The Neverending Experiment

In the final episode of this podcast, I discuss our overuseof the word community and try to understand why real communities are unsuccessful. It's clear that there are many obstacles to create a community, but one way out could be to clearly understand what is and is not a community. We should be wary of making assumptions about an individual’s opinions simply based on their traits.

This difficult subject has come to media attention lately asthe government of Alberta has increased obstacles for disabled people. With a lifetime experiencing different levels of disability, I have learned more than I have wanted to about how negatively the average person can behave towards marginalized people.

Art has dominated most of my career but I've found manydifficulties at both becoming an artist and understanding the surrounding culture. As I come to the end of my podcast I wanted to share my thoughts on this important and underappreciated subject.

This episode is a brief overview of the New Age and spirituality,a field that I believe more people need to be more balanced about. Globalization has brought us every culture's spiritual traditions and it's melded into something creative and open.

Most people mistake epigenetics for environmental influencesbut they're not the same. I go through some introductory understanding about this subject and emphasize that there is so much more research that needs to be done.

One of the biggest reasons why people fight is because ofsimplistic thinking. I go through some of the things I've learned to avoid falling into mental and emotional traps that make difficult situations worse.

In this episode, I share an unusual story about dreaming andpsychedelics. There is so much more we can learn as a species if we shift our mentality to understand her mind's work and that includes researching and using entheogens.

It's easy to assume what random means; something that is unpredictable, but the reality is there are many kinds of random that are mathematically different from each other. Our pattern recognition as humans is perhaps not detailed enough for us to fully grasp what we are able to understand or predict.

Do you ever wonder why a lot of technology and services keepgetting worse? Although many things have seemed to improve in society, the fact is the profit motivation and the desire for growth continuously and slowly erode at our quality of life.

Humans are one of the few species that menstruate, but it'snot totally clear why that is. There is an intriguing theory about why we have evolved menstruation that connects us to our ancient past and the knowledge that we may have lost.