Cliff Berrien is a drummer, percussionist, DJ, and music educator who uses music to develop creativity, catalyze connections, promote cultural dexterity, help to heal trauma, and deepen contemplative somatic awareness. In this episode he and Eric talk about the deep time perspective, contemplative practice and dissociation, and generative catastrophe, among other things.

Outline

• 00:00 - 06:12 — Episode introduction
• 06:12 - 17:13 — The deep time perspective
• 17:13 - 23:33 — The influence of Race and the Cosmos
• 23:33 - 39:54 — Contemplative practice and dissociation
• 39:54 - 55:34 — Exploding stars and generative catastrophe
• 55:34 - 56:25 — Episode wrap-up

Links and Resources

• The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Quillwood Academy
• Race and the Cosmos, by Dr. Barbara Holmes
• Bayo Akomolafe
• Walter Earl Fluker
• Rasmaa Menakem
• Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• The Radiance Sutras, by Lorin Roche
• Vanessa Andreotti and the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective
• The Four Denials
• The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow
• Thomas Berry
• Brian Swimme
• Limits to Growth, by Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William Behrens
• Study pinpoints timing of oxygen's appearance in Earth's atmosphere, by Jennifer Chu

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