How do ideas shape the appearance of reality? How can metaphysics open or close us to deeper participation with nature? What is the significance of a philosophy of consciousness?

Renowned philosophers of mind Bernardo Kastrup and Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes join Tim Adalin for a dialogue informed by Kastrup’s analytic idealism, and Sjöstedt-Hughes’ thinking on Bergson, Whitehead, Huxley, Spinoza, and others.

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GUESTS

Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is a Philosopher of Mind and Metaphysics who specializes in the thought of Whitehead, Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bergson – and in fields pertaining to panpsychism, pantheism, mental causation, and altered states of consciousness. He is a lecturer at The University of Exeter where he is a lead on the new postgraduate courses in Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture. Peter is co-director of Europe’s largest psychedelics conference, Breaking Convention, and is on the board of breathwork charity Dreamshadow. He is on the advisory board of the Tyringham Institute, and is a member of the drugs advisory committee group, Drug Science, as well as being on the team of the underground UK independent publisher, Psychedelic Press. Dr Sjöstedt-Hughes is the author of Noumenautics (2015), Modes of Sentience (2021), co-editor and contributor of Bloomsbury’s Philosophy and Psychedelics (2022), and author of Bloomsbury’s forthcoming Psychedelic Metaphysics Manual (2025). As well as the TEDx Talker on ‘psychedelics and consciousness’, Peter is an inspiration to the recreation of inhuman philosopher Marvel Superhero, Karnak.

Find Peter’s website here:

https://www.philosopher.eu/

Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has set off the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). He has also been creatively active in the high-tech industry for almost 30 years now, having co-founded parallel processor company Silicon Hive (acquired by Intel in 2011) and worked as a technology strategist for the geopolitically significant company ASML. Bernardo has most recently started AI hardware company Syncthetics B.V., currently in stealth mode. Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, Bernardo's ideas have been featured on Scientific American, the Institute of Art and Ideas, the Blog of the American Philosophical Association, and Big Think, among others. Bernardo's 11th book, coming in 2024, is "Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A straightforward summary of the 21st-century's only plausible metaphysics."

For more information, freely downloadable papers, videos, etc., visit his website at https://www.bernardokastrup.com

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An opening to questions, blind spots, and revelations of sexuality, biology, culture, psychology, nature, politics and metaphysics, drawn together by the meaning of the masculine and the feminine.

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About the speakers:

--- Adriana is a cultural architect, philosopher, and writer dedicated to bringing the cyclical nature of women’s minds into collective awareness. Through dialogue, writing, workshops, retreats, online group work, and one-on-one mentoring, she aims to create spaces for provocative thinking, reflection and transformation. Above all, she’s a mother to two amazing girls, a partner to an awesome guy, and an apprentice gardener living off-grid in a community in Australia.

She has a substack where she posts articles, reflections and holds occasional group conversations: https://theclab.substack.com/

Find C-lab's YouTube channel: @theC-Lab

--- Aspasia Karageorge is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Australia, a qualitative researcher, and a writer of some kind. She grew up in small town New Zealand wedged between a mountain and a volcanic black-sand coast. She is curious about practice-based wisdom, the creative process, languages of the unconscious, and some intersection of wonder/beauty/mystery/connection. Her therapy approach is greatly informed by Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP). As a research consultant, she is broadly focused on clinical complexity, innovation, and workforce development. Longstanding literary loves include Camus, Kazantzakis, Seferis, Anaïs Nin, Plato, Borges, Kafka, Balzac, Jung, Paz, Sartre, Nietzche, Gertrude Stein, Hemingway… a ridiculous list of names.

In her downtime, you’ll currently find her in the water, writing something that won’t make sense until later, daydreaming with campari, and/or dancing to some wild Greek 70s pop records with her kids. She is also a core contributor at Voicecraft.

You can connect with Aspasia @ aspasiapsychology.com

She also shares conversations on her YouTube channel here: @aspasiapsychology

Joining Adriana are Voicecraft members Tom Lyons (Ecofo) and Tim Adalin of the Voicecraft Network.

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In this follow up to 'Is The Earth Enough?', Layman Pascal, Cadell Last, Sean Kelly and Simon van der Els extend the conversation with reference to the concepts of the Anthropocene, Global Brain, and the Noosphere. They consider the influences upon humanity, and our influences in turn, on this hyperconnected Earth.

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Layman Pascal is well known in integral and metamodern networks as the host of the @theintegralstage8140 podcast, author of Gurdjieff For A Time Between Worlds, insightful general thinker and spiritual teacher.

Cadell Last is a philosopher and author of Systems & Subjects, Global Brain Singularity: Universal History, Future Evolution and Humanity’s Dialectical Horizon, among other works, and founder of @PhilosophyPortal , teaching courses on great works, great thinkers, and critical concepts in community.

Sean Kelly is a Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is the author of Coming Home, and Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation, which draws on big history, comparative religion, transpersonal psychology and integral philosophies.

