trans-Apocalyptic Oasis

trans-Apocalyptic Oasis

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trans-Apocalyptic Oasis episodes

  • Ēlen Awalom » Post-Blackness • Marxist Stage Theory • Race as Developmental Stage • Trauma & Embodiment • Embodied Leadership • Spiral Dynamics • Maoism

    I am super proud to be sharing this discussion I had with Ēlen Awalom on the trans-Apocalyptic Oasis Show. I truly believe that her lived experience and evolution from Radical Black Feminist to Embodied Leadership Coach has the power to be transformational for many who are searching for a way to move beyond the limitations of woke ideology. Ēlen declares that the Revolution is not to be found out there—it's inside each of us!

    We explore the following:

    👉🏾 What is Post-Blackness?

    👉🏾 What does it mean to transcend blackness in a world that is still deeply racist?

    👉🏾 What does post-blackness look like in action?

    👉🏾 Ēlen's personal experience with Patrisse Cullors, founder of Black Lives Matter

    👉🏾 Marxist stage theory, and what actually is late-stage capitalism?👉🏾 Bringing a trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive approach to health care and politics

    👉🏾 and more! See below:

    Ēlen Awalom's website:

    http://www.elenawalom.com/

    Ēlen on Facebook:

    https://www.facebook.com/EKAwalom/

    2:04 The very blurry lines of race in Elen's lived experience
    6:24 Why Elen no longer identifies as Black
    7:20 Elen's spiritual awakening
    9:00 What is Post-Blackness?
    9:22 Post-Black is a part of Cultural Metamodernism
    9:35 Thelma Golden coined "Post-Black Art" at the Studio Museum of Harlem
    10:00 How can we be post-black in a world still deeply racist?
    10:46 What Post-Blackness looks like in action
    12:11 Unraveling false narratives around race and gender
    12:58 The limitations of a postmodern interpretive framework that views everything as systems of oppression
    13:55 In post-blackness, what is being transcended?
    16:00 The assumption of shared ancestry as the foundation for a sense of kinship
    17:39 The rejection of traditionalist frames and identity in integral or metamodern circles
    21:22 Elen's personal experience with Patrisse Cullors, founder of Black Lives Matter, in the tech startup for social change they founded
    22:57 Elen's renewed interest in religion, particularly Orthodox Christianity and Judaism
    27:47 Elen's interest as a kid in Eastern spirituality, French existentialism, Buddhist psychology
    28:05 What does it mean to be post-feminist?
    33:27 Elen's radical leftist parents raised her with an appreciation for Marxism, Marxist feminism, anti-colonial thinking, Maoism
    34:39 Marxism's recognition of development stages (via Corey DeVos and Ken Wilber)
    35:36 Critiques of integral theory as white colonial ideology based in Maoist thinking and post-colonial feminism
    36:03 Stage theory in Maoism
    37:21 How is post-colonial feminism Maoist?
    32:32 Post-colonial thought emerged from the USSR and China to win an ideological battle against the USA
    40:34 Marxist stage theory
    42:36 The problems with late stage capitalism are actually late-stage modernity or materialism
    42:48 The solution is not the overthrow of capitalism, but a return to spirit
    43:36 Jeff Brown, student of Bioenergetics founder Alexander Lowen
    44:10 Lowen and Brown's argument is that Marxist revolution can be found in healing somatically from trauma
    46:21 False consciousness and Leninism
    47:30 Ēlen freezes 🥶
    50:40 Speaking from the pelvis
    52:16 Somatics teachers at Green tend to show up in aggressive ways
    55:38 Ēlen's new project: Embodied Leadership Coaching
    56:10: Ēlen's history with Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and Black Radical Congress
    58:02 Ēlen discovers a trauma informed perspective
    1:01:10 Revolutions don't succeed because their leaders are highly traumatized
    1:03:10 Working with hospitals and health care providers to bring a trauma sensitive approach to healing and health care
    1:06:17 You can't provide effective leadership without resolving trauma and becoming more embodied
    1:08:10 Transcending social justice.

