Guest: Daniel Hennessy from Extinction Rebellion Oakland

Hot goss about Extinction Rebellion America. Fighting fires. NGOs. Filling jails and working with police. Jem Bendell‘s Deep Adaptation paper. Arctic sea ice. Social collapse. Alien archaeologists.

“If it’s the truth, you have to say it.”

Note: Daniel speaks on behalf of Daniel. His opinions do not, and are not intended to, represent XR America. This isn’t a friggin press release, just two dudes chatting about their own feels.

Music by Martin H. Emes plus “Ｂ　Ｕ　Ｒ　Ｎ　　Ｏ　Ｕ　Ｔ” by Anonymous420 (CC BY 4.0) and “Air” by Lolique (CC BY 3.0).

Guest: Jody from Guruphiliac, @Kalieezchild on Twitter

In part 2, Jody gets personal about his history with gurus. The significance of significance and the red herring of ego dissolution. Magick and imaginal spirituality. Psychedelics. Jody’s path to realization. Oprah. The Aquarian Age. Climate change anxiety. The Church of the Subgenius. And burnt almonds: the secret of life, the universe, and everything.

The Alan Watts talk I reference is on YouTube, or you can read the transcript at AlanWatts.org.

Want to listen to Part 1?

Closing track is “For R & S” by Density & Time.

Guest: Jody from Guruphiliac, @Kalieezchild on Twitter

The dirty secret of spiritual enlightenment. The problem with gurus. Rolling your own religion. Dreams and the unconscious in spirituality.

Music by Martin H Emes plus “Cycles” by Density & Time and “Soveja” by Minus (CC BY-SA 3.0 RO).

Ready for part 2?

Dreaming about RV life. Social media stigma and technology in intentional communities. Comfy clothes and nudism. Northern lights pics from Twitch.

Closing track: “My Luck” by Forrest Keller (CC BY 3.0)

Guest: Kim, a mod at the Collapse Support subreddit and Discord server, longtime doomer, collapsenik, ex-lawyer, ex-clergy, and “non-breeding housewife”

New Thought meets collapse. Doing good on behalf of hypothetical futures. The origin of water. We’re all extraterrestrials. Dystopian shopping malls. Helping the normies. The Coronavirus and predictions of doom. Living in captivity. XR Australia is fighting an extremely uphill battle. Zoomers are smart. The metaphysics of humor. Good Grief Network. The fires (and waters) of Australia.

Music this episode by Martin H Emes and “Soft Rain” by Glass Boy (CC BY-ND 3.0).

Sarah and Jeremy talk anti-civiliation, Derrick Jensen’s A Language Older Than Words, peak oil, Tar Sands, ocean floor mining, alien belly slugs, rock bottom Hell, the utility of shaming in civilization, mirror universe synchronization, the “Millennial Spectrum of Millenniosity,” and more than a little bit of Star Trek. End on another bitchin’ track by Glass Boy, sip a nice cold beverage, call it a day — you’re in bed by 10:00.

Intro music by Martin H Emes plus “Power Glove” by C. Scott (CC BY 3.0). Closing track is “UnMartin” by Glass Boy (CC BY-ND 3.0).

One airbrushed wizard van short of a new religion. Mike Jones is back once again. Can we build a bewildering manifesto-inscribed labyrinth and spiritual movement around J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion? What cult LARPing lessons can we learn from Kurt Anderson’s Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire? Is America the BoJack Horseman of countries? All this plus a Denny’s kids’ menu and a pack of crayons.

Yeah, it’s one of the more pop culture-heavy episodes.

Intro music by Martin H Emes and “Rah” by Uncle Milk (CC BY 4.0). Closing track is “Soft Rain” by Glass Boy (CC BY-ND 3.0).

The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, rhizomatic relations, the symbolic potency of fungus, the alchemy of mycelium, high-chaos forestry, and The Understory by Robert Macfarlane. #Blessed to be joined again by Glenn from Be Your Own Drum Circle.

Plus: Glenn answers our first live listener question from Twitch: “Why do you not like the climate change?”

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Music by Ricard Culver and Martin H. Emes.