in silence. Did I miss anything?” His unique experience was featured by The New York Times. He's also the host of The Emerge Podcast.This is a conversation about sacrifice, wisdom, dedication, and practice.Topics include:Why the most important thing everyone can do right now is come to terms with death.What it takes to create a trustworthy person.The MAPLE practice model of Wisdom, Love and Power.Why pure mindfulness practice might lead to “equanimity induced apathy.”How to change your friendships for life in 30 seconds (a practical exercise).The critical need for a vibrant network of wisdom institutions.Why you should be getting emotionally triggered regularly (and what to when it happens).Where “masculinity” might fit in with wisdom institutions.The uncomfortable importance of Hierarchy.Why we need new archetypes to inspire transformation. Philosopher kings and warriors instead of quiet monks.The significance of going all-in. Stop hedging. Fuck optionality.Resources:Daniel Thorson's Twitter. Reach out to him if you're interested in The Monastic Academy.The Monastic Academy (aka MAPLE) in Vermont. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themetagame.substack.com

TODAY'S GUEST   Today, I'm speaking to Richard D. Bartlett, aka Rich Decibels.   During the Occupy movement in 2011, Rich caught a glimpse of a different way of being together — more compassionate, more intelligent, more creative, inclusive, and animating than he'd experienced as a student worker or citizen up to that point. Since then, he's been on a mission. In 2012 he co-founded Loomio, a digital tool for deliberation and decision-making in groups of 3-300 people.   In 2016 he co-founded The Hum, a management consultancy for organizations without managers. The Hum has recently published an online training course that shares what they know about working in highly decentralized organizations. Rich is also a Director and longstanding member of Enspiral — a network of people supporting each other to grow up and to get paid for doing meaningful work.   Rich has a daily writing practice. He writes about how people work together, at any scale, from relationships, to organizations, to social change, and he's prolific on Twitter and on Medium. His fascinating book (currently in beta) is called Patterns for Decentralized Organizing and can be downloaded from Leanpub.   EPISODE SUMMARY   In this conversation we talk about: How growing up in a strict fundamentalist Christian upbringing, and decoupling from that, shaped his outlook. His complex relationship with atheism and religion today. How he discovered love and solidarity in activism. Technologies of organizing. Forming decentralized decision-making processes. Nihilism in the face of dysfunction as a form of cowardice. Loomio, and collective decision-making software. Status and hierarchy. Shifting culture through fermentation. And the concept of stewardship.   We spoke in mid-June 2022, and I was excited to talk to Rich since he's been introduced to me by Daniel Thorson, whom I interviewed here in episode 10. I've been following his writing on Twitter and find the idea of decentralized work and collaboration fascinating, exciting, and challenging.   It's perhaps the greatest question of our time: now that we're all connected and have incredible tools of self-organization, how can we make better decisions together? How can we outcompete centralized organizations? And how can we benefit from the wonderful richness of so many brains without descending into chaos, nihilism and mob rule?   This conversation is one of a dozen or so weekly conversations that we already have lined up for you with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, entrepreneurs, and activists who are working to change our world for the better. So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to RemakePod.org to subscribe.   And now let's jump right in with Richard D. Bartlett.   TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS   [5:23] Life in the Present [8:07] Early Childhood Community [10:33] A Complex Religious Journey [18:37] The Occupy Movement [23:45] A Transformational Insight [28:21] Cowardice and Courage [30:40] Membership Groups [35:16] Intersecting Communities [41:06] Status and Hierarchy  [44:35] Fermenting the Right Culture [48:21] The Stewardship System [51:58] A Short Sermon   EPISODE LINKS Richard's Links

