The Integral Stage
Sexuality Series (Ep. 14: Karen Voorhees, Pt. 2)
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For Episode 12, Bruce Alderman is joined by Elissa Slanger, a TSK and Kum Nye instructor, psychotherapist, and former ski instructor. Elissa discusses her early explorations of Christian mysticism and Eastern traditions; her travels to the East and her Zen formation in Japanese Rinzai monasteries; her encounter with Tibetan traditions in Nepal; her first meetings with Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche and her introduction to TSK; and her deepening exploration of TSK, with its impact on her life, her practice as a psychotherapist, her work on the arts of aging, and much more.
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Oliver Griebel, born in 1964 in Munich, is a teacher, philosopher and translator, and the editor for the original German edition of this book, Wir Vielen in dieser einen Welt.
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R. Michael Fisher, Ph.D., is an independent scholar, artist, educator and fearologist and is founder and director of In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, The Fearology Center, and hosts the Fearlessness Movement ning as a social platform for building community and sharing resources on the impacts, individual and collective, of the culture of fear. He holds degrees in Ecological Sciences, Environmental Biology, Educational Psychology, Education (Secondary Science) and a M.A. in Adult Education and Ph.D. in Curriculum Design & Instruction (The University of British Columbia). He has specialized in futures, philosophy of education, leadership and organizational development and has long been on a healing and recovery quest, engaging in careers of artistry, research consulting, teaching and rehabilitation for youth and their families.
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First Principles and First Values
amazon.com/First-Principles-Values-Propositions-Cosmoerotic/dp/B0CS85WYVX
For episode 43, Layman meets with documentary film producer, Tucker Walsh, to talk about his new podcast, Illuminating Life, where he aims to "shine light on inspiring souls and the passions that light them up."
Tucker is an Emmy Award-winning documentary director. His background in photojournalism provides him with a unique cinematic vision centered on authenticity. His ability to work intimately with his subjects builds their trust, giving them the comfort to open up on camera. Tucker’s vivid imagery and dynamic edits bring viewers on a visceral and emotional journey, allowing them to experience life through the eyes of his subjects. He is also the co-founder of Constructing Consciousness.
Illuminating Life podcast
https://illuminatinglife.transistor.fm/
Tucker's website
tuckerwalsh.com
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Nava Israel is a lifelong innovator, entrepreneur, author, researcher, facilitator, speaker, educator, a business and academic consultant, and a social and cultural innovator with a PhD in epidemiology. Beyond formal titles, she is a philosopher at heart with an insatiable curiosity for all forms of science, critical thinking, human behaviour, patterns, social justice, true and deep healing, our place in the universe, and the intersections of all the above.
CONEtrolled book
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For the thirteenth episode of The Soul of AI, Layman sits down with shaman and spiritual teacher, Evelyn Paul, to explore a shamanic take on the emergence and nature of AI, and to discuss some of her shamanic journeys that have shaped her insights into the topic.
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First Principles and First Values
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ATTACHMENT, TRAUMA, AND DEVELOPMENT IN GENDER RELATIONS
For episode 10, Layman sits down again with Ēlen Awalom, this time to talk about unhealthy and healthy gender models, and the roles of attachment, trauma, and development in contemporary gender relations.
Ēlen Awalom is an Eritrean-American Somatic Experiencing practitioner, writer, entrepreneur and cultural commentator.
She lives and works in DC where she is the founder of The Almaz Institute, an organization that provides trauma-sensitive leadership and communication trainings steeped in the most cutting edge insights from developmental and somatic psychology.
In a previous life she was an exhibiting Afrofuturist visual artist, women’s dating coach focused on developing securely attached relationships, political activist and serial tech entrepreneur who successfully raised millions of dollars from Google Ventures.
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elenawalom.com
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CREATIVITY, DIAPHANEITY, AND THE 5 EVOLUTIONARY GESTURES
For episode 9, Layman sits down with Alexander Love for a rich conversation about his life and healing journey, love and forgiveness, creativity, integral and Taoist thought, and a book he is working on on what he calls the five evolutionary gestures.
