Podcast appearances and mentions of John C Wright

John C. Wright returns to the Geek Gab! We talk about all things geekish, including his new book Space Pirates of Andromeda!

Richard began his writing journey as a freelance writer in 1984 and gained his first fiction credit serving as the lead writer for the first two issues of the Elite Comics sci-fi/fantasy series, Seadragon. In 2010, Richard retired as a sportswriter and returned to his fiction writing roots. Since then he has written several award-winning novels, two non-fiction sports books, and has appeared in several anthologies including eight of the 11-book Tuscany Bay Books' Planetary Anthology Series and five Sherlock Holmes collections. He also writes a weekly Star Trek fan fiction series.He has multiple novels planned for release this year including the upcoming novel, Galen's Way, a space opera set in award-winning author John C. Wright's Starquest Universe and it is due out in just a few weeks. Galen's Way is the first of six planned novels connected to Starquest that Richard will be writing and releasing over the next two years. He also has three other standalone novels planned for release over the next year. He also occasionally fills in as a guest co-host here on The Writer's Block whenever Jim Christina's horse runs off and leaves him stranded in the middle of the desert.http://scifiscribe.comThe Douglas Coleman Show now offers audio and video promotional packages for music artists as well as video promotional packages for authors. We also offer advertising. Please see our website for complete details. http://douglascolemanshow.comIf you have a comment about this episode or any other, please click the link below.https://ratethispodcast.com/douglascolemanshow

Author and pulp fan John C. Wright returns to the show! The Voice of Reason: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC14_BcQF6IC5rs0VtOOXZfQ http://www.scifiwright.com/ https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B001IR1FZS

I had a great opportunity to speak with Edward and it was super awesome. Edward is definitely a superb writer. He has been writing for many years and Edward told Keepin It Real all about his journey and how he became an amazing writer. He has wrote for many people and doesn't mind helping other writers and authors. Edward Willett, an award-winning Saskatchewan-based author of more than sixty books of science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction for readers of all ages, has launched a Kickstarter campaign on March 8 to fund a third annual anthology featuring some of the top writers of science fiction and fantasy working today, all of whom were guests on his Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers (www.theworldshapers.com). Shapers of Worlds Volume III featured new fiction from Griffin Barber, Gerald Brandt, Miles Cameron, Sebastien de Castell, Kristi Charish, David Ebenbach, Mark Everglade, Frank J. Fleming, Violette Malan, Anna Mocikat, James Morrow, Jess E. Owen, Robert G. Penner, Cat Rambo, K.M. Rice, and Edward Willett; poetry from Jane Yolen; and additional stories by Cory Doctorow, K. Eason, Walter Jon Williams, and F. Paul Wilson. Among those authors are several international bestsellers, as well as winners and nominees for every major science fiction and fantasy literary award. All of the authors were guests during the third year of The Worldshapers, where Willett interviews other science fiction and fantasy authors about their creative process. Backers' rewards offered by the authors include numerous e-books, signed paperback and hardcover books (including limited editions), Tuckerizations (a backer's name used as a character name), commissioned artwork, original poetry (from Jane Yolen), audiobooks, opportunities for online chats with authors, short-story critiques, and more. The Kickstarter campaign can be found at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/edwardwillett/shapers-of-worlds-volume-iii. The campaign goal was $12,000 CDN. Most of those funds will go to pay the authors, with the rest going to reward fulfillment, primarily the editing, layout, and printing of the book, which will be published in both ebook and trade paperback formats by Willett's publishing company, Shadowpaw Press (www.shadowpawpress.com). The special Kickstarter edition for backers will be followed by a commercial release this fall. Stretch goals are simple: for every $5,000 over the goal the campaign raises, the authors will be paid one cent a word more. Shapers of Worlds Volume III is a follow-up to Shapers of Worlds, successfully Kickstarted in 2020, and Shapers of Worlds Volume II, Kickstarted last year. Shapers of Worlds included new fiction from Tanya Huff, Seanan McGuire, David Weber, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., John C. Wright, D.J. Butler, Christopher Ruocchio, Shelley Adina, and Edward Willett, plus reprints from John Scalzi, Joe Haldeman, David Brin, Julie E. Czerneda, Fonda Lee, Gareth L. Powell, Dr. Charles E. Gannon, Derek Künsken, and Thoraiya Dyer. Shapers of Worlds Volume II featured new fiction from Kelley Armstrong, Marie Brennan, Helen Dale, Candas Jane Dorsey, Lisa Foiles, Susan Forest, James Alan Gardner, Matthew Hughes, Heli Kennedy, Lisa Kessler, Adria Laycraft, Ira Nayman, Garth Nix, Tim Pratt, Edward Savio, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Jeremy Szal, and Edward Willett, plus stories by Jeffrey A. Carver, Barbara Hambly, Nancy Kress, David D. Levine, S.M. Stirling, and Carrie Vaughn. As I said before Edward is an amazing person. If you want to to contact Edward on social media...all you have to do is find Edward Willett. Therefore, Edward is available for interviews, media appearances, speaking engagements, and/or book review requests. Please contact mickey.creativeedge@gmail.com by email or by phone at 403.464.6925. Thank you for your support and keep listening to the podcast. Book your interview with Keepin It Real. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/caramel-lucas/message

