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Humans On The LoopThe Architecture of The Next Creative Economy with Michael DeanThis week’s guest is the singular Michael Dean, who graduated from architecture school and played in a band before spending years in tech working on virtual reality, only to metamorphose into one of the best essayists I’ve ever read. With support from Humans On The Loop supporters O’Shaughnessy Ventures and Cosmos Institute, Dean is now decoding the structure of great essays and translating his framework into both a textbook and an AI-powered editing tool.In this conversation, we explore how to cultivate human agency at the frontiers where physical reality and the metaverse fold into o...2025-05-031h 24
Humans On The LoopThe Art & Technology of Conversation with Robert Poynton“When I have a rich, powerful, mind expanding, mind bending conversation like this, I'll need to go and lie down in darkened room afterwards.”– Robert PoyntonThis week’s guest is my friend and inspiration Robert Poynton, Founder of Yellow Learning, Associate Fellow at the Saïd Business School at Oxford, and author of three beautiful short books — Do Pause, Do Improvise, and Do Conversation — full of his insights from decades of designing and leading Executive Education leadership programs and hosting creative retreats in Spain.In Future Fossils Episode 196 Robert and I discussed how important it is to lear...2025-04-231h 26
Emerson Dameron's Medicated Minutes[BONUS] Michael Garfield: "How Screwed Are We?"The brilliant and generous Michael Garfield took the time to chat on the phone about many subjects relatively quickly. Slices of this conversation can be heard in S5E11: Whispers of the Infinite: Uncover Your Core Motivation. This bonus mini-episode includes just those slices... because it's Thanksgiving.Paleontologist-Futurist Michael Garfield helps "Rewild the Singularity" – restoring soul to the philosophy of technology, midwifing new myths for transition, and helping cultivate the curiosity and play we'll need to thrive in our accelerating age.Emerson Dameron's Medicated Minutes is...2024-11-1511 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: TAWA Auto Round Up Recap #1Every Spring I get the opportunity to test drive a slew of new cars, CUVs, SUVs, and more at the Texas Auto Writers Association Auto Round Up. Think of it as Coachella for vehicles.
Manufacturers bring some of the newest rides as TAWA members buckle up for two days of tire kicking and pedal pushing. This year's event was held in Decatur, Texas, at Eagle Canyon Raceway which meant we would get the chance to open up a few of these hot rods while also playing around on streets and highways.
Over the next few...2024-04-3008 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2024 Ram 1500 LimitedFull-size pickup truck are the best-selling vehicles in the U.S. so it is no surprise I test drive a lot of trucks, especially because I live in Texas "truck country."
Ram has most always delivered capable monsters with big engines, lots of towing capacity, and comfy interiors. The 1500 Limited edition follows the script by providing all of that.
Listen to my review here as heard on "The High-Tech Texan Show w/Michael Garfield." KPRC 950AM (Houston), iHeartRadio (worldwide)2024-04-1012 min
Humans On The Loop🎋🔬🕸️ 218 - Neil Theise on Complexity & NondualityI’m honored to share a profound and soulful conversation on science and spirituality with Neil Theise, professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, discoverer of a new human organ (the interstitium), lifelong Zen meditator, and author of the superb book, Notes on Complexity. ✨ Mentioned & Related Links:Embodied Ethics in The Age of AIComplexity, Culture & Consciousness - a Minds.com panel discussion with Neil Theise, Erik Davis, Michael Garfield, Richard Doyle, and Mitch Mignano hosted by Bill OttmanThe Golden Oecumene (trilogy)by John C. WrightThe End of Burnout by Jonathan MalesicTom Morgan - Wh...2024-04-031h 26
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2024 Yukon Denali UltimateA lot of superlatives here on the latest GMC Yukon with "Denali" and "Ultimate" as upgrades. There's really not much to add on this glorious beast of a vehicle that can fit up to 8 people.
As heard on "The High-Tech Texan Show with Michael Garfield," KPRC 950AM (Houston) and iHeartRadio (worldwide).
2024-03-1209 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2024 Cadillac XT4 SportWhen you think of Cadillac you may associate the brand with luxury, elegance, and price. You are correct on two of those, at least with the XT4.
This is the lowest-priced Caddy in the lineup and the compact CUV is packed with nice features including a futurist 33" display capable of 9K viewing.
As heard on "The High-Tech Texan Show with Michael Garfield," KPRC 950AM (Houston) and iHeartRadio (worldwide).
2024-02-2506 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2024 GMC Sierra 2500 AT4XYou want to drive a BIG BOY truck? I mean a massive truck that can haul a small home? Oh, make sure it's luxurious, too.
Listen to my review of the GMC Sierra 2500 ATX. Made for comfort. Full of luxury. Ready to off-road.
As heard on "The High-Tech Texan Show with Michael Garfield," KPRC 950AM (Houston) and iHeartRadio (worldwide).2024-02-1807 min
Humans On The Loop👁️🔄📀 214 - J.F. Martel, Phil Ford, & Megan Phipps on Weird Cybernetics: Waking Up From The Ecstasy✨ Subscribe and review at Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. Unborn archaeologists thank you!Merry Christmas, Future Fossils! This is Michael Garfield welcoming you to episode 214 of the podcast that explores our place in time — and as demonstrated in the Dr. Who and Aliens franchises, Blade Runner 2049, and Batman Returns, Christmas is a fruitful backdrop for the pondering of big ideas — a moment in which we can see with greater clarity than usual the unity of everyday mundane humanity and transcendental cosmic matters. In other words, perfect timing for this episode’s conversation about cybernetics and the philosophy of the weird w...2023-12-251h 20
Humans On The Loop🕸️⛩️💻 213 - Amber Case & Michael Zargham on Entangled Technologies & Design As Governance✨ Subscribe and review at Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. Unborn archaeologists thank you!This week I speak with two of the most thoughtful people I know in tech, cyborg anthropologist Amber Case and systems engineer Michael Zargham (Founder & CEO of BlockScience) — who work together on tools for building trust between tech users and tech companies at the Superset DAO and each contribute diverse value to society through myriad creative projects in their own right (like Amber’s totally fabulous music group Glo Torch!). Thanks to the generous invitation of Regen Foundation CEO Gregory Landua, I met Amber and Michae...2023-12-011h 11
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2024 Jeep Wrangler RubiconI've been test driving Jeeps (and almost every other brand of vehicles) for over 15 years. I seriously think the new Wrangler Rubicon is the best Jeep I've ever driven,
Wow. Tall. Capable. Comfy. Techy. Fun. I could go on but you should just hear the rest.
Take a listen to my review as heard on "The High-Tech Texan Show with Michael Garfield," via KPRC 950AM (Houston) and iHeartRadio (worldwide).2023-09-1308 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2023 Mazda Miata MX-5 RFThe Mazda Miata is one of the most iconic sports cars and the newest version - complete with an automatic hard top - continues the tradition of a fun vehicle. It's not the largest car on the road but it definitely puts a smile on your face if you can fit behind the wheel.
