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What can be done if neither reform nor revolution can work? What is the right fight? Is there a path between dystopian control and collapse into chaos? With political theorist Benjamin Studebaker and philosopher O.G. Rose in dialogue with Tim Adalin.This follows the dialogues ‘What Are We Accelerating Towards?’ and ‘What is the Revolutionary Subject Today?’.Support this work on Substack at https://substack.com/@timadalin---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e150-what-if-the-way-is-shut-w/-benjamin-studebaker-og-rose-and-tim-adalinBenjamin Studebaker's Substack: https://bmstudebaker.substack.comO.G. Rose Substack: https://ogrose.substack.comChapters00:00 Introduction: paths between chaos and control01:37 The Way Is Shut: Benjamin's thesis07:33 Virtue without political power13:23 Positive and negative despair21:56 Internalised limits28:43 AI, sovereignty and the right fight44:16 The restricted imaginarium1:00:03 What kind of conversation actually changes people?1:16:52 Catastrophe and the drone1:28:57 Pluralism and apophatic speech​Subscribe to the Voicecraft Network YT channel  @voicecraftnetwork  Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

On right relation, serpent lore, truth and reality, with Tyson Yunkaporta, who works with Indigenous Systems Knowledge, Indigenous inquiry methods and complexity science to address global existential threats and issues in regenerative design. He is the author of Sand Talk, Right Story Wrong Story co-author with Megan Kelleher of Snake Talk.Chapters00:00 On talking properly04:31 Approaching circle, setting circle, keeping circle, closing circle08:23 The trouble with reciprocity16:36 Law and lore: what's real and what's true31:57 Flibbertigibbets, hard heads and two throats41:27 The serpent as master of semi-permeable boundaries46:06 Is the human being transitionary?53:01 Hyperstition, Harry Potter and poison as medicine57:05 Right destruction, wrong destruction, wisdom of crowds1:01:29 The basilisk, empire, and evil as simplificationFind a copy of Snake Talk at https://www.amazon.com.au/Snake-Talk-ancient-serpent-stories/dp/1923058460---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e149-snake-talk-w/-tyson-yunkaportaListen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

The return of philosopher Alexander Bard in dialogue on power, time, attention and AI in the liminal period associable to Capitalism and ‘Attentionalism’.

This continues threads from the conversation ‘Where are we in history?’ in which the notions of paradigmatics, membranics, and archetypology framed how we might approach an understanding of the social and technological changes taking place today. See E146.

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Chapters - mostly AI gen (these conversations aren't linear and rarely map well to chapter stamps)

00:00 Intro (Recap of Where are we in history?)

04:31 Beyond Economics: Sex, Power and Violence

10:54 Chronomics: A New Paradigm of Time

26:18 Dystopian vs. Protopian Perspectives

36:48 The Shift from Capital to Attention

43:34 The Triad of Power: Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real (Lacan)

49:00 Imaginary Power and Its Contexts

55:30 Sensocracy and the Future of Governance

1:03:43 The Tyranny of the Past and AI's Limitations

1:07:47 The Chaos of Future Politics

1:12:01 Why Space Gives Potency to Time

1:15:28 Influencers and Elites

1:21:32 Populism, Mobs, and the Future of Collective Action

1:29:57 Rethinking Communism and Religion

1:40:55 Girard on the Mob, and Art Against Fundamentalism

1:46:24 The Future of AI and Mathematics

2:00:07 Emergentism and the Nature of Consciousness

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On the challenging and often shadowed topic of feminine violence; seeking pathways toward understanding and healing for men and women. A live dialogue at the Voicecraft Network with three outstanding women, Adriana Forte, Valeria Ferreira and Pamela von Sabljar.

Learn more @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e147-feminine-violence-adriana-forte-pamela-von-sabljar-valeria-ferreira

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About the speakers:

Adriana Forte is a cultural architect, philosopher, and writer dedicated to bringing the cyclical nature of women’s minds into collective awareness. Through dialogue, writing, workshops, retreats, online group work, and one-on-one mentoring, she aims to create spaces for provocative thinking, reflection and transformation.

Connect with Adriana's work on Substack where she is releasing her new book @ https://theclab.substack.com/

Pamela von Sabljar is a new breed of speaker, facilitator, and mentor working at the evolutionary edge. She practices dialoguing, sensing, creating, and leading from this ever-emergent edge. She calls this Living from Eros. Pamela has 25 years experience in leadership, personal development, and behavioral science. She has founded several systemic change projects and leadership programs in advanced self-awareness and self-leadership.

Find out how to contact and work with her @ https://www.pamelavonsabljar.com/

Valeria Ferreira is a dialogic practitioner with a deep grasp of philosophies across the East and West, currently studying Mandarin to engage Chinese philosophy. She is a member of the Voicecraft Network.

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0:00 Intro

01:23 The Significance & Shadow of Discussing Feminine Violence

05:03 Distinctions: Feminine as Psychological Principle

11:10 Etymology and Intentionality of Violence

18:26 What do we hold power over that we don't admit to?

27:25 What aggression do we need to integrate in ourselves?

34:22 Sexual Power, Visibility, and Modernity

46:29 What violence has been done to the feminine?

56:54 What are we willing to not see, to stay in relationship?

01:04:38 The Role of Motherhood and Generational Healing

01:18:34 The Collective Work of Healing Feminine Shadows

1:23:34 What does this land as, in a man's body?

Evolutionary biologist, complexity thinker and UAP experiencer Michael Garfield joins Tim Adalin for a dialogue on UFOs, entity encounters, and the strange territory where consciousness studies, evolutionary biology, complex systems, the ontologically shocking, information theory and the imaginal meet.

Can we engage the strange without becoming impotent, in a way that actually matters for how we live, belong, and make sense together?

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Connect with Michael at on Substack @ https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/

And locate the rest of his work here @ https://linktr.ee/michaelgarfield

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

2:26 Meeting the strange where you are: evolutionary biology & the UFO

4:52 Telos, self-organisation & ontological shock

8:23 Integral philosophy & the Buddhist tetralemma

22:11 Has it become sayable? Psychedelics, channeling & attentional capitalism

26:47 Three frames: psyop, projection & the external other

38:23 The economy in ontological shock & noise in machine learning

40:52 Noise, precognition & retrocausal information

43:15 Metabolic ontology & the ecodelic

45:42 A psychedelic the whole civilisation is taking at once

49:54 Decoding animal communication & the interiority of plants

52:00 The self as the strangest alien

53:16 Kant, the noumenon & the limits of perception

55:42 Is there a "there" to break through to?

