Expanding Mind – Summer Pause
Erik reflects on a decade of podcasting, the learning curves of the show, the work of conversation, the uncanniness of our moment.
Jun 20, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 159
Expanding Mind
Progressiveradionetwork.com presents Expanding Mind with Erik Davis. He explores the culture of consciousness: magic, spirituality, psychology, technology.
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Expanding Mind – Liminal Mind
A conversation with my wife Jennifer Dumpert about collaborative dreaming, iPad skrying, meditation, play, the problem with interpretation, and her new bookLiminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep (North Atlantic).
Jun 13, 2019•57 min•Ep. 158
Expanding Mind – Deconstructing Yourself
A discussion with meditation teacher and author Michael Taft about hardcore dharma, Buddhist modernism, shop talk, the soup of the sangha, and the problem of the achievement self and the blind leading the blind.
Jun 06, 2019•59 min•Season 1Ep. 157
Expanding Mind – Queering Psychedelia
An informative chat with psychedelic researcher Dr. Alexander Belser about qualitative research, the Mystical Experience Questionnaire, queer spiritualities, and the idea of coming “out of the psychedelic closet.”
May 23, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 156
Expanding Mind – Sacred Matter
A conversation with philosopher of religion Mary-Jane Rubenstein about wonder, horror, animism, the multiverse, Heidegger, Einstein, Hawaiian telescopes, and her book Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (Columbia).
May 16, 2019•58 min•Ep. 155
Expanding Mind – Patterns of Transformation
A talk with experience designer Ida Benedetto about transformative games, trespassing, rules for sex parties, active introversion, magic circles, funerals, and queer spirituality.
May 02, 2019•58 min•Ep. 154
Expanding Mind – Decriminalize Nature
Entheogenic and community activists Larry Norris and Kufikiri talk about decriminalizing entheogenic plant medicines within Oakland: blind spots, changing the narrative, and resisting “the metronome of programming."
Apr 26, 2019•57 min•Season 1Ep. 153
Expanding Mind – Feral Poetics
Poet Janaka Stucky talks about guerrilla poetry, burlesque horror, mystical language, shame, prophecy, and the strange DMT experiences that inspired his latest book, Ascend Ascend (Third Mind Books).
Apr 18, 2019•57 min•Ep. 152
Expanding Mind – Meditation Apps
Science and technology researcher Rebecca Jablonsky talks about consciousness hacking, tech ethnography, information ecosystems, media fasts, and the ups and downs of outsourcing awareness.
Apr 11, 2019•55 min•Ep. 151
Expanding Mind – Ouija Board Poetics
Poet and literary scholar Stephen Yenser talks about James Merrill's poetic epic The Changing Light at Sandover (1982).
Apr 04, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 150
Expanding Mind – Yoga Tales
Yogi, psychonaut, and dear old pal Spiros Antonopoulos returns to talk about the Ashtanga lineage, Crowley’s yoga chops, NYC punk yoga, and psychedelic Patanjali.
Mar 28, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 149
Expanding Mind – Higher Intelligence
In this second wide-ranging talk with Anthony Blake , author of A Gymnasium of Higher Intelligence, we discuss J.G Bennett’s ideas of higher intelligence.
Mar 21, 2019•59 min•Season 1Ep. 148
Expanding Mind – Psychedelic Dharma
Host Erik Davis does a solo show on Beat Zen, the Fifth precept, tantric heresy, headless dharma collectives, capitalist subjectivity, and the Psychedelic Sangha meetups popping up in a few cities around North America.
Mar 14, 2019•58 min•Ep. 147
Expanding Mind – Tarot Artistry
Author and Tarot expert Mary Greer discusses Pamela Colman Smith (the illustrator of the famous Rider-Wait-Smith deck). We touch on the Golden Dawn, Jung’s active imagination, and the marvelous Pamela Colman Smith: the Untold Story.
Mar 07, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 146
Expanding Mind – Reality Physics
Historian and astrophysicist Adam Becker —author of What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics—talks about Schrödinger’s Cat, Bell’s Theorem, and the difference between weirdness and nonsense.
