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On geopolitical shifts, civilisational cycles, and the potential for new social coordination mechanisms in an increasingly frenetic world. This dialogue welcomes the return of political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, philosopher O.G. Rose, and Commons / Civilisation theorist Michel Bauwens in dialogue with Tim Adalin. ---Access the shownotes for more on the guests & more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e143-what-are-we-accelerating-towards-w/-benjamin-studebaker-michel-bauwens-og-rose-and-tim-adalinMIchel Bauwen's Substack: https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.comBenjamin Studebaker's Substack: https://bmstudebaker.substack.com @O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel Substack: https://ogrose.substack.comTim Adalin's Substack: https://timadalin.substack.com/Chapters00:00 Intro00:10 US, China, Geopolitical Shifts and Military Spending06:01 The 5,000-Year Transition: Modes of Exchange25:22 Social Coordination Mechanisms and Global P

What is Anthro-complexity? What makes humans different? How can we respond with wisdom, at scale, to our entanglements? Welcoming polymathic thinker and renowned complexity practitioner Dave Snowden, in dialogue with Tim Adalin.Dave's previous conversations on Voicecraft / Altered States Of Conversation: "Civilisation, Science & Spirituality" https://youtu.be/uXvWQzGcNCo"Artificial Intelligence & Human Reasoning" | Metacrisis vs Polycrisis" https://youtu.be/TrMZL55Nzl0Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e142-anthro-complexity-entanglement-wayshaping-and-addressing-existential-threat-w/-dave-snowdenLearn more about Dave and Cynefin @ https://thecynefin.co/team/dave-snowdenFind Dave's blog series on Anthro-complexity: https://thecynefin.co/anthro-complexity-1-3/---Timestamps0:00 Intro0:10 What is anthro-complexity?8:33 Entanglement, not relationship?15:45 Orientation and the ancient debate that still

Sarah Janes is reviving the dreaming mysteries of Western civilisation, rooted in ancient Greece and Egypt.We dialogue on the esoteric history and culture of dreaming, consciousness, mysticism and sensemaking. Sarah is the author of Initiation Into Dream Mysteries, a psychomagic journey to awaken lucid dream consciousness. She is a researcher, curator, and retreat/workshop facilitator.---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e141-the-dreaming-mysteries-incubation-and-ancient-initiatory-rites-w/-sarah-janesSarah's Links:Website: https://themysteries.org/Book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Initiation-into-Dream-Mysteries-Mnemosyne/dp/164411514X---00:00 Intro01:44 What Are Dreams?05:15 The Meaning of Mystery09:31 Etymology and Magic of Language17:01 Dreaming Consciousness as Response to Tech Enslavement28:10 Creation, Songlines & Memory Palaces33:40 Hieroglyphs as Holographic Writing41:40 Prophecy, Truth &am

Welcoming master craftsman and philosopher Forrest Landry in dialogue on the deep structures underlying money, power, and inequality in modern civilization. Starting with fundamental questions about what money really is, we move through an analysis of why inequality has reached unprecedented levels, to urgent questions about artificial intelligence, the future of human choice-making, and a foundational orientation of response.---Desire, Want and Need on Delicate Fire: https://youtu.be/rejVuh1Knn8Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e140-money-power-inequality-and-ai-w/-forrest-landry-and-tim-adalinChapters0:00 Introduction: Money, Power & AI0:55 Lenses for Understanding Money: Choice, Energy & Game Theory06:12 Why Inequality Exploded: Technology as Extraction Amplifier29:30 The Three Stages of Mastery: Change, Causation & Choice41:05 Beyond Capitalism vs Socialism: Upgrading the Game57:40 The Mak

Welcoming Dr Iain McGilchrist, renowned psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar, in dialogue with Tim Adalin for Voicecraft. We explore the relation between cosmic drives, the left and right hemispheres, attention, religion, power, good, evil, AI and the soul.Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e139-cosmic-drives-intuition-ai-and-the-soul-w/-iain-mcgilchrist-and-tim-adalin---0:00:00 Introduction0:00:04 What is Intuition?0:02:28 Intuition and the Hemispheres0:04:41 The Basis of Understanding0:08:13 Left and Right Hemisphere Dynamics0:11:49 Participation in Reality0:18:29 Bundling and Unbundling: Economics and AI0:23:11 Dividing and Uniting: When and Why0:30:02 Understanding vs. Information0:34:19 Animate and Inanimate: A Continuum0:42:53 The Artificial Intelligence Predicament0:54:26 Narcissism and Echo Chambers1:00:43 Consciousness as Field1:07:15 Cancer, Bureaucracy, and Run

