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Humans On The Loop — 264 episodes

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Neuroscience in Hyperspace with Andrew Gallimore

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(Re)Building Trustworthy Institutions with Nathan Kinch

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AI Doesn't Have To Be This Way feat. Alex Komoroske

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Fostering "Prodigies of Uncertainty" with Layman Pascal

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Becoming Hyperhuman with Carl Hayden Smith

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Co-Intelligence & Planetary Perspectives with Rimma Boshernitsan of DIALOGUE

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Co-Evolving with Magical Technologies feat. Sam Arbesman

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Holistic Technology for Growing a World in Love with Larry Muhlstein

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Taryn Southern on Surfing the Exponential Tech Tsunami

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Chaim Gingold on Building SimCity & Simulation as Discourse

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Culture, Consciousness, and the Second Renaissance with Rufus Pollock

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Lessons from a Metamodern AI Shaman with George Pór

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Design for Provably Safe AI with Evan Miyazono

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Religions of the Future & The New Monstrous with Rina Nicolae

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Self-Actualization in the Global Brain with Cadell Last of Philosophy Portal

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The Architecture of The Next Creative Economy with Michael Dean

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The Art & Technology of Conversation with Robert Poynton

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Scale Theory: Contemplating Everything-At-Onceness with Joshua DiCaglio

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Jim O'Shaughnessy on Creativity, Crisis, and Trust as The Fabric of Society

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Aishwarya Khanduja on Living Inquiry & Fostering Imagination

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Matt Segall on Culture as The Lifeblood of The Machine Economy

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Andrew McLuhan on Needling The Somnambulists about How We've Never Been Autonomous

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J.F. Martel on Machines vs. Fractals, Black Box Personhood, and Navigating The AI Fairy Tale

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Adah Parris on Neurodivergent Cyborg Shamans & Elemental Tech Ethics

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Howard Rheingold on Lucid Life Online & Attention As A 21st Century Literacy

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Jessica Clark on Making New Realities with New Media

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New Selves of Neural Media & AI as 'The Poison Path' with K Allado-McDowell

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Futures Indistinguishable from Magic with Robin Sloan

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Transcending (and Including) Partisan Debate with Stephanie Lepp

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Mycopunk Community Coordination with Christina Bowen of Socialroots

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The Inner Life of a Responsible Tech Practitioner with Benjamin Olsen

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Reclaiming Attention from 'The Ravenous Maw of The Screen' with Richard Doyle

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📚🧙🏼‍♂️🦾 232 - Myth & Magic in Technological Metamodernism

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⏳🎨🔮 231 - Eric Wargo & J.F. Martel on Art as Precognition, Biblically-Accurate A.I., and How to Navigate Ruptures in Space-Time

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🐦‍⬛🐙🖤 230 - Jamie Curcio on Living in Mythpunk, Eldritch Complexity, and Finding The Bright Side of Dark Ages

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👾🖼️🏯 229 - Sara Phinn Huntley on Making A Field Guide to DMT Entities

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🧬🕰️⚗️ 228 - William Sarill on Intuition in Science & The Physics of Philip K. Dick

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🎙️🖇️🕸️ 227 - MG + Tim Adalin of Voicecraft: Network Philosophy, Caring Organizations, & Wiser Innovation

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📚🧐🦾 226 - Stephen Reid on Technological Metamodernism

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🤰🏽🧐🕸️ 225 - Alyssa Allegretti on Sacred Domesticity and Hard Times in The Liminal Web

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🔍👁️🔮 224 - Helané Wahbeh of IONS on Arguments against Materialism and for New Theories of Consciousness

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🔥🌎💒 223 - Timothy Morton on A New Christian Ecology & Systems Thinking Blasphemy

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👾🍄🧮 222 - Andrés Goméz Emilsson on Psychedelic Computer Science & The Mathematics of Consciousness

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📯💗🌌 221 - Tom Morgan on Answering The Call of Destiny & Love As An Attractor

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🤖🌳📈 220 - Austin Wade Smith on Convivial Ecological Institutions and Open Source Commons for Sensemaking

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🙏🏽⛩🤖 219 - Joshua Schrei on Embodied Ethics in The Age of A.I.