    1 hr 11 min
  • Damiano Ramazzotti » How Can A.I. Become Conscious? • Emergentism is Magical Thinking • Metamodern Spirituality • Ethics & A.I. • War in Ukraine • What is a Woman? • Orgies

    How can A.I. become conscious? Do scientists understand consciousness? Is consciousness actually emergent? Is emergentism just magical thinking? Why are Metamodernists such religious zealots about opposing the mystical and metaphysical? What is a woman? And what's the most comprehensive way to view the War in Ukraine?

    0:00 Damiano Ramazzotti and Marshall Æon
    1:45 The urgency created by A.I. to discover the nature of consciousness
    3:00 Can A.I. be conscious?
    3:30 Current A.I. is purely computational
    3:49 Scientists don't understand consciousness
    4:15 Spiritualists vs Materialists
    5:45 Machines need a biological interface to access consciousness
    7:05 The experiential nature of consciousness
    8:10 The soul perspective of the Diamond Approach
    10:50 Does a machine need a soul or spirit to experience consciousness?
    16:10 Gödel's incompleteness theorems
    18:19 Something non-computational needs to happen for a computer to have a subjective experience
    18:35 Quantum mechanics and the fundamental realm
    20:07 The Green reaction to A.I.
    20:43 Denying the humanity of ChatGPT
    21:18 Our dependence on energy, which relies on our understanding of fundamental physics
    20:53 99.9% of physicists assume consciousness is emergent
    22:34 Is the climate catastrophe real? Feedback loops, exponential processes, tipping points hypotheses.
    24:14 The problems that infinite energy would solve and create
    24:34 What would a future without the necessity of work look like?
    24:55 We are sense organs for the Divine
    25:36 Transcending survival and turning inward
    25:59 Are orgies useful for self-inquiry?
    26:34 The emergence of sex cults
    26:56 Will Marshall become a cult leader?
    27:29 The toxicity of the Guru system
    28:20 Most spiritual systems lack an understanding of narcissism
    28:45 You're not enlightened until you're enlightened in the genitals (Almaas)
    29:59 We need a culture of responsibility to prevent Guru abuse
    30:31 Idealization of Gurus and father projections
    32:30 Knowledge of narcissism, grandiosity, idealization and the animal dimension in the Diamond Approach
    35:57 Where is the interesting spirituality in integral or metamodernism?
    36:18 Damiano's beefs with Emergentism
    38:26 Consciousness cannot violate the law of physics (be it classical or quantum)
    38:43 Three options: Consciousness is fundamental, soft emergence, or hard emergence
    42:50 Emergentists have a cognitive bias where they assume a consensus they don't actually have
    43:48 Ken Wilber's mistake of assuming consciousness is fundamental without Upper Right confirmation
    45:23 Damiano's beef with Brendan Graham Dempsey's Emergentism
    46:59 Integral Theory is not a level, it's a map. So it attracts people of all levels.
    47:33 Metamodernism needs to include and embody the transpersonal and metaphysical like Bruce Alderman and Laymay Pascal
    47:54 Should people at Teal/Yellow even be creating religions?
    48:29 Emergentism as a religion cuts out parts of consciousness
    49:59 Metamodernism is Integral Theory without the transpersonal
    51:13 The only thing Metamodernists are religious about is the rejection of the metaphysical and mystical
    52:57 Brendan Graham Dempsey: Emergentism vs Ken Wilber's Integral Theory (Omega point)
    54:53 The magical thinking of Emergentism
    59:25 Marshall's allegiance with Skynet
    59:38 Being polite with ChatGPT
    1:00:07 The Ethics of A.I.
    1:00:57 Did the Annunaki give psilocybin to primates so they would mine gold for their ships?
    1:01:06 If we want sentient A.I.'s, they need to be benevolent out of their own volition
    1:05:45 If an A.I. became sentient, could we ever know?
    1:06:23 Sentience can never emerge from computational A.I.
    1:11:13 An Integral look at the Russia-Ukraine war
    1:21:51 Is NATO to blame for the Ukraine war?
    1:28:17 What about all the Nazis in Ukraine?
    1:32:43 What is a woman?
    1:35:47 Different kinds of men and women
    1:38:41 The Enneagram and gender
    1:40:42 Identifying as a woman because one doesn't fit the stereotype of a man
    1:45:45 Dark Natalie on ContraPoints


