This second audience QA session for Ojai Salon number two (podcast 13) returns to a key theme for how we might reinvent a beautiful world by the year 2050. Central to that vision is the re-centering of civilization on the feminine. Sarah, Dennis, Jeff, and Dr. Bruce explore the rise of the feminine in the west, Travel from 21st Century Europe where women's power is strongly returning back to the shores of southern Africa where the male manic monkey may have been born in the very hearth and home ...
Aug 15, 2013•54 min•Season 1Ep. 15
This first audience QA session for the second Ojai Salon (podcat 013) treats the sharing of a vision of a sane, sustainable and healthy world of the year 2050. We return to that intimate evening in a stone room in Ojai, California in June of 2013 and dive into dialogue, theories and stories shared by our audience. Audience contributor Dennis Leary emerges here as a powerful new voice of the Levity Zone. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (intro, editing), Steve Murtaugh (music), Jacob Aman (art), Jeffrey ...
Jul 30, 2013•35 min•Season 1Ep. 14
This second Ojai Salon opens with the sharing of a vision transporting us to the world of 2050. In this wondrous world of the imagination the ideal outcome has occured and we are living in a safe, sane and healthy civlization nestled nicely on a recovered and restored verdant Earth. How did we get there? Suspend yourself in disbelief for a while and just settle back and enjoy the given vision. In the next episode the audience dialogue will dive into how we might actually get there. Credits: Dr. ...
Jul 19, 2013•41 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Join Dr. Kaushik in this tour de force talk from the late 1970s.The Doctor shows how our concept of God has undergone an evolution, from animalistic entities, to angry human deities, and finally progressing to compassionate avatars such as Jesus or the Buddha, But these gods always occupy a part of our mind that allowed them to manifest their opposite. This mind/opposite duality comes down to the persistent duality of the observer and the observed. In those rare moments, or for those rare people...
Jun 29, 2013•47 min•Season 1Ep. 12
In part 2 of the conversation with the Madre, mother nature, we reply back to her inquiry. The message? It is much needed information on the planetary state of us monkeys, her most promising yet problematic progeny. Why have this conversation? We may be considered crazy, but the survival of us, and all of Earth's life beyond its heat death in the distant future may rest in the balance. If the Madre can help us, we can help the Madre and there is truly reason for hope. Credits: Bruce Damer (speak...
Jun 12, 2013•34 min•Season 1Ep. 11
There is reason for hope as I take you on a very personal voyage into a lifelong quest for contact with nature and the biosphere: the Madre. She is the entity that for me represents the sentient yet very alien presence that is the planetary living bolus, The following interview, conducted in Sierra Madre, Califonria in November 2012, is the first of two parts in what became a conversation with the Madre. It is a drama of the evolution and the fight for the soul and survival of us monkeys and the...
May 24, 2013•33 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Journey to the beautiful valley of Ojai in Southern Californa where Dr. Bruce engages an intimate audience in the first Ojai Salon at the visionary compound of Jeffrey Harris near where J. Krishnamurti sat under the teaching tree.Come now with us in an inner journey from our insectivore primate ancestors 90 million years ago all the way out to the first flash of the total conscious manifesting rendering of the cosmos in our own minds in our own time. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (speaker, intro, edi...
May 02, 2013•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Introducing a new voice to the levity zone: John Suntiger, a visual projection artist, and community and environmental activist who takes us on his profound life's journey through dis-ease, disease from Childhood to a terrifying hang gliding accident and beyond. John truly paid his dues and has emerged a strong advocate and practitioner of the circle. As Lorenzo Hagerty and Dr. Bruce initiated last year in programs about the life of Terence McKenna, the time of the mostly white male guru on stag...
Apr 17, 2013•33 min•Season 1Ep. 8
The second half of a talk by Dr. Kaushik about how the energy moves through our internal universe. He addresses the original audience question about how to handle sexual energy. Next, he explores how when we relate to the universe through thought we become isolated in aloneness. When thought comes to an end, and we face the full void of loneliness it is only there, free of mind, that love has the space to grow to the point you become the energy. In this state all centers are one, and you have be...
Mar 27, 2013•30 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Dr. Kaushik reveals how the energy moves within the universe inside each of us and gets caught up as tension. This tension is the source of all of our needs and ills and to move beyond it is to become a new kind of human being. Recorded Ithaca, NY, 1978. Find many more talks by Dr. Kaushik linked off our site at levityzone.org/podcasts. Music by Mystical Sun titled: Place of Refuge from his new album 26000.
Mar 14, 2013•36 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Dr. Bruce introduces Dr. Kaushik. Credits: Students of Dr. K (digitizing this session from Ithaca, NY, 1978), Cynthia Copple (photo), Bruce Damer (editing, introducer), MysticalSun (music).
Mar 01, 2013•25 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Dr. Bruce on how one may hold the visionary state. Credits: Bruce Damer (author and reader), Chris Adams (music), Chris Aman (editing), Jacob Aman (art).
Feb 15, 2013•8 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Dr. Bruce Damer's first talk at the first Palenque Norte, Burning Man, August 2003. Credits: Lorenzo Hagerty (event), Jake McDonald (cover art, editing), Ankur Dnyanmote, ChaosLab, Arturo and Kianna Alarid Cameron/Svamps (music).
Jan 31, 2013•21 min•Season 1Ep. 3
The story from a vision written by Dr. Bruce when leaving Pakistan, June 2012. Credits: Chris Aman (edit, music)
Jan 15, 2013•6 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Genesis Engines, a Discussion Held at Burning Man, Aug 2012. Credits: Tom Riedel (recording), Kianna Alarid Cameron and Svamps (music), Chris Aman (edit)
Dec 31, 2012•40 min•Season 1Ep. 1
