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Here is the 7th of our ‘reinventio’ series—the latin word which means to both invent and discover.  An amazing conversation where we go very deep on the agony of eros and the potential of agape.

John Vervaeke is a professor at the University of Toronto and the creator of the popular online YouTube Series ‘Awakening from The Meaning Crisis’, which is a rich feast of cognitive science, philosophy, religion, and the history of ideas.  What makes Vervaeke special in my opinion is the breadth of his work, but his courage descend the ivory tower and talk to people ‘on the street’—and to exemplify his ideas.  His hero is Socrates, and he embodies the living dialogue and courage that Socrates represents.

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In which I ramble about the fallacies of the transgender movement, Hilaria Baldwin and my own hornyness which makes me blind to certain realities.

In which I ramble about corona policies, the fear of scientists, the nature of media-coverage and psycho-pathologies of ze Germanz.

How do we think and act globally AND locally?

What are the alternatives to destructive catpitalism?

What does the evolution of consciousness have to do with it?

Are we on a ‘crtitical and better path’ towards the future?

Tomas Björkman (b. 1958) is Swedish; he has a master’s degree in physics and studied macroeconomics on the side. He has made a career as an entrepreneur in a variety of businesses within financial services, media, property development, and banking and has worked all over Europe. Today, he works as a social entrepreneur through his Ekskäret Foundation. He has published The Nordic Secret (Deutsch: Das skandinavische Geheimnis) and The world we create.

John Bunzl is a global political activist and businessman. In 2000, he founded the Simultaneous Policy (Simpol) campaign, a way for citizens to use their votes to drive politicians towards global cooperation. It has supporters in over 100 countries and enjoys the support of a growing number of Members of Parliament around the world. He has authored or co-authored a number of books including The Simpol solution (deutsch: Nationales Denken - Globale Krise), Monetary Reform – Making it Happen!, People-centred Global Governance – Making it Happen!, and Global Domestic Politics. He has published numerous articles on global governance in the Journal of Integral Theory & Practice. He has lectured widely, including to The Schumacher Society, The World Trade Organisation, The Lucis Trust, and various universities.

This is the second in a three part series of conversations based on The book Sex, Masculinity and God co-written by Cadell Last.

Cadell Last is an anthropologist, philosopher and therapist focused on biocultural evolution, mind-matter relation and future speculations. He earned his PhD in interdisciplinary and complexity studies at the Evolution, Cognition and Complexity group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is also the author of over a dozen academic publications and two books: Global Brain Singularity and Sex, Masculinity, God. You can find more about his work at cadelllast.com."

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Sophie-Charlotte Alice Adler, MSc, is a psychologist, hypnotherapist, researcher and author. She has specialized in working with altered states of consciousness since 2017. Recently her book on psilocybin and its potential for modern psychotherapy in research and practice was published by Carl-Auer. https://www.carl-auer.de/veranderte-bewusstseinszustande...

Ketamine (off-label use) is currently the only legally available and approved psychedelic substance. In the Instituto Dr. Scheib on Mallorca she has accompanied more than 300 ketamine infusions as a psychologist and hypnotherapist since 2018 and developed an innovative therapy method - the "Ketamine-Hypnosis-Package" (KHP) https://www.acsmindworks.com/ketaminhypnosepaket

In this field she also works as a lecturer for medical hypnosis and ketamine therapy (MPH program). The MPH program aims to link the fields of medicine, psychology and hypnosis (MPH) more closely together in common therapeutic concepts.

She is also the founder of ACSMINDWORKS - a location-independent group of specialists who are involved in healing in a variety of ways and work together as a "Healing Crew" with a focus on closeness to nature, integration of extraordinary experiences, creativity and community (www.acsmindworks.com). She is a member of the MIND Foundation and the KRIYA-Consultation Group with Dr. Raquel Bennett and Dr. Jessica Katzman.

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Stephen Hicks is a Professor for Philosophy and author of the very good book 'Explaining Postmodernism'. Logically, we talk a lot about the history, aspects, traits and problems of postmodernism.

We did try to make sense of the cultural polarisation of 2018: What are the chances, stressors and problems of our time?

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson is Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto and author of Maps of Meaning: The Achitecture of Belief. He entered the public sphere when he decided to take a stand against PC-Culture, Identity Politics and the pathologies of postmodernism. In this podcast we are talking about a wide array of topics, all pertaining to the end of postmodernism.

In this episode I had the distinct pleasure to talk to the godfather und founder of Spiral Dynamics, Dr. Don Beck. We talked a bit about his upcoming new book 'Spiral Dynamics in Action' about the current state of affairs of our culture, Trump, the Ken Wilber controversy, and more.