Altered States Of Conversation

On geopolitical shifts, civilisational cycles, and the potential for new social coordination mechanisms in an increasingly frenetic world.

This dialogue welcomes the return of political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, philosopher O.G. Rose, and Commons / Civilisation theorist Michel Bauwens in dialogue with Tim Adalin.

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MIchel Bauwen's Substack: https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/

Benjamin Studebaker's Substack: https://bmstudebaker.substack.com/​

O.G. Rose's Substack: https://ogrose.substack.com/

Tim Adalin's Substack: https://substack.com/@timadalin

Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:10 US, China, Geopolitical Shifts and Military Spending

06:01 The 5,000-Year Transition: Modes of Exchange

25:22 Social Coordination Mechanisms and Global Pluralism

40:21 Exploring Accelerationism: Positive vs. Negative Forms

47:45 The Dilemma of Nation States vs. Globalization

56:14 The Crisis of European Identity and Sovereignty

01:07:04 Communication and Social Coordination in a Complex World

01:18:45 Incompleteness of Institutions and the Potential for New Ideas

01:20:12 The Opportunity in Institutional Failure

01:20:51 Fragmentation and the Search for Unity

01:22:08 The Challenge of Encountering Otherness

01:24:37 Metaphysical Possibilities in Human Encounters

01:30:27 Navigating Geopolitical Dynamics

01:38:20 The Role of Invisible Colleges in Crisis

01:46:02 Reflections on Trust and Society

01:52:43 Alienation and the Quest for Sameness

Listen to the full outro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

What is Anthro-complexity? What makes humans different? How can we respond with wisdom, at scale, to our entanglements? Welcoming polymathic thinker and renowned complexity practitioner Dave Snowden, in dialogue with Tim Adalin.

Dave's previous conversations on Voicecraft / Altered States Of Conversation:

"Civilisation, Science & Spirituality" https://youtu.be/uXvWQzGcNCo

"Artificial Intelligence & Human Reasoning" | Metacrisis vs Polycrisis" https://youtu.be/TrMZL55Nzl0

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Learn more about Dave and Cynefin @ https://thecynefin.co/team/dave-snowden

Find Dave's blog series on Anthro-complexity: https://thecynefin.co/anthro-complexity-1-3/

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

0:10 What is anthro-complexity?

8:33 Entanglement, not relationship?

15:45 Orientation and the ancient debate that still structures how we think

23:05 Why workshops don't work (and what does)

34:30 You can't simplify a falcon into a pigeon (and have it still be a falcon)

45:25 Three dangers: appropriation, distraction, destruction

53:04 Who is this actually for?

57:30 Demes: the forgotten structure humans evolved to live in

1:04:55 Do we need new shamans?

1:42:50 Changing how decision-makers listen

1:55:00 The limits of dialogue and what comes next

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Sarah Janes is reviving the dreaming mysteries of Western civilisation, rooted in ancient Greece and Egypt.

We dialogue on the esoteric history and culture of dreaming, consciousness, mysticism and sensemaking. Sarah is the author of Initiation Into Dream Mysteries, a psychomagic journey to awaken lucid dream consciousness. She is a researcher, curator, and retreat/workshop facilitator.

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Sarah's Links:

Website: https://themysteries.org/

Book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Initiation-into-Dream-Mysteries-Mnemosyne/dp/164411514X

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00:00 Intro

01:44 What Are Dreams?

05:15 The Meaning of Mystery

09:31 Etymology and Magic of Language

17:01 Dreaming Consciousness as Response to Tech Enslavement

28:10 Creation, Songlines & Memory Palaces

33:40 Hieroglyphs as Holographic Writing

41:40 Prophecy, Truth & Healing

55:41 AI, Desire & Vitality

1:0:55 Receptivity and Context

1:07:30 Dying Before You Die

1:20:28 Magic, Sympathy & Serpent Symbolism

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Welcoming master craftsman and philosopher Forrest Landry in dialogue on the deep structures underlying money, power, and inequality in modern civilization.

