Podcasts about More Than Human

Hello beautiful ones! The Becoming Podcast is returning after a somewhat unplanned hiatus, brought to you by Getting Pneumonia A Week After Launching My Book! But here we are again, and I couldn't be more delighted to be welcoming Carmen Spagnola as my first guest of 2025.  Carmen has been a friend, colleague and teacher of mine for many years now, and she has just released her latest book, Spells for the Apocalypse:  Practical Magic for Turbulent Times, and, given the events of the past few weeks in our world, the timing of this important work couldn't be more auspicious. Before I dive in, let me tell you a little bit about Carmen: Carmen teaches about animism, folk magic, witchcraft, ritual and ancestral knowledge related to land and seasons.  She cross-pollinates somatics, attachment, collapse awareness, intersectional feminism, and kinship with the More Than Human in her work as a trauma resolution practitioner.  Carmen is the author of The Spirited Kitchen:  Recipes and Rituals for the Wheel of the Year, which teaches folklore and spellcraft for the solstices, equinoxes, and half-way points between, based on her training in culinary arts at Le Cordon Bleu Paris.  Carmen's professional study includes extensive training in hypnotherapy, interpersonal neurobiology, somatic psychology, mood and personality disorder support, and client-centred assistance for neurodivergent adults, youth, and their caregivers.  She is constantly researching current promising practices to provide psychoemotional care and nervous system reconditioning support for people with chronic or episodic disability, with special attention to autoimmunity, dysautonomia, and long COVID.  She holds provider certifications for Dynamic Attachment Re-Patterning, The Safe and Sound Protocol, Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercise, The Resilience Toolkit, and Clinical Hypnotherapy.  Her spiritual healing repertoire includes numerous certificates spanning a twenty-five year exploration of trance work, regression therapy, energy work, shamanistic practices, systemic constellations, divination, herbalism, kitchen witchery, cultural conservation and ancestral veneration practices, and wilderness quest. Here's some of what we talk about in this episode: What is collapse – both personal and collective.  Carmen beautifully names the thing that we all know, now, in our bones, to be true. The power of ritual to soothe, mobilize and transform us when there's nothing else you can *do* in the face of predicament and chaos How Carmen's new book, Spells for the Apocalypse, supports us to feel more skillful, resourced and resilient in times of personal and collective collapse The "gift and the task" of Carmen's personal Quest experience – aka, the promise it would kill her to break How Carmen is coping with grief and rage these days.  This is the question Carmen asks everyone on her podcast, the Numinous Podcast, and I was really keen to turn her own question back to her.  As she always does, even in the deeply challenging times she's experiencing right now, Carmen models how we might work with grief and rage in meaningful and supportive ways. Carmen and I talk about so, so much more, including our shared experiences of going on Quest, the rituals I did during my own personal time of collapse, what happens when an animist moves to a different ecosystem, and more. I hope you love listening to this episode with Carmen as much as I loved recording it with her!

Welcome to a personal journey into the world of More Than Human! In this podcast, Susan (S.E. Smith) shares the inspiration behind creating this thrilling series and why she offered it as a Kickstarter. The series all began with a question: What if humans were believed extinct in a world dominated by shifters? This idea sparked a creative fire that led to the development of the More Than Human series. Join us as we dive into the themes of love, survival, and acceptance that drive the story. Discover how Susan's passion for storytelling and exploring unique worlds has shaped Ella and Ty's journey and set the stage for Mitchell and Jayden's adventures. Learn how Susan's experiences and imagination intertwine to bring these captivating characters and their world to life. And gain an understanding of why Susan's passion for immersing her readers in her worlds inspired her to launch her two new books in the More Than Human series on Kickstarter. Thank you for being part of this journey with us!

We know by now that the old system is crumbling, that the old paradigms are no longer fit for purpose and we need to take part in the birth of something new: this is what this podcast is for. But what are the tools and how can we begin actually to build something relevant and useful within the strictures of a system that is still trying to cling onto legitimacy and power? Michael Haupt was a key figure in the widespread introduction of mobile telephones to South Africa ahead of the first all-race elections in 1994.  He was head-hunted soon after and the next decade saw him working around the globe in 16 cities on 6 continents.  He was in Thailand, taking a year out when he had a vision - an actual not-expected, not-planned, not-drug-or-meditation-mediated set of visions - that showed him how the world could look and feel like if we manage to craft a route through to what he calls the Transition Phase of our evolution. This moment was pivotal in his life. Now he's a 'Resilience Strategist' bridging between those businesses that are switched on enough to know that corporate greenwashing is no longer useful, and agile enough to find what is. He's building mycelial links to others who are working in this area and he's thinking deeply - so deeply - about where we could go and the actual logistics of how we might get there. I've been holding a lot of conversations on the back of launching Any Human Power about how we could build a future that is fit for purpose, where the human and More-Than-Human worlds flourish on a thriving planet. Thanks to Audrey Tang and Glen Weyl, I can see some of the routes through to political and technological change. Thanks to the Gaia Foundation, the Sustainable Food Trust, the million and one permaculture organisations around the world, I can see a way to mending our totally broken food and farming system. I can see ways to shift transport and power generation and city design.  What I have lacked, until now, is the ideas that might bring the great behemoth that is the corporate world on board in a way that's useful.  And this is what Michael is doing. As ever, this was a wide, deep conversation and it pushed the edge of my thinking, but it brought me to a place where I can more clearly see a few more steps forward. I hope it does the same for you. 00:00 Introduction: Reconnecting with Nature01:19 Welcome to the Podcast01:40 Michael's Journey to Resilience Strategy02:14 Load Shedding in South Africa03:49 Understanding Resilience Strategy04:52 Michael's Life Journey and Worldview07:40 The Vision on the Beach12:15 Potential Futures and Human Coordination15:22 Cycles of Civilisations18:12 Class-Based vs. Values-Based Societies20:19 Emerging Consciousness and Systemic Change22:01 The Role of Currency and Mutual Credit27:25 Coordinating for Systemic Change28:55 South African Elections and Corporate Responsibility32:10 Legal Personhood for Natural Entities35:12 The Mycelial Network and Future Coordination38:28 Encouraging Systemic Change39:13 Resilience Strategies and City Exclusion40:12 Rural Experiments and Human Purpose41:12 Challenges of Implementation45:27 Local Currencies and Community Commitment50:50 Ownership vs. Stewardship53:22 Rediscovering Connectedness57:26 Emerging Incentive Mechanisms01:09:35 Forking Governance and Parallel Systems01:16:25 The Power of NarrativeMichael on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhaupt/A blog past about the Thai beach experience: https://michaelhaupt.com/the-beach-4b6e60e407e8Michael - Liminal School liminalschool.org Cycle of Civilization: https://bit.ly/7-Phases-Glo Interstructure: https://bit.ly/Int-Struct Roger Briggs, Emerging World - explains the shifts in consciousness: https://bit.ly/Em-World Will Ruddick, Commitment Pooling: https://bit.ly/CommPool Joe Brewer Bioregional Movement: https://bit.ly/JBrewerClare Graves' Momentous Leap: https://bit.ly/MoLeap GaiaNet: https://www.gaianet.earth/Dark Matter Labs: https://darkmatterlabs.org/

In seinem Buch „Die unfassbare Vielfalt des Seins“ geht James Bridle der Frage nach, ob wir unser Verständnis von „Intelligenz“ und damit verbunden unser Verhältnis zu Tieren, Pflanzen und dem, was wir landläufig Natur nennen, nicht grundlegend verändern sollten. Ausgangspunkt ist dabei die Entwicklung im Bereich der „künstlichen Intelligenz“ in den letzten Jahren, die (a) unseren Blick auf Intelligenz ohnehin erweitert und (b) einen besseren Zugang zu der Welt der Tiere und Pflanzen bietet. Schließlich schlägt Bridle vor, unseren Blick auf die Welt zu weiten und auch dem, was er „More-Than-Human“ nennt, Raum zu geben und Agency zuzugestehen.

Reading Your Weird Stories

They tried Gordon Kent for murder–but who was really responsible? The Sky Was Full of Ships by Theodore Sturgeon, that's next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode. We get a lot of comments on our YouTube Channel. This comes to us from HEAVYMETALmovie1981 “MORE scary werewolf stories please!!” We hear you and we have added Black Hound Of Death by Robert E. Howard to our list of stories to narrate. By the way if you know a scary werewolf vintage science fiction story, please send an email to scott@lostscifi.com. Thanks, HEAVYMETALmovie1981!! And this from rodneydangerman9616, “I've been a consistent listener for a while now...my thought (because it was requested in the video description) is that it should be one (confounding and quasi-obscure) question per week. I assume it would be easier on y'all (production team, that is) and, perhaps, it would give an ample amount of time for the audience to respond. Just my two cents. Love your work, Scott! You and Ian (from HorrorBabble) are, in my humble opinion, truly two of the best narrators on YT!!!” Thanks, rodneydangerman9616!! Ian from HorrorBabble is an amazing narrator so to be mentioned with him is a huge compliment. If you have something to say, we would love to hear it! Comment on our YouTube channel or send us an email, scott@lostscifi.com. Theodore Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York, in 1918. His name was legally changed to Theodore Sturgeon at age eleven after his mother's divorce and subsequent marriage. Sturgeon's 1953 science fiction novel More Than Human won the 1954 International Fantasy Award as the year's best novel, and the Science Fiction Writers of America ranked "Baby Is Three" number five among the "Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time" up to 1964. Ranked by votes for all of their pre-1965 novellas, Sturgeon was second among authors, behind only Robert Heinlein. He was good and he was prolific! He wrote almost 200 short stories and the screenplays for two Star Trek episodes, and two of his stories were adapted for The New Twilight Zone. Today's story by Sturgeon was in Thrilling Wonder Stories Magazine in June 1947 and can be found on page 55, The Sky Was Full of Ships by Theodore Sturgeon… Support the show - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV Merch - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/ Sign up for our newsletterhttps://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/266431/102592606683269000/share https://twitter.com/lost_sci_fi Next Week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Larry Thomas bought a cuckoo clock for his wife—without knowing the price he would have to pay. Beyond The Door by Philip K. Dick. That's next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peruvian shaman Oscar Miro-Quesada says that "Consciousness creates matter, Language Creates Reality, Ritual creates relationship.”  This week I'm speaking with someone who bring reality into being with words and weaves relational rituals.  Abigail Morgan Prout is a poet, life coach, mother and visionary. She and I have been talking to one another for about three and a half years. We connected just before lockdown and then, as life became weirder, Abigail's daily poems were a bright flash in the whirling chaos, a doorway into a world halfway across the planet that was different in so many ways, and yet so often the same; a sense of soul connection to someone who gets it; an excoriating and sometimes intensely personal, vulnerable view into someone else's life, shared with great courage - and word-jewels of true beauty that connected me again to the wonder of the web of life, and the wonder of language. As a writer, I am always in absolute awe of the fact that we can make black marks on a white page and evoke the whole multi-dimensional, multi-sensory glory of human and More-Than-Human experience. As a prose writer, I am ever more in awe of the skill poets bring to their word-smithing, and Abigail's is beautiful, moving and inspiring at all levels. It's not just me that thinks so - Walk Deep, the collection that arose from lockdown won the 2021 Homebound Poetry Contest. So when Homebound published Walk Deep, I really wanted to bring Abigail onto the podcast - to talk about the process of writing, which is one of my more major obsessions, but also to talk about everything she brings to this -she's a life coach and a teacher of life coaches. She's a daughter and a mother and she holds ceremony in beautiful ways. We didn't touch much on this last in the main body of the podcast - but, as happens so often, as soon as I'd stopped recording, we talked about exactly this, and it seemed so profoundly important, that I hit record again and we added another ten minutes of what, to me, is not just podcasting gold, but human gold, spiritual gold; the account of someone's experience of a lifelong dream that came to life, but more than that, of the ways the web of life is so ready to connect with us and offer help if we can only open to hear it. So that's tacked on at the end, before the final credits.Abigail's website https://www.abigailprout.com/Spiral Leadership Method https://www.spiral-leadership.com/Accidental Gods Membership (the Intention Intensive is within the Membership)  https://accidentalgods.life/join-us/Abigail on FB https://www.facebook.com/abigail.m.proutInstagram: @Insta: abigail_Morgan_prout

Welcome to the You Can Heal Your Life podcast. Today, you'll hear a chapter from healer and meditation instructor Erik Jampa Andersson's brand-new audiobook, Unseen Beings: How We Forgot the World is More Than Human. In this excerpt, you will gain insights into the detrimental effects of human-centered thinking on the environment and the importance of embracing a more holistic perspective that recognizes the interconnectedness and value of all beings. You can listen to the full audiobook FREE with a trial of the Empower You Unlimited Audio App. To download it today, visit hayhouse.com/empoweryou.

Join bestselling Hay House author Charlie Morley on the You Can Heal Your Life podcast as he engages in a captivating conversation with Erik Jampa Andersson about his brand-new book Unseen Beings: How We Forgot the World is More Than Human. In this episode, they delve into the forgotten concept of non-human beings and their crucial role in our natural world. Erik stresses the importance of reconnecting with nature and offers profound perspectives on our place in the world and our path to restoring our interconnectedness with nature to heal the planet.  If you enjoy this discussion, you can listen to the full audiobook FREE with a trial of the Empower You Unlimited Audio App. To download it today visit hayhouse.com/empoweryou.

