The Neverending Experiment

This difficult subject has come to media attention lately asthe government of Alberta has increased obstacles for disabled people. With a lifetime experiencing different levels of disability, I have learned more than I have wanted to about how negatively the average person can behave towards marginalized people.

Art has dominated most of my career but I've found manydifficulties at both becoming an artist and understanding the surrounding culture. As I come to the end of my podcast I wanted to share my thoughts on this important and underappreciated subject.

This episode is a brief overview of the New Age and spirituality,a field that I believe more people need to be more balanced about. Globalization has brought us every culture's spiritual traditions and it's melded into something creative and open.

Most people mistake epigenetics for environmental influencesbut they're not the same. I go through some introductory understanding about this subject and emphasize that there is so much more research that needs to be done.

One of the biggest reasons why people fight is because ofsimplistic thinking. I go through some of the things I've learned to avoid falling into mental and emotional traps that make difficult situations worse.

In this episode, I share an unusual story about dreaming andpsychedelics. There is so much more we can learn as a species if we shift our mentality to understand her mind's work and that includes researching and using entheogens.

It's easy to assume what random means; something that is unpredictable, but the reality is there are many kinds of random that are mathematically different from each other. Our pattern recognition as humans is perhaps not detailed enough for us to fully grasp what we are able to understand or predict.

Do you ever wonder why a lot of technology and services keepgetting worse? Although many things have seemed to improve in society, the fact is the profit motivation and the desire for growth continuously and slowly erode at our quality of life.

Humans are one of the few species that menstruate, but it'snot totally clear why that is. There is an intriguing theory about why we have evolved menstruation that connects us to our ancient past and the knowledge that we may have lost.

Today there are thousands of self tests from market researchto psychological diagnosis to silly pop culture characters. What is the purpose of these and how do they fit in to really understanding ourselves? Perhaps we're all a little bit deluded about what our personalities really are.

As I begin planning this year's garden, I look at what my focus is with plants: food and medicine, native plants and staying organic despite the pressure from corporate interests.

In this episode, I talk about some of the issues with the economy that hinder us from having a good quality of life. It's clear that we need change, but how do we implement it collectively?

People have a lot of strong feelings about gender roles, identity and sexuality. I give my 2 cents about my own issues with gender and how I think we need to get smarter about the direction we've been headed over the last decade or so. I also give an update on the tarot card reading I did last year.

In this episode I give an overview of an area of research that I've been focused on for many years: overpopulation, including a few misconceptions around it.

Colonialism is an overwhelming force in our cultures andspecies, and I go over some of the aspects of it that get overlooked as many of us try to decolonize in different ways.

People often disagree because they don't have the same values, and they place significance on different things. I take a look at the fundamental differences in perspective that hold people back from understanding each other.

Why doomers are probably right and not as pessimistic as youmight think. The signs of collapse are everywhere if you recognize them.

My contribution to the growing discussions on bringing backwhat's best about matriarchy to create an egalitarian society.

In my first episode of Season 2 I talk about the summer of landscaping and my idea for next year to start a gardening, permaculture and landscape design company.

It can be great when privileged people share but there is adark side to charity when it's used to manipulate others. The final episode of the season goes over do-goodery and when it goes bad.

The words we use are constantly getting changed but are they actually improving and were the old words actually offensive? Maybe we need to look at what words mean instead of how they are perceived.

Technophilia is the subject I keep bringing up because ithas infiltrated every part of our lives. I realized it is connected to something much older that has led us down a dark path.

How do you know what to believe when you read the news? You can't know, but learning more and using doubt can help you navigate the confusing mess of misinformation and information in the media.

In this podcast I discuss some of what I learned from writing my book, especially about cognitive dissonance and how much it happens, specifically in science and ethics.

In this episode I discuss some of the major world religions and their connection to patriarchal history. I also make a distinction between spirituality, culture and religion.