Expanding Mind

Progressiveradionetwork.com presents Expanding Mind with Erik Davis. He explores the culture of consciousness: magic, spirituality, psychology, technology.

https://expandingmind.podbean.com

Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 57m. Bisher sind 341 Folge(n) erschienen. Dieser Podcast erscheint wöchentlich.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 13 days 11 hours 59 minutes

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episode 159: Expanding Mind – Summer Pause


 Erik reflects on a decade of podcasting, the learning curves of the show, the work of conversation, the uncanniness of our moment.  


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 June 20, 2019  58m
 
 

episode 158: Expanding Mind – Liminal Mind


A conversation with my wife Jennifer Dumpert about collaborative dreaming, iPad skrying, meditation, play, the problem with interpretation, and her new bookLiminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep (North Atlantic).   


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 June 13, 2019  57m
 
 

episode 157: Expanding Mind – Deconstructing Yourself


A discussion with meditation teacher and author Michael Taft  about hardcore dharma, Buddhist modernism, shop talk, the soup of the sangha, and the problem of the achievement self and the blind leading the blind.  


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 June 6, 2019  58m
 
 

episode 156: Expanding Mind – Queering Psychedelia


An informative chat with psychedelic researcher Dr. Alexander Belser about qualitative research, the Mystical Experience Questionnaire, queer spiritualities, and the idea of coming “out of the psychedelic closet.”


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 May 23, 2019  57m
 
 

episode 155: Expanding Mind – Sacred Matter


A conversation with philosopher of religion Mary-Jane Rubenstein about wonder, horror, animism, the multiverse, Heidegger, Einstein, Hawaiian telescopes, and her book Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (Columbia).  


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 May 16, 2019  58m
 
 

episode 154: Expanding Mind – Patterns of Transformation


A talk with experience designer Ida Benedetto about transformative games, trespassing, rules for sex parties, active introversion, magic circles, funerals, and queer spirituality.   


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 May 2, 2019  57m
 
 

episode 153: Expanding Mind – Decriminalize Nature


Entheogenic and community activists Larry Norris and Kufikiri talk about decriminalizing entheogenic plant medicines within Oakland: blind spots, changing the narrative, and resisting “the metronome of programming."  


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 April 26, 2019  56m
 
 

episode 152: Expanding Mind – Feral Poetics


Poet Janaka Stucky talks about guerrilla poetry, burlesque horror, mystical language, shame, prophecy, and the strange DMT experiences that inspired his latest book, Ascend Ascend (Third Mind Books).


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 April 18, 2019  57m
 
 

episode 151: Expanding Mind – Meditation Apps


Science and technology researcher Rebecca Jablonsky talks about consciousness hacking, tech ethnography, information ecosystems, media fasts, and the ups and downs of outsourcing awareness.  


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 April 11, 2019  55m
 
 

episode 150: Expanding Mind – Ouija Board Poetics


Poet and literary scholar Stephen Yenser talks about James Merrill's poetic epic The Changing Light at Sandover (1982).   


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 April 4, 2019  57m