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LF178 Rory Mac Sweeney - Wide Asleep, Deep Awake

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Dr. Rory Mac Sweeney discusses some of the ideas in his book The Paradox of Lucid Dreaming - A Metaphysical Theory of Mind.
This is a three part interview. Part one is here. Part two is here.
During the show, we further probe the blurring boundaries between the micro world of quantum physics and the macro realm of our so-called reality, and those between the waking and dreaming states of consciousness. It would appear that as these apparently discrete worlds collide and cross over, the gulf between mind and matter, between thought and the physical realm, is narrowing at an increasing rate. Developments in technology, language, and evolutionary biology are converging as we become more conscious of our individual and collective creative processes, carving reality from a field of potential where everything theoretically exists. Subjective experience, which mainstream science says we should ignore, is becoming increasingly significant. As these phenomena exponentially expand, what then happens to our preconceived notions of what is fact and what is truth? Is there, in the end, a hard, fast reality out there, or is all just a story that consciousness is telling itself?
www.wakeupinyourdreams.com
Greg Moffitt on Reality Check Podcast with Rory Mac Sweeney.
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LF170 Rory Mac Sweeney - Awaken in the Dream

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Dr. Rory Mac Sweeney discusses some of the ideas in his book The Paradox of Lucid Dreaming - A Metaphysical Theory of Mind.
This is a three part interview. Part one is here.
During today's show we delve deep into the dream space, discussing how the barriers between dreams and reality, and between mind and matter are dissolving as we awaken once again to the true nature of the world and the wider cosmos - one of paradox, illusion and constant change. The cosmos and the so-called laws which govern it are not static. The dualistic model of reality promoted by Western materialist reductionism is revealing itself as just another dogma. The scientific method has brought us many benefits, but the core concept that some empirical reality actually exists is constantly and increasingly being challenged by our lived experience of subjective realities and the limits of mass consensual reality. If you think you're awake you're dreaming, and if you know you're dreaming, you're awake...
www.wakeupinyourdreams.com
Greg Moffitt on Reality Check Podcast with Rory Mac Sweeney.
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LF171 Laurie Endicott Thomas - Control, Coercion and State Education

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Laurie Endicott Thomas discusses her book Not Trivial - How Studying the Traditional Liberal Arts Can Set You Free.
Why are there so many problems within our modern education system? In theory, our schools should be better than they've ever been, but growing numbers of people are embarking on their adult lives as functionally illiterate. Despite the best efforts of educators, much of the system is thus increasingly unfit for purpose. This has enormous implications for society in general, and politics in particular. Is this by accident, or by design? Are there hidden agendas at work? Upon investigation, it would seem that the true purpose of compulsory state education is less about liberation and freedom of opportunity, and more about control, coercion, and churning out compliant consumers and obedient workers willing to take their allotted place in society's hierarchy. When direct oppression is no longer possible, deliberate dumbing down will do just as well.
www.nottrivialbook.com
Related interviews:Richard Grove - What We Can All Learn From John Taylor GattoNick Duffell - Wounded Leaders
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LF172 Gregg Levoy - Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion

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Gregg Levoy discusses his book Vital Signs - The Nature and Nurture of Passion. This exuberant and compelling work explores how you can cultivate not just a specific passion, but passion as a mindset - a stance - that helps bring vitality to all your engagements, from work and relationships to creativity and spiritual life. Vital Signs examines the endless, yet endlessly fruitful, tug-of-war between passion and security in our lives, the wild in us and the tame, our natural selves and our conditioned selves, and shows us how to stay engaged with the world and resist the downward-pulling forces that can drain our aliveness.
Vital Signs also encourages courageous inquiry into our dis-passion - where we're numb, depressed, stuck and bored in our lives - so that we can rework these tendencies in ourselves, claim our rightful inheritance of vitality, and get our spark back. Drawing from centuries of history, art, science, psychology and philosophy, as well as in-depth interviews with people who rediscovered and reignited passion in their own lives, Vital Signs offers an expansive menu of possibilities for how to claim and reclaim your passion, and will help you maintain a keen awareness of where the pulse is and a determination to plug into that place.
www.gregglevoy.com
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LF192 Grafton Tanner - Culture, Capitalism, and Digital Disease: Part Two

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Grafton Tanner discusses his book Babbling Corpse - Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts.
The age of global capitalism promised all things to everyone; a world of techno-utopian fantasies embellished by endless entertainment, copious consumerism, and instant communication. As the 20th Century finally gave way to the 21st, corporate central control offered a vision of a future free from war, fear, and limitation. In societies increasingly devoid of meaning and purpose, we bought into the promise of this digital dreamland with religious zeal. The future, however, is turning out to be far from that envisioned in the ivory towers of industry imagineers. The events of 9/11 and subsequent years of the so-called 'war on terror', and the seismic shock of the 2008 financial crash and it's fatal fallout have left America, the West in general, and many other regions of the world reeling with no end in sight and with the milk and honey promises of the past in tatters.
Taking Vaporwave - a nascent musical micro-genre - as our starting point, we explore its parodies of popular culture, the changing face of a music business in meltdown, global capitalism's effect on art, the insidious side-effects of the electronic media which pervade our lives, the death of the old and emergence of new meaning in society, the burgeoning nostalgia industry, and our post-millennial obsession with a past which now resembles nothing less than a vanished golden age.
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LF190 Grafton Tanner - Culture, Capitalism, and Digital Disease: Part One