Take a listen to my review as heard on "The High-Tech Texan Show with Michael Garfield," via KPRC 950AM (Houston) and iHeartRadio (worldwide).
2023-09-0509 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2023 Lexus NX 350hWith the cost of gas on the rise now may be a good time to consider an EV or at least a hybrid. Though they may be a bit higher in price they often save money in the long run if you factor in fuel savings.
The Lexus NX 350h is a hybrid that can get you some good gas mileage (or gas mileage equivalent) along with a comfy ride, wrapped up in a sexy 4-door compact SUV.
Take a listen to my review as heard on "The High-Tech Texan Show with Michael Garfield," via...2023-09-0510 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2024 Kia Seltos SX TurboIf you're looking for a smaller SUV that handles well at a decent price, you definitely need to consider the Kia Seltos. Though not as large at the Telluride, this 4-door ride packs a good punch under the hood along with nice interior features.
Listen hear for my review as heard on "The High-Tech Texan Show with Michael Garfield" via iHeartRadio and KPRC 950AM.2023-09-0306 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2024 Buick Encore GX AvenirIt's a small CUV yet the new Buick Encore packs a good punch with its 1.3 L turbo engine while putting out a max of 155 hp. The upgraded Avenir packages adds several fine, finishing touches like leather seating and premium audio. And did you notice the new Buick logo?
Listen to my full review here as heard on "The High-Tech Texan Show with Michael Garfield" on KPRC 950AM (Houston) and iHeartRadio (wordlwide).2023-08-2308 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2023 Toyota Tundra TRD ProWe like trucks. No, we love trucks. Especially Texas-built trucks. That's a small list but the Toyota Tundra fits that bill. The Tundra has always been a solid truck and when you upgrade it to a TRD Pro, well then you have one mighty off-road vehicle.
Take a listen to my review as heard on "The High-Tech Texan Show with Michael Garfield," via KPRC 950AM (Houston) and iHeartRadio (worldwide).2023-08-1709 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2024 Alfa Romeo TonaleAlfa Romeo is a renowned brand worldwide and synonymous with luxury and racing. The iconic Italian automaker is now making its way into the 21st century with its first electrified car, the Tonale.
The 1.3L turbo I-4 engine is paired with a 90Kw motor which allows around 30 miles of sole electric change after charging (yes, it's a PHEV).
Take a listen to my review as heard on "The High-Tech Texan Show with Michael Garfield," via KPRC 950AM (Houston) and iHeartRadio (worldwide).
2023-08-1608 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2023 Hyundai Santa Fe HybridIt's been a minute since I've been in a Hyundai and it's about damn time. The Santa Fe is a great SUV if you are looking for a 2 row beast with pretty decent gas mileage.
I like the interior and some of the unique tech features like the turn blinker cameras.
Listen to my full review as heard on "The High-Tech Texan Show with Michael Garfield." KPRC 950AM (Houston), iHeartRadio (worldwide).2023-08-0811 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2023 Nissan Ariya Empower+Nissan has long been in the EV game with the Leaf that was introduced back in 2010. It took them a while to launch another EV and BOOM, the all-electric Ariya is here.
I got a chance to drive it recently. Listen to my thoughts and reviews here as heard on "The High-Tech Texan Show with Michael Garfield." iHeartRadio and KPRC 950AM2023-08-0108 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2023 Nissan KicksI remember going to the launch of the first iteration of this small SUV back in 2018. The Kicks replaced the Nissan Juke and has remained an inexpensive, if not fun, option for a subcompact 5-seater.
The relatively small engine (1.6L) puts out 122hp which is enough to get you up to speed on highways and in the city. It remains a very good value and fuel efficient vehicle.
Listen to my full review here as heard on "The High-Tech Texan Show with Michael Garfield" on KPRC 950AM and iHeartRadio.2023-05-0610 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2023 Nissan Armada PlatinumI have always said Nissan's large SUV is, dollar-for-dollar, one of the best values when it comes to a luxury 7 or 8 passenger vehicle. The 2023 version of the Armada is no different.
The creature comforts are still here with a lovely, comfy, and large interior. A V8 engine gives it some good pickup and it looks sharp riding on 22" wheels. An optional rear seat entertainment gives the kids something to do on long rides and it can stow a lot of gear when all the seats are folded down.
Listen to my full review here as...2023-04-2811 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2023 Kia Telluride SX-Prestige X-ProThe name of this SUV is mouthful but this is the top-of-the-line trim in the newest versions of the venerable Telluride badge. The X-Pro adds some interesting features to help with off-road driving like 18" wheels and all-terrain tires, increased towing capacity, and self-leveling rear suspension.
Kia continues to innovate with bells-and-whistles inside their vehicles, especially when it comes to safety. Every car and truck should come with blind spot camera views that pop-up on the instrument display when the turn signal comes on, right?
The Telluride can be configured for 7 or 8 passengers and is one...2023-04-0307 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2023 Nissan ZKiss the Nissan 370Z goodbye and say hello to the Z. Nissan shortened the name of this model but upgraded the sexy looks and speed of its iconic 2-door sports car.
The peppy 3L twin-turbocharged engine gives it a zippy 400hp. There is not a lot of room in this low-hung vehicle but if you want to impress one passenger with some speed and snazzy appeal this could be the car for you.
Listen to my full review here as heard on "The High-Tech Texan Show with Michael Garfield on KPRC 950AM and iHeartRadio.2023-04-0109 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2023 Yukon Denali UltimateJust when you thought the Yukon may have the ultimate SUV, GMC comes out with an actual Ultimate upgrade. The 2023 Denali Ultimate packs almost every single upgrade you can get on this vehicle. Thought the gas mileage may not the best in the category it is hard to beat the smooth ride and luxurious interior.
Listen to my full review here. As heard on "The High-Tech Texan Show w/Michael Garfield" on KPRC 950AM (Houston) and iHeartRadio (worldwide).2023-02-2510 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2022 Ram 1500 TRXWow. Yep. I said it (or actually typed it). This is a SUPER TRUCK. The Ram folks apparently put a Viagra in the fuel tank of a 1500 truck and produced the TRX model. Almost everything you want and need in a vehicle that can take you most anywhere off-road with its 702-hp engine.
It sits 8" wider than a normal Ram 1500 (hence my Viagra comment) and rides smooth on Bilstein shocks. Gas mileage isn't great but sometimes you have to ask "who cares?" and keep on trucking while turning heads.
For a full review of this bad...2023-02-0207 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2023 GMC Sierra 150 Denali UltimateLooking for a BIG, LUXURIOUS pickup truck? Well I have a strong recommendation for you with the Sierra Denali Ultimate. This beast packs almost every upgrade imaginable and it drives incredibly smooth.