Rescue of Kali the Tiger Tim Gress and wife are divorcing and he wants to place his last cat, Kali, a 13 year old tiger.   Met Bhagavan Antle 20 years ago.  He said he thinks he takes good care of his animals, but that he's breeding 15-30 cubs a year and dumping them everywhere he can.  Said he just tried to unload 8 tigers on someone named Terry.   TIM GRESS,MELANIE GRESS. Customer No:        10449. Certificate No:     57-C-0178. Certificate Status:     CANCELLED. Status Date:        Feb 5, 2014.    All inspection reports are good, but Kelly said she thinks USDA is breathing down his neck to place the cats because the license was cancelled.   7/17/14 Thanks – I just sent him an email asking if he'd sign the contract. If he says he will – I'll put the two of you in contact if that's ok. I just got back from vacation – so getting through my emails as fast as I can. I wanted to touch base with you about the Alabama cats – has anything changed? If not, I'm happy to try to help if that's ok with you.     As for the tiger in GA, her name is Kali. She is completely intact. Her owner had her, a male tiger, and a cougar in a “conservation awareness” education program. He's in the middle of a divorce and the animals have been what's keeping him there. He said if you can come pick her up – he'll sign anything. I think USDA is starting to breathe down his neck to get rid of her. I was able to get the other two placed a while back and they've been transferred already.   While I don't agree with the free-contact program he was running, he seems to have taken decent care of the cats and has been very friendly to work with. I haven't been that directly involved other than finding placement and hooking him up with sanctuaries, but I think he does want what's best for the cats.  If you'd like, I can put the two of you in contact and back out of it.  Thanks,  Kelly    Augusta Conservation Education, a nonprofit rescue organization. Tegrid and the other animals in the compound live next to founder Tim Gress' house in Appling, along with his wife, Melanie, and sons, Dalton, 17, and Cole, 15....http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2007/11/02/pet_150122.shtml   Tim Gress exchanges throaty chuffs with Kali before he and the massive Bengal tiger rub their heads together in a friendly greeting.  Mr. Gress and his wife, Melanie, run an exotic animal rescue - Augusta Conservation Education - from their 11 rural acres near Appling.   Recent news events have focused attention on the issue of wild animals in domestic settings. A few weeks ago, authorities pulled a 400-pound tiger from a public housing apartment in the New York borough of Harlem. The animal was living with an alligator.   Ming, the seized tiger, was sent to an animal sanctuary in Ohio.   The Gresses' sanctuary has served as a transitional home for exotic animals found outside their habitat. The couple have placed nearly 50 animals in safe homes after rescuing them from unhealthy environments. Many of the animals were purchased by their owners as pets.   The Gresses go beyond the 12-foot fences and locking gate required by the USDA. At a cost of $15,000, they recently completed two pens inside an extra 8-foot, fenced daytime area.  The pens each have 12-foot fencing pulled tight between concrete-grounded posts. Both pens, which temporarily house Kali, a 15-month-old Bengal tiger, and Merlin, a 1-year-old 200-pound liger - a lion and tiger hybrid - are fortified further with horizontal poles that are strapped to the fence with stainless steel cable. All animals are secured with at least two locks and extra chains, Mr. Gress said.  Mr. Gress, who works full-time as a maintenance electrician at International Paper Co., works on the site himself to save money.  http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2003/10/26/met_398498.shtml   Also located in Appling is Augusta Conservation Education, a non-profit rescue organization founded by fellow animal expert Tim Gress.  Trained under animal trainer Bhagavan Antle, Gress said he started the organization after witnessing the poor conditions that Lucy Lynx – mascot for the Augusta Lynx hockey team – lived under. Gress soon discovered this destitute living standard was not exclusive to Lucy; it was a widespread problem.   “We visited a lot of backyard breeders during our time caring for Lucy,” Gress recalled. “And the condition that these breeders' animals were living in was deplorable. So, my wife and I decided to start Augusta Conservatory Education here on our property to raise awareness for people who have little knowledge about the way animals are being mistreated around the world.”   According to John C. Wright, a professor of psychology at Mercer University, the tendency of backyard breeders collecting dangerous animals comes from an appetite for thrill-seeking.  “You know, there are personality traits that deal with risk-taking,” Wright explained. “And it just may be that those who score high on risk-taking as a personality trait use [wild] pet ownership as an opportunity to implement that risk.”   However, Gress insists that the word “pet” does not apply to the animals in his compound. They include Bengal tigers Kali and Suvarna, mountain lion Coco and Tegrid, an American black bear who's become a staple of the refuge. Gress said his interest in maintaining the health and wellness of his pack coupled with his actual job as electrical and instrument supervisor at International Paper can often take an incredible toil.  “I sleep about four hours a night,” Gress said. “I average 3,600 hours plus a year at International Paper and I average probably another 40 hours plus a week with my animals.”   In addition to managing this grueling schedule, Gress has also shelled out a considerable amount of money to support his animal family; $13,000 per year to be exact. Gress perceives what he does as, not a hobby, but a lifestyle. As such he has found that a certain amount of care and responsibility is necessary to cultivate it. Gleitsmann shares this principle and said that what separates passionate animal enthusiasts like her and Gress from those who are fixated with simply hoarding and breeding wild animals is a sense of invested care.  http://grubellringer.com/2012/04/15/animal-fanatics-defend-their-passion-for-animal-protection/   Kali arrived at Gress' facility in a way that is nightmarish to me.  Someone dumped a load of unwanted lions, tigers and ligers at his gate.  One of them gave birth during the melee and that was Kali.   Hi, I'm Carole Baskin and I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.     You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by: Nicole Perlroth  Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope by: Mark Manson Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by: Chris Voss Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore by: Michele Wucker Golden Sonby: Pierce Brown Red Rising: Sons of Ares – Volume 1 and 2 (Graphic Novels): By: Pierce Brown The Bear by: Andrew Krivak The Phoenix Exultant by: John C. Wright A History of North American Green Politics: An Insider View by: Stuart Parker Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology by: Adam S. Miller