1:00:27 Dreaming, the imaginal & communication across time

1:04:40 A hermeneutics of imagination (William Irwin Thompson)

1:08:41 Danny Sheehan & a new faculty of perception

1:12:25 Flatland & higher-dimensional reality

1:24:42 Jacques Vallée's last word on disclosure

1:38:01 The stakes: The Big Others

1:44:03 "You can't do anything with it": impotence & relevance

1:57:30 Becoming planetary & emotion-projection weapons

1:59:59 Paranoid vs metanoid

2:07:16 Games, value capture & why consensus reality isn't enough

2:11:18 Closing Stories: Contact experiences

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Additional resources mentioned by Michael in this episode:

Hear more of Michael's experiences on the ⁨@dannyjones⁩ podcast @ https://youtu.be/H0kzIsmZpqs

https://www.realitystudies.co/p/michael-garfield-ai-deepfakes-rewilding-reality

https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/t/the-phenomenon

Miguel Fuentes on epistemic randomness

https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/16/8/4489

Some related writing from Michael: https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/noisy

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Where are we in history? What is the central question for social philosophy? What paradigm might be replacing capitalism? What will become of humanity in the age of information and attention? How can re-thinking a philosophy of membranes, paradigms, and archetypes help us situate living in the world today?

Welcoming the return of philosopher Alexander Bard in conversation with Tim Adalin about membranics, paradigmatics, and archetypology in the chaos between capitalism and attentionalism.

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

0:11 Where are we in history?

2:07 What is 'paradigmatics'?

7:33 What is 'archetypology'? Plus definition of 'membranics'

15:20 How much is our sense of inside and outside (membranes) in flux today?

21:23 The 'sociont', tribal loyalty, and the central question for philosophy: mediating world-annihilating violence

25:33 What ideologies and material pressures shape our belonging today?

41:00 Shamanoids as go-betweens & the birth of religion

54:44 The dying paradigm: politics, finance & academia

1:03:27 What is attentionalism — and how does it differ from the "attention economy"?

1:14:50 Attention as sacred vs. attention as commodity

1:24:55 'Hacking synchronicity', corrupting attention, and power in attentionalism

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A multimodal experiment in altered states of conversation, sensing for qualities of the Future Human. This took place at The Big Dinner: like pirate radio, but with dinners hosted at homes around the world, held by the Voicecraft Network.

Welcoming psychonaut and hyperhuman theorist Carl Hayden Smith, dreaming mysteries teacher Sarah Janes, biologist and neo-Shamanic practitioner Simon van der Els, artist Jon Garner, field facilitator Pamela von Sabljar, joined by philosopher Tim Adalin.

To learn about the next opportunity to participate in The Big Dinner, stay in touch with the project by following the breadcrumbs, and subscribing on Substack here: https://timadalin.substack.com/

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00:00 Intro to The Big Dinner and Guest Intros

5:30 The somatic praxis begins — dropping into the body together

17:00 The oracular world: dreams and signs as glimpses of the future

20:30 "The future is analog" — embodiment as our edge over AI

30:40 The soul, the placenta, and the modern terror of dying

44:45 Child time, elders, and the case for communal rhythm

47:40 "Presence is longevity" — Carl on humans as nested ecologies

1:01:45 Advertising as mind control — and a gentler vision of technology

1:10:50 Reclaiming our capacity for grief

1:21:00 Decoding the languages of whales, plants, and fungi

1:33:00 The reality of violence — and the "wizardry" of containing it

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On geopolitical shifts, civilisational cycles, and the potential for new social coordination mechanisms in an increasingly frenetic world.

This dialogue welcomes the return of political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, philosopher O.G. Rose, and Commons / Civilisation theorist Michel Bauwens in dialogue with Tim Adalin.

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MIchel Bauwen's Substack: https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com

Benjamin Studebaker's Substack: https://bmstudebaker.substack.com

@O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel Substack: https://ogrose.substack.com

Tim Adalin's Substack: https://timadalin.substack.com/

Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:10 US, China, Geopolitical Shifts and Military Spending

06:01 The 5,000-Year Transition: Modes of Exchange

25:22 Social Coordination Mechanisms and Global Pluralism

40:21 Exploring Accelerationism: Positive vs. Negative Forms

47:45 The Dilemma of Nation States vs. Globalization

56:14 The Crisis of European Identity and Sovereignty

01:07:04 Communication and Social Coordination in a Complex World

01:18:45 Incompleteness of Institutions and the Potential for New Ideas

01:20:12 The Opportunity in Institutional Failure

01:20:51 Fragmentation and the Search for Unity

01:22:08 The Challenge of Encountering Otherness

01:24:37 Metaphysical Possibilities in Human Encounters

01:30:27 Navigating Geopolitical Dynamics

01:38:20 The Role of Invisible Colleges in Crisis

01:46:02 Reflections on Trust and Society

01:52:43 Alienation and the Quest for Sameness

Listen to the full outro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

What is Anthro-complexity? What makes humans different? How can we respond with wisdom, at scale, to our entanglements? Welcoming polymathic thinker and renowned complexity practitioner Dave Snowden, in dialogue with Tim Adalin.

Dave's previous conversations on Voicecraft / Altered States Of Conversation:

"Civilisation, Science & Spirituality" https://youtu.be/uXvWQzGcNCo

"Artificial Intelligence & Human Reasoning" | Metacrisis vs Polycrisis" https://youtu.be/TrMZL55Nzl0

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Learn more about Dave and Cynefin @ https://thecynefin.co/team/dave-snowden

Find Dave's blog series on Anthro-complexity: https://thecynefin.co/anthro-complexity-1-3/

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

0:10 What is anthro-complexity?

8:33 Entanglement, not relationship?

15:45 Orientation and the ancient debate that still structures how we think

23:05 Why workshops don't work (and what does)

34:30 You can't simplify a falcon into a pigeon (and have it still be a falcon)

45:25 Three dangers: appropriation, distraction, destruction

53:04 Who is this actually for?

57:30 Demes: the forgotten structure humans evolved to live in

1:04:55 Do we need new shamans?

1:42:50 Changing how decision-makers listen

1:55:00 The limits of dialogue and what comes next

Listen to the full outro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Sarah Janes is reviving the dreaming mysteries of Western civilisation, rooted in ancient Greece and Egypt.

We dialogue on the esoteric history and culture of dreaming, consciousness, mysticism and sensemaking. Sarah is the author of Initiation Into Dream Mysteries, a psychomagic journey to awaken lucid dream consciousness. She is a researcher, curator, and retreat/workshop facilitator.

