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LF377 Paul Levy – Wetiko: Healing the Mind Virus That Plagues Our World

Paul Levy discusses his book Wetiko: Healing The Mind Virus That Plagues Our World.
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In its Native American meaning, wetiko is an evil cannibalistic spirit that can take over people’s minds, leading to selfishness, greed, and consumption as an end in itself, destructively turning our intrinsic creative genius against us. Revealing the presence of wetiko behind every form of destruction our species is carrying out, both individual and collective, Levy shows how this mind-virus is so embedded in our psyche that it is almost undetectable, and it is our blindness to it that gives wetiko its power. However, by recognizing this mind parasite, we can break free from its hold and realize the vast creative powers of the human mind.
Levy explores how artists, philosophers, and spiritual traditions across the ages have been creatively symbolizing this psychic pathogen so as to help us see it and heal it. He explores how the projection of the shadow self – scapegoating – is the underlying psychological mechanism fueling wetiko, and examines wetiko in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, showing that we can reframe this event to receive the lessons and opportunities embedded in it. Revealing how the power of imagination can cure wetiko, Levy underscores how important it is for each of us to bring forth the creative spirit within us, which helps shed the light of consciousness on wetiko, taking away its power over us while simultaneously empowering ourselves.
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LF376 Nathanael Bonnell – Twilight of the Techno-Industrial Age?

Nathanael Bonnell and Greg Moffitt discuss techno-industrial society and potential trajectories for its future. Nathanael is editor of New Maps, a quarterly journal of de-industrial fiction.
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As the world faces the oncoming reality of declining energy, fraying infrastructure, and other consequences promised to us by the profligacy of the fossil fuel age, we’re left to look into a future that at first appears a trackless wilderness. The monolith of globalized industrial civilization offers few frameworks to comprehend life in an age of less. It has dealt with its impending implosion with procrastination and denial.
And yet if we’re to survive and even thrive in the future, we must have stories, for narrative is how we make sense of our world. But popular fantasies of Star Trek-type utopia or Mad Max-style Armageddon bear very little resemblance to the futures we’re actually likely to get: neither paradise nor apocalypse, and certainly not an easy continuation of the business-as-usual of the last few decades. Instead, we and our descendants will do what people always do: figure out creative ways to keep doing all those things that make up life, the loving and hating and laughing and crying and all the rest, in the times we’ve been given.

LF375 Thomas Lombardo – The Future Evolution of Consciousness

Inspired by his latest book Essays on the Future of Psychology and Consciousness, Thomas Lombardo joins Greg Moffitt to discuss the potential for the evolution of human consciousness in 2022 and beyond.
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Spanning over twenty years of futures studies, psychology, philosophy, and science fiction, Essays on the Future of Psychology and Consciousness comprehensively addresses a critically important issue regarding the future of humanity: How may human consciousness transform and evolve in the future? Topics covered include: Psychological growth versus stagnation; coping with rapid social and technological change; the primacy and mystery of consciousness; the technological augmentation of the human mind; pop psychology and the ongoing transformation of mental health and mental illness; technological immersion, virtual reality, and wise cyborgs; ethics, evil, and disasters in the future; science fiction visions of the future of the human mind; ecological and cosmic consciousness, and much more.
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LF374 Tessa Lena – Post-Pandemic Panic: You Will Own Nothing and Be Happy

Tessa Lena and Greg Moffitt discuss possible futures as the human predicament shifts from one strain of viral hysteria to another.
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In the wake of all the broken connections and shattered lives of the Coronavirus Crisis, thinking and feeling people the World over are desperate for some respite. But fresh scares and fear-mongering abound, seemingly determined to stampede us into a future of frugality and deprivation, eking out a meagre existence in the ‘new normal’. To have less, do less, and be less amid a high-tech matrix of control and surveillance is now the promised land. To ‘own nothing and be happy’ as we await the end of humanity, engulfed in the virtual reality of a transhumanist utopia. But is this the future you ordered? And if not, whose future is it?

LF373 Bernard Beitman – Meaningful Coincidences: How and Why Synchronicity and Serendipity Happen

Bernard Beitman discusses his book Meaningful Coincidences: How and Why Synchronicity and Serendipity Happen
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Each of us has more to do with creating coincidences than we think. In this broad exploration of the potential of coincidences to expand our understanding of reality, psychiatrist Bernard Beitman explores why and how coincidences, synchronicity, and serendipity happen, and how to use these common occurrences to inspire psychological, interpersonal, and spiritual growth. Through a complete catalogue of coincidence patterns with numerous examples, Beitman clarifies the relationship between synchronicity and serendipity and dissects the “anatomy of a coincidence”.
He defines coincidence types through their two fundamental constituents – mental events and physical events. He analyzes the many uses of meaningful coincidences as well as their potential problems. He explains how you will see patterns guiding your life decisions and learn to expect that coincidences are more likely to occur during times of stress, high emotion, and strong need, which helps you be ready to use them when they occur. Exploring the crucial role of individual thought and action in synchronicities and serendipities, Beitman shows that there’s much more behind these occurrences than ‘fate’ or randomness.

