Podcasts about techgnosis

Erik Davis stands tall at the intersection between mysticism, technology, and counterculture. He's one of my favorite writers, the author of many stupendous books, among them "TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information," "Nomad Codes," as well as "High Weirdness" a highly entertaining book that explores 1970s counterculture and its relationship with altered states of consciousness. Erik is also an Esalen faculty member, having recently taught a course on Embodied Writing and Spiritual Practice. In this conversation, we went into his new book, "Blotter," an extended meditation on LSD blotter art and the culture that surrounds it. We also found time to veer off into a host of topics, including Terence McKenna, John C. Lilly, Dick Price, madness, Stan Grof, the spiritual emergency network, prep-school deadheads, the Village Voice, the Internet and Erik's theory that it kills subcultures, the phenomenon of what Erik calls "cannabis thinking," how he was never much of a "cannabis writer," tape machines and their place in the counterculture, the Merry Pranksters, Phillip K. Dick, Bay Area Poster art, the DEA and its own little zine - and much more. Erik is one of the cofounders of the Berkeley Alembic - a nonprofit bodymind center committed to experiments in transformation. https://berkeleyalembic.org/ You can also find his collected works at Techgnosis: https://techgnosis.com/

Pop Apocalypse, hosted by Matthew J. Dillon, postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, explores the mystical and the mythic, the paranormal and the psychedelic in popular culture. For episode 7, we welcome the writer and scholar Erik Davis to reflect on the journey that led to his new book, BLOTTER: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium. We discuss Erik's writing for the Village Voice in the early 90s, his breakthrough monograph Techgnosis, and how his home state of California informs his oeuvre. In the second half of the interview, we discuss the academic study of “the weird,” perils and possibilities for the psychedelic renaissance, and how BLOTTER is a love letter to LSD. A full transcript is forthcoming. Learn more: cswr.hds.harvard.edu/

Host Michael Taft speaks with author and journalist Erik Davis about the power of partaking in the forbidden and the loss when formerly forbidden things become normalized, particularly in the case of psychedelics; Tantric and Christian modes of transgression, power relationships and the guru, hedonism, rule-breaking, the desire for having safe spiritual practice environments, and the role of risk in spiritual development.Erik Davis is an author, podcaster, award-winning journalist, and popular speaker based in San Francisco. He is probably best known for his book TechGnosis a cult classic of visionary media studies that investigates how our fascination with technology intersects with the religious imagination. Erik's most recent book is High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies. Erik is also a long-term practitioner of meditation, particularly in the Zen tradition. Erik Davis' Substack: The Burning ShoreYou can support the creation of future episodes of this podcast by contributing through Patreon.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Erik Davis has long recognized the deep intersection of technology, spirituality, mysticism, transcendence, and the power of California. In his works "TechGnosis" and "The Visionary State," and in this week's podcast, he talks about how all of these things are integrated, and how that impacts all Californians, each and every day.

Author and prolific #WitchToker Chaweon Koo stopped by the pod to talk about technomancy, eco-philosophy, quantum leaping, the demons of TikTok, and some spicy, now six month old drama.Themes:No Escape from Dreamland by Son of PerditionIt's Out There and It's Gonna Get You by Paper Chase

Alley Faint Wurds https://linktr.ee/elephantwords, author of GPT-3 TECHGNOSIS; A CHAOS MAGICK BUTOH GRIMOIRE, and Sub/Urban Body Butoh Fu: A CYOA Chaos Magick Grimoire and Oracle and more joins Luxa for a conversation about their many interesting projects related to using artificial intelligence and butoh in an occult context. Topics include 8D chess, rituals generated and performed by computers and much more! There is also a special episode within the episode featuring Taylor Ellwood https://www.magicalexperiments.com/ for a conversation about his new book, Walking with Elemental Spirits, and thinking about the Elements in a more modern context. Also included is an update about The Green Mushroom Project's 23:Bibliomancy ritual, thoughts about sentience and Philosophical Zombies, and a horrifying dance remix of a track created by Alley Wurds. Much Love. Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you'd like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult . Or for a one time donation, buy me a beverage: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/luxoccultpod We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ Check out the Lux Occult YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlB The remix Luxa made of Alley's track: https://soundcloud.com/j-street-390/a-single-rose-garden-a-single-rose-90s-hip-hop-remix/s-uhHRseSS15a?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Erik Davis' first book, the celebrated "Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information," was published almost twenty-five years ago. Still in print, this cult classic of media studies continues to inform conversations about technology, consciousness, and new digital expressions of religion and esotericism. In this Gnoseologies event, speakers discussed Davis' intellectual trajectory, the relevant lessons of 1990s "cyberdelia," and how techgnostic themes continue to inform our era of AI, post-truth polarization, the simulation hypothesis, and the explosion of digital occultism, from Insta-witches to TikTok “reality shifters." This event took place on April 13, 2022. Learn more: https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/

Stuart and Andie talk with Jason Silva, philosopher, futurist, and host of National Geographic's Brain Games, Shots of Awe, and the Flow Sessions podcast. Their talk is a wild ride through the nature of reality. It's a mind-melting mind-meld of meanings as burners and as earthlings. It's a hint on how to — as Larry Harvey said — “wash your own brain." They discuss life, death and how a bicycle can induce synchronicity and reverie.  They explore how psychedelics can induce pivotal mental states of suggestibility for brainwashing ourselves for the better, or succumbing to delusional thinking, or both. They discuss scheduling nowness and eternity. They try to control their ecstatic surrender, and if you listen closely, you may hear a love story hidden between all the philosophy quotations. Finally, they explore key ingredients to Burning Man's secret sauce that doesn't exist. But then again, does existence even exist? https://www.thisisjasonsilva.com/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClYb9NpXnRemxYoWbcYANsAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzm6YkEw8NU

Negli ultimi anni le sperimentazioni scientifiche con gli psichedelici sono finalmente riprese dopo un lunghissimo periodo di divieti oscurantisti ed i dati che ci arrivano sono sorprendenti. Sostanze come LSD e psilocibina stanno rivelando straordinarie proprietà terapeutiche nei confronti di tutti i principali mali psichici che affliggono l'era moderna. Ma se l'opportunità psichedelica fosse ben altro?Possono queste sostanze aiutarci a recuperare la nostra interconnessione umana? Possono le esperienze con gli psichedelici essere uno strumento utile per il progresso e l'evoluzione della nostra specie?NOTE DELL'EPISODIO:- Segui Stupefatti su Instagram per goderti le nostre LIVE!: https://is.gd/ge26sy- La proposta per la cannabis legale a livello federale depositata in USA: https://is.gd/VP4n8E- Cocaina lanciata dal cielo in Sardegna: https://is.gd/zE4brF- Cannabis in Italia, depositato il testo base in parlamento: https://is.gd/mUHGwi- Psichedelica e controcultura: https://is.gd/Ge4cWB- Huxley, Le porte della percezione/Paradiso e Inferno: https://amzn.to/3z2guws- La scommessa psichedelica, Federico Vita: https://amzn.to/3krWT4W- Come cambiare la tua mente, Michael Pollan: https://amzn.to/3ifd6rr- Techgnosis, Erik Davis (solo in Inglese): https://amzn.to/3z3IaB9- LSD. Da Hofmann a Jobs: storia di una sostanza stupefacente: https://amzn.to/3z2GIyY- Il sito di Meglio Legale: https://megliolegale.itEntra in contatto con noi usando la mail stupefatticast@gmail.comATTENZIONE: Stupefatti racconta il mondo delle sostanze stupefacenti con un approccio laico e scientifico, senza pregiudizi né tabù. Il podcast è rivolto ad un pubblico responsabile. In NESSUN CASO la nostra attività è volta ad incentivare o promuovere l'assunzione di sostanze legali o illegali.

