The Great Transformation [Part 3] – The #Disruption of #Energy
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The Collapse of Complex Societies w/ Joseph Tainter
November 2nd, 2022 Joseph Tainter visits The Stoa to discuss his book, The Collapse of Complex Societies. “Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all complex societies in both the present and future. Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse
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The Trolls Under the Bridge Part 5: Living With Intersubjective Entities
October 31, 2022 Philosopher-in-Residence for September 2022: Evan McMullen Series: The Trolls Under the Bridge: Intersubjective Parasitology, Computational Demonology, and Things That Go BUMP in the Dark Night of the Soul w/ Evan McMullen. Watch the whole series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ5e3aD_LuS3uxp8UIFhR0Ki0P3mi30z Every complex ecosystem evolves parasites. This niche is not absent from the ecosystems created by
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The Realization Process: An Embodied Approach to Nondual Awakening w/ Judith Blackstone
October 30th, 2022 “The Realization Process is a series of practices for opening the body, heart and mind to nondual reality. In this approach, the radical openness of nondual awakening is found through inward contact with the internal space of your body. In this way, you uncover a quality-rich, authentic experience of yourself as an
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The Trolls Under the Bridge Part 4: A Taxonomy of Intersubjective Entities w/ Evan McMullen
October 24th, 2022 Philosopher-in-Residence for September 2022: Evan McMullen Series: The Trolls Under the Bridge: Intersubjective Parasitology, Computational Demonology, and Things That Go BUMP in the Dark Night of the Soul w/ Evan McMullen. RSVP to the next session here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrde2pqzkpGtFTaf8gZzvLOCByTWWc5m72 Watch the whole series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ5e3aD_LuS3uxp8UIFhR0Ki0P3mi30z Every complex ecosystem evolves parasites. This niche is
The Trolls Under the Bridge Part 3: Towards a Taxonomy of Intersubjective Entities w/ Evan McMullen
October 17th, 2022 Philosopher-in-Residence for September 2022: Evan McMullen Series: The Trolls Under the Bridge: Intersubjective Parasitology, Computational Demonology, and Things That Go BUMP in the Dark Night of the Soul w/ Evan McMullen. RSVP to the next session here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrde2pqzkpGtFTaf8gZzvLOCByTWWc5m72 Watch the whole series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ5e3aD_LuS3uxp8UIFhR0Ki0P3mi30z Every complex ecosystem evolves parasites. This niche is
Nodes of Persisting Complexity for Worldwide De-complexification w/ Nick King
October 17th, 2022 Nick King of the Global Sustainability Institute visits The Stoa to discuss his paper, An Analysis of the Potential for the Formation of ‘Nodes of Persisting Complexity’. “Human civilisation has undergone a continuous trajectory of rising sociopolitical complexity since its inception; a trend which has undergone a dramatic recent acceleration. This phenomenon
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Neighborhood Organising in Pennsylvania – Seth Bush & Richard D. Bartlett
I spoke with Seth Bush, who is organising his local neigbhorhood in Pennsylvania. It sounds like they’re having an awesome time at the hyper-local scale, creating more connections between neighbours and exchanging mutual aid. We talked about legal structures for collective finances, how to scale from one neighbourhood to many. We also talked about how
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