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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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I was first  introduced to Christopher Mastropietro by Peter Limberg for his series on Letter.com, 'impossible conversations'. Our first 'impossible conversation can be found here’:  https://letter.wiki/conversation/232

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Ole Bjerg is an associate professor at the Copenhagen Business school.  He writes in his presentation: 

“My research interests circle around a diagnosis of contemporary capitalism. I am currently interested in the simple question: What is money? The assumption is that money is not a given and constant phenomenon. Money changes as the structure of capitalism changes. In my current research I am exploring how the radical transformations of banking and financial markets over the last 30-40 years is related to transformations in the very ontology of money. In order to investigate this philosophically, we need to ask, with Heidegger: How is money? Furthermore, our capacity to find ways out of the current crisis hinges on our ability to imagine new kinds of money systems and new kinds of money.”

Ole is also involved in Men’s work, and I met him at the EMG, European Men’s gathering in northern Denmark.  In this wide ranging conversation we discuss the question:  ‘What does it mean to be a man?’ Ole is passionate about reviving this as a philosophical question, and he is writing a book on the subject of being and becoming a man from a Heideggerian perspective.   We also talked about Jordan Peterson, Slavoj Zizek, and other diverse topics. 

I found our discussion very illuminating and his thoughts both passionate, empathetic, and vital. 

Links: European Men's Gathering: https://www.maniphesto.com/emg 

Ole's Ted talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvH66fz9nyU

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Sweeny Verses: https://anchor.fm/podcast-c709ee4 

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Music intro: Longstone:  https://soundcloud.com/longstone/works-in-progress-ep-01-menhir

Dr Arne Rubinstein is an expert on Rites of Passage and adolescent development, with 30 years experience as a medical doctor, counsellor, mentor, speaker and workshop facilitator. The programs, seminars and programs he’s helped to develop have been attended by over 100,000 people globally and are designed to support boys and girls to successfully make a safe, healthy transition to adulthood, with a particular focus on creating coming of age Rites of Passage. Dr Arne is the proud father of two wonderful young men and a mentor to many others.  

I was very honored to talk to him and believe his message to be, not only life changing, but redeeming of civilization.  Real human development needs markers of transition from one stage to another, which is something sorely lacking in our society, and a principal cause of most of our social ills, from depression to suicide, to the opiate crisis, and because, as Arne points out many of of our leaders today, remain boys and girls, and because they have not properly gone through the kinds of rites of passage ceremonies which were once universal.    

Links:

Making of men's father and son camp in Denmark:www.maniphesto.com/mom Leadership Training:www.maniphesto.com/rop

FB Leadership training here:  https://www.facebook.com/events/579399495864804/ 

Rites of Passage Institute:https://ritesofpassageinstitute.org

Arne’s Ted Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC5GR3Q1ZWI

Arne’s best selling book: The making of men 

https://www.amazon.com/Making-Men-Raising-healthy-successful-ebook/dp/B00XZOZ5HG

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Podcasts: 

Sweeny vs Bard: https://anchor.fm/andrew-sweeny 

Sweeny Verses: https://anchor.fm/podcast-c709ee4 

Rebel Wisdom Articles by Andrew Sweeny: https://medium.com/rebel-wisdom

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/andrewsweeny

Music and Poetry: http://travellingmusic.net/site/andrew-sweeny-free-the-prisoners-album-et-poesies

Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrewpgsweeny

This is the 5th in a series of talks with Stephen Lewis, in which we discuss Rudolf Steiner and his theories of Lucifer and Ahriman, among other things. 

Podcast version can be heard on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/podcast-c709ee4

Stephen Lewis is owns an organic bakery in Newfoundland, Canada, is a singer-songwriter, and real philosopher—he is also a bit of a mystic by my estimation. He has all kinds of theories about art, economics, sex and society,  which you will find are completely unique.  I've been talking to him since the late 90's about all kinds of stuff, and he's definitely one most acutely and deeply intelligent people I know.

Stephen's music can be heard here:  https://slewis1.bandcamp.com/album/anthems-for-a-failed-state  

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This is the 4th in a series of talks with Stephen Lewis, in which we discuss Réne Girard and his theories of the Scapegoat and their broader implications.   

Stephen Lewis is owns an organic bakery in Newfoundland, Canada, and is a singer-songwriter, and real philosopher—he is also a bit of a mystic by my estimation. He has all kinds of theories about art, economics, sex and society,  which you will find are completely unique.  I've been talking to him since the late 90's about all kinds of stuff, and he's definitely one most acutely and deeply intelligent people I have ever met. 

Stephen's music can be heard here:  https://slewis1.bandcamp.com/album/anthems-for-a-failed-state  

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My thoughts on the re-integration of polarity as the 'next step'. With reference to Ivan Illich's book in Gender:   

Ronan is a leading voice in transformational change, supporting leaders to transform themselves and their organisations to become the success stories of our complex new world.

Ronan is also a leading figure within the Burning Man community, giving the keynote on new politics at their Global Leadership Summit in 2017. He writes and speaks widely about the prospect of a more visionary politics, guest editing a series for Open Democracy. He is also an Associate at Perspectiva, a research institute building the intellectual foundations for a more conscious society.

https://medium.com/@andrewpgsweeny/jordan-peterson-vs-ronan-harrington-c7a1693e455e

Ronan on the Emerge Podcast

https://anchor.fm/emerge/episodes/Making-Sense-of-the-Ronan-Harrington-Episode-e1r211

Ronan's Bio and website:  https://www.ronanharrington.co/

A audio essay on the recent debate between Jordan Peterson and Slavov Zizek, based 3 medium essays I wrote about these two men 

Why does Jordan Peterson create such strong and polarised reactions?