Expanding Mind

Expanding Mind - Desert Homesteading - 03.23.17

Joshua Tree homesteader and former Arthur editor Jay Babcock talks about turkey vultures, Vipassana, wildlife stewardship, and the communities of purpose he has discovered in the desert. jthomesteader.com

Expanding Mind - Analog Listening - 03.16.17

Canadian musician Sarah Davachi talks about analog synthesizers, reverberating cathedrals, attention spans, and her amazing new ambient drone album All My Circles Run.

Expanding Mind - Tracking the Wild - 03.15.17

Ecologist and wildlife tracker Meghan Walla-Murphy talks about following bears, reading the landscape, and cultivating relationships across species (and political) lines. http://www.meghanwallamurphy.com

Expanding Mind - Cognitive Liberty - 03.02.17

Criminologist and law lecturer Charlotte Walsh talks about freedom of thought, neurotechnologies, religious exceptions, and how the role human rights might play in the decriminalization of psychedelics.

Expanding Mind - Alt-Right Meme Magick - 02.16.17

Media researcher and filmmaker Florian Cramer talks about 4chan, Pepe the Frog, memes, and the nihilism of the digital alt-right. For Florian's dense mapping of the alt-right, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w94mQjxHkRs.

 

Expanding Mind - Acid Maker - 02.09.17

Former LSD chemist Tim Scully talks about acid idealism, magical thinking, biofeedback, and the Orange Sunshine history told in the new documentary The Sunshine Makers. 

 

Expanding Mind - Spirit Photography - 01.12.17

Photographer, artist, and ethnographer Shannon Taggart talks about Spiritualist mediums, ambiguity, orbs, and the metaphysics of photography. www.shannontaggart.com

Expanding Mind - Inside Madness - 01.05.17

Author, historian and curator Mike Jay talks about Bedlam, lunacy, Big Pharma, and the history of mental illness he covers in his new book This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum and Beyond. 

Expanding Mind - The Politics of Divination - 12.29.16

Philosopher and writer Joshua Ramey talks about oracles, markets, spontaneous order, and his new book The Politics of Divination: Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of Contingency. 

Expanding Mind - Global Osho - 12.22.16

Religious studies scholar Hugh Urban talks about the colorful guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, freak tantra, intellectual property and religion, and his new book Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement.