Humans On The Loop: Wisdom for an Age of Magical Technologies

This week we continue the special two-part conversation with historian, poet, and mythographer William Irwin Thompson.  Author of dozens of sweeping works of synthetic insight, Bill Thompson’s greatest work may not have been a book but a community:  The Lindisfarne Association , a post-academic “intellectual concert” for the “study and realization of a new planetary culture,” which anchored in var...

This week’s guest is one of my greatest inspirations: the historian, poet, and mythographer William Irwin Thompson. Author of sweeping works of synthetic insight like At The Edge of History (a finalist for the National Book Award in 1972), The American Replacement of Nature , and Coming Into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness , Bill Thompson’s greatest work may not have b...

This week’s guest is the visionary painter Hannah Faith Yata , whose riotous, ecstatic work explores and celebrates natural biodiversity, and exalts the repressed feminine – the beautiful and the grotesque, death and life in vivid color all at once. We talk about her new show “Dancing in Delirium,” the role and life of wilderness in the Anthropocene – weather control and fear porn (eerily prescien...

This week’s guest is Andrew J. O’Keefe II – documentarian, archivist for Singularity University, devoted recordist of the emergent planetary culture, and a dear old friend I met back in the Dawn of Time when he was working as the personal assistant to Android Jones.   http://www.andrewjokeefe.com/ https://www.facebook.com/andrewjokeefe https://twitter.com/andrewjokeefe?lang=en https://www.linkedin...

This week’s guest is Hunter Maats, host of the Mixed Mental Arts Podcast and co-author of The Straight-A Conspiracy. We talk about the future of education and human collaboration – moving past a world of routine factory-worker indoctrination and the “insane cargo cult” of the academic system, and into a new model for the transmission of knowledge that suits a truly planetary culture.   https://twi...

  This week’s guest is singer-songwriter and music therapist Marya Stark, whom I met at the Global Sound Conference in Los Angeles in 2008. We discuss the future of the feminine, relationships, and reproduction – and laugh a lot.   • Links http://marya-stark.com https://maryastark.bandcamp.com https://soundcloud.com/marya-stark https://www.facebook.com/maryastarkmusic   • Topics - Long Distance Re...

“You were a paleontologist, originally.  I’ve always considered myself a ‘paisley-ontologist.’  A paleontologist will excavate the soil in search of fossils and a paisley-ontologist will excavate the present for fossilized perceptions.  So I’m always looking for these kind of nuggets, linguistic impressions or etymological traces that lead us from the present into this sort of timelessness, or thi...

Support Future Fossils on Patreon Review Future Fossils on iTunes Review Future Fossils on Stitcher Join the Future Fossils Facebook Group This week is part 2 of our conversation with biohacking polyamorous geneticist and aspiring Australian politician Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow Meow, founder of Sydney’s Biofoundry. Get ready for a chat so crazy you’ll think it’s 1999…we spend about 20 minutes arg...

Review Future Fossils on iTunes Review Future Fossils on Stitcher Join the Future Fossils Facebook Group This week’s guest is Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow Meow, founder of Sydney’s Biofoundry whom I met at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Innovation Lab in February. Meow is a modern trickster-wizard par excellence, entirely too smart for his own good, and he loves to argue – this is one of the m...

Subscribe to Future Fossils on iTunes Subscribe to Future Fossils on Stitcher Join the Future Fossils Facebook Group Support Future Fossils on Patreon This week we talk about what the oldest fossils in the world have to teach us about life’s origins and destiny with Tara Djokic of the University of New South Wales. Tara’s a geologist and astrobiologist whose team and work just appeared on the cove...

This week's episode is brought to you by Visionary Magnets , the refrigerator poetry magnets that turn your boring old kitchen appliances into the substrate for woke invocations, tantric pillow talk, and other occult goofery. Support their Kickstarter and "enlighten your fridge" today! Or tomorrow.  Subscribe to Future Fossils on iTunes Subscribe to Future Fossils on Stitcher Join the Future Fossi...

Support Future Fossils on Patreon Subscribe to Future Fossils on iTunes Subscribe to Future Fossils on Stitcher Join the Future Fossils Facebook Group  “I think we’re at a real crossroads. I’m an old guy, I may not live to see a whole lot more of the changes that are undoubtedly going to happen, but I would sure like to. I try to be an optimist. I’d like to hope that through education and science...

“I would love to see a world where 100% of the people on this planet, and all the other beings, believe their life is WAY worth living. Not just kinda okay, even, but WAY worth living.” This week’s guest is Mitch Altman, a hacker and electronics scientist whose life is the stuff of legend (here's his Wikipedia entry ). Founder of Cornfield Electronics (“We Make Useful Electronics for a Better Worl...