Alexander Love is an acupuncturist, life coach, and craniosacral therapist. With gentleness, lightness and depth, he invites us to listen to the voice of our inner wisdom & potency and allow that to move us outward into the world and make a difference. The call to embark on this journey invites us to recognize that we matter beyond measure. Our individual voices, when allowed to speak from the depths of our intrinsic beauty, weave a complex melody of an emblazoned, sacred heart inscribed and aflame with the majestic mystery of life.
eōs website
eoswellnesscenter.com/alexander-love
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eoslearningcollective.com
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Jill Nephew is the founder of Inqwire, PBC a company on a mission to help the world make sense. The Inqwire technology is designed to enhance and accelerate human sensemaking abilities. The designing of the system required her to attempt to answer a fundamental question: how does technology interact with the mind's ability to do individual and collective sensemaking, and what are the principles that technology should follow to maximize these abilities? Jill's background includes developing tools, platforms, and meta-data-based software languages to help people find solutions to complex, real-world problems. She developed algorithms and models in the area of constraint-based optimization, drug binding, motion control, disease kinetics, protein folding, atmospheric pollution, human articulated movement, complex fluids, and most recently sensemaking.
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John H. Buchanan received his master’s degree in humanistic/transpersonal psychology from West Georgia College and his doctorate from the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. He has been trained and certified as a Holotropic Breathwork practitioner by Stan and Christina Grof. His book, "Processing Reality: Finding Meaning in Death, Psychedelics, and Sobriety", based upon his continuing interests in process philosophy and transpersonal psychology, was published in the fall of 2022. Buchanan has contributed a number of journal articles and book chapters on similar topics, and in 2020 was co-editor for "Rethinking Consciousness: Extraordinary Challenges for Contemporary Science".
Processing Reality book
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Gurdjieff for a Time Between Worlds
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The Only Constant (on Substack)
adaptivedaydream.substack.com/p/the-only-constant-883
The Post-Tragic Art of Liminal Housekeeping
http://www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/the-post-tragic-art-of-liminal-housekeeping
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Episode 42 of The Meta-Podcast is an unusual one -- the first half of it belonging equally to the Integral Authors series. Amiel Handelsman joins Layman to talk first about an article he has written on the topic of deracialization, and whether the social and systemic issues and injustices that anti-racists want to resolve can still be properly addressed without buy-in to the concept of race. And in the second half of their conversation, Amiel introduces his new podcast, How My View Grew, which explores how big thinkers have changed their thinking in relation to significant issues and challenges, and in particular what that reveals about the complexity of our most wicked problems.
Why Deracializing People is Essential to Combating Racism
amielhandelsman.medium.com/why-deracializing-people-is-essential-to-combating-racism-34724043faa5
How My View Grew podcast
On Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-my-view-grew/id1731021662
On Podlink: https://pod.link/1731021662
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For episode 41, Layman is joined again by Dr. Sally Adnams Jones and Dr. Jen Peer Rich, this time to talk about their experience with successfully running and concluding their Radical Emergence podcast project. What did they accomplish, what did they learn from it that can inform our larger community, and what do they plan to do next?
Radical Emergence Podcast
radicalemergence.org
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Alchemy of the Psyche book
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Birthing the Symbiotic Age
richardflyer.substack.com/s/birthing-the-symbiotic-age-new-book
Symbiotic Culture Lab
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From the book's description:
"This second book in the 'Middle Way Philosophy' series develops five general principles that are distinctive to the universal Middle Way as a practical response to absolutization. These begin with the consistent acknowledgement of human uncertainty (scepticism), and follow through with openness to alternative possibilities (provisionality), the importance of judging things as a matter of degree (incrementality), the clear rejection of polarised absolute claims (agnosticism) and the cultivation of cognitive and emotional states that will help us resolve conflict (integration). These are discussed not only in theory, but with links to the wide range of established human practices that can help us to follow them. Like all of Robert M. Ellis's work, this book is highly inter-disciplinary, drawing on philosophical argument, psychological models and values that prioritize practical application."
Robert M. Ellis is a philosopher, writer and teacher. He has produced a series of books about the Middle Way, understood as a principle of judgement that throws us onto experience by avoiding absolutes, both positive and negative. He has also founded the Middle Way Society to support the development and practice of the Middle Way understood in this way, and he has recently opened a retreat center, Tirylan House, in rural South Wales.
The Five Principles of Middle Way Philosophy:
amazon.com/Five-Principles-Middle-Philosophy-Experientially/dp/1800503032
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Finding the Balance by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100708
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For the twelfth episode of The Soul of AI, Layman sits down with Lee Chazen, founder of GliderCell AI Lab, to talk about how artists, creatives, and generalist philosophers can contribute to the development of more fruitful expressions and applications of artificial intelligence, and about his own experiments in AI-related 'meta-fiction.'