LF372 Thomas Sheridan and Neil McDonald – Atlantis: An Empire Lost and Found

Thomas Sheridan and Neil McDonald discuss their book and film Atlantis – An Empire Lost and Found.
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The lost continent of Atlantis has been the stuff of myth and legend for thousands of years, but did it ever really exist? Although quite specific about the nature and location of Atlantis, Plato’s account is generally taken as allegory by mainstream archaeologists and historians. However, stories of devastating floods and once-advanced civilizations going right back to the end of the last ice age can be found all over the world, as can evidence for them in the archaeology. In this groundbreaking new work, Sheridan and McDonald link the possible existence of Atlantis directly to megalithic culture, specifically that which erected the many stone circles and other similar structures the remains of which dot the Atlantic fringes, particularly around the British Isles.
Along the way we pose probing questions such as: Do secretive occult orders and mystery schools hide knowledge of past civilizations? Did the misuse of powerful technology cause the destruction of Atlantis, and might we be on the brink of making the same mistakes? And, is the current dysfunctional and schizophrenic state of our species somehow linked to collective trauma in the deep past and if so, could Atlantis hold the key to our survival?
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LF371 Claire Rae Randall – The War on Gender: Depopulation, Transhumanism and The End of Humanity?

Part two with Claire Rae Randall discussing her book The War on Gender: Postmodernism and Trans Identity
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As exposed in part one of our interview, transgender rights have recently come to the fore as a social issue and yet there are many who feel that this is being pushed too far and too fast. It has gone from being a marginal issue to one that is now having a disproportionate influence on social values.
However, the radical trans activist agenda to devalue, disrupt and even destroy social and cultural institutions and replace them with nothing but chaos and confusion seems to make no sense. Evolved over hundreds of thousands if not millions of years of human history, well-developed gender roles and archetypes – with very few exceptions – have allowed our species to adapt to wildly varying environments the world over, with plenty of room left for those who simply do not conform to majority gender patterns. So what’s really going on? Delving deep into the dark side of the radical trans movement, we uncover a profoundly anti-human, anti-life agenda involving population reduction, transhumanism and, ultimately, the end of the human race as we know it.
Related interview Masculinity is Not Toxic

LF370 Anthony Peake – Cheating the Ferryman: The Revolutionary Science of Life After Death (Session Two)

The second of two sessions recorded at home with Anthony Peake, inspired by his latest book Cheating the Ferryman: The Revolutionary Science of Life After Death.
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Is there life after death? This age-old question has plagued humankind from the moment we became self-aware, but do we now have enough evidence to answer it? In this mind-expanding book, Anthony Peake reveals an extraordinary model of life after death – one that brings together ideas from ancient philosophy, neuroscience, quantum physics and consciousness studies, and manages to explain a number of seemingly mysterious experiences such as precognition, déjà vu, synchronicity, near-death experiences, and out-of-body experiences.
The book is a much-awaited follow-up to Peake’s internationally bestselling Is There Life After Death? which introduced his revolutionary model. Since then he has amassed more evidence, using new studies by world-leading researchers, theories from the likes of Stephen Hawking, Carl Jung and, Hugh Everett, together with testimonies of NDEs and precognitive experiences which give everyday clues to our immortality. Cheating the Ferryman presents an astounding model of survival after death that is supported by, rather than in conflict with, our present understanding of how the universe works.
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LF369 Anthony Peake – Cheating the Ferryman: The Revolutionary Science of Life After Death (Session One)

The first of two sessions recorded at home with Anthony Peake, inspired by his latest book Cheating the Ferryman: The Revolutionary Science of Life After Death.
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Is there life after death? This age-old question has plagued humankind from the moment we became self-aware, but do we now have enough evidence to answer it? In this mind-expanding book, Anthony Peake reveals an extraordinary model of life after death – one that brings together ideas from ancient philosophy, neuroscience, quantum physics and consciousness studies, and manages to explain a number of seemingly mysterious experiences such as precognition, déjà vu, synchronicity, near-death experiences, and out-of-body experiences.
The book is a much-awaited follow-up to Peake’s internationally bestselling Is There Life After Death? which introduced his revolutionary model. Since then he has amassed more evidence, using new studies by world-leading researchers, theories from the likes of Stephen Hawking, Carl Jung and, Hugh Everett, together with testimonies of NDEs and precognitive experiences which give everyday clues to our immortality. Cheating the Ferryman presents an astounding model of survival after death that is supported by, rather than in conflict with, our present understanding of how the universe works.
Previous interviews with Anthony Peake

LF368 Claire Rae Randall – The War on Gender: Postmodernism and Trans Identity

Claire Rae Randall discusses her book The War on Gender: Postmodernism and Trans Identity
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Transgender rights have recently come to the fore as a social issue and yet there are many who feel that this is being pushed too far and too fast. Claire Rae Randall is a transsexual woman who transitioned in the 1980s and is deeply concerned about this precipitous rate of change. Can it have a happy ending? The War on Gender examines the progress of trans from a personal perspective, which has seen it come from being a marginal issue to one that is now having a disproportionate influence on social values.
Including material on the neuro-development of gender, medical, legal, and ethical issues, metaphysical analysis, and critique of the postmodernist deconstruction of gender, this book challenges the viral transformation that transgender ideology has already wrought upon Western society.
Related interview Masculinity is Not Toxic