When Clare decided on a resolution for the year, she was looking for a new challenge. Instead of running a marathon like her partner, Clare—who “talks for a living”—decided to go completely silent. She signed up for a silent retreat. But as it approached, she wondered how she could possibly go an entire week without speaking. On this episode of How To!, we bring on Daniel Thorson of the Monastic Academy in Vermont and host of the podcast, Emerge. Daniel has spent over a year of his life in silent meditation, including a 75 day silent retreat at the beginning of the pandemic. He says his first silent retreat was the worst experience of his life — just what Clare wanted to hear — but there's a reason he kept going back. If you liked this episode, check out: How To Quiet the Chatter in Your Head and How To Sleep with Headspace's Andy Puddicombe.   Do you have a burning question? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Clare decided on a resolution for the year, she was looking for a new challenge. Instead of running a marathon like her partner, Clare—who “talks for a living”—decided to go completely silent. She signed up for a silent retreat. But as it approached, she wondered how she could possibly go an entire week without speaking. On this episode of How To!, we bring on Daniel Thorson of the Monastic Academy in Vermont and host of the podcast, Emerge. Daniel has spent over a year of his life in silent meditation, including a 75 day silent retreat at the beginning of the pandemic. He says his first silent retreat was the worst experience of his life — just what Clare wanted to hear — but there's a reason he kept going back. If you liked this episode, check out: How To Quiet the Chatter in Your Head and How To Sleep with Headspace's Andy Puddicombe.   Do you have a burning question? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode fellow Monastic Academy resident Ellen McSweeney and I explore the relationship between Circling and Soulmaking in an attempt to make sense of the experience we shared co-facilitating the Anti-Fragile Heart retreat in March. Towards the end there is a Q+A with retreat participants. If you'd like to explore the practice of Circling MAPLE is hosting the SAS 6-month Circling Training starting in June. This conversation was recorded in the meditation hall at the Monastic Academy, and the audio is a little wonky... --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/emerge/support

Alex is the lead of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. Daniel is the Head of Curriculum at the Monastic Academy in Vermont. I got these two together to jam on the dark side of modern spirituality, and more specifically, the shadows behind mindfulness, meditation and eastern spirituality practices in the west. It is an incredible dialogue between these two, one that I did my best to stay out of the way of. We talk about Westernized Buddhism, spirituality in a capitalistic paradigm, transcending the fear of death, industrial strength meditation, Jordan Hall, status anxiety and so much more. Follow me on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/ariintheair Support this channel! $5/Month! Get FREE COACHING! https://www.patreon.com/ariintheair PHILOSOPHICAL COACHING WITH ARI HTTPS://www.ariintheair.com/coaching/

Suffering, growth and choosing how we live is a part of life. This episode will encourage you to look deeply into ethical living and see the great opportunity present within suffering. Our experiences in life aren't always filled with sunshine and warmth, there are days when we will suffer. But, we can take suffering as an opportunity for growth. As we live in integrity and practice ethical living, we are better able to experience life. In this new podcast episode, Daniel Thorson talks about suffering, growth, and ethical living. Along with that, he shares with us about Willow Monastic Academy and what they do there. ❂ About our special guest: Daniel Thorson is the creator and host of the podcast Emerge – Making Sense of What's Next, where he explores the relationship between the inner and outer transformation. He is also on the team at Monastic Academy, which trains and cultivates wise, powerful, and loving leaders for social and environmental peace. Guest's website: http://www.whatisemerging.com/emergepodcast

Daniel Thorson and Brendan discuss the work of John Vervaeke, creator of the "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis" series, comparing and contrasting it to Daniel's own pioneering efforts to develop a framework and set of practices for training agents of healing and transformation in our disintegrating world. They also reflect on both the importance and the problem of creating "ontologically neutral" practices stripped of highly context-bound terminology and ideas, whether that be for a "religion that's not a religion" or the kind of framework Daniel is developing. 0:00 Introduction 1:50 On Entering Vervaekeland 5:49 Transformation: Virtue as a Leverage Point for Meaning 10:44 Vervaeke's Perennial Problems and His Proposed Ecology of Practices 18:35 Thorson's Framework of Five Aspects (1. Energy System, 2. Psyche, 3. Relationship, 4. Ethics, 5. Perception) 30:10 Thorson's Ecology of Practices: 1. Samadhi and Healthy Living; 2. "Focusing," Bio-Emotive Work, Internal Family Systems; 3. Circling and Intentional Community; 4. Human Systems; 5. Emptiness Insight 36:29 A Vervaeke-Thorson Synthesis? 39:12 Disenchanting Ecologies of Practice? The Challenge and Promise of Sacred Containers 46:44 A Missing Metanarrative? Connecting Myth and Praxis 50:39 An Ecology of Ecologies of Practices: Modular Methods, Local Color? 54:27 Wisdom's Scaling Constraints: Seeking Integration in a Disintegrating World Emerge podcast: https://www.whatisemerging.com/emergepodcast The Monastic Academy: https://www.monasticacademy.com/ www.BrendanGrahamDempsey.com

