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John Vervaeke: William Desmond on God | ENROLMENT OPEN

Turn your videos into live streams with https://restream.io You can now enrol in John’s new course: God and the Between: The Philosophy of William Desmond Begins April 2nd, 2025 Begins April 2nd, 2025 In this 8-week course, John Vervaeke will bring together William Desmond’s central ideas about the fourfold sense of Being which will lead

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The Rise and Fall of the Internet Folk Artist w/ Ruby Justice Thelot

*** Join the second cohort of IRL @ https://darkforest.metalabel.com/irl *** Internet Real Life (IRL), hosted by Katherine Dee & Peter Limberg, is a series exploring the shift toward a new way of relating to the internet—one beyond naive optimism or doomer pessimism. Ruby Justice Thelot, a designer, artist, and cyberethnographer based in New York City. He serves

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How to Meet the Moment: The Strategy for a New Civilization

We are living through a civilizational turning point — a “Transformation Age” defined by meta-crises across geopolitics, technology, ecology, and meaning itself. In this second episode of Big Picture Mind, Robb Smith lays out a bold and actionable strategy for how integrative thinkers, leaders, and creators can rise to meet this moment. Drawing from his

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The New UTOK Book | Episode 13 | The Map of Mind (Ch 11)

In this episode, Gregg and Marcia explore Chapter 11 of UTOK: The Unified Theory of Knowledge, introducing the Map of Mind (MoM)—a key element of UTOK’s descriptive metaphysics designed to clarify the structure of mindedness in humans. They conclude by discussing how the Map of Mind helps reframe the Hard Problem of Consciousness within UTOK’s

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Blue Marble, Black Hole — Benjamin Bratton | Long Now Talks

Philosopher of Science and Technology Benjamin Bratton considers the implications of the first direct images of a black hole in the context of our planetary regime of sensing technology and cognition. From Benjamin Bratton’s Long Now Talk: A Philosophy of Planetary Computation: Benjamin Bratton | A Philosophy of Planetary Computation | Long Now Talks We

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Copernican Traumas — Benjamin Bratton | Long Now Talks

Philosopher of Science and Technology Benjamin Bratton discusses the concept of “Copernican Traumas”: the moments where our technology allows us to find the limits of the technoscientific models of our society. From Benjamin Bratton’s Long Now Talk: A Philosophy of Planetary Computation: Benjamin Bratton | A Philosophy of Planetary Computation | Long Now Talks We

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Benjamin Bratton | A Philosophy of Planetary Computation | Long Now Talks

We find ourselves in a pre-paradigmatic moment in which our technology has outpaced our theories of what to do with it. The task of philosophy today is to catch up. Benjamin Bratton is a Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Speculative Design at University of California, San Diego and the Director of Antikythera, an cross-disciplinary

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The Stink of Zen: How to Avoid Spiritual Bypassing

In this deeply personal excerpt from Evolving Spirit, Zen teacher Santiago Jimenez shares a dramatic experience of profound ego dissolution, describing it as an intense “ego blow-up” that shattered his cohesive sense of self. Santiago vividly recounts how initial feelings of blissful emptiness, liberation, and freedom from suffering unexpectedly gave way to confusion, vulnerability, and

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