This week we're joined by Daniel Rozenberg aka DADARA for a thoughtful discussion about Art in Virtual Realities, Information Overload, and Flow States. The creator of Exchangibition Bank, Like4Real, and the upcoming Solipmission installation at Burning Man, as well as countless concert posters and album covers, DADARA has been one of my favorite artists for a while - in no small part because of how his works combine deep, challenging investigations with light-hearted play. Click here to learn m...
May 09, 2017•1 hr 6 min
This week we chat with Daniel Zen, former Google engineer, technology instructor at zen.digital , NYC Regional Coordinator for Burning Man, coordinator for the Angular.js NYC Meetup, and general high-tech wizard. https://zen.digital/ https://twitter.com/danielzen https://medium.com/@danielzen https://github.com/danielzen Some of the topics we discuss: • The curses – and blessings! – of runaway technological surveillance (and sousveillance, and coveillance…). • How adolescence and sexuality have ...
Apr 30, 2017•1 hr 10 min
We’re switching it up this week to present my recent talk on psychedelic futurism at the first weekly meeting of the Australian Psychedelic Society (Fitzroy Beer Garden, Melbourne, Victoria). The Chinese have a curse: “May you live in interesting times.” The Irish have a toast: “May you be alive at the end of the world” I’m more Irish than Chinese, and I know this because even though we’re living through total chaos these days, that means unprecedented opportunity for wonder, creativity, discove...
Apr 23, 2017•51 min
This week’s guest is travel guide Simon Yugler – named one of Open World Magazine’s “Top 30 Adventurers Under 30,” Simon facilitates initiatory experiences as the leader of experiential education journeys for young adults. http://travel-alchemy.com Here’s Simon talking to UpliftConnect about the difference between “wanting to help” and “wanting to be of service”: https://youtu.be/JzIwXy4l4lY - “What cultural exchange looks like from a place of transformation and healing.” - Decolonizing Festival...
Apr 16, 2017•1 hr 1 min
This week’s guest is the artist, gallery owner, podcaster, web designer, and musician Aunia Kahn! Among her many notable achievements, she curates Alexi Era Gallery in Oregon, hosted the Create & Inspire Podcast, and survived eleven years housebound with disability to emerge more creative, passionate, and powerful than before. http://auniakahn.com http://alexieragallery.com In one of this podcast’s more rambling conversations, we discuss: - Internet & Cellphone Addiction (and the problem...
Apr 11, 2017•1 hr 16 min
This week, we spend some time with Joanna Harcourt-Smith, "Swiss-born British socialite," host of the Future Primitive Podcast, and author of Tripping the Bardo with Timothy Leary: My Psychedelic Love Story. Michael on Joanna’s 500+ Episode Podcast: http://www.futureprimitive.org/2016/11/the-crossroads-of-the-unexpected/ Check out her archives. They’re amazing. "God IS A Sense of Humor" "Know That You're Everything" “To me, people are mushrooms. My claim to fame was the fact that I found the mus...
Apr 03, 2017•44 min
This week's guest is the delightful and insightful Susan Molnar! http://susanmolnar.com “Everything can be broken. But also, everything can be built. And sometimes, breaking it and then rebuilding it makes it even cooler.” Tech & Maker Education for Children Google Policy Fellow for American Association for People with Disabilities Leukemia Survivor We Laugh A Lot (Where does my body end and somebody else’s product begin?) Programming Good Programmers The Problem & The Promise of Educati...
Mar 27, 2017•1 hr 7 min
This week's guest is the loquacious, thoughtful, and profound JF Martel, film-maker and author of Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice and the three-part essay Reality is Analog , about the philosophical themes lurking behind Netflix's series Stranger Things. http://reclaimingart.com https://www.metapsychosis.com/reality-is-analog-philosophizing-with-stranger-things-part-one/ We discuss what can and cannot be captured and communicated digitally… The Primordial, Deep, Subrational Forms of Poetry...