This is the one where Alya chats with the fantastic Wren to discuss how online spaces can be incorporated into magical practice, the importance of discernment and how that's taught in modern covens, and how seekers might find autonomy, authenticity, and boundaries while also exploring the esoteric and the occult. -- Welcome seeker, to Mystic Praxis, a charming podcast at the crossroads where the eclectic meets the divine. Join us as we play with integrating spiritual pathmaking and modern culture to make our everyday lives more mindful, mystical, and magical - and share what we learn! Whether you are a long-time skeptic or down for some full-on woo woo, this lo-fi / hi-vibe series has got you covered. Come chat us up, we are @mysticpraxis on Twitter & Instagram! The main linky linkage from the show… Hawkfire's Online Blog Familiar Shapes (the podcast & movie)  Other places to find Wren  Also mentioned on the show: Techgnosis (the book) https://techgnosis.com/ Research on social bots:  Magical realism bot Eudamonic Well-Being  Marlysa Sullivan’s book on Yoga Therapy  Hacek art installation

We had the great pleasure of being joined by techno-animist and Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey. We discuss UK Bikelife; commodity fetishism and how trainers and fashion are tokens of class with magic-like attributes; the repertory of spells the left still has against KeK's Meme Magic; TechGnosis and conspiritualism in the age of Elon Musk. AND Lana Del Rey's White Dress! You won't miss this!

two wordsmiths discuss The Word's myth (((Headphones MANDATORY for optimal enjoyment))) After ep. 6 w/ Stuart Davis & his mantic antics, you probably thought you’d never encounter another esoteric Davis on this show. But you were wrong because the esoteric Erik Davis is in the (haunted) house! Erik is a prolific writer, speaker, cultural critic & social analyst, best known for his books TechGnosis, High Weirdness, Nomad Codes, and Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV. He conducted Terence Mckenna’s final interview, and was featured in the documentary DMT: The Spirit Molecule as well the recent A Glitch In The Matrix. Equipped with an esemplastic scholastic mind, and a creative, psychedelic soul, he walks a tightrope between the academic and the daemonic. This episode will be especially interesting for our fellow word-workers, but even if you don’t identify as a writer, we all, inevitably, work with words, whether we want to or not. It’s too late in the game to turn back, go mute, or become illiterate (especially YOU, who are at this very moment reviving my phantom voice by scanning these marks with your eyes). This episode is a portrait of a writer at the crossroads, adapting to a changing media landscape, and the shifting mindfield that comes with it. Erik's Aya Monologue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1eZIcG6tzw My Aya Monologue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDQ3eUBDRKc&t=2s Expanding Mind Find/follow Erik: www.burningshore.com / www.techgnosis.com Full video/extended shownotes: Patreon.com/voiddenizen Support SPAOP: -Subscribe -Share -Rate (*****) -Review -patreonize us (http://www.patreon.com/voiddenizen) -donate: Venmo (@voiddenizen) or paypal (snailconvention@gmail.com) http://www.theungoogleable.com IG: void_denizen YT, Twitter, TikTok, etc: https://Linktr.ee/void_denizen "Spirit Machine" and "Eclipse (Halfway) by Void Denizen (available on bandcamp & spotify)

The image of the QAnon Shaman in the United States Senate is the perfect symbol of how unfortunate members of the psychedelic community have fallen down QAnon trapdoor during this pandemic. Today on the show Erik Davis, renowned psychedelic author and wizard of the weird, returns to Life is a Festival to address the worrying trend of “conspirituality” and what we can do to inoculate ourselves against it. On the show we discuss the metaphysical mud that can flow in psychedelic experiences. Erik acknowledges his ethical responsibility to help foster discernment and shares tools we can use to protect ourselves and each other. We explore our own vulnerabilities to conspiracy thinking and discuss the practice of “withering self-observation.” Finally we rap about the evolution of the Life is a Festival philosophy for these difficult times. Erik is journalist, author, and public speaker. His is best known for his works Techgnosis and High Weirdness, as well as his essays on Burning Man and the human potential movement. He is also the author of Burning Shore, a sub stack that I high recommend subscribing to. This is his second time on the show after his appearance extolling the virtues of psychedelic weirdness on episode 23, Keep Psychedelics Weird. Links Burning Shore Substack: https://www.burningshore.com/ High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BT6DBKT Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information: https://techgnosis.com/ Keep Psychedelics Weird: https://www.eamonarmstrong.com/lifeisafestival/erik-davis The Emergence of Conspirituality: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13537903.2011.539846?journalCode=cjcr20 “Conspirituality” by Jules Evans: https://julesevans.medium.com/conspirituality-the-overlap-between-the-new-age-and-conspiracy-beliefs-c0305eb92185 Timestamps :11 - Metaphysical mud and extremist rabbit holes :20 - Ethical responsibility to strengthen discernment :31 - How to inoculate yourself with an inner superhero team :48 - Recognizing your own vulnerabilities and having compassion for others’ :59 - The practice of “withering self-observation” 1:10 - How life is like a festival in difficult times

Psychedelics are going mainstream. With landmark studies in the last decade showing their incredible potential in treating serious mental health conditions, 2020 saw a goldrush of investment. But what are the implications as psychedelics move from the counterculture to the boardroom? In this short documentary, Alexander Beiner speaks to leading experts in the field - from clinicians and CEO's to shamans and philosophers - to ask what the rise of psychedelic capitalism means for the future of culture and medicine.   Includes interviews with Dr. Rosalind Watts (clinical lead of Imperial College's groundbreaking psilocybin for depression study), Erik Davis (author of Techgnosis and High Weirdness), Jamie Wheal (author of Stealing Fire), Kat Conour of the Auryn Project, Bill Linton (CEO of The Usona Institute) and Shipibo shaman Jose Lopez Sanchez among others.   Are we seeing the birth of a new era in mental health care, or late capitalism’s sneakiest cash grab yet? Turn on and tune in to find out.   We'll be hosting a live Q&A in our community with some guests from this film on Wednesday, 13 Jan. Find out more about membership on www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans   Rebel Wisdom's Sensemaking 101 course launches again on 4 February, check it out here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses  

⦿⦿ElectriX Podcast⦿⦿ Welcome to the 15th Episode of ElectriX. This time with a special guest I got to know through my time in Brisbane. I got lucky to meet some guys from Frisson Records @frisson-records while partying in Capulet/Brisbane, which introduced me to Tom. He luckily agreed to record a nice set for my Podcast Series! I really love his style. It’s Dark, Ambient and just so Techno! Enjoy the journey and don't forget to support the artist with a follow, like and share! Like the Mix? Click the [Repost]

Author, podcaster, award-winning journalist, and cultural historian Erik Davis speaks with host Michael Taft about QAnon as a new religion, Gnostic psychology and the power of the secret truth, new narrative warfare exploiting human psychology, technologically-sophisticated divination techniques, the “disenchanted paranormal,” taking responsibility for your own processing of reality, the angel of the library, Metal Hurlant, and more. Erik Davis is an author, podcaster, award-winning journalist, and popular speaker based in San Francisco. He is probably best known for his book TechGnosis a cult classic of visionary media studies that investigates how our fascination with technology intersects with the religious imagination. Erik’s most recent book is High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies. Read Erik’s newsletter The Burning ShoreHelp to keep this podcast going by contributing here.