Take a listen to my full review here. As heard on "The High-Tech Texan Show w/Michael Garfield" on KPRC 950AM (Houston) and iHeartRadio (worldwide).2023-01-3109 min
Humans On The Loop192 - My Cataract: An Initiation 👁✨This week I go solo and get reflective on age, noise, loss, mystery, stars and angels, dreams and seasons, modern science and the retrieval of magic...Read the ✨ EXTENSIVE ✨ show notes, and join the Future Fossils community, at Patreon. cataract (n.) early 15c., "a waterfall, floodgate, furious rush of water," from Latin cataracta "waterfall," from Greek katarhaktes "waterfall, broken water; a kind of portcullis," noun use of an adjective compound meaning "swooping, down-rushing," from kata "down" (see cata-). The second element is traced either to arhattein "to strike hard" (in which case the compou...2022-09-2751 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2022 Kia EV6Right now the Kia EV6 is at or near the very top of my favorite EV list. Just an all-around cool, great, quick, and smooth SUV that has a unique look, great features, and an impressive mileage range.
Take a listen to my review. Courtesy "The High-Tech Texan Show with Michael Garfield" radio program and podcast. KPRC 950AM/iHeartRadio2022-05-3105 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2022 Ram 2500 CrewBig. BIG. Easiest way to describe the Ram 2500 pickup truck. This 3/4 ton behemoth is capable of towing 20,000 pounds yet the diesel engine is quiet and it is easy to handle.
Listen to my full review here courtesy of "The High-Tech Texan Show w/Michael Garfield," via iHeartRadio.2022-03-1507 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee SummitJeep continues to roll out first-class vehicles and the new Grand Cherokee is no exception. A lower profile and less-angled look make it look like a lean, mean, driving machine that can climb over most anything under the wheels, especially the rugged Summit trim.
Listen to my review here as heard on "The High-Tech Texan Show w/Michael Garfield," via iHeartRadio.2022-02-2408 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2022 Ram Limited CrewTexas loves trucks and RAM continues to produce great models and trims. The 10th Anniversary 2022 Limited Crew impressed me with its smooth ride, plush interior and unique tailgate.
Take a listen to my full review here courtesy of "The High-Tech Texan Show with Michael Garfield" on iHearRadio.2022-02-0411 min
The High-Tech TexanAuto Review: 2022 Jeep WagoneerAfter 30+ years the Wagoneer name is back on a Jeep. I played with the new SUV and it is a solid (class-leading?) choice for hauling people (up to 8), cargo, and towing.
Hear my thoughts and review here via "The High-Tech Texan Show with Michael Garfield" on iHeartRadio.
2022-01-3109 min
Humans On The Loop179 - Scout-Lieder Wiley on Transrational Oracles & Magical Thinking in The 21st Century This week on Future Fossils, metamodern magick ritual artist, yogini, songwriter, and delicious weirdo Scout-Lieder Wiley and I ask: “How are you supposed to repair the darkness if you don’t own the darkness?” And we have much fun and profound exploration besides, into the performance of expertise, the virtue of naïveté, integral theory without the jargon, being unfinished, speaking the unspeakable, heyoka medicine, astrology, the enneagram, the tarot, hermes the scientist versus hermes the communicator, the “flaveregore”, a speculative science dao that can and will fund taboo research, how the street finds its own uses for things, t...2021-12-181h 52
Humans On The Loop178 - Chris Ryan on Exhuming The Human from Our Eldritch InstitutionsThe longest-incubated episode of Future Fossils ever! "Vanthropologist" Chris Ryan and I discuss his book, Civilized To Death: The Price of Progress, and the conflict between human beings and our institutions. What is the bright side of collapse? What syntheses of wilderness and culture can we foster in the years to come? This was a blast...✨ Housekeeping• If you want to see these conversations thrive, support Future Fossils on Patreon and please leave a good review on Apple Podcasts! As a patron you get extra podcasts each month, book club calls, and early access to new wr...2021-12-021h 15
Humans On The Loop171 - Eric Wargo on Precognitive Dreamwork and The Philosophy of Time TravelThis week we welcome back anthropologist and science writer Eric Wargo, for a conversation about his book Precognitive Dreamwork and The Long Self — as well as: how tautology (not paradox) rules a time travel universe, what it means to become a time-faring species, the future of precognitive technologies, the concern of a quantum computing financial singularity, why lying to yourself about your own future-sight might be of evolutionary benefit, why retrocausalists don’t believe in randomness, how culture is a tesseract and dreams are future fossils, the controversy of divinatory astrology, and how pre-shocks of future traumas explain some of th...2021-07-281h 46
Greater Than Code234: Civil Society and Community Relationships with Michael Garfield02:13 - Michael’s Superpower: Being Able to Creatively Digest and Reconstruct Categories
Integral Theory
Creative Deconstruction – Michael Schwartz
Creating Truly Novel Categories – Recognizing Novelty as Novelty
09:39 - Recognizing Economic Value of Talents & Abilities
Invisible Labor
Ecosystem Services
Biodiversity; The Diversity Bonus by Scott Page
18:49 - The Edge of Chaos; Chaos Theory
“Life exists at the edge of chaos.”
23:23 - Reproducibility Crisis and Context-Dependent Insight
28:49 - What constitutes a scientific experiment?