What is presence? How can we inoculate against coercive programming? How does presence relate to the revolutionary subject? This dialogue welcomes philosopher, neuroscientist and host of Love and Philosophy, Andrea Hiott, microbiologist and shamanic practitioner Simon van der Els, and design ontologist Anna Gyllenklev, in dialogue with philosopher Tim Adalin.---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e138-presence-and-the-machine-w/-andrea-hiott-simon-van-der-els-anna-gyllenklev-tim-adalinListen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

What are the prospects of social and political revolution? How can we understand revolutionary subjectivity today? Who, what, when, and where is the revolutionary subject? Inspired by a Philosophy Portal conversation between Cadell Last and Michel Bauwens, this dialogue welcomes political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, philosopher O.G. Rose, and Commons / Civilisation theorist Michel Bauwens in dialogue with Tim Adalin.Find the Philosophy Portal conversation with Michel here: https://youtu.be/9bR-bsvi0Nk?si=CDKv2TqLwWyjJZvS---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e137-who-or-what-is-the-revolutionary-subject-today-w/-benjamin-studebaker-michel-bauwens-og-rose-and-tim-adalin00:00 Introduction to Revolutionary Subjectivity03:53 Embedded Democracies and Revolutionary Prospects08:30 Civilizational Inter-Cycles and New Contradictions16:19 Constructive Networks and the Commons26:20 Navigating Political and Social Dy

What are the challenges and prospects of integrating transformative sound with philosophy? Featuring hyperhuman theorist, psychonaut, and founder of The Museum of Consciousness Carl Hayden Smith and philosopher Tim Adalin, this dialogue reflects on the collaboration between The Museum of Consciousness and Underground Philosophy, live in Melbourne.---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e136-consciousness-hyperhumanism-experiments-in-sound-philosophy-carl-hayden-smith-tim-adalinTimestamps:00:00 - Reflections on The Museum of Consciousness & Underground Philosophy02:51 - Sound vs Language: What Gets Lost in Translation06:35 - Can Philosophy Be as Free as Music?12:43 - Using Sound to Process Trauma and Shadow Work15:39 - Sacred Sound & Prototyping New Ontologies22:30 - Beauty, Wonder, Thresholds, and What Happens When Interpretations Differ?36:19 - Consciousness & The Golden Thread between The Museu

Featuring hyperhuman theorist, psychonaut, and founder of The Museum of Consciousness Carl Hayden Smith, and philosopher Tim Adalin. Filmed at the start of an evening of transformative sonic experience with The Museum of Consciousness at Underground Philosophy, live in Melbourne. We explore the question: are we human yet?---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e135-are-we-human-yet-the-museum-of-consciousness-underground-philosophy-carl-hayden-smith-tim-adalinABOUT CARLCarl Hayden Smith is the founder of the Museum of Consciousness at Oxford University and co-founder of the Cyberdelics Nexus. His research concentrates on the relationship between technology and the human condition and he is developing ‘Hyperhumanism’ which reframes technology as a catalyst for developing our own innate human abilities. Carl is also Associate Professor of Media in the School of Arts & Creative Industries at UEL and is the

Exploring intersections of chemical ecology, evolution, and humanity's relationship with technology in the era of technicity. Welcoming chemical ecologist Timothy Jackson in dialogue with Tim Adalin, we explore the prospects for developing "philosophical science of purposeful transformation." ---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/towards-a-philosophical-science-of-purposeful-transformation-w/-chemical-ecologist-tim-jacksonSupport Voicecraft on Patreon @ https://www.voicecraft.io/voicecraftAI Gen chapters:00:00 Intro01:30 What is chemical ecology?06:41 Life as technical and tool use13:00 Simondon and the advent of technicity and evolution15:03 Darwin versus popular evolutionary understanding22:48 Participating in speciation and morphogenesis27:30 Humanity's technical capacity and transformation31:41 Transhumanism and philosophical science critique40:10 Mediation between conservation and ad