Podcast: Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Daniel Schmachtenberger - Utopia or Bust: Designing a Non Self-Terminating CivilizationPub date: 2019-08-05This week I'm speaking with Daniel Schmachtenberger. Daniel is a founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue. The throughline of his interests has to do with ways of improving the health and development of individuals and society, with a virtuous relationship between the two as a goal. Towards these ends, he's had particular interest in the topics of catastrophic and existential risk, civilization and institutional decay and collapse as well as progress, collective action problems, social organization theories, and the relevant domains in philosophy and science. Motivated by the belief that advancing collective intelligence and capacity is foundational to the integrity of any civilization, and necessary to address the unique risks we currently face given the intersection of globalization and exponential technology, he has spoken publicly on many of these topics, hoping to popularize and deepen important conversations and engage more people in working towards their solutions. Many of these can be found here. We talk about the current state of the phase shift, whether we are past the point of no return for social collapse, Daniel's three generator functions of existential risk, the definition of an adequate social architecture that avoids existential risk, how technology creates asymmetric advantage that debases the planetary life support system, why we need to create technology that leads to ‘metastability', the pollution of the epistemic commons, why we need to define problems in a comprehensive way where the solutions don't create worse problems, the vows Daniel made as a teenager, what progress is being made at solving the generator functions of existential risk, the auto-poetic nature of trauma, and the necessity of a mature relationship between certainty and uncertainty.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Daniel Thorson, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

The host of The Emerge Podcast Daniel Thorson joins me for an exploration of whether we need the contemplative backdrop of a Monastic Academy to create truly regenerative communal contexts. https://www.whatisemerging.com/emergepodcast https://www.monasticacademy.com/

Monastic, community leader, and host of the Emerge podcast Daniel Thorson joins Terry for a tender, open-hearted, and spacious inquiry into what really matters in this vulnerable and sacred collective moment.  Recently, Daniel became an overnight focus of media attention during the beginning of the pandemic after he emerged from a long silent retreat and tweeted, “I'm back from 75 days in silence. Did I miss anything?” His unique experience and insights were featured by the New York Times and many other media outlets from around the world. Interestingly, his retreat intensified his discernment and sensitivity. He became acutely aware that this newfound fame was a double-edged sword. So we discussed what was arising — especially how we often suffer intensified public attention (in spite of our cultural preoccupation with fame and status). So this is a conversation on the threshold — Daniel was recognizing that a 2-3 year journey into intellectual sensemaking on his Emerge podcast had “crystalized”, and his inquiry had led him to more dedicated monastic practice and curiosity about how to love and care for the people around him. Daniel Thorson lives and works at the Monastic Academy in Vermont, which trains and cultivates wise, powerful, and loving leaders for social and environmental peace. When working at the influential podcast Buddhist Geeks he became fascinated by how public conversations can catalyze cultural transformation. Later, he created and became host of the podcast Emerge: Making Sense of What’s Next. In previous incarnations, Daniel was an organizer with Occupy Wall Street (in NYC); helped start Boulder Flood Relief in 2013; and founded a mindfulness education company.  Here are some of the questions we discuss in this episode:  What did 75 days in silence during a global pandemic illuminate for Daniel about his — and our collective — way forward? How can grief and acceptance open us to a life of service and creativity? Is it possible to discover a way of being that inadvertently heals our world? Are there shifts so essential and diffuse that they suddenly “solve everything at once?” In a world awash in so much information, how can we serve clarity, adding only what’s most essential? What are our essential conversations? For more information on Daniel Thorson and Terry Patten, check out the following resources: Emerge – Making Sense of What’s Next podcast Monastic Academy Daniel Thorson on Twitter Terry Patten's website A New Republic of the Heart website Join the State of Emergence community of Supporters If you haven’t yet, we welcome you to join us as a monthly contributor here and become part of our community of listeners dedicated to uplifting our public discourse.