GliderCell website
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Sky Meadow Institute
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Alderlore
alderlore.org/about
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Vivian Dittmar is an author, wisdom teacher and founder of the Be the Change Foundation. Born in Germany, Vivian spent her childhood and youth on three continents, immersed in very diverse cultural and socio-economic contexts. This gives her a unique perspective on what it means to be human. Through her books, lectures, seminars and online offerings, she has been committed to a holistic development of people, society, economy and consciousness for over two decades. Her books include “The Emotional Backpack”, “The Power of Feelings“ and “Your Inner GPS“.
📖 BOOK: “The Emotional Backpack” ► viviandittmar.net/en/the-emotional-backpack-book
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First Principles and First Values
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Leeza teaches self-awareness, embodied peace and mindfulness through the “direct path” lens of non-duality -- principally as self-inquiry and meditation via retreats, online gatherings, presentations and personal sessions.
LinkedIn page
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In Episode 25, Layman meets with Forrest Wilson, host of The Forrest Wilson Experience, to talk about healthy, generative relationships to money; the internal and external conditions needed to shift to new, more value-centered, eudaimonic economies; the importance of the cultivation of, and a living relationship with, financial intelligence; and much more.
Forrest Wilson is the host of The Forrest Wilson Experience podcast. After his father passed away in his early twenties, Forrest decided to let go of the idea he had for his life based on the expectations, conditioning, and cultural constructs he took on as a young person and dive deep into healing, developmental, and awakening journeys. After nearly a decade of playing in the unseen world, Forrest has found connection to a tremendous passion for supporting a humanity to live life more fully. By embodying a way of being that is palpably alive, clear, penetrative, and illuminating, Forrest invites folks around him to play all out.
Forrest Wilson website
forrestbwilson.com
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Simon Cox, Ph.D., is an independent scholar and translator who works primarily in Chinese, Tibetan, and Greek. His research focuses on mysticism and the body. He is also a teacher of Chinese Martial Arts at the Okanagan Valley Wudang center, and a collaborator at the Esalen Institute.
The Subtle Body
amazon.com/Subtle-Body-Genealogy-Studies-Esotericism-ebook/dp/B09LVTVYFK
Okanagan Valley Wudang
okanaganvalleywudang.com
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SHADOW-WORK, DESCENT, AND DEVELOPMENT IN EMBODIED LEADERSHIP
For episode 8, Layman sits down with Ēlen Awalom to talk about her experience as an activist, her spiritual awakenings, and her path of self-healing and development on the way to the creation of an embodied, integrally informed approach to leadership and leadership training.
Ēlen Awalom is a technologist, creative (writer, exhibiting photographer, poet), human rights activist, trained anthropologist and start-up entrepreneur who lives in San Francisco, California. Born in Khartoum, Sudan to Eritrean parents, Ēlen came of age in the South Bronx and Northern Virginia.
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Dr. Fisher, Ph.D., is an independent scholar, artist, educator and fearologist and is founder and director of In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, The Fearology Center, and hosts the Fearlessness Movement ning as a social platform for building community and sharing resources on the impacts, individual and collective, of the culture of fear. He holds degrees in Ecological Sciences, Environmental Biology, Educational Psychology, Education (Secondary Science) and a M.A. in Adult Education and Ph.D. in Curriculum Design & Instruction (The University of British Columbia). He has specialized in futures, philosophy of education, leadership and organizational development and has long been on a healing and recovery quest, engaging in careers of artistry, research consulting, teaching and rehabilitation for youth and their families.
The Marianne Williamson Presidential Phenomenon
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In the second episode, Layman introduces the concept of 'metaphemes' — key elements that transcend dualities and connect various fields in science and philosophy; and that in their tracing of transcendent boundary conditions, help us to enact a truly integral pluralism. He examines how figures like Nietzsche, Heisenberg, and Einstein have been misinterpreted, and how their pioneering ideas offer insight into a beyond that is "between," and a difference that is implicit to identities. The discussion then explores how metaphemes shed light on important ideas of Koestler and Wilber, such as holons and quadrants. These theories illuminate the boundary conditions and adjacencies that both limit and enable translation across different perspectives, providing a more nuanced understanding of reality.
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For the first episode, Metaximodality in Amerindian Cosmology, Bruce turns to Amazonian shamanic cosmology and the ground-breaking anthropological scholarship of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro to illuminate a new integral grammatological concept: metaximodality. What can a deeply participatory, mythic cosmology teach us about doing philosophy in the 21st century? How can it help us to live differently in the world, and to see ourselves, and our visionary projects, anew? Listen in to see how Amerindian concepts such as perspectivism, multinaturalism, and infinite self-difference can shed light on pronounal, adverbial, and prepositional philosophemes -- not just as abstract notions, but as deeply embodied sensibilities.