Erik Davis is an American writer, scholar, journalist, and public speaker whose writings have ranged from Rock criticism to cultural analysis to creative explorations of esoteric mysticism. He is perhaps best known for his dazzling book, “TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information” as well as his work on California counter culture including Burning Man, the human potential movement, and the writings of Philip K. Dick. Please welcome the one and only, Erik Davis.Recorded and Produced by OwlCove ProductionsProducer: Lewis RobertsonAudio Engineer: Cody HamiltonTechnical Director: Scott SchwerdtfegerProduction Assistant: Alex Miller

Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis and the just released High Weirdness, joins the podcast for a great conversation about our bizarre cultural moment and the legacy of the old school [Robert Anton] Wilsonian Counterculture...!

Erik Davis is an author, scholar and connoisseur of the weird. He’s spent over 20 years exploring fringe movements, occult covens and liminal cyberspaces, finding some time in between to become one of the world’s leading authorities on West Coast American counter-culture, writing about everything from California’s alternative spiritual groups to Burning Man. Davis was born during the Summer of Love within a stone’s throw of San Francisco. He grew up in North County, Southern California, and spent a decade on the East Coast, where he studied literature and philosophy at Yale and spent six years in the freelance trenches of Brooklyn and Manhattan before moving to San Francisco, where he currently resides. He is the author of four books: Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica (Yeti, 2010), The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape (Chronicle, 2006), with photographs by Michael Rauner, and the 33 1/3 volume Led Zeppelin IV (Continuum, 2005). His first and best-known book remains TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information (Crown, 1998), a cult classic of visionary media studies that has been translated into five languages and recently republished by North Atlantic Press. He has contributed chapters on art, music, technoculture, and contemporary spirituality to over a dozen books, including Suzanne Treister’s HFT: The Gardener(Black Dog), Future Matters: the Persistence of Philip K. Dick (Palgrave), Sound Unbound: Writings on Contemporary Multimedia and Music Culture (MIT, 2008), AfterBurn: Reflections on Burning Man (University of New Mexico, 2005), Rave Ascension (Routledge, 2003), and Zig Zag Zen (Chronicle, 2002). In addition to his many forewords and introductions, Davis has contributed articles and essays to a variety of periodicals, including Bookforum, Arthur, Artforum, Slate, Salon, Gnosis, Rolling Stone, the LA Weekly, Spin, Wired and the Village Voice. A vital speaker, Davis has given talks at universities, media art conferences, and festivals around the world. He has taught seminars at the UC Berkeley, UC Davis, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and Rice University, as well as workshops at the New York Open Center and Esalen. He has been interviewed by CNN, NPR, the New York Times, and the BBC, and appeared in numerous documentaries, as well as in Craig Baldwin’s underground film Specters of the Spectrum. He wrote the libretto for and performed in “How to Survive the Apocalypse,” a Burning Man-inspired rock opera. He has hosted the podcast Expanding Mind on the Progressive Radio Network since 2010, and earned his PhD in Religious Studies from Rice University in 2015. techgnosis.com eastforest.org/podcast

For rewards and podcast extras, support us on Patreon Author and Expanding Mind host, Erik Davis enters the mind meld to riff on his new book, High Weirdness drugs, esoterica, and visionary experience in the seventies.  The tome largely revolves around three visionary creatives -- Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson and Philip K. Dick. We play in all three of their pools. For a full write-up and more, pop over to THIRDEYEDROPS.com   Give us a holographic hug by leaving us a 5 star review on Apple pods! This mind meld is sponsored by Vermont Pure CBD. Get 20% off of their full-spectrum wonder drops by using the coupon code 'thirdeyedrops' 

Erik Davis is back in the house for a second time to rap a bit about his latest book High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica and Visionary Experience in the Seventies.  Most of you know Erik from his podcast, Expanding Mind, or from the tome known as TechGnosis, or perhaps from his work on The Exegesis of Philip K Dick. No matter how you know Erik, you know he is the sultan of high strangeness, and High Weirdness may just be his magnum opus, which is saying quite a bit if you’ve read his previous work. High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from American countercultural voices of the 1970s, including Philip K Dick, Terence McKenna and Robert Anton Wilson. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought, dreamed, and experienced reality―but how did their writings reflect, as well as shape, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America?   PATREON EXTENSION Listen at patreon.com/occulture Erik’s idea of weird naturalism Terence & Dennis McKenna’s experiment at La Chorrera Robert Anton Wilson’s idea of Chapel Perilous Verisimilitude and the idea of a hoax The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick as a piece of weird fiction Erik’s thoughts on The Owl in Daylight, Dick’s unrealized novel   RESOURCES High Weirdness on IndieBound High Weirdness on Amazon Erik’s website Erik’s podcast Erik on Twitter   DONATE If recurring monthly support via Patreon isn’t your thing, we do accept one time-donations via PayPal, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple. Every little bit helps.   MERCH Tees, tanks, hoodies, hats. Check ‘em out on our website or at our Etsy shop.   SOCIAL Twitter Instagram Facebook Tumblr   MUSIC Vestron Vulture - “I Want to Be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)”   PRODUCTION & LICENSING This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. Executive Producers: Carter Y., Mauricio G., Daniel R., Kelly C., Bruce H., Marcelo T., Christopher B., Timothy W., Nick F., Michael Q., Jamaica J., Mute Ryan, John W., Andy E., Colleen F., Saliyah S., Michael S., Kevin C., Kyle A., Megan B., Kaleb H.   REMINDER Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.

When did weird stop being so, well… weird? Today on Life is a Festival I’m speaking with psychedelic elder, writer and host of the Expanding Mind Podcast, Erik Davis. Erik has just published a new book called High Weirdness focusing on the super weird early 70s through the figures of Terence and Dennis McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson and Philip K Dick. On the podcast we talk about where the true weird resides in the age of Donald Trump. Is depression weird, or is depression when things aren’t weird enough? Is Burning Man still weird or has it become too mannered and too known? Are there degrees of reality? How can we serve the psychedelic Renaissance while keeping the weird alive? If you make it through the full two hours we have a bonus bit of weird where Erik gets vulnerable about his recent appearance that the queering psychedelics conference and the role of straight white men today. Let’s get weird… or rather… let’s let the weird get us. Links Techgnosis https://techgnosis.com/ High Weirdness (Available for preorder on Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/High-Weirdness-Esoterica-Visionary-Experience/dp/1907222766/ Expanding Mind Podcast: https://techgnosis.com/category/podcast/ Podcast about Experience Design: https://techgnosis.com/patterns-of-transformation/