Just as the Covid pandemic was starting to transform our lives, Daniel Thorson, the creator of the Emerge podcast, started a 75 day silent retreat in rural Vermont.

In this episode, we hear from Nathan Vanderpool about the life of freedom and flexibility he has built for himself in Berlin, Germany. He talks about getting his masters in Germany, and how he chose to give up a life of "security" for a life where he gets to pursue his passions and control his schedule. We also touch on the topic of how having flexibility is so beneficial for his time and relationship with his son. Take-Aways:-Figure out who is a living example of the life you want to live, and ask them how they are creating it and advice they have. People want to help, and are willing to share advice!-Surround yourself with people who are on the same journey.-Get your cost of living as low as possible.-Do a lot of inner work -- meditation, journaling, yoga, etc to help you overcome blocks and see the potential.-If one thing doesn't work, keep trying, and taking action. Don't give up!Mentioned in this episode: Human Systems (the company Nathan helped co-found)https://human-systems.org/Daniel Thorson and the Monastic Academy: https://www.monasticacademy.com/The Stoa (Peter Limberg)https://www.thestoa.ca/Please reach out to me to connect and let me know your thoughts on this episode!Website: https://www.accountabilibuddyforhire.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accountabilibuddyforhire/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AccountabilibuddyForHireFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/prettysurewecandobetter/

Daniel Thorson is a deep thinker.  He hosts a podcast called Emerge…  Daniel’s podcast is about philosphy… with shades of Monastic Buddhism tossed in.  I really don’t understand it. But I mention Daniel… because he completely missed the worldwide lockdown.    March 13th… Daniel Thorson entered a monastery for 75 days of seclusion.  This is a few days before Rudy Gobert tested positive and the world stopped.  Since then Thorson was tucked away in silent meditation in northwestern Vermont… clueless to world events. May 23rd he emerged.  Memorial Day weekend… he left seclusion and said “hey.  So what’s been goin’ on?” Well, Daniel…  the NBA canceled the season.  The other sports followed. Almost every school in America shut down. The highways emptied. We figured out how to work from home.   Oil fell below zero.  Clorox shot to the moon.  100,000 dead. Zoom happened. We fought over masks  Ran out of toilet paper. meat got expensive.  40 million lost their jobs. How you been? Thorson tells the New York Times… he’s had a strange week… because catching up is completely different than experiencing the trauma the rest of us went through. When he emerged he went to the grocery store expecting human contact.  But people backed away from him.  He’d never heard of social distancing…  Now… everybody wants to interview him… He’s the only person in America… who missed the fear and Facebook fights.   The shortages and the long days stuck at home.    And he wonders… whether he should bother to catch up at all..

This is part 2 of our conversation with Daniel Thorson. We explore: the end of liberal humanism as a political and personal philosophy; confronting pain and escaping entrapment in one’s feelings; how times of collapse open a space for new leaders to step forwards; the spiritual class structure (for instance, an elite with money, education, time and exposure to top teachers and traditions, a middle class practicing yoga and reading Eckhart Tolle and other spiritual bestsellers, and a lower class dabbling in astrology and crystals); how cultural decentralization and the ability to access information online creates the illusion that we can learn everything online, preventing access to (and even awareness of) wisdom that can only be imparted via human transmission; how contemporary culture conditions us to advertise our superiority, in the form of CVs, qualifications etc.; and the value of being in service to something higher than yourself. Daniel can be found herehttps://twitter.com/dthorsonAnd his excellent Emerge podcast herehttp://www.whatisemerging.com/emergepodcastFind the Monastic Academy herehttps://www.monasticacademy.com/

This conversation was recorded a couple of months ago, but its message feels very current. Our guest this time is Daniel Thorson, a resident at the Monastic Academy and host of the excellent Emerge podcast. In this, part one of our conversation, we discuss: the interconnectedness of systems change and personal growth, and how the minds we use to solve today’s problems are products of systems that are destroying themselves; the work of the Monastic Academy in creating awakened leaders; the importance of being able to hold multiple, sometimes contradictory perspectives within one’s worldview; Slavoj Zizek’s critique of Western Buddhism as the hegemonic ideology of late capitalism; how the pathologies of Western Buddhism show up in the contemporary spiritual scene; and heroism and the process of being in service to a grand narrative of how to improve the world.Daniel can be found herehttps://twitter.com/dthorsonAnd his excellent Emerge podcast herehttp://www.whatisemerging.com/emergepodcastFind the Monastic Academy herehttps://www.monasticacademy.com/