Episode 165 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Dark Stat” and the career of the Grateful Dead. This is a long one, even longer than the previous episode, but don't worry, that won't be the norm. There's a reason these two were much longer than average. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a twenty-minute bonus episode available, on "Codine" by the Charlatans. Errata I mispronounce Brent Mydland's name as Myland a couple of times, and in the introduction I say "Touch of Grey" came out in 1988 -- I later, correctly, say 1987. (I seem to have had a real problem with dates in the intro -- I also originally talked about "Blue Suede Shoes" being in 1954 before fixing it in the edit to be 1956) Resources No Mixcloud this week, as there are too many songs by the Grateful Dead, and Grayfolded runs to two hours. I referred to a lot of books for this episode, partly because almost everything about the Grateful Dead is written from a fannish perspective that already assumes background knowledge, rather than to provide that background knowledge. Of the various books I used, Dennis McNally's biography of the band and This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead by Blair Jackson and David Gans are probably most useful for the casually interested. Other books on the Dead I used included McNally's Jerry on Jerry, a collection of interviews with Garcia; Deal, Bill Kreutzmann's autobiography; The Grateful Dead FAQ by Tony Sclafani; So Many Roads by David Browne; Deadology by Howard F. Weiner; Fare Thee Well by Joel Selvin and Pamela Turley; and Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads by David Shenk and Steve Silberman. Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is the classic account of the Pranksters, though not always reliable. I reference Slaughterhouse Five a lot. As well as the novel itself, which everyone should read, I also read this rather excellent graphic novel adaptation, and The Writer's Crusade, a book about the writing of the novel. I also reference Ted Sturgeon's More Than Human. For background on the scene around Astounding Science Fiction which included Sturgeon, John W. Campbell, L. Ron Hubbard, and many other science fiction writers, I recommend Alec Nevala-Lee's Astounding. 1,000 True Fans can be read online, as can the essay on the Californian ideology, and John Perry Barlow's "Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace". The best collection of Grateful Dead material is the box set The Golden Road, which contains all the albums released in Pigpen's lifetime along with a lot of bonus material, but which appears currently out of print. Live/Dead contains both the live version of "Dark Star" which made it well known and, as a CD bonus track, the original single version. And archive.org has more live recordings of the group than you can possibly ever listen to. Grayfolded can be bought from John Oswald's Bandcamp Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript [Excerpt: Tuning from "Grayfolded", under the warnings Before we begin -- as we're tuning up, as it were, I should mention that this episode contains discussions of alcoholism, drug addiction, racism, nonconsensual drugging of other people, and deaths from drug abuse, suicide, and car accidents. As always, I try to deal with these subjects as carefully as possible, but if you find any of those things upsetting you may wish to read the transcript rather than listen to this episode, or skip it altogether. Also, I should note that the members of the Grateful Dead were much freer with their use of swearing in interviews than any other band we've covered so far, and that makes using quotes from them rather more difficult than with other bands, given the limitations of the rules imposed to stop the podcast being marked as adult. If I quote anything with a word I can't use here, I'll give a brief pause in the audio, and in the transcript I'll have the word in square brackets. [tuning ends] All this happened, more or less. In 1910, T. S. Eliot started work on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", which at the time was deemed barely poetry, with one reviewer imagining Eliot saying "I'll just put down the first thing that comes into my head, and call it 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.'" It is now considered one of the great classics of modernist literature. In 1969, Kurt Vonnegut wrote "Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death", a book in which the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, comes unstuck in time, and starts living a nonlinear life, hopping around between times reliving his experiences in the Second World War, and future experiences up to 1976 after being kidnapped by beings from the planet Tralfamadore. Or perhaps he has flashbacks and hallucinations after having a breakdown from PTSD. It is now considered one of the great classics of modernist literature or of science fiction, depending on how you look at it. In 1953, Theodore Sturgeon wrote More Than Human. It is now considered one of the great classics of science fiction. In 1950, L. Ron Hubbard wrote Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. It is now considered either a bad piece of science fiction or one of the great revelatory works of religious history, depending on how you look at it. In 1994, 1995, and 1996 the composer John Oswald released, first as two individual CDs and then as a double-CD, an album called Grayfolded, which the composer says in the liner notes he thinks of as existing in Tralfamadorian time. The Tralfamadorians in Vonnegut's novels don't see time as a linear thing with a beginning and end, but as a continuum that they can move between at will. When someone dies, they just think that at this particular point in time they're not doing so good, but at other points in time they're fine, so why focus on the bad time? In the book, when told of someone dying, the Tralfamadorians just say "so it goes". In between the first CD's release and the release of the double-CD version, Jerry Garcia died. From August 1942 through August 1995, Jerry Garcia was alive. So it goes. Shall we go, you and I? [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, "Dark Star (Omni 3/30/94)"] "One principle has become clear. Since motives are so frequently found in combination, it is essential that the complex types be analyzed and arranged, with an eye kept single nevertheless to the master-theme under discussion. Collectors, both primary and subsidiary, have done such valiant service that the treasures at our command are amply sufficient for such studies, so extensive, indeed, that the task of going through them thoroughly has become too great for the unassisted student. It cannot be too strongly urged that a single theme in its various types and compounds must be made predominant in any useful comparative study. This is true when the sources and analogues of any literary work are treated; it is even truer when the bare motive is discussed. The Grateful Dead furnishes an apt illustration of the necessity of such handling. It appears in a variety of different combinations, almost never alone. Indeed, it is so widespread a tale, and its combinations are so various, that there is the utmost difficulty in determining just what may properly be regarded the original kernel of it, the simple theme to which other motives were joined. Various opinions, as we shall see, have been held with reference to this matter, most of them justified perhaps by the materials in the hands of the scholars holding them, but none quite adequate in view of later evidence." That's a quote from The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story, by Gordon Hall Gerould, published in 1908. Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five opens with a chapter about the process of writing the novel itself, and how difficult it was. He says "I would hate to tell you what this lousy little book cost me in money and anxiety and time. When I got home from the Second World War twenty-three years ago, I thought it would be easy for me to write about the destruction of Dresden, since all I would have to do would be to report what I had seen. And I thought, too, that it would be a masterpiece or at least make me a lot of money, since the subject was so big." This is an episode several of my listeners have been looking forward to, but it's one I've been dreading writing, because this is an episode -- I think the only one in the series -- where the format of the podcast simply *will not* work. Were the Grateful Dead not such an important band, I would skip this episode altogether, but they're a band that simply can't be ignored, and that's a real problem here. Because my intent, always, with this podcast, is to present the recordings of the artists in question, put them in context, and explain why they were important, what their music meant to its listeners. To put, as far as is possible, the positive case for why the music mattered *in the context of its time*. Not why it matters now, or why it matters to me, but why it matters *in its historical context*. Whether I like the music or not isn't the point. Whether it stands up now isn't the point. I play the music, explain what it was they were doing, why they were doing it, what people saw in it. If I do my job well, you come away listening to "Blue Suede Shoes" the way people heard it in 1956, or "Good Vibrations" the way people heard it in 1966, and understanding why people were so impressed by those records. That is simply *not possible* for the Grateful Dead. I can present a case for them as musicians, and hope to do so. I can explain the appeal as best I understand it, and talk about things I like in their music, and things I've noticed. But what I can't do is present their recordings the way they were received in the sixties and explain why they were popular. Because every other act I have covered or will cover in this podcast has been a *recording* act, and their success was based on records. They may also have been exceptional live performers, but James Brown or Ike and Tina Turner are remembered for great *records*, like "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" or "River Deep, Mountain High". Their great moments were captured on vinyl, to be listened back to, and susceptible of analysis. That is not the case for the Grateful Dead, and what is worse *they explicitly said, publicly, on multiple occasions* that it is not possible for me to understand their art, and thus that it is not possible for me to explain it. The Grateful Dead did make studio records, some of them very good. But they always said, consistently, over a thirty year period, that their records didn't capture what they did, and that the only way -- the *only* way, they were very clear about this -- that one could actually understand and appreciate their music, was to see them live, and furthermore to see them live while on psychedelic drugs. [Excerpt: Grateful Dead crowd noise] I never saw the Grateful Dead live -- their last UK performance was a couple of years before I went to my first ever gig -- and I have never taken a psychedelic substance. So by the Grateful Dead's own criteria, it is literally impossible for me to understand or explain their music the way that it should be understood or explained. In a way I'm in a similar position to the one I was in with La Monte Young in the last episode, whose music it's mostly impossible to experience without being in his presence. This is one reason of several why I placed these two episodes back to back. Of course, there is a difference between Young and the Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead allowed -- even encouraged -- the recording of their live performances. There are literally thousands of concert recordings in circulation, many of them of professional quality. I have listened to many of those, and I can hear what they were doing. I can tell you what *I* think is interesting about their music, and about their musicianship. And I think I can build up a good case for why they were important, and why they're interesting, and why those recordings are worth listening to. And I can certainly explain the cultural phenomenon that was the Grateful Dead. But just know that while I may have found *a* point, *an* explanation for why the Grateful Dead were important, by the band's own lights and those of their fans, no matter how good a job I do in this episode, I *cannot* get it right. And that is, in itself, enough of a reason for this episode to exist, and for me to try, even harder than I normally do, to get it right *anyway*. Because no matter how well I do my job this episode will stand as an example of why this series is called "*A* History", not *the* history. Because parts of the past are ephemeral. There are things about which it's true to say "You had to be there". I cannot know what it was like to have been an American the day Kennedy was shot, I cannot know what it was like to be alive when a man walked on the Moon. Those are things nobody my age or younger can ever experience. And since August the ninth, 1995, the experience of hearing the Grateful Dead's music the way they wanted it heard has been in that category. And that is by design. Jerry Garcia once said "if you work really hard as an artist, you may be able to build something they can't tear down, you know, after you're gone... What I want to do is I want it here. I want it now, in this lifetime. I want what I enjoy to last as long as I do and not last any longer. You know, I don't want something that ends up being as much a nuisance as it is a work of art, you know?" And there's another difficulty. There are only two points in time where it makes sense to do a podcast episode on the Grateful Dead -- late 1967 and early 1968, when the San Francisco scene they were part of was at its most culturally relevant, and 1988 when they had their only top ten hit and gained their largest audience. I can't realistically leave them out of the story until 1988, so it has to be 1968. But the songs they are most remembered for are those they wrote between 1970 and 1972, and those songs are influenced by artists and events we haven't yet covered in the podcast, who will be getting their own episodes in the future. I can't explain those things in this episode, because they need whole episodes of their own. I can't not explain them without leaving out important context for the Grateful Dead. So the best I can do is treat the story I'm telling as if it were in Tralfamadorian time. All of it's happening all at once, and some of it is happening in different episodes that haven't been recorded yet. The podcast as a whole travels linearly from 1938 through to 1999, but this episode is happening in 1968 and 1972 and 1988 and 1995 and other times, all at once. Sometimes I'll talk about things as if you're already familiar with them, but they haven't happened yet in the story. Feel free to come unstuck in time and revisit this time after episode 167, and 172, and 176, and 192, and experience it again. So this has to be an experimental episode. It may well be an experiment that you think fails. If so, the next episode is likely to be far more to your taste, and much shorter than this or the last episode, two episodes that between them have to create a scaffolding on which will hang much of the rest of this podcast's narrative. I've finished my Grateful Dead script now. The next one I write is going to be fun: [Excerpt: Grateful Dead, "Dark Star"] Infrastructure means everything. How we get from place to place, how we transport goods, information, and ourselves, makes a big difference in how society is structured, and in the music we hear. For many centuries, the prime means of long-distance transport was by water -- sailing ships on the ocean, canal boats and steamboats for inland navigation -- and so folk songs talked about the ship as both means of escape, means of making a living, and in some senses as a trap. You'd go out to sea for adventure, or to escape your problems, but you'd find that the sea itself brought its own problems. Because of this we have a long, long tradition of sea shanties which are known throughout the world: [Excerpt: A. L. Lloyd, "Off to Sea Once More"] But in the nineteenth century, the railway was invented and, at least as far as travel within a landmass goes, it replaced the steamboat in the popular imaginary. Now the railway was how you got from place to place, and how you moved freight from one place to another. The railway brought freedom, and was an opportunity for outlaws, whether train robbers or a romanticised version of the hobo hopping onto a freight train and making his way to new lands and new opportunity. It was the train that brought soldiers home from wars, and the train that allowed the Great Migration of Black people from the South to the industrial North. There would still be songs about the riverboats, about how ol' man river keeps rolling along and about the big river Johnny Cash sang about, but increasingly they would be songs of the past, not the present. The train quickly replaced the steamboat in the iconography of what we now think of as roots music -- blues, country, folk, and early jazz music. Sometimes this was very literal. Furry Lewis' "Kassie Jones" -- about a legendary train driver who would break the rules to make sure his train made the station on time, but who ended up sacrificing his own life to save his passengers in a train crash -- is based on "Alabamy Bound", which as we heard in the episode on "Stagger Lee", was about steamboats: [Excerpt: Furry Lewis, "Kassie Jones"] In the early episodes of this podcast we heard many, many, songs about the railway. Louis Jordan saying "take me right back to the track, Jack", Rosetta Tharpe singing about how "this train don't carry no gamblers", the trickster freight train driver driving on the "Rock Island Line", the mystery train sixteen coaches long, the train that kept-a-rollin' all night long, the Midnight Special which the prisoners wished would shine its ever-loving light on them, and the train coming past Folsom Prison whose whistle makes Johnny Cash hang his head and cry. But by the 1960s, that kind of song had started to dry up. It would happen on occasion -- "People Get Ready" by the Impressions is the most obvious example of the train metaphor in an important sixties record -- but by the late sixties the train was no longer a symbol of freedom but of the past. In 1969 Harry Nilsson sang about how "Nobody Cares About the Railroads Any More", and in 1968 the Kinks sang about "The Last of the Steam-Powered Trains". When in 1968 Merle Haggard sang about a freight train, it was as a memory, of a child with hopes that ended up thwarted by reality and his own nature: [Excerpt: Merle Haggard, "Mama Tried"] And the reason for this was that there had been another shift, a shift that had started in the forties and accelerated in the late fifties but had taken a little time to ripple through the culture. Now the train had been replaced in the popular imaginary by motorised transport. Instead of hopping on a train without paying, if you had no money in your pocket you'd have to hitch-hike all the way. Freedom now meant individuality. The ultimate in freedom was the biker -- the Hell's Angels who could go anywhere, unburdened by anything -- and instead of goods being moved by freight train, increasingly they were being moved by truck drivers. By the mid-seventies, truck drivers took a central place in American life, and the most romantic way to live life was to live it on the road. On The Road was also the title of a 1957 novel by Jack Kerouac, which was one of the first major signs of this cultural shift in America. Kerouac was writing about events in the late forties and early fifties, but his book was also a precursor of the sixties counterculture. He wrote the book on one continuous sheet of paper, as a stream of consciousness. Kerouac died in 1969 of an internal haemmorage brought on by too much alcohol consumption. So it goes. But the big key to this cultural shift was caused by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, a massive infrastructure spending bill that led to the construction of the modern American Interstate Highway system. This accelerated a program that had already started, of building much bigger, safer, faster roads. It also, as anyone who has read Robert Caro's The Power Broker knows, reinforced segregation and white flight. It did this both by making commuting into major cities from the suburbs easier -- thus allowing white people with more money to move further away from the cities and still work there -- and by bulldozing community spaces where Black people lived. More than a million people lost their homes and were forcibly moved, and orders of magnitude more lost their communities' parks and green spaces. And both as a result of deliberate actions and unconscious bigotry, the bulk of those affected were Black people -- who often found themselves, if they weren't forced to move, on one side of a ten-lane highway where the park used to be, with white people on the other side of the highway. The Federal-Aid Highway Act gave even more power to the unaccountable central planners like Robert Moses, the urban planner in New York who managed to become arguably the most powerful man in the city without ever getting elected, partly by slowly compromising away his early progressive ideals in the service of gaining more power. Of course, not every new highway was built through areas where poor Black people lived. Some were planned to go through richer areas for white people, just because you can't completely do away with geographical realities. For example one was planned to be built through part of San Francisco, a rich, white part. But the people who owned properties in that area had enough political power and clout to fight the development, and after nearly a decade of fighting it, the development was called off in late 1966. But over that time, many of the owners of the impressive buildings in the area had moved out, and they had no incentive to improve or maintain their properties while they were under threat of demolition, so many of them were rented out very cheaply. And when the beat community that Kerouac wrote about, many of whom had settled in San Francisco, grew too large and notorious for the area of the city they were in, North Beach, many of them moved to these cheap homes in a previously-exclusive area. The area known as Haight-Ashbury. [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, "Grayfolded"] Stories all have their starts, even stories told in Tralfamadorian time, although sometimes those starts are shrouded in legend. For example, the story of Scientology's start has been told many times, with different people claiming to have heard L. Ron Hubbard talk about how writing was a mug's game, and if you wanted to make real money, you needed to get followers, start a religion. Either he said this over and over and over again, to many different science fiction writers, or most science fiction writers of his generation were liars. Of course, the definition of a writer is someone who tells lies for money, so who knows? One of the more plausible accounts of him saying that is given by Theodore Sturgeon. Sturgeon's account is more believable than most, because Sturgeon went on to be a supporter of Dianetics, the "new science" that Hubbard turned into his religion, for decades, even while telling the story. The story of the Grateful Dead probably starts as it ends, with Jerry Garcia. There are three things that everyone writing about the Dead says about Garcia's childhood, so we might as well say them here too. The first is that he was named by a music-loving father after Jerome Kern, the songwriter responsible for songs like "Ol' Man River" (though as Oscar Hammerstein's widow liked to point out, "Jerome Kern wrote dum-dum-dum-dum, *my husband* wrote 'Ol' Man River'" -- an important distinction we need to bear in mind when talking about songwriters who write music but not lyrics). The second is that when he was five years old that music-loving father drowned -- and Garcia would always say he had seen his father dying, though some sources claim this was a false memory. So it goes. And the third fact, which for some reason is always told after the second even though it comes before it chronologically, is that when he was four he lost two joints from his right middle finger. Garcia grew up a troubled teen, and in turn caused trouble for other people, but he also developed a few interests that would follow him through his life. He loved the fantastical, especially the fantastical macabre, and became an avid fan of horror and science fiction -- and through his love of old monster films he became enamoured with cinema more generally. Indeed, in 1983 he bought the film rights to Kurt Vonnegut's science fiction novel The Sirens of Titan, the first story in which the Tralfamadorians appear, and wrote a script based on it. He wanted to produce the film himself, with Francis Ford Coppola directing and Bill Murray starring, but most importantly for him he wanted to prevent anyone who didn't care about it from doing it badly. And in that he succeeded. As of 2023 there is no film of The Sirens of Titan. He loved to paint, and would continue that for the rest of his life, with one of his favourite subjects being Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein monster. And when he was eleven or twelve, he heard for the first time a record that was hugely influential to a whole generation of Californian musicians, even though it was a New York record -- "Gee" by the Crows: [Excerpt: The Crows, "Gee"] Garcia would say later "That was an important song. That was the first kind of, like where the voices had that kind of not-trained-singer voices, but tough-guy-on-the-street voice." That record introduced him to R&B, and soon he was listening to Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, to Ray Charles, and to a record we've not talked about in the podcast but which was one of the great early doo-wop records, "WPLJ" by the Four Deuces: [Excerpt: The Four Deuces, "WPLJ"] Garcia said of that record "That was one of my anthem songs when I was in junior high school and high school and around there. That was one of those songs everybody knew. And that everybody sang. Everybody sang that street-corner favorite." Garcia moved around a lot as a child, and didn't have much time for school by his own account, but one of the few teachers he did respect was an art teacher when he was in North Beach, Walter Hedrick. Hedrick was also one of the earliest of the conceptual artists, and one of the most important figures in the San Francisco arts scene that would become known as the Beat Generation (or the Beatniks, which was originally a disparaging term). Hedrick was a painter and sculptor, but also organised happenings, and he had also been one of the prime movers in starting a series of poetry readings in San Francisco, the first one of which had involved Allen Ginsberg giving the first ever reading of "Howl" -- one of a small number of poems, along with Eliot's "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land" and possibly Pound's Cantos, which can be said to have changed twentieth-century literature. Garcia was fifteen when he got to know Hedrick, in 1957, and by then the Beat scene had already become almost a parody of itself, having become known to the public because of the publication of works like On the Road, and the major artists in the scene were already rejecting the label. By this point tourists were flocking to North Beach to see these beatniks they'd heard about on TV, and Hedrick was actually employed by one cafe to sit in the window wearing a beret, turtleneck, sandals, and beard, and draw and paint, to attract the tourists who flocked by the busload because they could see that there was a "genuine beatnik" in the cafe. Hedrick was, as well as a visual artist, a guitarist and banjo player who played in traditional jazz bands, and he would bring records in to class for his students to listen to, and Garcia particularly remembered him bringing in records by Big Bill Broonzy: [Excerpt: Big Bill Broonzy, "When Things Go Wrong (It Hurts Me Too)"] Garcia was already an avid fan of rock and roll music, but it was being inspired by Hedrick that led him to get his first guitar. Like his contemporary Paul McCartney around the same time, he was initially given the wrong instrument as a birthday present -- in Garcia's case his mother gave him an accordion -- but he soon persuaded her to swap it for an electric guitar he saw in a pawn shop. And like his other contemporary, John Lennon, Garcia initially tuned his instrument incorrectly. He said later "When I started playing the guitar, believe me, I didn't know anybody that played. I mean, I didn't know anybody that played the guitar. Nobody. They weren't around. There were no guitar teachers. You couldn't take lessons. There was nothing like that, you know? When I was a kid and I had my first electric guitar, I had it tuned wrong and learned how to play on it with it tuned wrong for about a year. And I was getting somewhere on it, you know… Finally, I met a guy that knew how to tune it right and showed me three chords, and it was like a revelation. You know what I mean? It was like somebody gave me the key to heaven." He joined a band, the Chords, which mostly played big band music, and his friend Gary Foster taught him some of the rudiments of playing the guitar -- things like how to use a capo to change keys. But he was always a rebellious kid, and soon found himself faced with a choice between joining the military or going to prison. He chose the former, and it was during his time in the Army that a friend, Ron Stevenson, introduced him to the music of Merle Travis, and to Travis-style guitar picking: [Excerpt: Merle Travis, "Nine-Pound Hammer"] Garcia had never encountered playing like that before, but he instantly recognised that Travis, and Chet Atkins who Stevenson also played for him, had been an influence on Scotty Moore. He started to realise that the music he'd listened to as a teenager was influenced by music that went further back. But Stevenson, as well as teaching Garcia some of the rudiments of Travis-picking, also indirectly led to Garcia getting discharged from the Army. Stevenson was not a well man, and became suicidal. Garcia decided it was more important to keep his friend company and make sure he didn't kill himself than it was to turn up for roll call, and as a result he got discharged himself on psychiatric grounds -- according to Garcia he told the Army psychiatrist "I was involved in stuff that was more important to me in the moment than the army was and that was the reason I was late" and the psychiatrist thought it was neurotic of Garcia to have his own set of values separate from that of the Army. After discharge, Garcia did various jobs, including working as a transcriptionist for Lenny Bruce, the comedian who was a huge influence on the counterculture. In one of the various attacks over the years by authoritarians on language, Bruce was repeatedly arrested for obscenity, and in 1961 he was arrested at a jazz club in North Beach. Sixty years ago, the parts of speech that were being criminalised weren't pronouns, but prepositions and verbs: [Excerpt: Lenny Bruce, "To is a Preposition, Come is a Verb"] That piece, indeed, was so controversial that when Frank Zappa quoted part of it in a song in 1968, the record label insisted on the relevant passage being played backwards so people couldn't hear such disgusting filth: [Excerpt: The Mothers of Invention, "Harry You're a Beast"] (Anyone familiar with that song will understand that the censored portion is possibly the least offensive part of the whole thing). Bruce was facing trial, and he needed transcripts of what he had said in his recordings to present in court. Incidentally, there seems to be some confusion over exactly which of Bruce's many obscenity trials Garcia became a transcriptionist for. Dennis McNally says in his biography of the band, published in 2002, that it was the most famous of them, in autumn 1964, but in a later book, Jerry on Jerry, a book of interviews of Garcia edited by