A Return to Eros – Dialogue with Dr. Marc Gafni in Parallax Spiritual Book Club with Andrew Sweeny
I just watched a video, New Discoveries that Completely Alter Human History, on the After Skool YouTube channel. The thesis is that conventional archaeology has given us a false history of civilization, erasing a mighty global culture that flourished before the Younger Dryas impact event some 12,850 years ago. I am well familiar with this theory
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John Perkins once told me a story of bringing a group to have an audience with the Dalai Lama. A woman asked him, “Is it important to pray for peace?” The Dalai Lama said, “Yes, praying for peace is very good, but if that is all you do you are wasting your time.” What he
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A couple years ago after a speech about ecological healing a man came up to me to ask a question. With a warm, friendly smile he drew me close and put a hand on my shoulder. “You mentioned in your speech that you have four children. What makes you think you have the right to
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Hi everyone, I was just on a family trip and wrote an essay about current events, people power, etc. which I saved on a USB drive which now is completely dead. I’m taking it as an opportunity to rethink it. In the meantime, here is a short essay I wrote for a website called Trends with
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Political economist and social technologist at Microsoft, and a researcher at the RadicalxChange Foundation, Divya Siddarth introduces us to the Pluriverse and challenges us to consider just how many worlds are possible. In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us that our happiness does not need to be tied to our aspirations. Read A Declaration of the
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about how I’ve decided to turn off the Wrestlemania passing for national news and focus on my local reality. I was hoping that helping neighbors, engaging in mutual aid, and working on local issues might just engender a kind of solidarity. And if we all did this, it would
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Founder of the Media Education Lab and author of Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age Renee Hobbs joins Rushkoff to discuss how the enlightenment project can work without gatekeepers. In his monologue, Rushkoff wrestles with his decision to focus on local civics as the influence of national culture wars seep in. Renee’s
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Head of Education at Digital Void and cultural theorist Jamie Cohen walks us through — and hopefully to the other side — of our fascist media environment. In his monologue, Rushkoff argues that the culture wars on Twitter and television are not based in reality, but rhetoric,. You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s
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I’m taking time off writing a long and frustrating essay to review a film I saw last night, Netflix’ popular Don’t Look Up. Spoiler alert! Maybe best to watch it first. In the film, a planet-killing comet is headed toward earth. The world responds mostly with disbelief. Humanity lowers its eyes onto its cellphone screens, memes,
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