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Academia's Gatekeepers | Samuel Urban Nov 15, 2023

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This week's episode is the audio version of a live stream discussion with Samuel Urban of the Illegitimate Scholar podcast. We talk about

The educational industrial complex.
So-called 'alternative' history.
Find the good in the total failure of academia over the past few years.
Invisible colleges.
What comes next and what to do.

A really fun chat -and one that only had a few technical issues for once, some of which weren't even on my side! Thanks, Elon! (We got Starlink while I was in Paraguay.)

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Reading Landscape with David Holmgren Nov 04, 2023

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Legendary co-originator of permaculture, David Holmgren, returns to the show this week on the ery special occasion of the launch of the feature-length documentary, Reading Landscape.

In the show notes below, you will find the link and the password to watch the full documentary for free.

Please share it widely with anyone who may be interested, with the blessing of the producers.

David and I discuss

The development of the film
What is meant by 'landscape'
What is meant by 'reading'
What has changed in permaculture over the decades
Learning from Indigenous teachers in Australia and New Zealand

And a whole lot more. It was a personal pleasure to be involved in the financing of this film as an individual and during my tenure at Permaculture Tasmania.

Show Notes

Watch the full documentary here.

Use the Password: Melliodora

Holmgren Design.

White Pilling The Apocalypse | Cam White Oct 30, 2023

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Astrologer and YouTuber Cam White joins the show this week to bring some helpful reframings to the space weather we'll all be enduring over the next few years.

We discuss

How astrology works
The role of a fortune teller in troubled times
What sort of conflicts and wars are likely to appear when
Whether the so-called Barbault Basket configuration ushers in a new golden age or not.

Super fun and spicy times. Enjoy the White Pill!

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Christianity's Surprising Resurgence - An Ivan Illich Perspective | Dougald Hine Oct 24, 2023

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Author, activist and educator, Dougald Hine returns to the show this week for a discussion that is simultaneously timely and timeless.

If you've been following along on the blog, you'll know that I have been wrestling with how to say things, with whom and to what end, given how the world is going.

One of the topics I had been meaning to record on for months now was the resurgence of Christianity: whether it is surprising or not, whether it is automatically reactionary, whether it is a sign of things improving or devolving. And I tried coming at that from several angles -including recording a whole solo show before leaving Paraguay on the topic that I didn't release- but found none of them were satisfactory.

Then I messaged Dougald about it, and it turns out it's an area he is also exploring, both personally and 'culturally' (whatever that means) right now. Plus, he's something of an aficionado of the works of Ivan Illich -whose insight is especially useful in these times. So he graciously agreed to come back on the show to prove that two heads are definitely better than one.

We explore the possible why of Christianity's resurgence, who 'owns' it and what happens if we don't engage, plus its different forms and mutations. Then we turn to Ivan Illich himself, beginning with a biography and an overview of his thought, before finishing with what he might have to say about these very strange times we are living through. (And depending on when you catch this episode, there is still time to get in on some Illich discussions with Dougald. Details in the show notes.

An excellent discussion. Enjoy!

Show Notes

Dougald's Substack. Subscribe for access details for the Illich discussions.
Here's a series from Dougald's substack called Into The Deep exploring Christianity's return:
Regrowing A Living Culture: A School Called Home.
Dougald's first appearance on the show, discussing At Work In The Ruins.

Here Be Monsters | Rhyd Wildermuth Sep 25, 2023

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Rhyd Wildermuth returns to the show on the occasion of his latest book launch, Here Be Monsters.

So we have a freewheeling chat about the mutation and fall of leftism, the what and where of activism accordingly, whether things are getting 'worse' or 'better', updated definitions of capitalism and fascism, Russell Brand, all kinds of incendiary stuff.

Oh, and gay werewolves.

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Russell Brand versus Establishment | Solo Show Sep 20, 2023

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This week I had been meaning to do a World Without Sin solo show on the censorship laws rolling out around the world and their implications.

Then, as we all know by now, whatever is going on with Russel Brand started happening, so we begin our story there. (It's worth noting I recorded this about 24 hours ago, before YouTube demonetised his channel.)

Today's episode is a bit of a read-along so you may wish to watch the video version. Of course, all accommodation is made for the audio folks as well. No child left behind. We explore some of our looming technological dystopia and then finish off with some tactics on what to do about it.