Starting with fundamental questions about what money really is, we move through an analysis of why inequality has reached unprecedented levels, to urgent questions about artificial intelligence, the future of human choice-making, and a foundational orientation of response.

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Desire, Want and Need on Delicate Fire: https://youtu.be/rejVuh1Knn8

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction: Money, Power & AI

0:55 Lenses for Understanding Money: Choice, Energy & Game Theory

06:12 Why Inequality Exploded: Technology as Extraction Amplifier

29:30 The Three Stages of Mastery: Change, Causation & Choice

41:05 Beyond Capitalism vs Socialism: Upgrading the Game

57:40 The Maker-Taker Inversion: When Extraction Became Valued Over Creation

1:16:08 Virtual vs Virtue: Humility and Being Rooted in Reality

1:26:38 Rewilding Ourselves: Embodiment and Collective Wisdom

1:38:31 Why Everyone's Investing in AI: The Loss of Trust in Ourselves

1:47:40 The Path Forward: Distributed, Embodied, Contextualized Choice-Making

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Welcoming Dr Iain McGilchrist, renowned psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar, in dialogue with Tim Adalin for Voicecraft.

We explore the relation between cosmic drives, the left and right hemispheres, attention, religion, power, good, evil, AI and the soul.

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0:00:00 Introduction

0:00:04 What is Intuition?

0:02:28 Intuition and the Hemispheres

0:04:41 The Basis of Understanding

0:08:13 Left and Right Hemisphere Dynamics

0:11:49 Participation in Reality

0:18:29 Bundling and Unbundling: Economics and AI

0:23:11 Dividing and Uniting: When and Why

0:30:02 Understanding vs. Information

0:34:19 Animate and Inanimate: A Continuum

0:42:53 The Artificial Intelligence Predicament

0:54:26 Narcissism and Echo Chambers

1:00:43 Consciousness as Field

1:07:15 Cancer, Bureaucracy, and Runaway Systems

1:17:09 The Assault on Nature, Body, and Culture

1:25:00 Authority, Doubt, and Transformation

1:34:12 Religion, Certainty, and Common Truths

1:40:57 The Soul and Life as Pilgrimage

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Dr Iain McGilchrist is a renowned psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and his influential work explores the relationship between the brain's hemispheres and the nature of human experience, reality, and culture.

He is the author of The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World and the monumental two-volume work The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World.

Find his YouTube channel @DrIainMcGilchrist

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Tim Adalin is a philosopher and the founder of The Voicecraft Project.

Connect with Tim @ https://www.timadalin.xyz

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

What is presence? How can we inoculate against coercive programming? How does presence relate to the revolutionary subject?

This dialogue welcomes philosopher, neuroscientist and host of Love and Philosophy, Andrea Hiott, microbiologist and shamanic practitioner Simon van der Els, and design ontologist Anna Gyllenklev, in dialogue with philosopher Tim Adalin.

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What are the prospects of social and political revolution? How can we understand revolutionary subjectivity today? Who, what, when, and where is the revolutionary subject?

Inspired by a Philosophy Portal conversation between Cadell Last and Michel Bauwens, this dialogue welcomes political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, philosopher O.G. Rose, and Commons / Civilisation theorist Michel Bauwens in dialogue with Tim Adalin.

Find the Philosophy Portal conversation with Michel here: https://youtu.be/9bR-bsvi0Nk?si=CDKv2TqLwWyjJZvS

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00:00 Introduction to Revolutionary Subjectivity

03:53 Embedded Democracies and Revolutionary Prospects

08:30 Civilizational Inter-Cycles and New Contradictions

16:19 Constructive Networks and the Commons

26:20 Navigating Political and Social Dynamics

35:56 The Role of the Military in Revolution

53:37 Defining Revolutionary Subjectivity

01:10:58 Jurisdictional Alliances and Historical Contexts

01:15:02 The Crisis of Education and Intellectual Spaces

01:20:13 Emerging Alternatives to Traditional Education

01:27:11 Creating Indispensable Spaces for New Subjectivities

01:39:57 Navigating the Political Landscape for Change

01:52:43 The Role of Presence and Receptivity in Conversations

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

What are the challenges and prospects of integrating transformative sound with philosophy?