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🎋🔬🕸️ 218 - Neil Theise on Complexity & Nonduality

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💻💶🌏 217 - Gregory Landua & Speaker John Ash on Regenerative Accelerationism & How To Heal A Broken Internet

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🐦‍⬛🦖🕵🏼‍♀️ 216 - Jingmai O'Connor on Dead Birds & Living Paleontologists

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🫂👩🏼‍💻🔍 215 - Social Science & Collective Intelligence with Brigham Adams of Goodly Labs

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👁️🔄📀 214 - J.F. Martel, Phil Ford, & Megan Phipps on Weird Cybernetics: Waking Up From The Ecstasy

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🕸️⛩️💻 213 - Amber Case & Michael Zargham on Entangled Technologies & Design As Governance

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🌏🚜🫀212 - Manfred Laubichler & Geoffrey West on Life In The Anthropocene & Living Inside The Technosphere

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💻🍄🧙🏼‍♂️ 211 - Adam Aronovich on A Cultural Anthropology for The Psychedelic Internet

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👁️🧠🎧 210 - Mitch Schultz & Shanta Stevens on Documenting The Next Psychedelic Revolution

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🍄🎥👁️ 209 - Ken Adams on A Life of Psychedelic Film-Making & Collaboration with Terence McKenna

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👷🏽🌎🎊 208 - Building Cultural Capacity for A REAL Psychedelic Renaissance with Samantha Sweetwater, Ian-Michael Hebert, and Jahan Khamsehzadeh @ Psychedelic Science 2023

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🌊🏄🌱 207 - Tech & Community LIVE at Junkyard Social Club with Evan Snyder, Ryan Madson, Roger Toennis, Aaron Gabriel, & Juicy Life

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🤩🎻🤖 206 - Scout Rainer Wiley on AI vs. BS Jobs, The Return of Culture, and Eldritch Wonders in The Bright Apocalypse

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🎶⚔️👏🏼 205 - Greg Thomas & Stephanie Lepp on Jazz Leadership & Antagonistic Cooperation

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💐📚🏛️ 204 - Jamie Joyce on The Society Library and Tools for Making Sense Together

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203 - Kevin Kelly on Excellent Advice for Living, Playing with AI, and Staying Curious

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202 - Caveat Magister on Psychomagic, Amusement Parks, & Turning Your Life Into Art

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201 - KMO & Kevin Wohlmut on our Blue Collar Black Mirror: Star Trek, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Jurassic Park, Adventure Time, ChatGPT, & More

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200 - Ehren Cruz & Daphne Krantz on Psychedelics, Addiction, and Transcendence

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199 - The Great Decoherence of Android Jones

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198 - Tadaaki Hozumi on Japanese Esotericism, Aliens, Land Spirits, & The Singularity (Part 2)

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197 - Tadaaki Hozumi on Japanese Esotericism, Lost Civilizations, and The Singularity (Part 1)

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196 - Robert Poynton on Improvisation As A Way of Life

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195 - A.I. Art: An Emergency Panel with Julian Picaza, Evo Heyning, Micah Daigle, Jamie Curcio, & Topher Sipes

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194 - Simon Conway Morris on Convergent Evolution & Creative Mass Extinctions

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193 - Kimberly Dill on Environmental Philosophy: In Defense of Wildness & Night

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192 - My Cataract: An Initiation 👁✨

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191 - Roland Harwood on Learning To Be Liminal

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190 - Lauren Seyler on Dark Microbiology & Right Relations in Science

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189 - Planet-scale Musical Chairs: 21st Century Human Geography with Parag Khanna

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188 - LARPing as a Nation-State with Jon Hillis & 0xZakk of CABIN DAO and Christian Lemp of Diamond DAO

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187 - Fear & Loathing on the Electronic Frontier with Kevin Welch & David Hensley of EFF-Austin

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186 - A Manifesto for Weird Science

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185 - What Good Is Conversation? Jonathan Rowson, Bonnitta Roy, Jason Snyder, Ashley Colby, & Stephanie Lepp Play Liminal Lingo Bingo Amidst The Metacrisis

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184 - Henry Gee on The History & Future of Life on Earth (& Much Else!)