McNally, McNally talks about it being when Garcia was nineteen, which would mean it was Bruce's first trial, in 1961. We can put this down to the fact that many of the people involved, not least Garcia, lived in Tralfamadorian time, and were rather hazy on dates, but I'm placing the story here rather than in 1964 because it seems to make more sense that Garcia would be involved in a trial based on an incident in San Francisco than one in New York. Garcia got the job, even though he couldn't type, because by this point he'd spent so long listening to recordings of old folk and country music that he was used to transcribing indecipherable accents, and often, as Garcia would tell it, Bruce would mumble very fast and condense multiple syllables into one. Garcia was particularly impressed by Bruce's ability to improvise but talk in entire paragraphs, and he compared his use of language to bebop. Another thing that was starting to impress Garcia, and which he also compared to bebop, was bluegrass: [Excerpt: Bill Monroe, "Fire on the Mountain"] Bluegrass is a music that is often considered very traditional, because it's based on traditional songs and uses acoustic instruments, but in fact it was a terribly *modern* music, and largely a postwar creation of a single band -- Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys. And Garcia was right when he said it was "white bebop" -- though he did say "The only thing it doesn't have is the harmonic richness of bebop. You know what I mean? That's what it's missing, but it has everything else." Both bebop and bluegrass evolved after the second world war, though they were informed by music from before it, and both prized the ability to improvise, and technical excellence. Both are musics that involved playing *fast*, in an ensemble, and being able to respond quickly to the other musicians. Both musics were also intensely rhythmic, a response to a faster paced, more stressful world. They were both part of the general change in the arts towards immediacy that we looked at in the last episode with the creation first of expressionism and then of pop art. Bluegrass didn't go into the harmonic explorations that modern jazz did, but it was absolutely as modern as anything Charlie Parker was doing, and came from the same impulses. It was tradition and innovation, the past and the future simultaneously. Bill Monroe, Jackson Pollock, Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac, and Lenny Bruce were all in their own ways responding to the same cultural moment, and it was that which Garcia was responding to. But he didn't become able to play bluegrass until after a tragedy which shaped his life even more than his father's death had. Garcia had been to a party and was in a car with his friends Lee Adams, Paul Speegle, and Alan Trist. Adams was driving at ninety miles an hour when they hit a tight curve and crashed. Garcia, Adams, and Trist were all severely injured but survived. Speegle died. So it goes. This tragedy changed Garcia's attitudes totally. Of all his friends, Speegle was the one who was most serious about his art, and who treated it as something to work on. Garcia had always been someone who fundamentally didn't want to work or take any responsibility for anything. And he remained that way -- except for his music. Speegle's death changed Garcia's attitude to that, totally. If his friend wasn't going to be able to practice his own art any more, Garcia would practice his, in tribute to him. He resolved to become a virtuoso on guitar and banjo. His girlfriend of the time later said “I don't know if you've spent time with someone rehearsing ‘Foggy Mountain Breakdown' on a banjo for eight hours, but Jerry practiced endlessly. He really wanted to excel and be the best. He had tremendous personal ambition in the musical arena, and he wanted to master whatever he set out to explore. Then he would set another sight for himself. And practice another eight hours a day of new licks.” But of course, you can't make ensemble music on your own: [Excerpt: Jerry Garcia and Bob Hunter, "Oh Mary Don't You Weep" (including end)] "Evelyn said, “What is it called when a person needs a … person … when you want to be touched and the … two are like one thing and there isn't anything else at all anywhere?” Alicia, who had read books, thought about it. “Love,” she said at length." That's from More Than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon, a book I'll be quoting a few more times as the story goes on. Robert Hunter, like Garcia, was just out of the military -- in his case, the National Guard -- and he came into Garcia's life just after Paul Speegle had left it. Garcia and Alan Trist met Hunter ten days after the accident, and the three men started hanging out together, Trist and Hunter writing while Garcia played music. Garcia and Hunter both bonded over their shared love for the beats, and for traditional music, and the two formed a duo, Bob and Jerry, which performed together a handful of times. They started playing together, in fact, after Hunter picked up a guitar and started playing a song and halfway through Garcia took it off him and finished the song himself. The two of them learned songs from the Harry Smith Anthology -- Garcia was completely apolitical, and only once voted in his life, for Lyndon Johnson in 1964 to keep Goldwater out, and regretted even doing that, and so he didn't learn any of the more political material people like Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs, and Bob Dylan were doing at the time -- but their duo only lasted a short time because Hunter wasn't an especially good guitarist. Hunter would, though, continue to jam with Garcia and other friends, sometimes playing mandolin, while Garcia played solo gigs and with other musicians as well, playing and moving round the Bay Area and performing with whoever he could: [Excerpt: Jerry Garcia, "Railroad Bill"] "Bleshing, that was Janie's word. She said Baby told it to her. She said it meant everyone all together being something, even if they all did different things. Two arms, two legs, one body, one head, all working together, although a head can't walk and arms can't think. Lone said maybe it was a mixture of “blending” and “meshing,” but I don't think he believed that himself. It was a lot more than that." That's from More Than Human In 1961, Garcia and Hunter met another young musician, but one who was interested in a very different type of music. Phil Lesh was a serious student of modern classical music, a classically-trained violinist and trumpeter whose interest was solidly in the experimental and whose attitude can be summed up by a story that's always told about him meeting his close friend Tom Constanten for the first time. Lesh had been talking with someone about serialism, and Constanten had interrupted, saying "Music stopped being created in 1750 but it started again in 1950". Lesh just stuck out his hand, recognising a kindred spirit. Lesh and Constanten were both students of Luciano Berio, the experimental composer who created compositions for magnetic tape: [Excerpt: Luciano Berio, "Momenti"] Berio had been one of the founders of the Studio di fonologia musicale di Radio Milano, a studio for producing contemporary electronic music where John Cage had worked for a time, and he had also worked with the electronic music pioneer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Lesh would later remember being very impressed when Berio brought a tape into the classroom -- the actual multitrack tape for Stockhausen's revolutionary piece Gesang Der Juenglinge: [Excerpt: Karlheinz Stockhausen, "Gesang Der Juenglinge"] Lesh at first had been distrustful of Garcia -- Garcia was charismatic and had followers, and Lesh never liked people like that. But he was impressed by Garcia's playing, and soon realised that the two men, despite their very different musical interests, had a lot in common. Lesh was interested in the technology of music as well as in performing and composing it, and so when he wasn't studying he helped out by engineering at the university's radio station. Lesh was impressed by Garcia's playing, and suggested to the presenter of the station's folk show, the Midnight Special, that Garcia be a guest. Garcia was so good that he ended up getting an entire solo show to himself, where normally the show would feature multiple acts. Lesh and Constanten soon moved away from the Bay Area to Las Vegas, but both would be back -- in Constanten's case he would form an experimental group in San Francisco with their fellow student Steve Reich, and that group (though not with Constanten performing) would later premiere Terry Riley's In C, a piece influenced by La Monte Young and often considered one of the great masterpieces of minimalist music. By early 1962 Garcia and Hunter had formed a bluegrass band, with Garcia on guitar and banjo and Hunter on mandolin, and a rotating cast of other musicians including Ken Frankel, who played banjo and fiddle. They performed under different names, including the Tub Thumpers, the Hart Valley Drifters, and the Sleepy Valley Hog Stompers, and played a mixture of bluegrass and old-time music -- and were very careful about the distinction: [Excerpt: The Hart Valley Drifters, "Cripple Creek"] In 1993, the Republican political activist John Perry Barlow was invited to talk to the CIA about the possibilities open to them with what was then called the Information Superhighway. He later wrote, in part "They told me they'd brought Steve Jobs in a few weeks before to indoctrinate them in modern information management. And they were delighted when I returned later, bringing with me a platoon of Internet gurus, including Esther Dyson, Mitch Kapor, Tony Rutkowski, and Vint Cerf. They sealed us into an electronically impenetrable room to discuss the radical possibility that a good first step in lifting their blackout would be for the CIA to put up a Web site... We told them that information exchange was a barter system, and that to receive, one must also be willing to share. This was an alien notion to them. They weren't even willing to share information among themselves, much less the world." 1962 brought a new experience for Robert Hunter. Hunter had been recruited into taking part in psychological tests at Stanford University, which in the sixties and seventies was one of the preeminent universities for psychological experiments. As part of this, Hunter was given $140 to attend the VA hospital (where a janitor named Ken Kesey, who had himself taken part in a similar set of experiments a couple of years earlier, worked a day job while he was working on his first novel) for four weeks on the run, and take different psychedelic drugs each time, starting with LSD, so his reactions could be observed. (It was later revealed that these experiments were part of a CIA project called MKUltra, designed to investigate the possibility of using psychedelic drugs for mind control, blackmail, and torture. Hunter was quite lucky in that he was told what was going to happen to him and paid for his time. Other subjects included the unlucky customers of brothels the CIA set up as fronts -- they dosed the customers' drinks and observed them through two-way mirrors. Some of their experimental subjects died by suicide as a result of their experiences. So it goes. ) Hunter was interested in taking LSD after reading Aldous Huxley's writings about psychedelic substances, and he brought his typewriter along to the experiment. During the first test, he wrote a six-page text, a short excerpt from which is now widely quoted, reading in part "Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist ... and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell-like (must I take you by the hand, ever so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resounding bells" Hunter's experience led to everyone in their social circle wanting to try LSD, and soon they'd all come to the same conclusion -- this was something special. But Garcia needed money -- he'd got his girlfriend pregnant, and they'd married (this would be the first of several marriages in Garcia's life, and I won't be covering them all -- at Garcia's funeral, his second wife, Carolyn, said Garcia always called her the love of his life, and his first wife and his early-sixties girlfriend who he proposed to again in the nineties both simultaneously said "He said that to me!"). So he started teaching guitar at a music shop in Palo Alto. Hunter had no time for Garcia's incipient domesticity and thought that his wife was trying to make him live a conventional life, and the two drifted apart somewhat, though they'd still play together occasionally. Through working at the music store, Garcia got to know the manager, Troy Weidenheimer, who had a rock and roll band called the Zodiacs. Garcia joined the band on bass, despite that not being his instrument. He later said "Troy was a lot of fun, but I wasn't good enough a musician then to have been able to deal with it. I was out of my idiom, really, 'cause when I played with Troy I was playing electric bass, you know. I never was a good bass player. Sometimes I was playing in the wrong key and didn't even [fuckin'] know it. I couldn't hear that low, after playing banjo, you know, and going to electric...But Troy taught me the principle of, hey, you know, just stomp your foot and get on it. He was great. A great one for the instant arrangement, you know. And he was also fearless for that thing of get your friends to do it." Garcia's tenure in the Zodiacs didn't last long, nor did this experiment with rock and roll, but two other members of the Zodiacs will be notable later in the story -- the harmonica player, an old friend of Garcia's named Ron McKernan, who would soon gain the nickname Pig Pen after the Peanuts character, and the drummer, Bill Kreutzmann: [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, "Drums/Space (Skull & Bones version)"] Kreutzmann said of the Zodiacs "Jerry was the hired bass player and I was the hired drummer. I only remember playing that one gig with them, but I was in way over my head. I always did that. I always played things that were really hard and it didn't matter. I just went for it." Garcia and Kreutzmann didn't really get to know each other then, but Garcia did get to know someone else who would soon be very important in his life. Bob Weir was from a very different background than Garcia, though both had the shared experience of long bouts of chronic illness as children. He had grown up in a very wealthy family, and had always been well-liked, but he was what we would now call neurodivergent -- reading books about the band he talks about being dyslexic but clearly has other undiagnosed neurodivergences, which often go along with dyslexia -- and as a result he was deemed to have behavioural problems which led to him getting expelled from pre-school and kicked out of the cub scouts. He was never academically gifted, thanks to his dyslexia, but he was always enthusiastic about music -- to a fault. He learned to play boogie piano but played so loudly and so often his parents sold the piano. He had a trumpet, but the neighbours complained about him playing it outside. Finally he switched to the guitar, an instrument with which it is of course impossible to make too loud a noise. The first song he learned was the Kingston Trio's version of an old sea shanty, "The Wreck of the John B": [Excerpt: The Kingston Trio, "The Wreck of the John B"] He was sent off to a private school in Colorado for teenagers with behavioural issues, and there he met the boy who would become his lifelong friend, John Perry Barlow. Unfortunately the two troublemakers got on with each other *so* well that after their first year they were told that it was too disruptive having both of them at the school, and only one could stay there the next year. Barlow stayed and Weir moved back to the Bay Area. By this point, Weir was getting more interested in folk music that went beyond the commercial folk of the Kingston Trio. As he said later "There was something in there that was ringing my bells. What I had grown up thinking of as hillbilly music, it started to have some depth for me, and I could start to hear the music in it. Suddenly, it wasn't just a bunch of ignorant hillbillies playing what they could. There was some depth and expertise and stuff like that to aspire to.” He moved from school to school but one thing that stayed with him was his love of playing guitar, and he started taking lessons from Troy Weidenheimer, but he got most of his education going to folk clubs and hootenannies. He regularly went to the Tangent, a club where Garcia played, but Garcia's bluegrass banjo playing was far too rigorous for a free spirit like Weir to emulate, and instead he started trying to copy one of the guitarists who was a regular there, Jorma Kaukonnen. On New Year's Eve 1963 Weir was out walking with his friends Bob Matthews and Rich Macauley, and they passed the music shop where Garcia was a teacher, and heard him playing his banjo. They knocked and asked if they could come in -- they all knew Garcia a little, and Bob Matthews was one of his students, having become interested in playing banjo after hearing the theme tune to the Beverly Hillbillies, played by the bluegrass greats Flatt and Scruggs: [Excerpt: Flatt and Scruggs, "The Beverly Hillbillies"] Garcia at first told these kids, several years younger than him, that they couldn't come in -- he was waiting for his students to show up. But Weir said “Jerry, listen, it's seven-thirty on New Year's Eve, and I don't think you're going to be seeing your students tonight.” Garcia realised the wisdom of this, and invited the teenagers in to jam with him. At the time, there was a bit of a renaissance in jug bands, as we talked about back in the episode on the Lovin' Spoonful. This was a form of music that had grown up in the 1920s, and was similar and related to skiffle and coffee-pot bands -- jug bands would tend to have a mixture of portable string instruments like guitars and banjos, harmonicas, and people using improvised instruments, particularly blowing into a jug. The most popular of these bands had been Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, led by banjo player Gus Cannon and with harmonica player Noah Lewis: [Excerpt: Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, "Viola Lee Blues"] With the folk revival, Cannon's work had become well-known again. The Rooftop Singers, a Kingston Trio style folk group, had had a hit with his song "Walk Right In" in 1963, and as a result of that success Cannon had even signed a record contract with Stax -- Stax's first album ever, a month before Booker T and the MGs' first album, was in fact the eighty-year-old Cannon playing his banjo and singing his old songs. The rediscovery of Cannon had started a craze for jug bands, and the most popular of the new jug bands was Jim Kweskin's Jug Band, which did a mixture of old songs like "You're a Viper" and more recent material redone in the old style. Weir, Matthews, and Macauley had been to see the Kweskin band the night before, and had been very impressed, especially by their singer Maria D'Amato -- who would later marry her bandmate Geoff Muldaur and take his name -- and her performance of Leiber and Stoller's "I'm a Woman": [Excerpt: Jim Kweskin's Jug Band, "I'm a Woman"] Matthews suggested that they form their own jug band, and Garcia eagerly agreed -- though Matthews found himself rapidly moving from banjo to washboard to kazoo to second kazoo before realising he was surplus to requirements. Robert Hunter was similarly an early member but claimed he "didn't have the embouchure" to play the jug, and was soon also out. He moved to LA and started studying Scientology -- later claiming that he wanted science-fictional magic powers, which L. Ron Hubbard's new religion certainly offered. The group took the name Mother McRee's Uptown Jug Champions -- apparently they varied the spelling every time they played -- and had a rotating membership that at one time or another included about twenty different people, but tended always to have Garcia on banjo, Weir on jug and later guitar, and Garcia's friend Pig Pen on harmonica: [Excerpt: Mother McRee's Uptown Jug Champions, "On the Road Again"] The group played quite regularly in early 1964, but Garcia's first love was still bluegrass, and he was trying to build an audience with his bluegrass band, The Black Mountain Boys. But bluegrass was very unpopular in the Bay Area, where it was simultaneously thought of as unsophisticated -- as "hillbilly music" -- and as elitist, because it required actual instrumental ability, which wasn't in any great supply in the amateur folk scene. But instrumental ability was something Garcia definitely had, as at this point he was still practising eight hours a day, every day, and it shows on the recordings of the Black Mountain Boys: [Excerpt: The Black Mountain Boys, "Rosa Lee McFall"] By the summer, Bob Weir was also working at the music shop, and so Garcia let Weir take over his students while he and the Black Mountain Boys' guitarist Sandy Rothman went on a road trip to see as many bluegrass musicians as they could and to audition for Bill Monroe himself. As it happened, Garcia found himself too shy to audition for Monroe, but Rothman later ended up playing with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. On his return to the Bay Area, Garcia resumed playing with the Uptown Jug Champions, but Pig Pen started pestering him to do something different. While both men had overlapping tastes in music and a love for the blues, Garcia's tastes had always been towards the country end of the spectrum while Pig Pen's were towards R&B. And while the Uptown Jug Champions were all a bit disdainful of the Beatles at first -- apart from Bob Weir, the youngest of the group, who thought they were interesting -- Pig Pen had become enamoured of another British band who were just starting to make it big: [Excerpt: The Rolling Stones, "Not Fade Away"] 29) Garcia liked the first Rolling Stones album too, and he eventually took Pig Pen's point -- the stuff that the Rolling Stones were doing, covers of Slim Harpo and Buddy Holly, was not a million miles away from the material they were doing as Mother McRee's Uptown Jug Champions. Pig Pen could play a little electric organ, Bob had been fooling around with the electric guitars in the music shop. Why not give it a go? The stuff bands like the Rolling Stones were doing wasn't that different from the electric blues that Pig Pen liked, and they'd all seen A Hard Day's Night -- they could carry on playing with banjos, jugs, and kazoos and have the respect of a handful of folkies, or they could get electric instruments and potentially have screaming girls and millions of dollars, while playing the same songs. This was a convincing argument, especially when Dana Morgan Jr, the son of the owner of the music shop, told them they could have free electric instruments if they let him join on bass. Morgan wasn't that great on bass, but what the hell, free instruments. Pig Pen had the best voice and stage presence, so he became the frontman of the new group, singing most of the leads, though Jerry and Bob would both sing a few songs, and playing harmonica and organ. Weir was on rhythm guitar, and Garcia was the lead guitarist and obvious leader of the group. They just needed a drummer, and handily Bill Kreutzmann, who had played with Garcia and Pig Pen in the Zodiacs, was also now teaching music at the music shop. Not only that, but about three weeks before they decided to go electric, Kreutzmann had seen the Uptown Jug Champions performing and been astonished by Garcia's musicianship and charisma, and said to himself "Man, I'm gonna follow that guy forever!" The new group named themselves the Warlocks, and started rehearsing in earnest. Around this time, Garcia also finally managed to get some of the LSD that his friend Robert Hunter had been so enthusiastic about three years earlier, and it was a life-changing experience for him. In particular, he credited LSD with making him comfortable being a less disciplined player -- as a bluegrass player he'd had to be frighteningly precise, but now he was playing rock and needed to loosen up. A few days after taking LSD for the first time, Garcia also heard some of Bob Dylan's new material, and realised that the folk singer he'd had little time for with his preachy politics was now making electric music that owed a lot more to the Beat culture Garcia considered himself part of: [Excerpt: Bob Dylan, "Subterranean Homesick Blues"] Another person who was hugely affected by hearing that was Phil Lesh, who later said "I couldn't believe that was Bob Dylan on AM radio, with an electric band. It changed my whole consciousness: if something like that could happen, the sky was the limit." Up to that point, Lesh had been focused entirely on his avant-garde music, working with friends like Steve Reich to push music forward, inspired by people like John Cage and La Monte Young, but now he realised there was music of value in the rock world. He'd quickly started going to rock gigs, seeing the Rolling Stones and the Byrds, and then he took acid and went to see his friend Garcia's new electric band play their third ever gig. He was blown away, and very quickly it was decided that Lesh would be the group's new bass player -- though everyone involved tells a different story as to who made the decision and how it came about, and accounts also vary as to whether Dana Morgan took his sacking gracefully and let his erstwhile bandmates keep their instruments, or whether they had to scrounge up some new ones. Lesh had never played bass before, but he was a talented multi-instrumentalist with a deep understanding of music and an ability to compose and improvise, and the repertoire the Warlocks were playing in the early days was mostly three-chord material that doesn't take much rehearsal -- though it was apparently beyond the abilities of poor Dana Morgan, who apparently had to be told note-by-note what to play by Garcia, and learn it by rote. Garcia told Lesh what notes the strings of a bass were tuned to, told him to borrow a guitar and practice, and within two weeks he was on stage with the Warlocks: [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, “Grayfolded"] In September 1995, just weeks after Jerry Garcia's death, an article was published in Mute magazine identifying a cultural trend that had shaped the nineties, and would as it turned out shape at least the next thirty years. It's titled "The Californian Ideology", though it may be better titled "The Bay Area Ideology", and it identifies a worldview that had grown up in Silicon Valley, based around the ideas of the hippie movement, of right-wing libertarianism, of science fiction authors, and of Marshall McLuhan. It starts "There is an emerging global orthodoxy concerning the relation between society, technology and politics. We have called this orthodoxy `the Californian Ideology' in honour of the state where it originated. By naturalising and giving a technological proof to a libertarian political philosophy, and therefore foreclosing on alternative futures, the Californian Ideologues are able to assert that social and political debates about the future have now become meaningless. The California Ideology is a mix of cybernetics, free market economics, and counter-culture libertarianism and is promulgated by magazines such as WIRED and MONDO 2000 and preached in the books of Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly and others. The new faith has been embraced by computer nerds, slacker students, 30-something capitalists, hip academics, futurist bureaucrats and even the President of the USA himself. As usual, Europeans have not been slow to copy the latest fashion from America. While a recent EU report recommended adopting the Californian free enterprise model to build the 'infobahn', cutting-edge artists and academics have been championing the 'post-human' philosophy developed by the West Coast's Extropian cult. With no obvious opponents, the global dominance of the Californian ideology appears to be complete." [Excerpt: Grayfolded] The Warlocks' first gig with Phil Lesh on bass was on June the 18th 1965, at a club called Frenchy's with a teenage clientele. Lesh thought his playing had been wooden and it wasn't a good gig, and apparently the management of Frenchy's agreed -- they were meant to play a second night there, but turned up to be told they'd been replaced by a band with an accordion and clarinet. But by September the group had managed to get themselves a residency at a small bar named the In Room, and playing there every night made them cohere. They were at this point playing the kind of sets that bar bands everywhere play to this day, though at the time the songs they were playing, like "Gloria" by Them and "In the Midnight Hour", were the most contemporary of hits. Another song that they introduced into their repertoire was "Do You Believe in Magic" by the Lovin' Spoonful, another band which had grown up out of former jug band musicians. As well as playing their own sets, they were also the house band at The In Room and as such had to back various touring artists who were the headline acts. The first act they had to back up was Cornell Gunter's version of the Coasters. Gunter had brought his own guitarist along as musical director, and for the first show Weir sat in the audience watching the show and learning the parts, staring intently at this musical director's playing. After seeing that, Weir's playing was changed, because he also picked up how the guitarist was guiding the band while playing, the small cues that a musical director will use to steer the musicians in the right direction. Weir started doing these things himself when he was singing lead -- Pig Pen was the frontman but everyone except Bill sang sometimes -- and the group soon found that rather than Garcia being the sole leader, now whoever was the lead singer for the song was the de facto conductor as well. By this point, the Bay Area was getting almost overrun with people forming electric guitar bands, as every major urban area in America was. Some of the bands were even having hits already -- We Five had had a number three hit with "You Were On My Mind", a song which had originally been performed by the folk duo Ian and Sylvia: [Excerpt: We Five, "You Were On My Mind"] Although the band that was most highly regarded on the scene, the Charlatans, was having problems with the various record companies they tried to get signed to, and didn't end up making a record until 1969. If tracks like "Number One" had been released in 1965 when they were recorded, the history of the San Francisco music scene may have taken a very different turn: [Excerpt: The Charlatans, "Number One"] Bands like Jefferson Airplane, the Great Society, and Big Brother and the Holding Company were also forming, and Autumn Records was having a run of success with records by the Beau Brummels, whose records were produced by Autumn's in-house A&R man, Sly Stone: [Excerpt: The Beau Brummels, "Laugh Laugh"] The Warlocks were somewhat cut off from this, playing in a dive bar whose clientele was mostly depressed alcoholics. But the fact that they were playing every night for an audience that didn't care much gave them freedom, and they used that freedom to improvise. Both Lesh and Garcia were big fans of John Coltrane, and they started to take lessons from his style of playing. When the group played "Gloria" or "Midnight Hour" or whatever, they started to extend the songs and give themselves long instrumental passages for soloing. Garcia's playing wasn't influenced *harmonically* by Coltrane -- in fact Garcia was always a rather harmonically simple player. He'd tend to play lead lines either in Mixolydian mode, which is one of the most standard modes in rock, pop, blues, and jazz, or he'd play the notes of the chord that was being played, so if the band were playing a G chord his lead would emphasise the notes G, B, and D. But what he was influenced by was Coltrane's tendency to improvise in long, complex, phrases that made up a single thought -- Coltrane was thinking musically in paragraphs, rather than sentences, and Garcia started to try the same kind of th