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Sarah's Links:

Website: https://themysteries.org/

Book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Initiation-into-Dream-Mysteries-Mnemosyne/dp/164411514X

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00:00 Intro

01:44 What Are Dreams?

05:15 The Meaning of Mystery

09:31 Etymology and Magic of Language

17:01 Dreaming Consciousness as Response to Tech Enslavement

28:10 Creation, Songlines & Memory Palaces

33:40 Hieroglyphs as Holographic Writing

41:40 Prophecy, Truth & Healing

55:41 AI, Desire & Vitality

1:0:55 Receptivity and Context

1:07:30 Dying Before You Die

1:20:28 Magic, Sympathy & Serpent Symbolism

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Welcoming master craftsman and philosopher Forrest Landry in dialogue on the deep structures underlying money, power, and inequality in modern civilization.

Starting with fundamental questions about what money really is, we move through an analysis of why inequality has reached unprecedented levels, to urgent questions about artificial intelligence, the future of human choice-making, and a foundational orientation of response.

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Desire, Want and Need on Delicate Fire: https://youtu.be/rejVuh1Knn8

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction: Money, Power & AI

0:55 Lenses for Understanding Money: Choice, Energy & Game Theory

06:12 Why Inequality Exploded: Technology as Extraction Amplifier

29:30 The Three Stages of Mastery: Change, Causation & Choice

41:05 Beyond Capitalism vs Socialism: Upgrading the Game

57:40 The Maker-Taker Inversion: When Extraction Became Valued Over Creation

1:16:08 Virtual vs Virtue: Humility and Being Rooted in Reality

1:26:38 Rewilding Ourselves: Embodiment and Collective Wisdom

1:38:31 Why Everyone's Investing in AI: The Loss of Trust in Ourselves

1:47:40 The Path Forward: Distributed, Embodied, Contextualized Choice-Making

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Welcoming Dr Iain McGilchrist, renowned psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar, in dialogue with Tim Adalin for Voicecraft.

We explore the relation between cosmic drives, the left and right hemispheres, attention, religion, power, good, evil, AI and the soul.

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0:00:00 Introduction

0:00:04 What is Intuition?

0:02:28 Intuition and the Hemispheres

0:04:41 The Basis of Understanding

0:08:13 Left and Right Hemisphere Dynamics

0:11:49 Participation in Reality

0:18:29 Bundling and Unbundling: Economics and AI

0:23:11 Dividing and Uniting: When and Why

0:30:02 Understanding vs. Information

0:34:19 Animate and Inanimate: A Continuum

0:42:53 The Artificial Intelligence Predicament

0:54:26 Narcissism and Echo Chambers

1:00:43 Consciousness as Field

1:07:15 Cancer, Bureaucracy, and Runaway Systems

1:17:09 The Assault on Nature, Body, and Culture

1:25:00 Authority, Doubt, and Transformation

1:34:12 Religion, Certainty, and Common Truths

1:40:57 The Soul and Life as Pilgrimage

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Dr Iain McGilchrist is a renowned psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and his influential work explores the relationship between the brain's hemispheres and the nature of human experience, reality, and culture.

He is the author of The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World and the monumental two-volume work The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World.

Find his YouTube channel @DrIainMcGilchrist

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Tim Adalin is a philosopher and the founder of The Voicecraft Project.

Connect with Tim @ https://www.timadalin.xyz

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

What is presence? How can we inoculate against coercive programming? How does presence relate to the revolutionary subject?

This dialogue welcomes philosopher, neuroscientist and host of Love and Philosophy, Andrea Hiott, microbiologist and shamanic practitioner Simon van der Els, and design ontologist Anna Gyllenklev, in dialogue with philosopher Tim Adalin.

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What are the prospects of social and political revolution? How can we understand revolutionary subjectivity today? Who, what, when, and where is the revolutionary subject?

Inspired by a Philosophy Portal conversation between Cadell Last and Michel Bauwens, this dialogue welcomes political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, philosopher O.G. Rose, and Commons / Civilisation theorist Michel Bauwens in dialogue with Tim Adalin.

Find the Philosophy Portal conversation with Michel here: https://youtu.be/9bR-bsvi0Nk?si=CDKv2TqLwWyjJZvS

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00:00 Introduction to Revolutionary Subjectivity

03:53 Embedded Democracies and Revolutionary Prospects

08:30 Civilizational Inter-Cycles and New Contradictions

16:19 Constructive Networks and the Commons

26:20 Navigating Political and Social Dynamics

35:56 The Role of the Military in Revolution

53:37 Defining Revolutionary Subjectivity

01:10:58 Jurisdictional Alliances and Historical Contexts

01:15:02 The Crisis of Education and Intellectual Spaces

01:20:13 Emerging Alternatives to Traditional Education

01:27:11 Creating Indispensable Spaces for New Subjectivities

01:39:57 Navigating the Political Landscape for Change

01:52:43 The Role of Presence and Receptivity in Conversations

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

What are the challenges and prospects of integrating transformative sound with philosophy?

Featuring hyperhuman theorist, psychonaut, and founder of The Museum of Consciousness Carl Hayden Smith and philosopher Tim Adalin, this dialogue reflects on the collaboration between The Museum of Consciousness and Underground Philosophy, live in Melbourne.

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Reflections on The Museum of Consciousness & Underground Philosophy

02:51 - Sound vs Language: What Gets Lost in Translation

06:35 - Can Philosophy Be as Free as Music?

12:43 - Using Sound to Process Trauma and Shadow Work

15:39 - Sacred Sound & Prototyping New Ontologies

22:30 - Beauty, Wonder, Thresholds, and What Happens When Interpretations Differ?

36:19 - Consciousness & The Golden Thread between The Museum, DMT, and Hyperhumanism

38:34 - Religion, Theology & Egregores

41:53 - The Paradox: Limiting Input While Maximizing Experience

45:43 - Deep Trust and Bracketing the Ordinary

53:50 - Notes of Wisdom for Participating In Intense Exploratory Experiences

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Featuring hyperhuman theorist, psychonaut, and founder of The Museum of Consciousness Carl Hayden Smith, and philosopher Tim Adalin. Filmed at the start of an evening of transformative sonic experience with The Museum of Consciousness at Underground Philosophy, live in Melbourne. We explore the question: are we human yet?