 This week's guest is one of my favorite discoveries of the last few years, and someone I'm honored and delighted to know. I can hardly express how strange and exciting it was when I reached out to Tyson Yunkaporta, author of Sand Talk and Senior Research Fellow at Deakin University, and found out he was already a fan of my podcasting…so this episode is a seriously chummy session of mutual discovery by too people perhaps already a little bit TOO familiar with one another's work. Tyson inhabits an awesome position at the intersection of Indigenous knowledge systems, complexity science, cultural criticism, multimedia art and design, and dreaming and scheming on applications for ancient wisdom in the digital and post-digital eras.If you value this show and would like to see it thrive, support Future Fossils on Patreon and/or please leave a good review on Apple Podcasts! As a patron you get extra episodes each month, invites to our book club, and new writing, art, and music.• Meet great people and have equally great conversations in the Discord Server & Facebook Group• Buy the books we talk about from the Future Fossils shop at Bookshop.org• For when you'd rather listen to music, follow me and my listening recommendations on Spotify.• Thanks to Naomi Most for helping edit most of this episode! It isn't easy work.✨ Short Reads• “Building The Ark” - Tyson at e-flux architecture on GameB• Tyson's feature for Melbourne Design Week 2021• “Transformational Festivals Are A Symptom of Dissociation” - Michael Garfield• “Australian Aboriginal techniques for memorization: Translation into a medical and allied health education setting” – David Reser et al. (Tyson is last author)• The Weirdest People in The World — Joseph Henrich• William Irwin Thompson on “The Ghost Dance of the Rednecks”• “The Information Theory of Individuality” - David Krakauer et al.• “Unchained: A Story of Love, Loss, and Blockchain” - Hannu Rajaniemi✨ Podcasts• Future Fossils Book Club Discussion Recording: Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta• “What Can I Do?” on The Other Others• “Maori MAGA” on The Other Others• “Queering Dignitas” on The Other Others• FF 100: The Teafaerie on DMT, Transhumanism, and What To Do with All of God's Attention• FF 86, 87: Onyx Ashanti on Surfing Exponential Change (Part 1, Part 2)✨ Books• Sand Talk - Tyson Yunkaporta• Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now - Jaron Lanier• Scale - Geoffrey West• Count to a Trillion - John C. Wright• Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut✨ Music• Intro Music: Live at The Chillout Gardens, Boom Festival 2016• New Release: House Ship On A Hill (2021)✨ Notes• “The bourgeousie is always plundering the margins for menu options.”• eating peacocks: diverse diets for biodiversity vs. for dominion• how to restore the lost topsoil of Settler culture without stepping on others to do it• culpability (and the role of intent) in the West versus in Indigenous communities• COVID trauma, climate change, and Indigenous postapocalyptic insights for Settler cultures• critiquing the Myth of Primitivism and the Myth of Progress• the destruction of the clan by marriage law and papal decree• sanguinal, geographic, and noetic polities• showing up in society not just as individuals, but as members of family groups• why Indigenous people fall for conspiracy disinformation• getting a smartphone as an adult and how it changes you — firsthand recollections• Marshall McLuhan, neotribalism, banishment, and cancel culture• fractal sovereignty & continental commonlaw• genderqueerness as ontological revolution• decolonizing language and sexuality vs. transhumanist escapism/linguistic reterritorialization• guerrilla weddings in the Age of COVID• trust, smart contracts, and the unsustainability of economies of scale• Megan Kelleher, Holochain, Jim Rutt, Ben Goertzel• liquid democracy• How do you prevent an autonomous zone from being subsumed by colonial forces?• being happy to not have final answers, to be one step in an age of transition• “Land is your smart room [except] it's reciprocal. One of you isn't ‘The User.' … Most of the affordances you're seeking through technology and sci-fi: these are pre-existing things. You find them through a relation and an interspecies communication with your bioregion.”✨ Support the countless hours of research and production that go into Future Fossils• Venmo: @futurefossils• PayPal.me/michaelgarfield• Patreon: patreon.com//michaelgarfield• BTC: 1At2LQbkQmgDugkchkP6QkDJCvJ5rv3Jm• ETH: 0xfD2BC66586FA4FBA189992E9B0037CD5cb9673EF• NFTs: Rarible | Foundation Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/futurefossils. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years by: Vaclav Smil The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley By: Malcolm X (Author), Alex Haley (Author), Laurence Fishburne (Narrator) Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets By: Sudhir Venkatesh Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters By: Abigail Shrier (Moved to the next episode) The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage By: Anthony Brandt Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations by: John Bartlett The Golden Age By: John C. Wright How to Start Your Homeschool: What I Learned My First 5 Years by: Taylia Clegg Bunker Destroying Their God: How I Fought My Evil Half-Brother to Save My Children By: Wallace Jeffs  (Author), Shauna Packer  (Author), Sherry Taylor  (Author) The Neal A. Maxwell Quote Book by: Neal A. Maxwell