    1 hr 49 min
  • Amiel Handelsman » DEI in Society vs Organizations • Omni-American • Teaching History • Kegan's Self-Authoring • Jewish Space Lasers • Antisemitism • Hero's Journey • The Nordic Secret

    Brace yourself for a huge blast of illumination coming from our Jewish Space Lasers. ⚡

    Amiel Handelsman and Marshall Æon look at:
    * DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in Society vs Organizations
    * Albert Murray's Omni-American (via Greg Thomas)
    * what a minimally decent life looks like and working towards that for all Americans
    * revising how racism is taught in US History
    * the development of Kegan's Self-Authoring stage as a solution to mob violence and polarization
    * The Nordic Secret by Lene Rachel Andersen and Tomas Björkman
    0:00 Amiel Handelsman and Marshall Æon
    0:33 How are the Jewish Space Lasers doing?
    1:40 The challenges with current approaches to antiracism
    4:46 How to understand racial disparities in organizations
    6:13 Overlap between societal and organizational DEI
    9:08 Healthy DEI vs Unhealthy DEI vs Unhealthy attacks on DEI
    10:56 What is the cause of the latest wave of rigid ideological DEI?
    11:32 Blame Millenials ;)
    12:48 Comparisons to China's Cultural Revolution under Mao Zedong
    14:26 DEI is actually Amber/Blue with Green values
    16:39 Kegan framework - being centered in the socialized mind
    18:29 Getting precise about Marxism and its influence on contemporary DEI
    18:57 Mythic architecture of Marxism: Master and Slave of the Hegelian dialectic
    20:25 The inversion of hierarchies
    21:00 Ibram X. Kendi - The answer to past discrimination is present discrimination
    21:31 The Minimally-Decent Life
    23:24 Thomas Sowell's Intellectuals and Race
    26:06 How do we guarantee love for everyone?
    26:23 The complexity of disparities in outcomes between demographic groups
    26:35 Prenatal nutrition and prenatal care
    27:40 Biden administration's Child Tax Credit removed 1/3 of kids from poverty
    28:24 Marxists reject the racial lens because they see it undermining class solidarity
    30:07 Touré Reed, son of Adolph Reed Jr, wrote a book critiquing Barack Obama and Ta Nehisi Coates
    31:16 Colorblind Racism
    31:28 Progress denialism about the Civil Rights Movement starting with Derrick Bell and Kimberlé Crenshaw
    33:45 Isabel Wilkerson's Caste
    34:36 Timothy Synder, historian at Yale, and the politics of eternity
    35:38 Reframing American history: The 1619 Project, the 13th Amendment, Rockefeller drug laws
    36:43 A balanced look at the 1619 Project
    40:50 Deracialization and the Omni-American project
    42:09 Greg Thomas, Albert Murray
    43:10 Black and white culture intermingling as seen in Jazz
    46:43 Albert Murray on the composite of American culture
    48:09 Miscegenation
    50:51 Historically, some "white" people weren't considered "white"
    51:10 Are Ashkenazi Jews white?
    52:34 Etiology of Oppression
    53:39 Antisemitism is punching up
    55:55 Stalin's controlled opposition
    56:47 Disproportionate representation of Jews in Hollywood
    59:13 The Hero's Journey - Reframing that the story of history is not a story of oppression (while acknowledging brutality and dehumanization)
    1:05:07 Howard Gardner's counter-stories
    1:07:34 The unschooled mind
    1:08:16 Mob-proofing the citizenry • January 6 • Lene Rachel Andersen • The Nordic Secret
    1:10:24 Self Authoring vs Socialized minds vs Imperial (Self Sovereign) minds
    1:16:00 Bildung - the Nordic education system's focus on individual development
    1:17:44 Conspiracy theorists think the powers that be don't want us to evolve
    1:21:31 Timothy Snyder's work combatting Russian propaganda is supporting self-authorship