In this episode, Erik Jampa discusses the notion of ecological 'recovery,' and the ways that stories can draw us deeper into enchantment or deeper into delusion. With reference to J.R.R. Tolkien's seminal essay 'On Fairy-Stories,' Erik talks about the three functions of 'fairy-stories' - Recovery, Escape, and Consolation - and how the process of enchantment can help us recover a sense of what it means to be human in a more-than-human world.Please visit https://www.unseen-beings.com to pre-order your copy of Unseen Beings: How We Forgot the World is More Than Human, coming out May 30th. 

In 2022, Heather left her job as a Program Manager at a non-profit and began a journey to disentangle herself from the deeply embedded norms of living in a capitalist society. From reclaiming her own ancestral wisdom to reconnecting with the More Than Human world in a profound way, Heather's path has led her to Forest Therapy and to a different way of relating to herself and to work. Resources Shared in this Episode: *Heather's website: https://www.rosecedarforesttherapy.com/ *Summer Solstice Retreat: https://awildnewwork.com/summer-retreat *The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, by the Incite! Collective: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-revolution-will-not-be-funded-beyond-the-non-profit-industrial-complex-incite-women-of-color-against-incite/10929860?ean=9780822369004 *Weaving Earth: https://weavingearth.org/ *Association of Nature and Forest Therapy: https://www.natureandforesttherapy.org/ If you enjoyed this episode, please help get it to others by subscribing, rating the show, or sharing it with a friend!