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ABOUT CARLCarl Hayden Smith is the founder of the Museum of Consciousness at Oxford University and co-founder of the Cyberdelics Nexus. His research concentrates on the relationship between technology and the human condition and he is developing ‘Hyperhumanism’ which reframes technology as a catalyst for developing our own innate human abilities. Carl is also Associate Professor of Media in the School of Arts & Creative Industries at UEL and is the former Head of Research and Director of the Learning Technology Research Centre (LTRC) at the Institute for Creativity & Technology, Ravensbourne University London. His research focuses broadly on the relationship between technology and the human condition. He has also been very fortunate to be a participant of the nnDMT research at Imperial College London for the last six years and has been through all three phases, including i) EEG ii) EEG+FMRI and iii) nnDMTx. Carl was also the first person in the world to sustain the full 5 doses of DMTx during the pilot phase of the study.ABOUT TIM

Tim Adalin is a philosopher and founder of The Voicecraft Project and Underground Philosophy. You can work with Tim individually @ https://www.timadalin.xyz/one-and-oneTimestamps00:00:00 Intro00:01:00 Are we human yet? The core question explored00:05:12 The sacred and connecting to what we share in common00:9:18 Sacredness, Context engineering and Hyperhumanism00:13:00 Hyperhumanism vs transhumanism: Enhancement vs escape00:19:06 Finding the right balance of friction in modern life00:21:30 Ancient sound healing and The Museum of ConsciousnessListen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Exploring intersections of chemical ecology, evolution, and humanity's relationship with technology in the era of technicity.

Welcoming chemical ecologist Timothy Jackson in dialogue with Tim Adalin, we explore the prospects for developing "philosophical science of purposeful transformation."

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AI Gen chapters:

00:00 Intro

01:30 What is chemical ecology?

06:41 Life as technical and tool use

13:00 Simondon and the advent of technicity and evolution

15:03 Darwin versus popular evolutionary understanding

22:48 Participating in speciation and morphogenesis

27:30 Humanity's technical capacity and transformation

31:41 Transhumanism and philosophical science critique

40:10 Mediation between conservation and adaptation

45:08 Mutual transformation versus one-directional relationships

51:34 Musical improvisation as constraint and enablement

59:16 Risk-taking and trans-individual collective emergence

1:03:17 Purity, impurity and interior-exterior dynamics

1:13:57 Niche construction and inheritance patterns

1:26:00 Wisdom begins with acknowledging ignorance

1:37:22 Addiction as pathological attraction patterns

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Welcoming political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, author of Legitimacy In Liberal Democracies and The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut.

He dialogues with Tim Adalin on the crises of trust and legitimacy in politics and institutions; the impact of technofeudalism on communication; power, intractable disagreement violence and cultural shamanism; and pathways toward authentic political change even if the way is shut.

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Exploring the tensions between ideology and reality, or ‘indestructible maps’ and participation in mystery and incompleteness, welcoming the philosopher, Voicecraft Network contributor and author of The Map is Indestructible, O.G. Rose in the form of Daniel Garner, in dialogue with Tim Adalin. This conversation continues the Cultural Shamanism series.

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Find 'The Map Is Indestructible' here: https://www.amazon.com/Map-Indestructible-Problems-Internally-Consistent/dp/1736507591/

Listen to Daniel speak with Cadell Last in a conversation titled 'The Map Is Indestructible' @ https://youtu.be/UOFPEIyj8Sc

Chapters

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:00 Defining Global Pluralism

00:08:30 Givens vs Maps: The Shift in How We Navigate Reality

00:11:16 The Map is Indestructible: Consistency, Correspondence and Truth

00:36:12 Address vs Explanation: Opening to the Gödel Point

00:53:23 Universal Points of Connection Across Different Maps

01:24:29 Cultural Shamanism and the Necessity of Gödel Points

01:39:14 Practical Challenges: Authority, Intimacy, and Trust

01:55:36 From Desire to Drive: Sustaining Presence in the Gödel Point

02:11:52 Informal Conviviality and the Future of Belonging

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

An exploration of AI, human intelligence, dangers of cognitive atrophy, and lines of flight in response to teritorialisation. Welcoming the creator of the Cynefin Framework and iconoclastic generalist thinker Dave Snowden, who argues that AI represents artificial or algorithmic inference rather than true intelligence. He joins Tim Adalin for a dialogue that also broaches metacrisis vs polycrisis, religion and identity, economic and political systems, warfare and complexity.

Dave's previous conversation on Voicecraft "Civilisation, Science & Spirituality" https://youtu.be/uXvWQzGcNCo

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Timestamps

00:00 Intro

00:15 The Nature of Intelligence

08:05 Artificial Inference vs. Artificial Intelligence

12:50 Extended Consciousness & Embodied Intelligence

24:40 Education, Measurement & Cultural Atrophy

31:48 Warfare, Complexity & Game Theory

47:35 Religion, Identity & Collective Meaning

57:10 Economic Systems & Gifting Cultures

01:14:35 Technology, Design & Emergence

01:25:39 Boundaries, Safety & System Design

01:39:35 Power, Manipulation & Lines of Flight

Learn more about Dave and Cynefin @ https://thecynefin.co/team/dave-snowden/

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Philosopher Cadell Last joins Tim Adalin for a dialogue working with core themes from Last's new book: 'Real Speculations: Thought Foundations, Drive Myths, and Social Analysis.

This is a comprehensive journey into core philosophy and psychoanalysis, intended for a network of networks engaging in common effort to understand and participate in the becoming of our time.

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Find Cadell's Philosophy Portal @ https://philosophyportal.online/Real Speculations @ https://www.amazon.com/Real-Speculations-Thought-Foundations-Analysis/dp/B0F5NV3821

Cadell's conversation with @O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel @ https://youtu.be/Q92oh-iXvqI?si=hdHEEOtWKAllXO1k

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Dr Michael Levin's pioneering research on bioelectricity, morphogenesis, and cognition is reshaping our understanding of how living systems self-organize and regenerate. He explores how cells and tissues communicate through bioelectrical signals, guiding the formation of complex structures without relying solely on genetic instructions.

He is a Distinguished Professor in Biology at Tufts University, working at the intersection of biology, computer science, and cognitive science.

This dialogue explores meanings of influence, value, transhumanism, minds, collective intelligence, and the philosophical and scientific implications of Dr. Michael Levin's work.

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0:00 Introduction, Influence and Approach

1:19 TAME Framework and Mind Everywhere

10:07 The Spectrum of Persuadability

18:43 Creating Novel Beings and Personal Transformation

24:09 We Don't Create, We Participate

32:56 Intelligence vs Cognition Key Differences

39:31 Value Is Primary, Not Emergent

45:51 Transhumanism vs Hyperhumanism Discussion

52:55 The Cognitive Light Cone Concept

57:10 Technology & Value

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

What does progress mean? How does it influence consciousness and our notions of value, quality and story? Can we think beyond it?