Missed Externalities
Scholarly articles for Michelle Girvan "reservoir computing"
Non-conformity
38:03 - The Return of Civil Society and Community Relationships; Scale Theo...2021-05-121h 01
The High-Tech TexanOne-on-One with author Jane Marshall Goodsill: Voices of Hawai'i - Life Stories from the Generation that Shaped the Aloha StateDone in typical Michael Garfield style, he sits down with Ms. Goodsill to talk about her new book with a unique perspective on Hawaii. It's not so much focused on stereotypical icons of the Aloha State such as Don Ho, Hawaii 5-0, or Magnum P.I, but rather individual conversations with important voices from the island.2021-03-1517 min
THIRD EYE DROPSMind Meld 239 | Profound Play with Michael Garfield Evolution, The Trickster, CryptocurrencyGet dozens of podcast extras and join a blooming community of wonder-dippers on patreon. Artist, podcaster, and novelty-wielder, Michael Garfield, returns to the mind meld for a sprawling rap on the profundity of play, evolution, the trickster archetype, cryptocurrency, the underrated importance of chewing your food thoroughly, and more! For show notes and more mind melds -- thirdeyedrops.com2021-01-281h 29
Humans On The Loop159 - Michael Dowd on Post Doom: Life After Accepting Climate Catastrophe2021 comes in hot with Michael Dowd, ecumenical Christian preacher turned climate grief advocate, whose Post Doom Conversations are a well of wisdom for anyone prepared to stop fighting the inevitable* and start celebrating what actually can be done in these weird, scary, precious years to come. We discuss his time as an evolutionary biology evangelist and his friction with techno-optimists, what it means to live sustainably within a mature religion of place, urban scaling and collective action problems, a general theory for the collapse of market-based civilizations, and how to reorient one’s faith to planetary and secular values th...2021-01-061h 35
Humans On The Loop155 - Michael Morgenstern on Fictions as Weapons and 21st Century Media LiteracyThis week I chat with film-maker Michael Morgenstern about his latest transmedia project, I Dared My Best Friend To Ruin My Life, which takes young adults down a mind-bending and immersive narrative vortex about weaponized synthetic media to teach vital 21st Century literacies and the society-threatening implications of #deepfakes.While I’ve been speculating on the ominous (albeit numinous) social and psychological consequences of deepfakes since my 2017 sci-fi short “An Oral History of The End of ‘Reality’” and discussed the more hopeful possibilities in last week's episode with Stephanie Lepp, this conversation takes the futurist speculation to a whole...2020-10-201h 06
Humans On The Loop149 - Cultural Somatics & Ritual as Justice with Tada Hozumi, Dare Sohei, and Naomi Most“A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having. If there won't be dancing at the revolution, I'm not coming.”– Emma GoldmanStrap in for what might be the best Future Fossils episode yet: a four-way with guests Tada Hozumi and Dare Sohei of the Ritual as Justice School and guest co-host Naomi Most, in which we discuss how trauma manifests in posture and social interactions, how cultures are bodies we participate in, how the individual does not exist as we were taught, how interpersonal and sociopolitical dynamics shape and are shaped by their histories, h...2020-08-082h 09
Humans On The Loop148 - Sahana Chattopadhyay on Community, Leadership, and Befriending UncertaintyThis week we sit for a soulful chat with speaker, writer, and organizational development expert Sahana Chattopadhyay of Mumbai to discuss her essays “The Power of Communities in Uncertain Times” (Part 1, Part 2) and “Befriending Uncertainty in a Post-COVID World.”Follow Sahana on Twitter & LinkedIn.If you believe in the value of this show and want to see it thrive, support Future Fossils on Patreon for over nearly twenty secret episodes, our book club calls and recordings, and much more.Theme Music: “God Detector” by Evan “Skytree” Snyder (feat. Michael Garfield) Get bonus con...2020-07-231h 24
Humans On The Loop146 - Raising Earth Consciousness with Ralph Metzner, Dennis McKenna, Gay Dillingham, Valerie Plame Wilson, Allan Badiner, and Michael Garfield at Synergia Ranch, April 2016Where do I even start explaining this week's episode? Probably with a vignette: someone came up to me after I was on this all-star panel discussion featuring five living legends — psychedelic researchers Ralph Metzner and Dennis McKenna, author Allan Badiner, film-maker Gay Dillingham, and former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson — and asked me who I was and what I was doing there. I was the youngest person on stage by twenty years, and had done nothing with my life yet that put me in the same weight class as any of them. And yet there I was to offer my sy...2020-06-2557 min
The Atlas ProjectEpisode 34: Corona and Complex Systems, with Michael GarfieldIn this episode we talk about complex systems and the Corona virus with Michael Garfield. Michael is host of the Future Fossils podcast and the social media strategist and podcast producer for the Santa Fe Institute. He recently wrote a piece entitled "We Will Fight Diseases of Our Networks By Realizing We Are Networks."
You can find the piece here: https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield/we-will-fight-diseases-of-our-networks-by-realizing-we-are-networks-7fa1e1c24444.Special Guest: Michael Garfield .2020-06-121h 02
Humans On The Loop145 - Weaving A New Prehistory to Rewild The Future - Michael Garfield at Earth Frequency Festival 2017"We are living through a health crisis, an economic crisis, a racial crisis, and a democratic crisis. Each would be historic on their own. All of them are connected. That they have struck together in this way just might be what compels our transformation."– Anand GiridharadasThis week’s episode is over three years in the making: my talk from Earth Frequency Festival 2017, about a revised narrative of prehistory from which we can grow new myths better suited for our times. I almost didn’t post this episode at all, even after nearly two full da...2020-06-062h 18
Humans On The Loop144 - On Dinosaurs & Holy Wars: Creationist Amusement Parks & America's Strange Relationship with Science, with Monica Long Ross & Clayton BrownThis week I talk with film-makers Monica Long Ross and Clayton Brown about their bizarre and wonderful documentary, We Believe in Dinosaurs — and how a creationist amusement park in Kentucky provides a lens through which to examine the tense relationship between science, religion, and business in America. This is a conversation about what happens when premodern, modern, and postmodern worldviews duke it out on a landscape of rapid change for which none of them are sufficient. It’s about the surreal Young Earth dinosaur museums of Late Capitalism, but more, it is about our trust (or lack of trust) and w...2020-05-191h 17
Humans On The Loop143 - Sanjay Rawal on Endurance Running as an Integral YogaThis week I talk to documentary film-maker Sanjay Rawal about his profound and inspiring movie, 3100: Run and Become — which explores the spiritual practice of long-distance running around the world, from the American Southwest, to the Kalahari Desert, to a remote mountain monastery in Japan. We discuss how Sri Chinmoy (a student of Sri Aurobindo, the founder of integral yoga), started the 3100 mile race in New York, and what it has become; how to be a documentary film-maker without engaging in cultural appropriation; endurance running as an integral yoga and an act of spiritual service; exertion as its own reward; and...2020-05-051h 12
Humans On The Loop142 - Alex Shakar on Stories from The World AfterThis week I get to talk to one of my favorite fiction authors, Alex Shakar, about the profound darkbright bizarritude he channels through his two visionary satirical novels The Savage Girl and Luminarium — two works that show the möbius strip of sacred and profane, futurity and timelessness. We bounce off a long list of paradoxical domains, including saving the world with consumerism, metamodernism, ironic religion, virtuality, neurotheology, trauma and radical meaninglessness, the military entertainment complex, hikikomori, and zen comedy…Alex Shakar’s Website.Support this show on Patreon for secret episodes, the Future...2020-04-251h 04
