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Expanding Mind

Progressiveradionetwork.com presents Expanding Mind with Erik Davis. He explores the culture of consciousness: magic, spirituality, psychology, technology.

society & culture

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57:35

Expanding Mind – “Meditation"

Expanding Mind ·

2019/01/18

Host Erik Davis explores his personal history of “meditation"—including teenage stoner trances, voices in the head, and Zen anti-authoritarianism.

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57:12

Expanding Mind – American Cosmic, Part 2

Expanding Mind ·

2019/01/10

Religious scholar Diana Pasulka talks about anomalous cognition, 2001 monoliths, disclosure, future truths, absurd Christianity, and her book American Cosmic (Oxford).

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58:15

Expanding Mind – American Cosmic, Part One

Expanding Mind ·

2019/01/03

A talk with religious scholar Diana Pasulka about UFOs, scientific believers, book encounters, elite cabals, studying weirdness, and her new book American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology (Oxford).

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59:25

Expanding Mind – Speaking with Plants

Expanding Mind ·

2018/12/20

Author and plant behavior researcher Monica Gagliano talks about courage, scientific blindness, plant spirits, and her new book Thus Spoke the Plant (North Atlantic).

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59:13

Expanding Mind – The Gorey Details

Expanding Mind ·

2018/12/13

Culture critic Mark Dery talks about Surrealism, the gay voice, penny dreadfuls, and his new biography of Edward Gorey, Born to Be Posthumous (Little Brown).

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58:13

Expanding Mind – The Superheroic Dose

Expanding Mind ·

2018/11/29

Martial artist and psilocybin explorer Kilindi Iyi talks about African martial arts, high dose psilocybin work, African-American psychedelia, Dr. Strange, and the metaphysics of darkness.

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58:35

Expanding Mind – Memetic Tribes

Expanding Mind ·

2018/11/15

Canadian cultural observer Peter Limberg talks about Stoicism, philosophical sandboxes, the Intellectual Explorers Club, making uncertainty sexy, and navigating the conflicts between today's memetic tribes.

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57:46

Expanding Mind – Integrating Psychedelics

Expanding Mind ·

2018/11/08

Nurse practitioner and psychedelic therapist Julie Megler talks about integration circles, hierarchy vs. community, ketamine therapy, somatic work, and the philosophy behind her new East Bay clinic Sage Integrative Health.

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58:45

Expanding Mind – Rainbow Bodies

Expanding Mind ·

2018/11/01

Poet, journalist, and professor Nicholas Powers talks about festival politics, race and psychedelia, dreads, tokenism, and his book The Ground Below Zero: 9/11 to Burning Man, New Orleans to Darfur, Haiti to Occupy Wall Street (UpSet Press).

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58:44

Expanding Mind – The Arts of Dying

Expanding Mind ·

2018/10/25

Bay Area conceptual artist Lindsay Tunkl talks about confronting death, therapy as art, pre-apocalypse counseling, humor, and her book When You Die You Will Not Be Scared to Die (Parallax Press).

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57:48

Expanding Mind – Strange Angels - 10.18.18

Expanding Mind ·

2018/10/18

Occultist and Aleister Crowley biographer Richard Kaczynski talks about Jack Parsons, the "method of science,” the Agape Lodge, the women of Thelema, and the pluses and minuses of the Strange Angel TV series.

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58:14

Expanding Mind – Dialogue Mind

Expanding Mind ·

2018/10/11

The Gurdjieffean teacher and DuVersity director Anthony Blake talks about dialogue, synergy, mind between brains, the trouble with teachers, and the gymnasium of beliefs in higher intelligence.

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58:37

Expanding Mind – Time Loops, Part 2 - 10.04.18

Expanding Mind ·

2018/10/04

In part two of our conversation, author and blogger Eric Wargo talks about dreams, self-fulfilling prophecies, unconscious trauma, the banality of true spirituality, and his book Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious.

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57:52

Expanding Mind – Time Loops - 09.27.18

Expanding Mind ·

2018/09/27

In part one of our conversation, author, blogger, and dreamer Eric Wargo talks about uncertainty, determinism, Zen, and his book Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious.

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58:28

Expanding Mind – Terraforming Earth - 09.13.18

Expanding Mind ·

2018/09/13

A conversation with eco-literary scholar Derek Woods about science fiction, terrariums, geo-engineering, eco-modernism, and the wild science of designing technologies that exceed our control.

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58:24

Expanding Mind – Black Rock City 2018 - 09.06.18

Expanding Mind ·

2018/09/06

Host Erik Davis reflects on Burning Man in light of his first return to the event in nearly a decade. Topics include: the Burning Opera, Instagram, poetic terrorism, remembering dead people, chaos, and the unfolding paradigm of the city.

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58:39

Expanding Mind – Kali Ma - 08.30.18

Expanding Mind ·

2018/08/30

A conversation with devotees Usha Harding and Swami Bhajanananda about the unique Kali temple they help run in Laguna Beach: the perfume of practice, religious diversity, and the challenge of commercial yoga.

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59:10

Expanding Mind – Citizen Science Trips - 08.23.18

Expanding Mind ·

2018/08/23

A conversation with activist and writer David Nickles about the DMT Nexus, psychedelic militancy, extraction tek, the Statement on Open Science for Psychedelic Medicines, MAPS, and the trouble with for-profit psilocybin companies.

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58:23

Expanding Mind – Voyages into Ethnobotany

Expanding Mind ·

2018/08/16

A conversation with South African ethnobotanist Dale Millard about sangoma healers, animist science, beta carbolines, ayahuasca, and the broad-spectrum healing properties of harmine.

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57:07

Expanding Mind - Playa Tricksters - 08.10.18

Expanding Mind ·

2018/08/10

A conversation with writer, editor, and performer Mitch Mignano—aka Raven—about existential humor, the Cacophony Society and the origins of Burning Man, pranking your fears, nihilism, and the sacred clowns of the Sun Dance ceremony.

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