Expanding Mind

By Erik Davis

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Progressiveradionetwork.com presents Expanding Mind with Erik Davis. He explores the culture of consciousness: magic, spirituality, psychology, technology.

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Expanding Mind episodes:

06.20.2019
Expanding Mind – Summer Pause
Erik reflects on a decade of podcasting, the learning curves of the show, the work of conversation, the uncanniness of our moment.
06.13.2019
Expanding Mind – Liminal Mind
A conversation with my wife Jennifer Dumpert about collaborative dreaming, iPad skrying, meditation, play, the problem with interpretation, and her new bookLiminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep (North Atlantic).
06.06.2019
Expanding Mind – Deconstructing Yourself
A discussion with meditation teacher and author Michael Taft about hardcore dharma, Buddhist modernism, shop talk, the soup of the sangha, and the problem of the achievement self and the blind leading the blind.
05.23.2019
Expanding Mind – Queering Psychedelia
An informative chat with psychedelic researcher Dr. Alexander Belser about qualitative research, the Mystical Experience Questionnaire, queer spiritualities, and the idea of coming “out of the psychedelic closet.”
05.16.2019
Expanding Mind – Sacred Matter
A conversation with philosopher of religion Mary-Jane Rubenstein about wonder, horror, animism, the multiverse, Heidegger, Einstein, Hawaiian telescopes, and her book Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (Columbia).
05.02.2019
Expanding Mind – Patterns of Transformation
A talk with experience designer Ida Benedetto about transformative games, trespassing, rules for sex parties, active introversion, magic circles, funerals, and queer spirituality.
04.26.2019
Expanding Mind – Decriminalize Nature
Entheogenic and community activists Larry Norris and Kufikiri talk about decriminalizing entheogenic plant medicines within Oakland: blind spots, changing the narrative, and resisting “the metronome of programming."
04.18.2019
Expanding Mind – Feral Poetics
Poet Janaka Stucky talks about guerrilla poetry, burlesque horror, mystical language, shame, prophecy, and the strange DMT experiences that inspired his latest book, Ascend Ascend (Third Mind Books).
04.11.2019
Expanding Mind – Meditation Apps
Science and technology researcher Rebecca Jablonsky talks about consciousness hacking, tech ethnography, information ecosystems, media fasts, and the ups and downs of outsourcing awareness.
04.04.2019
Expanding Mind – Ouija Board Poetics
Poet and literary scholar Stephen Yenser talks about James Merrill's poetic epic The Changing Light at Sandover (1982).
03.28.2019
Expanding Mind – Yoga Tales
Yogi, psychonaut, and dear old pal Spiros Antonopoulos returns to talk about the Ashtanga lineage, Crowley’s yoga chops, NYC punk yoga, and psychedelic Patanjali.
03.21.2019
Expanding Mind – Higher Intelligence
In this second wide-ranging talk with Anthony Blake, author of A Gymnasium of Higher Intelligence, we discuss J.G Bennett’s ideas of higher intelligence.
03.14.2019
Expanding Mind – Psychedelic Dharma
Host Erik Davis does a solo show on Beat Zen, the Fifth precept, tantric heresy, headless dharma collectives, capitalist subjectivity, and the Psychedelic Sangha meetups popping up in a few cities around North America.
03.07.2019
Expanding Mind – Tarot Artistry
Author and Tarot expert Mary Greer discusses Pamela Colman Smith (the illustrator of the famous Rider-Wait-Smith deck). We touch on the Golden Dawn, Jung’s active imagination, and the marvelous Pamela Colman Smith: the Untold Story.
02.28.2019
Expanding Mind – Reality Physics
Historian and astrophysicist Adam Becker—author of What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics—talks about Schrödinger’s Cat, Bell’s Theorem, and the difference between weirdness and nonsense.
02.21.2019
Expanding Mind – Beatnik Boyhood
Writer and avant-garde publisher Tosh Berman discusses his charming new memoir Tosh, about growing up with his father, the remarkable underground California artist Wallace Berman.
02.14.2019
Expanding Mind – Daimonic Conversations
Writer and Ultraculture wizard Jason Louv talks about occult history, reality tunnels, his John Dee and the Empire of Angels book, Aleister Crowley’s secret Christianity, and the apocalyptic RPG the West can’t seem to escape.
02.07.2019
Expanding Mind – Visionary Permaculture
Culture-crafter and plant poet Delvin Solkinson discusses permaculture principles, OS Gaia, cartomancy, visionary art, design activation, and the Galactic Trading Card Oracle.
01.31.2019
Expanding Mind – Queer LA
Professor and queer historian Heather Lukes talks about Silver Lake riots, gay bikers, house ball scenes, the nostalgia for repression, and the joys and challenges of working on the online archive "The Grit and Glamour of Queer LA Subculture."
01.28.2019
Expanding Mind – Find the Others
Author and media scholar Douglas Rushkoff talks about collaborative technologies, silicon transhumanism, analog aura, the problem of the soul, and his new and timely manifesto Team Human. Join the team!
01.18.2019
Expanding Mind – “Meditation"
Host Erik Davis explores his personal history of “meditation"—including teenage stoner trances, voices in the head, and Zen anti-authoritarianism.
01.10.2019
Expanding Mind – American Cosmic, Part 2
Religious scholar Diana Pasulka talks about anomalous cognition, 2001 monoliths, disclosure, future truths, absurd Christianity, and her book American Cosmic (Oxford).
01.03.2019
Expanding Mind – American Cosmic, Part One
A talk with religious scholar Diana Pasulka about UFOs, scientific believers, book encounters, elite cabals, studying weirdness, and her new book American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology (Oxford).
12.20.2018
Expanding Mind – Speaking with Plants
Author and plant behavior researcher Monica Gagliano talks about courage, scientific blindness, plant spirits, and her new book Thus Spoke the Plant (North Atlantic).
12.13.2018
Expanding Mind – The Gorey Details
Culture critic Mark Dery talks about Surrealism, the gay voice, penny dreadfuls, and his new biography of Edward Gorey, Born to Be Posthumous (Little Brown).
11.29.2018
Expanding Mind – The Superheroic Dose