Journalist and historian of religion Erik Davis joins Phil and JF to talk about his latest magnum opus, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies. In this masterwork of weird scholarship, Davis explores the simultaneously luminous and obscure worlds of three giants of Seventies counterculture: Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson, and Philip K. Dick. Their psychonautical legacy serve as fuel for a deep-delving conversation on Davis' own ontological leanings, yearnings, and hesitations. We touch on his philosophical development since the release of Techgnosis in 1998, the meaning of "weird naturalism," the primacy of the aesthetic, the uses and abuses of anthropotechnics, the challenges of tightrope-walking across bottomless chasms, and lots more. REFERENCES Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Expreience in the Seventies (http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/high-weirdness/) Erik Davis, Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information (https://www.amazon.com/TechGnosis-Myth-Magic-Mysticism-Information/dp/1583949305) Philip K. Dick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick), American science fiction writer Robert Anton Wilson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson), American writer Terence McKenna (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna), Half-elf bard Graham Harman, American philosopher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Harman) Timothy Morton, British philosopher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Morton) Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Serpent’s Gift: Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion (https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo4126089.html) William James (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James), American philosopher and psychologist Hee-jin Kim, Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist (https://www.amazon.com/Eihei-Dogen-Mystical-Hee-Jin-Kim/dp/0861713761) Dogen, "Instructions for the Cook" (http://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/Dogen_Teachings/Instructions_for_the_cook.html) Steve Reich, "Music as a Gradual Process" (http://www.bussigel.com/systemsforplay/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Reich_Gradual-Process.pdf) Peter Sloterdijk, [You Must Change Your Life](https://books.google.ca/books/about/YouMustChangeYourLife.html?id=aDcBAAAQBAJ&rediresc=y) Albert Hofman’s famous bicycle ride (https://allthatsinteresting.com/bicycle-day-albert-hofmann) Erowid LSD vault (https://erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd.shtml) George Lackoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (https://www.amazon.ca/Metaphors-We-Live-George-Lakoff/dp/0226468011) Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist, [Syntheism: Creating God in the Internet Age](https://www.amazon.com/Syntheism-Creating-God-Internet-Age/dp/9175471833/ref=sr11?qid=1559663582&refinements=p27%3AAlexander+Bard&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Alexander+Bard)_ Special Guest: Erik Davis.

Michael Taft speaks with Erik Davis about author Robert Anton Wilson, anarchism in the 1970s, Terrence McKenna, P.K. Dick, psychedelics, cultures of awakening now and then, Zen practice, and more. Erik Davis is an author, podcaster, award-winning journalist, and popular speaker based in San Francisco. He is probably best known for his book TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, a cult classic of visionary media studies that investigates how our fascination with technology intersects with the religious imagination. And his podcast, Expanding Mind has long been a favorite of mine.Techgnosis.comShow Notes0:25 – Introduction2:58 – Erik’s book, High Weirdness, Drugs, Visions, and Esoterica in the Seventies6:11 – The impact of Wilson’s Cosmic Trigger; guerrilla ontology; libertarianism, anarchy, and radical individualism13:34 – Wilson’s anarchism’s basis in his cosmic view against institutionalized and concentrated power15:43 – Ontological anarchism – ‘multiple perspectives all the way down’ ; relationship of metasystemic thinking and emptiness/nonduality; the challenge of wrestling with different perspectives that don’t quite fit together and the insight that comes from it23:10 – How trying to fit everything into one map doesn’t work, and the place of psychedelics in recognizing that; realizing that language constructs reality, and learning to deconstruct and go beyond language and maps27:23 – Wilson’s Quantum Psychology, its exercises in switching models and taking new perspectives; what makes a spiritual teacher different from somebody who is handing you a lot of very useful techniques and practices33:00 – Why tech/STEM people might be interested in meditation and psychedelics; how younger generations connect more horizontally rather than vertically (between generations or between different statuses in society); psychedelics as learning experiences rather than tool-using experiences37:26 – Capitalism’s influence on views and uses of psychedelics, how a potentially radical or even revolutionary compound can be whittled down into something that’s a performance enhancer40:00 – How mainstream materialism (“all reality is created by the brain”) requires explanations for what happens with psychedelic use; how the illegality of psychedelics affects the vibe and the relationship with them44:29 – Modern taming down of both psychedelics and meditation; reminding people about the potentials for radicality and weirdness: “The weird is part of reality. It’s not a distortion of what is otherwise seen with clarity.”48:21 – Pharmaceutical companies patenting synthetic psilocybin – “There’s still all these mushrooms growing up in the grass, and as long as there’s a culture of […] people who like weird experiences, there’s going to be this zone that’s outside of it”54:27 – How do you encourage the highest percentage of people who are doing corporate mindfulness, mainstream meditation to enter into the deeper folds of it1:04:46 – OutroYou can help to create future episodes of this podcast by contributing through Patreon.

Aerodrömme (also spelled Aerodroemme, when an umlaut is not available) is a vibrant duo project based in Toronto, Canada. The act was created in 2008 by Boris "Shankar" Kurtzman and Steve "Nexus" Chan. @Aerodromme began as one of the most promising names in the Progressive Techno circuit. Over time, Boris and Steve have transformed their sound from a deeper progressive influence, to the more hypnotic/deep techno sound heard in their latest releases. They have an impressive discography, brandishing releases on labels such as JOOF Aura, Digital Structures, Slideways, Rheostatus, Frakture Audio, Baroque Records, Tribal Vision, Balkan Connection, Nuuktal, Oddsine, Techgnosis, TMM Records and Twisted Frequency. Over the years, they have received support from heavyweights such as Yuli Fershtat (aka Perfect Stranger), Black Asteroid, Chris Liebing, James Harcourt, Vegim, Luis Flores, Timo Maas, Danny Howells, and Tomcraft, just to name a few. Check out all of their releases at Beatport. As well as regular performances in Ontario and Quebec, their international performances have taken them to Australia, Isreal, Panama, Mexico, Columbia, Spain, Georgia, and the United States. Aerodrömme Live sets are always packed with surprises, as they are always looking for innovative ways to incorporate music technologies into a set. Whether it be iOS controllers and synths, analog hardware, drum machines or a Theremini, there is always something new to listen out for as they play to the crowd. Download for free on The Artist Union

Erik Davis is an author, podcaster, award-winning journalist, and popular speaker based in San Francisco.How does our fascination with technology intersect with the religious imagination? Erik Davis argues that while the realms of the digital and the spiritual may seem worlds apart, esoteric and religious impulses have in fact always permeated (and sometimes inspired) technological communication. Davis uncovers startling connections between such seemingly disparate topics as electricity and alchemy; online roleplaying games and religious and occult practices; virtual reality and gnostic mythology; programming languages and Kabbalah. The final chapters address the apocalyptic dreams that haunt technology, providing vital historical context as well as new ways to think about a future defined by the mutant intermingling of mind and machine, nightmare, and fantasy.Exploring the mystical impulses behind our obsession with information technology, TechGnosis presents a fascinating and passionately original perspective on technoculture. Today we often assume that the triumph of technological rationality has condemned the spiritual imagination to the trash heap of history. But as Erik Davis explains, religious impulses and magical dreams permeate the history of technology. Ranging from the printing press to the telegraph, from radio to the Internet, David peels away the utilitarian shell of technology to reveal the mystical and millennialist fervor that attends each new communications breakthrough. As he unveils the hidden history of techno-mysticism, Davis shows how the religious imagination continues to feed the utopian dreams, apocalyptic visions, and alien obsessions that populate today's technological unconscious.In these pages, Davis offers a lucid, playful, and astonishingly erudite journey through our hyper-mediated environment. Anyone grappling with the morphing boundaries and terminal speed of our present moment will want to take the ride."TechGnosis is a dazzling, sweeping look at the metaphysical urges underlying our technological progress. From exploring the Singularity to positioning man as the “spiritual cyborg”, Erik Davis reveals our technological subconscious and writes with a flair that crackles the mind. I LOVE this book."—Jason Silva- https://techgnosis.com/Please do NOT hesitate to reach out to me on Instagram, LinkedIn or via email mark@vudream.comLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/markmetry/Humans 2.0 Twitter - https://twitter.com/Humans2PodcastTwitter - https://twitter.com/markymetryMedium - https://medium.com/@markymetryFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/mark.metry.9Mark Metry - https://www.markmetry.com/