Humans On The Loop141 - Nora Bateson on Warm Data vs. The Cold Equations“The way we discuss what needs to be done now will shape what it is possible to do. This is not a moment to fix a machine, this is a moment to compose new cultures.”This week’s guest is Nora Bateson, Director of the International Bateson Institute, author, film-maker, and founder of the Warm Data Lab. Nora is a magician when it comes to getting people to live the relational and dynamic, the embodied and incompressible. If you’re a podcast enthusiast you’ve probably already bolted a bracing dose of her warm wisdom on shows like T...2020-04-0759 min
Humans On The Loop140 - Pandemic Perspectives with Erik Davis, Tony Blake, and Mitch MignanoWe’re extra lucky to have not one but three amazing guests this week: culture critic and religious scholar Erik Davis, philosopher and author Tony Blake, and trickster historian Mitch Mignano.We planned to have a completely different conversation but due to the overbearing reality of the COVID19 crisis it ended up being a deep dive into the mythic and mystical dimensions of our moment — including nonhuman agency, the virus as teacher, Pan and panic and pandemics, solutionism isn’t the solution, the danger of efficiency logic, and a media diet for meditation on the darkness of natu...2020-03-281h 26
Humans On The Loop139 - On Coronavirus, Complex Adaptive Systems, & Creative OpportunityThis week I take a pause on interviews to share my thoughts on the Coronavirus pandemic from the perspective of complex systems and network collapse—and talk about the possible silver lining we might find in a time of crisis and enforced social isolation. I hope it helps! Feel free to email me with your thoughts, questions, feedback.Support this show on Patreon for secret episodes, the Future Fossils book club, and more awesome stuff than you probably have time for.Grab the books I mention on Future Fossils at my Amazon Shop an...2020-03-1649 min
Humans On The Loop138 - Tanya Harrison on Space Exploration 50 Years After ApolloThis week’s guest is Tanya Harrison, a Mars geologist, author, and infectious banner-waving space enthusiast. We talk about For All Humankind, her new book with Danny Bednar on the legacy of the Apollo missionsm, as both a planetwide accomplishment and also a high bar against which we have since not seemed to measure up...as well as:What it’s like to drive a mars rover and extend yourself technologically through space.What will have to change for us to attune to the plural temporalities of life on multiple worlds.How the...2020-03-021h 15
Humans On The Loop137 - Rolf Potts on Twenty-Five Years of World TravelRolf Potts is one of the world’s most notable travel writers, author of five books on his adventures, pioneer “digital nomad” before that was even a thing, a totally inspiring person who has carved his own path through life and now helps others do the same through writing workshops and his excellent podcast, Deviate. (Worth noting that as of the time of this episode’s publication, his latest podcast episode is about dinosaurs!) For me personally, Rolf’s one of the most influential writers I’ve ever read, for his book, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term...2020-02-151h 02
Humans On The Loop135 - Michael Phillip on The Cosmic YesThis week we’re joined by Michael Phillip, host of Third Eye Drops Podcast, to discuss some of the biggest and most persistent questions in philosophy — for which he feels he received definitive answers in a recent psychedelic experience: what it means to live a life of virtue, whether the universe is biased toward a Great Unfolding integration and continued process of perfection, the nature of evil, the question of free will, our responsibility to one another and to the future…It’s a great discussion with one of my favorite podcasting peers. Enjoy!Future F...2020-01-201h 19
Humans On The Loop133 - Brian Swimme on Telling A New Story of Our UniverseThis week’s guest is mathematician and cosmologist Brian Swimme, faculty at CIIS’ Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program and author of several books, including The Universe is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story (which we discuss in this episode). Brian is a major voice in the conversation about the new myths required for us in an age of planetary culture, an articulate and approachable thinker whose warmth and generosity — virtues equal to his intellectual achievement — really shine through in this conversation.Brian at CIIS Brian at the Center for Humans and NatureBrian’s...2019-12-131h 04
Humans On The Loop132 - Erik Davis on Perturbations in the Reality FieldThis week’s guest is author, culture critic, and philosopher of the weird Erik Davis, whose work has been one of my main inspirations for almost ten years. His latest work of epic scholarship, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies, is an exploration of topics I presumed inaccessible to academic inquiry so masterful I’ve been evangelizing it for months and basically forced a copy on my boss (David Krakauer, President of the Santa Fe Institute, who was a guest in Episode 75). In this episode we peer into the intersection of psychedelics, madness, systems science, post...2019-11-271h 30
Humans On The Loop131 - Jessica Nielson & Link Swanson on Psychedelic Science & Too Much NoveltyWhat’s the line between being inspired and getting broken by transcendental experience? This week’s episode was recorded live at the Hook & Ladder at Minneapolis as part of a special multimedia event I did with the Psychedelic Society of Minneapolis, a group led by neuroscientist Jessica Nielson. Jessica and her PhD student Link Swanson were both dear friends of mine before they met each other and I cannot be happier that they’re doing psychedelic neuroscience research together now at UMN. In this conversation, which involves me definitely talking too much (but in the role of honored out-of-town guest...2019-11-161h 33
Humans On The Loop130 - Lydia Laurenson on Identity, Community, and The New ModalityThis week’s guest is writer Lydia Laurenson, editor of The New Modality, whose beat explores how people find and make meaningful lives in our era of change, anxiety, and new opportunity. For years Lydia also wrote a popular BDSM blog under the pseudonym Clarisse Thorn, an experience that has profoundly shaped the way she understands plural and mutable identity in the digital age — and the importance of protecting our right to act behind created identities in the web’s cultural commons. In this episode, we discuss the years of weird and wonderful adventures she’s had as a writer an...2019-11-041h 26
Humans On The Loop129 - How to Live in the Future (Michael Garfield at Boom Festival 2016)…in which I talk about Jurassic Park, Terminator, Pokémon, cat videos, Radiolab, Google, DARPA, Charles Stross, the Singularity, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Martine Rothblatt, Genesis P Orridge, neo-advaita nondual philosophy, and angels. (“Do you guys believe in angels?”) DISCUSSED:Bringing Heart Back To Futurism. Technological Acceleration As Psychedelic Yoga. It Doesn’t Have To Be Either/Or. Scan Lovers. Can We Have Identity Politics In A Posthuman Society? Control or Liberation?Recorded at Boom Festival's Liminal Village, 16 August 2016 — here’s the official Boom...2019-10-231h 09
Humans On The Loop128 - Kevin Kelly on Evolving with TechnologyWe live in an age of increasingly lively, intelligent, and responsive technologies, and have a lot of adjusting to do. This week’s guest is one of the major inspirations animating Future Fossils Podcast: Kevin Kelly, co-founder of the WELL, Senior Maverick at WIRED, author of numerous books that profoundly shaped my thinking about our coevolution with technology. After reading Kevin’s latest essay on the imminent challenges and opportunities of augmented reality – a superb rendering of the bizarre and wonderful new possibilities of a “mirrorworld” in which everything has an annotated digital double, constantly rewritten – I asked him to join me for...2019-10-1054 min