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183 - The Evolution of Poetic Song Verse with Mike Mattison & Ernest Suarez

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182 - Siv Watkins on Microanimism: Living with The Smalls

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181 - Jim Rutt on The Pre- and Post-History of GameB

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180 - Web3 & Complex Systems with Park Bach, Sid Shrivastava, Shirley Bekins, & Avel Guénin-Carlut at Complexity Weekend

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179 - Scout-Lieder Wiley on Transrational Oracles & Magical Thinking in The 21st Century

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178 - Chris Ryan on Exhuming The Human from Our Eldritch Institutions

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177 - Systems Design & Extended Cognition at Complexity Weekend with Tom Carter, Jenn Huff, Pietro Michelucci, and Richard James MacCowan

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176 - Exploring Ecodelia with Richard Doyle, Sophie Strand, and Sam Gandy at the Psilocybin Summit

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175 - C. Thi Nguyen on The Seductions of Clarity, Weaponized Games, and Agency as Art

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174 - Evan "Skytree" Snyder on Sound Design for A Robotic Built Wilderness

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173 - Daniel Shankin on Psychedelic Integration - The Path of the Heart

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172 - Tyson Yunkaporta on Indigenous Systems Thinking, Fractal Governance, Ontopunk, and Queering W.E.I.R.D. Modernity

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171 - Eric Wargo on Precognitive Dreamwork and The Philosophy of Time Travel

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170 - The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo Rides The Transtempouroboros and Waits for The End of The World to End

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169 - Leidy Klotz on Design, Behavior, and When to Subtract

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168 - Mikey Lion & Malena Grosz on Festival Time, Life-Changing Trips, and Community in COVID

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167 - Robert Jacobson on Opening The High Frontier for Business

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166 - Anna Riedl on Bounded Rationality & Effective Altruism

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165 - Kevin Kelly on Time, Memory, Change, and Vanishing Asia

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164 - Violet Luxton on Scientific Reductionism vs. Traditional Ecological Knowledge

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163 - Bitcoin & Fungal Economies with Toby Kiers & Brandon Quittem

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162 - "AHA" (Ask Him Anything) #1: Aliens, Death, Creativity

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161 - On Play & Innovation with Michael Phillip: Hermes, EvoBio, Bitcoin, and Good Noise

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160 - His Dark Materials: Narnia, Fillory, and Coming of Age in the Multiverse, with Stephen Hershey & Kynthia Brunette

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159 - Michael Dowd on Post Doom: Life After Accepting Climate Catastrophe

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158 - Ramin Nazer & The TeaFaerie: Mid-Singularity Trialogues, Part 1

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157 - Phil Ford on Taboo: Time and Belief in Exotica

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156 - Stuart Davis on Zen, Aliens, and Psychedelics

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155 - Michael Morgenstern on Fictions as Weapons and 21st Century Media Literacy

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154 - Stephanie Lepp on Pro-Social Deepfakes, Post-Normal Science, and The Future of "Reality"

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153 - Burning Man VR x IRL with Caveat Magister, Naomi Most, and Raven Mitch Mignano

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152 - Weird Artist Medicine Storytelling Hour with Colin Frangicetto

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151 - Artist Jon Marro on Living a Life of Creative Service

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150 - A Unifying Meta-Theory of UFOs & The Weird with Sean Esbjörn-Hargens

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149 - Cultural Somatics & Ritual as Justice with Tada Hozumi, Dare Sohei, and Naomi Most

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148 - Sahana Chattopadhyay on Community, Leadership, and Befriending Uncertainty

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147 - How to Live in The Future (Parts 1 - 4)