Feb 28, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 145
Expanding Mind – Beatnik Boyhood
Writer and avant-garde publisher Tosh Berman discusses his charming new memoir Tosh, about growing up with his father, the remarkable underground California artist Wallace Berman.
Feb 21, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 144
Expanding Mind – Daimonic Conversations
Writer and Ultraculture wizard Jason Louv talks about occult history, reality tunnels, his John Dee and the Empire of Angels book, Aleister Crowley’s secret Christianity, and the apocalyptic RPG the West can’t seem to escape.
Feb 14, 2019•58 min•Ep. 143
Expanding Mind – Visionary Permaculture
Culture-crafter and plant poet Delvin Solkinson discusses permaculture principles, OS Gaia, cartomancy, visionary art, design activation, and the Galactic Trading Card Oracle .
Feb 07, 2019•58 min•Ep. 142
Expanding Mind – Queer LA
Professor and queer historian Heather Lukes talks about Silver Lake riots, gay bikers, house ball scenes, the nostalgia for repression, and the joys and challenges of working on the online archive " The Grit and Glamour of Queer LA Subculture ."
Jan 31, 2019•58 min•Ep. 141
Expanding Mind – Find the Others
Author and media scholar Douglas Rushkoff talks about collaborative technologies, silicon transhumanism, analog aura, the problem of the soul, and his new and timely manifesto Team Human. Join the team!
Jan 28, 2019•58 min•Ep. 140
Expanding Mind – “Meditation"
Host Erik Davis explores his personal history of “meditation"—including teenage stoner trances, voices in the head, and Zen anti-authoritarianism.
Jan 18, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 139
Expanding Mind – American Cosmic, Part 2
Religious scholar Diana Pasulka talks about anomalous cognition, 2001 monoliths, disclosure, future truths, absurd Christianity, and her book American Cosmic (Oxford).
Jan 10, 2019•57 min•Ep. 138
Expanding Mind – American Cosmic, Part One
A talk with religious scholar Diana Pasulka about UFOs, scientific believers, book encounters, elite cabals, studying weirdness, and her new book American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology (Oxford).
Jan 03, 2019•58 min•Ep. 137
Expanding Mind – Speaking with Plants
Author and plant behavior researcher Monica Gagliano talks about courage, scientific blindness, plant spirits, and her new book Thus Spoke the Plant (North Atlantic).
Dec 20, 2018•59 min•Season 1Ep. 136
Expanding Mind – The Gorey Details
Culture critic Mark Dery talks about Surrealism, the gay voice, penny dreadfuls, and his new biography of Edward Gorey, Born to Be Posthumous (Little Brown).
Dec 13, 2018•59 min•Season 1Ep. 135
Expanding Mind – The Superheroic Dose
Martial artist and psilocybin explorer Kilindi Iyi talks about African martial arts, high dose psilocybin work, African-American psychedelia, Dr. Strange, and the metaphysics of darkness.
Nov 29, 2018•58 min•Ep. 134
Expanding Mind – Memetic Tribes
Canadian cultural observer Peter Limberg talks about Stoicism, philosophical sandboxes, the Intellectual Explorers Club , making uncertainty sexy, and navigating the conflicts between today's memetic tribes .
Nov 15, 2018•59 min•Ep. 133
Expanding Mind – Integrating Psychedelics
Nurse practitioner and psychedelic therapist Julie Megler talks about integration circles, hierarchy vs. community, ketamine therapy, somatic work, and the philosophy behind her new East Bay clinic Sage Integrative Health .
Nov 08, 2018•58 min•Ep. 132
Expanding Mind – Rainbow Bodies
Poet, journalist, and professor Nicholas Powers talks about festival politics, race and psychedelia, dreads, tokenism, and his book The Ground Below Zero: 9/11 to Burning Man, New Orleans to Darfur, Haiti to Occupy Wall Street (UpSet Press).
Nov 01, 2018•59 min•Ep. 131
Expanding Mind – The Arts of Dying
Bay Area conceptual artist Lindsay Tunkl talks about confronting death, therapy as art, pre-apocalypse counseling, humor, and her book When You Die You Will Not Be Scared to Die (Parallax Press).
Oct 25, 2018•59 min•Ep. 130
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