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Top 10 Best Alternative Healing Books of All Time | Greg Carlwood Aug 18, 2023

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Greg Carlwood returns to the show for another instalment of the book club nobody asked for! We explore the best alternative medicine -perhaps 'true healing' or 'actually effective' is better- books that we know of.

Nutrition, breathwork, light therapy, terrain theory, energy healing. It's all here, baby. Greg has spent years interviewing some of the leading lights in what allopathy absurdly calls 'alternative' healing on The Higherside Chats. So this is a really comprehensive exploration.

Your wish list will have grown by the time this episode is done, that's for sure!

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The Higherside Chats.

Thoughts on Fortune Telling | Solo Show Aug 10, 2023

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It's been one of the highlights of my year to start getting messages and images of the Fortune's Fools Lenormand oracle out in the world. And, as you might expect, it's got me thinking about fortune-telling.

One of my personal creative goals for the project was the queer (lol) the Little White Book concept, and so the companion book IS my fortune-telling book, in the sense that it is a book-length exploration of the techniques and metaphysics of telling fortunes. I've been reading fortunes for two decades, teaching tarot for almost one decade and have interviewed some of the best modern minds on the subject.

And so I have some takes. Several of them spicy.

This week, the audio version is an off-the-cuff exploration of those takes, recorded immediately after my deck artist, Colin Alexander, and I completed a full unboxing of the deck. An unboxing obviously makes for a terrible audio-version of a podcast so this week they're completely separate.

The audio version is Thoughts on Fortune Telling.
The video version is Coling and my gay little unboxing and reminiscing about the deck creation journey.

And there are still some decks available if you want to buy them here. (It still says pre-order, but they totally exist, I swear.)

Note: James and I are travelling for the next few days. For the 36 who purchased the top-tier package, we'll be in touch next week with the dates for the training and initiation.

Are There Aliens In The Bible? | Rev. Danny Nemu Jul 29, 2023

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One of my favourite guests returns to the show this week for a scintillating and freewheeling dive into the perennial question of whether there are aliens in the Bible. Author, researcher, psychonaut and hypnotist Danny Nemu.

The impetus for this discussion is a book and a thesis that's been translated out of Italian and into English relatively recently: Mauro Biglino's Gods of The Bible. Speaking of translation, for years, Mauro was a translator of Biblical texts for the Vatican's official publisher. Over the course of that work, he began to have questions about this term, 'Elohim', and all the other strange stuff that's in there. So he decided to translate the Old Testament literally and what emerges is alien beings and flying saucers and all that classic Ancient Aliens fare.

A few people started asking me about the Biglino hypothesis, and then Mauro himself was on Graham Hancock's podcast. And then, Graham's son Luke quoted from one of Danny's books in the same podcast. Danny was the person whose take on the hypothesis I most wanted to hear because of his work on the presence of entheogens and drugs in the Bible. So that was enough of a sign for me to repeatedly peer-pressure him into buying and reading the book so we could talk about it.

Anyway, he graciously obliged. So here is a Star.Ships meets 'are there drugs in the Bible' take on aliens, the power of language, the use of metaphor, literalism as spells and a whole lot more.

Super excited for this one.

Enjoy!

SHOW NOTES

Danny Nemu's website.
Mauro Biglino's YouTube channel, which gives a really good overview of his thesis.
My AI-generated presentation on the life and work of Zechariah Sitchin.
My AI-generated presentation on Owen Barfield's thesis on the origin of language.

Pluto In Aquarius - The Madness and Wisdom of Crowds Jul 21, 2023

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This week's solo show is a necessary side quest in our AI series up into space and out into the future.

It's also a standalone exploration of:

Understanding 'big' or archetypal stories, such as zodiac signs and planets, as containing all stories.
Using longer cycles to formulate timing and meaning.
What is yours to do in a looming world of social credit scores, digital control grids and the tyranny of niceness.

And if you'd like to also listen to the Q&A, it starts around the one-hour mark of the video version over on YouTube.

Enjoy!

Show Note(s)

A bit of a rarity for a solo show, but we have a show note. Here's a link to Dan Waites's and S. J. Anderson's discussion of the Barbault Basket.

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