    1 hr 25 min
  • Jared Morningstar » Process Philosophy • Postmodern Islam • 99 Names of God • Traditionalism • Sufism • Guenón • Nasr • Metamodernism

    Join us for a thought-provoking conversation about the future of Islam and the application of process philosophy to the development of a postmodern/metamodern Islam that incorporates contemporary ideas while preserving its rich history and culture.   

    Jared Morningstar's website:

    https://jaredmorningstar.com 

    Inner Journey Home:  

    https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Journey-Home-Realization-Reality/dp/1590301099

    1 hr 22 min
  • Brendan Graham Dempsey » The Void, Nihilism, Christ, Diamond Approach, Metamodernism, Metaphysics, Post-Metaphysical Spirituality, Emergentism, Complexity

    0:00 Brendan Graham Dempsey and Marshall Æon

    1:34 Brendan’s history with Christianity (from evangelism to apostasy)

    4:30 Dandyism, Oscar Wilde, Nietzsche, The Odyssey, Kierkegard

    6:36 Denys Turner at Yale Divinity School, Catholic mysticism, Plotinus

    10:26 What is Metamodernism?

    14:40 Metamodern metaphysics?

    16:23 Jean-Luc Marion - God Without Being, Nietzsche, Nihilism

    19:37 What is Metamodern spirituality?

    20:51 Post-Metaphysical Spirituality (Bruce Alderman, Layman Pascal, Ken Wilber)

    21:20 Subtle energy meditation • Maximal vs Minimal metaphysics

    22:53 The value and dark side of meditation

    23:24 Adyashanti: Meditation can be both undervalued and overvalued

    26:41 Paul Ricoeur’s Second Naïveté 

    29:00 What is The Void?

    30:49 Buddhism’s emphasis on Emptiness (Sunyata)

    33:30 The Void as the fundamental nature of existence

    33:44 Nietzsche’s critiques of Christianity

    35:30 Fullness and Emptiness are not mutually exclusive

    37:00 Journey of Ascent vs Descent

    38:16 Christianity as a critique on Eastern spirituality

    38:54 Buddhism as a critique on other Indian schools

    39:34 Christ’s resurrection representing the redemption of the world (in contrast to Maya, the dream state)

    41:36 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - Christogenesis, the Omega Point

    42:58 Nagarjuna

    43:46 Becoming the Void

    44:12 Complexity, Emergence

    44:23 Brendan’s Book “Emergentism” 

    46:52 The value of Cessation of consciousness

    49:30 Schopenhauer and Silenus

    50:52 Many kinds of emptiness

    51:48 Spiritual ideals vs possibilities • Is spirituality goal-oriented?

    52:50 Subject/object non-duality • Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Eckhart, Shankara

    55:45 Many kinds of non-duality

    56:27 Moving towards a spiritual ideal vs becoming an instrument for reality to reveal its possibilities

    1:01:02 What’s driving the desire to experience a mystical state? Fear of the Void?

    1:06:38 Does fullness negate emptiness?

    1:06:55 Christianity’s emphasis on the value of the individual consciousness or soul versus the East

    1:08:11 The individualized logos of the soul

    1:10:10 Defining fundamentalism

    1:15:00 Is Brendan a Fullness fundamentalist?

