The I Project

Kelly Sue Milano returns to the podcast to discuss sexual polarity and practices that can deepen relationships during home-isolation and beyond.  Special guest appearance by her partner Jamie Wollrab.

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ABOUT THE GUEST |  Kelly Sue Milano is a co-owner of the all-female comic book label, HexComix, and the writer of their premiere title HEX11.  She also teaches intuitive writing and is a practitioner at Practical Mystics, an online community that seeks to merge humanness and consciousness.  She also leads the Facebook community Ladies + Gentlemen, an open forum for men and women to discuss topics like sexuality and consent in a safe and respectful way.  

Relevant Links

• Clancey's Digital Calendar 
• John Wineland - https://www.johnwineland.com/
• Jamie Wollrab - https://www.jamiewollrab.com/

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www.immersioneer.org

 

Singer-songwriter Rosa Tu performs an assortment of original compositions and folk songs.  Musician-singer Sora Harris-Vincent joins.  Clancey does practically nothing. *Recorded in November of 2018. ---- ABOUT THE GUESTS:     ROSA TU

• A multi-cultural New York-based singer/songwriter with a penchant for vocal harmony, Rosa writes to open up windows into the unconscious and bring listeners into themselves. While people stay home, searching for meaning in the mess of social media, news, and advertisements, Rosa writes stories of psychological and emotional freedom where no one is buying or selling anything.
• Combining elements of folk, pop, and classical music, Rosa’s songs lean heavily towards the dark, painful sides of human experience. She believes exploring these parts of ourselves is a way to deep and unconditional love. She sees the kind of beauty she hopes to express in the work of poets and artists like Mary Oliver, Frida Kahlo, and Joan Baez. What emerges are introspective songs based on personal experience, expressing timeless, universal stories.
• Rosa released her first album ‘In Winter’s Shade’ in 2013, followed by a 5-track album 'Glass House' in 2015. In 2016 she moved to Berlin to write and perform with her cousin as the acoustic duo Mother’s Favorite Daughter. Rosa’s music video “Davy and the Priest” was an official selection for Roma Cinema Doc 2020 in the experimental film category. Rosa’s single and animated short film 'The Swamp' comes out April 17th, followed by her full album 'Drink All The Wine,' available in August, 2020. She is represented by the label/collective The Famous Gold Watch.
• fb/ig: @semperosa    [email protected]  rosatumusic.com 

  SORA HARRIS-VINCENT   Sora Harris-Vincent grew up with music woven into her every day life. She is a musician and singer, a teacher and doula — sharing her love and appreciation of music with everyone in her communities and beyond. Sora and Rosa made music together their whole lives (technically, since utero!) as womb friends and now as adults; creating and performing music about life, love, and loss. Sora believes that grieving and living are constantly evolving reciprocal acts of shared learning. Through authentic and intentional community and discussion, she continues to explore these themes through music and people with which she engages. Sora is a member of the Boston-based quintet Culomba as well as a teacher for Village Harmony, a nonprofit organization that teaches and promotes traditional folk music from around the world. She hopes this music brings a smile to your face and heart.   ---- Theme music composed by B.E.N.  http://bit.ly/BENmusic Questions or comments?  Email [email protected]

Singer-songwriter Rosa Tu shares her music and explores the profound lessons that can emerge from crisis when we learn to sit still and truly be with ourselves.  Recorded in November of 2018.     ABOUT THE GUEST:  ROSA TU

• A multi-cultural New York-based singer/songwriter with a penchant for vocal harmony, Rosa writes to open up windows into the unconscious and bring listeners into themselves. While people stay home, searching for meaning in the mess of social media, news, and advertisements, Rosa writes stories of psychological and emotional freedom where no one is buying or selling anything.
• Combining elements of folk, pop, and classical music, Rosa’s songs lean heavily towards the dark, painful sides of human experience. She believes exploring these parts of ourselves is a way to deep and unconditional love. She sees the kind of beauty she hopes to express in the work of poets and artists like Mary Oliver, Frida Kahlo, and Joan Baez. What emerges are introspective songs based on personal experience, expressing timeless, universal stories.
• Rosa released her first album ‘In Winter’s Shade’ in 2013, followed by a 5-track album 'Glass House' in 2015. In 2016 she moved to Berlin to write and perform with her cousin as the acoustic duo Mother’s Favorite Daughter. Rosa’s music video “Davy and the Priest” was an official selection for Roma Cinema Doc 2020 in the experimental film category. Rosa’s single and animated short film 'The Swamp' comes out April 17th, followed by her full album 'Drink All The Wine,' available in August, 2020. She is represented by the label/collective The Famous Gold Watch.
• fb/ig: @semperosa    [email protected]  rosatumusic.com  

---- Theme music composed by B.E.N.  http://bit.ly/BENmusic Questions or comments?  Email [email protected]

Psychologist Rick Raymond shares insights on mindfulness-based-therapies, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the hurdles to intimacy in the age of digital technology.  

*Recorded in the summer of 2019.