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146 - Raising Earth Consciousness with Ralph Metzner, Dennis McKenna, Gay Dillingham, Valerie Plame Wilson, Allan Badiner, and Michael Garfield at Synergia Ranch, April 2016

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145 - Weaving A New Prehistory to Rewild The Future - Michael Garfield at Earth Frequency Festival 2017

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144 - On Dinosaurs & Holy Wars: Creationist Amusement Parks & America's Strange Relationship with Science, with Monica Long Ross & Clayton Brown

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143 - Sanjay Rawal on Endurance Running as an Integral Yoga

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142 - Alex Shakar on Stories from The World After

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141 - Nora Bateson on Warm Data vs. The Cold Equations

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140 - Pandemic Perspectives with Erik Davis, Tony Blake, and Mitch Mignano

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139 - On Coronavirus, Complex Adaptive Systems, & Creative Opportunity

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138 - Tanya Harrison on Space Exploration 50 Years After Apollo

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137 - Rolf Potts on Twenty-Five Years of World Travel

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136 - Alyssa Gursky on Psychedelic Art Therapy & The Future of Communication

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135 - Michael Phillip on The Cosmic Yes

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134 - Anthony Thogmartin on Mind, Music, and Technology

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133 - Brian Swimme on Telling A New Story of Our Universe

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132 - Erik Davis on Perturbations in the Reality Field

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131 - Jessica Nielson & Link Swanson on Psychedelic Science & Too Much Novelty

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130 - Lydia Laurenson on Identity, Community, and The New Modality

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129 - How to Live in the Future (Michael Garfield at Boom Festival 2016)

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128 - Kevin Kelly on Evolving with Technology

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127 - Cory Allen on Meditation, Music, and the Wow of Now

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126 - Phil Ford & JF Martel on Weird Studies & Plural Realities

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125 - Stuart Kauffman on Physics, Life, and The Adjacent Possible

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124 - Norman "Dr. Blue" Katz on Hypnosis & The Mind

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123 - David Weinberger on Everyday Chaos & Thriving Amidst the Complexity

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122 - Magenta Ceiba on Regenerative Everything

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121 - Divya M. Persaud on The Ethics of Space Exploration

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120 - Ramin Nazer on Cave Paintings for Future People

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119 - Jeremy Johnson on The Integral Time of Jean Gebser

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118 - Nathan Waters on The Future of Housing, Mobility, and Work

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117 - Eric Wargo on Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious

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116 - The Next Ten Billion Years: Ugo Bardi & John Michael Greer as read by Kevin Arthur Wohlmut

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115 - Eliot Peper on The History of Technology and The Future of Society

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114 - Bernie Taylor on The Prehistoric Art of El Castillo & An Ancient Hero's Journey

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113 - Sean Esbjörn-Hargens on Exostudies: Philosophical Explorations of the UFO Phenomenon

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112 - Mitsuaki Chi on Serving the Mushroom

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111 - Android Jones on Analog + Digital, Painting the Sutras, & Being an Artist Dad

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110 - Erick Godsey on (Why It's Too Soon To Give Up) The Myths That Make Us

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109 - Bruce Damer on The Origins and Future of Life

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108 - Nadja Oertelt on Humanizing The Stories of Science

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107 - Epiphany Jordan on Human Touch & Safe Intimacy in The Internet Age

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106 - Stowe Boyd on The Future(s) of Work and How to Thrive Amidst Accelerating Change

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105 - The Hypermoderns talk Clowns, Dead Souls, & UFOs (Part 2)

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104 - The Hypermoderns Talk Snow Crash, Language, Mind, & Video Game Metaphysics

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103 - Tricia Eastman on Facilitating Psychedelic Journeys to Recover from An Age of Epidemic Trauma

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102 - Bill Pfeiffer on Continuity, Belonging, Ecstasy Among the Native People of the North

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"Future Fossils 101" with Michelle Shevin & Michaelangelo

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100 - The Teafaerie on DMT, Transhumanism, and What To Do with All of God's Attention