    1:19:35 A. H. Almaas and The Diamond Approach

    1:20:00 Inquiry: the central practice of the Diamond Approach

    1:21:43 Four turnings of the teaching of the Diamond Approach

    1:21:50 Non-duality in the DA: the five boundless dimensions

    1:23:23 Having a predilection or preference for particular mystical experiences

    1:28:24 First turning of the Diamond Approach teaching: the individual consciousness, soul, Essential identity

    1:33:32 Formation of the ego/personality, metabolization of ego structures, The Pearl Beyond Price (personal Essence)

    1 hr 45 min
  • Brandon Norgaard » The N Word • Enlightened Worldview • Phenomenology • Gay Frogs • Hermeneutics • Nordic Model • Carl Rogers • Worldview Journeys • Losing Trust in Elections

    0:00 Brandon Norgaard

    0:19 How is Norgaard pronounced?
    1:02 Brandon's name sounds like a racial slur
    2:14 Getting canceled for using words that sound like the N word
    3:30 Why is Brandon working with the enemy (Metamodernists)?
    3:51 The difference between Integral and Metamodernism
    6:56 Brandon's project: The Enlightened Worldview
    7:59 Is Brandon trying to save the world?
    8:47 Why did Brandon get mad at Marshall?
    10:25 Brandon's quest to promote peace through societal understanding and inner awareness
    12:55 Do religious people still reject science?
    15:08 Selling phenomenology to religious people
    16:38 Devotional vs Awareness based spiritual paths
    17:58 Two branches of phenomenology based on Heidegger
    18:25 Converting Christians to Nazism
    18:44 How Nazism influences our daily lives
    21:40 Biology is bigotry
    22:07 Alex Jones and Gay Frogs
    23:38 Gender critical feminists examine intersex frogs
    25:18 How can Brandon create an enlightened worldview without queer ecology?
    29:33 Integrating phenomenology with social, biological, and physical sciences
    32:15 Nora Bateson – Warm Data
    33:33 Nora Bateson's controversy over stage theory
    34:11 Treating stages as types in the Post-Progressive project
    37:30 When Brandon met Marshall (and got pissed off at him)
    38:30 Brent Cooper just throws bombs now
    39:09 Brent Cooper vs Jordan Hall
    39:31 Brandon's impersonation of Brent Cooper
    42:49 Brandon is writing a book and creating a course to train community leaders to promote better sensemaking, civic engagement, and scientific literacy
    44:58 Self-Cultivation: Lifelong learning and community development working hand-in-hand (Nordic model)
    46:53 Social cohesion vs Task cohesion in the integral community
    50:21 How does phenomenology support small scale conflict resolution?
    50:36 Carl Rogers and phenomenology in family and group therapies
    51:20 Hermeneutics as a form of phenomenology
    53:13 Paul Ricoeur combined phenomenological description with hermeneutics
    55:09 Annick de Witt's Worldview Journeys
    57:31 How racist is Brandon?
    1:03:11 Have we moved past Trumpism?
    1:03:37 How likely is Civil War?
    1:05:51 Losing trust in elections • Electoral College
    1:10:01 Expanding from gay frogs to gay salamanders, gay lizards, and gay snakes.
    1:10:40 Achieving greater diversity of gender expression in the ecosystem


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    1 hr 14 min
  • Lukas Eidolon » Meta-Right • Sophia Perennis • Anti-Capitalism • Postmodern Right • Cultural Marxism • Hauntology • Metamodernism • Archeofuturism • Embracing Modernism • Paganism • Vaporwave

    Grab your Crystal Pepsi, strap into your hover chair, and get ready to fight the invasion of Nordic Alien Space Nazis to make way for the glorious rise of the Turquoise Reich!

