Expanding Mind - Occult Control Systems - 04.20.17

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Expanding Mind - Occult Control Systems - 04.20.17

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Apr 20, 2017

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Hypermedia researcher and author Konrad Becker talks about algorithms from hell, the madness of rationality, media seances, and the martial art of freedom. http://world-information.net/en/

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Apr 20, 2017

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Expanding Mind - Mindlessness - 10.19.17: Academic psychologist Thomas Joiner talks about the mindfulness craze, stoicism, the trouble with “trauma,” and his trenchant new book Mindlessness: The Corruption of Mindfulness in a Culture of Narcissism (Oxford). by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Psychedelic Science - 04.27.17: Neuroscientist and former psychedelic researcher Matthew Baggot talks about anxious mysticism, the MAPS conference, the default mode network, and the blind spots within psychedelic research. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Big Sur Encounters - 05.29.17: Musician and Gnome Life label head Fletcher Tucker talks about living through the Big Sur landslides, hunting for songs, and his haunting new eco-folk record Cold Spring. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - The Zen of OBEs - 01.18.18: Psychologist and consciousness researcher Susan Blackmore talks about astral cords, brain regions, Zen koans, and her recent book Seeing Myself: The New Science of Out-of-Body Experiences (Robinson). https://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/ by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Cross Cultural Qawwali - 05.11.17: North American Qawwali musician Tahir Faridi Qawwal talks about sacred improvisation, the mystic bliss of qawwali music, breaking into tradition, and building bridges between East and West with his group Fanna-Fi-Allah. www.fanna-fi-allah.com by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Occult Control Systems - 04.20.17: Hypermedia researcher and author Konrad Becker talks about algorithms from hell, the madness of rationality, media seances, and the martial art of freedom. http://world-information.net/en/ by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Enlightened Resilience - 06.15.17: Futurist, Ethereum programmer, and critical infrastructure guru Vinay Gupta talks about global poverty, practical enlightenment, galvanizing visions, and the wisdom of uncertainty. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Marvelous Moments - 08.03.17: Performer, writer, and MC Mark Petrakis, aka Spoonman, talks about San Francisco Dada, avant-vaudeville, spontaneous spirituality, and the importance of disregarding precision. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Indian Talking Machine - 06.22.17: Musician, sound artist, and 78 collector Robert Millis talks about hunting for records in India, the spectral mysteries of 78 records, Sublime Frequencies, and the sacred universe of Indian classical music. https://robertmillis.net by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Cosmic Triggerer - 07.20.17: Performer, director and playwright Daisy Campbell talks about Robert Anton Wilson, the dangers of synchronicity, her father Ken’s 1976 production of Illuminatus!, and her resoundingly successful recent staging of Cosmic Trigger: the Play. https://cosmict... by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - The Revery of the Ordinary - 04.05.18: A sprawling conversation with my interlocutor and old pal Ed Phillips (aka Faustroll on Twitter) about revery, misery, irony, and the ethics of being real. https://congruenz.wordpress.com/ by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - The Fifth Wall - 07.27.17: Novelist, poet and conceptual artist Rachel Nagelberg talk about trauma, technology, ayahuasca, and her intense and resonant debut novel The Fifth Wall. http://www.rachelnagelberg.com/ by Expanding Mind
58 min listen
Expanding Mind - The Voyager Golden Record - 10.05.17: Futurist, science journalist, and Boing Boing co-editor David Pescovitz discusses space exploration, world music, Carl Sagan the stoner, and his participation in the recent release of the Voyager Golden Record, forty years after the original Voyager prob... by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Into the Muck - 09.21.17: Israeli therapist, spiritual teacher, and psychedelic activist Galia Tanay talks about deep dharma practice, the problems with mindfulness, acceptance and commitment therapy, and how psychedelics shape the self. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Mentored by a Madman - 09.28.17: Neurologist and world-class Parkinson’s expert Professor A.J. Lees talks about William S. Burroughs, self-experimentation, ayahuasca, and his terrific medical memoir Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - For the Wild - 11.30.17: Religious scholar Sarah M. Pike talks about wilderness conversion, Hare Krishna hardcore, feral wonder, and her illuminating new book For the Wild: Ritual and Commitment in Radical Eco-Activism (University of California). by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - The Zombie Complex - 06.29.17: Artist, author, and educator John Cussans talks about zombie cinema, revolutionary transgression, the politics of race, and his new book Undead Uprising: Haiti, Horror and the Zombie Complex. by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Morbid Anatomist - 11.16.17: Writer, photographer, and curator Joanna Ebenstein talks about Goth obsessions, memento mori, Santa Muerta, and her extraordinary new illustrated collection Death: A Graveside Companion (Thames & Hudson). by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Insect Surfing - 01.04.18: Guitarist and artist David Arnson talks about his long-running psychedelic surf band Insect Surfers, along with comments on rare dolphins, reverb units, pictures in your mind, and his eye-boggling new coloring book Insect Surfers & Alien Allies. http... by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Studying the Dead - 08.10.17: Grateful Dead scholar and professor Ulf Olsson talks about improvisation, self-organization, pirate ships, and his new book Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation (University of California Press). by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Imaginal Landscapes - 10.12.17: Scholar, writer, and mythographer William Rowlandson talks about Jorge Luis Borges, magical trees, Yankee mysticism, and the power of the weird and murky. https://williamrowlandson.wordpress.com/ by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Goodbye Reality - 02.22.18: A conversation with futurist, inventor, and educator Mark Pesce about Faustian bargains, Facebook mind control, surveillance capitalism, and his bracing recent article “The Last Days of Reality.” https://www.markpesce.com/ by Expanding Mind
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Expanding Mind - Getting Higher - 02.08.18: A chat with occult writer and drug geek Julian Vayne about Baphomet, the (sur)reality of spirits, evolution, ritualizing entheogens, and his new book Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony. https://theblogofbaphomet.com/ by Expanding Mind
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