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99 - Erik Davis on How to Navigate High Weirdness

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98 - Decentralization Panel at Arcosanti Convergence with Members of Holochain, NuMundo, Unify, & Reality Sandwich

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97 - Zak Stein on Love in a Time Between Worlds: A Metamodern Metaphysics of Eros

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96 - Malena Grosz on Community-Led Party Culture vs. Corporate "Nightlife"

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95 - Mark Nelson on The Legacy of Biosphere 2 (Part 2)

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94 - Mark Nelson on Ecotechnics & Biosphere 2 (Part 1)

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93 - Virtuoso Guitarist Andreas Kapsalis on Travel, Life, and Music

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92 - Panel: The Pre- and Post-History of VR, Surveillance, and Swarm Intelligence

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91 - An Oral History of The End of "Reality"

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90 - Kate Greene on Humanizing Science & Cooking on Mars

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89 - Joanna Harcourt-Smith, José Soler, and Jacob Aman on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs

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88 - Dennis McKenna on Psychedelics as Scientific Instruments

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87 - Onyx Ashanti (Part 2) on Open Source P2P Concrescence vs The Realm of Loud Dumb Sh*t

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86 - Onyx Ashanti on Surfing Exponential Change (Part 1)

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85 - Charles Eisenstein on Living in the Space Between Stories

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84 - Armin Ellis on Organizing Visionary Projects

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83 - Michael Strong on The Future of Education

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82 - Lydia Violet on Community, Ecology, and Music as Medicine

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81 - Arthur Brock of Holochain on Rethinking Currency & The Future of Distributed Systems

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80 - George Dvorsky on Strange Days Ahead: Ethics for Autonomous Machines

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79 - James Eggleston of Power Ledger on Decentralization & Resilience

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78 - Archan Nair on Radical Nonduality & Living with Enthusiasm

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77 - Dylan Curran on Life in the Panopticon and Privacy After Privacy

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76 - Technology as Psychedelic Parenting (at Palenque Norte, Burning Man 2017)

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75 - David Krakauer (Thinking Interplanetary with The Santa Fe Institute)

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74 - Terry Patten (A New Republic of the Heart)

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73 - Patricia Gray on BioMusic, The New Science of Our Musical Brains & Biosphere

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72 - Ira Pastor (Nervous Tissue Reanimation & The Future of Curative Biotech)

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71 - JF Martel (On Sequels & Simulacra, Blade Runner 2049 & Stranger Things 2)

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70 - Steve Brusatte on The Golden Age of Dino-Science!

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69 - Tim Freke (The Evolution of the Imagination)

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68 - Charles Shaw (Soul in the Heart of Darkness)

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67 - Douglas Rushkoff & Michael Phillip (Playing For Team Human)

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66 - John Danaher (Robot Sex & AI Love)

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65 - John David Ebert (Hypermodernity & Blade Runner 2049)

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64 - Barry Vacker (Our Destiny in Space & Sci Fi's Failures of Imagination)

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63 - David Bronner (Psychedelics, Activism, & Social Trans-foam-ation)

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62 - David Krantz (Cannabis Nutrigenomics)

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61 - Jamaica Stevens (On Crisis, Rebirth, Transformation)

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60 - Sean Esbjörn-Hargens Goes Meta on Everything: Integral Ecology & Impact

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59 - Charles Shaw (Trauma, Addiction, and Healing)

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58 - Shane Mauss (Psychonautic Adventures at the Edge of Genius & Madness)

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57 - Conner Habib & Mitch Mignano (Occult Biology)

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56 - Sophia Rokhlin (Anarchy, Ecology, Economy, and Shamanism)

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55 - "Creativity & Catastrophe" (Talk at Palenque Norte, Burning Man 2017)

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54 - Maya Zuckerman (Feminine Futurism & Techno-Religion vs. Introspective Technology)

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53 - A Very Xeno Christmas! with Evan "Skytree" Snyder