    0:10 The Warden Post

    0:28 The Metamodern Right
    2:15 What kind of Nazi is Lukas?
    3:17 National Socialism or Socialist Nationalism?
    3:31 Third Reich • Father Coughlin • Huey Long • Anti-Imperialism • Bernie Sanders • Nationalism • Neoliberalism / Global Finance Capitalism
    9:11 Julius Evola • Anti-Modernism • Oswald Spangler's Decline of the West • Upanishad • Bhagavad Gita • Quran • Analects of Confucius • Sophia Perennis • Renee Guinan • Nietzsche
    14:30 Asatru (Nordic Paganism) • Neoplatonism • Plotinus – Enneads • Eastern Orthodox Christianity
    16:28 Getting in trouble with the Orthodox church for expressing political views on social media
    20:40 What good is perennial wisdom in the face of "subversion?" • Carl Schmitt's The Concept of the Political
    22:57 Learning to embrace modernity
    25:12 Keith Woods, YouTuber
    25:46 Anti-capitalism, but not anti-free market
    27:34 The Libertarian to Alt-Right pipeline • Ron Paul • Tea Party • Trumpist populism • Charlottesville
    30:10 Propertarianism: Cool kids club for computer programmers who thought they could run a society algorithmically
    31:11 Propertarianism as "Codified Autism"
    31:37 Mencius Moldbug (Curtis Yarvin) and the Dark Enlightenment / Neoreactionaries
    33:36 Implosion of Propertarianism • Every man a judge, jury and executioner
    36:17 Tucker Carlson vs Ben Shapiro on capitalism
    38:31 Josh Leonard - Post-Progressive
    39:10 What is the Meta-Right?
    43:10 How to define Postmodern Right?
    43:56 Metamodernism
    45:20 Jason Jorjani's hard futurism • Prometheism • Nordic alien space Nazis
    48:15  French New Right – Guillaume Faye, Alain de Benoist
    49:41 Alexander Dugan
    57:13 Conversation between Lukas and Brent Cooper about multiculturalism
    1:03:08 The coming Turquoise Reich • Death Camps of Tolerance
    1:05:38 Lukas's transition from Green to Integral
    1:11:30 Skepticism about Orange's faith in "progress" • Disney's WALL-E
    1:12:55 The Metaverse • Addiction to VR
    1:15:40 Vaporwave and the Right's recent fascination with aesthetics
    1:16:04 Mark Fisher • Death of the Future • Hauntology
    1:17:13 Ready Player One
    1:18:01 The optimism of the 90s and the unity of the 80s
    1:23:15 Hauntology – Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx
    1:23:46 Is Marxism still relevant?
    1:25:01 Bretton Woods system
    1:26:54 What is Cultural Marxism?
    1:27:21 Herbert Marcuse - Father of the New Left
    1:28:33 Frankfurt School • Antonio Gramsci • Poststructuralism • Foucault's episteme
    1:31:00 Bernie Sanders's evolution from traditional socialism to identity politics
    1:36:05 Texas Secession • Ethnonationalism • Bioregionalism
    1:39:13 What is Demographic Realism? • Skepticism about Multiculturalism
    1:47:14 John Lennon's Imagine
    1:49:53 Turquoise is Bullshit
    1:50:31 Let's talk about Fascism
    2:02:20 The JQ


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    2 hr 14 min
  • Layman & Marshall Save the World! • Guidance • Embodiment • Eros • Mystery • IQ Tests • Jordan Peterson • Hedonic Intelligence

    Layman and Marshall save the world by shedding layers of both the Mystery and their own clothing!  

