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LF286 Ben Reynolds – The Coming Revolution: The Death of Capitalism?

Ben Reynolds discusses his book The Coming Revolution: Capitalism in the 21st Century.
Radical advances in automation, robotics, and computer technology have thrown millions out of work and will only continue to do so in the years to come. At the same time, cheap, individually-accessible machines will wrestle for primacy with both advanced, highly-automated factories and sweatshops alike, ultimately eroding the dominance of industrial production. Economic growth is slowing down, and it is not going to speed up again. The pressures fueling today’s global unrest will not go away and are only going to get worse as wages stagnate, solid employment becomes harder to find, and cuts to social benefits continue. Competing radical and reactionary ideologies will clash as political consensus crumbles and the world searches for answers to these challenges.
In its opening decades, the 21st will be a century of war and revolution. By the end of the 21st century, capitalism may be consigned to the history books. Despite the seeming darkness of our era, our future is filled with incredible possibilities. A world of freedom, beauty, and abundance, where poverty and tyranny are merely distant memories for our grandchildren, is possible.
Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’John Carpenter ‘Escape From New York’ OST
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LF285 Jasun Horsley – Stormers of Heaven: Enlightenment or Oblivion?

Part two with Jasun Horsley discussing his book Prisoner of Infinity – UFOs, Social Engineering, and the Psychology of Fragmentation. Part one is here.
In this second session, we delve further into the depths that lie beneath the surface of culture and society. Seething with secret agendas, mind control, and mass manipulation, its hidden realms may hold secret knowledge for transformation and transcendence on paths to enlightenment, or oblivion. Where physics meets psyche, forces seen and unseen – some of them human – conspire toward ends which often as not appear beyond conscious comprehension. A quest for wholeness, communion with the creator, the truth of the ultimate nature of reality, or something far more mysterious… we simply cannot say. But the questions remain. What is the agenda? Who – or what – are they? What part do we play?
Previous interview with Jasun Horsley:Sex, Occultism and Social Engineering
Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’Klaus Schulze ‘Witness And Wait’
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LF284 Mitch Horowitz – How Thoughts Become Reality

Mitch Horowitz discusses his book The Miracle Club – How Thoughts Become Reality.
Following in the footsteps of a little-known group of esoteric seekers from the late 19th Century who called themselves ‘the Miracle Club’, Mitch Horowitz shows that the spiritual wish fulfilment practices known as the Law of Attraction, Positive Thinking, ‘The Secret’, and the Science of Getting Rich actually work. Weaving these ideas together into a concise, clear formula, with real-life examples of success, he reveals how your thoughts can impact reality and make things happen.
Horowitz explains how we each possess a creative agency to determine and reshape our lives. He shows how thinking in a directed, highly focused, and emotionally charged manner expands our capacity to perceive and transform events, and allows us to surpass ordinary boundaries of time and space. He explains what works and what doesn’™t, illuminating why and how events bend to our thoughts.
Along the way we also consider synchronicity and psychic powers, and the possible mechanics behind such phenomena. If time and space are not what they appear to be but are in fact non-linear and malleable, then the creative power of mind and thought in shaping reality increasingly seems not only possible but inevitable. The inescapable conclusion is that there is a non-material realm which interacts with and affects the material world. Consciously or unconsciously, in each and every moment we are steering the course of our lives with our intentions, our desires, our emotions. Individually and collectively, the implications of this are vast. From the personal to the planetary, what we think matters.
Bumper music:Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’™Michael Stearns ‘Chronos’™
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LF283 Brian Keating – Imagining the Impossible