Daniel Thorson, host of the ground-breaking, innovative - and hugely courageous - Emerge podcast is a Buddhist monastic, activist and meta-modern thinker. In this conversation, we dive deeply into what it means to be human - and how we can live as the best of ourselves. Find out more on https:accidentalgods.life

Jared Janes and Jason Snyder 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. In this Episode of Both/And Nathan on Twitter Cognitive Science & the Sacred with Vervaeke & Pageau God & Relevance Realization with Vervaeke & Pageau Dominion by Tom Holland #15 Being a Baha'i Creative with Samah Tokmachi The Cloud of Unknowing The Mind Illuminated by John Yates Enneagram of Personality 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 Support Both/And by becoming a patron &/or subscribing & reviewing us on iTunes   Jared Janes participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn commissions by linking to Amazon. In more human terms, this means that whenever you buy a book on Amazon from a link on here, a small percentage of its price is sent to us.

Daniel Thorson, host of Emerge podcast, and I recorded our first episode together about a year ago and at that time he was preparing to move to the Monastic Academy, which is a training center dedicated to creating wise, powerful, and loving leaders who are an unstoppable force for social and environmental peace on Earth. ---> Subscribe for new podcast episode Email Notifications HERE In this conversation Daniel and I get into how living and working there affects his life, as well as the people around him; the sense of community and purpose…we explore many topics surrounding the concept of sense making; the process of our “making sense” of the complexity of our modern world and how that can lead to a sense of purpose, or not. As always, I encourage you to dig into the show notes, where you’ll find links to the music I make, references, and ways to share this podcast with others that you think would enjoy listening to it.  If you haven’t already, please tap subscribe in your preferred podcast player and if you’d like to get email reminders when new episodes are published, click the link in the show notes to join the podcast email list.  Subscribe HERE for Email Episode Reminders   Episode’s Music by Abe Vandenberg Listen on Bandcamp -> “What’s going on in my mind”  - All Podcast Music Album HERE - Go to this Episode’s Webpage    - (a different) Podcast episode called “Reflecting Reflections”,  with me and Daniel Thorson   >>>>> Questions about this episode?  Want to share a comment or a topic for a future episode?  You can send me (Abe) an email using this online message form: Click Here   Links and References:   Monastic Academy   Emerge Podcast with Daniel Thorson   “Global economy could endure disaster for a week” _________ Magical Egypt documentary series (go to to this podcast’s Episode 13 with Chance Gardner, released Nov 8, 2018)   You can Save 15% on Magical Egypt with Coupon Code "genuse" Own Both Magical Egypt Series 1 and 2   ___________   Episode Artwork Photo Credit   ========+++========   HELP SPREAD THE WORD!   I’d love it if you could please share Genuinely Useful podcast on twitter and facebook:   https://twitter.com/genuinelyuseful   https://www.facebook.com/genuinelyuseful   If you enjoy this podcast, tap on over to Apple Podcasts and kindly leave me a rating, write a review, and subscribe! Thank you so much! Links to Share Genuinely Useful podcast:   Click here to share on Apple Podcasts [iOS]   Click here to share on Overcast [iOS]   Click here to share on Spotify   Click here to share on Google Podcasts [Android   Click here to share on Stitcher [iOS and Android]   Genuinely Useful Podcast Home Page https://genuinelyuseful.com/podcast Contact: genuinelyuseful@gmail.com   Thanks for being here -Abe

Daniel Thorson is a resident at the Monastic Academy and host of the Emerge podcast. We explore: the end of liberal humanism as a political and personal philosophy; confronting pain and escaping entrapment in one’s feelings; how times of collapse open a space for new leaders to step forwards; the spiritual class structure (for instance, an elite with money, education, time and exposure to top teachers and traditions, a middle class practicing yoga and reading Eckhart Tolle and other spiritual bestsellers, and a lower class dabbling in astrology and crystals); how cultural decentralization and the ability to access information online creates the illusion that we can learn everything online, preventing access to (and even awareness of) wisdom that can only be imparted via human transmission; how contemporary culture conditions us to advertise our superiority, in the form of CVs, qualifications etc.; and the value of being in service to something higher than yourself. Support Technosocial at: https://www.patreon.com/technosocial Daniel can be found here https://twitter.com/dthorson And his excellent Emerge podcast here http://www.whatisemerging.com/emergepodcast Find the Monastic Academy here https://www.monasticacademy.com/