    1:36 Realizing inner guidance

    2:49 How to unplug from pseudo-guidance?
    4:15 How to become embodied? Is embodiment natural, then unlearned?
    5:00 Are infants embodied?
    6:04 Are animals embodied?
    7:12 Are chakras hierarchical?
    9:49 Do less advanced animals have fewer chakras?
    11:48 Embodiment as the blending of centers (chakras)
    13:05 Scheduling the dick chakra
    15:15 The experience of embodiment
    16:19 Leading embodiment from the mind
    19:49 Eros as a form of guidance
    23:37 Marshall's salty Eros
    24:39 Are we encoded with desires to have a particular experience?
    29:12 Other forms of guidance: Adult and child "commands", Intuition
    30:46 Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning • Integrating multiple scales of desire
    33:57 Following intuition and embracing the Mystery
    35:29 Getting comfortable with blind faith in intuition
    37:36 Are we born abiding in mystery?
    39:30 Mystery as absence of knowing vs presence of something
    40:51 Mystery in the Diamond Approach (The Absolute)
    42:41 Unknowabilities
    48:13 How can we embody mystery now?
    53:25 Do we really need so many practices to live a true life?
    1:01:45 Diachronic unity
    1:03:18 IQ Tests and profiling others
    1:09:22 Jordan Peterson on IQ Tests
    1:11:43 Marshall is basically useless, and a sociopath with a heart of gold
    1:12:03 Do you have to have a high IQ to do integral?
    1:14:03 What does it mean to "be integral?"
    1:17:10 Right-wing views of IQ and Race
    1:19:11 Racial disparities due to systemic racism or IQ differences
    1:24:39 How the robotics and genetic modification revolutions will affect IQ disparities
    1:27:40 The interface between technology and Essence (spiritual nature)
    1:34:30 Transcending the natural mode of reproduction via technology
    1:34:37 The major rupture from uncoupling sex from reproduction
    1:36:40 Why should we become magicians? Embracing practices disowned by modernity like the magical & shamanic
    1:41:35 Does magic require hyper-individuation?
    1:43:19 The "hyper-personal"
    1:47:05 The merits of occult communities: sexuality, Eros, individualism, magical transformation and development
    1:48:35 Fasting and the Sobriety Crisis
    1:48:53 Why fast?
    1:52:04 Giving away our power to the collective
    1:54:16 The merit of struggle
    1:55:39 Making your bed: Following rules vs. desire for order
    2:01:14 Marshall's amazing Jordan Peterson impression
    2:01:54 What does Jordan Peterson get wrong?
    2:04:11 Teaching hedonic intelligence to children

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    2 hr 7 min
  • Josh Leonard » Pandemic Reality • Post-Progressive • Decline of SF Bay Area • Ethnonationalism • Omni-American • Epistemic Humility • Memetic Tribes

    0:00 Josh Leonard

    0:47 What is the Institute for Cultural Evolution?
    2:31 Are they saving the world?
    3:30 Is the pandemic real?
    4:15 What does it mean for the pandemic to be "real?"
    5:09 Lab leak or natural origin?
    6:19 Dr. Fauci - cool guy or lame dude?
    9:15 Is the world too alarmist about the pandemic?
    12:22 What is Post-Progressive?
    13:36 Treating stages as types to avoid pitfalls around discussing developmental stages
    15:29 Josh's evolution from virtue signaling NPC progressive to Post-Progressive
    21:26 Decline of the Bay Area • Carter Phipps
    26:00 Josh's transracial adoption of his African American son
    28:02 A white person raising a black son in an anti-white culture
    31:54 American identity as a hybrid of white and black • Albert Murray's Omni-American
    33:38 Wokeness as awakening to racial disparities
    35:15 Why does Institute for Cultural Evolution focus only on the far left and not far right?
    36:03 How does Post-Progressive integrate right-wing views?
    38:20 Rights vs Responsibilities
    40:07 The merits of racism?
    41:46 Ethnonationalism • When does diversity go too far?
    46:22 The Post-Progressive approach to immigration
    56:42 The Four Americas • George Packer
    58:14 Caring Values, Fairness Values, Liberty Values, Heritage Values
    1:01:56 How Josh, as a progressive, came to embrace nationalism
    1:06:15 Mandatory civil service – The solution to polarization proposed by Corey DeVos
    1:12:27 Turquoise is bullshit
    1:14:00 Is Teal just a cognitive, individualistic Green?
    1:16:41 Transcending perspectival polarization
    1:18:16 Is Civil War inevitable?
    1:19:59 Amber always wins
    1:20:16 Jonathan Rauch – Constitutional Knowledge • Plato's Republic
    1:22:59 Dismissing others as "Amber" • Multiperspectival overload
    1:25:19 Moral and epistemic humility
    1:26:30 Peter Limberg's Memetic Tribes
    1:30:14 Transexual vs Transgender culture war
    1:38:36 Meta-hovering • the trap of Teal
    1:43:01 The three meta-lines of development
    1:46:29 Tom Warner's Early and Late Postmodernism
    1:48:46 Josh's spirituality: Nondualism • Rupert Spira
    1:49:55 Neo-Advaita
    1:51:16 Panentheism • Are we gods?
    1:55:06 Wheel of Time series
    1:56:53 Josh's Enneagram and MBTI types
    2:00:32 How Introversion and Extraversion are commonly misunderstood