Martial artist and psilocybin explorer Kilindi Iyi talks about African martial arts, high dose psilocybin work, African-American psychedelia, Dr. Strange, and the metaphysics of darkness.
11.15.2018
Expanding Mind – Memetic Tribes
Canadian cultural observer Peter Limberg talks about Stoicism, philosophical sandboxes, the Intellectual Explorers Club, making uncertainty sexy, and navigating the conflicts between today's memetic tribes.
11.08.2018
Expanding Mind – Integrating Psychedelics
Nurse practitioner and psychedelic therapist Julie Megler talks about integration circles, hierarchy vs. community, ketamine therapy, somatic work, and the philosophy behind her new East Bay clinic Sage Integrative Health.
11.01.2018
Expanding Mind – Rainbow Bodies
Poet, journalist, and professor Nicholas Powers talks about festival politics, race and psychedelia, dreads, tokenism, and his book The Ground Below Zero: 9/11 to Burning Man, New Orleans to Darfur, Haiti to Occupy Wall Street (UpSet Press).
10.25.2018
Expanding Mind – The Arts of Dying
Bay Area conceptual artist Lindsay Tunkl talks about confronting death, therapy as art, pre-apocalypse counseling, humor, and her book When You Die You Will Not Be Scared to Die (Parallax Press).
10.18.2018
Expanding Mind – Strange Angels - 10.18.18
Occultist and Aleister Crowley biographer Richard Kaczynski talks about Jack Parsons, the "method of science,” the Agape Lodge, the women of Thelema, and the pluses and minuses of the Strange Angel TV series.
10.11.2018
Expanding Mind – Dialogue Mind
The Gurdjieffean teacher and DuVersity director Anthony Blake talks about dialogue, synergy, mind between brains, the trouble with teachers, and the gymnasium of beliefs in higher intelligence.
10.04.2018
Expanding Mind – Time Loops, Part 2 - 10.04.18
In part two of our conversation, author and blogger Eric Wargo talks about dreams, self-fulfilling prophecies, unconscious trauma, the banality of true spirituality, and his book Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious.
09.27.2018
Expanding Mind – Time Loops - 09.27.18
In part one of our conversation, author, blogger, and dreamer Eric Wargo talks about uncertainty, determinism, Zen, and his book Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious.
09.13.2018
Expanding Mind – Terraforming Earth - 09.13.18
A conversation with eco-literary scholar Derek Woods about science fiction, terrariums, geo-engineering, eco-modernism, and the wild science of designing technologies that exceed our control.
09.06.2018
Expanding Mind – Black Rock City 2018 - 09.06.18
Host Erik Davis reflects on Burning Man in light of his first return to the event in nearly a decade. Topics include: the Burning Opera, Instagram, poetic terrorism, remembering dead people, chaos, and the unfolding paradigm of the city.
08.30.2018
Expanding Mind – Kali Ma - 08.30.18
A conversation with devotees Usha Harding and Swami Bhajanananda about the unique Kali temple they help run in Laguna Beach: the perfume of practice, religious diversity, and the challenge of commercial yoga.
08.23.2018
Expanding Mind – Citizen Science Trips - 08.23.18
A conversation with activist and writer David Nickles about the DMT Nexus, psychedelic militancy, extraction tek, the Statement on Open Science for Psychedelic Medicines, MAPS, and the trouble with for-profit psilocybin companies.
08.16.2018
Expanding Mind – Voyages into Ethnobotany
A conversation with South African ethnobotanist Dale Millard about sangoma healers, animist science, beta carbolines, ayahuasca, and the broad-spectrum healing properties of harmine.
08.10.2018
Expanding Mind - Playa Tricksters - 08.10.18
A conversation with writer, editor, and performer Mitch Mignano—aka Raven—about existential humor, the Cacophony Society and the origins of Burning Man, pranking your fears, nihilism, and the sacred clowns of the Sun Dance ceremony.
07.26.2018
Expanding Mind - The Practice of Skepticism - 07.26.18
A conversation with philosopher and religious studies professor Dustin Atlas about ancient skepticism, Madhyamaka Buddhism, the taste of honey, Montaigne, Robert Anton Wilson, and the path of doubt.
07.19.2018
Expanding Mind - The Archons Are Back - 07.19.18
A talk with gnostic scholar Matthew Dillon about religious mourning, the Nag Hammadi library, sex magick Jesus, the gnostic Eden, David Icke’s lizards, and the power of the archons as an allegory of contemporary technological and political power.
07.12.2018
Expanding Mind - Silicon Valley Fever - 07.12.18
A talk with journalist Adam Fisher about virtual reality, the cyberculture underground, libertarianism, and his Silicon Valley oral history Valley Of Genius.
07.05.2018
Expanding Mind - Mind Change - 07.05.18
A conversation with author Michael Pollan about psychedelic awe, trip reports, the mental health crisis, underground therapists and his book How to Change your Mind (Penguin).
06.28.2018
Expanding Mind - Drone Metal Mysticism - 06.28.18
A talk with music scholar and ethnographer Owen Coggins about amplifier worship, sonic pilgrimage, “as if” listening, metal humor, and his new book Mysticism, Ritual and Religion in Drone Metal.
06.20.2018
Expanding Mind - None of This is Real - 06.21.18
A wide-ranging conversation with writer and teacher Miranda Mellis about uncanny climates, thinking with fables, empathic fictions, “don’t know” politics, Buddhist meditation, and the entanglement with the nonhuman.
06.14.2018
Expanding Mind - Fungal Alliance - 06.14.18
A discussion with anthropologist Joanna Steinhardt about her study of DIY mycology, psilocybe politics, PF Tek, and psychedelic naturalism.
06.07.2018
Expanding Mind - Trump and Magick - 06.07.18
A conversation with esoteric writer Gary Lachman about postmodernism, Positive Thinking, chaos magic, Putin's esoteric tricksters, and Gary's hot new book Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump (Tarcher).
05.31.2018
Expanding Mind - Guru’s Child - 05.31.18
Guru’s Child A conversation with artist and man-about-town Naropa Sabine about Shakti, self-formation, rural ashrams, and growing up with a Tantric guru for a dad.
05.24.2018
Expanding Mind - The Great Larry Norman - 05.24.18
A conversation with author Gregory Alan Thornbury about 70s Jesus Music, apocalyptic politics, and his biography of the Christian rock star Larry Norman: Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?

