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Near and Far Places | Solo Show Aug 22, 2018

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The August solo show!

In the lead-up to the Q3 premium member course on Magical Geography, this month we explore the notion of near and far places, cold places, and imaginal places.

Colonial ghosts, Antarctica and Ursula Le Guin ahead.

Enjoy.

Talking Permaculture and Design Thinking | Dan Palmer Aug 15, 2018

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This week we welcome to the show permaculture designer and theorist, Dan Palmer. Dan is the host of the podcast, Making Permaculture Stronger, where he facilitates fascinating discussions on what's right and what's wrong with permaculture and where it might be headed next. And the tl;dr is that what's wrong with permaculture is, in the main, what's wrong with everything else.

So we have a great discussion on the theory of design in general, the shortcomings of western categorisations and their dualist implications and, somewhat improbably, merging with a chicken.

It's a truly fantastic chat. Enjoy.

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Talking Ursula K. Le Guin | James Sullivan Aug 09, 2018

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This week, we speak to James Sullivan. James is a fellow podcaster and -more importantly- a fellow fan of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series.

So these books form the through-line for a wide ranging discussion on the state of modern philosophy, theories of mind, the role of fantasy fiction and what might be called subversive, anarcho-pacifist self-transformation.

Great stuff.

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Talking AI and Personhood | Kenric McDowell Aug 02, 2018

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This week, we are speaking with Kenric McDowell. Kenric is a musician, public speaker, and AI curator for Google Research. We discuss AI, inevitably, but not from either a lurid 'the world is ending' way or from a 'techno-utopian jibber jabber' way.

Instead we look at what the implications of AI are for personhood, a theory of technology and its appropriateness, and whether we're teaching AI to think or AI is teaching us to.

Very, very good times.

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Everything Retrograde | Solo Show Jul 30, 2018

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As promised, and just in time, here's the July solo show.

It was gonna be too annoying to have dropped a week for mere illness after 136 episodes delivered rain, hail, or shine in five countries, on boats, in hotel rooms, and so on.

So! The broken run has been mended with a Mars Retrograde ghost story.

Enjoy.

Talking the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis | Richard Dolan Jul 25, 2018

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This week, we welcome the one and only Richard Dolan to the show. As you're very likely aware, Richard is the author and publisher of many books in the UFO field, as well as a radio host, trained historian and gifted public speaker.

We actually met out in the central Australian desert in May of this year and had the opportunity to chat about what's right and what's wrong with the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH).

For those of you who are unaware, ETH is the model for UFO phenomena that asserts that a majority or possibly all cases -credible ones, at least- are best explained as encounters with beings from other planets… rather than, say, extra dimensional, demonic, spiritual, earth-based or under-earth entities that predate mankind and all the other non-ETH hypotheses.

Anyway, splendid stuff.

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Hobbits and Space Programmes | Solo Show Jul 12, 2018

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Another solo show this week, inspired in part by Douglas Rushkoff's recent article on the grimness of the billionaire future.

We play around with notions of technology and personhood and agency and morality and AI.

Also hobbits. Enjoy.

Talking Cosmic Activism | Conner Habib Jul 04, 2018

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This week, we welcome back to the show my good friend, Conner Habib. Writer, sex worker, activist, Anthroposophist and host of Against Everyone with Conner Habib.

And the topics under discussion are how desire destroys materialism and what a cosmic or fully haunted activism might look like.

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Talking Saints, Psi and UFOs | Dr Diana Walsh Pasulka Jun 27, 2018

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This week we have one of my favourite discussions of the entire year.

Joining us is Dr Diana Walsh Pasulka. Diana is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. She is a specialist in Catholic history with a particular emphasis on the saints. Her current research sits in that really compelling intersection between psi, UFOs, technology and religion.

We talk saintly powers, Marian apparitions, UFOs, Vatican archives, Jacques Vallée and all that top shelf stuff.

So, so good.

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Talking Jack Parsons | Paul Weston Jun 20, 2018

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In honour of a very special anniversary and in light of a new biographical series, Paul Weston returns to the show to regale us with his strange angelic blend of history, synchromystic analysis and personal adventure.

Rockets, redheads, dianetics, Beat poets and the Babalon Working. It's all in this week's episode.

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