In this short introduction to the Unseen Beings podcast, author Erik Jampa Andersson talks about his upcoming book, Unseen Beings: How We Forgot the World is More Than Human, and some of the ways that our human-centred worldview has blinded us to the fundamental root causes of our climate crisis. Episodes will be coming this Spring, so please subscribe and stay tuned for a new kind of 'environmental' conversation. Join us as we venture into the wondrous and perilous domain of the more-than-human world. 

I know we say this all the time around Doomer Optimism, but this time we really have a special episode. Brought live from Colombia, host Steven Morris (@lifesmyth) interviews Joe Brewer (@cognitivepolicy) about the Earth Regenerators community and the work they're doing in Colombia. Jason Snyder (@cognazor) also joins them. Gear up for an optimism-heavy episode. About Joe Brewer Joe Brewer has separate bachelors degrees in physics, mathematics, and interdisciplinary studies and a masters in atmospheric sciences. He is a complexity researcher, innovation strategist, experience designer, and serial social entrepreneur who brings a wealth of expertise to the adoption of sustainable solutions at the cultural scale. His experiences as a social entrepreneur and cross-disciplinary scholar weave together a combination of skills dedicated to open collaboration, interactive design, and empowered civic action for catalyzing change toward greater resilience in our turbulent world. More recently, he has moved to Colombia and is engaged in regenerating an area of dry desert with the aim of returning it to flourishing biodiversity. He has written The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth and established Earth Regenerators, a community, a study group and a place to share ideas that will bring us closer to a prosocial world, focussed on bioregions where the human and More-Than-Human worlds integrate, where we organise with direct local democracy, create a steady state economy, based on shared values and not on growth, and where we predicate our actions on trusting the good intentions of others. About Steven Morris Steven Morris started his journey into then unnamed realm of Doomer Optimism in 2011 when, during the time of a divorce, he stumbled upon 3 of the many early doomer optimist voices: Chris Martenson's Crash Course, John Michael Greer's blog The Archdruid Report, and KMO's C-Realm podcast. These 3 identified the many issues of decline in the world that he could sense but didn't have words for. At the same time they all provided positive possibilities for the future. Steven considers himself an amateur Renaissance Man and Polymath of sorts with a wide variety of interests including: appropriate use of technology, regenerative systems, explorations in consciousness, alternative (sometimes called complementary) currency systems, computer technology, and complex systems. He has worked on multiple award winning independent films, managed warehouse logistics for a small business, run a college radio station and lead ecstatic dance workshops. He is a trained Host for Nora Bateson's People Need People gatherings. He currently generates income from running the audio visual technology behind corporate events and is working with the Commons Engine as the video editor for their upcoming Currency Design for Change Agents master class to be launched this spring. Steven is committed to supporting people find their way through the rapidly changing chaos, especially those who don't see themselves as homesteaders. About Jason Snyder Metamodern localist | homesteading, permaculture, bioregional regeneration | meditation, self inquiry, embodied cognition | PhD from Michigan State University, faculty Appalachian State University.

  The Huntress Podcast is back to discuss a prison break, tranquilizing a lover, a taking on a More Than Human like foe.  In Wonder Woman back up 279, Helena Wayne is taking prisoners...before they take her.  Tune in, please.    www.thehuntresspodcast.com 

Nick Beem, co-founder of Grateful Yoga, talks with J about the implications of yoga as ritual vs technology. They discuss the contrasts between Nicks training in Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy and ParaYoga, why framing yoga as a set of tools for self improvement is lacking, becoming fatigued by intellectual gyrations, intention empowering practice more than some universal metaphysics, recognizing our animistic ancestry and a More Than Human world, and learning to ride the slippery edge where doing and surrender blend together.   To subscribe and support the show… GET PREMIUM.   Check out J's other podcast… J. BROWN YOGA THOUGHTS.  

T and I get to know the person behind More Than Human, a paranormal book. Heather also tells us a little about being a witch and how many different types there are (spoiler its a lot). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thebceshow/message

Joe Brewer has separate bachelors degrees in physics, mathematics, and interdisciplinary studies and a masters in atmospheric sciences. He is a complexity researcher, innovation strategist, experience designer, and serial social entrepreneur who brings a wealth of expertise to the adoption of sustainable solutions at the cultural scale. Among his notable achievements are the creation of an undergraduate degree program in Earth Systems, Environment and Society at the University of Illinois and design of new collaboration protocols for strategic communications among European NGO's with WWF-UK and Oxfam, in the UK. He was an active member of the Center for Complex Systems Research from 2001 to 2005, where he studied pattern formation in self-organizing systems. He was a research fellow at the Rockridge Institute in 2007-08 analyzing political discourse in the United States. He contracted with the International Centre for Earth Simulation in Geneva in 2010-11 to help build a globally-focused high performance computing facility dedicated to holistic simulations of the dynamic Earth. His experiences as a social entrepreneur and cross-disciplinary scholar weave together a combination of skills dedicated to open collaboration, interactive design, and empowered civic action for catalyzing change toward greater resilience in our turbulent world.More recently, he has moved to Colombia and is engaged in regenerating an area of dry desert with the aim of returning it to flourishing biodiversity. He has written The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth and established Earth Regenerators, a community, a study group and a place to share ideas that will bring us closer to a prosocial world, focussed on bioregions where the human and More-Than-Human worlds integrate, where we organise with direct local democracy, create a steady state economy, based on shared values and not on growth, and where we predicate our actions on trusting the good intentions of others. In this deep, penetrating conversation, full of radical honesty, we discuss the end of the holocene and its implications, explore the age of the anthropocene and what may come of it, and how all of us can become earth regenerators - what it means, and how it might work.  Joe outlines the processes of his 8 week course and his new GoFundMe project to birth a bioregion. Joe's Book: https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-design-pathway-for-regenerating-earth/

Luke tells Juliane the order she should read the three parts of More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon to best enjoy it. Discuss this book at Goodreads.com Support Luke and Juliane financially via Patreon.com/lukeburrage Follow Luke on twitter: https://twitter.com/lukeburrage Luke writes his own novels, like “Minding Tomorrow”, “Combat”, “Get that rat off my face!” and […]

God made us to be conquerors and overcomers. How do we get there? We must bring our flesh - which is governed by our soul - into alignment with the Holy Spirit. When we pursue the Kingdom of God and His righteousness we can then walk in the rights and privileges of a citizen of His kingdom. When we fail to pursue the Kingdom of God we become weak and live defeated lives. This message is part 6 of the series, Discovering The Kingdom. It is subtitled - More Than Human.

God made us to be conquerors and overcomers. How do we get there? We must bring our flesh - which is governed by our soul - into alignment with the Holy Spirit. When we pursue the Kingdom of God and His righteousness we can then walk in the rights and privileges of a citizen of His kingdom. When we fail to pursue the Kingdom of God we become weak and live defeated lives. This message is part 6 of the series, Discovering The Kingdom. It is subtitled - More Than Human.

God made us to be conquerors and overcomers. How do we get there? We must bring our flesh - which is governed by our soul - into alignment with the Holy Spirit. When we pursue the Kingdom of God and His righteousness we can then walk in the rights and privileges of a citizen of His kingdom. When we fail to pursue the Kingdom of God we become weak and live defeated lives. This message is part 6 of the series, Discovering The Kingdom. It is subtitled - More Than Human.

John Pullum is an entertainer, motivational speaker, magician, and former host of several tv shows on the Discovery Channel such as “More Than Human”. John's whole mission in life is to make the world a happier place and boy does he do that. We talk about how he got started in magic at the age […]

When he’s not dishing out tasty tracks and remixes on the production, Paul Hamilton loves to get behind the decks to take the listener on a ride. We’re delighted to welcome him here at Bonzai Basik Beats where he is making his guest spot debut with a sublime set featuring tracks from Lostep, Black On_yx, Ormus, Haka Ozurun, Lacandon and Kandar, Rick Pier O’Neil, More Than Human, Patricio Mucchielli and some choice cuts from Paul Himself. 1º Lostep - Burma (Paul Hamilton 2020 Remix) 2º Black On:yx - Into U (Paul Hamilton Remix) 3º Ormus - Xhiandara (Paul Hamilton Remix) 4º Paul Hamilton & CaThy K - Crescent (Original Mix) 5º Hakan Ozurun - Fractured (Paul Hamilton Remix) 6º D.J. MacIntyre & Juan Ibanez - Astral Journey (Paul Hamilton & DJ Ruby Remix) 7º Lacadon & Kandar - Dumpa (Paul Hamilton Remix) 8º Rick Pier O’Neil - Chaak (Paul Hamilton Remix) 9º More Than Human - Vertigo (Paul Hamilton Remix) 10º Rick Pier O’Neil featuring Amber Long - Secret Mind (Paul Hamilton Remix) 11º Patricio Mucchielli - Lost In Casa Bamba (Paul Hamilton Remix) This show is syndicated & distributed exclusively by Syndicast. If you are a radio station interested in airing the show or would like to distribute your podcast / radio show please register here: https://syndicast.co.uk/distribution/registration

When he's not dishing out tasty tracks and remixes on the production, Paul Hamilton loves to get behind the decks to take the listener on a ride. We're delighted to welcome him here at Bonzai Basik Beats where he is making his guest spot debut with a sublime set featuring tracks from Lostep, Black On_yx, Ormus, Haka Ozurun, Lacandon and Kandar, Rick Pier O'Neil, More Than Human, Patricio Mucchielli and some choice cuts from Paul Himself. 1º Lostep - Burma (Paul Hamilton 2020 Remix) 2º Black On:yx - Into U (Paul Hamilton Remix) 3º Ormus - Xhiandara (Paul Hamilton Remix) 4º Paul Hamilton & CaThy K - Crescent (Original Mix) 5º Hakan Ozurun - Fractured (Paul Hamilton Remix) 6º D.J. MacIntyre & Juan Ibanez - Astral Journey (Paul Hamilton & DJ Ruby Remix) 7º Lacadon & Kandar - Dumpa (Paul Hamilton Remix) 8º Rick Pier O'Neil - Chaak (Paul Hamilton Remix) 9º More Than Human - Vertigo (Paul Hamilton Remix) 10º Rick Pier O'Neil featuring Amber Long - Secret Mind (Paul Hamilton Remix) 11º Patricio Mucchielli - Lost In Casa Bamba (Paul Hamilton Remix) This show is syndicated & distributed exclusively by Syndicast. If you are a radio station interested in airing the show or would like to distribute your podcast / radio show please register here: https://syndicast.co.uk/distribution/registration

「人間のためだけではない都市」とは、どのような都市なのか？今回は、京都の総合地球環境学研究所で「More Than Human」をテーマに活動をする、ドイツ出身のクリストフ・ルプレヒトさんをゲストにお迎えしました。「Multispecies cities（複数種の生物がいる都市）」、「biocultural cityscape（”里町”）」といった概念に加え、人口減少時代の日本において都市と自然の関係性をテーマに実験的なプロジェクトを行うクリストフさんの活動について、お話を伺っています。 ◉ニュースレターの登録はこちら