Mar 15, 2017•1 hr 50 min
This week our guest is Tibet Sprague, former solar energy system manager and scholar-practitioner in search of sustainable alternatives to our unhealthy post-industrial communities. http://tibetsprague.com for all social links, writings, and project info We discuss: What it was like for Tibet growing up in a healthy community. The difference between communities online and in person. The possibility of a virtual nation, a modern silk road of digital nomads moving in between communities… …but the ...
Feb 16, 2017•1 hr 30 min
De-Anthropomorphizing The Universe / Science & The Filter Bubble with Cory Allen, Audio Mastering Engineer & Mindfulness Trainer, Host of The Astral Hustle Podcast http://cory-allen.com http://releaseintonow.com “It’s just all what is. And I accept every state of being as glorious.” Two dedicated truth-seekers and cosmos-abiders make a lot of dirty jokes and somehow manage to harmonize their angles on the practice of rigorous inquiry into the nature of reality and consciousness… We have ...
Feb 01, 2017•1 hr 17 min
This week, we take an hour to explore the frontiers of the human experience with Trevor Goodman of the Body Hacking Conference in Austin, Texas. https://bodyhackingcon.com/conference Here’s a bit about the conference from NPR: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/03/10/468556420/body-hacking-movement-rises-ahead-of-moral-answers • Cybernetics, prosthetics, nootropics, body modification, bionics… • The origins and history of “body hacking.” • Body modification as an answer/solution ...
Jan 19, 2017•1 hr 3 min
0014 Michael Phillip (Special Episode: Westworld Problems) With special guest, host of Third Eye Drops Podcast and fellow esoteric dork extraordinaire, Michael Phillip. We go deep into the layers underneath the layers of HBO’s awesome new show Westworld – its future angst and wonder, and what it can teach us about the value and meaning of human existence. SPOILER ALERT! We get into details of the Season Finale, so don’t listen to this unless you’ve seen it. Seriously. The show is worth it, thoug...
Jan 07, 2017•1 hr 10 min
This week’s episode features Dr. Rupert Till, aka Dr. Chill, who does actually hold the world’s first PhD in Electronic Music. Dr. Chill also has a habit of reconstructing ancient acoustic spaces from caves and temples, then writing electronic chill out music with 3D printed replicas of the world’s oldest instruments. In other words, he’s a badass at the intersection of academic archeology and international dance festival culture. A pretty great place to be. Dr. Chill’s Blog: https://rupertchill...
Dec 23, 2016•1 hr 5 min
This week our guest is Mark Lee (Somnio8), an amazing artist. One of my favorite visionary painters. We spoke in the Museum of Visionary Art at Boom Festival about free energy devices, the creative culture of Bali, and the awesome potentials of our collective future... http://somnio8.com is currently down so check out his FB page: https://www.facebook.com/somnio8/ A very soft spoken dude, too, so apologies in advance for the festival background noise. * Support Future Fossils Podcast on Patreon:...
Dec 16, 2016•48 min
A special Boom Festival "Future Fossils on The Road" episode featuring some awesome people Michael met while playing and speaking at the amazing biennial psytrance festival in Portugal. Shaft Uddin is a Tantric Unicorn and Sacred Sexual Awakener (with noisy arm bangles): http://sacredsexualawakening.com * Support Future Fossils Podcast on Patreon: patreon.com/michaelgarfield * We discuss: Shadow work, “turning into the swerve,” and going into darkness to claim the light. Realizing that the monst...
Dec 09, 2016•2 hr 22 min
In this special double episode, we're joined by musician-wizards Anthony Thogmartin ( Earth Cry , Papadosio ) and David Krantz ( Futexture , former Moog Synthesizers employee, and director of psychoacoustics at Apeiron Center ) in which we all kind of end up interviewing each other and have a conversation about the ordering and disordering of time, completely out of order (introductions halfway through the episode, et cetera). * Support Future Fossils Podcast on Patreon: patreon.com/michaelgarfi...
