All Episodes

Richard A. Watson on Stress and Learning in neural networks and gene regulatory connections

Richard A. Watson on Harmonic Ratios

Richard A. Watson on Guitar Strings, Molecules and Life as a Song

Gavin Ashenden on Reality and Being Fully Alive

Trusting Reality with Esther Meek and Ryan Lewis

Michael Polanyi's Contact with Reality: Esther Meek and Ryan Lewis

Subsidiary Focal Integration (Polanyi) with Esther Meek and Ryan Lewis

Riding a Bike, Indwelling and Empathy with Esther Meek and Ryan Lewis

Moving from Cartesian to Embodied: Esther Meek and Ryan Lewis

Esther Lightcap Meek, The Mother's Smile, and Ryan Lewis: How can we be in Contact with Reality?

Computational Rap: Recognizing Analogous Patterns: Computational and Linguistic Perspectives on Rap Music

Estuary: What is it? Why Join One?

Travel by Star, a Novel by Paul Scott Grill: Finding the Treasures on the Way Home

Weaving the Way by Annette Poizner: Exploring the Intersections of Chinese and Jewish Traditions

Elan Barenholtz on Language, Music and Art

Breaking the Modern Frame to Find Emotional and Relational Healing

Is the Algorithm Disintegrating your Attention? Save your Mindshare with Headwaterapp.com

The Kingdoms of this World versus the Kingdom of Heaven

Information about a Physical System is a Record of Choices Made in the Past

Choose Your Own Path in the Branching Electracy of TLC, a Converzation with Parker

Approach the Sacred: Offer Gratitude, Dwell in Humility, Speak Truth and Let the Mercy In.

Grey Hamilton on Friends, Family and Flourishing

Cassidy Van der Kamp on the Breakwater Festival, coming up November 7-9, 2025

9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning by Rick Walker: Redeeming Lost Treasures and Orienting towards a Higher Aim

Play as a Metaphor for understanding the Dynamic and Creative Aspects of Theology and Existence

AI, Language and Art through the Lens of Coding, Psychology and Perception

an Linguistic Systems: What can we learn from AI about Human Cognition, Memory and Language?

Why Isn't Your Story Working? Storycraft analysis of the Narrative Path, Puzzles and Anomalies

Infinite and Finite, Call and Response, What We Do Matters

The Depths of Time: an Exploration of Julian Barbour's Theory of Ratios

AI Researcher and C S Lewis Scholar discuss Language, Randomness, Agency and Integrating Two Worlds

The Unbelievable Complexities of Music: Lenses, Ancient and Modern

Metamodernism, Transcending Critique, Optimal Degrees of Freedom and the Return of Board Games

C. S. Lewis' Essays on Transposition and Bulverism

Neal asks: Is beauty an independent force in nature, or is it merely a projection of human values?

Seeing Progressivism through the Rear View Mirror

Tyler on pathfinding algorithms for building education, complex information networks and community.

The Narrative Format of Language, Art-making and Consciousness

Artistic Expression as a Path to a Healed Life: The Art of Lester Rapaport

The Transforming Power of Constant Surprise: Further Up and Further In

The concept of risk understood through the lens of human cognition and pattern recognition.

William Dembski on Complex Specified Information and The No Free Lunch Theorem

A Sociologist Walks into a Conference and Interesting Things Happen: Encountering Face to Face

Price as the Cognitive Glue of Multiple Intelligences: Ben Lyon and Marcus Shera on Economics and Biology

Thoughts on the Estuary Northwest 2024 Conference: Encountering Face to Face, Lauren and Kara

The Foundations of Archdisciplinarity, Cory David Barker, et al: The Arch of Universal Computability

Recurring Patterns in the Fractal Nature of the Cosmos

Jordan Hall and Michael Levin: Bowtie, Identity, Hyperobject, Synchronicity, Salience and OODA Loops

Austrian Economics and Systems Biology: Price, Value and Profit as Scale Invariant concepts

Individuality, Subjectivity and Intuition: a Dissection of Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson Part 1

Kayfabe of the American dream, fear, demonic power, and conscious love.