Humans On The Loop127 - Cory Allen on Meditation, Music, and the Wow of NowThis week’s guest is Cory Allen – mindfulness instructor, audio engineer, host of The Astral Hustle Podcast, binaural beats factory, and now the author of Now is the Way: An Unconventional Approach to Modern Mindfulness. We talk about cutting through the noise and insanity of our overwhelmed digital transition age with simple presence, the rewards of even minor and incremental acts of awareness, and the richness of expressive work created from a place of calm alertness.Grab yourself a copy of Now is the Way from my Amazon storefront:https://www.amazon.com/shop/micha...2019-09-281h 07
Humans On The Loop126 - Phil Ford & JF Martel on Weird Studies & Plural RealitiesThis week Future Fossils gets even weirder with guests Phil Ford and JF Martel, cohosts of the Weird Studies podcast. Weird Studies is one of my favorite shows, hands down. Phil and JF’s marvelous threading together of the joyful and the bleak, the transcendent and the hangdog, the gems of literature and the tentacles of the ineffable real, is a sorely needed tightrope walk in an era insistent on clean answers and decisive resolutions. The modern world is a VERY weird place, and these two gentlemen are some of my most trusted curators of places to...2019-09-181h 22
Humans On The Loop125 - Stuart Kauffman on Physics, Life, and The Adjacent Possible This week’s guest is living legend, transdisciplinary scientist-philosopher Stuart Kauffman, whose pioneering work on self-organization and the emergence of order helped launch the field of complex systems science and has brought us to the very edge of understanding the origins and nature of life. Over his 50+ year career and six books, including this year’s The World Beyond Physics, Stu has done more than almost anyone to restore the historic union of science and philosophy, articulating a new spirituality for our secular age of systems thinking, and filing numerous patents on technologies of chemical synthesis and quan...2019-09-061h 40
Humans On The Loop124 - Norman "Dr. Blue" Katz on Hypnosis & The MindThis week’s guest is Norman Katz, aka Dr. Blue – a lifelong practitioner of hypnotherapy and the impresario of 3SidedWhole, nine acres of magical weirdness in the desert outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. I’ve known Dr. Blue for nearly a decade and he’s deeply enriched my life over the years with his amazing stories, empowering mind hacks, and community of soulful southwestern weirdos. In this episode, he regales us with stories of psychological research into UFOs, past lives, fractals, and flow states; the history of hypnosis, his study under hypnotherapy pioneer Milton Erickson, the psychophysiology of laughter yoga, and – more...2019-08-311h 16
Humans On The Loop123 - David Weinberger on Everyday Chaos & Thriving Amidst the ComplexityThis week we’re joined by David Weinberger, Senior Researcher at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Technology exploring the effects of technology on how we think. David’s led a fascinating and nonlinear life, studying Heiddeger as a young philosopher, working in marketing for high technology, working as a journalist, and authoring four books on technology, creativity, and knowledge. His new book, Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We're Thriving in a New World of Possibility, explores what changes for us in the age of machine learning.I have to admit, I was worrie...2019-08-231h 12
Humans On The Loop122 - Magenta Ceiba on Regenerative EverythingThis week’s guest is Magenta Ceiba, Executive Creative Officer (ECO) for the Bloom Network, a worldwide constellation of regenerative design hackers working in ecology, economics, civil engineering, software design, restorative justice, organizational development, and more. Bloom is hosting Pollination, an “unconference” or immersive in-person hack-a-thon, this coming weekend in San Francisco – a place for this amazing extended international network (including you, potentially) to convene for design sprints for new practices and systems to restore the health and value of our world.I hope you’ll treat this episode as a gateway into an amazing profusion of awesome...2019-08-141h 02
Humans On The Loop121 - Divya M. Persaud on The Ethics of Space ExplorationThis week we dive into the troublesome, urgent, and underdiscussed issue of space ethics with planetary scientist and artist Divya M. Persaud. Can we transcend the traumatic conflict and exploitation that characterize human history, come together in compassionate mutual understanding and respectful discourse, and leave our children with better and more interesting problems? Or are we doomed to transmit the legacy of violence we inherited into fractured futures even more disparate, tragic, and unequal than our own time? A deep dive into the real stakes of space, and a preliminary exposition of the ethical discussions we will need to get...2019-08-071h 23
Humans On The Loop120 - Ramin Nazer on Cave Paintings for Future People This week we surf the fun-gularity with the brilliant artist, standup comic, and podcaster Ramin Nazer! This episode is significantly less a heady philosophy-of-science discussion than usual and significantly more a wank-fest of two people who love each other’s shows going on about all the mind-blowing visionary notions contained therein. Kick back, light some incense, and prepare for a juicy conversation about where we stand in the Cosmic Order and what to do with all of our creative possibility…covering everything from universal basic income to celebrity schadenfruede, visionary art and science fiction to to the psyc...2019-07-301h 48
Humans On The Loop117 - Eric Wargo on Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the UnconsciousThis week’s guest is Eric Wargo, author of Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious. Contrary to your most likely first impression based on the title of the book alone, this is a supremely carefully constructed argument that anticipates its critics, understands statistics and their abuse, appeals to our desire for simplicity in scientific explanations, and single-handedly reorganizes the entire field of parapsychological research beneath a new and rational umbrella that allows for major weirdness without sacrificing mechanistic causation or parsimony. Telepathy and spooky action at a distance, Jungian synchronicity and many worlds quantum physics all...2019-06-261h 52
Humans On The Loop116 - The Next Ten Billion Years: Ugo Bardi & John Michael Greer as read by Kevin Arthur WohlmutThis week is a watershed moment for Future Fossils Podcast: the show’s first guest host! My friend Kevin Arthur Wohlmut is an engineer who creates occasional one-shot podcasts of fiction and nonfiction, and (according to him) worries about the future too much. We met at InterPlanetary Festival last year on the visit that inspired me to move to Santa Fe, and ever since we’ve had a rich correspondence of mutual far-future fiction recommendations and armchair philosophy chats.Kevin sent me his very cool readings of two essays with the same name, each portraying very diff...2019-06-101h 27
Humans On The Loop115 - Eliot Peper on The History of Technology and The Future of SocietyEliot Peper (Episode 47) is back on the show this week to talk about the themes around and within his Analog trilogy of very adjacent and believable sci fi novels (Bandwidth, Borderless, and the new “conclusion” Breach): that is, about the complex interactions between people and technology, both the layer cake of deep utilities we take for granted and the new affordances that disruptive tools produce – and how we shape our lives within them.https://www.eliotpeper.com/“One of the most fun things for me as a novelist about writing fiction is that it is ve...2019-06-0658 min