Erik Davis is an author, podcaster, award-winning journalist, and popular speaker based in San Francisco.How does our fascination with technology intersect with the religious imagination? Erik Davis argues that while the realms of the digital and the spiritual may seem worlds apart, esoteric and religious impulses have in fact always permeated (and sometimes inspired) technological communication. Davis uncovers startling connections between such seemingly disparate topics as electricity and alchemy; online roleplaying games and religious and occult practices; virtual reality and gnostic mythology; programming languages and Kabbalah. The final chapters address the apocalyptic dreams that haunt technology, providing vital historical context as well as new ways to think about a future defined by the mutant intermingling of mind and machine, nightmare, and fantasy.Exploring the mystical impulses behind our obsession with information technology, TechGnosis presents a fascinating and passionately original perspective on technoculture. Today we often assume that the triumph of technological rationality has condemned the spiritual imagination to the trash heap of history. But as Erik Davis explains, religious impulses and magical dreams permeate the history of technology. Ranging from the printing press to the telegraph, from radio to the Internet, David peels away the utilitarian shell of technology to reveal the mystical and millennialist fervor that attends each new communications breakthrough. As he unveils the hidden history of techno-mysticism, Davis shows how the religious imagination continues to feed the utopian dreams, apocalyptic visions, and alien obsessions that populate today's technological unconscious.In these pages, Davis offers a lucid, playful, and astonishingly erudite journey through our hyper-mediated environment. Anyone grappling with the morphing boundaries and terminal speed of our present moment will want to take the ride."TechGnosis is a dazzling, sweeping look at the metaphysical urges underlying our technological progress. From exploring the Singularity to positioning man as the “spiritual cyborg”, Erik Davis reveals our technological subconscious and writes with a flair that crackles the mind. I LOVE this book."—Jason Silva- https://techgnosis.com/Please do NOT hesitate to reach out to me on Instagram, LinkedIn or via email mark@vudream.comLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/markmetry/Humans 2.0 Twitter - https://twitter.com/Humans2PodcastTwitter - https://twitter.com/markymetryMedium - https://medium.com/@markymetryFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/mark.metry.9Mark Metry - https://www.markmetry.com/

Speculative Machines - Techgnosis

Following up to his recent EP "Open" released on Iboga Records, Jossie Telch drops a fresh new set on us featuring a groovy tracklist of some of his finest tunes. Get the new EP here: https://artist-links.lnk.to/eAKFnFA Track list: 1_Jossie Telch_Restless_(Original mix)_Iboga 2018 2_Jossie Telch_Open_(Original mix)_Iboga 2018 3_Jossie Telch_Ausgang Station_(Original mix)_Iboga 2017 4_Luis M_Euphoria_(JTelch rmx)_Techgnosis 2017 5_Jossie Telch_Secret_(Original mix)_OneDotSIxTwo_2017 6_JTelch & MYDA_Atomicus(Original mix)_Techgnosis 2018 7_Jossie Telch_Paquiderm_(Original mix)_Iboga 2018 8_Perfect Stranger_Free Cloud_(JTelch rmx)_Iboga 2018 9_Jossie Telch_Quatre Bornes_(Original mix)_Electric Power Pole 2018 10_Jossie Telch_Big Picture_(Original mix)_Digital Structures 2017 11_Grouch & Knobs_Quantumplation_(JTelch rmx)_Zenon_2017

This is the series of sets performed by Artists invited on "Le Catalyste Radio show", hosted by Vince Kuzanagi, on CKUM 93.5 FM, Moncton, Canada Le Catalyste #50 : Foggyswoggle Halifax based DJ, promoter and in charge of NOX imprint. www.facebook.com/foggyswoggle/ Playlist: Shadow Banger - Clark Shutter Speed - Dark Sky Skylines - Pinch Titanic- Lamont Late Night- Wen Wrench- Walton Steyerl - Kim Kate Poliwhirl - Facta Fyah ft/ Nico Lindsay - Wallwork Hand to Hand Combat - Alex Coulton Chokehold - Zed Bias Pin Point - Detboi

This is the series of sets performed by Artists invited on "Le Catalyste Radio show", hosted by Vince Kuzanagi, on CKUM 93.5 FM, Moncton, Canada Le Catalyste #50 : Foggyswoggle Halifax based DJ, promoter and in charge of NOX imprint. www.facebook.com/foggyswoggle/ Playlist: Shadow Banger - Clark Shutter Speed - Dark Sky Skylines - Pinch Titanic- Lamont Late Night- Wen Wrench- Walton Steyerl - Kim Kate Poliwhirl - Facta Fyah ft/ Nico Lindsay - Wallwork Hand to Hand Combat - Alex Coulton Chokehold - Zed Bias Pin Point - Detboi

This is the series of sets performed by Artists invited on "Le Catalyste Radio show", hosted by Vince Kuzanagi, on CKUM 93.5 FM, Moncton, Canada Le Catalyste #50 : Foggyswoggle Halifax based DJ, promoter and in charge of NOX imprint. www.facebook.com/foggyswoggle/ Playlist: Shadow Banger - Clark Shutter Speed - Dark Sky Skylines - Pinch Titanic- Lamont Late Night- Wen Wrench- Walton Steyerl - Kim Kate Poliwhirl - Facta Fyah ft/ Nico Lindsay - Wallwork Hand to Hand Combat - Alex Coulton Chokehold - Zed Bias Pin Point - Detboi