Dialoguing with meanings of progress, mythos, conceptions of time, and the becoming of identity and culture. Welcoming paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield and integral philosopher Jeremy D Johnson, author of Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness and philosopher Tim Adalin.

For the video to see the screenshare, head over to https://youtu.be/tMd5dhEAj1o

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction & The Problem of Progress

06:19 Fitness Landscapes & Evolutionary Navigation

16:06 Value, Mythos, Soul, Image-making

23:28 Embodied Time & Spatial Metaphors

32:00 Digital Hauntology & Indigenous Temporalities

42:57 Choosing What We Give Life To

55:28 Finding Home Through Slowing Down

01:02:41 Belonging & Context Windows

01:13:57 Embassy & Cultural Navigation

01:17:17 Living From the Future Present

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With influence from philosophy and psychonautic experience, this dialogue explores the forking path of humanity’s relation with technology. One way proposes hyperhumanism, which seeks to enhance humanity through the mindful use of technology. The other, transhumanism, promises 'transcendence' as an escape from the lack in humanity.

Featuring Carl Hayden Smith, founder of the Museum of Consciousness, hyperhuman theorist and extended state DMT pioneer, in a Voicecraft dialogue with philosopher and consciousness theorist Cameron Duffy.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

01:58 The central question: "Are we human yet?"

03:14 The problem with transhuman and post-human theories

06:35 Species in amnesia and technological context

15:13 Mycelium networks and sharing wisdom

21:20 Learning to die before you die

26:07 Practical hyperhumanism and technology use

30:35 Context engineering and sensory awareness

40:00 DMTx, Cybernaut and psychonaut exploration

46:17 Healing from healing culture

50:30 Entities and consciousness exploration

1:10:57 Jean Gebser's stages of consciousness

1:13:58 Strife, love, and creating beautiful contexts

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

A philosophical exploration into the weird of magic, aliens and altered states with the neo-Jungian thinker, psychotherapist and baby wizard, neo-Jungian Anderson Todd and Tim Adalin.

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Timestamps

00:02 - Introduction

02:20 - Jungian Perspective on UFOs & the Psychoid

09:00 - How do we participate in understanding magic and aliens

22:00 - Frameworks for understanding anomalous phenomena

48:56 - Psychedelic Entity Encounters

01:00:21 - Channeling and Historical Magic

01:37:56 - DMT Experiences and Entity Encounters

01:40:37 - Certainty vs. Skepticism in Mystical Experiences

01:43:19 - Magic as Experimental Psychotechnology

01:48:22 - Re-enchantment and Ethical Transformation

02:08:46 - Ayahuasca and the Mythic "Duh" Moment

02:27:39 - Symbolic Manipulation and Propaganda

02:37:36 - Pluralism and Communication

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When should we make the unconscious conscious in social contexts? Welcoming Voicecraft members O.G. Rose (philosopher) and Dr Aspasia Karageorge (psychologist) in dialogue with Tim Adalin.

We speak with questions of emotional maturity, AI & human complexities, cultural shamanism, societal structures, and the balance between individual and collective transformation, blending philosophy, psychology, and spirituality.

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The previous Cultural Shamanism conversation which expands on the notion more explicitly is E114.

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Timestamps (mostly AI gen)

00:00 - Introduction

00:30 - Cultural Shamanism & Making the Unconscious Conscious

07:19 - Discerning Unconscious Influences

16:15 - Role of Art and Parables in Awareness

25:20 - Belonging and Societal Precarity

34:03 - AI and the Outsourcing of Relationships

47:28 - Attentionalism and Cultural Dynamics

58:13 - Emotional Maturity in Historical Crises

01:13:48 - Navigating Anger and Emotional Nuance

01:31:47 - Stories vs. Participatory Contexts

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Welcoming the return of the neo-Jungian thinker, psychotherapist and cog-sci wizard, Anderson Todd, centered on the phenomenon of synchronicity—those moments of meaningful coincidence that seem to transcend causality.

He joins Tim Adalin to dialogue on how synchronicity can be nurtured through trust, intentional design, and a willingness to engage with life’s mysteries, even as technology challenges our sense of reality.

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00:00 - Introduction

00:10 - Synchronicity & Alignment

07:55 - Designing for Serendipity

25:00 - Synchronicity as Magic

39:00 - Hacking Synchronicity

45:00 - Trust, Intimacy, Risk

01:07:09 - Jung, Archetypes in Modernity

01:15:00 - The Magic Circle

01:30:00 - Artificial Intelligence & Magic

About Anderson:

Anderson Todd is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, at the University of Toronto, where he has taught in the Cognitive Science programme, Interdisciplinary Courses on Jungian Theory, and Buddhist Psychology and Mental Health programme. He teaches on Consciousness and The Unconscious, focusing on the techniques and technologies of intentional self-transformation. He consults internationally with individuals and organizations, in private practice as a Registered Psychotherapist, and as an enrichment education specialist. His research interests include altered states, insight and intelligence enhancement, non-invasive brain stimulation, attentional neurofeedback, roleplaying games, neo-Jungian lucid dreaming, practical psychotechnology, and the mechanics of psychotherapeutic efficacy. He has been an avid roleplaying game enthusiast, writer, and storyteller for nearly 40 years. His library has become immense. He has learned from his videos just how much he talks with his hands.

You can find his YouTube channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/@AndersonTodd

Find previous dialogues with Anderson on Voicecraft here:

https://youtu.be/ztuNGOZ6N5A

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

What if the feminine also calls for war? Exploring the primal, cultural, and psychological dimensions of war through the interplay of masculine and feminine energies.

Pamela von Sabljar, Adriana Forte, Simon van der Els and Tim Adalin continue Voicecraft’s series exploring the meaning of the feminine and masculine.

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Beyond causation: exploring the deep philosophy of technology and design, in consideration of the needs of vitality and life. For those with serious interest in thinking through the creation of structures that support thriving—and who want to incorporate more than just thinking in that process.

Welcoming Eric Harris-Braun, pioneering co-founder of Holochain and other software technologies, alongside Forrest Landry, philosopher and master craftsman. They’re joined by Voicecraft members Tom Lyons in the opening position, and the philosopher Daniel Garner of O.G. Rose.

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The Voicecraft Network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/network

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What makes men and women different? Pamela von Sabljar joins Tim Adalin to continue Voicecraft’s exploration into the energetic, cultural, scientific and metaphysical depths of this question and its related implications.