Humans On The Loop114 - Bernie Taylor on The Prehistoric Art of El Castillo & An Ancient Hero's JourneyThis week’s guest is Bernie Taylor, whose novel interpretation of ancient cave paintings suggests an overlooked and deeply significant alternative take on the subjective experience and world-space of prehistoric human culture. Finding animals hidden in the interplay of paint and rock forms unnoticed by other archeologists, and corresponding with a diverse array of experts over decades (including legendary animal researcher George Gamow), he argues that these murals depict a heroic journey across continents, the crossing of the Iberian Peninsula, an ancient rite of passage coded in time and story that, if accepted by the scholarly community, would transform ou...2019-05-301h 07THIRD EYE DROPSMind Meld 158 | Michael Garfield | The Gritty Prequel To DestinyGet more podcast content, support Third Eye Drops and receive exclusive rewards by becoming a Patreon patron Writer, musician, artist, Future Fossils host, and linguistic novelty summoner, Michael Garfield returns for another technodelic tete-a-tete! PS -- Catch the other part of this conversation on Michael Garfield's show, Future Fossils Musings in this mind meld -- Eric Wargo's book, Time Loops Uncomfortable paradoxes We live in a reality of both the Red Queen and the White Queen The illusion of improvisation Are we th...2019-05-161h 13
Humans On The Loop96 - Malena Grosz on Community-Led Party Culture vs. Corporate "Nightlife"This week’s guest is the intriguing, talented, and amazingly well-organized Malena Grosz, who is currently traveling across the United States to interview party culture professionals for her multimedia thesis on community-led party culture to gain and share their perspectives on best practices and shared challenges in cultivating better life through celebratory gatherings – and to tackle the corporate commodification of “nightlife” and its dangerous side effects.Her website-as-thesis-project will eventually be live (circa May 2019) at:http://partyprotoolkit.comWe Discuss:Gentrification and corporatization of nightlife versus community-led celebration, What...2018-11-051h 49
Humans On The Loop93 - Virtuoso Guitarist Andreas Kapsalis on Travel, Life, and MusicThis week’s guest is one of my favorite living musicians, acoustic guitarist Andreas Kapsalis. We linked up at the magical experimental city of Arcosanti, Arizona last year during their Convergence event, at which we both performed, and talked about life as itinerant musicians drawing on a wealth of world cultures and traditions. This is a humbler and more human episode of Future Fossils – hope that you enjoy it!http://www.akguitar.com/https://www.facebook.com/Andreaskapsalisguitar/Watch a video of Andreas playing his composition, “Ethnos”: https://www.youtube.com...2018-10-141h 19
Weird StudiesLiving in a Glass Age, with Michael Garfield
Stone, bronze, iron... glass? In his recent thought and writing, transdisciplinary artist and thinker Michael Garfield defines modernity as an age of glass, arguing that the entire ethos of our era inheres in the transformative enchantments of this amorphous solid. No one would deny that glass plays a central role in our lives, although glass does have a knack for disappearing into the background, at least until the beakers or screens crack and shatter. Glass is weird, and like a lot of weird things, it can serve as a lens (so to speak!) for observing our world from strange...2018-09-191h 18
Humans On The Loop84 - Armin Ellis on Organizing Visionary ProjectsFormer NASA-JPL Mission Architect and founder of the Exploration Institute, Armin Ellis helps people think big and execute visionary projects for a living. He’s also now the Mission Architect for the Arch Mission Project, a group committed to getting long-lasting civilizational archives carried into deep space by other missions. Armin is exactly the guy to talk to if you want to think the future’s somewhere you would like to live…Watch the entire uncut video on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/posts/20404177Armin's projects:http://exploration.instituteht...2018-07-301h 01
Humans On The Loop83 - Michael Strong on The Future of EducationOne third of American adolescents are on medication – half of that number, on psychoactive prescriptions. We have an educational system that not only can’t prepare young people for the rapidly evolving future world we’re creating for them to inhabit – it traumatizes people by attempting to squeeze every kind of human through the same twelve-plus-year sentence of indoctrination and obedience training. Are damaged and addicted mind control slaves really who we hope we’re shaping? Obviously not! That’s where the radical (yet common sense and plainly reasonable) ideas of Michael Strong come in. Michael has devoted his li...2018-07-231h 08THIRD EYE DROPSYour Thoughts are the Hieroglyphs of Tomorrow with Michael Garfield and Andrew J. O'KeefeFor rewards and podcast extras, become a patron! Multidisciplinary future-dipped creators Michael Garfield and Andrew J. O'Keefe return to the show to chat about why the future is disgusting, why tomorrow will be beyond imagination and oodles more! Michael Garfield is an artist, writer and host of the Future Fossils podcast. Andrew J. O'Keefe is a futurist, writer, archivist and media ninja. For a full write-up and more pop over to THIRDEYEDROPS.com This episode is sponsored by Distilunion get 15% off here Give us a psych...2018-07-051h 31
Humans On The Loop80 - George Dvorsky on Strange Days Ahead: Ethics for Autonomous MachinesThis week’s guest is George Dvorsky, futurist, science journalist, and long-time contributing editor at legendary sci/fi blog io9 at http://gizmodo.com.http://twitter.com/dvorskyhttp://kinja.com/georgedvorskyhttp://www.sentientdevelopments.com/https://io9.gizmodo.com/20-crucial-terms-every-21st-century-futurist-should-kno-1545499202We Discuss:• Today’s explosive evolution of AI personal assistants, and where it’s heading…• Will children today, immersed in a world of AI dolls and smarthome devices that speak to them by name, grow up with a different idea of what entitie...2018-06-2759 min
Humans On The Loop78 - Archan Nair on Radical Nonduality & Living with EnthusiasmVisionary artist Archan Nair joins Future Fossils this week for an infectiously fun conversation about the new creative opportunities of the digital age.http://www.archann.net/• How learning to use new tools is a little like dying;• Archan’s history of using computers for art;• The feedback loop between evolving tools and evolving artists;• How to stay clear-eyed and full-hearted about the always-on awesomeness of the world, and not let the daily BS drag you down;• The role of the nondual philosophy of Advaita Vedanta in his...2018-06-131h 22
Humans On The Loop76 - Technology as Psychedelic Parenting (at Palenque Norte, Burning Man 2017)Self-aware machines, organs on a chip, brain-entangled meta-human military units, smart-sensor-gridded coral reefs, drone flocks, DNA-based computing, robots having baby robots…the line between the “made” and “born” is getting blurrier and blurrier each day. What does it mean to be alive in a time when we already treat the corporation as a legal person, fall in love with chat bots, and “possess” telepresence robots in virtual reality for work?This talk is a three-part argument:1 - The Internet is usefully understood as a psychedelic substance, in that it remixes what we ordinarily think of as “in...2018-06-0249 min
Humans On The Loop73 - Patricia Gray on BioMusic, The New Science of Our Musical Brains & BiospherePatricia Gray is an animal music researcher, working with all kinds of creatures (humans, whales, songbirds, bonobos, even coral reefs) to understand what functions pitch and rhythm have in animal communication, how the sound of our living planet is actually a symphony of hidden meaning, and how to improve our lives by embracing the innate musicality of our human brains.https://research.uncg.edu/patricia-gray/We Discuss:• How she went from being a concert pianist to the chamber music director for the National Academy of Sciences to the piano-playing lead of...2018-05-181h 37
