Culture Catalyzes Climate
by Brandon Heckman
New thinking and fresh perspectives on human power and climate change. In this podcast we revisit all our cultural assumptions and view global human actvitiy through revealing and empowering lenses. Our aim: connect you meaningingfully to both the full scope of human power and its climatologic consequence and to provide listeners with a vantage of understanding what actions need to be taken to heal our battered world.Visit the Global Institute for Edenic Return at www.evolutionarycatalyst.love today for much much more information about our programs and advocacy.
Episodes
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Who's afraid of the big bad AI?
Alternative thinking about consciousness, calculation, and Ai's inevitable rise.
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I'm not going to keep doing what I've been doing
Admitting defeat as the human world faces down it's inevitable decline...
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Where Callings and Investment Intersect
This is more of a return to form.
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I don't feel good about any of it
Some stuff on currency, and then. worry about the unwinding military and political situation
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Globalism's sins finally metastasize.
Stuff's hitting the fan and duck and cover won't cut it.
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My experience with gay persecution in Russia
The story of Nikolai, a you fella who put his life in danger falling in love with me... From Russia.
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Our planet is awake and alive.
Humans are an invasive species. Eight rivers of rain lashing the exact same highly infested terrains of coastal California seems like an intentional extermination attempt.
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Closing thoughts, and an introduction to what's next
The company isn't going anywhere so I'm starting a church.
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News from the darkest depths of the Russian Permafrost
I think there’s more in our thawing permafrost to be concerned about than the world imperiling methane leaks. When my institute funds, I will dispatch teams to inventory it entirely so we can make a collective decision about its remediation that is best for all living things.
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Quick Update
This podcast series is a curriculum best listened from the first podcast to the most recent.
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Ruminations on this project’s past and future
This is a super long but very interesting and thought provoking look at my thinking behind developing and launching the work.
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Just a short one
A brief rumination on permafrost.
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Past the Point of No Return
Brandon Heckman looks to recent UN declarations and examines mortal threats mounting in the biome and concludes we are now in climate’s end game.
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Ruminations VI
Vague hints about something of consequence.
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Ruminations V
This one will dazzle you and leave you breathless.
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Ruminations III
Human beings are our single greatest obstacle to surviving climate change.
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Ruminations IV
Meandering through compelling cultural insights.
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Ruminations II
Brandon explores why his efforts are doomed to fail but he is happy to continue.
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Ruminations I
Exactly what the title says.
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Do you survive the fall?
Whatever happened to The Institute for Endogenous Technology?
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Darkness Falls
The podcast makes a tonal shift into confession as Brandon Heckman opens up about his doubts for our prospects.
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On holons and macro-organisms
In preparation for discussing SPORES we revisit macro-organism theory and examine holons, which are the infinitely nesting chain of all being.
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On supposition, presumption, should and why
Our suppositions and presumptions too often get in the way of our direct experience and generate a wealth of psychological and sociological maladies that disrupt happiness and civic unity.
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Introducing the Reward, Global Triage, and the Project Economy
In this podcast we consider the reality of our planet's finite resources and we look at our solutions to environmental cleanup and the economic tools necessary to stimulate that environmental cleanup activities
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Apocalypse Now
Our planet is being faced down by multiple converging apocalypses. Where do we find them, what are the dangers, and how do we find a way out?
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Rennaissnace is the Answer
The remedy for our poison culture is to birth its replacement. Nothing generates a new culture like a rennaissnace. Fortunately, evidence in popular culture suggests that a second rennaissnace is already brewing.
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Previews of upcoming talks
Circling the wagons and previewing upcoming CCC talks.
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We interrupt this podcast
An update promising a return to regular posting.
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Stretch Aeon: Into Apocalypse Chapter 4
This is the fourth chapter of my free audiobook.
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Stretch Aeon: Into Apocalypse Chapter Three
#free #audiobook
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Stretch Aeon: Into Apocalypse Chapter 2
More of my free audiobook climate change thriller. This chapter covers a brainstorming session about the Titans with Elon Musk. #climatechange #audiobook
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Stretch Aeon: Into Apocalypse Chapter 1
This episode of Culture Catalyzes Climate features the first chapter of our free audiobook, the Climate Change thriller Stretch Aeon: Into Apocalypse. #freeaudiobook #climate #climatecrisis #climatethriller #stretchaeon
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After a long break our host returns with an update
Brandon Heckman explains his absence and promises regular content in the form of a free audiobook of his climate change thriller, STRETCH AEON: INTO APOCALYPSE.
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Return to normal
Covid has grossly disrupted social, cultural, and economic norms. This podcast examines what it means to long to return to the days and norms that defined life before the pandemic.
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Covid and tyrrany
Shocks to the social fabric create opportunity in ailing democracies for tyrranies to rise. Covid and it's economic aftershocks provide the ideal shocks to threaten global democracy in favor of a new generation of tyrants.
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The perils of human chow
This podcast looks at the planetarily and personally deforming power of the globalized industrial food chain.
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Tricognitive you
In this follow-up to our chat with Mike Bonner, Brandon Heckman expands on his insights into the composition and function of our three brains.
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The limits of perception
We look at the exclusionary limits of perception in this podcast and explore its expansion.
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Junk corroded the garden biome
Junk is manufactured human detritus nothing in the garden biome can eat, and it's produced accumulation is fast catching up to the lived foundations of the garden biome.
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How to write a novel, part one
We take a break from climate curriculum and look at creative process as host Brandon Heckman discusses the lessons he's learned writing his novel, Stretch Aeon: Into Apocalypse.
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Your species is a planet deforming chemical system
We look at the human species through geologic time's lens and identify it as a chemical system acting rapidly through geologic time to deliver material change to the garden biome. Is the human species terminally caustic or metamorphically catalytic?
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Introduction to three brain theory with Michael Bonner
In this discussion with Michael Bonner we introduce you to your three brains.
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Geologic chemical systems and frames of time
In this podcast we scale up our imaginations to experience time subjectively as the planet does, and experience human civilization as an aggressive chemical system that needs to evolve to remedy the threat it has so far delivered to the planet in a fraction of a blink of its eye.
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What is the garden biome?
In this freewheeling lecture we examine the nature of interdependent life on this planet and consider the implications of industry as a corrosive force for its fundamentals and foundations.
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What is consciousness part I?
An introduction to mind and Interiority through the lens of Culture and language.
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What is the unconscious?
The unconscious is differentiated from the conscious by virtue of the fact that it is psychic real estate suppressed from view of the focally aware and awake mind. The path of integration unites the two worlds and expands the horizons of the focal conscious mind.
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A discussion of liberated consciousness with Mike Bonner
In this lively and spirited discussion host Brandon Heckman explores consciousness journeys with his best friend and consciousness voyager Michael Bonner.
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It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)
Dianosis: Apocalypses! What is the course of human being through the unraveling biome and by what means do we steer ourselves to better existential outcomes?
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What does it mean to arrive at liberated thought and perception? What is Awakening?
In this podcast, we examine the cultural perception of Awakening as well as Awakening's benefits and complications. We ask challenging questions about Awakening, including, Should all people wake up and should I feel guilty for not waking up?
About this show
New thinking and fresh perspectives on human power and climate change. In this podcast we revisit all our cultural assumptions and view global human actvitiy through revealing and empowering lenses. Our aim: connect you meaningingfully to both the full scope of human power and its climatologic consequence and to provide listeners with a vantage of understanding what actions need to be taken to heal our battered world.Visit the Global Institute for Edenic Return at www.evolutionarycatalyst.love today for much much more information about our programs and advocacy.
Hosted by
Brandon Heckman