Mythos After Progress | Jeremy D Johnson, Michael Garfield, Tim Adalin @Voicecraft

Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

What does progress mean? How do our stories about progress influence consciousness and our perceptions of value, quality and emerging mythos? 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.

This was recorded live with the Voicecraft Network who joined in after the convo. Find part two on the Voicecraft Network channel here: youtu.be/uRCMQ83Cbm4

Thumbnail art created live during the recording by Jon Garner.

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

Mythos After Progress | Jeremy D Johnson, Michael Garfield, Tim Adalin

$Civilisation, Science & Spirituality | Dave Snowden in dialogue with Tim Adalin An exploration of human decision making and transformative social process in the context of evolution, emergence, complexity, religion, telos, the mystical, and more. Welcoming the creator of the Cynefin Framework and iconoclastic generalist thinker Dave Snowden in dialogue with Tim Adalin. Access the show notes for this podcast at @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/civilisation-science-spirituality-dave-snowden-in-dialogue-with-tim-adalin 00:00 - Introduction 03:03 - Dave Snowdens Background and Work 05:20 - Understanding Human Decision-Making 08:08 - Micro Narratives and Transgenerational Pairs 09:38 - Navigating Complexity: Bottom-Up Approaches 15:37 - Energy Gradients 23:44 - Management and Facilitation 29:04 - Science and Spirituality 44:39 - Religion and its Relationship with Society 48:20 - The Impact of Globalization and the Internet 50:33 - The Concept of Messy Coherence 01:09:35 - Balance and Reconciliation with the Planet 01:12:53 - Fractality and Self-Similarity 01:15:41 - Abduction and Human Thinking 01:19:37 - Transcontextuality & Scaling and Participatory Approaches 01:28:30 - You got much time for the mystical, Dave? KEYWORDS: humanity, technology, emergence, complexity, civilizational project, change processes, bottom-up approaches, distributed decision-making, energy gradients, management, leadership, cultural perspectives, narratives, evolution of science, spirituality, religion, globalization, internet, balance, reconciliation, messy coherence, commonality, humility, rituals, symbolism, community, unintended consequences, complexity, fractality, self-similarity, alignment, micro nudging, abstraction, context, culture, communication, trust, mystical Learn more about Dave and Cynefin @ https://thecynefin.co/team/dave-snowden/ Learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/ Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled The Big Break @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0$

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