Pamela is a new breed of speaker, facilitator, and mentor working at the evolutionary edge. She practices dialoguing, sensing, creating, and leading from this ever-emergent edge. She calls this Living from Eros.

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How does the way we think about communication.. influence the technologies.. that influence our social and economic horizons? This dialogue explores the meaning of Grammatics, a term coined by Holochain co-founder and pioneering technologist Eric Harris-Braun. It’s a way of thinking about design and communication at a fundamental level.

Also welcoming Josh Field, founder and leading contributor to the Infinite Reality Engine and contributor to Voicecraft, alongside Tim Adalin.

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Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

How do ideas shape the appearance of reality? How can metaphysics open or close us to deeper participation with nature? What is the significance of a philosophy of consciousness?

Renowned philosophers of mind Bernardo Kastrup and Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes join Tim Adalin for a dialogue informed by Kastrup’s analytic idealism, and Sjöstedt-Hughes’ thinking on Bergson, Whitehead, Huxley, Spinoza, and others.

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GUESTS

Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is a Philosopher of Mind and Metaphysics who specializes in the thought of Whitehead, Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bergson – and in fields pertaining to panpsychism, pantheism, mental causation, and altered states of consciousness. He is a lecturer at The University of Exeter where he is a lead on the new postgraduate courses in Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture. Peter is co-director of Europe’s largest psychedelics conference, Breaking Convention, and is on the board of breathwork charity Dreamshadow. He is on the advisory board of the Tyringham Institute, and is a member of the drugs advisory committee group, Drug Science, as well as being on the team of the underground UK independent publisher, Psychedelic Press. Dr Sjöstedt-Hughes is the author of Noumenautics (2015), Modes of Sentience (2021), co-editor and contributor of Bloomsbury’s Philosophy and Psychedelics (2022), and author of Bloomsbury’s forthcoming Psychedelic Metaphysics Manual (2025). As well as the TEDx Talker on ‘psychedelics and consciousness’, Peter is an inspiration to the recreation of inhuman philosopher Marvel Superhero, Karnak.

Find Peter’s website here:

https://www.philosopher.eu/

Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has set off the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). He has also been creatively active in the high-tech industry for almost 30 years now, having co-founded parallel processor company Silicon Hive (acquired by Intel in 2011) and worked as a technology strategist for the geopolitically significant company ASML. Bernardo has most recently started AI hardware company Syncthetics B.V., currently in stealth mode. Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, Bernardo's ideas have been featured on Scientific American, the Institute of Art and Ideas, the Blog of the American Philosophical Association, and Big Think, among others. Bernardo's 11th book, coming in 2024, is "Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A straightforward summary of the 21st-century's only plausible metaphysics."

For more information, freely downloadable papers, videos, etc., visit his website at https://www.bernardokastrup.com

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An opening to questions, blind spots, and revelations of sexuality, biology, culture, psychology, nature, politics and metaphysics, drawn together by the meaning of the masculine and the feminine.

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About the speakers:

--- Adriana is a cultural architect, philosopher, and writer dedicated to bringing the cyclical nature of women’s minds into collective awareness. Through dialogue, writing, workshops, retreats, online group work, and one-on-one mentoring, she aims to create spaces for provocative thinking, reflection and transformation. Above all, she’s a mother to two amazing girls, a partner to an awesome guy, and an apprentice gardener living off-grid in a community in Australia.

She has a substack where she posts articles, reflections and holds occasional group conversations: https://theclab.substack.com/

Find C-lab's YouTube channel: @theC-Lab

--- Aspasia Karageorge is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Australia, a qualitative researcher, and a writer of some kind. She grew up in small town New Zealand wedged between a mountain and a volcanic black-sand coast. She is curious about practice-based wisdom, the creative process, languages of the unconscious, and some intersection of wonder/beauty/mystery/connection. Her therapy approach is greatly informed by Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP). As a research consultant, she is broadly focused on clinical complexity, innovation, and workforce development. Longstanding literary loves include Camus, Kazantzakis, Seferis, Anaïs Nin, Plato, Borges, Kafka, Balzac, Jung, Paz, Sartre, Nietzche, Gertrude Stein, Hemingway… a ridiculous list of names.

In her downtime, you’ll currently find her in the water, writing something that won’t make sense until later, daydreaming with campari, and/or dancing to some wild Greek 70s pop records with her kids. She is also a core contributor at Voicecraft.

You can connect with Aspasia @ aspasiapsychology.com

She also shares conversations on her YouTube channel here: @aspasiapsychology

Joining Adriana are Voicecraft members Tom Lyons (Ecofo) and Tim Adalin of the Voicecraft Network.

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Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

In this follow up to 'Is The Earth Enough?', Layman Pascal, Cadell Last, Sean Kelly and Simon van der Els extend the conversation with reference to the concepts of the Anthropocene, Global Brain, and the Noosphere. They consider the influences upon humanity, and our influences in turn, on this hyperconnected Earth.

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Layman Pascal is well known in integral and metamodern networks as the host of the @theintegralstage8140 podcast, author of Gurdjieff For A Time Between Worlds, insightful general thinker and spiritual teacher.

Cadell Last is a philosopher and author of Systems & Subjects, Global Brain Singularity: Universal History, Future Evolution and Humanity’s Dialectical Horizon, among other works, and founder of @PhilosophyPortal , teaching courses on great works, great thinkers, and critical concepts in community.

Sean Kelly is a Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is the author of Coming Home, and Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation, which draws on big history, comparative religion, transpersonal psychology and integral philosophies.

Simon is a shamanic healing practitioner and ceremonialist working together with the living Earth in bringing people home. He holds a PhD in molecular microbiology. Along with Cadell, he is a valued member of the Voicecraft Network.

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KEYWORDS:

Anthropocene, Global Brain, Noosphere, Ecology, Human Relationships, Overshoot, Consciousness, Planetary Civilization, Technology, Enjoyment, excess, lack, religion, embodiment, network subjectivity, global structures, overshoot, rewilding, metacognition, Anthropocene

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Why do we value stories, and how do stories transmit value? Marc Gafni joins Tim Adalin for a dialogue on the philosophy of story, risk, and trust in the context of personal and cultural transformation. Dr. Marc Gafni is a visionary thinker and social activist, holding a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox rabbinic ordination.

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About Dr Marc Gafni: https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/about-dr-marc-gafni/

First Principles and First Values (book): https://www.amazon.com/First-Principles-Values-Propositions-Cosmoerotic/dp/B0CS85WYVX

Is the Earth enough? And are we worthy of the Earth? Layman Pascal, Cadell Last, Sean Kelly and Simon van der Els drop in to the Voicecraft nexus to meet these questions. Please share this conversation and subscribe to the channel if you want to see this network of conversations thrive.