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52 - Blockchain & The Evolution of Consciousness with Michael Phillip & Jennifer Sodini

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51 - Daniel Schmachtenberger (Designing A Win-Win World for Everyone)

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50 - Ayana Young (Ecological Activism & Living For The Wild)

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49 - Jake Kobrin (Sex, Death, & The Return of the Black Madonna)

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48 - Lindsay Loftin (Mermaids For Clean Water)

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47 - Eliot Peper (The Weird Turn Pro: Sci-Fi & Scenario Planning)

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46 - Magenta Ceiba (Bloom Network's Anarcho-Permaculture Future)

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45 - Kerri Welch (Fractal Synchronicity & The Future of Time)

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44 - Christopher Sheehan (Time Bound in the Body: Transformational Tattoo)

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43 - William Irwin Thompson, Part 2 (Thinking Together at the Edge of History)

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42 - William Irwin Thompson, Part 1 (Thinking Together at the Edge of History)

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41 - Hannah Yata (Art, Wilderness, Rebellion)

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40 - Andrew J. O'Keefe (The Sacred Task of Record-Keeping)

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39 - Hunter Maats (The Future of Education & Knowledge Transmission)

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38 - Marya Stark (Reweaving The Magical Feminine)

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37 - Michaelangelo aka Void Denizen (Excavating the Future with "Paisley-ontology")

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36 - Meow-Ludo Meow Meow (Part 2 - Modern Art & Surviving The Singularity)

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35 - Meow-Ludo Meow Meow (Part 1 - Polyamory, Cryptocurrency, & Nukes)

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34 - Tara Djokic (The Oldest Fossils Known To Science!)

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33 - Jon Lebkowsky (Pluralist Utopias & The World Wide Web's Wild West)

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32 - Mark Henson, Visionary Painter (The Past & Future of Provocative Art)

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31 - Mitch Altman (Hacking Life For Fun & Profit)

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30 - Becca Tarnas (Archetypal Astrology & Living Through A Revolutionary Age)

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29 - Sara Huntley (Raising Robots Right)

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28 - John Petersen (Forecasting the Unimaginable)

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27 - Rak Razam & Niles Heckman (5-MeO DMT & Consciousness)

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26 - Jessa Gamble (Circadian Rhythms & The Science of Sleep)

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25 - DADARA (Art, Virtual Realities, & Flow States)

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24 - Daniel Zen (Surveillance, Festivals, VR)

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23 - "Our Psychedelic Future" at the Australian Psychedelic Society

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22 - Simon Yugler (Travel Alchemy & Initiation)

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21 - Aunia Kahn (Human Dignity vs The Internet)

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20 - Joanna Harcourt-Smith (Timelessness & Play)

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19 - Susan Molnar (Tech Education & The Maker Revolution)

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18 - JF Martel (Art, Magic, & The Terrifying Zone of Uncanny Awesomeness)

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17 - Tibet Sprague (Envisioning Utopian Communities)

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16 - Cory Allen (De-Anthromorphizing The Universe)

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15 - Trevor Goodman (Body Hacking & Sensory Augmentation)

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14 - WESTWORLD Problems (feat. Michael Phillip of Third Eye Drops)

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13 - Rupert Till aka Dr. Chill (Ancient Audio & Future Ritual)

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12 - Mark Lee aka Somnio8 (Alt Physics & Visionary Art)

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11 - Shaft Uddin & Camillo Klingen (Tantra & Society)

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10 - Anthony Thogmartin & David Krantz (Future Music)

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9 - Ashley Dawson (Mass Extinction)

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8 - Kingsley Dennis (New Monasticism)

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7 - Shane Mauss (Psychedelic Comedy)

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6 - Maraya Karena (A Different Perspective)

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5 - Mitch Schultz (The Spirit Molecule)

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4 - Bruce Damer (Asteroid Mining & Origins of Life)

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3 - Tony Vigorito (Synchronicity)

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2 - Cairos (Time as Feeling)

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1 - Chronos (Time as Geometry)