Brian Keating, author of Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor, discusses the role of imagination and creativity in shaping the world around us and our future.
As perhaps the most curious species on Earth, from the very beginning we have been driven to probe the mysteries of our planet, uncover its inner workings, and use this knowledge for our benefit. From this quest grew the many branches of human knowledge and expression, including science, religion, and art. But the commercialisation of science and art and the marginalisation of spirituality has led to a myopic, materialistic view of what can and what should be done in wider society, a situation exacerbated by the mainstream education system which churns out specialists or drone workers, often for jobs that are rapidly disappearing or already gone.
More than ever, there is now an urgent need to reinvigorate imagination and creativity from the ground up, dissolving the artificial barriers between fields of study, branches of knowledge, and modes of thinking. The extent to which this can or will be achieved will have an enormous impact on how we face and attempt to deal with the huge political, social, economic, and environmental challenges facing humanity. Endless human progress is by no means guaranteed, and if we are to overcome our most pressing problems, we will need to test the limits of our imagination and of the possible like never before.
Previous interview with Brian Keating:Cosmos and Controversy: Science and the Big Questions
Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’Jean Michel Jarre ‘Equinoxe’
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LF282 Erik Davis – High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies

Erik Davis discusses his book High Weirdness – Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies.
A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson and Philip K. Dick, High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought, dreamed, and experienced reality, but how did their writings reflect, as well as shape, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America?
In High Weirdness, Davis – America’s leading scholar of high strangeness – examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital, iconoclastic thinkers, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences. He explores the complex lattice of the strange that flowed through America’s West Coast at a time of radical technological, political, and social upheaval to present a new theory of the weird as a viable mode for a renewed engagement with reality. We ask ‘What is real?’, ‘What is normal?’, ‘What are facts?’, ‘What is truth?’ and find that reality is unstable and that the world is considerably more malleable than it at first appears.
Bumper music:Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’Tangerine Dream ‘Asteroid Agenda’
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LF281 Dean Radin – Real Magic: The Secret Power of the Universe

Dean Radin discusses his book Real Magic – Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and a Guide to the Secret Power of the Universe.
The principles that form the scientific materialist world-view assert that everything can be understood like the gears of a clock, and that events unfold forward in time in a strictly orderly fashion. They tell us that everything can be described with real properties that exist in ordinary space and time and that everything, including mind and consciousness, consists of matter and energy. It makes no sense to call anything ‘spiritual’, ‘non-physical’ or ‘immaterial’. We are told that everything is made up of a hierarchy of ever-smaller objects, with subatomic particles at the bottom.
However, according to the author, who has spent the last forty years conducting controlled experiments exploring psychic phenomena, the scientific materialist world-view is woefully incomplete and furthermore, scientific evidence for a reality beyond this world-view exists. The picture that is emerging is of a reality where the entire Universe is interconnected, and where there is only one consciousness, which is fundamental, and which underlies everything, including the everyday materialist world that so many of us take to be all there is.
Bumper music:Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’Tangerine Dream ‘Sorcerer’
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LF280 Bernie Taylor – Are We Alone in the Cosmos?

Bernie Taylor asks Are We Alone in the Cosmos?
Human self-awareness and contemplation of past, present, and future appear to make us unique among life on Earth and within its solar system. But are we unique within the wider galaxy or even the entire universe? The Drake Equation suggests that the cosmos should be teeming with intelligent life, so why have we yet to make contact? While there are plenty of anecdotal accounts of alien encounters, no concrete evidence truly open to public scrutiny has yet emerged.
The Fermi Paradox cites many possible reasons why we have yet to discover extraterrestrial life. Perhaps, like us, intelligent alien species lack the capacity for interstellar travel. Maybe ET has avoided contact so that we evolve without outside interference. It could even be that humans are regarded as pathologically destructive and that contact with Earth could endanger life elsewhere. Perhaps it is in the nature of intelligent life to destroy itself before it can expand to other worlds. This grim scenario sounds a lot like where humanity finds itself in the early 21st century. However, if no intelligent life exists or has ever existed anywhere else in the universe, it is imperative that we halt our apparent death drive and find a way to live in balance with what will almost certainly be the only planet we ever inhabit.
Previous interview with Bernie Taylor: The Hero’s Journey and the Human Race
Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’Hawkwind ‘Earth Calling’
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LF279 Thomas Sheridan – Haunted Pasts and Lost Futures Part Two