Resources:
Sophia Speaks (thank you to whoever uploaded this!):
file:///C:/Users/balde/Downloads/1_Alderman_ITC2013-1.pdf
Integral In-Dwelling:
https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=conscjournal
Integral Postmetaphysical Spirituality forum (where many rich conversations helped to seed and inspire our respective projects):
http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com
facebook.com/groups/470435939720069
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For the eleventh episode of The Soul of AI, Layman sits down with healer, artist, and AI entrepreneur and consultant, Cris Beasley, to talk about the interface of art and AI; the narcissistic dynamics that drive much of our modern structures, and bringing healing to those dynamics; "Letting the piranha eat us"; the difference between artificial intelligence and augmented intelligence; the potential for AI to take over the "synthesizing intelligence" and function of our leading-edge thinkers, and what then is left for humans still to develop and do; and much more.
Cris founded a sustainable AI company nine years ago – well before it was the latest thing on the block. It was featured in a cover story of The Atlantic. She stopped Sequoia Capital from trying to build an AI that was obviously never going to work. It was obvious if you bothered to do the back-of-the-envelope math, which Amazon did not do. They attempted the same thing, failed, and wasted a few million bucks. They should've had someone like Cris on their team. Before that, she led the redesign of Firefox support, which resulted in an extra 7MM users per year finding the answer to their questions immediately. Cris was selected to be in the first cohort of ambassadors to the Interledger Foundation. Their $15k grant supported her project about Jungian emotional polarities, Becoming Dragon, which was covered in Forbes. She advises Earthcodes.org on strategy for their regenerative data cycles project, AI for Gaia, in partnership with the Biomimicry Institute. In her copious spare time, she convinces two mischievous black cats to come when they're called, paints with watercolors, makes AI-generated short films, and plays electronic music that takes you into meditative theta brainwave states.
Cris Beasley portfolio
crisbeasley.com/portfolio
Becoming Dragon Oracle Cards
http://www.crisbeasley.com
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For the tenth episode of The Soul of AI, Layman meets with musician and systems change thinker and advocate, Speaker John Ash, to discuss the limitations and misperceptions common to popular discourse about AI; the morally questionable, implicit goals behind the development of artificially intelligent agents; AI and art; possibilities for better and more transparently linking AI output to its sources in training data; revolutions in voting and governance systems that AI may facilitate, and much more.
Speaker John Ash's YouTube channel
youtube.com/c/speakerjohnash
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For episode 23, Layman is joined by Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers, a sex educator and psychotherapist, to explore questions around gender and sexual development; the impact of shame on sexual development, and the relationship of shame and guilt; the problems in recent and contemporary sex education in the United States; the possibilities for a hedonic education; deeper forms of sexual identity and development available through tantra and entheogens; and much more.
Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers is a nationally known speaker, educator, and writer on sexual health and the biopsychosocial-sexual impact of sexual shame and trauma. She is professor emerita of sexuality and marriage & family therapy at Seattle Pacific University. As a past board member for The American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), Tina is at the forefront shaping change in the lives of professionals and families. As a preeminent voice on the impact of abstinence education, purity culture, and the failure to provide comprehensive sex education Dr. Sellers is frequently featured on podcasts, TV, documentaries, articles, and radio, including Spirituality & Health magazine, and NPR’s All Things Considered. In her acclaimed 2017 book, Sex, God and the Conservative Church – Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy, Dr. Sellers reveals how the western conservative church in collusion with American consumer-driven culture and politics, has infiltrated our core ability to attach to our partners and instruct our children to attach to theirs.
Professional Website
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Shameless Parenting
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When they hear this sound
That's been glowing in the dark at the edge of town
People won't be people
No, the people won't be people when they hear this sound
Won't you show me what begins at the edge of town..."
~ Atlas, by Battles
I should let these lyrics stand as the full description of this wonderful conversation. But for those of you who need more: In Postnormal Worldviews, Layman is joined by eco-village explorer and Fourth Way practitioner, Markus Feenstra, to inquire into the question of normalcy, how it gets socially established, and what processes, practices, and sensitivities allow for the establishment of new normals; the problem of mismatches between the 'normal' and what we might sense intuitively as what is deeply right; the shamanoid role of the edge-dwellers; the Gurdjieffian possibility for a third position between the exoteric and the esoteric, the mesoteric, and how mesoteric individuals contribute to the evolution of culture; and much more.
Markus Feenstra is a resident of the Earthsong Eco-neighborhood in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the co-developer of a fractal theory of change and underpinning worldview that assists people committed to enhancing the wellbeing of all beings to renormalize themselves, so they may better embody their gifts for the world in their natural ways of being.