Today on Team Human we conclude our series of live shows recorded at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts in the historic Mission district of San Francisco. Picking up where we left off last week and joining Douglas on stage are teammates Erik Davis and Josette Melchor. Erik Davis is the author of Techgnosis, Nomad Codes and host of The Expanding Mind podcast. Erik and Douglas start with the big question, “What the fuck is going on here?” What begins with a few laughs quickly digs into a mind-expanding conversation about those gray areas between religion, technology, and psychedelics. Erik and Douglas look for coherence and connection in these fractious times. Making this message concrete is Gray Area’s founder Josette Melchor. Josette resurrects our show segment “Real People Doing Real Things.” She offers both practical and profound lessons on building a safe space for community, creativity, and artistic exploration.As we conclude this series, we’d like to thank our teammates at Gray Area; Josette Melchor, Seabrook Gubbins, Alric Burns, our guests for both nights Annalee Newitz, Howard Rheingold, Lauren McCarthy, Erik Davis, and (again!) Josette Melchor. Thank you to the San Francisco community who came out to support and participate in the show. And sincere gratitude to our Patreon members who’s sustaining subscriptions made travel and recording possible.Sign up at Patreon. There you’ll find the complete, uncut San Francisco Live shows, plus other rewards and ways to Find the Others.During this live performance we featured Intro music from Fugazi, plus excerpts from Throbbing Gristle (Listen to Genesis Breyer P-Orridge with Douglas on Episode 67). Mid-show you heard music by Mike Watt.This week's playing cards (thanks to Bobby Campell) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Playing for Team Human today is interactive artist Lauren McCarthy. Lauren’s thought provoking work brings a unique and creative perspective on social interaction and the intersection of humans and technology.In this episode, Lauren’s app Crowdpilot becomes the first “advertisement” to be featured on Team Human. Crowdpilot is an app in which real time conversation advice is crowdsourced from online third-party monitors. In another crowdsourcing experiment titled Social Turkers, McCarthy hired Amazon Mechanical Turks to participate with her on her own OkCupid dates. The Turks, connected via stream, give Lauren dating advice while she meets strangers in real life.Lauren also discusses Follower, a service that puts humans into the role of real-time surveillance. Users sign up to be followed for a day, answering two questions: Why do you want to be followed? Why should someone follow you?And finally, in her most recent project Lauren: A Human Smart Home Intelligence, Lauren attempts to become the human version of Amazon Alexa. What happens when our robot smart home devices are replaced with a real human?In this conversation with Douglas, the third in our series of live Team Human events at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Lauren helps us reconsider our relationship to social technologies, convenience, privacy, intimacy, and autonomy. Next week we’ll conclude our live series of shows from Gray Area with the part two of this show, featuring Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis, Nomad Codes and host of The Expanding Mind podcast. Gray Area founder Josette Melchor will also join the team to share her inspiring story on building a home for digital arts and supporting the local community.Patrons of Team Human got into these events free. Sustain Team Human by subscribing via patreon.com/teamhuman.If you are enjoying this live series, please consider giving us a review on iTunes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Scholar, journalist and author Erik Davis joins Phil and JF for a freewheeling conversation on the permutations of the weird, Burning Man, speculative realism, the uncanny, the H. P. Lovecraft/Philip K. Dick syzygy, and how the world has gotten weirder (and less weird) since Erik’s groundbreaking Techgnosis was published twenty years ago. WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: Erik Davis’s Techgnosis website (https://techgnosis.com/) Erik Davis's podcast, Expanding Mind (http://expandingmind.podbean.com/) Erik Davis, Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information (https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/techgnosis/) Erik Davis, Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica (https://www.amazon.com/Nomad-Codes-Adventures-Modern-Esoterica/dp/1891241540/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1520348249&sr=8-1) Erik Davis, Led Zeppelin IV (https://www.amazon.com/Led-Zeppelins-Zeppelin-IV-33/dp/0826416586/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8) Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/546891/the-weird-and-the-eerie-by-mark-fisher/9781910924389/) Philip K. Dick, Exegesis (https://www.amazon.com/Exegesis-Philip-K-Dick/dp/0547549253/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=x) Goop Magazine, no. 2 (https://shop.goop.com/shop/products/goop-magazine-issue-no-2) Hakim Bey and the Temporary Autonomous Zone (https://hermetic.com/bey/taz_cont) The Burning Man (https://burningman.org/) Festival Ian Hacking, The Taming of Chance (http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/history-ideas-and-intellectual-history/taming-chance?format=PB&isbn=9780521388849) Erik Davis, “Weird Shit” (https://boingboing.net/2014/07/14/weird-shit.html) JF Martel, “How Symbols Matter” (http://thefinch.net/2016/03/10/jf-martel-how-symbols-matter/) Henri Bergson, Introduction to Metaphysics (https://archive.org/details/anintroductiont00berggoog) Charles Baudelaire, “Correspondances” (https://fleursdumal.org/poem/103) from Fleurs du mal Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny” (http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/freud1.pdf) Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/305132/anti-oedipus-by-gilles-deleuze-and-felix-guattari/9780143105824/) The Onion, “Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added to Curriculum” (https://local.theonion.com/lovecraftian-school-board-member-wants-madness-added-to-1819570587) Special Guest: Erik Davis.

You picked a good time to hit the ol’ play button because we’re having ourselves a foursome for the first time. Erik Davis, Miguel Conner and Jeff Wolfe are all in the house. The basis for this chat is a couple pieces of writing Erik has done on Jack Parsons and what he calls Parsons’ magickal feminism. Erik, of course, is a scholar, journalist, and public speaker best known for his cultural analysis and creative explorations of esoteric mysticism. He’s written about music, art, film, pop culture, and technology for Spin, Details, Rolling Stone and Wired magazines. I had invited Erik onto the show to talk about those Parsons’ articles and was planning to tackle this solo. I even re-read Erik’s book TechGnosis, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, in preparation for this because I did want to pull some ideas out of that too. And the more I got into that book, and the more I got into Parsons and Babalon and magickal feminism, the more that this pairing here just made sense. I know Jeff is a mark for Erik’s work. Miguel is as well, in addition to being one of today’s pre-eminent Gnostic thinkers, and they both brought unique perspectives to this chat. This is, really, the three of us tag-teaming Erik, and it’s one of the better episodes I think we’ve been able to put together. RESOURCES Erik’s recent articles on Jack Parsons Babalon Rising Babalon Launching   TechGnosis   Erik on Twitter Miguel’s website Miguel on Twitter Jeff’s website Jeff on Twitter PKD article mentioned   PATREON Please do take a moment to check out our Patreon campaign. We call it Coda. Four levels of support. Bonus content. Free shit. Click here to check it out.   DONATE If recurring monthly support via Patreon isn’t your thing, we do accept one time-donations via PayPal, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple. Every little bit helps. Click here if you’re interested.   MERCH We recently released our first t-shirt. Check it out on our website or at our Etsy shop.   SOCIAL Twitter Instagram Facebook Tumblr   MUSIC Vestron Vulture - “I Want to be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)”   PRODUCTION & LICENSING This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. Executive Producers: Mike K., Erick, Jason N.,   REMINDER Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.

Playing for Team Human today is world renowned social scientist and systems thinker, Merrelyn Emery. Emery, with her partner the late Fred Emery, advanced Open Systems Theory and applied it to management of organizations and government. Open Systems Theory, or OST is the idea that autocracies make for bad governments, companies, and organizations. In this conversation, Merrelyn and Douglas discuss the power of community and collective organizing. They also discuss the social environments conducive to true grassroots, systemic change. As Merrelyn explains it, “By working together with collective responsibility, people can regain control over their own affairs, in their own communities and organizations, by cooperating to meet shared goals rather than competing or peeling off as individuals to do ‘their own thing’.”Douglas begins todays show announcing the first of exciting new Team Human live events in 2018. Rushkoff will be hosting two evenings of no-holds-barred Team Human discussions in San Francisco at GrayArea.org. On Friday, February 16, Douglas will host a conversation with guests Howard Rheingold and Annalee Newitz. On Saturday the 17th, Douglas will be joined by Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis, artist Lauren McCarthy, and Gray Area founder Josette Melchor. Get your tickets here.Team Human Patreon supporters have special access to guest passes for both nights, so if you’re in the San Francisco area and considering supporting the show via Patreon, now is the time to sign up! You can also help by sharing a review on iTunes. Today’s music is thanks to Fugazi and Dischord Records and Stacco Troncoso of the P2P foundation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is the series of sets performed by Artists invited on "Le Catalyste Radio show", hosted by Vince Kuzanagi, on CKUM 93.5 FM, Moncton, Canada Le Catalyste #50 : Foggyswoggle Halifax based DJ, promoter and in charge of NOX imprint. www.facebook.com/foggyswoggle/ Playlist: Shadow Banger - Clark Shutter Speed - Dark Sky Skylines - Pinch Titanic- Lamont Late Night- Wen Wrench- Walton Steyerl - Kim Kate Poliwhirl - Facta Fyah ft/ Nico Lindsay - Wallwork Hand to Hand Combat - Alex Coulton Chokehold - Zed Bias Pin Point - Detboi