Daniel Thorson is a resident at the Monastic Academy and host of the excellent Emerge podcast. In this, part one of our conversation, we discuss: the interconnectedness of systems change and personal growth, and how the minds we use to solve today’s problems are products of systems that are destroying themselves; the work of the Monastic Academy in creating awakened leaders; the importance of being able to hold multiple, sometimes contradictory perspectives within one’s worldview; Slavoj Zizek’s critique of Western Buddhism as the hegemonic ideology of late capitalism; how the pathologies of Western Buddhism show up in the contemporary spiritual scene; and heroism and the process of being in service to a grand narrative of how to improve the world. Support Technosocial at: https://www.patreon.com/technosocial Daniel can be found here https://twitter.com/dthorson And his excellent Emerge podcast here http://www.whatisemerging.com/emergepodcast Find the Monastic Academy here https://www.monasticacademy.com/

This is an audio version of The Story of Collapse, Daniel Thorson & Josh Fields which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on February 1st 2020.  Are we living at the best possible time to be alive, or is the world coming to an end? Or do both narratives have some truth at the same time? This is a discussion between Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, Daniel Thorson from the Emerge podcast and Joshua Fields, the CEO of 'Consciousness Hacking' a San Francisco-based organisation aiming to harness techonology for personal and cultural transformation. Joshua and Daniel have delved deeply into the 'collapse' narrative in their work, and this conversation ranges from climate to Greta Thunberg, Extinction Rebellion and many other topics. Recent Rebel Wisdom interview with Joshua Fields: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zscgm... To get access to more exclusive content and to join this evolving conversation, become a Rebel Wisdom member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW   

A soulful and exploratory dialogue about the philosophical undercurrents and participatory necessities of Self and civilisation in our modern world of change, with Daniel Thorson of Emerge and Tim Adalin. Read more / watch @ https://www.voiceclub.com/soul-surfing-emergence-with-daniel-thorson-of-emerge For a prescient articulation of key generator functions underpinning the transformations of our world, listen to the Emerge podcast episode with Daniel Schmachtenberger here: https://anchor.fm/emerge/episodes/Daniel-Schmachtenberger---Utopia-or-Bust-Designing-a-Non-Self-Terminating-Civilization-e4rdf8 Learn more about the Monastic Academy Daniel practices at here: https://www.monasticacademy.com/ Support Voiceclub on Patreon for early access to content @ https://www.patreon.com/voiceclub

I sit down with @dthorson and we talk about where civilization is headed and how we can help support it. You will like this episode if you are into civilization design, intentional living, how to be a human, and much more.

In episode 7 of Mutations podcast, I am joined by paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield. Michael is an artist, podcast host (Future Fossils), musician, painter, philosopher--am I missing anything? Like me, Michael wears many hats. We recorded a back-to-back episode. This is part one. You can find part two on Future Fossils. Michael and I offer philosophical and existential reflections on the “Deep Adaptation” movement, popularized by Jem Bendell’s recent climate report paper, and Daniel Thorson’s Emerge podcast interview, by considering what we can learn from evolutionary and cultural catastrophes throughout history. While we don’t arrive at easy answers, I sense that there is a way of thinking and relating that is emerging in the age of the Anthropocene, as Sean Kelly writes, “beyond hope and despair.” This way of thinking and being leaves open the possibility of a hyper-illuminated dark age... as a way of seeing, like the owl-eyed Athena, into the dark places. LINKS: Michael Garfield on Twitter Santa Fe Institute Michael’s Homepage The Lindisfarne Tapes Sean Kelly, Living in End Times: Beyond Hope and Despair (Revelore Press) MUSIC: Artist: Billy Mays III / Infinite Third. Album: Channel(s) Tracks: "Vision(s)" for intro/outro, "In(to)" for intermezzo PATREON: Join the Mutations Patreon community here for access to our Discord channel, Zoom salon calls, early podcasts and featured writing content. ARTWORK: Featured art by Archan Nair. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mutations/message