This week we surf the fun-gularity with the brilliant artist, standup comic, and podcaster Ramin Nazer! This episode is significantly less a heady philosophy-of-science discussion than usual and significantly more a wank-fest of two people who love each other’s shows going on about all the mind-blowing visionary notions contained therein. Kick back, light some incense, and prepare for a juicy conversation about where we stand in the Cosmic Order and what to do with all of our creative possibility…covering everything from universal basic income to celebrity schadenfruede, visionary art and science fiction to to the psychological impact of trying to stay original in the midst of a tech singularity. If you’re anything like I am, Ramin is going to inspire the hell out of you. Enjoy…Ramin’s Website:https://rainbowbrainskull.com/collections/printsMichael on Ramin’s podcast, Rainbow Brainskull:https://www.raminnazer.com/blogs/rainbow-brainskull-hour/michael-garfieldMentioned:Archan Nair, The Teafaerie, Nikola Tesla, Onyx Ashanti, King Raam, The Rock, Andrew Yang, Yuval Harari, Bill Gates, Star Trek Discovery, Charles Stross’ Accelerando & Glasshouse, Black Mirror, Esperanza Spalding, Duncan Trussell, Richard Florida, Jeff Bezos, William Irwin Thompson, Terence McKenna, John C. Wright’s Eschaton Sequence, Peter Watts’ Blindsight, Eric Wargo’s Time Loops, Colin Frangicetto, Who Built The Moon?, No Man’s Sky, An Oral History of the End of Reality, Ariana Grande, Jimi Hendrix, Amazon Alexa, Life in the Glass Age at Burning Man 2013, Dadara (Daniel Rozenberg), The Mirage Men, Jason Silva, Randal Roberts, Morgan Manley, Alex Grey, Allyson Grey, Michaelangelo, Slavoj Zizek, Marshall McLuhan, Chuck Palahniuk, Jordan Peterson, Aziz Ansari, Louis CK, Julia Cameron, Alan Shelton, Buckminster Fuller, Frank Zappa, Mortal Kombat, Roko’s Basilisk, Norman “Dr. Blue” Katz, Joe Biden, Awake Aware Alive Podcast, Expanding Mind with Erik Davis, Rak Razam, Adam Dipert, Giant Leap Dance Company, Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Greg Parkins, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Weird Studies, Brave BrowserSupport this show on Patreon and score a zillion awesome perks:https://patreon.com/michaelgarfieldSubscribe to our monthly creative explosion of a newsletter:https://michaelgarfield.substack.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