Humans On The Loop67 - Douglas Rushkoff & Michael Phillip (Playing For Team Human)This week’s guest is media theorist, culture critic, author, graphic novelist, documentarian, and podcaster Douglas Rushkoff! Chances are you’re a “digital native” banking on “social currency” and consuming “viral media” – which means that you are living in the world Doug prophesied for all of us back in the 1990s. I watched his debut documentary on social marketing, Merchants of Cool, in my college Introduction to Film class (which is how you know my teacher was, in fact, cool). His book Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now was one of the core inspirations for this podcast and its examin...2018-04-0458 minTHIRD EYE DROPSThe Soul of the Blockchain with Michael GarfieldFor rewards and podcast extras, become a patron Writer, musician, artist, and Future Fossils host, Michael Garfield returns for another technodelic tete-a-tete. We chat cryptocurrency, how the blockchain mimics natural systems, the nature of information, history, evolution, the esoteric evolution of money and more! Michael P. riffs on the importance questioning unshakable paradigms. For a write-up and more mind melds THIRDEYEDROPS.com Give us a psychic smooch by leaving us a 5 star review on iTunes!2018-03-301h 20
Humans On The Loop52 - Blockchain & The Evolution of Consciousness with Michael Phillip & Jennifer SodiniIn a special episode so timely that I couldn’t wait a week to publish, I sit down with Jennifer Sodini (EvolveAndAscend.com) and Michael Phillip (Third Eye Drops Podcast) to cut through the technical jargon and discuss the economic, cultural, and even spiritual implications of blockchain technology. Everything we took for granted is about to change…beyond Bitcoin and quick riches, there’s a new planetary culture based on the scalability of trust. This podcast explores what that means for you – and why so many of your friends think that this new evolution of digital money and contrac...2017-12-161h 04
Humans On The Loop35 - Meow-Ludo Meow Meow (Part 1 - Polyamory, Cryptocurrency, & Nukes)Review Future Fossils on iTunes Review Future Fossils on Stitcher Join the Future Fossils Facebook GroupThis 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 most wide-ranging talks on Future Fossils yet! Enjoy part 1 of a special double feature that continues next week… • Biofoundry:http://foundry.bio/ • P...2017-07-271h 16
Humans On The Loop30 - Becca Tarnas (Archetypal Astrology & Living Through A Revolutionary Age)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 Websitehttps://beccatarnas.com/about/Archai Journal: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmologyhttp://www.archai.org/“Everything breathes together.” - PlotinusWe discussed:The imminent shift into an archetypal paradigm, in which we transcend naïve subject-obje...2017-06-1752 minTHIRD EYE DROPSMind Meld 58 | Microdosing the Future with Michael GarfieldCROWD SPONSOR THIRD EYE DROPS ON PATREON! Michael Garfield returns for another technodelic Tete a tete! In addition to being debonair and a brain-melting conversationalist who can muse about basically anything, Michael Garfield is an Austin-based writer, speaker, musician and visionary artist. For more on him, hop through this portal. For a full write-up and more THIRDEYEDROPS.com 2017-05-111h 25
Humans On The Loop14 - WESTWORLD Problems (feat. Michael Phillip of Third Eye Drops)0014 Michael Phillip (Special Episode: Westworld Problems)With special guest, host of Third Eye Drops Podcast and fellow esoteric dork extraordinaire, Michael Phillip. We go deep into the layers underneath the layers of HBO’s awesome new show Westworld – its future angst and wonder, and what it can teach us about the value and meaning of human existence.SPOILER ALERT! We get into details of the Season Finale, so don’t listen to this unless you’ve seen it.Seriously.The show is worth it, though, so watch it and then come back to th...2017-01-071h 10
Humans On The Loop7 - Shane Mauss (Psychedelic Comedy)Featuring comedian Shane Mauss, to our knowledge the only person to have ever written feature length comedy routines about the evolutionary psychology of sex or about psychedelics. Shane is an amazingly humble dude, considering he interviews scientists for fun when he's not blowing people's minds and guts with his ballsy humor about the untouchably weird dimensions of human existence. His podcast Here We Are is a veritable compendium of brilliant conversations that become the fuel for his smart jokes, and we highly recommend you check that out after you've enjoyed this radical discussion (in which Shane and Michael were o...2016-09-061h 09THIRD EYE DROPSMind Meld 26 | THE FRACTAL PERSPECTIVE with Michael GarfieldMichael Garfield returns to the show for another dip into the conversational ectoplasm! In addition to being debonair and a brain-melting conversationalist who can talk about basically anything, Michael Garfield is an Austin-based writer, speaker, musician and visionary artist. For more on him, hop through this portal. 2016-09-051h 56
Humans On The Loop6 - Maraya Karena (A Different Perspective)Featuring cyborg anthropologist and process worker Maraya Karena, whom Michael met in Peru once upon a time, and who can nimbly leap from talk of high technology to casual reflections on accessing visionary consciousness. Maraya delivers us a dose of much-appreciated lucid, grounded female sensibility to this hapless dorkfest...Follow up with by subscribing to Maraya's blog and YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/marayakarena marayakarena.wordpress.com * Support Future Fossils Podcast on Patreon: patreon.com/michaelgarfield * Take the perspective of future archeologists digging through the digital remains of modern culture. What will our generation's legacy...2016-08-291h 04
Humans On The Loop5 - Mitch Schultz (The Spirit Molecule)Featuring documentarian, psychonaut, and meta-media wizard Mitch Schultz, director/producer of the documentary "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" and founder of Mythaphi. A more than usually enthusiastic group rap on the awesome potential of new media to shift the global story and deliver us into a world of awesome collaborative potential... Evan and Michael met as performers at one of Mitch's events years ago (the DMT RMX party at South By Southwest 2012) so it's like a family reunion having this guy on the show. Not to mention he's a popular podcast guest on other shows like The Joe Rogan Experience, Eri...2016-08-0957 min
Humans On The Loop3 - Tony Vigorito (Synchronicity)In this week's episode, we interview our first guest, author Tony Vigorito, and go ape on thoughts about the nature of synchronicity – are we just making this stuff up? Tony's work has been praised repeatedly and effusively by literary greats like Tom Robbins, so even before you get through a single sentence of his florid, playful, genius, totally abundant and absurdly tasty prose you know you're dealing with a singular mind. He's also taught sociology at universities in Austin and Northern California, as well as to festival audiences all over. Michael met Tony when they were on a panel togeth...2016-07-261h 02
Humans On The Loop2 - Cairos (Time as Feeling)In this second "zero" episode, Evan and Michael plumb the mysteries of qualitative time – the mystery of "Cairos," the I Ching, and nonlinear temporal shenanigans – before plunging into later interview-based episodes. These days we often think of time as only something that is counted. But other cultures, like the ancient Greek and Chinese, knew that time is also something that is FELT. What do we learn by seeing time as not just quantity, but quality? Is there a texture to reality that people like the Maya knew about, and to which modern society is completely blind? And can we re-establ...2016-05-2241 min