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Layman Pascal is well known in integral and metamodern networks as the host of the @theintegralstage8140 podcast, author of Gurdjieff For A Time Between Worlds, insightful general thinker and spiritual teacher.

Cadell Last is a philosopher and author of Systems & Subjects, Global Brain Singularity: Universal History, Future Evolution and Humanity’s Dialectical Horizon, among other works, and founder of @PhilosophyPortal , teaching courses on great works, great thinkers, and critical concepts in community, with one starting October 20 on the concept of Christian Atheism (https://philosophyportal.online/christian-atheism)

Sean Kelly is a Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is the author of Coming Home, and Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation, which draws on big history, comparative religion, transpersonal psychology and integral philosophies.

Simon is a shamanic healing practitioner and ceremonialist working together with the living Earth in bringing people home. He holds a PhD in molecular microbiology. Along with Cadell, he is a valued member of the Voicecraft Network.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 - Introduction

02:56 - Session Prompt

06:02 - Dialogue Begins

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Daniel Garner of O.G. Rose joins Tim Adalin for a dialogue on critical tensions and opportunities facing the project of cultural shamanism associated with Voicecraft, Network Philosophy, and the Liminal Web. O.G. Rose is a writer, philosopher, and author of Belonging Again: An Address, which explores the conditions of possibility for the realisation of ‘a sense of freedom and beauty among Global Pluralism without retreating or proving naïve.’ Daniel is a core contributing member to the Voicecraft Network.

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Keywords

Cultural Shamanism, Healing, Authority, Agency, Hierarchy, Economic Value, Community, Transformation, Spirituality, Change, mastery, meaning crisis, personal relations, voice craft, public-private divide, risk, influence, cultural shamanism, community, sustainability Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Welcoming paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield for a dialogue working with themes of wiser innovation, collective intelligence, network philosophy, and the complexity of thinking across across silos of specialist disciplines and cultural logics in the face of evolution, exponential technology and existential risk.

Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e113-wiser-innovation-collective-intelligence-michael-garfield-in-dialogue-with-tim-adalin Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

What does it mean to be conscious? What is the relationship between consciousness and the unconscious? What is the connection between consciousness and conscience?

Recorded live in Melbourne at August's Underground, join Tim Adalin, founder and host of Voicecraft, and philosopher, counsellor and independent researcher Cameron Duffy for an evening of dialogue with mystery, metaphysics, depth psychology and social philosophy.

Tickets are now available for the next Underground Philosophy in Melbourne on September 12 @ https://www.voicecraft.io/events --- Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e112-underground-philosophy-consciousness-cameron-duffy-in-dialogue-with-tim-adalin Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

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Cameron has spent his adult lifetime exploring the nature of being, healing, and human possibility through the transformation of consciousness. He discovered the non-dual potential of conscious experience during his early adult development and has been focused on the scientific, alchemical, and embodied philosophies that bind the nature of consciousness with the meaning making journey. Cam is otherwise dedicated to re-vitalising modern psychiatric culture and psychedelic integration by synergizing an awareness of the sacred with harmonic modes of relationship and practice.

Is there hope for the internet and decentralised communications technology? Led by Tim Adalin, this dialogue explores the existential context, shadow, and potential associated with emerging network coordination technologies, with civilisation theorist and political economist Michel Bauwens (P2P Cooperative), regenerative entrepreneur and collective intelligence practitioner Ferananda Ibarra (Holochain, The Commons Engine), and technology design philosopher and Infinite Reality Engine co-founder Josh Field.

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Keywords:

Web3, transcendence, grief, balance, collective intelligence, structures, systemic challenges, power, relationship, cycles, technology, regenerative systems, balance, right relationship, transformation, social conditions, class

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Relating with notions of God, choice, difference, intuition, belonging, confession... with Jordan Hall, Forrest Landry, and Joey S. Robinson II.

In early July, Joey reached out on Twitter following a Voicecraft dialogue with John Vervaeke, expressing interest in John, Jordan, and Forrest having a dialogue on the podcast. John was unable to make it on the day.

At the end of the opening, the attempt I made to compress the previous few minutes into a question will likely come across very unclear. Here is a breakdown of the core parts of that orientation:

how do we / what is it to:

relate, when perceptions / valuations about our gods might be different,

taking place in a toxic global / digital communication context,

given the importance of really hearing and caring for self / other / world.

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Exploring the political, social, psychological and metaphysical dynamics of the Overton window: the present limits of socially acceptable policy and opinion. Alex is an incidental musician and philosopher. His interest in Hegelian philosophy began (unbeknownst to him) more than a decade ago, with his development of a peculiar mathematical function (magnetic zeros). Said function is now the centerpiece of his Hegelian philosophy of sublation (freQ theory), and, for better or worse, serves as his platinum-selling band’s name. --- Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e109-the-overton-window-w/-alex-ebert-tim-adalin Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Matthew Segall is a transdisciplinary researcher, writer, teacher, and philosopher applying process-relational thought across the natural and social sciences, as well as to the study of consciousness. O.G. Rose is a writer, philosopher, and author of Belonging Again: An Address, which explores the conditions of possibility for the realisation of ‘a sense of freedom and beauty among Global Pluralism without retreating or proving naïve.’ This was recorded as a live podcast recording for the Voicecraft Network.

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Welcoming Cadell Last, Simon van der Els, Valeria Ferreira, and Jurnee Manu for a Voicecraft Network Freeform session. Freeform sessions invite a praxis of philosophical jazz.

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00:00 - Introduction

00:30 - Cadell Last on the Left / Right Divide & the limits of the Nation-State + Christian revival

08:30 - Swarm Intelligence in the context of Ecology & Capitalism

14:50 - Politics, Culture & Niche Construction

15:30 - Hegel's conception of an ethical system of governance

20:00 - Introducing the notion of organism in thinking new forms of global governance

25:37 - Deepening notions of regulation and authority, in the context of scale and multiple levels of participation in complexity

28:30 - Art & Beauty, and the Esoteric / Exoteric in relation to cultural transformation

30:30 - East / West / Daoism / Christianity

34:39 - Bringing back in the biological metaphor

42:00 - Radicalising the notion of emergence in the context of technology

46:04 - Exploring the Difference Between Christianity and Taoism

55:38 - Reconnecting with the Spirit of Indigeneity in the Context of Big History

59:41 - Oligarchs & Inter-Elite conflict

01:13:20 - The Limits of Understanding & Going Beyond Capital

01:22:11 - Reviving Different Fields of Value

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The indigenous Songman mentioned in the second half of the conversation is named Ngulmya. His music can be found here: https://youtu.be/b_piL8W0UKM

Guy Sengstock is a philosopher, founder of Circling and a master of dialogic practice. He returns to the podcast for a deeply generative dialogue which develops themes and insight on generativity, instability, beauty, power, relational intelligence, the cultivation of attention and the relationship between enlightenment and economics.