Nov 06, 2016•1 hr 29 min
This week's guest, Ashley Dawson, is a Professor of English at the Graduate Center/City University of New York, and the author of Extinction: A Radical History (as well as an extensive list of publications on sociology, economics, and literature). His book's argument – that capitalism's innate drive to grow and consume is essentially incompatible with sustainability – makes Extinction something in between an ecological treatise written by a communist and an economic manifesto written by an ecolo...
Oct 07, 2016•59 min
“The battlefield has gone more and more internally, more into our minds.” - Kingsley Dennis http://kingsleydennis.com/ In this episode we hang out with Kingsley Dennis, prolific author and one of the most articulate voices in the emerging global movement of “new monasticism.” * Support Future Fossils Podcast on Patreon: patreon.com/michaelgarfield * Kingsley joined us from his gorgeous home in Spain to talk about…well, almost everything: – Reimagining the planet as a living cell with the help of...
Sep 28, 2016•1 hr 11 min
Featuring comedian Shane Mauss, to our knowledge the only person to have ever written feature length comedy routines about the evolutionary psychology of sex or about psychedelics. Shane is an amazingly humble dude, considering he interviews scientists for fun when he's not blowing people's minds and guts with his ballsy humor about the untouchably weird dimensions of human existence. His podcast Here We Are is a veritable compendium of brilliant conversations that become the fuel for his smart ...
Sep 06, 2016•1 hr 9 min
Featuring cyborg anthropologist and process worker Maraya Karena, whom Michael met in Peru once upon a time, and who can nimbly leap from talk of high technology to casual reflections on accessing visionary consciousness. Maraya delivers us a dose of much-appreciated lucid, grounded female sensibility to this hapless dorkfest... Follow up with by subscribing to Maraya's blog and YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/marayakarena marayakarena.wordpress.com * Support Future Fossils Podcast on Patr...
Aug 29, 2016•1 hr 4 min
Featuring documentarian, psychonaut, and meta-media wizard Mitch Schultz, director/producer of the documentary "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" and founder of Mythaphi. A more than usually enthusiastic group rap on the awesome potential of new media to shift the global story and deliver us into a world of awesome collaborative potential... Evan and Michael met as performers at one of Mitch's events years ago (the DMT RMX party at South By Southwest 2012) so it's like a family reunion having this guy o...
Aug 09, 2016•58 min
On asteroid mining, the origins of life, growing up during the Apollo Program and the importance of unifying society under visions for Great Projects (see also: Project Hieroglyph), the magic of lipids, thinking fractal and the similarity between chemical and technological cells, new genetic base pairs and the geological evidence of ancient oceans, pitching NASA and Elon Musk on a plan to protect Earth from asteroids and comets (and settle the best real estate in the solar system), the legacy of...
Aug 01, 2016•1 hr 6 min
In this week's episode, we interview our first guest, author Tony Vigorito, and go ape on thoughts about the nature of synchronicity – are we just making this stuff up? Tony's work has been praised repeatedly and effusively by literary greats like Tom Robbins, so even before you get through a single sentence of his florid, playful, genius, totally abundant and absurdly tasty prose you know you're dealing with a singular mind. He's also taught sociology at universities in Austin and Northern Cali...
Jul 26, 2016•1 hr 3 min
In this second "zero" episode, Evan and Michael plumb the mysteries of qualitative time – the mystery of "Cairos," the I Ching, and nonlinear temporal shenanigans – before plunging into later interview-based episodes. These days we often think of time as only something that is counted. But other cultures, like the ancient Greek and Chinese, knew that time is also something that is FELT. What do we learn by seeing time as not just quantity, but quality? Is there a texture to reality that people l...
May 22, 2016•41 min
The very first "zero" episode of Future Fossils, in which co-hosts Michael Garfield and Evan Snyder set the tone for our new podcast by attempting foolishly to map time's hyperspatial landscape. We wind up absorbed by black holes, puns, and other singularities. What happens when we use the metaphor of geometry and geography to explore time? Does time have a shape – and if so, can we reconcile the perspectives of various cultures who claim time is different shapes? The arrow, circle, and helix mi...
May 21, 2016•59 min