This week’s guest is John Pullum, a TV host host, mentalist, hypnotist, motivational speaker, marketing genius and virtual show “tech guru”. This week’s episode has John discussing all of this and more. John was the TV host of the Discovery Channel series “More Than Human“, the hypnosis / mind control expert for “Unsolved History“, the psychic expert for the “More Science of Magic“, game show host for “Thrill Rides: Put To The Test“, host of the series “Cheating Death“, as well as appearing on other national and international TV shows. I believe we are at the precipice of a sea change of how we perform magic and reach audiences. With the advent of using various virtual platforms, we need to learn and embrace technology or be left behind. As years progress, I believe this will be the “new normal” as we use this technology to reach and entertain our clients. We are no longer constrained by time and distance as we can reach any audience at any time without having to worry about arranging for travel and lodging. But reaching these audiences we must stick to the “tried and true” marketing techniques such as client testimonials which will be used to book future shows, virtual or otherwise.Over the past few month’s John has been busy moderating and co-hosting Franz Harary’s Quarantine Talk on Facebook. In this episode John talks about some of his TV appearances and also gives some incredible marketing ideas that you’ll be able to use right away. We also get into how our new world of virtual shows and ZOOM conferences can change things for the better as far as booking shows. Use ZOOM and StreamYard to your advantage when trying to land that gig. Get a paper and pencil ready because you’ll want to take notes on this one. http://www.Pullum.com Motivational Speaker Keynote John Pullum Where It All Began. Random Acts Of Kindness. Video URL: http://youtu.be/sRf04eKaDVo Motivation...https://www.Pullum.com Motivational Speaker / Motivational Entertainment Mentalist John Pullum. Do you need a motivational speaker, keynote speaker, corporat... View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize In the first part of our discussion, John shares stories about how he got on television as a show host then he goes into talking about online virtual platforms then closes out with marketing tips on getting and using testimonials. If you would like to use StreamYard and save $10 in the process, then Click Here to get your discount (and help The Magic Word Podcast, too!) Download this podcast in an MP3 file by Clicking Here and then right click to save the file. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed by Clicking Here. You can download or listen to the podcast through Stitcher by Clicking Here or through FeedPress by Clicking Here or through Tunein.com by Clicking Here or through iHeart Radio by Clicking Here..If you have a Spotify account, then you can also hear us through that app, too. You can also listen through your Amazon Alexa and Google Home devices. Remember, you can download it through the iTunes store, too. See the preview page by Clicking Here During this episode I mentioned that there will be a FREE online event coming in October called “Magicians in VR” about Magic and Virtual Reality (VR). You can visit the website at: https://uploadvr.com/vr-magic-altspace/ for more information and to register. During this event, you will see prominent figures come together to virtually “educate, entertain and inspire the immersive content creation community with relevant insights about the art of magic.”This FREE event is set to take place on Wednesday October 7 in AltspaceVR from 1:00pm PST. The event will discuss how magic can operate in virtual worlds and how the “art of storytelling, understanding audiences, and building relevant and innovative impossibilities” applies to magic in VR.The aim is to show how digital magic in a virtual world can provide a sense of disbelief just like real world magic, and not just stem from amazement at the technology behind it. The experience will also offer some perspective on the ‘live theater’ aspect of magic, and how this can be applied to VR experiences.

In this second of two episodes, practical visionary, Miki Kashtan, lays out her visions of a flourishing, generative future based on providing for the needs of all - the human and More-Than-Human world. And how to get there. More at https://accidentalgods.life

Join the Episode after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP Manny chat with Jeremy Norrie about his career and body of work. Documentaries •2020 Alien Contactee (Documentary) (co-producer) •2020 I Want to Believe (Documentary) (producer) •2020 Don't Call Me Bigfoot (Documentary) (co-producer) •2020 Cannabis v.s Cancer (associate producer) •2019 Cannabis and Your Doctor (Documentary short) (associate producer) •2019 About Cannabis and Cancer (Documentary) (associate producer) •2019 Rescue Me: A Home 4 Spot (Documentary) (associate producer) Amazon Profile ZapruderFlix http://www.amazon.com/v/ZapruderFlix Documentary Trailers Don't call me BigFoot https://youtu.be/jqZNUpeVyn4 I Want To Believe https://youtu.be/JOwYMFlodYY Social Media Links Follow us on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook @SkyIslandStorytelling @ZapruderFlix Bio Dr. Loius Turi Like the great prophet Nostradamus, Dr. Turi was born and raise in Provence France. World famous UFO's contactee and Clinical Hypnotherapist, Dr. Turi is a captivating speaker, author of many books and his profound Cosmic Wisdom continues to astonish skeptics and believers alike. He is a regular guest on George Noory, Coast To Coast am popular program. He has been featured on national television programs such as NBC's “Ancient Mysteries” series, TLC, the Discovery Channel, “Journal of the Unknown, Weird of what? with William Shatner and More Than Human” the BBC in London and in countless radio and televised programs worldwide. Dr. Turi graduated from the Royal School of Music in London and was recognized in the 2003 Marquis “Who's Who in America.” Dr. Turi counseled people from all walks of life including many celebrities such as Ivana Trump, Peter Fonda, Gary Busey, Denis Haysbert, John Gray and David Icke to name a few. He channels an ET entity named Draco and speaks of his five, incredible fifth kind UFO's experiences all over the world. Those mind boggling encounters lead Dr. Turi to rekindle the great Seer Nostradamus' prophetic visions and natural healing work. Dr. Turi teaches the mighty secrets of the Supra-conscious in time and space and its interaction with the “Cosmic Code.” Dr. Turi regularly warns the world with his undeniable well documented undeniable predictions. The FBI visited Dr. Turi Twice, following accurate Terrorists Attack Predictions. Show Stuff Join the episode after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP The Dark Horde Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-dark-horde The Dark Horde, LLC – http://www.thedarkhorde.com Twitter @DarkHorde or https://twitter.com/HordeDark Support the podcast and shop @ http://shopthedarkhorde.com UBR Truth Seekers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/216706068856746 UFO Buster Radio: https://www.facebook.com/UFOBusterRadio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com For Skype Users: bosscrawler

Join the Episode after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP Manny chat with Jeremy Norrie about his career and body of work. Documentaries •2020 Alien Contactee (Documentary) (co-producer) •2020 I Want to Believe (Documentary) (producer) •2020 Don't Call Me Bigfoot (Documentary) (co-producer) •2020 Cannabis v.s Cancer (associate producer) •2019 Cannabis and Your Doctor (Documentary short) (associate producer) •2019 About Cannabis and Cancer (Documentary) (associate producer) •2019 Rescue Me: A Home 4 Spot (Documentary) (associate producer) Amazon Profile ZapruderFlix http://www.amazon.com/v/ZapruderFlix Documentary Trailers Don't call me BigFoot https://youtu.be/jqZNUpeVyn4 I Want To Believe https://youtu.be/JOwYMFlodYY Social Media Links Follow us on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook @SkyIslandStorytelling @ZapruderFlix Bio Dr. Loius Turi Like the great prophet Nostradamus, Dr. Turi was born and raise in Provence France. World famous UFO's contactee and Clinical Hypnotherapist, Dr. Turi is a captivating speaker, author of many books and his profound Cosmic Wisdom continues to astonish skeptics and believers alike. He is a regular guest on George Noory, Coast To Coast am popular program. He has been featured on national television programs such as NBC's “Ancient Mysteries” series, TLC, the Discovery Channel, “Journal of the Unknown, Weird of what? with William Shatner and More Than Human” the BBC in London and in countless radio and televised programs worldwide. Dr. Turi graduated from the Royal School of Music in London and was recognized in the 2003 Marquis “Who's Who in America.” Dr. Turi counseled people from all walks of life including many celebrities such as Ivana Trump, Peter Fonda, Gary Busey, Denis Haysbert, John Gray and David Icke to name a few. He channels an ET entity named Draco and speaks of his five, incredible fifth kind UFO's experiences all over the world. Those mind boggling encounters lead Dr. Turi to rekindle the great Seer Nostradamus' prophetic visions and natural healing work. Dr. Turi teaches the mighty secrets of the Supra-conscious in time and space and its interaction with the “Cosmic Code.” Dr. Turi regularly warns the world with his undeniable well documented undeniable predictions. The FBI visited Dr. Turi Twice, following accurate Terrorists Attack Predictions. Show Stuff Join the episode after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP The Dark Horde Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-dark-horde The Dark Horde, LLC – http://www.thedarkhorde.com Twitter @DarkHorde or https://twitter.com/HordeDark Support the podcast and shop @ http://shopthedarkhorde.com UBR Truth Seekers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/216706068856746 UFO Buster Radio: https://www.facebook.com/UFOBusterRadio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com For Skype Users: bosscrawler

I den här bubblare så intervjuar pappa Micke illustratören Ronja Melin. Intervjun är inspelad i November 2019. Inspelnings plats är hemma hos pappa Micke. Kickstarter för Trouble Shooters hittar ni här https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/helmgast/the-troubleshooters-action-adventure-tabletop-rpg?ref=user_menu Spel som nämns: Evolutionens Barn, Järn, More Than Human, Rotsystem, Hjältarnas Tid, Ödesväktarna, Vampier The Masqurade, Ökenros, Dungeons & Dragons 5Th, Eon, Talisman, Terraforming Mars, Våra länkarHemsidahttps://mindy.nu/Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/Mindypodd.nu/Twitterhttps://twitter.com/MindyPoddYoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmOr6MyeugbWX_VnckgGkDQ?view_as=subscriberInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mindypodd/?hl=svVår Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/user?u=2776677Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/205615756115993/Youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFyJceQ4JsiUhkS04K29CrgInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/conradargo/?hl=svTwitterhttps://twitter.com/ConraDargoMickes MailMicke@mindy.nuTomas Mailconradargo@gmail.com

Ep. 354: More Than Human GUEST: Bill Protzmann World’s Leading Expert On The Power of Music Bill Protzmann’s mission is to raise awareness of the power of music as self-care. He is the world’s leading expert on the power of music for physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Bill holds magna cum laude degrees in piano performance and creative writing and has led a successful IT consulting practice for more than 30 years. In 2011, Bill launched Music Care Inc, a for-purpose corporation to teach and advocate for practical ways music can be used for your self-care. He was also recognized by the National Council for Behavioral Health with an Award of Excellence in 2014 – the industry equivalent of winning an Oscar. Author of, More Than Human -- The Value of Cultivating the Human Spirit in Your Organization. 1. Congrats on your Award of Excellence -Oscar! 2. How long u been playing piano? 3. What is opportunity “Music Care?” 4. Who can this help most? 5. What about music & Alzheimers? 6. How has music kept you alive? 7. Suicide is there a way to relieve this kind of suffering? 8. What can a compassionate person really do about suicide? 9. What are the "Practical Heart Skills? 10. How can anyone use music to get ahead in life? 11. How can that give a competitive edge individually and organizationally? 12. How can we use music more effectively in business/family/relationship/health? AND...Why would we want to do that? 13. You volunteered as a music teacher for homeless people... 14. What can we do about homelessness? 15. Tell us about your online course: "How to create and use music rites - an authentic toolkit for dealing effectively with life's challenges" 16. Your book: "More Than Human - The Value of Cultivating the Human Spirit in Your Organization"...(what is “Your human spirit and its power in your organization”) 17. Book "In Our Eyes In Our Words - Portraits from the Edge of Society" See exclusive SpirituallyRAW & SpirituallyRawUNCENSORED videos on our Patreon channel. Patreon also serves as a means to support our Great Awakening mission in an effort to wake up as many people worldwide and help them on their path to spiritual freedom, enlightenment, and global peace. https://www.patreon.com/SpirituallyRAW "Together We’ll Turn The Universal Key To Global Harmony & Create A Unified World" We love you guys, our followers, and fellow truth-seeking enthusiasts! Thanks and God bless patriots worldwide. WWG1WGA

Are you going stir crazy with the quarantine and stay at home orders? Are you feeling defeated and directionless? Zofia and Bill Protzmann discuss these questions and more. Bill shares how music quite literally saved his life. Listen in and discover how you can build your own soundtrack to change your life, manage your emotions and stay sane even under the worst conditions!

Are you going stir crazy with the quarantine and stay at home orders? Are you feeling defeated and directionless? Zofia and Bill Protzmann discuss these questions and more. Bill shares how music quite literally saved his life. Listen in and discover how you can build your own soundtrack to change your life, manage your emotions and stay sane even under the worst conditions!

Are you going stir crazy with the quarantine and stay at home orders? Are you feeling defeated and directionless? Zofia and Bill Protzmann discuss these questions and more. Bill shares how music quite literally saved his life. Listen in and discover how you can build your own soundtrack to change your life, manage your emotions and stay sane even under the worst conditions!

I veckans avsnitt av Mindy News så sitter pappa Micke, HCM Tomas och det nya tillskottet till Heders Crew Member Mindy Marcus Brissman. Dom pratar nyheter, Kickstarters och senast spelade. Sen pratar HCM Marcus om Spiel i Essen. Sen blir det som vanligt vad som väntas i pieplinen av grabbarna :D. Ljudet är inte det bästa då tekniken strula men det är ngt vi jobbar på men ber omursäkt. Hoppas ni har översende med det här :D Spel som nämns: Xia Legends of a Drift system, Star Wars Outer Rim, Dungeons And Dragons 5e, Deadlands Lost Colonys, Space 1889, Call of Cthulhu, Duelsaur Island, Joking Hazard, What do you meme?, Svärdets Sång, Mutant År noll, Coriolis, Cortex, Kutulu, Hjärnor, Sagospelet Äventyr, Dinosaur Island, 4XL, Geotia Nine Kings Of Solomon, Skie Tour, Machi Koro Legacy, die crew, welcome to..., Mystgic Vale, King Of Tokyo, Small World, Starcraft the boardgame, Takenoko, Tokaido, Hanabi, The Mind, Bridge, Cards Against Humanity, Expert Nova, Nordiska Väsen, Dinogenics, Trails of Tokana, Avenu, Armata Strigoi, Solitaier spellbook swaping, Catan, Terraforming Mars, Gloomhaven, Monopol, Expert Nova, Corilois, Minecraft, King of New York, Starfinder, Tribes, Evolutions Barn, More Than Human, Järn, Hjältarnas Tid, Trouble Shooter, Hjärnor, Wayfinders, Senast spelade - 00.00.16Spiel Essen - 01.09.29Nyheter - 01.34.54Kickstarter - 02.03.39Vad vi kommer släppa - 02.13.40 LänkarExtra liv i halmstadhttps://www.facebook.com/events/711874689293854/Mystic vale expanssionhttps://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/news/mystic-vale-nemesis-expansion-announced/King of tokyo dark editionhttps://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/News/king-of-tokyo-dark-edition-spin-off-promises-new-mechanicsAnders blixt expert nova https://gondica.wordpress.com/2019/11/01/expert-nova-the-next-step/Critical roles amazone https://geektyrant.com/news/amazon-prime-picks-up-critical-roles-dd-animated-series-the-legend-of-vox-machina-and-orders-14-additional-episodesKickstarterVaesen(Nordiska Väsen)https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1192053011/vaesen-nordic-horror-roleplayingDeadlands Lost Colonieshttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/545820095/deadlands-lost-colony Våra länkarHemsidahttps://mindy.nu/Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/Mindypodd.nu/Twitterhttps://twitter.com/MindyPoddYoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmOr6MyeugbWX_VnckgGkDQ?view_as=subscriberInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mindypodd/?hl=svVår Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/user?u=2776677Mickes MailMicke@mindy.nuTomas Mailconradargo@gmail.com Tomas LänkarFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/205615756115993/Youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFyJceQ4JsiUhkS04K29CrgInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/conradargo/?hl=svTwitterhttps://twitter.com/ConraDargo Marcus LänkFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/spelradio/Hemsidahttp://spelradio.se/page/7/?fbclid=IwAR1qsAuQbPaViCaNdAaRjAhcCSH-tcZxDOFjQJ1h1B_KWpZB8THkoP_SZbw