My graduate advisor Sean Esbjörn-Hargens is one of the most consistently inspiring and refreshingly different thinkers I’ve ever met. In our first Future Fossils conversation, we discussed his work to apply a profoundly “meta” and pluralistic philosophy to the everyday work of organizational development and social impact. In this discussion, we turn over the rock and examine his decades of inquiry into some of the world’s most puzzling and confounding phenomena – namely, those surrounding the UFO and its aura of science-challenging incursions into mundane reality. Might “Exostudies” be the locus of a transformation in how we understand reality? This is not your normal New Age conversation about aliens, but a rigorous look into the persistent weirdness and problematic implications of one of humankind’s greatest mysteries. As Phil Dick famously said, “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” If UFOs are here to stay – with all of their attendant provocations to our oversimple categories (self and other, artificial and natural, hallucination and perception, physical and immaterial) – then we are overdue for a new definition of “reality.” In preparation for his Exostudies online course this fall, we look at how to make sense of the stubbornly ineffable – an evolutionary call to take up higher-dimensional logic and more nuanced understandings of What Is…http://www.exostudies.org/“When you go into the UFO field, at least with an open heart and mind, you come across some really crazy shit. It is a freakshow. There are so many bizarre claims being made by standup citizens who are quite believable in what they are saying, even though what they’re saying just does not map onto our general view of reality.”“The truth is stranger than science fiction. Not just fiction, but science fiction.”“The phenomenon is subjective and objective; it’s subjective and objective simultaneously; and it’s neither. So I think what it’s asking us is to re-examine the relationship between mind and matter, and how do we relate to subject and object, and how has our current scientific methodology failed us horribly in having a more sophisticated answer or framing or understanding of how these two aspects are related.”“There are really good, legitimate photographs, and trace evidence, and all kinds of physical evidence for UFO craft and other otherworldly realities…and yet, there are so many fakes. And how do you sift through all that? You almost can’t.”“We’re entering into an augmented and virtual space that’s going to be ontologically fragmented, and highly pluralistic, and solipsistic. So how do we navigate that culturally? I don’t know, but I think we’re largely unprepared.”“We’re not that far from discovering some form of mini-life elsewhere. And as soon as that happens, then the floodgates are going to open in considering the implications of that.”“So many UFO or ET enthusiasts often want to put everything in one box, like ‘they’re all bad,’ ‘they’re all good,’ ‘they’re all future versions of ourselves.’ I think it’s much messier than that.”“I think one of the core strategies is hermeneutic generosity. A sense of critical thinking, but from a place of generosity, where we stay open. Postmodernism has been so jaded – the hermeneutics of suspicion – I think when we approach these phenomena, we need a different orientation.”“To really bring any kind of justice to this inquiry, we need to draw on the best thinking from as many kinds of disciplines as we can – because the phenomenon is that big, and that mysterious, and that paradoxical. So anything short of a meta, integrative approach – and even that – is going to fail.”Mentioned:Diana Slattery, John Mack, Avi Loeb, Ken Wilber, Jeff Kripal, Whitley Strieber, Arthur Brock, George Knapp, John C. Wright, Olaf Stapledon, Stuart Davis, Jeff Salzman, Richard Doyle, Carl Jung, Terence McKenna, William Irwin Thompson, DW Pasulka, Eric Wargo, Jacques ValleeSean’s appearance on the Daily Evolver Podcast:https://www.dailyevolver.com/2019/02/taking-aliens-seriously/If you liked this episode, check out Episodes 60 & Episode 91:https://shows.pippa.io/futurefossils/episodes/60https://shows.pippa.io/futurefossils/episodes/91 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Special Guest John C. Wright! http://www.scifiwright.com/ https://www.amazon.com/John-C.-Wright... L. Jagi Lamplighter-Wright! http://www.ljagilamplighter.com/ Daddy Warpig! http://www.daddywarpig.com http://www.twitter.com/daddy_warpig John! http://www.twitter.com/dorrinal