Rafe Kelley on Embodiment, Love, Sacrifice and a View of the Metamodern

D C Schindler and Jordan Hall: What is Novelty and where does it come from? The radical nature of the gift of multiple problems.

Towards Completeness: Sam Tideman on a Drive to Survive, the Pursuit of Perfection and Adaptability

Annie Crawford: How a Sacramental View of the World addresses The Meaning Crisis: That Hideous Strength by C S Lewis

Metrology: The Art and Science of Measurement, or "Why We Need to Make Friends with the Unknown"

The Book of Job: A Deep Dive into the Human Side of Suffering

Christian Baxter: Can the Telos of Worship Build a Meaningful Bridge between Religious Traditions?

Sevilla King on The Estuary Experience

Convey Your Thoughts with Care: The Language of Specificity, Definition and Description

The Potential Hidden in Risk-taking and Failure

Tomer Solomon on Bayesian Inference, Science, Life and Beauty

Telos, the Scientific Basis for a Life of Purpose: by Stephen Iacoboni, MD

Unbearable Suffering and Unimaginable Love

Gabe and Glen: Time, Space, Tension and Creative Force, Part 1

Gabe and Ryan: Conceptual Mapping of the Relationship between Sensory and Motor Function

Delbert Larson, PhD in Physics with New Theory of the Aether: A Prejudice Towards Simplicity

Jordan Hall on The Pyramid of Relationality: Communication, Understanding, Faith, Hope & Love

Rick Walker: The Pursuit of Truth, Beauty and the Alignment of Embodied Action

Ryan on Memory Consolidation, Destabilization, Reconsolidation and the True Meaning of Love

Andrea Hiott: Mind as Movement, Ecological Perception, Attention and Measurement

Kirk Durston: Genetic Algorithms and The Needle in a Haystack Problem of Proteins

Balazs Kegl: A Discussion of the Nature of Podcasting and This Little Corner of the Internet

Moving Towards Meaning: Hope and Faith Find a Resting Place Together

Necessity of Redundancy and Flexibility due to Imperfection: Finite to Infinite

The Interconnectedness of Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Well-being

Valentine Special! How does a man orient his life in order to be a good husband and father?

Implicit and Explicit in Art and Narrative: LOTR, Space Trilogy and Dune

Out of Dawkins into Faith: From Existential Dread of New Atheism to Joy and Purpose in Jesus Christ

Nietzsche's Hammer, Free Will, and Forgetfulness as an Active, Potentially Creative Force

Ryan on the Physical, Intellectual, Emotional and Spiritual Breakthrough

Alastair Duckworth on The Golden Extremes and Polarity: A Path to Wholeness

Richard A. Watson's New Theory of Life and Mind as a Song

Romano Guardini's Warning: Don't Confuse Opposition with Contradiction

Whose Form Will You Take? The gods of this age, or the God of the Ages, with Pastor Phil EuBank of Menlo Church

Haris Update on the Monster Group Theory, plus Palindromic Morphogenesis

Removing the Veil of the Heart: Til We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis, with Lucas Van Os

Creativity in Comedy

Don't Lose the Symbolic Message: A Journey into Creative Ambiguity in Music, Photography and Film

A Free for All with Scott on Context and Anomaly

Matthew and the Spirit of Adoption

Beauty Will Save the World: The Vision of Magnus Gautestad

Tectonic School: Michael Sartori's Concept of Living an Integrated Life and Building Quality People

Dali on Art: Seeds and Sources, Nature and Creativity and the Vision that Always Outruns Your Skill

Lucas on Wolfgang Part 3: Science and Myth

Matthew Segall: Music and Memory, the Song of Life, and Beauty according to Whitehead.

The Solution to the Quantum Enigma and the Binding Problem: Wolfgang Smith's Vertical Causation

Wolfgang Smith's Enduring Legacy: Part 1 with Lucas Van Os

Pulling Away and Coming Home: the Opposing Forces Embedded in the Concept of Tension (Gathering)

Dirt Poor Robins and Drewsicology on Music, Memory, Meaning and Metaphysics