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LF443 Bernard Beitman – Can Synchronicity Save Our Species?

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This week, pioneering psychiatrist Bernard Beitman returns to discuss his latest book 'Life Changing Synchronicities: A Doctor’s Journey of Coincidence & Serendipity'. Beitman explores the experience and ramifications of meaningful coincidences, including how synchronistic happenings came to define his own life. Building on Carl Jung’s groundbreaking work on this phenomenon, Beitman applies new insights on coincidence, synchronicity, serendipity, and related phenomena to the contemporary age, ultimately helping readers begin to better identify patterns of synchronicity in their own lives, find deeper meaning, and more consciously align with their personal life path and goals. Synchronicity holds vast potential not only for individual personal growth but for the future of the human race and the Earth itself.
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LF444 Thomas Sheridan & Greg Moffitt in a Liminal Space: Shopping for eeriness & nostalgia in an abandoned mall

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This podcast is an audio version of a video recorded by Thomas Sheridan and Greg Moffitt for Thomas' show 'Not Quite the Witching Hour'. Topics include architecture, consumerism, dystopia, hauntology, popular culture and science fiction.
A liminal space is a physical place or a psychological state of transition, characterized by being 'in-between' or on a 'threshold' between one state or location and another. The term originates from the Latin word 'limen' (threshold). These spaces often evoke feelings of eeriness, nostalgia, or unease because they are temporary and lack clear purpose for prolonged occupation. Examples include empty hallways, abandoned malls, or the periods of adolescence and major life changes, like a pandemic.
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LF442 Keith Preston - The System Has Failed: Culture Wars, Crisis and Collapse

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In a follow-up to part one discussing his book 'Philosophical Anarchism and the Death of Empire', Keith Preston focusses on reimagining current political, social, cultural and economic paradigms towards a future in which we at last begin to learn from past mistakes. On a shrinking planet riven by warring ideologies and intractable conflicts, is it time to finally make way for truly decentralised systems, voluntary societies and a world where those who will never agree simply go their separate ways?
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LF441 Andy Thomas - Mind Power, Earth Energies and Artificial Intelligence

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Andy Thomas returns for part two discussing his latest book 'Strange: Paranormal Realities in the Everyday World'. You'll find a link to part one in the show notes. The title of this talk reflects the emphasis subject-wise, in particular on the development of artificial intelligence and its implications for the paranormal phenomena we are increasingly being shown as part of a much wider reality, and crucially, the implications for the future of entire human species.
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LF440 Andy Thomas - Strange: Paranormal Realities in the Everyday World PART 1

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Andy Thomas discusses his book Strange: Paranormal Realities in the Everyday World
In Strange, Andy takes a fresh and vital look at the paranormal with incisive analysis to make the case that encounters with it are far more common than is acknowledged and that they urgently need re-evaluation. During his three and a half decades of research, Andy has met countless witnesses and now it is time for their stories to be told. Sceptics, of course, dismiss all such encounters, but what if they are wrong?
Using up to date evidence and with the help of a panel of open-minded scientific experts, Strange delves into many previously unrecorded true-life tales from around the world. Ghosts, UFOs, psychic powers, out-of-body-experiences and beyond, Strange constitutes one of the broadest and most insightful assessments of unexplained phenomena ever carried out, investigating their possible causes and profound implications.
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LF439 Keith Preston - Anarchism and the Death of Empire

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Keith Preston discusses his book Philosophical Anarchism and the Death of Empire
More than half of the world's countries are democracies, even if in name only. Democracy is hailed by its advocates as the only rational political system, producing the best outcomes for the greatest number of citizens. But is this belief grounded more in ideology than reality? Are modern democratic governments actually doing more harm than good when it comes to the daily lives of individuals? Although the very idea may be regarded as unthinkable, democracy is essentially a gentrified form of mob rule and its failings are becoming increasingly obvious both in the West and in imitator countries around the world. And yet no matter how bad things get, few can even imagine an alternative.
However, in Anarchism, a much maligned set of social, cultural, political, and economic models, genuine alternatives exist, and Preston makes a convincing case on their behalf. His recent study in anarchist theory and practice is committed to the promotion of decentralised societies, autonomous regions and localities, self-managed municipalities and villages, stateless tribes and voluntary associations, peoples’ militias and federated communities: the foundations for a new, diversified world even as the old world is falling apart.
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LF184 Paul Devereux - Stone Age Soundtracks: The Acoustic Archaeology of Ancient Sites

