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Rob Larson  discusses his book  Capitalism Vs. Freedom – The Toll Road to Serfdom For years, we’ve been taught that capitalism is good for freedom. Dominant right-wing commentators claim that markets free us, and this view still dominates education and politics. However, in Capitalism vs. Freedom, Larson puts big business under a microscope, debunking libertarian economics while demonstrating that...

Carl Abrahamsson discusses his book  Occulture – The Unseen Forces That Drive Culture Forward . Art, magic, and the occult have been intimately linked since our prehistoric ancestors created the first cave paintings some 50,000 years ago. As civilizations developed, these esoteric forces continued to drive culture forward, both visibly and behind the scenes, from the Hermetic ideas of the Renaissa...

Anthony Peake  discusses his book  Time and The Rose Garden: Encountering the Magical in the Life and Works of J.B. Priestley . This is a two-part interview. Part one is  here Active from the early 1900s almost until his death in 1984, English playwright and novelist John Boynton Priestly – when considered at all – is generally regarded as an old fashioned, outmoded relic of a bygone literary age....

Anthony Peake  discusses his book  Time and The Rose Garden: Encountering the Magical in the Life and Works of J.B. Priestley . This is a two-part interview. Part two is  here Active from the early 1900s almost until his death in 1984, English playwright and novelist John Boynton Priestly – when considered at all – is generally regarded as an old fashioned, outmoded relic of a bygone literary age....

Antonin Tuynman  discusses his book  Is Intelligence an Algorithm? , a wide-ranging exploration of the similarities and differences between human and artificial intelligence, and the potential for future advancement of both. Although human and machine intelligence share certain similarities, there are profound differences which pose significant problems for the development of an artificial intelli...

Thomas Sheridan  discusses his book  Sorcery – The Invocation of Strangeness . This is a two part interview. Part one is here . In the modern world, we no longer have time for magic, dismissing it as mere mumbo-jumbo from a less enlightened age. One might say, in fact, that the magic has gone out of our lives. Most of us, however, misunderstand just what magic is – a mechanism for manipulating the...

Thomas Sheridan  discusses his book  Sorcery – The Invocation of Strangeness . In the modern world, we no longer have time for magic, dismissing it as mere mumbo-jumbo from a less enlightened age. One might say, in fact, that the magic has gone out of our lives. Most of us, however, misunderstand just what magic is – a mechanism for manipulating the world around us, which through suppression and s...

Phil Escott  discusses the possible benefits and potential challenges of a carnivore diet. Although vegetarian and vegan diets have long been promoted as healthier alternatives to the carbohydrate and sugar saturated Western diet, in recent years much has been made of paleo, ketogenic, and similar low carb diets which attempt to emulate the eating patterns if not the entire lifestyle of our ancien...

James Howard Kunstler  discusses his book  The Geography of Nowhere – The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape . First published in 1994 but sadly more relevant than ever, The Geography of Nowhere traces America’s evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones, and the countrys...

Biologist, parapsychological researcher, and author of  The Science Delusion  Rupert Sheldrake discusses his latest book  Science and Spiritual Practices . In this pioneering work Sheldrake shows how science helps validate seven practices on which all religions are built, and which are part of our common human heritage: meditation, gratitude, connecting with nature, relating to plants, rituals, si...

Jim Elvidge discusses his book  The Universe – Solved! A New Provocative View of the True Nature of Reality . Have you ever felt that there is something strange about the world we live in? Something about reality that isn’t quite random, as it should be? Something a little too organized, a little too planned, a little too programmed? What if reality isn’t really what you think it is? What if our w...

John Michael Greer  discusses his book  The Retro Future – Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future . To most people paying attention to the collision between industrial society and the hard limits of a finite planet, it’s clear that things are going very, very wrong. We no longer have unlimited time and resources to deal with the economic and environmental crises that define our future, and the...

Gary Lachman  discusses his book  Beyond the Robot – The Life and Work of Colin Wilson . This is a three part interview. Part one is  here . Part two is  here . Colin Wilson was a literary and cultural rebel, and one of the most adventurous, hopeful, and least understood visionary intellects of the past century. Author of over a hundred books including the 1956 classic  The Outsider , Wilson purve...