In this episode we talk about how the Arduino can be useful to conservators and how people are using it in museums already. Jenny talks to Dr David Mills and Mark Hellar about using the Arduino in conservation, and Christina chats to Bhav Shah about machine learning and much more. Also tune in for a Dear Jane about PhD dreams. 00:00:47 Wait, what is this? 00:12:09 Jenny goes to an Arduino workshop 00:14:38 Interview with Dr David Mills 00:19:27 Pros and cons of building it yourself 00:22:33 Why museums adopt tech 00:27:52 Interview with Mark Hellar 00:39:35 Virtual assistants 00:46:04 Interview with Bhav Shah 01:05:45 Uses for machine learning in museums 01:16:50 Are we going to be replaced by robots? 01:26:02 Dear Jane 01:28:29 Patreon shout out Show Notes: - Museum Pi episode: http://thecword.show/2017/06/21/s01e09-museum-pi/ - Difference between the Raspberry Pi and the Arduino: https://makezine.com/2015/12/04/admittedly-simplistic-guide-raspberry-pi-vs-arduino/ - Arduino official introduction: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Introduction - Arduino Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino - Go follow David on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DTL - Sensors for the Arduino: https://store.arduino.cc/components/components-sensors - Museduino: https://museduino.wordpress.com - Building a weather station for a museum: https://ingeniumcanada.org/channel/articles/project-log-1-raspberry-pi-arduino - Follow Mark on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mhellar/ - Go follow Mark on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mhellar - What Open Source means: https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-source - What virtual assistants are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_assistant - Monitoring Insects at the V&A: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/monitoring-insects-at-the-victoria-and-albert-museum/ - Go follow Bhav on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bhav_shah - AI, Machine Learning & Deep Learning Explained in 5 Mins: https://becominghuman.ai/ai-machine-learning-deep-learning-explained-in-5-minutes-b88b6ee65846 - Otter voice transcription: https://otter.ai/ - Museums Journal Trendswatch: https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/features/02092019-trendswatch-ai - More Than Human exhibition: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2019/event/ai-more-than-human - AI creating oil paintings: https://www.fastcompany.com/90167584/this-ai-paints-like-the-old-masters-can-you-tell-the-difference - Pepper the Robot at the Smithsonian: https://www.si.edu/visit/pepper - Dot the Chatbot: https://www.theformgroup.com/articles/2018/10/17/tour-akron-art-museum-with-dot-the-chatbot - IRIS+ the Chatbot: https://www.aam-us.org/2018/06/12/iris-part-one-designing-coding-a-museum-ai/ - Tate's Recognition project: http://recognition.tate.org.uk/ - Art Selfie App by Google: https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/how-to/photo-video/google-art-selfie-3683180/ - Meet Berenson, the Robot Art Critic: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/robot-art-critic-berenson-436739 - Using Pigeons to Diagnose Cancer: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-pigeons-to-diagnose-cancer/ Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thecword Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson, Kloe Rumsey, and Christina Rozeik. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2019.

*To support the show and for a Free Month of Stitcher premium go to http://stitcher.com/premium and enter promo code "blackbelts" to receive 1 month free!Today's Life's Black Belt guest is Bill ProtzmannWe talk about his early life, feeling alone and depressed at times. He says he never "fit in" to any particular group. Music was something required in his household since his mother was a piano teacher. He shares a great story from his childhood about the first time he felt his music connect to an audience and the power of that moment. A succesfull IT entrepeneur Bill always maintained a passion for music. Through his desire to helps others he studied the science behind how music can help people on every level of their life. He developed a company called "Music Care" where he teaches audiences and businesses how they can use music to help themselves and their businesses. You will hear the passion Bill has for music and it's power to positively change lives. It was a great conversation that I know will help to inspire you. In addition Bill also authored the following book you can pick up on Amazon:More Than Human: The Value of Cultivating the Human Spirit in Your OrganizationI hope you enjoy today's interview with Bill. Leave your comments, share and repost. Also learn more about Bill below and find links to his websites and social media. Background In addition to being a successful IT entrepreneur, Bill holds magna cum laude degrees in piano performance and creative writing, and has concertized and performed for many years with a focus on bringing music to audiences in non-traditional ways.In 2011, he launched Music Care Inc, a for-profit corporation dedicated to teaching practical ways music can be used for self care. His work was recognized by the National Council for Behavioral Health with an Award of Excellence in 2014 – the behavioral health equivalent of winning an Oscar.When he talks about music and self care, he speaks with gentle conviction and from real experience.Websitehttp://www.billprotzmann.comWebsite #2https://quest.musiccare.netWebsite #3http://www.practicalheartskills.comLinkedIn URLhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/billprotzmann/Facebook URLhttps://www.facebook.com/Bill-Protzmann-31362093115/Twitter URLhttps://twitter.com/BillProtzmannYouTube URLhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fg36DMzTRrcEpI3NgpQhQWatch this interview on our Life's Black Belts YouTube Channel : Listen to Life's Black Belts Podcast on....iTunes - Spotify - Stitcher - TuneIn - &

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In this segment of Inner Voice - Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan on KMET 1490 AM / ABC News Radio (Heal with Music), Dr. Foojan Zeine talks to Bill Protzmann - composer, musician, and the author of "More Than Human, the value of cultivating the human spirit in your organization". Dr. Zeine interviews Michelle Tomlinson, an actor, casting director, documentary film director and the author of "Growing up May".   Dr. Foojan also brings you the latest research on how brains work in sync during music therapy.

Episode 176: Cosmic Consciousness Dr. Turi is a natural healer, a proficient author and a captivating speaker with profound predictive wisdom that astonish everyone. in 2016, Dr. Turi was visited in two occasions by the FBI for his unarguable terrorist attacks predictions. Visit his website www.drturi.com Like the great prophet, Nostradamus, Dr. Turi was born and raised in Provence, France. He was influenced by the Seer's” 16th century Divine Astrology methodology and spent last 45 years re-kindling the great Seer's rare disciplines and all its spiritual and natural therapeutic values. Dr. Turi was recognized in the 2003 Marquis “Who”s Who in America” as an accomplished hypnotherapist, psychotherapist and formidable motivational speaker. He has taught audiences on the supra-conscious creative forced in time and space and how to use its power to heal the body, mind and soul. Dr. Turi is a 10 years cancer survivor who refused chemotherapy and healed himself and people from all walks of life using Nostradamus' natural blood transfusion. He speaks and teach of the cosmic face and celestial tools of the creator to better one's life and warns the world with undeniable well documented predictions and the dated published printing process makes the proof of his predictions totally unarguable. He was recognized in the 2003 Marquis “Who's Who in America” and has been the personal counselor of celebrities, Ivana Trump, Peter Fonda, Gary Busey, Denis Haysbert, John Gray and many others. Dr. Turi has been a favorite guest of George Noory on Coast-To-Coast AM radio and the BBC in London. In 1993 he received a metaphysical Doctorate from the Progressive Universal Life Church based in Sacramento, California. His notoriety skyrocketed after rekindling, practicing and teaching Nostradamus' natural healing and rare Divine Astrology method which he calls Astroforensic. Since 1991 Dr. Turi appeared on numerous radio and television programs worldwide. Dr. Turi spoke at Borders and Barnes & Noble bookstores nationwide, as well as at well known facilities worldwide including US popular cruise lines, Las Ventana resort in Mexico and countless of conferences world wide. Dr. Turi's predictions and articles have been featured in India and European top magazines, Star Teller. His articles have also been featured in Australia's New Dawn Magazine, UFO Encounter Magazine. His cosmic work has appeared in various newspapers, La Jolla Light, Los Angeles Times, Fate Magazine and Magazine 2000 in the Us and Europe. Recently Free Spirit Journal and Mystic Pop Magazine and UFO Enigma have picked up his articles on natural healing the Dragon and daily forecasts. He has been featured on national television programs such as NBC's “Ancient Mysteries” series, TLC, the Discovery Channel, “Journal of the Unknown, Weird of what? with William Shatner and More Than Human” to name a few.

Episode 176: Cosmic Consciousness Dr. Turi is a natural healer, a proficient author and a captivating speaker with profound predictive wisdom that astonish everyone. in 2016, Dr. Turi was visited in two occasions by the FBI for his unarguable terrorist attacks predictions. Visit his website www.drturi.com Like the great prophet, Nostradamus, Dr. Turi was born and raised in Provence, France. He was influenced by the Seer’s” 16th century Divine Astrology methodology and spent last 45 years re-kindling the great Seer’s rare disciplines and all its spiritual and natural therapeutic values. Dr. Turi was recognized in the 2003 Marquis “Who”s Who in America” as an accomplished hypnotherapist, psychotherapist and formidable motivational speaker. He has taught audiences on the supra-conscious creative forced in time and space and how to use its power to heal the body, mind and soul. Dr. Turi is a 10 years cancer survivor who refused chemotherapy and healed himself and people from all walks of life using Nostradamus’ natural blood transfusion. He speaks and teach of the cosmic face and celestial tools of the creator to better one’s life and warns the world with undeniable well documented predictions and the dated published printing process makes the proof of his predictions totally unarguable. He was recognized in the 2003 Marquis “Who’s Who in America” and has been the personal counselor of celebrities, Ivana Trump, Peter Fonda, Gary Busey, Denis Haysbert, John Gray and many others. Dr. Turi has been a favorite guest of George Noory on Coast-To-Coast AM radio and the BBC in London. In 1993 he received a metaphysical Doctorate from the Progressive Universal Life Church based in Sacramento, California. His notoriety skyrocketed after rekindling, practicing and teaching Nostradamus’ natural healing and rare Divine Astrology method which he calls Astroforensic. Since 1991 Dr. Turi appeared on numerous radio and television programs worldwide. Dr. Turi spoke at Borders and Barnes & Noble bookstores nationwide, as well as at well known facilities worldwide including US popular cruise lines, Las Ventana resort in Mexico and countless of conferences world wide. Dr. Turi’s predictions and articles have been featured in India and European top magazines, Star Teller. His articles have also been featured in Australia’s New Dawn Magazine, UFO Encounter Magazine. His cosmic work has appeared in various newspapers, La Jolla Light, Los Angeles Times, Fate Magazine and Magazine 2000 in the Us and Europe. Recently Free Spirit Journal and Mystic Pop Magazine and UFO Enigma have picked up his articles on natural healing the Dragon and daily forecasts. He has been featured on national television programs such as NBC’s “Ancient Mysteries” series, TLC, the Discovery Channel, “Journal of the Unknown, Weird of what? with William Shatner and More Than Human” to name a few. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“Thanks to public health measures and medical technologies, life expectancy in the West has more than doubled during the past century and is now approaching 80. Could it double again, and again, indefinitely into the far future, leading humans to become immortal gods? A number of techno-optimists think so.” - ‘More Than Human,' Michael Shermer If the current trends simply just continue, what will that mean for the human race? Will we become a type of cyborg-race? Man mixed with machine; partly Human and partly … something else? That is what the world was like in the days of Noah before God judged the entire earth by water through the flood, and the Lord is going to judge the entire earth again, through fire, on the last day. We are at the dawn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is characterized by, “representing new ways in which technology becomes embedded within societies and even the human body.” We are getting closer to that technology being embedded within us. If you're not upgraded by this embedded technology, you will be left behind. There will be a divide between the upgraded and the flesh only. "Once such super-humans appear, there are going to be significant political problems with the unimproved humans, who won't be able to compete. Presumably, they will die out, or become unimportant. Instead, there will be a race of self-designing beings who are improving themselves at an ever-increasing rate," Stephen Hawking Articles for consideration: ARTICLE #1: "China unveils Brain-Computer Interface chip” - Futurism https://futurism.com/the-byte/brain-computer-interfaces-brain-talker ARTICLE #2: “Upgrade Your Memory With a Surgically Implanted Chip” - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-10/upgrade-your-memory-with-a-surgically-implanted-chip ARTICLE #3: “DARPA Wants ‘Thought-Controlled Weapons' By Finding Ways To ‘Read Soldiers' Minds'” - Zerohedge https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-09/darpa-wants-thought-controlled-weapons-finding-ways-read-soldiers-minds ARTICLE #4: “Elon Musk's creepy Neuralink project that will make you a GENIUS by wiring your brain to a computer chip is ‘coming soon'” - The Sun https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/8920675/elon-musks-neuralink-coming-soon/ Follow the Zach Drew show at ZachDrewShow.com Please consider partnering with us! Visit www.zachdrewshow.com/donate/ You can also write to us at IGBY PO box 797 Decatur IL 62525

Unique Celestial Identity called U.C.I. Cosmic Consciousness Divinity, deturi.com and his sacred geometry and divine cosmos education. He shares information we share forensic astrology.  12 and numerology and all codes and Dr Turi shares how to avoid future cataclysm. information. Since 1991 Dr. Turi appeared on numerous radio and television programs worldwide. Dr. Turi has joined ACO Association and ACO Club Online. We share Anomalous Club Online with ACO American Communications Online with TJ Morris Agency, TJ Morris dba ACO, ACIR, and TJ Morris ET Radio. Dr. Turi share predictions and our Anomalous Club Online of our Ascension Center Psychic Awakening Classes and Workshops. 4-11-2019 is the beginning of ACO Anomalous Club Online. Theresa J Thurmond Morris has had many lives and is friends with Janet Kira Lessin and Dr. Turi of France and we share soul groups and past lives, present, and future. Ken Johnston Sr came on in the last 3 minutes for a quick read as a metaphysician.Dr. Turi spoke at Borders and Barnes & Noble bookstores nationwide, as well as at well known facilities worldwide including US popular cruise lines, Las Ventana resort in Mexico and countless of conferences world wide. Dr. Turi’s predictions and articles have been featured in India and European top magazines, Star Teller.His articles have also been featured in Australia’s New Dawn Magazine, UFO Encounter Magazine. His cosmic work has appeared in various newspapers, La Jolla Light, Los Angeles Times, Fate Magazine and Magazine 2000 in the Us and Europe. Recently Free Spirit Journal and Mystic Pop Magazine and UFO Enigma have picked up his articles on natural healing the Dragon and daily forecasts.He has been featured on national television programs such as NBC’s “Ancient Mysteries” series, TLC, the Discovery Channel, “Journal of the Unknown, Weird of what? with William Shatner and More Than Human” to name a few.