"Climate change", as a term, no longer captures the real danger that climate scientists say that we as a species, along with our fellow creatures, face today. Already the impacts of climate change have turned into a genuine ecological crisis. A growing group of people are asking out loud, if the recent string of dire government-backed climate reports are too conservative to accurately describe the real dangers ahead of us. What if, in fact, we are on the fast track toward both an ecological & civilizational collapse, and it's already too late? What would it mean to practice dharma in "the spectre of collapse?"Vince Horn is joined in this episode by a former team member of Buddhist Geeks, current monastic resident at the Monastic Academy, and host of the Emerge podcast, Daniel Thorson to discuss the dharma of collapse.Memorable Quotes:“It’s collapsing into certainty, in any case, that’s the real danger here, because then we foreclose on all kinds of possibilities and opportunities that we won’t see because we think we know what’s going on.” - Daniel Thorson“If it’s true, everything needs to change. And if we can be uncertain about it then we can play with how things might change, in order so that it doesn’t have the worst impacts we fear it might.” - Daniel Thorson“I wonder to what degree the spectre of collapse will be a kind of strange attractor that will pull people out of this deconstructive habit, into realizing that we need to make something that works, for the sake of our lives, for our children’s lives, for the sake of life on earth.” - Daniel Thorson“The world is ending, but at least I can breathe through it.” - Vince Horn“There are a lot of people and communities who are trying to retreat instead of retrieve.” - Vince HornEpisodes Links:

Today my guest is Tasshin Fogleman.I found Tasshin on Twitter (which continues to prove itself a goldmine for interesting, open-hearted podcast guests). I was following an inquiry around Monastic practice. I trained at Dai Bosatsu Zendo for a summer in 2017 but wanted to find an organization that felt more integrated with the modern world. I stumbled across The Monastic Academy based in Lowell, VT and started discovering exciting voices coming from this rural VT community (see Daniel Thorson’s Emerge podcast).Tasshin is the Assistant Director at The Monastic Academy. I connected with him to discuss his path, how he discovered The Monastic Academy, and what is it they’re doing. How is monastic training relevant to the modern person? Should training be somehow different because it’s 2019 and shit is uniquely crazy? Tasshin and I explore toxic individualism, healthy ego development/practice, and how The Monastic Academy aims to address the current cultural crisis.In 2018, Tasshin took bodhisattva vows with Shinzen Young and Soryu Forall, and received the name Tasshin, 達真. 達 means to “reach,” “arrive at,” “achieve,” or “touch.” 真 means “truth” or “authenticity.” Most people pronounce this with the Americanized pronunciation, which sounds like the English words “toss shin.”Show Notes:Follow Tasshin (@tasshinfogleman) on TwitterSee what The Monastic Academy is up to.Read Miles Bukiet’s paper “Monasteries of the Future”

Peter explores with monastic Daniel Thorson. https://twitter.com/dthorson http://www.emerge.is https://www.monasticacademy.com