Stone, bronze, iron... glass? In his recent thought and writing, transdisciplinary artist and thinker Michael Garfield defines modernity as an age of glass, arguing that the entire ethos of our era inheres in the transformative enchantments of this amorphous solid. No one would deny that glass plays a central role in our lives, although glass does have a knack for disappearing into the background, at least until the beakers or screens crack and shatter. Glass is weird, and like a lot of weird things, it can serve as a lens (so to speak!) for observing our world from strange new angles. In this episode, Michael joins Phil and JF to talk through the origins, the significance, and the fate of the Glass Age. Michael Garfield (http://weirdstudies.com/guests/garfield) is a musician, live painter, and futurist. He is the host of the brilliant Future Fossils Podcast (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/future-fossils/id1152767505?mt=2). REFERENCES Michael Garfield's website (http://michaelgarfield.net/) + Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/michaelgarfield) + Medium (https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield) + Bandcamp (http://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com) Michael Garfield, "The Future is Indistinguishable from Magic" (https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield/the-future-is-indistinguishable-from-magic-5b9596a4ea) (This is the essay we discuss that was unpublished at the time of the recording) Michael Garfield, "The Future Acts Like You" (https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield/the-future-acts-like-you-7848b55475d5) Michael Garfield, "The Evolution of Surveillance Part 3: Living in the Belly of the Beast" (https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield/the-evolution-of-surveillance-part-3-living-in-the-belly-of-the-beast-2a42538ee2) Artist David Titterington's Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/posts/16115658) Richard Doyle, On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences (https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=797) Corning, "The Glass Age" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12OSBJwogFc) (corporate video) Jean-Paul Sartre, Baudelaire (https://www.amazon.com/Baudelaire-Jean-Paul-Sartre/dp/0811201899) John David Ebert, "On Hypermodernity" (https://cultural-discourse.com/on-hypermodernity/) John C. Wright, The Golden Age (https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Age-John-C-Wright/dp/0765336693) J.R.R. Tolkien, [The Lord of the Rings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheLordoftheRings) Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/hyperobjects) Christopher Knight and Alan Butler, Who Built the Moon? (https://www.amazon.com/Who-Built-Moon-Christopher-Knight/dp/1842931636) Pink Floyd, [The Dark Side of the Moon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDarkSideoftheMoon)_ Marshall McLuhan, [The Gutenberg Galaxy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheGutenbergGalaxy) Marshall McLuhan, [The Medium is the Massage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheMediumIstheMassage) Spinoza, Ethics (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3800) Charles Taylor, The Malaise of Modernity (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1991-cbc-massey-lectures-the-malaise-of-modernity-1.2946849) Martine Rothblatt, [Virtually Human: The Promise and the Peril of Digital Immortality](https://www.amazon.com/Virtually-Human-Promiseand-Perilof-Immortality/dp/1250046912) John Crowley, [Little, Big](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little,Big)_ Jose Arguelles, Dreamspell Calendar (http://www.13moon.com/dreamspell.htm) William Irwin Thompson, Lindisfarne Tapes (https://centerforneweconomics.org/envision/legacy/lindisfarne-tapes) Jonathan Sterne, The Audible Past (https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-audible-past) Karl Schroeder, “Degrees of Freedom,” in Heiroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (https://www.amazon.com/Hieroglyph-Stories-Visions-Better-Future/dp/0062204718) Michael Garfield, “Being Every Drone (https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield/being-every-drone-the-future-of-xr-robotic-telepresence-19f12889da78)” Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution (https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Evolution-Henri-Bergson/dp/0486400360) Special Guest: Michael Garfield.

Our Lenten journey continues with award-winning Sci-Fi writer and Catholic convert John C. Wright. Tune in as we discuss alternate realities, storytelling and the genius of Catholicism!

