Expanding Mind

Expanding Mind - Christian Greer - 08/31/14

Dinner parties, anarchism, and cultivating the collective imagination: a talk with Christian Greer, co-founder of Corvid College and scholar of esoteric counterculture. 

http://uva.academia.edu/ChristianGreer

Expanding Mind - Terence McKenna - 08/24/14

Terence McKenna, multimedia mind, and the world-weaving power of stoned dialogue: a talk with film-maker Ken Adams, whose new film Imaginatrix: The Terence McKenna Experience is available to stream here: http://terence-mckenna-movie.tumblr.com.

Expanding Mind - Burning Man 3.0 - 08/17/14

Politics, partying, and the roads not taken: a critical assessment of "that thing in the desert" with Steven T. Jones, editor of the Bay Guardian and author of The Tribes of Burning Man. 

Expanding Mind - American Witchcraft - 08/10/14

Social networks, spiritual pragmatism, and the "organized innocence" of American witchcraft: a talk with Aidan A. Kelly, author of A Tapestry of Witches: A History of the Craft in America, Volume 1 and the memoir Hippie Commie Beatnik Witches.

Expanding Mind - The Yoga of Psi - 08/03/14

Yogic siddhis, paranormal research, and the stange sociology of science: a talk with Dean Radin, senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and author, most recently, of Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities. 

Expanding Mind - Borg Like Me - 07/27/14

The maker movement, the surveillance web, and fanning the embers of 90s cyberculture: a talk with Gareth Branwyn, former editor at MAKE, Boing Boing, and Mondo 2000, and now author of Borg Like Me & Other Tales of Art, Eros, and Embedded Systems.

Expanding Mind - Consciousness Hacking - 07/20/14

 Spiritual technologies, DIY neuroscience, and the renaissance of engineered mindstates: a talk with Mikey Siegel, Bay Area entrepreneur and consciousness hacker impresario . http://mikeysiegel.com/

Expanding Mind - Think Positive - 07/13/14

New Thought, the trouble with skeptics, William James, and the history and power of positive thinking: an animated talk with Mitch Horowitz, author of One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life. 

http://mitchhorowitz.com.

Expanding Mind - Buddhas and Machines - 07/06/14

Chinese typewriters, Alan Watts, and how Buddhism (and motorcycle maintenance) infected digital capitalism: a talk with Professor R. John Williams about his new book, The Buddha in the Machine: Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and West. http://rjohnwilliams.wordpress.com

Expanding Mind - The Principia Discordia - 06/29/14

 Anarchism, synchronicity, and the joke religion spawned by the vision of a Goddess in a bowling alley: a talk with "crackpot historian" Adam Gorightly about his new book Historia Discordia: The Origins of the Discordian Society.