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Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e106-enlightenment-economics-w/-guy-sengstock-in-dialogue-with-tim-adalin Keywords & Timestamps (AI generated) Timestamps 00:00 - Introduction 03:06 - Generativity and Instability 14:23 - Awakening as the resolution of narcissism 26:30 - Opening of the Enlightenment and Economics thread 44:52 - Awareness of capacity to contribute in network contexts 55:20 - Circling for billionaires

01:01:00 - Training skilfulness in attention 01:11:52 - Ideology and Relationship 01:15:10 - The Role of Beauty in Value Cultivation 01:19:07 - The Education of Desire and the Cultivation of Beauty 01:38:31 - Network Philosophy Keywords generativity, instability, enlightenment, economics, communication, connection, self-disclosure, humility, intimacy, personal needs, service, value flows, coherence, dissonance, power, economy, attention, participation, surrender, confrontation, giving, receiving, self-correction, self-perception, spirituality, philosophy, economic reward, value generation, beauty, value cultivation, desire, education of desire, artists, generative conversations, paradigmatic shifts, network philosophy, internet, mycelial structures --- Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

A critical inquiry into the relation between praxis, ecology, authority and ultimacy, with award-winning professor and globally renowned thinker John Vervaeke. The dialogue begins with reflection on the evolution and self-correction of John’s work over recent years.

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The following shownotes are AI generated to give a rough sense of topics covered and to aid with search discovery.

Timestamps

00:00 - Introduction

01:15 - The Evolution of John's work in recent years

05:25 - The Interdependence of Philosophy and Theology

18:55 - Ecology of Practices & The Praxis of Ecology

28:40 - 1st, 2nd, 3rd person modes of Authority

44:00 - Finitude & Transcendence

01:07:49 - The Role of Holding Space and Sharing Space

01:19:49 - The Philosophical Silk Road

01:29:35 - Membranes, Transgression

Keywords

philosophy, theology, praxis of ecology, ecology of practices, authority, ultimate reality, participation, authority, fellowship, finitude, transcendence, participatory knowing, collective intelligence, reciprocal recognition, ultimacy, transformation, dojo, practice, community, individual responsibility, societal challenges, philosophical Silk Road, mutual transformation, sacred, holding space, sharing space, geophilosophy, songlines

A dialogue integrating themes of ecology, shamanism, prophecy, artistry, and underground philosophy, welcoming Transition Guide and Voicecraft Network member Dr Simon van der Els & Tim Adalin.

Learn more about how to apply to the Voicecraft Network @ https://www.voicecraft.network

---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e104-phenomenology-of-the-prophet-w-simon-van-der-els-and-tim-adalinThe following shownotes are AI generated to give a rough sense of topics covered and to aid with search discovery.Timestamps00:00 - Introduction01:32 - Imagery and Imagination in Relating to Complexity04:56 - Perceiving Oneself and Others08:19 - The Importance of Groundedness10:18 - Holding Space and Sharing Space15:59 - The Tension of the Scream and the Call22:37 - Phenomenology of the Tortured Prophet27:36 - Integration and Maturation in Artists34:36 - Exploring Psychosis and Different Realities41:43 - The Challenge of Genuinely Sharing Space TogetherKeywordsperception, sensitivity, reception, imagery, imagination, shamanism, complexity, tension, groundedness, holding space, sharing space, prophet, scream, call, swarm organisms, mapping the unknown, integration, maturation, evolution, artists, holding space, sharing space, psychosis, wildness, cultural philosophy, psychedelics, group communion---Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Welcoming members of the Voicecraft Network Jacob Kishere, Aspasia Karageorge, Tyler Hollett, Kyle Lawrence, Tom Lyons, Cam Duffy & Tim Adalin for a Culture Lab session on the topic of Real Violence: Israel, Palestine, Justice & Justification. --- Access show notes and learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e103-real-violence-israel-palestine-justice-justification-culture-lab --- Content used under fair use: Links referenced: https://youtu.be/xDTrsysXWt8?si=aqWVqpXhvm1AAKR5 - Clips used from Piers Morgan https://youtu.be/QvGkKKemIDk?si=m135Bwo0uwXZBhrY - Clips used from Piers Morgan https://youtu.be/I5VPFw0vI6U?si=gigV3n-dDDGc6Qcb Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Relating to the tensions and paradoxes associated with change (evolution) and the eternal (perennial) in the context of lineage traditions, value, membranes, and the future of spirituality and religion.

Welcoming educator, futurist and philosopher Zak Stein, one part to the pseudonymous author David J. Temple, who has recently published the work First principles and first values: Forty-two propositions on cosmoerotic humanism, the meta-crisis, and the world to come.

Part two has been released privately.

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Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction

01:12 - Evolving Perennialism & The Perception of Value

12:20 - The Barred Absolute & The Emergence of Law

35:00 - The phenomenology of transgression & true authority

46:18 - Integration of Wisdom Traditions and Traditional Lineages

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Dr. Zachary Stein was trained at the interface of philosophy, psychology, and education, and now works in fields related to the mitigation of global catastrophic risk. A widely sought after and award winning speaker, Zak is a leading authority on the future of education and contemporary issues in human development.

Dr. Stein is the author of several books which can be found on his website @ https://www.zakstein.org/ Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

An effort toward critical and generative relation with Forrest Landry’s thinking on the topic of Artificial Intelligence, existential risk, and the possibilities for meaningful response.

This was recorded for the Voicecraft Network's Humanity, Technology & Nature expedition, following a previous session engaging with Forrest’s Substrate Needs Convergence argument.

00:00 - Introduction

02:30 - Forrest Explains The Substrate Needs Convergence Argument

26:00 - The Need for Intuition, Instinct and Intellect To Inform Conscious Choice-Making

36:22 - Can There Be Empathy Between Machine Intelligence & Human Intelligence

49:46 - Intimacy, Intensity, The Mystical, And The Need For Spiritual Process

1:17:14 - Intention, Implication & Intensity

1:24:47 - Questions & Clarifying The Substrate Argument

1:40:10 - What Next?

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