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LF114 James Penner – Timothy Leary: The Harvard Years

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James Penner discusses his book Timothy Leary – The Harvard Years: Early Writings on LSD and Psilocybin.
On May 27, 1963, Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. Richard Alpert were dismissed from Harvard University’s Psychology Department – a watershed event marking the moment when psychedelic drugs were publicly demonized and driven underground. Today, little is known about the period in the early 1960s when LSD and psilocybin were not only legal but also actively researched at universities. Presenting the first collection of Leary’s writings devoted entirely to the research phase of his career, 1960 to 1965, Timothy Leary – The Harvard Years offers rare articles from Leary’s time as a professor in Harvard’s Psychology Department, including writings from the Harvard Psilocybin Project, the Concord Prison Project, and the Good Friday Experiment.
These essays – coauthored with Richard Alpert, Huston Smith, Ralph Metzner, and other psychedelic research visionaries – explore the nature of creativity and the therapeutic, spiritual, and religious aspects of psilocybin and LSD. Featuring Leary’s scientific articles and a rare account of his therapeutic approach On Existential Transaction Theory, the book also includes Leary’s final essay from his time at Harvard – The Politics of Consciousness – as well as controversial articles published shortly after his dismissal. This collection of seminal early writings by Leary shows why he quickly became an articulate spokesperson for consciousness expansion and an iconic figure for the counter-culture generation that came of age in the 1960s.
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LF113 Bernardo Kastrup – Why Materialism is Baloney

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Bernardo Kastrup discusses his book Why Materialism Is Baloney: How true skeptics know there is no death and fathom answers to life, the universe, and everything.
What is consciousness? What is reality? Does mind arise from the universe or the universe from mind? The present framing of the cultural debate in terms of materialism versus religion has allowed materialism to go unchallenged as the only rationally-viable metaphysics. Why Materialism Is Baloney seeks to change this. It uncovers the absurd implications of materialism and then presents a hard-nosed non-materialist metaphysics substantiated by skepticism, empirical evidence, and clear logical reasoning. It lays out a coherent framework upon which one can interpret and make sense of every natural phenomenon and physical law, as well as the modalities of human consciousness, without materialist assumptions.
According to this framework, the brain is merely the image of a self-localization process of mind, similar to how a whirlpool is the image of a self-localization process of water. The brain doesn’t generate mind in the same way that a whirlpool doesn’t generate water. It is the brain that is in mind, not mind in the brain, and therefore physical death is merely a dispersion of awareness. The implications of this wider reality for our notions of human life, purpose and meaning are immense.
www.bernardokastrup.com
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LF110 Courtney Brown – 9/11: What Really Happened? Part Two

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Courtney Brown discusses the results of a remote viewing project which focused on the events of 9/11. Listeners unfamiliar with remote viewing may wish to listen to an introductory interview which can be found here.
This is a two part interview. Part one is here.
The 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. in the year 2001 were arguably the most shocking and audacious events to happen so far this century. There are many unexplained anomalies associated with these attacks. The number and nature of the anomalies have led a significant and growing number of people to question the official explanation of these events as simply the actions of a small band of terrorists known as al-Qaeda led by Osama bin Laden. This investigation takes a fresh look at 9/11 using remote-viewing methods that were originally developed by the U.S. military and used for espionage purposes. The results are both deeply disturbing and highly controversial.
www.farsight.org
Previous interviews with Courtney Brown:Remote Viewing, Consciousness and RealityAtlantis: The True StoryThe Mystery of the Great Pyramid Solved
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LF109 Courtney Brown – 9/11: What Really Happened? Part One

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Courtney Brown discusses the results of a remote viewing project which focused on the events of 9/11. Listeners unfamiliar with remote viewing may wish to listen to an introductory interview which can be found here.
This is a two part interview. Part two is here.
The 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. in the year 2001 were arguably the most shocking and audacious events to happen so far this century. There are many unexplained anomalies associated with these attacks. The number and nature of the anomalies have led a significant and growing number of people to question the official explanation of these events as simply the actions of a small band of terrorists known as al-Qaeda led by Osama bin Laden. This investigation takes a fresh look at 9/11 using remote-viewing methods that were originally developed by the U.S. military and used for espionage purposes. The results are both deeply disturbing and highly controversial.
www.farsight.org
Previous interviews with Courtney Brown:Remote Viewing, Consciousness and RealityAtlantis: The True StoryThe Mystery of the Great Pyramid Solved
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LF449 Colin E. Davis – Living in The Movie: Victims of The Mind Virus

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Colin E. Davis and Greg Moffitt in conversation.
If life sometimes seems like a movie, are you an actor, a director, or an extra? Increasingly, cutting edge science is aligning with ancient wisdom to suggest that this reality is indeed a malleable fabric that each of us has the power to manipulate. The mainstream view is, of course, that we are merely passengers on a brief ride through a hostile universe devoid of meaning and purpose. However, the longer we remain in denial of our own power, individually and collectively, the harder it will be to deal with the converging crises now threatening the very existence of our species.
The first quarter of the 21st Century has simply seeded even more virulent strains of mind virus, accelerating our course on a path to self-destruction. Most people now on the Earth are not and never will be able to take the leap of the psyche that real change requires. The good news is that we don’t need everyone to do so.
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Previous interviews with Colin E. Davis
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LF108 Lewis Dartnell – How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch

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Lewis Dartnell discusses his book The Knowledge – How to Rebuild our World from Scratch.
Maybe it was a viral pandemic, or an asteroid strike, or perhaps nuclear war. Whatever the cause, the world as we know it has ended and you and the other survivors must start again. What key knowledge would you need to start rebuilding civilisation from scratch? Once you’ve scavenged what you can, how do you begin producing the essentials? How do you grow food, generate power, prepare medicines, or get metal out of rocks? Could you avert another dark age or take shortcuts to accelerate redevelopment?
Living in the modern world, we have become disconnected from the basic processes that support our lives, as well as the fundamentals of science that enable us to relearn things for ourselves. The Knowledge is a journey of discovery, a book which explains everything you need to know about everything. It’s a quick start guide for rebooting civilisation which will transform your understanding of the world – and help you prepare for when it’s no longer here.
www.the-knowledge.orgwww.lewisdartnell.com
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LF106 Nick Duffell - Wounded Leaders: British Elitism and the Entitlement Illusion

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Nick Duffell discusses his book Wounded Leaders: British Elitism and the Entitlement Illusion.
In an age when America elected its first black president and the Middle East stirred with popular uprising, Britons were again content to elect the products of their elitist Public Schools. But, their grooming for power aside, does such an education produce excellence – or expertise in self-deception and duplicity? The early 21st Century gives us some clues. Tony Blair maintained his façade of inner conviction but lost the nation through blind allegiance to the Establishment. David Cameron let his boyish mask of caring sincerity slip to reveal a bully’s attitude beneath his meritocratic pretence. A bicycle in Downing Street highlighted a deep-seated problem in Britain: a divided society caught in the enduring trance of the Entitlement Illusion.
Duffell argues that the British national obsession with sending the children of the well-heeled away to school has a major impact on our society, our institutions and our attitudes. He proposes that a cherished national character ideal, eschewing vulnerability and practising a normalised covert hostility based on bullying in the dorm adversely affects even those who did not have such an education.
This specific culture of elitism, protected by financial interests and the ”’It never did me any harm’ syndrome, means that Britain is unlikely to foster the kind of leadership necessary in our world of increasing complexity, which needs cooperative global solutions. But worse, new scientific evidence shows that this hyper-rational training leaves its devotees trapped within the confines of an inflexible mind, beset with functional defects. Through the lens of the British case, Duffell presents a perspective on the universal defects of untempered rationality and proposes a revised model of leadership more fit for the uncertain future our world faces.
www.woundedleaders.co.ukwww.boardingschoolsurvivors.co.ukThe Making of Them documentary
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LF 104 Scott Alan Roberts – The Secret History of the Reptilians

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Scott Alan Roberts discusses his book The Secret History of the Reptilians: The Pervasive Presence of the Serpent in Human History, Religion and Alien Mythos.
The very real probability that non-human intelligences visited and even copulated with primordial humans is detailed in civilization’s most ancient cultural and religious records. These historical records further reveal that these intelligences were reptilian in nature or, at the very least, have been represented throughout human history in reptilian form. From the serpent Nachash in the Garden of Eden, Atum the Egyptian snake-man, and Quetzalcotl, the feathered serpent god of the Mayans, to the double-helix snake symbol of Enki in ancient Sumerian literature, the serpent has been the omnipresent link between humans and the gods in every culture.
Did a race of reptilians come to this planet long ago? Did extraterrestrials seed the human race or genetically engineer primordial hominids, creating a slave race? Were humans freed from bondage, led by a traitor from within the ranks of the alien oppressors? Is there an extraterrestrial race that has shifted in and out of human affairs for all of recorded history, governing our destiny from the shadows? Or are we bound by religious thought and man-made myth, only to suffer in its invisible grasp until we move beyond the need for false gods, devils and monsters that subjugate us to our own fears?
www.scottalanroberts.comwww.intrepidmag.comwww.paradigmsymposium.comwww.exodusreality.com
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LF96 Steven Poole – Unspeak: Words Are Weapons

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Steven Poole discusses his book Unspeak – Words Are Weapons. Unspeak is language as a weapon. Every day, we are bombarded with those apparently simple words and phrases that actually conceal darker meanings. ‘Climate change’ is less threatening than ‘global warming’; we say ‘ethnic cleansing’ when we mean mass murder. As we absorb and repeat Unspeak we are accepting the messages that politicians, corporations and the military wish us to believe. Operation Iraqi Freedom did more than put a positive spin on the American war with Iraq; it gave the invasion such a likeable name that the American news networks quickly adopted it as their tagline for reporting on the war. By repackaging the language we use to describe international affairs and domestic politics, Unspeak tries to make controversial issues unspeakable and, therefore, unquestionable. From culture wars to the culture of war, everyday words are changing the way we think.
www.unspeak.netwww.unspeak.tvwww.stevenpoole.net
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LF93 Paul Kivel – Living in the Shadow of the Cross

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Paul Kivel on Living in the Shadow of the Cross – Understanding and Resisting the Power and Privilege of Christian Hegemony. Over the centuries, Christianity has accomplished much which is deserving of praise. Its institutions have fed the hungry, sheltered the homeless, and advocated for the poor. Christian faith has sustained people through crisis and inspired many to work for social justice.
Yet, although the word ‘Christian’ evokes the epitome of goodness, the actual story is much more complex. Over the last two millennia, ruling elites have used Christian institutions and values to control those less privileged throughout the world. The doctrine of Christianity has been interpreted to justify the killing of millions, and its leaders have used their faith to sanction participation in colonialism, slavery, and genocide. In the Western world, Christian influence has inspired legislators to continue to limit women’s reproductive rights, and kept lesbians and gays on the margins of society.
As our triple crises of war, financial meltdown, and environmental destruction intensify, it is imperative that we dig beneath the surface of Christianity’s benign reputation to examine its contribution to our social problems. Living in the Shadow of the Cross reveals the ongoing, everyday impact of Christian power and privilege on our beliefs, behaviors, and public policy, and emphasizes the potential for people to come together to resist domination and build and sustain communities of justice and peace.
www.christianhegemony.orgwww.paulkivel.com
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