Douglas Prater is an author, musician, media engineer, and designer of audio tracks that offer support for meditation, flow states, and personal development. In this episode, we discuss how audio brainwave entrainment technology can be used to cultivate consciousness, creativity, and mental health, especially when used in the context of a holistic or integral … [Read more...] about Stealing Flow: Using Audio Brainwave Technology for Writing and Art, with Douglas Prater
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Greg Thomas on Albert Murray, Philosopher of Jazz and the Blues
Greg Thomas and Ed Mahood talk about the life and literary legacy of Albert Murray, whose Collected Essays & Memoirs were published by the Library of America in 2016. We discuss Murray's ideas on Omni-American identity, culture and race, and his conception of "antagonistic cooperation," which gives us the Blues Hero, who faces adversity with improvisation, … [Read more...] about Greg Thomas on Albert Murray, Philosopher of Jazz and the Blues
You Are Any Body: A Response to Secularizing Buddhist Ethics, with Caroline Savery – Part 2
In Part 2 of their talk, Caroline and Marco continue exploring the relation between meditation and the body. Can meditation help transmute the karma that comes with the development of abstract thinking and the rise of civilization as such? Caroline argues that the expansion of the notion of the individual I, which may have once conferred advantage, is now … [Read more...] about You Are Any Body: A Response to Secularizing Buddhist Ethics, with Caroline Savery – Part 2
You Are Any Body: A Response to Secularizing Buddhist Ethics, with Caroline Savery – Part 1
In this episode, Marco and Caroline formulate their responses to the Buddhist Geeks podcast episode "Secularizing Buddhist Ethics" with Vincent Horn and Stephen Batchelor. Caroline explains how her understanding of the ways consciousness materially evolves in complex systems—via Douglas Hofstadter of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid and … [Read more...] about You Are Any Body: A Response to Secularizing Buddhist Ethics, with Caroline Savery – Part 1
Clean Language for Writers and Artists, with John Davis
John Davis and Marco V Morelli discuss who could benefit from Clean Language training, and John attempts to help Marco understand how Clean Language could help writers and artists develop richer metaphorical landscapes. John also relates his experiences as a counselor and activist during the AIDS crisis, and touches on how psychic and paranormal experiences have informed his … [Read more...] about Clean Language for Writers and Artists, with John Davis