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Spotify Join the Facebook Discussion Group This week I’m lucky to sit with two extremely cool occultist philosophers: gay porn star Conner Habib & our mutual old friend, professional gambler turned journalist and record producer Mitch Mignano. We have a conversation about how life is observed and understood by occult philosophies - how organisms are perceived in, as, of, and beyond spacetime; the human and inhuman forms of evil in a discarnate taxonomy; and the very existence of that hidden ecosystem… Conner: http://connerhabib.comhttp://twitter.com/connerhabib Mitch: http://realitysandwich.com/u/mitch-mignano/https://www.facebook.com/mitch.mignano.77 (http://shamanikagenda.com coming soon) In this episode we reference an episode of Conner’s podcast in which he had a portentous chat with comedian Duncan Trussell – who it happens is a friend of new Mitch’s also, and convinced him he should start a podcast – and the metaphysical implications of this are at the beginning of their excavations… Actually, don’t think about that yet. Topics What Conner learned from studying under legendary biologist Lynn Margulis – while in school for creative writing… Gaia Theory and the Earth as a self-regulating super-organism… The battle between holism and reductionism: organismal biology versus molecular biology… Conner’s introduction to the work and worldview of Rudolf Steiner and Goethian Science… New ways to see, perceive, conceptualize, and encounter living beings… How to understand the living world through the lens of Anthroposophy… The Gnostic view that the material world is just the corpse of goddess Sophia, and how that relates to latencies in the nervous system that forbid us from encountering the world “right now”… How we experience time differently depending on our size… The role of psychedelics (or “ecodelics”) in the cultivation of etheric and astral senses/knowing – help or hindrance…? Steiner’s prophecy about the end of the 20th Century developing an “Ahrimanic school” of people with profound powers that are not concerned with the health or benefit of organic evolution… How do we engage nonphysical “entities” we believe are service-oriented but might be manipulating us…? What do occultist philosophy and ketamine have in common? The objective reality of evil, and Conner’s concern about Duncan Trussell’s light-only spirituality might be playing fast and loose with the dark forces… How our gods reflect the attitudes we bring to them… …and our demons often simply want redemption (even if they go about it the wrong way). Is evil time-bound? The hidden connection between Dracula and The Matrix!? And we go DEEP on reincarnation. Conner Quotes “Molecular biology is kind of a phony biology. It’s not really about life.” “The problem with these kind of sciences…they’re difficult to encapsulate in ten-minute soundbites. ‘The gene is the driving force of evolution!’ That’s easy. You can talk about that in two seconds – like you can flush the toilet in two seconds.” “The thought is just sort of the dead husk of the movement of thinking. So can we get into the actual movement of thinking itself, apprehend and understand that?” “Organisms are not spatial beings. They’re not temporal beings either. They’re sort of movements, or dynamic evolutions expressed to us through time. The only way to determine an organism’s existence spatially is to kill it.” “If you really want to understand an organism, you look at its growth throughout its life cycle and life history. You don’t just see what’s in front of you in that moment and extrapolate.” “We often encounter death and think it’s life.” “When we encounter things, we encounter them in process…and it might be the end of the process.” “It’s not up to me to say whether people should do psychedelics. What I WANT is a different cultural conversation about them, that allows different information in, aside from, ‘These are terrible and should be illegal’ versus, ‘These are bringing me spiritual awakening, bro.’ I don’t find either of those satisfactory.” “I think our desire to speed up our spiritual development is, like, first of all, sort of aspiritual.” “No one wants the machine elves to threaten them.” “Not having any risk is a really dangerous thing.” “If you have a god of demands – ‘Show yourself to me!’ – you’re going to get demands.” “Don’t say ‘BE better,’ say ‘DO better”…because I know it’s coming for me. I know I’m going to be changed again, and again, and again, and again, into different bodies.” “I’m not tooting my own horn here, but that’s why people think that I’m evil, or porn is evil, sexuality is evil: because it’s pushing sexuality forward because it’s demanding people look, think, encounter it. Books Richard Doyle - On Beyond Living Lynn Margulis & Dorion Sagan - Microcosmos Craig & Henrika Holdrich? - Genetics & The Manipulation of Life: The Forgotten Factor of Context Grant Morrison – The Invisibles Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse Five Kevin Kelly – What Technology Wants Mossimo Something? - The Light We See Is The Light That Has Died William Irwin Thompson - Coming Into Being: Artifacts & Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness Richard Doyle - Darwin’s Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, & The Evolution of the Nöosphere Daniel Pinchbeck - Breaking Open The Head Gordon White - The Chaos Protocols John C. Wright - The Eschaton Sequence See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Support Future Fossils on Patreon Subscribe to Future Fossils on iTunesSubscribe to Future Fossils on StitcherJoin the Future Fossils Facebook Group “I think we’re at a real crossroads. I’m an old guy, I may not live to see a whole lot more of the changes that are undoubtedly going to happen, but I would sure like to. I try to be an optimist. I’d like to hope that through education and science and clear thinking and good communication we come to sort of a passive understanding of the stuff we need to do – rather than having any ‘conspiracy’ organizations shoving it down everybody’s throats. We can have creativity and BETTER lives, rather than just more and more and more.” This week our guest is visionary artist Mark Henson, whose highly detailed and frequently erotic landscape paintings portray the full spectrum of human experience, our greatest dreams and most disturbing nightmares. Mark’s been a friend and elder to me since we met in 2010 and I was delighted to catch up with him at this year’s Psychedelic Science Conference in Oakland – please excuse the background noise in this recording as you enjoy this festive and far-ranging conversation about art, life, and creativity! Mark's WebsiteMark's Facebook Page TOPICS: - Viewing and making art as time travel. - Will artificial intelligence replace artists? - Can we understand the universe? - Altered sense of time self in dreams and psychedelic experiences. - How technology has crept into our memory and dream lives. - The necessity of Universal Basic Income AND Life Purpose in an automated post-work world. - “The Work” of ayahuasca users and telepathic post-humans (on social media) of being open to the intensity and burden of collective experience. - The importance of an intentional media diet. - How Mark got to collaborate with Jimi Hendrix as a teenager! - Mark’s thoughts on the history and evolving intersection of Street Art, Fine Art, and Live Music. - How different musical styles and intoxicants contribute to different media ecosystems. - How Mark and his stepson almost got one of his paintings into the White House. - Projected art as graffiti and political action; augmented reality graffiti as the future of dissent, and geospatial metadata as a new cyberpunk Wild West – metagraffiti. - Defacing ads and reclaiming public space, a polite How To. - The future of the family. REFERENCES: - The Golden Oecumene Trilogy by John C. Wright - Blood Music by Greg Bear - Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research - The Teafaerie’s Erowid Ibogaine Article - Ayahuasca Coloring Book artist Alexander Ward - Michael’s appearance on Comedy Central’s Problematic with Moshe Kasher - Darwin’s Pharmacy by Richard Doyle QUOTES FROM MARK: “My overall project here is to create impressions of what life was like, in these days…” “By 2000, we were supposed to be flying around in little personal cars and live in a peaceful world where the big issues had been resolved. That didn’t happen, so I’m not going to hold my breath on a Singularity.” “Sometimes I have fairly vivid dreams where, if the dream is strong enough, later on when I’m awake I might confuse that reality with something that happened in my waking moments. Did I dream that, or did that really happen to me ten years ago. What about this little experience? Was that a dream, or…I can’t quite remember. Sometimes that happens to me, and I actually like that, because if I can blur the boundaries between that world and this one, I think it’s more interesting.” “Maybe if the Singularity happens, or Artificial Intelligence gets intelligent enough to be a frustrated, nervous wreck over wanting to express itself to the point of absolute fanaticism where it has to create something new in the world…I would love to see that, actually. See what comes out.” “Do I want to live in a Borg mind where I know what you’re thinking and you know what I’m thinking? No, I do not, because that’ll clog up my thoughts.” “Everybody is radiating self-expression some way or another. It’s one of our basic human desires. How do we not be swamped in all the static? It’s like we’re running 300 radios at one time. It’s hard to listen to one particular song. So somehow we have to filter things out. It’s sort of essential just to keep sane.” “The essence of our culture war is an economic war, in a sense…if you have a good psychedelic experience, you realize that the beauty of a sunset is of more importance than a pallet full of $100 bills.” “I think if the humans manage to manage ourselves, we’ll be able o accomplish managing nature so that nature can still be nature…and maybe we’ll have a few friendly helpful robots as well.” Future Fossils Intro/Outro Music: "God Detector" by Skytree (feat. Michael Garfield & Dennis McKenna) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dragon Award-winner, multiple Hugo finalist, and Nebula nominee John C. Wright joins author Brian Niemeier for a conversation on science fiction. Geek Gab: https://www.youtube.com/GeekGab John C. Wright's Journal: http://www.scifiwright.com/ CIty of Corpses: http://www.castaliahouse.com/downloads/moth-cobweb-5-city-of-corpses/ Awake in the Night Land: https://www.amazon.com/Awake-Night-Land-John-Wright-ebook/dp/B00JM98V60/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1498703529&sr=1-16 Kairos: http://www.brianniemeier.com/ The Soul Cycle https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NCMVT1F/ref=series_rw_dp_sw Castalia House http://www.castaliahouse.com/ Leftist Gnosticism: http://thefederalist.com/2017/06/27/can-expect-increased-violence-left-power/