What's Expanding Mind about?

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Expanding Mind episodes:

Expanding Mind – Summer Pause

Expanding Mind – Liminal Mind

Expanding Mind – Deconstructing Yourself

Expanding Mind – Queering Psychedelia

Expanding Mind – Sacred Matter

Expanding Mind – Patterns of Transformation

Expanding Mind – Decriminalize Nature

Expanding Mind – Feral Poetics

Expanding Mind – Meditation Apps

Expanding Mind – Ouija Board Poetics

Expanding Mind – Yoga Tales

Expanding Mind – Higher Intelligence

Expanding Mind – Psychedelic Dharma

Expanding Mind – Tarot Artistry

Expanding Mind – Reality Physics

Expanding Mind – Beatnik Boyhood

Expanding Mind – Daimonic Conversations

Expanding Mind – Visionary Permaculture

Expanding Mind – Queer LA

Expanding Mind – Find the Others

Expanding Mind – “Meditation"

Expanding Mind – American Cosmic, Part 2

Expanding Mind – American Cosmic, Part One

Expanding Mind – Speaking with Plants

Expanding Mind – The Gorey Details

Expanding Mind – The Superheroic Dose

Expanding Mind – Memetic Tribes

Expanding Mind – Integrating Psychedelics

Expanding Mind – Rainbow Bodies

Expanding Mind – The Arts of Dying

Expanding Mind – Strange Angels - 10.18.18

Expanding Mind – Dialogue Mind

Expanding Mind – Time Loops, Part 2 - 10.04.18

Expanding Mind – Time Loops - 09.27.18

Expanding Mind – Terraforming Earth - 09.13.18

Expanding Mind – Black Rock City 2018 - 09.06.18

Expanding Mind – Kali Ma - 08.30.18

Expanding Mind – Citizen Science Trips - 08.23.18

Expanding Mind – Voyages into Ethnobotany

Expanding Mind - Playa Tricksters - 08.10.18

Expanding Mind - The Practice of Skepticism - 07.26.18

Expanding Mind - The Archons Are Back - 07.19.18

Expanding Mind - Silicon Valley Fever - 07.12.18

Expanding Mind - Mind Change - 07.05.18

Expanding Mind - Drone Metal Mysticism - 06.28.18

Expanding Mind - None of This is Real - 06.21.18

Expanding Mind - Fungal Alliance - 06.14.18

Expanding Mind - Trump and Magick - 06.07.18

Expanding Mind - Guru’s Child - 05.31.18

Expanding Mind - The Great Larry Norman - 05.24.18