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ABOUT THE GUEST

• Rick received his PhD in Clinical Psychology in 2019 after completing his predoctoral internship at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Los Angeles. Although he works with a wide variety of clients, he has gained particular expertise in trauma-focused and mindfulness-based therapies. A former employee of Silicon Valley, Rick's research explores how technology can help lower barriers to effective psychological care, a subject he pursues with both passion and a hearty dose of skepticism. He recently moved to Washington DC to begin his postdoctoral residency. 

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• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Controlling for Blindspots in mental health practice
• Psychology and Spirituality 
• Human connection in digital age
• Importance of physical immediacy in relationship
• Technology's impact on emotional range 
• Unpleasant emotions as emotional opportunities
• Productive Mindfulness vs Pointless Rumination
• The Power of Eye Contact
• Confronting Fear of Vulnerability
• Avoiding the Aversive 
• Exploring your Emotional Range

 

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Clancey offers practical tips for navigating the Coronavirus while offering deeper perspective on what it says about systems change and the relationship between the individual and the collective. This episode is a call for collective intelligence and compassion amidst the growing metacrisis.

The episode closes with a short guided meditation and some light breathwork.  

Video available on Youtube:

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

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Questions or comments?  Drop us a line at: [email protected]

George Karpasitis shares music from his debut EP The Sounds of Mar Vista and offers insights on the creative process, finding one's voice, and art's place in community-building.

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ABOUT THE GUEST

• George Karpasitis is a Cypriot composer, guitarist and producer currently based in Los Angeles. Apart from writing music for film and video games, he also teaches and performs guitar as a soloist and with his band Runson Willis And The Holy Mountain. He began his musical journey on classical guitar at age 13. His studies continued in London, UK, at both King’s College London and the London Centre of Contemporary Music. In 2014, he attended Berklee College of Music’s new campus in Valencia, Spain, where he completed the Master’s program in Scoring for Film, Television and Video Games. Upon completion of his studies, he spent 2 years apprenticing under renowned composers Carlo Siliotto and George Kallis. His most recent work includes writing music for The Immersioneer Project and the award winning ‘Espanomics’ documentary. His debut EP, titled ‘Sounds of Mar Vista’, consists of original compositions for classical guitar and was released in early 2019.  
• The Sounds of Mar Vista by George Karpasitis
• LISTEN on:
  • BANDCAMP: https://georgekarpasitis.bandcamp.com/releases
  • SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/album/3PF4Zx90kOJMT8nssq1zSQ
  • https://georgekarpasitis.com/home

• SHOW NOTES
  • Imitation vs Finding your own voice
  • The Sounds of Mar Vista
  • Playing less but express more
  • Elasticity of Time
  • Songs as Stories and containers of meaning  
  • Dissatisfaction as a driving force of creative refinement
  • Procrastination & The Trap of Perfection
  • Quantized music and the importance of the Human Touch
  • The Elasticity of Time 
  • "It’s all about sharing an experience and not feeling alone on this planet.” - George Karpasitis

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Questions or comments?  Drop us a line at: [email protected]

Clancey offers a quick update on the purpose of The I Project.

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How humans make sense of the world, how society makes sense of us, and the various tensions that arise between the two.  

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ABOUT THE GUEST 

Andrew Strenio is a mitigation specialist based out of New Orleans, providing services to poor people charged with capital crimes in Louisiana. Alongside this work, he constantly interrogates the role of the criminal justice system in our society. He is dedicated to developing and advancing alternative approaches to growing safe, equitable, and compassionate communities.

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SHOW NOTES:

• virtual reality / gaming / technology as attempt at connection in a human-ly alienating world
• social media as showing so many versions of the life you could lead, but political and economic system limit that reality
• "the false choice of the aspirational"
• Re-thinking value in capitalistic system
• Corporate externalities and conscious capitalism
• Clancey shiny photo story
• Humans as storytelling, sensemaking animals
• Preservation and distribution of knowledge as an evolutionary tool
• Humans have survived and thrived (and dominated food chain) primarily through communication and dissemination of information.
• Learning to see beyond cultural narratives
• Categories as necessary to make decisions
• “To have categories, you need a line"

• Teasing apart inner psychological structures and re-integrating them
• intellect vs intuition vs instinct 

