Against Everyone with Conner Habib

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AEWCH 277: DEAN SPADE & SHULI BRANSON / HOW TO THINK BIGGER THAN THE STATE IN OUR TIME OF CRISES Oct 24, 2024

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I talk with authors/teachers/organizers DEAN SPADE (Mutual Aid) & SHULI BRANSON (Practical Anarchism) about how to get out of the mindset of the state as the election approaches, and how to think about creative and real engagement with the political instead.

AEWCH 276: GEOFF FARINA on MUSIC AS A CONVERSATION OF IDEAS Oct 20, 2024

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On the heels of the release of their first album in 20 years (!) I talk with Karate frontman GEOFF FARINA about music as a conversation with ideas, and how music creates a lens for life.

AEWCH 275: THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL AND THE CHALLENGES OF OUR TIME Sep 29, 2024

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Michaelmas is the esoteric christian celebration of the Archangel Michael. How can connecting with the impulses of the holiday show us how to co-share their burden of those who are suffering; strengthen love through our will; and leave the path of empowering violence?

AEWCH 274: ON WHITE MAGIC / PART TWO: 7 POINTS OF WHITE MAGIC Sep 12, 2024

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Why is white magic so ill-defined? And why is it vital for our spirituality today AND if the occult is going to continue to matter? This is the second episode in a two part series on white magic, and on this one, I strive towards a definition by giving seven points.

AEWCH 273: ON WHITE MAGIC / PART ONE: SAINT BRENDAN Aug 29, 2024

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Why is white magic so ill-defined? And why is it vital for our spirituality today AND if the occult is going to continue to matter? I begin this short series of episodes by looking at Saint Brendan the Navigator and how his seven-year voyage from Ireland to North America, as well as my encounters with him, can help us understand what white magic is.

AEWCH 272: A SPIRITUAL LOOK AT HOW TO LIVE NOW / PART TWO: SPIRITUAL LESSONS IN THE RUINS Jul 23, 2024

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Part two in a two part series on figuring out - from a spiritual rather than materialist starting point - how to live in our moment.

AEWCH 270: BEN CHASNY (SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE) / HOW DOES MUSIC BECOME MEANING? Jul 09, 2024

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Friends,

How does music become meaningful? How does it become meaning? And what can we learn about reality from music without reducing music to its function?

Rudolf Steiner said “The music of the spheres is a reality. As soon as we come into the spiritual world which lies beyond the soul-world, we are in a world which lives altogether in sound and song, in melody and harmony, and harmonies of spoken sound. Out of these inner relationships of sound the human ear is formed. “

I invited guitarist and songwriter BEN CHASNY AKA SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE on the show to discuss all of this. Ben last appeared on the show way back on AEWCH 45 when we talked about Rudolf Steiner and the spiritual aspects of intervals. Well... sort of. Ben's actually been on every episode for quite some time because we recreated the AEWCH theme song (originally co-composed with AEWCH guest, Jeb Havens) together. On this episode, he plays the song live and we discuss writing it together. We talk about the essential aspects of music, if there are any. And we look at the spiritual influencer culture of podcasting that has eroded its credibility over the years.
At the end, Ben plays "The Mission" from the recent Six Organs of Admittance album Time Is Glass, which is, as it turns out, about me and my boyfriend.

AEWCH 269: ON TRANSFORMING TIME Jul 02, 2024

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Why is transforming time the most urgent task? I examine this through the works of Jean Gebser, Rudolf Steiner, Byron Katie, Jeff Vandermeer, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Emmanuel Swedenborg, and more.

AEWCH 268: TOM KRELL (HOW TO DRESS WELL) / HOW DO WE CONNECT WITH THE ALL & THE NOTHING? Jun 25, 2024

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I talk with legendary experimental pop musician and philosopher TOM KRELL, AKA, How To Dress Well, about art, spirt, and connecting with each other in the vast distances between us.

AEWCH 267: JOHN HOLLOWAY / WHAT IS RADICAL HOPE? Jun 18, 2024

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Hope is dead. Long live hope! Whereas once hope was simply an audacious wish that we turned over to representatives of power, hope now can be a radical act through which we erode power.

But how? How do we leverage hope to help us direct and engage rather than simply wish and spectate?

To investigate this, I asked one of the most exciting and influential political thinkers of our time, JOHN HOLLOWAY.

John is the author of many influential and internationally recognized books, including Hope in Hopeless Times (the last in a series of books about how to find new strategies of flourishing and living away from capitalism, starting with Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today and its sequel, Crack Capitalism.) He teaches sociology in the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, and has worked with the Zapatista movement.

In this episode, we talk about hope without delusion. Dreaming big without forgetting to act, acting small without forgetting the big vision, how and why we need to get rid of money, and more. I'm so happy to have spoken with John and to share this with you!

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