Thomas Lombardo  discusses his book  Future Consciousness – The Path to Purposeful Evolution . How do we create a good future? This deceptively simple question is the central challenge of human life. Indeed, the question highlights the most distinctive and empowering capacity of the human mind – to consciously imagine and intentionally pursue preferable futures, a multi-faceted psychological abili...

Mark Olly discusses the novel  The Way of Wyrd – Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer . Written by psychologist and university professor Brian Bates and published in 1983, The Way of Wyrd is the story of Wat Brand, a Christian scribe sent on a mission deep into the forests of pagan Anglo-Saxon England where he finds his beliefs shaken to their core. With Wulf, a wizard, as his guide, Wat is instructed...

Penny Sartori  discusses her book  The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences – How the Messages of NDEs Positively Impact the World . A near-death experience – or NDE – is a profound psychological event that may occur to a person close to death or in extreme physical or emotional crisis. An NDE may begin with an out-of-body experience, possibly hovering nearby and watching events around t...

Ervin Laszlo  discusses his book  The Intelligence of the Cosmos: Why Are We Here? New Answers from the Frontiers of Science . For the outdated mainstream paradigm, the universe is a giant mechanism functioning in accordance with known and knowable laws, patterns, and regularities. But the new paradigm emerging in science offers a different concept – a universe as an interconnected, coherent whole...

Ivelin Sardamov  discusses his book  Mental Penguins – The Neverending Education Crisis and the False Promise of the Information Age . Sardamov draws on key findings in neuroscience to explain decreasing attention spans, a crisis of curiosity, and waning interest in and knowledge of complex social issues in the United States and around the world. Attributing this trend primarily to the effects of...

Gary Lachman  discusses his book  Beyond the Robot – The Life and Work of Colin Wilson . This is a three part interview. Part one is  here . Part three will be released shortly. Colin Wilson was a literary and cultural rebel, and one of the most adventurous, hopeful, and least understood visionary intellects of the past century. Author of over a hundred books including the 1956 classic  The Outsid...

Joanna Demers  discusses her books  Drone and Apocalypse  and  Anatomy of Thought Fiction . The idea of apocalypse is truly ancient. Although the word essentially translates as a revelation of knowledge, today the term is commonly used in reference to end-time scenarios or to the end of the world in general. Almost every culture and civilization has or has had its own apocalyptic tradition, often...

Gary Lachman  discusses his book  Beyond the Robot – The Life and Work of Colin Wilson . Colin Wilson was a literary and cultural rebel, and one of the most adventurous, hopeful, and least understood visionary intellects of the past century. Author of over a hundred books including the 1956 classic  The Outsider , Wilson purveyed a philosophy of mind power and human potential that made him arguabl...

’Have you ever thought that there must be a better way to live your life?’ In his 2014 book  The Handbook Of Urban Druidry – Modern Drudiry For All  and its 2016 follow-up  The Urban Ovate – The Handbook Of Psychological Druidry ,  Brendan Howlin  holds up a lens through which you and I, if we so choose, may reconsider the path that we are on. Distracted by rampant consumerism, browbeaten by scien...

Amit Goswami discusses  The Everything Answer Book: How Quantum Physics Explains Love, Death and the Meaning of Life . Goswami s basic premise is that quantum physics is not only the future of science, but also the key to understanding consciousness, life, death, God, and the meaning of life. Quantum physics offers an antidote to the moral sterility of scientific reductionism and mechanistic mater...

Phil Escott  and I ask ‘What is awakening?’ From the New Age movement to the 2012 phenomenon, and across the spectrum of belief that is contemporary spirituality, in recent decades there has been a lot of talk about awakening. But just what is it, and how do you get there? Exploring Eastern mysticism? Meditating on a mountaintop? Becoming a hermit, hiding in the woods? It could be any or all of th...

Courtney Brown  discusses the Farsight Institute’s recent remote viewing project  Roswell – Crash at Corona . This is a two part interview. Part one is  here . If you are unfamiliar with remote viewing we recommend that you first listen to our show  Remote Viewing, Consciousness, and Reality . In July 1947, an airborne object crashed at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico in the United States. Follow...