Tonight's edition of More Than Human is an (almost) all ambient affair. Run your bath just beforehand.

Acid. Vampires. Decontamination. Not only my Sunday afternoon but also a rough guide to the 256th edition of More Than Human.

More Than Human 255 is a mix of space sax, dub soundscapes, field recordings - odd sounds for all. Plus a special interview with King Penda of Mercia with his pagan take on Brexit...

In episode twenty-six, we wander across the ancient, frost-bitten crags sculpted on Gaetir The Mountainkeeper’s Fornjörð. We stagger through the melodic funeral doom death march of VANHA’s Melancholia and on Andromida’s More Than Human, we soar atop its illustrious, cinematic djent compositions.Continue reading

Split. The kernel for what would become Split was actually present in the versions of Unbreakable's script, but it was excised because it just didn't work together well in that movie and it would take Shyamalan sixteen years to craft the next chapter in his shared universe. In this episode of The 602 Club Matthew Rushing and Christy Morris talk about Split. We discuss our expectation, some research, the same universe, James McAvoy, more than human, Dr. Fletcher, Casey, uncomfortable humor, the cameo and our ratings. Chapters Expectations (00:03:25) Research (00:06:42) Same Universe (00:09:08) James McAvoy (00:12:43) More Than Human? (00:19:02) Dr. Fletcher (00:24:23) Casey (00:31:10) Uncomfortable Humor (00:38:34) The Cameo (00:44:36) Ratings (00:49:09) Host Matthew Rushing Co-Host Christy Morris Production Matthew Rushing (Editor and Producer) C Bryan Jones (Executive Producer) Ken Tripp (Executive Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) Richard Marquez (Production Manager) Brandon-Shea Mutala (Patreon Manager) Ken Tripp (Associate Producer) Davis Grayson (Associate Producer) Daniel Noa (Associate Producer) Ryan Maillet (Associate Producer)

There are incredible parallels between the first century church in Corinth to which Paul wrote this letter we will be studying and the church in America. First century Corinth was a very wealthy and prosperous place. America is wealthy and prosperous. But the church in Corinth was in trouble and so is the church in America. Somewhere around 8,000 churches die in the United States every year. That means 150 will die this week. Less than 20% of Americans attend church on a regular basis. Studies show that like the Corinthians, when it comes to morality, we are indistinguishable from the world. And we are paying the price. Click here to download the sermon outlineClick here to download the sermon outline Visit our webpage to learn more about us!  

Quinta sesión realizada el jueves 10 de enero de 2019 en el campus Lo Contador PUC, Santiago. Contamos con la presentación de Laura Forlano, directora del Critical Futures Lab y profesora asociada del Instituto de Diseño del Illinois Institute of Technology. Su presentación se tituló "Plans and Situated (Algorithmic) Actions: Networked Medical Devices as Sites of Feminist Technoscience or Encountering the More Than Human in the Middle of the Night". Laura abordó sobre sus más recientes trabajos que se basan en una concepción posthumanista o más-que-humana y que apuntan hacia una aproximación feminista del diseño y la tecnología. Se aprovechó la instancia para lanzar un nuevo número de la revista Diseña.

On this week's More Than Human mix some day-glo house, sneery dub, Olympic training tunes and lots more in between. Lifespice.

Sun is shining edition - a new More Than Human mix of happy house, experimental electronics, and dubby ambient. Breathing.

This time on The ApeCast, Geoff and Jack take a look at the excellent short story collection Tales From the Forbidden Zone, specifically four of the stories: Dan Abnett's Unfired, a tale of a mutant pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Nancy Collins' More Than Human, Less Than Ape, about a young Cornelius' shocking discovery in a far-off place, Bob Mayer's The Pacing Place, an alternate sequel to the first film about Taylor building a new human community, and John Jackson Miller's Murder's Row, a quirky tale of Zira and Cornelius' run-ins with TV executives in the 1970s.  Throughout these four minisodes, they'll also touch on such subjects as mutant culture and religion, the fate of Long Island on the Planet of the Apes, show business in the 1970s, the twisted relationship between John Connor and Kyle Reese, Taylor's blood type and its implications, and so much more!   Straight from the Forbidden Zone to your sweet primate ears it comes!

Over the lifespan of digital music there has been a constant desire to control the copying of the data. Various watermarking and copy-protection schemes were put in place to ensure that folks wouldn't share music. But no matter how protected the data there was always a weak link between the digital realm and the realm where you could listen to music. That was referred to as the analog hole; the moment when the digital signals become sound waves that your ears and brain perceive as music. Luckily for us in the Creative Commons realm we can still share digital copies of our favorite music. We don't have to worry about exploiting the analog hole; it's just another part in the enjoyment of our music. We've got a great collection of Creative Commons Licensed metal music lined up for you in this episode. We have music from Plague Mass, Imminent Attack, Mosh, Norilsk, Mindslaved, Desdinova, Machete, and Snake Thursday. It's a show you'll be happy didn't stay locked in the digital realm forever. (00:10) The Prisoner by PLAGUE MASS from Living Among Meat Eaters (BY-NC) (03:24) Work Buy Die by Imminent Attack from Welcome to my Funeral (BY-SA) (05:28) Esta vez by Mosh from Impune (BY-NC-SA) (09:30) Ghosts of Loss (Passage pt. I) by Norilsk from Le Passage des Glaciers (BY-NC) (14:35) Sphere by Mindslaved from The Self Paragon (BY-SA) (21:23) Marsiferum by Desdinova from Dead Space (BY-NC-SA) (26:14) My Own Way by Machete from Machete -s/t- (BY-NC-ND) (30:33) More Than Human by Snake Thursday from Iter (BY-NC-ND) Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, or head to the shows. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it! If you have any suggestions for Creative Commons licensed metal, send me a link at craig@openmetalcast.com. Open Metalcast #165 (MP3) Open Metalcast #165 (OGG)

More Than Human is back on the air with new tracks from Cortini, Steffi, two Vincents, a compilation in aid of Puerto Rico, and a celebration of ten years of Front and Follow. Just for you.

It’s collaboration week here at More Than Human - we have a new Pye Corner Audio 7” featuring Faten Kanaan, the new JLIn single with Avril Stormy Unger as well two tracks from Patricia and Cloudface; plus some re-issued library music; gig news; and even a shout out to Mark E Smith. Hey! Radio!

Welcome to the first edition of More Than Human for 2017. We’ve got Matthew in the studio and we’re not looking back but forward into the future with new tracks by You're Me, Australian Testing Labs Inc., Chino Amobi and many more; plus the gig guide and the usual inane chatter. Positivity.

On tonight’s special extended edition of More Than Human new offerings from Call Super, Roman Flugel, the 12 hour foundation, new age bliss from Jon Keliehor, an excellent new LP from Off World and lots more. And we have our very own Matthew Griffiths in the studio for the duration. Epic.

Futurist, scifi author and former Microsoft executive Ramez Naam has some definite ideas about where we are heading as a species. And it might be in a different direction than you think. Ramez was born in Cairo, Egypt, and came to the US at the age of 3. He's a computer scientist, futurist, angel investor, and award-winning author. He spent 13 years at Microsoft, where he led teams developing early versions of Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer, and the Bing search engine. His career has focused on bringing advanced collaboration, communication, and information retrieval capabilities to roughly one billion people around the world, and took him to the role of Partner and Director of Program Management within Microsoft, with deep experience leading teams working on cutting edge technologies such as machine learning, search, massive scale services, and artificial intelligence. Between stints at Microsoft, Ramez founded and ran Apex NanoTechnologies, the world's first company devoted entirely to software tools to accelerate molecular design. He holds 19 patents related to search engines, information retrieval, web browsing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Ramez is also the award-winning author of five books: Nexus, Crux, and Apex (fiction). This trilogy of philosophical science fiction thrillers look at the impact of an increasingly plausible technology that could link human minds, and the impact such a technology could have on society and on the human condition, for both good and ill. The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet (non-fiction), which looks at the environmental and natural resource challenges of climate change, energy, water, and food, and charts a course to meet those challenges by investing in the scientific and technological innovation needed to overcome them, and by changing our policies to encourage both conservation and critical innovations. More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement (non-fiction), which looks at the science of enhancing the human mind, body, and lifespan, and the effects that will have on society. Ramez was awarded the H.G. Wells Award for his work on More Than Human. Ramez lectures on energy, environment, and innovation at Singularity University. He's appeared on Sunday morning MSNBC, repeatedly on Yahoo! Finance, on China Cable Television, on BigThink, and Reuters.fm. His work has appeared in, or been reviewed by, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Slate, Business Week, Business Insider, Discover, Popular Science, Wired, and Scientific American. In his leisure, Ramez has climbed mountains, descended into icy crevasses, chased sharks through their native domain, backpacked through remote corners of China, and ridden his bicycle down hundreds of miles of the Vietnam coast. He lives in Seattle, where he writes and speaks full time.

Broadcasting live from Vancouver on unceded Musqueam territory, this is More Than Human: on tonight’s show exclusive new tracks from the forthcoming Pye Corner Audio album, Egyptian polymath inspired disco, a classic compilation from a somewhat unsung techno pioneer, and tons more. Ancient.

This is a special double-sized summer edition of More Than Human. It’s all been a bit grim lately and we thought we could do some cheering up - so on tonight’s show it’s mostly happy house music, some gentle techno and the occasional weird electronic odyssey.

A special Fundrive edition of More Than Human featuring top tunes from Moomin, Powell, Venetian Snares, D. Tiffany and many more. Plus a chance to grab test pressings of the new vinyl releases by Pye Corner Audio and Boreal Network when you donate to the CiTR 2016 Fundrive. Philanthropic.

On tonight’s stuffed edition of More Than Human top tunes from Bill Converse, French Pretzel, Cavern of Anti Matter, & Boreal Network; the usual chat about gigs and events; and even some occult experimentation. Brobdingnagian

Tonight on More Than Human it's hello to new tracks from Khotin, LNS, and Yves De Mey, goodbye to the first Danish composer of electronic music and a look at upcoming gigs. Weird and dark, happy and house-y and everything in-between.

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This is a massive special edition of More Than Human, looking back at some of our favourite tracks of 2015 including Blank Mass, Wax Stag, Shape Worship, JLin, Levon Vincent, re-issues, label showcases, and loads more to get you geared up for wintery over indulgence.

On tonight's post Hallowe'en edition of More Than Human: a scary clown, intimidating German Olympians, hotel-based horror, an Israeli mind-scan, the epically terrifying gig guide & lots more. Queasy.

English hauntology, American psuedo-ethnographical funk, Italian ambient, Australian house, Canadian introspection, and much much more. More Than Human - an international affair...

Summer Solstice edition of More Than Human featuring Robert Rich, Kate Tempest, Tim Hecker, lots of gig previews, a sad goodbye to the old CiTR studio - next week: new digs! Apotheosis.

Back from the UK with a stack of new records, More Than Human features brand new offerings from Pye Corner Audio, Blanck Mass, Umberto & Maovvi and many more all for your audio pleasure. Soaring.

Back from a break, More Than Human previews the upcoming Montreal electronic festival Mutek with strange future sounds from Neu Balance, Jonathan Sherk & Ekpolekz; plus ancient oddities from Bruce Ditams, Paki Zennaro and Gianni Visnadi; and experimental extremities from Oneohtrix Point Never and Gunner Haslam. All quite intense really.

It's the More Than Human 2015 Fundrive edition - top tunes and full-throttled pitching! Call 604 822 8648 and give some cash - Thanks!

First edition of More Than Human for 2015 and we're off to a cracking start with a new Caribou remix by Carl Craig, some 1080p exclusives, gig guide, the overuse of the word 'fantastic' and even some 1970's Open University sounds. Fantastic.

A very messy More Than Human this week but blessed with mighty tunes from Andy Stott, Vladislav Delay, Akkord and Loscil. Plus me moaning about moving house. Transitory.

A very unsettling Halloween edition of More Than Human with new cuts from Kemper Norton, Bing & Ruth and The Passenger; horror treats from John Carpenter, Giuliano Sorgini, library madness from Don Harper and much more. Spoilers: the studio car gets away again...

Dark, cerebral, and downtempo Thanksgiving edition of More Than Human. Common Vernacular guest hosts. Tunes from Phil Western, Phantom Head Trip, Flying Lotus and more.

A bonus beat edition of More Than Human on a Thursday afternoon - same treats, different time slot: Aphex, T.E.W., Lee Gamble, Sinoia Caves, Morton Subotnick. Teatime.

Anything exciting or interesting on this week's More Than Human can be put down to the presence of a visiting studio engineer form Montreal, Amelia. We did play some fantastic tunes though - Dolly Dolly, ATM, Cloudface, Jon Hopkins - plus the usual gig guide and inane chatter. Spiky.

A full 2 hour Summer spectacular from your friends at More Than Human with spankingly new tracks from Babe Rainbow, Cloudface, Woodbines & Spiders, COH, Brett Naucke and loads more. Cat sacrifice occurs about halfway through. Monster.

LNYRDCROY, Actress, Phantom Head Trip and more on More Than Human. MOAR. RAR.

What time is it? A multi-dimensional edition of More Than Human straddling multiple time zones and head-space. Music from Bass Clef, Oneohtrix Point Never, Vincent Parker, Belbury Poly, Mark E, Egyptian Lover and a ticket give-away fail. Twisty.

A 2hr special edition of More Than Human with a stunning array of electronic and experimental top tunes - including Ekoplekz, Poemss, Barbarella, Lord of the Isles, Brian Eno, Laurel Halo - interspersed with the over-caffeinated ramblings of your brain-damaged host. Excessive.

Very special edition of More Than Human with guest DJ Kuma. Chats about the Art of Beatz, TKG and the Pan Ambient series, plus his thoughts of ten years broadcasting electronic goodness. Plus mighty mighty tunes. CAKE!

The first show of 2014 jam-packed (a phrase I seem to repeat incessantly on the show) with strangeness, weirdness and oddness. Arovane, The Passenger, Time Attendant, Police Des Moeurs, gig guide and details of the forthcoming More Than Human release party. All quite champion.

Donna Summer, Focus Group, awful pronunciations of people's names, dedications, library music and a small crisis in Studio 1. Just another top edition of More Than Human. Bless.

Ramez Naam, author of "More Than Human" and "Nexus", joins us for a discussion about brain computer interfaces, neural prosthesis, brain hacking, transhumanism, nanotechnology, wireless brain-to-brain communication, the technology behind "Nexus", and the future of the human race. Be sure to check out More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement and Nexus on Amazon.com.

This is the second time that I interview Ramez Naam for my Singularity 1 on 1 podcast. Last time we talked about Naam’s interesting background, professional experience and award-winning book More Than Human.  During our second conversation with Ramez we talk mainly about his novel Nexus: Mankind Gets an Upgrade. We also cover a variety of […]

Another super extended madness inducing 90 minutes with MORE THAN HUMAN. Gwan.

Yesterday I interviewed Ramez Naam for my singularity podcast. Ramez is the author of an award-winning, timely and easy to digest book on the ethical, political, economic and other implications of transhumanism titled More Than Human. Since I enjoyed reading the book very much I simply had to interview Naam and ask him to talk more about […]