This week we are shifting slightly from the yogic realm, and speaking with the multi-talented Helly Hoops! Helly is one of Jo's personal hula hooping heros, not just for her technical prowess, but also her thoughtful online presence and her ability bring a sense of narrative and social commentary into her performances and videos - which is no small feat when you are spinning a plastic circle. We learn about Helly's background in art and activism. How she discovered hooping and how she has grown as a performer, and developed a deeper understanding of herself. We also talk about social media, how it can trigger insecurities and devastating self doubt even in the midst of great success, and how she has learned to navigate this. Helly also fills us in on her upcoming Performers without Borders tour in Nicaragua. Links Helly's website - https://www.hellyhoops.com/ Help send Helly to Nicaragua - https://www.gofundme.com/rfeb7q-send-helly-to-nicaragua Helly Hoops' stunning video 'Magic' - https://www.facebook.com/hellyhoops/videos/624901751053463/ A fantastic video that show's Helly's activism in performance: 'Ode to the Federal Budget' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejbNTnHNzXU Picks of the week: Rane Erik Davis's Techgnosis - http://techgnosis.com/ Jo Artist, Designer and Author Justina Blakeney's website The Jungalow - https://www.jungalow.com/ Helly The Secret's to Money App - https://www.thesecret.tv/products/the-secret-to-money-app/

Caroline welcomes the return of Eric Davis, science-myth wizard, author of TechGnosis,  perspicacious playful liberating jaunty discerning magical intellect with whom to co-animate the desirable potential of now, keeper of the Hermetic realms, history of entheo sci-fi, illusion – “in-ludo = “in the game,” v. delusion = “out of the game.” (and discerning betwixt the former which strives to liberating, and the latter, toxic mimic which is imprisoning.) https://techgnosis.com/   For bonus points 'tis the Harvest Full Moon in Aries-Libra, whose image is “a bomb that fails to go off.” Averting (further)  “dis-aster” by gathering to “con-sider.” ···   Find the Astro chart today on www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com – A new aspect of our Patreon proferring!   (Find The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow)   The post The Visionary Activist Show – Venus and Mars Wedding Catered by the Harvest Full Moon appeared first on KPFA.

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Subscribe to Future Fossils on iTunes Subscribe to Future Fossils on Stitcher Join the Future Fossils Facebook Group This week is part one of a special double-length episode with Jon Lebkowsky, founder of EFF-Austin – one of the unsung heroes of Internet culture, whose tale stretches through the earliest web communities and reads like a list of landmark moments in the history of digital rights and culture. http://weblogsky.com/ https://twitter.com/jonl https://www.facebook.com/polycot/ https://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/495/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page01.html We talk about the early days of hacking in the Wild West of the 1990s, how the World Wide Web has changed since then, and the promises and perils of the Internet in the 21st Century. It’s a winding tale of pseudonymous keyboard-slingers and federal raids, roleplaying game empires and sci-fi visionaries, centered on the unsuspecting hippie cowboy outpost of Austin, Texas, Once Upon A Time. Enjoy this special conversation on the history of the Internet we know today, and a snapshot of the hopes and fears of life online in the dawn of our digital era… TOPICS: - The threat of Internet-empowered fascism and “participation mystique” (or maybe worse, a corporate plutocracy) eroding rational civil discourse and the dignity of the individual - The problems with “Net Neutrality” and how it makes more sense to focus on “The Freedom to Connect” - Connectivity vs. Interdependence (OR) Networks vs. Buddhism - Does the Noosphere already exist, and we’re just excavating it? - The History of Electronic Frontier Foundation-Austin and how it was connected to the secret service’s raid of legendary role-playing game designer Steve Jackson (GURPS) - The hilarious, troubled Dawn Age of e-commerce before secure web browsing - Jon’s work with a Gurdjieff group and his encounters with esoterica as an editor of the Consciousness subdomain for the last issue of the Whole Earth Review - Cybergrace, TechGnosis, and Millennial concerns about the mind/body split in the first Internet and our need to humanize technology with whole-body interfaces and MOVEMENT - Embodied Virtual Reality & Other Full-Sensory Immersive Media - Cory Doctorow’s new novel Walkaway as a banner book for the maker movement and a new form of cyber-social-liberation. - The movement of political agency back into city-states in a digital era - “On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog.” - Shaping the future of wireless infrastructure in the early 00s of Austin - Getting our values right before we imprint the wrong ones into superhuman AI - Putting together diverse conversation groups to solve “wicked problems” - New forms of participatory open-source politics suited for an internet age SOME OF THE PEOPLE & STUFF WE MENTIONED: Whole Earth Provisions, Whole Earth Review, The WELL, Whole Foods, William Gibson, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Hakim Bey, William Irwin Thompson, Alien Covenant, Terminator, John Perry Barlow, Mitch Kapor, Mike Godwin, Bruce Sterling, Clay Shirkey, WIRED Magazine, Fringeware, RoboFest, Heather Barfield, Neal Stephenson, Terence McKenna, Church of the Subgenius, Mondo 2000, Erik Davis, GI Gurdjieff, The National Science Fiction Convention, Rudy Rucker, Greg Bear, Jon Shirley, Jennifer Cobb, Robert Scoville, Greg Egan, Ernest Cline, Octopus Project, The Tingler, Honey I Shrunk The Kids (Ride), Charles Stross, Glass House, Rapture of the Nerds, Cory Doctorow, Alan Moore, Project Hieroglyph, Arizona State University, Jake Dunagan, Plutopia Productions, The Digital Convergence Initiative, Chris Boyd, South By Southwest, Boing Boing, Make Magazine, Dave Demaris, Maggie Duval, Bon Davis, DJ Spooky, Forest Mars, OS Con, RU Sirius, Shin Gojira, Open-Source Party, JON LEBKOWSKY QUOTES: “The Noosphere can certainly have pathologies…” “The Internet was originally a peer-to-peer system, and so you had a network of networks, and they were all cooperating and carrying each other’s traffic, and so forth. And that was a fairly powerful idea, but the Internet is not that anymore. The Internet has, because of the way it’s evolved, because it’s become so powerful and so important and so critical, there are systems that are more dominant – backbone systems – and those are operated by large companies that understand how to operate big networks. That’s really a different system than the system that was originally built.” “SO FAR we’ve managed to keep the Internet fairly open…the absolute idea of net neutrality might not be completely practical.” “Science fiction is a literature of ideas, but a lot of those ideas do not manifest in exactly the way that they did in the book.” “I don’t have a real high level of confidence that anybody understands exactly what the fuck is going on.” “You couldn’t get a consumer account to get access to the Internet at that time. And in fact I think the first companies to do that were here in Austin.” “At the time, we were the only game in town for internet stuff…” “One thing I learned was, if you’re at the very cutting edge, it’s hard to make money.” “There are a lot of people who aren’t in touch with themselves internally. Because it’s hard. It’s hard to do that.” “I know that that’s sort of the goal in VR development: to give you a fully immersive experience where you’re really in a completely other reality, like in the Holodeck. But, you know. I’m still dealing with THIS reality. I don’t want another one.” “In an online community, people are always itching for ways to get into real human proximity with one another. They’re always looking for ways to meet.” “That’s my idea of what works now: is to have events that are experiences, you know, versus people just like, going to movies, or watching television, or going to a concert and watching a band play.” “I keep thinking that we won’t be able to solve our problems with bureaucracy or the kind of governance structures that we’ve been living with, but I look around me and see people who are doing just fine, and doing great work, and living their lives…and I’m sort of feeling hopeful and a little bit confident that those people will step up and do what they need to do to make things work, even if our so-called elected officials aren’t doing it.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ben Rama FB ⇾ https://www.facebook.com/BenRamaMusic Ben Rama SC ⇾ https://soundcloud.com/benramamusic Stay Tuned on Fb > www.facebook.com/8daymtl Follow 8day > @8day-montreal Ben Rama is a progressive techno producer from eastern Canada. His unique blend of deep driving tech grooves and subtle, haunting melodies has captivated dance floors ever since unveiling his live set in 2010. Heavily rooted in the progressive psytrance of the early-to-mid 2000s, and drawing upon influences of more modern techno movements, Ben's sound is able to encompass both aspects of light and dark, often within the same track. While not one to shy away from hypnosis inducing melodic structures - some of the fresh sounds emanating from the Rama studios are decidedly darker in tone, a reflection of Ben's interest in dark and psychedelic minimal techno. In 2015 by Ben Rama and Alexander Synaptic founded the label "Techgnosis" and now is home to over 2 dozen artists from all corners of the globe. With a focus on collaboration and cooperation between label artists, the aim is to foster a sense of unity in the progressive and psychedelic techno underground. Techgnosis FB ⇾ https://www.facebook.com/TechgnosisRecords Techgnosis ⇾ SC https://soundcloud.com/techgnosis-records Have a 62 min ride of progressive techno. 1. Forage - Calamites (Ben Rama Remix) - [Techgnosis Records] 2. Longalenga - Vitesse (Ben Rama Remix) - [Techgnosis Records] 3. MYDÄ - Life Oscillations (Ben Rama Remix) - [Digital Structures] 4. Frezel feat. Triateck - Love From A Distance (Ben Rama Remix) - [Techgnosis Records]* 5. Luis M - Emotional Conflict (Ben Rama Remix) - [Techgnosis Records]* 6. Ben Rama - Simulation - [Digital Diamonds] 7. Ben Rama - The Way Out - [Digital Diamonds] 8. Ben Rama - Xander - [Techgnosis Records] (*Unreleased) Stay in touch ⇾ @8day-montreal Download for free on The Artist Union