Thomas Sheridan discusses hauntology and cult pop culture of the past. Part one is here
In his book Ghosts of My Life, Mark Fisher defined hauntology as "music and culture that draws from and examines a sense of loss of a post war utopian progressive modernist future that was never quite reached." The 1970s was a decade rich with hauntological themes, many of which stemmed from both the promise and the threat of the post-war world, and later continued to be felt well into the 1980s.
Many TV shows, movies and books of the period – particularly the 1970s – are remembered (and mis-remembered) with near-religious reverence, while cliques of contemporary artists and writers wander the corridors of the past in search of inspiration. From cult TV shows such as Sapphire and Steel, The Tomorrow People, and Children of the Stones, to the mind-warping writing of John Wyndham, Nigel Kneale, and Erich von Däniken, and from folk horror and dystopian sci fi to stories for children far beyond anything being written for adults today, we probe the uncanny underbelly of decades gone by.
Previous interviews with Thomas Sheridan.
Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’Deru ‘1979’
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LF278 Thomas Sheridan – Haunted Pasts and Lost Futures Part One

Thomas Sheridan discusses hauntology and cult pop culture of the past. Part two is here
In his book Ghosts of My Life, Mark Fisher defined hauntology as ”’music and culture that draws from and examines a sense of loss of a post war utopian progressive modernist future that was never quite reached.’ The 1970s was a decade rich with hauntological themes, many of which stemmed from both the promise and the threat of the post-war world, and later continued to be felt well into the 1980s.
Many TV shows, movies and books of the period – particularly the 1970s – are remembered (and mis-remembered) with near-religious reverence, while cliques of contemporary artists and writers wander the corridors of the past in search of inspiration. From cult TV shows such as Sapphire and Steel, The Tomorrow People, and Children of the Stones, to the mind-warping writing of John Wyndham, Nigel Kneale, and Erich von Däniken, and from folk horror and dystopian sci fi to stories for children far beyond anything being written for adults today, we probe the uncanny underbelly of decades gone by.
Previous interviews with Thomas Sheridan.
Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’Various ‘A Field in England OST’
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LF277 Jasun Horsley – UFOs, Trauma, and Hacking the Human Psyche

Jasun Horsley discusses his book Prisoner of Infinity – UFOs, Social Engineering, and the Psychology of Fragmentation.
Prisoner of Infinity examines modern-day accounts of UFOs, alien abductions, and psychism to uncover a century-long program of psychological fragmentation, collective indoctrination, and covert cultural, social, and mythic engineering.
Whether it is the forces of God, government, aliens from outer (or inner) space, or the incalculable effects of childhood sexual trauma on the human psyche, premature contact with these forces compels us to create ‘crucial fictions’. Such semi-coherent mythic narratives make partial sense out of our experience, but in the process turn us into the unreliable narrators of our own lives.
Taking UFOS and the work of ‘experiencer’ Whitley Strieber as its departure point, Prisoner of Infinity explores how beliefs are created and perceptions are managed in the face of the inexplicably complex forces of our existence. While keeping the question of a non-human and/or paranormal element open, the book maps how all-too-human agendas (such as the CIA’s MK Ultra program) have co-opted the ancient psychological process of myth-making, giving rise to dissociative, dumbed-down Hollywood versions of reality. The New Age movement, UFOs, alien abductions, psychism, psychedelic mind expansion, Transhumanism, the Space Program – what if they are all productions devised by committee in dark rooms to serve social, political, and economic goals that are largely devoid of true substance or meaning?
Through an exacting and enlivening process of social, cultural and psychological examination and excavation, Prisoner of Infinity uncovers the most deeply buried treasure of all. The original, uncredited author of all mystery and meaning: the human soul.
Previous interview with Jasun Horsley:Sex, Occultism and Social Engineering
Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’Christina Vantzou ‘No 3’
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