Expanding Mind

Expanding Mind - Modern Psychedelia - 04/21/13

Acid rock, anthropology, and the path to the impersonal: a talk with Patrick Lundborg, author of the fascinating new book Psychedelia: An Ancient Culture, a Modern Way of Life. www.subliminalsounds.se/DOK/psychedelia.html

Expanding Mind - Present Shock - 04/07/13

Digital time, moon cycles, and the human art of pattern recognition: a talk with Douglas Rushkoff, director of the new book Present Shock. http://www.rushkoff.com/present-shock/

Expanding Mind - Consciousness Explorers - 03/31/13

Meditation, warrior compassion, and hacking the sensorium: a probing talk with consciousness writer and explorer Jeff Warren, author of The Head Trip. www.jeffwarren.org.

Expanding Mind - Sex at Dawn - 03/24/13

Bonobos, evolutionary psychology, and the hard-wired problem of monogamy: a sprightly conversation with Christopher Ryan, co-author of Sex at Dawn. http://www.chrisryanphd.com/

Expanding Mind - Magickal Cinema - 03/17/13

Thelema, initiation, and the magick of clowns: a talk with Antero Alli, director of the new "zany occult thriller" The Dream of Falling Upwards.

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Expanding Mind - Counterculture and Cyberculture - 03/10/13

Cybernetics, collaboration, and why Google likes Burning Man: a talk about the art and science of systems with historian Fred Turner, author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture. http://fredturner.stanford.edu/

Expanding Mind - Transhuman Fictions - 02/24/13

Brain tech, telepathic drugs, and ass-kicking Buddhists: a fascinating talk with Ramez Naam about his new transhumanist science fiction novel Nexus. http://rameznaam.com/

Expanding Mind - 02/17/13

Expanding Mind - Lovecraftian Magic - 02/10/13

Grimoires, H.P. Lovecraft, and the power of nightmare: a talk with ceremonial magician Donald Tyson, author of The Dream-World of H.P. Lovecraft and the Necronomicon Series from Llewellyn Publications.

Expanding Mind - Sexual Outlaw - 01/27/13

Belly dancing, spirit lovers, and the fascinating life of Victorian sex reformer (and mystic) Ida Craddock: a talk with Vere Chappell, author of Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic: the Essential Ida Craddock. www.sexualoutlaw.com