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For episode one, their companion is Bruce Alderman -- founder and producer of The Integral Stage, a teacher and writer, a university program director, and a husband and father. In the container Layman and Cheryl set, Bruce tells a story of early wonderment and creative exploration, innocence and existential threat, love and loss and death; of despair, homelessness, and spiritual transformation; of world travel and contemplative journeys across multiple traditions; of formative relationships, confrontation with shadow, and integral formation; and much more. This is the second time in a year that he has been called an elder, and it is starting to worry him...
Cheryl Hsu is a transition designer, speculative researcher and artist, braiding the living root bridges that connect the flourishing of people with the planet. She has been unfolding in soul-inquiry into the imaginal, cultural and cosmological patterns that scaffold collective meaning-making in this time between worlds. Cheryl has worked for over a decade as a systemic designer and researcher in health care, affordable housing, technology, food systems, and policy innovation. Cheryl integrates her philosophical background and artistic practice with design innovation, with a passion for understanding the underlying mindsets and beliefs that drive or inhibit systemic transformations.
Cheryl Hsu
cherylhsu.ca
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Terri O'Fallon is a researcher, teacher, coach, spiritual director, and designer of transformative containers. She does ongoing research on the Integral STAGES developmental model, which supports a MetAware tier with four later levels of development. Her latest research probes into the relationship between states and stages. Terri is a founder of STAGES International, offering programs based on the STAGES model. She holds Masters degrees in Special Education and Spiritual Direction, and an Integral Ph.D. in Transformative Learning and Change.
The Royal Seal: An Introduction to Mahamudra and STAGES course
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Aviv Shahar is the Founder of Aviv Consulting and helps leaders create new futures by unleashing strategic innovation. He is also the author of Create New Futures: How Leaders Produce Breakthroughs and Transform the World Through Conversation.
Protecting the Sacred (w/ Aviv Shahar and Layman Pascal)
portalsofperception.org/portals/a-conversation-with-layman-pascal-part-1-protecting-the-sacred
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Aviv Consulting
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Brendan Graham Dempsey is a writer whose work focuses on the meaning crisis and the nature of spirituality in metamodernity. He earned his BA in Religious Studies from the University of Vermont and his MA in Religion and the Arts from Yale University. He lives in Wolcott, Vermont.
Metamodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logics
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Panelists: Sean Esbjorn-Hargens, Stuart Davis, Chris Dierkes, Giorgio Piacenza, Layman Pascal, and Bruce Alderman.
Original Panel Discussion: youtu.be/I8cBzyD4YVM?si=BacRDwamyZgDzfpq
RESOURCES and REFERENCES
Sean Esbjorn-Hargens' Exo-Studies Master Course: exostudies.org
Stuart Davis' media
Man Meets Mantis: youtu.be/Zi_8W0qCUH0
Stuart's episode on Weird Studies podcast:
weirdstudies.com/37
The IS Language: youtube.com/watch?v=BkyDxjOVk7k
The Art of Is: youtu.be/q3cpAS9xU8o
Aliens and Artists: aliensandartists.com
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Credits
Intro and Outro Music: Remix of Sparkspitter's "Pretty Wave"
For episode 22, Layman is joined by Catherine Auman and Greg Lawrence of The Transpersonal Center in LA, to talk about the tantric arts, transpersonal dimensions of development, sexuality as a doorway to mystical or psychedelic experience, psychic integration before and after extended lovemaking, the science of creating a soulmate, the importance of friendship for intimate tantric sexuality, life as lovemaking, and much more.
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Andrew M. Davis is a process philosopher, theologian, and scholar of cosmological wonder. He is program director for the Center for Process Studies where he researches, writes, and organizes conferences on various aspects of process-relational thought. An advocate of metaphysics and meaning, he approaches philosophy as the endeavor to systematically think through what reality must be like because we are a part of it. He holds B.A. in Philosophy and Theology, an M.A. in Interreligious Studies, and a Ph.D. in Religion and Process Philosophy from Claremont School of Theology.
Metaphysics of Exo-Life
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For the ninth episode of The Soul of AI, Layman meets with coach and Circling facilitator, David Swedlow, to thread thoughtfully between the usual utopian and dystopian narratives on AI; and given the degree of speculation in the face of the unknown that even experts in the field are forced to do, to consider the roles and responsibilities each of us has to think these issues through carefully and creatively.
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Robin is the host of The Moment Podcast, / @themomentpodcast
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