Erik Davis has a phd in religious studies, hosts the Expanding Mind podcast and is the author of the fantastic book Techgnosis. Michael Garfield is an artist, writer, speaker and Tasmanian Devil of creativity and handsomeness. For a write-up and more mind melds, head to Thirdeyedrops.com

42 Minutes 231: Erik Davis - TechGnosis - 05.16.2016 Gnosticism is the belief that the god of this world is false. Today, we enter the world next door by going into a rabbit hole with author and speaker, Erik Davis. We consider his popular 1998 book, TechGnosis, which has recently been republished by North Atlantic Books. Topics Include: PhD, Kripal, Eliade, McKenna, RAW, Gleick, The Information, PKD, Harold Bloom, Technology, Baudrillard, Simulation, Hyperreal, High Weirdness, Religion, 90's Pop Culture, Singularity, Embody, Conspiracy, Valis, Psychosis, Led Zeppelin. https://techgnosis.com

Over 100,00 years ago, it may have been advantageous for human beings to be hyper aware of other living things for the purposes of survival. In the future, between the IoT and advances in AI, we once again find ourselves ever more aware. Erik Davis, the author of TechGnosis and a praised journalist and speaker, explores the intersection of the technical, spiritual, and often mystical. In this episode, we discuss how our gut reactions to AI often spring from evolutionary or cultural reasons, and how this shapes our reactions to technology and guides our development of it in the 21st century.

Guest speakers: Richard Glen Boire, Erik Davis, and John Gilmore PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) 05:08 Richard Glen Boire: "What if the government could inoculate you so you couldn't get high, so if you took a drug it didn't work in you?" 07:53 Richard begins a discussion about the U.S. Government's research into anti-drug drugs, which he calls "Neurocops". "So the question is, is it actually possible to treat illegal drug use with other drugs?" 08:25 Richard Glen Boire: "What I think the drug war is about to become is like truly a "drug" war. The war of your favorite drug against the government's anti-drugs." 09:09 Richard Glen Boire: "One of those ["anti-high"] vaccines that is now under production (they have these for all the major classes of illegal drugs right now, including marijuana), and this is the one that's been tested now in humans, is only known as SR141716." 10:10 Richard Glen Boire: "The most recent Drug Control Strategy Report, this year's, has this term, ‘compassionate coercion'. This is a real government publication. [quoting] ‘Compassionate coercion requires the use of innovative techniques for fighting addiction, such as specialized pharmeceuticals." 15:40 Richard Glen Boire: "What makes this kind of thinking by the government possible: That we're going to create a vaccine, and you druggies are going to get it so you don't continue to transmit your disease, is what's made the drug war itself possible, which is the government's total disrespect for what we call Cognitive Liberty. And that is the right to control your own neurochemistry, to think the thoughts you want to think triggered by whatever inputs those may be as long as you're not causing harm to others." 16:43 Richard Glen Boire: "I think we need in this country a Roe v. Wade of the mind." 17:11 Introduction of Erik Davis who talks about "Waking Up In The Matrix" 20:16 Erik Davis: "What I talk about in Techgnosis is the way this sort of Gnostic hunch, this sense that there is some kind of false construct that I'm in is really part and parcel of technological society." 21:02 Erik Davis: "By 'spirituality' I really mean something very simple, which is the process of inquiry. And I mean inquiry on multiple levels. . . . Constant inquiry, such as ‘what is going on here?' " 30:14 Erik Davis: "As Dale Pendell said in a line that has just stuck with me, ‘When one learns to face the gods directly one no longer fears facing a king." 30:37 Introduction of John Gilmore who talks about our Constitutional rights of anonymous travel and speech. 32:48 John Gilmore: "When the government says, ‘Terror . . . danger . . . evil . . . trouble,' people sort of zoom in and look at that stuff. Instead, I kind of back away and say, ‘What are they doing around the edges while they're trying to get your attention over here?' " 34:10 John Gilmore: "If you focus on the ability of individuals to do evil you forget about the ability of individuals to do good." 36:40 John Gilmore: "The Bill of Rights, the Constitution, these are memes. They're not alive. They're not self-executing. They require human hosts to carry them and spread them around, and I've been infected by that meme, and I'm carrying it around." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews Erik Davis, author of "Techgnosis."