Julie and Scott open their sixth year* with special guest John C. Wright, who joins them to talk about story, myth, and Star Wars. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #124| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| *I counted on my fingers. -- sd

Phil Sandifer talks to Vox Day, the writer and editor behind the Rabid Puppy/Hugo Awards controversy, about the relative merits of John C. Wright's One Bright Star to Guide Them and Iain M. Banks' The Wasp Factory.  You can find Shabcast 6, featuring an afterparty featuring Phil, Jack Graham and your own intrepid Pex Lives hosts here: http://pexlives.libsyn.com/shabcast-6

This Shabcast is an accompaniment to this month's edition of Pex Lives, which features the long-awaited encounter between Phil Sandifer (from off of TARDIS Eruditorum) and 'Vox Day' (from off of fascism and fucking up the Hugo Awards).  Kevin and James have kindly turned the June installment of Pex Lives over to the Sandifer/Vox Day interview, in which Phil quizzes Vox about his attitudes towards two texts, One Bright Star to Guide Them by John C. Wright (which Vox loves and Phil hates) and Iain M. Banks' The Wasp Factory (which Vox hates and Phil loves).   Shabcast 6 is something in the way of an 'afterparty' for Phil, in which Phil chats with myself, Kevin and James about the Vox Day interview.  Very much necessary listening.  And lots of fun.  After the serious business of the interview itself, the four of us kick back and have a chat which veers from the serious to the plain giggly.   This Shabcast also features frequent and vehement contributions by my elderly, crotchety and extremely loud-voiced bengal cat Quiz.  You won't be able to understand her, but I can... and she's telling me to kill.

John C. Wright Is a newspaperman and editor, attorney, philosopher, and writer of science fiction novels, the most famous of which Orphans of Chaos, was nominated for a Nebula Award in 2006. In appearance he is bespectacled, bewhiskered, not so much tall as huge, and his affectations include a pocket watch, a low-crowned, broad-brimmed black […]