Welcoming political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, author of Legitimacy In Liberal Democracies and The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut.He dialogues with Tim Adalin on the crises of trust and legitimacy in politics and institutions; the impact of technofeudalism on communication; power, intractable disagreement violence and cultural shamanism; and pathways toward authentic political change even if the way is shut.---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e133-what-is-politics-and-why-are-we-stuck-w/benjamin-studebaker-tim-adalinSupport Voicecraft on Patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/voicecraftListen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Exploring the tensions between ideology and reality, or ‘indestructible maps’ and participation in mystery and incompleteness, welcoming the philosopher, Voicecraft Network contributor and author of The Map is Indestructible, O.G. Rose in the form of Daniel Garner, in dialogue with Tim Adalin. This conversation continues the Cultural Shamanism series.---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e132-the-trance-of-ideology-global-pluralism-indestructible-maps-w/-og-rose-tim-adalin-cultural-shamanism-pt-3Find 'The Map Is Indestructible' here: https://www.amazon.com/Map-Indestructible-Problems-Internally-Consistent/dp/1736507591/Listen to Daniel speak with Cadell Last in a conversation titled 'The Map Is Indestructible' @ https://youtu.be/UOFPEIyj8ScChapters00:00:00 Introduction00:01:00 Defining Global Pluralism00:08:30 Givens vs Maps: The Shift in How We Navigate Reality00:11:16 The Map is Indestruc

An exploration of AI, human intelligence, dangers of cognitive atrophy, and lines of flight in response to teritorialisation. Welcoming the creator of the Cynefin Framework and iconoclastic generalist thinker Dave Snowden, who argues that AI represents artificial or algorithmic inference rather than true intelligence. He joins Tim Adalin for a dialogue that also broaches metacrisis vs polycrisis, religion and identity, economic and political systems, warfare and complexity.Dave's previous conversation on Voicecraft "Civilisation, Science & Spirituality" https://youtu.be/uXvWQzGcNCo---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e131-artificial-intelligence-vs-human-reasoning-w/-dave-snowdenTimestamps00:00 Intro00:15 The Nature of Intelligence08:05 Artificial Inference vs. Artificial Intelligence12:50 Extended Consciousness & Embodied Intelligence24:40 Education, Measurement & Cultural Atrop

Philosopher Cadell Last joins Tim Adalin for a dialogue working with core themes from Last's new book: 'Real Speculations: Thought Foundations, Drive Myths, and Social Analysis. This is a comprehensive journey into core philosophy and psychoanalysis, intended for a network of networks engaging in common effort to understand and participate in the becoming of our time.---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/beyond-the-myths-of-our-time-hegelian-philosopher-cadell-last-in-dialogue-with-tim-adalinFind Cadell's Philosophy Portal @ https://philosophyportal.online/Real Speculations @ https://www.amazon.com/Real-Speculations-Thought-Foundations-Analysis/dp/B0F5NV3821Cadell's conversation with @O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel @ https://youtu.be/Q92oh-iXvqI?si=hdHEEOtWKAllXO1k---Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Dr Michael Levin's pioneering research on bioelectricity, morphogenesis, and cognition is reshaping our understanding of how living systems self-organize and regenerate. He explores how cells and tissues communicate through bioelectrical signals, guiding the formation of complex structures without relying solely on genetic instructions. He is a Distinguished Professor in Biology at Tufts University, working at the intersection of biology, computer science, and cognitive science.This dialogue explores meanings of influence, value, transhumanism, minds, collective intelligence, and the philosophical and scientific implications of Dr. Michael Levin's work. ---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e129-influence-value-transhumanism-questions-for-the-frontiers-of-biology-and-technology-w/-dr-michael-levin-tim-adalinSUPPORT the channel on Patreon @ https:///www.patreon.com/voicecraft0:00 Introduction, Influ