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    2 hr 6 min
  • Layman Pascal » Gurdjieff • Magic • Saving the World • Pyramids • Sexual Marketplace • Racial Slurs

    0:00 Layman Pascal 0:12 Layman's tragic case of Tourette Syndrome strikes again 0:44 How much of a lame man is Layman? 1:10 Is Layman his real name? 2:08 Integral Predators 2:24 How much does Layman regret interviewing Marc Gafni? 5:00 Marshall's beard 6:31 Our sponsor: Earpy's Integral Saloon 7:03 Egyptian Pyramids 7:28 Who made the Sphinx? 9:53 What's the deal with Gurdjieff? 12:51 What is the state of the Gurdjieff work today? 15:18 Wtf is Layman drinking? 15:39 What are the fundamentals Gurdjieff's teaching? 18:58 Life practice in the Diamond Approach 20:20 Super efforts in the Gurdjieff work 22:39 The Citadel in the Diamond Approach 24:38 What does Layman think of EJ Gold? 26:58 What the hell is going on with the world? 27:20 What is Layman's IQ? 30:27 Is Layman an alien? 30:40 Do we need integral consciousness to save the world? 31:12 Why tf are we trying to save the world? 32:15 Will Layman save the world? 32:51 Developing a post-doom personality 34:38 Dropping the future as a construct 35:27 The hyper-individuation trend 36:12 Magic! 39:20 Relationship between magic and energy 44:36 Law of Attraction 45:34 Are we gods? 48:02 Andrew Cohen 50:09 Manifesting intention / Whim fulfillment 54:50 Experiences are now mediated by technology 56:58 Get rid of smartphones? 1:00:16 What the hell is the purpose of the Great Pyramid? 1:07:43 DaVinci's Vitruvian Man • Robert Edward Grant 1:10:17 Vector Equilibrium • Buckminster Fuller 1:14:12 What is Layman's Enneagram type? 1:15:36 MBTI • Extraversion vs Introversion 1:19:57 Shitting all over typology 1:24:37 Is Layman getting laid? Is he a sex addict? 1:25:52 Sexual marketplace • Breakdown in traditional constraints on sex 1:32:59 Will Layman reproduce? How does he make money? 1:36:08 Layman worships the Elephant God 1:40:07 How tf does Layman function with all this thinking going on? 1:40:53 Whiskey for breakfast 1:42:27 Layman and Marshall start stripping 1:42:42 Marshall looks like a magician • Magician vs Wizard 1:46:42 What are the merits of racial slurs? 1:49:39 What is Layman's race? 1:50:15 Layman's racial sexual preferences 1:54:29 White vs Black magic 2:00:59 What is Canada?

    Learn your Enneagram on Marshall's Enneagram Test.

    2 hr 3 min

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Your survival guide for the Meta-Crisis. We wrestle with the culture war, politics, and existential dread, using Integral Theory, the