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Paul Devereux discusses his book Stone Age Soundtracks - The Acoustic Archaeology of Ancient Sites. Until recently, almost all archaeological insights have been gleaned by looking at ancient remains. Now archaeologists are starting to think beyond the visual. One of the most exciting branches of the new multi-sensory archaeology is archaeoacoustics, the archaeology of sound. Ancient civilizations developed far more than fine artwork and magnificent monuments. In songs to their gods, laments for their dead, and the universal human quest for the supernatural, people also made some very strange noises.
Boulders and stalactites incised with prehistoric rock art that ring like bells and gongs, a Bronze Age 'stone drum' alongside a Russian lake that can be heard for miles when struck, ancient rock paintings and petroglyphs that have secret 'soundtracks', Mayan ruins that emit echoes mimicking the calls of sacred birds, mysterious temples and tombs possessing eerie acoustic effects, Amazonian shamans who use subtle sounds to guide people through drug-induced visionary states, Stone Age musical instruments, and megalithic sites that seem to move when subjected to certain sounds... all this and much more is explored in Stone Age Soundtracks. '''Without acoustics, archaeology is deaf...' And in looking back to hear the old stones speak, maybe we can learn how to move forward.
http://www.pauldevereux.co.uk/http://www.landscape-perception.com/
Related interview:Gary Evans - Listening to the Past
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LF176 Gary Lachman - The Secret Teachers of the Western World

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Gary Lachman discusses his book The Secret Teachers of the Western World. This epic study unveils the esoteric masters who have covertly impacted the intellectual development of the West. Running alongside the mainstream of Western intellectual history there is another current which, in a very real sense, should take pride of place, but which for the last few centuries has occupied a shadowy, inferior position, somewhere underground. In this clarifying, accessible, and fascinating study, Lachman explores the Western esoteric tradition as a thought movement with ancient roots and modern expressions, which, in a broad sense, regards the cosmos as a living, spiritual, meaningful being and humankind as having a unique obligation and responsibility within it. This is in stark contrast to much of modern science, which sees the universe as a meaningless flow of matter and energy, and human beings as pointless accidents.
Previous interviews with Gary Lachman:Caretakers of the CosmosRevolutionaries of the Soul
www.garylachman.co.uk
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LF148 Gary Lachman - Revolutionaries of the Soul: Reflections on Magicians, Philosophers, and Occultists PART 2

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Gary Lachman discusses his book Revolutionaries of the Soul: Reflections on Magicians, Philosophers, and Occultists.
This is a two part interview. Part one is here
Explorers of occult mysteries and the edges of consciousness change the way we view not only the nature of reality, but also our deepest sense of self. In Revolutionaries of the Soul Lachman presents punchy, enlightening, and intriguing biographies of some of the most influential esoteric luminaries in recent history. His subjects include Swedish mystical scientist Emanuel Swedenborg; H. P. Blavatsky, Russian cofounder of the Theosophical Society; Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner, who inspired the Waldorf School of education; Swiss visionary C. G. Jung, founder of depth psychology; notorious English ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley; Russian esotericist P. D. Ouspensky, explicator of Gurdjieff s early works; and British psychic artist Dion Fortune, who was influential in the modern revival of magical arts.
Previous interview with Gary Lachman: Caretakers of the Cosmos
www.garylachman.co.uk
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LF147 Gary Lachman - Revolutionaries of the Soul: Reflections on Magicians, Philosophers, and Occultists PART 1

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Gary Lachman discusses his book Revolutionaries of the Soul: Reflections on Magicians, Philosophers, and Occultists.
This is a two part interview. Part two is here
Explorers of occult mysteries and the edges of consciousness change the way we view not only the nature of reality, but also our deepest sense of self. In Revolutionaries of the Soul Lachman presents punchy, enlightening, and intriguing biographies of some of the most influential esoteric luminaries in recent history. His subjects include Swedish mystical scientist Emanuel Swedenborg; H. P. Blavatsky, Russian cofounder of the Theosophical Society; Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner, who inspired the Waldorf School of education; Swiss visionary C. G. Jung, founder of depth psychology; notorious English ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley; Russian esotericist P. D. Ouspensky, explicator of Gurdjieff s early works; and British psychic artist Dion Fortune, who was influential in the modern revival of magical arts.
Previous interview with Gary Lachman: Caretakers of the Cosmos
www.garylachman.co.uk
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