What does progress mean? How does it influence consciousness and our notions of value, quality and story? Can we think beyond it?Dialoguing with meanings of progress, mythos, conceptions of time, and the becoming of identity and culture. Welcoming paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield and integral philosopher Jeremy D Johnson, author of Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness and philosopher Tim Adalin. For the video to see the screenshare, head over to https://youtu.be/tMd5dhEAj1o ---ACCESS the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e128-mythos-after-progress-jeremy-d-johnson-michael-garfield-tim-adalinSUPPORT THE CHANNEL on PATREON @ https:///www.patreon.com/voicecraft---Timestamps:00:00 Introduction & The Problem of Progress06:19 Fitness Landscapes & Evolutionary Navigation16:06 Value, Mythos, Soul, Image-making23:28 Embodied Time & Spatial Metaphors32:00 Digital Hauntology &

With influence from philosophy and psychonautic experience, this dialogue explores the forking path of humanity’s relation with technology. One way proposes hyperhumanism, which seeks to enhance humanity through the mindful use of technology. The other, transhumanism, promises 'transcendence' as an escape from the lack in humanity. Featuring Carl Hayden Smith, founder of the Museum of Consciousness, hyperhuman theorist and extended state DMT pioneer, in a Voicecraft dialogue with philosopher and consciousness theorist Cameron Duffy.---ACCESS the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e127-are-we-human-yet-dmtx-the-future-of-consciousness-carl-hayden-smith-in-dialogue-with-cameron-duffySUPPORT THE CHANNEL on PATREON @ https:///www.patreon.com/voicecraftTimestamps:00:00 Intro01:58 The central question: "Are we human yet?"03:14 The problem with transhuman and post-human theories06:35 Species in amnesia and technological con

A philosophical exploration into the weird of magic, aliens and altered states with the neo-Jungian thinker, psychotherapist and baby wizard, neo-Jungian Anderson Todd and Tim Adalin.---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e126-magic-aliens-w/-anderson-todd-tim-adalinSupport Voicecraft @ https://www.patreon.com/c/voicecraftTimestamps00:02 - Introduction02:20 - Jungian Perspective on UFOs & the Psychoid09:00 - How do we participate in understanding magic and aliens22:00 - Frameworks for understanding anomalous phenomena48:56 - Psychedelic Entity Encounters01:00:21 - Channeling and Historical Magic01:37:56 - DMT Experiences and Entity Encounters01:40:37 - Certainty vs. Skepticism in Mystical Experiences01:43:19 - Magic as Experimental Psychotechnology01:48:22 - Re-enchantment and Ethical Transformation02:08:46 - Ayahuasca and the Mythic "Duh" Moment02:27:39 - Symbolic Manipulation and Propaganda0

When should we make the unconscious conscious in social contexts? Welcoming Voicecraft members O.G. Rose (philosopher) and Dr Aspasia Karageorge (psychologist) in dialogue with Tim Adalin. We speak with questions of emotional maturity, AI & human complexities, cultural shamanism, societal structures, and the balance between individual and collective transformation, blending philosophy, psychology, and spirituality. ---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e125-making-the-unconscious-conscious-cultural-shamanism-w/-og-rose-tim-adalin-aspasia-karageorgeLearn how to become a Voicecraft member @ https://www.voicecraft.io/networkSupport this channel with a small contribution @ https://www.patreon.com/c/voicecraftThe previous Cultural Shamanism conversation which expands on the notion more explicitly is E114.---Timestamps (mostly AI gen)00:00 - Introduction 00:30 - Cultural Shamanism & Making the Unconscious Conscious07:19 - Disc

Welcoming the return of the neo-Jungian thinker, psychotherapist and cog-sci wizard, Anderson Todd, centered on the phenomenon of synchronicity—those moments of meaningful coincidence that seem to transcend causality. He joins Tim Adalin to dialogue on how synchronicity can be nurtured through trust, intentional design, and a willingness to engage with life’s mysteries, even as technology challenges our sense of reality.---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e124-designing-for-synchronicity-w/-neo-jungian-anderson-todd-tim-adalin00:00 - Introduction 00:10 - Synchronicity & Alignment 07:55 - Designing for Serendipity 25:00 - Synchronicity as Magic 39:00 - Hacking Synchronicity 45:00 - Trust, Intimacy, Risk01:07:09 - Jung, Archetypes in Modernity 01:15:00 - The Magic Circle 01:30:00 - Artificial Intelligence & MagicAbout Anderson:Anderson Todd is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, at the Un