Audio from the event Psychedelics, Extinction and Social Change with Stephen Reid and Gail Bradbrook (co-founder of Extinction Rebellion) at Conway Hall on Tuesday 15th January 2019. Video with slides at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7jttWq4WjY Mentions The Psychedelic Society, Extinction Rebellion, Charles Eisenstein, Alan Watts, Rupert Sheldrake, Metamoderna/Hanzi Freinacht, Frederic Laloux / Reinventing Organizations, Noyanete/Jakon Rate, UK Uncut, New Economics Foundation, Green Party of England and Wales, The Labour Party, 350.org, 38 Degrees, Greenpeace UK, Shambala Festival and Nowhere. Recent inspiration from Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jordan Hall, Bonnitta Roy, Nora Bateson, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Jamie Wheal, Max Borders, Daniel Thorson, Richard Dennis Bartlett, Phoebe Tickell, David Luke, Robin Carhart-Harris, Enspiral, DAOstack, Emerge, Rebel Wisdom, Future Thinkers, Inner Truth, Alter Ego, The Future Is Beautiful, The On Being Project and For the Wild. OLD STORY → NEW STORY Geomechanical → Gaian Sustainable → Regenerative Linear → Nonlinear Complicated → Complex Rivalrous → Antirivalrous Fragile → Antifragile Materialist → Idealist/Animist Postmodern → Metamodern SLIDES https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1t07v3vftAElIcXXqBpiKeqQhwBr8-pqyf_EI5dA7CIk/edit?usp=sharing RECOMMENDED LISTENING/READING http://stephenreid.net/recommended GET CONNECTED The Psychedelic Society Website: http://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/ Email signup: http://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/sign_up Become a Member: http://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/become-a-member Facebook page: https://facebook.com/psychedelicsuk Facebook groups: Extinction Rebellion @ The Psychedelic Society https://www.facebook.com/groups/347835902441253/ The Psychedelic Society's Homerton space https://www.facebook.com/groups/487893758345691/ The Psychedelic Society discussion group https://www.facebook.com/groups/psychedelicsuk/ Extinction Rebellion (XR) Website/email signup: https://rebellion.earth/ Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ExtinctionRebellion/ XR Volunteers Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/228044261159153/ Stephen Reid Website/email signup: http://stephenreid.net Facebook: https://facebook.com/stephenreid321

Daniel’s podcast EMERGE is an inquiry into the emerging paradigms shaping the next phase of the human experiment. We have a great conversation about conversations and the nature of recording them for public release, soulcrafting, metamodernism, adapting to the idea of climate change, and what it’s like deciding to move to a monastery. Subscribe for new podcast episode Email Notifications HERE   ---> If you enjoy this podcast, tap on over to Apple Podcasts and kindly leave me a rating, write a review, and subscribe! Thank you so much!   See Episode Artwork https://genuinelyuseful.com/podcast-ep17-daniel-thorson   --------------   Genuinely Useful podcast is sponsored by Magical Egypt (go to to this podcast’s Episode 13 with Chance Gardner, released Nov 8, 2018)   You can Save 15% on Magical Egypt with Coupon Code "genuse" Own Both Magical Egypt Series 1 and 2   You can also support the podcast by visiting Bandcamp to listen and/or buy the featured original music This episode's featured song - “We Always Make a Difference” https://abeslogic.bandcamp.com/track/we-always-make-a-difference ---> Hear All of the Podcast's Featured Music HERE -------------- Contact Abe: genuinelyuseful@gmail.com   You can also support the podcast by visiting Bandcamp to listen and/or buy the music This episode’s Featured Original Music by Abe Vandenberg - “We Always Make A Difference”   --------------   A podcast episode of Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next - with guest “Rob Burbea - A Spiritual Paradigm for The Infinite Game”t   READ: An Invitation to Emerge by Daniel Thorson Dharma Ocean - Dharma Ocean is a non-monastic, householder based lineage, a community of householder yogins and yoginis, who prioritize the practice of Somatic Meditation in their lives. The Monastic Academy is a full-time residential program designed to create wise, powerful, and loving leaders who are an unstoppable force for social and environmental peace on Earth. Metamodernism - Notes on Metamodernism aims to bring together scholars and critics from across the world and from a great variety of disciplines. Most of our contributors are academics, but we also publish the writing of critics, curators, artists and students. Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy The approach of the paper is to analyse recent studies on climate change and its implications for our ecosystems, economies and societies, as provided by academic journals and publications direct from research institutes   ========+++========   HELP SPREAD THE WORD!   I’d love it if you could please share Genuinely Useful podcast on twitter and facebook:   https://twitter.com/genuinelyuseful   https://www.facebook.com/genuinelyuseful   If you enjoy this podcast, tap on over to Apple Podcasts and kindly leave me a rating, write a review, and subscribe! Thank you so much!   Ways to Subscribe to Genuinely Useful podcast (automatically download new episodes):   Click here to subscribe via Apple Podcasts [iOS]   Click here to subscribe via Overcast [iOS]   Click here to subscribe via Spotify [iOS and Android]   Click here to subscribe via Stitcher [iOS and Android]   Click here to subscribe via Google Podcasts [Android]   Genuinely Useful Podcast Home Page https://genuinelyuseful.com/podcast

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