Simon is a shamanic healing practitioner and ceremonialist working together with the living Earth in bringing people home. He holds a PhD in molecular microbiology. Along with Cadell, he is a valued member of the Voicecraft Network.

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KEYWORDS:

Anthropocene, Global Brain, Noosphere, Ecology, Human Relationships, Overshoot, Consciousness, Planetary Civilization, Technology, Enjoyment, excess, lack, religion, embodiment, network subjectivity, global structures, overshoot, rewilding, metacognition, Anthropocene

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Why do we value stories, and how do stories transmit value? Marc Gafni joins Tim Adalin for a dialogue on the philosophy of story, risk, and trust in the context of personal and cultural transformation. Dr. Marc Gafni is a visionary thinker and social activist, holding a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox rabbinic ordination.

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About Dr Marc Gafni: https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/about-dr-marc-gafni/

First Principles and First Values (book): https://www.amazon.com/First-Principles-Values-Propositions-Cosmoerotic/dp/B0CS85WYVX

Is the Earth enough? And are we worthy of the Earth? Layman Pascal, Cadell Last, Sean Kelly and Simon van der Els drop in to the Voicecraft nexus to meet these questions. Please share this conversation and subscribe to the channel if you want to see this network of conversations thrive.

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Layman Pascal is well known in integral and metamodern networks as the host of the @theintegralstage8140 podcast, author of Gurdjieff For A Time Between Worlds, insightful general thinker and spiritual teacher.

Cadell Last is a philosopher and author of Systems & Subjects, Global Brain Singularity: Universal History, Future Evolution and Humanity’s Dialectical Horizon, among other works, and founder of @PhilosophyPortal , teaching courses on great works, great thinkers, and critical concepts in community, with one starting October 20 on the concept of Christian Atheism (https://philosophyportal.online/christian-atheism)

Sean Kelly is a Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is the author of Coming Home, and Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation, which draws on big history, comparative religion, transpersonal psychology and integral philosophies.

Simon is a shamanic healing practitioner and ceremonialist working together with the living Earth in bringing people home. He holds a PhD in molecular microbiology. Along with Cadell, he is a valued member of the Voicecraft Network.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 - Introduction

02:56 - Session Prompt

06:02 - Dialogue Begins

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Daniel Garner of O.G. Rose joins Tim Adalin for a dialogue on critical tensions and opportunities facing the project of cultural shamanism associated with Voicecraft, Network Philosophy, and the Liminal Web.

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Keywords

Cultural Shamanism, Healing, Authority, Agency, Hierarchy, Economic Value, Community, Transformation, Spirituality, Change, mastery, meaning crisis, personal relations, voice craft, public-private divide, risk, influence, cultural shamanism, community, sustainability

Welcoming paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield for a dialogue working with themes of wiser innovation, collective intelligence, network philosophy, and the complexity of thinking across across silos of specialist disciplines and cultural logics in the face of evolution, exponential technology and existential risk.

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What does it mean to be conscious? What is the relationship between consciousness and the unconscious? What is the connection between consciousness and conscience?

Recorded live in Melbourne at August's Underground, join Tim Adalin, founder and host of Voicecraft, and philosopher, counsellor and independent researcher Cameron Duffy for an evening of dialogue with mystery, metaphysics, depth psychology and social philosophy.

Tickets are now available for the next Underground Philosophy in Melbourne on September 12 @ https://www.voicecraft.io/events

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Cameron has spent his adult lifetime exploring the nature of being, healing, and human possibility through the transformation of consciousness. He discovered the non-dual potential of conscious experience during his early adult development and has been focused on the scientific, alchemical, and embodied philosophies that bind the nature of consciousness with the meaning making journey. Cam is otherwise dedicated to re-vitalising modern psychiatric culture and psychedelic integration by synergizing an awareness of the sacred with harmonic modes of relationship and practice.

Is there hope for the internet and decentralised communications technology? Led by Tim Adalin, this dialogue explores the existential context, shadow, and potential associated with emerging network coordination technologies, with civilisation theorist and political economist Michel Bauwens (P2P Cooperative), regenerative entrepreneur and collective intelligence practitioner Ferananda Ibarra (Holochain, The Commons Engine), and technology design philosopher and Infinite Reality Engine co-founder Josh Field.

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Keywords:

Web3, transcendence, grief, balance, collective intelligence, structures, systemic challenges, power, relationship, cycles, technology, regenerative systems, balance, right relationship, transformation, social conditions, class

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Relating with notions of God, choice, difference, intuition, belonging, confession... with Jordan Hall, Forrest Landry, and Joey S. Robinson II.

In early July, Joey reached out on Twitter following a Voicecraft dialogue with John Vervaeke, expressing interest in John, Jordan, and Forrest having a dialogue on the podcast. John was unable to make it on the day.

At the end of the opening, the attempt I made to compress the previous few minutes into a question will likely come across very unclear. Here is a breakdown of the core parts of that orientation:

how do we / what is it to:

relate, when perceptions / valuations about our gods might be different,

taking place in a toxic global / digital communication context,

given the importance of really hearing and caring for self / other / world.

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