Featuring hyperhuman theorist, psychonaut, and founder of The Museum of Consciousness Carl Hayden Smith and philosopher Tim Adalin, this dialogue reflects on the collaboration between The Museum of Consciousness and Underground Philosophy, live in Melbourne.

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Reflections on The Museum of Consciousness & Underground Philosophy

02:51 - Sound vs Language: What Gets Lost in Translation

06:35 - Can Philosophy Be as Free as Music?

12:43 - Using Sound to Process Trauma and Shadow Work

15:39 - Sacred Sound & Prototyping New Ontologies

22:30 - Beauty, Wonder, Thresholds, and What Happens When Interpretations Differ?

36:19 - Consciousness & The Golden Thread between The Museum, DMT, and Hyperhumanism

38:34 - Religion, Theology & Egregores

41:53 - The Paradox: Limiting Input While Maximizing Experience

45:43 - Deep Trust and Bracketing the Ordinary

53:50 - Notes of Wisdom for Participating In Intense Exploratory Experiences

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Featuring hyperhuman theorist, psychonaut, and founder of The Museum of Consciousness Carl Hayden Smith, and philosopher Tim Adalin. Filmed at the start of an evening of transformative sonic experience with The Museum of Consciousness at Underground Philosophy, live in Melbourne. We explore the question: are we human yet?

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ABOUT CARLCarl Hayden Smith is the founder of the Museum of Consciousness at Oxford University and co-founder of the Cyberdelics Nexus. His research concentrates on the relationship between technology and the human condition and he is developing ‘Hyperhumanism’ which reframes technology as a catalyst for developing our own innate human abilities. Carl is also Associate Professor of Media in the School of Arts & Creative Industries at UEL and is the former Head of Research and Director of the Learning Technology Research Centre (LTRC) at the Institute for Creativity & Technology, Ravensbourne University London. His research focuses broadly on the relationship between technology and the human condition. He has also been very fortunate to be a participant of the nnDMT research at Imperial College London for the last six years and has been through all three phases, including i) EEG ii) EEG+FMRI and iii) nnDMTx. Carl was also the first person in the world to sustain the full 5 doses of DMTx during the pilot phase of the study.ABOUT TIM

Tim Adalin is a philosopher and founder of The Voicecraft Project and Underground Philosophy. You can work with Tim individually @ https://www.timadalin.xyz/one-and-oneTimestamps00:00:00 Intro00:01:00 Are we human yet? The core question explored00:05:12 The sacred and connecting to what we share in common00:9:18 Sacredness, Context engineering and Hyperhumanism00:13:00 Hyperhumanism vs transhumanism: Enhancement vs escape00:19:06 Finding the right balance of friction in modern life00:21:30 Ancient sound healing and The Museum of ConsciousnessListen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Exploring intersections of chemical ecology, evolution, and humanity's relationship with technology in the era of technicity.

Welcoming chemical ecologist Timothy Jackson in dialogue with Tim Adalin, we explore the prospects for developing "philosophical science of purposeful transformation."

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AI Gen chapters:

00:00 Intro

01:30 What is chemical ecology?

06:41 Life as technical and tool use

13:00 Simondon and the advent of technicity and evolution

15:03 Darwin versus popular evolutionary understanding

22:48 Participating in speciation and morphogenesis

27:30 Humanity's technical capacity and transformation

31:41 Transhumanism and philosophical science critique

40:10 Mediation between conservation and adaptation

45:08 Mutual transformation versus one-directional relationships

51:34 Musical improvisation as constraint and enablement

59:16 Risk-taking and trans-individual collective emergence

1:03:17 Purity, impurity and interior-exterior dynamics

1:13:57 Niche construction and inheritance patterns

1:26:00 Wisdom begins with acknowledging ignorance

1:37:22 Addiction as pathological attraction patterns

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0