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Grafton Tanner discusses his book Babbling Corpse - Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts.
The age of global capitalism promised all things to everyone; a world of techno-utopian fantasies embellished by endless entertainment, copious consumerism, and instant communication. As the 20th Century finally gave way to the 21st, corporate central control offered a vision of a future free from war, fear, and limitation. In societies increasingly devoid of meaning and purpose, we bought into the promise of this digital dreamland with religious zeal. The future, however, is turning out to be far from that envisioned in the ivory towers of industry imagineers. The events of 9/11 and subsequent years of the so-called 'war on terror', and the seismic shock of the 2008 financial crash and it's fatal fallout have left America, the West in general, and many other regions of the world reeling with no end in sight and with the milk and honey promises of the past in tatters.
Taking Vaporwave - a nascent musical micro-genre - as our starting point, we explore its parodies of popular culture, the changing face of a music business in meltdown, global capitalism's effect on art, the insidious side-effects of the electronic media which pervade our lives, the death of the old and emergence of new meaning in society, the burgeoning nostalgia industry, and our post-millennial obsession with a past which now resembles nothing less than a vanished golden age.
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LF196 Randy Powers - It Can't Happen Here! Dealing With Disaster in an Age of Decay

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Although most of us like to believe that disaster will never hit us where it hurts, time and time again individuals, families, and entire communities are caught out when it does. From floods to wildfires, from hurricanes to earthquakes, basic preparedness for disruption to our daily lives is relatively simple, and need not be expensive. And yet, when catastrophe comes calling, millions worldwide continue to rely on government riding to the rescue, and on state assistance which all too often fails with fatal results.
Hollywood movies favour doomsday scenarios such as meteor strikes, nuclear wars, and the ever-popular plagues of zombie apocalypse, but everyday disasters are likely to be localized and much more mundane. They are also much more likely to actually occur. In a world of political, economic, and social upheaval, environmental destruction, climate chaos, and rampant resource conflicts, only the foolhardy or insane would insist 'It can't happen here!' The good news is that with a little time, study, and forward planning, almost anyone anywhere can begin to take a few basic steps to help ensure that they, their loved ones, and their community ride out the coming storms, whenever and wherever they strike.
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LF197 Phil Escott - Holistic Health and Natural Healing

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Phil Escott discusses alternative approaches to health and healing, including some of the subjects raised in his book Arthritis - The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me.
Modern medicine and mainstream healthcare are minefields of conflicting information and advice struggling to meet a constant stream of emerging threats and newly diagnosed conditions. For all that developed and even developing nations are today supposed to be living longer and better than ever, there are worrying trends in an entire constellation of chronic illnesses, and a disturbing decline in mental health. From diabetes to cancer, from autism to clinical depression, cases continue to multiply.
Despite our scientific and technological sophistication, and in fact in large part because of it, we have created an incredibly toxic environment for ourselves. Beyond pollution of our air and water, a host of other problems from electromagnetic radiation and artificial light, to our schizophrenic relationship with food and fitness, conspire to make us unwell. Factor in societal pressures such as stress around money, work, and relationships, and we find ourselves facing an almost overwhelming assault. And yet questioning received wisdom about health and wellness can be extremely challenging. We live in a system geared towards treating symptoms, not causes, and in which profit all too often comes before people. Cutting through the confusion, however, reveals truths which we have always known: that the human body functions as a single system, mental health is intimately linked to physical well-being, and - beyond extreme trauma - the body can heal itself given a genuine chance.
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LF199 Engelbert Winkler - Getting High on Light: The Powerful Psychoactive Effects

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Engelbert Winkler discusses the power and potential of light, and the development of the Lucia No.3 Hypnagogic Lamp. Light is essential to life, and it affects the brain and body in subtle and dramatic ways. But beyond warming our skin and growing our food, how many of us ever really afford it a second thought? Even the sublime beauty of the sunset all too often slips away unseen. Cutting edge research, however, is revealing properties of light which, although appearing to us as an unfolding paradigm, are in truth resonant reflections of insights and experiences that many of our ancient ancestors would have instinctively understood. In ages past, the powerful psychoactive effects of light changed lives, shaped entire cultures, and may even have led to the founding of religions, some of which are still with us today. Whilst exploring these almost antediluvian mysteries, we shed light on the future, from near death experiences and so-called mental illness, to light's therapeutic potential to heal trauma, transform our states of being, and evolve consciousness itself.
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LF437 John Waters - The Abolition of Reality and The End of History

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John Waters discusses his latest book 'The Abolition of Reality - A First Draft of the End of History'. This book may become to the reality of the past five years what Winston Smith’s diary proposed it might become within the fictional world of 1984. It is intended, first of all, as a permanent record of a time that only a few noticed while it was happening, a book - as Winston said - ‘For the future, for the unborn’.
 
In that future it may be hard to persuade people that what happened from the spring of 2020 really did happen. Either the past will have been erased to such an extent that no one will know human liberty ever existed, or else a revolution of human consciousness will make it improbable that human beings could ever have so easily been duped into surrendering the rights and freedoms their ancestors had won in blood.
A fake pandemic was the signal that one morning began the foreclosure on everything that had, until the evening before, been axiomatically central to the idea of liberal, democratic, constitutional republics. The most shocking thing was not so much that this started to happen, but that almost no one seemed to object to it happening; almost no one sought to cite or defend the rights and liberties being overturned. Liberals fell silent; leftists joined in the clamouring for more and more tyranny.
In 'The Abolition of Reality', John Waters describes not just what happened but the meaning of what happened, in the course of what may well be judged by history as the most heinous crime of all time.
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