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Progressiveradionetwork.com presents Expanding Mind with Erik Davis. He explores the culture of consciousness: magic, spirituality, psychology, technology.
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Monday May 21, 2018
Monday May 21, 2018
A conversation with designer and snowboarder Sijay James about archaic revivals, neotribal design, mystic powder, flow, and falling with style.
Thursday May 10, 2018
Thursday May 10, 2018
A conversation with Scottish poet and novelist John Burnside about Henry Miller, the flight from society, sexual braggadocio, folk ballads, Taoism, and his arresting book On Henry Miller: or How to Be an Anarchist (Princeton).
Thursday May 03, 2018
Thursday May 03, 2018
A conversation with alt-lit novelist, poet, and artist Tao Lin, about Terence McKenna, feeling happy (or not), degenerate humans, writing trip reports, and his refreshing new non-fiction book Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change (Vintage).
Thursday Apr 26, 2018
Thursday Apr 26, 2018
A conversation with Ken Layne, the maestro of the Desert Oracle podcast and field guide, about Joshua trees, desert Christianity, Edward Abbey, military secrecy, and the mysterious (and smelly) Yucca Man of local legend.
Thursday Apr 19, 2018
Thursday Apr 19, 2018
A three-way idea fest with Marcus Boon and Gabriel Levine about art, discipline, self-care, crafting community, tikkun, and their rich and stimulating edited collection Practice (MIT Press).
Thursday Apr 12, 2018
Thursday Apr 12, 2018
A conversation with Brazilian anthropologist, conference programmer, and chacruna.net editor Bia Labate: peyote politics, the bureaucratization of psychedelics, and working with indigenous leaders. www.bialabate.net
Thursday Apr 05, 2018
Thursday Apr 05, 2018
A sprawling conversation with my interlocutor and old pal Ed Phillips (aka Faustroll on Twitter) about revery, misery, irony, and the ethics of being real. https://congruenz.wordpress.com/
Wednesday Mar 28, 2018
Wednesday Mar 28, 2018
A juicy chat with occultist Joe Max about punk-rock sorcery, Cthulhu invocations, intensity and fear, and the power of chaos magic in rave-era San Francisco.
Friday Mar 23, 2018
Friday Mar 23, 2018
A conversation with artist and independent scholar Bruce Rimell about psychedelic entities, evolution, and his new book They Shimmer Within: Cognitive-Evolutionary Perspectives on Visionary Beings.
Friday Mar 16, 2018
Friday Mar 16, 2018
A conversation with classics professor James Romm about mortality, Stoicism, the ambivalent freedom offered by suicide, and his new book of Seneca translations, How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life (Princeton).