New  essays ,  music , talks, and writing coming soon for my Patreon supporters!  Subscribe here  and get everything I do for free if you haven’t already… This week our guest is Becca Tarnas, whom I caught up with at the 2017 MAPS Psychedelic Science Conference in Oakland. Becca’s Website https://beccatarnas.com/about/ Archai Journal: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology http://www.archai.org/ “Eve...

(New  essays ,  music , talks, and writing coming soon for my Patreon supporters! Subscribe here and get everything I do for free if you haven’t already…) This week we chat with Sara Huntley – Dancer, Graphic Novelist, Tattoo Artist, Clown, and Psychedelic Futurist. Buckle Up! Sara’s Website: http://sarahuntley.weebly.com/ Sara on FB: https://www.facebook.com/huntley.sara A conversation on New Med...

(New essays , music , coloring book pages, and recorded talks coming soon for my supporters! Sign up on Patreon  if you haven't already...) “You cannot change the present system. This thing is dying, it’s structurally unsustainable. And so to try to somehow fix the present system is just a waste of time. Don’t waste your time on the present system. We have to start working on building the new worl...

This week I sit down with Rak Razam and Niles Heckman – psychonauts, journalists, provocateurs, and the film-makers responsible for Shamans of the Global Village . http://www.shamansoftheglobalvillage.com/ In a conversation too full of awesome neologisms, delightful turns of phrase, one-liners, and weird genius for me to convey it all, we talk about the role of creative media in helping usher in n...

Help crowd-sponsor Future Fossils Podcast on Patreon  and score subscriber-only perks and exclusive extra content! This week we chat with science journalist Jessa Gamble, author of The Siesta and The Midnight Sun: How Our Bodies Experience Time , about time in the body, circadian rhythms, lunar cycles, and the science of sleep. – Topics We Discuss: • Cultural dimensions of human communities at dif...

This week we're joined by Daniel Rozenberg aka DADARA for a thoughtful discussion about Art in Virtual Realities, Information Overload, and Flow States. The creator of Exchangibition Bank, Like4Real, and the upcoming Solipmission installation at Burning Man, as well as countless concert posters and album covers, DADARA has been one of my favorite artists for a while - in no small part because of h...

This week we chat with Daniel Zen, former Google engineer, technology instructor at zen.digital , NYC Regional Coordinator for Burning Man, coordinator for the Angular.js NYC Meetup, and general high-tech wizard.   https://zen.digital/ https://twitter.com/danielzen https://medium.com/@danielzen https://github.com/danielzen   Some of the topics we discuss: • The curses – and blessings! – of runaway...

We’re switching it up this week to present my recent talk on psychedelic futurism at the first weekly meeting of the Australian Psychedelic Society (Fitzroy Beer Garden, Melbourne, Victoria). The Chinese have a curse: “May you live in interesting times.” The Irish have a toast: “May you be alive at the end of the world” I’m more Irish than Chinese, and I know this because even though we’re living...

This week’s guest is travel guide Simon Yugler – named one of Open World Magazine’s “Top 30 Adventurers Under 30,” Simon facilitates initiatory experiences as the leader of experiential education journeys for young adults. http://travel-alchemy.com Here’s Simon talking to UpliftConnect about the difference between “wanting to help” and “wanting to be of service”: https://youtu.be/JzIwXy4l4lY   - “...

This week’s guest is the artist, gallery owner, podcaster, web designer, and musician Aunia Kahn! Among her many notable achievements, she curates Alexi Era Gallery in Oregon, hosted the Create & Inspire Podcast, and survived eleven years housebound with disability to emerge more creative, passionate, and powerful than before. http://auniakahn.com http://alexieragallery.com In one of this podc...

This week, we spend some time with Joanna Harcourt-Smith, "Swiss-born British socialite," host of the Future Primitive Podcast, and author of Tripping the Bardo with Timothy Leary: My Psychedelic Love Story. Michael on Joanna’s 500+ Episode Podcast: http://www.futureprimitive.org/2016/11/the-crossroads-of-the-unexpected/ Check out her archives. They’re amazing. "God IS A Sense of Humor" "Know That...

This week's guest is the delightful and insightful Susan Molnar! http://susanmolnar.com “Everything can be broken. But also, everything can be built. And sometimes, breaking it and then rebuilding it makes it even cooler.” Tech & Maker Education for Children Google Policy Fellow for American Association for People with Disabilities Leukemia Survivor We Laugh A Lot (Where does my body end and s...