• Clancey Qigong story
• “Spirituality deals with the ultimate questions to which there are no provable answers"
• The religious hangover’s effect on modern spirituality
• “All conversation is therapy if you’re doing it the right way.” - 
• “Objectives are fine, but the process is really the important part." 
• Misconceptions around presence/mindfulness and being productive members of society
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Kierkegaard, Camus, Heidegger
• “You’re constantly learning patterns so you can ignore them..” -
• Objectivity and Subjectivity
• Sean Kelly
• Brain is in your head, but mind as socially constructed
• Fear and Shame
• "It’s difficult to be present when we aren’t addressing those fundamental spiritual questions..."
• "we’re all naked and afraid"
• Need for open communication and community. Where are the spaces to bring up existential questions?
• loss of ritual and integration opportunities
• Specialization has driven people away from core existential questions.  Walls now shield us from seeing the "other" side of life.
• With greater intimacy comes greater transmission of knowledge
• Re-tribalization as regressing in an attempt to reclaim intimacy…
• Clancey note:  "Monkey Hypothesis” Andrew references is the Dunbar Number
• Image based society leads to denial, fear, and shame. 
• Shame - The emotion that is felt when a social stigma is enforced upon you…
• Awareness of race, sexual orientation spectrums growing
• Idling vs presence
• Bringing intention to presence
• Immersioneer as “a space for exploration of modern spirituality...with a focus on the deepest things the move our lives...searching for answer to fear and shame..."
• The need to bring this conversation "down to earth" to make it practical and transform information into action.  
• Justice system
• How power works and is deployed
• Ideas as most powerful things moving consciousness/culture
• Relationship between consciousness shifts and structural changes within society
• Need multiple layers of engagement to make cultural change
• "the searching we’re doing, the vocabulary we’re building, the space we’re creating"
• direct action, non-violence as the proven playbook 

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THE IMMERSIONEER PROJECT |  With our political system in disarray, trust in media declining, cultural fractures deepening, and depression rates rising, many of us are turning inward to find some sanity in these chaotic times.  Whether we’re turning to mindfulness, meditation, or mind-expanding substances, our exploration of inner space is advancing rapidly and bringing with it profound questions about the nature of human identity and modern society. Blending insights from psychology, philosophy, science, and spirituality, The Immersioneer Project seeks to supercharge this exploration, hone our shared understanding of inner space, and deepen human dialogue in the process.  Basically, it’s as far from filtered selfies and fake news as you can get.

To donate to The Immersioneer Project, please visit our paypal page 

Questions and comments?  Drop us a line at: [email protected]

Thanks for being a part of The Immersioneer Project! 

Kelly Sue Milano returns to The Immersioneer Project to share more insights from her explorations in sexual empowerment, intimacy, and conscious partnership. 

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SHOW NOTES:

• Sex
• Epigenetics
• Sexual energy and trauma
• Feminine practice and non-linear movement
• Eva Clay
• John Wineland
• Desire and intimacy
• Sex and Love Addiction (SLA)
• sexual transcendence / self dissolution / escapism
• the healing power of conscious sexuality
• Sexual attraction unlocking emotional vulnerability
• attachment styles
• drawing in conscious partnership
• the good side of ego and sexual desire

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ABOUT THE GUEST |  Kelly Sue Milano is a co-owner of the all-female comic book label, HexComix, and the writer of their premiere title HEX11.  She also teaches intuitive writing and is a practitioner at Practical Mystics, an online community that seeks to merge humanness and consciousness.  She also leads the Facebook community Ladies + Gentlemen, an open forum for men and women to discuss topics like sexuality and consent in a safe and respectful way.  

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THE IMMERSIONEER PROJECT |  With our political system in disarray, trust in media declining, cultural fractures deepening, and depression rates rising, many of us are turning inward to find some sanity in these chaotic times.  Whether we’re turning to mindfulness, meditation, or mind-expanding substances, our exploration of inner space is advancing rapidly and bringing with it profound questions about the nature of human identity and modern society. Blending insights from psychology, philosophy, science, and spirituality, The Immersioneer Project seeks to supercharge this exploration, hone our shared understanding of inner space, and deepen human dialogue in the process.  Basically, it’s as far from filtered selfies and fake news as you can get.

To donate to The Immersioneer Project, please visit our paypal page 

Questions and comments?  Drop us a line at: [email protected]

Thanks for being a part of The Immersioneer Project! 

Clancey sits down with community song leader and activist, Josh Blaine to talk about music, immediacy, and the power of song.

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About the guest:  Josh Blaine is a community song leader and activist based out of Austin, TX where he leads the public in song in the Texas State Capitol rotunda every first and last Monday of the month. He also leads songs and chants at marches, rallies, protests, and organizing meetings for myriad social justice orgs and causes. 

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Show Notes

• Intentional Living
• Reclaiming Intimacy and Immediacy
• Power of Song and Shared Experience
• Commodification of shared experiences
• gift economy
• triple bottom line businesses
• military industrial complex
• The Poor Peoples campaign
• Finding Our Voice / Vox
• Melanie DeMore
• Charles Eisenstein
• Michael Pollan

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THE IMMERSIONEER PROJECT |  With our political system in disarray, trust in media declining, cultural fractures deepening, and depression rates rising, many of us are turning inward to find some sanity in these chaotic times.  Whether we’re turning to mindfulness, meditation, or mind-expanding substances, our exploration of inner space is advancing rapidly and bringing with it profound questions about the nature of human identity and modern society. Blending insights from psychology, philosophy, science, and spirituality, The Immersioneer Project seeks to supercharge this exploration, hone our shared understanding of inner space, and deepen human dialogue in the process.  Basically, it’s as far from filtered selfies and fake news as you can get.

To donate to The Immersioneer Project, please visit our paypal page 

Questions and comments?  Drop us a line at: [email protected]

Thanks for being a part of The Immersioneer Project!