Zak Stein - A Time Between Worlds

Dr. Zak is a fucking saint. He's one of my biggest influences right now, which makes this episode truly special for me. He's an educational philosopher and author of ‘Education in a Time Between Worlds’ - a book that lays out how our education system went wrong, what wrong looks like today, what right might look like in the future and how we go about getting it right. It's an incredible book that has been so helpful and insightful lately. It's also somewhat prophetic, he lays out the essence of the metacrisis more than a year before covid brought the reality to a bigger audience’s doorstep. He is the Head of Academics at The Center for Integral Wisdom. His latest article, Covid19; A War Broke Out in Heaven went viral with its gentle but powerful proposition that we're in a battle over the future of human nature that is taking place in each of our hearts. A battle between the angel and devil that sits on each of our shoulders. In this episode, we talk about the role of intellectual mentorship, about fear of authoritarianism, about 'a time between worlds' aka the meta crisis that we're in, about the politicization of science, about the problems and history of IQ tests and standardized testing in general, about how fucked up our education system is, and how much more fucked ADHD diagnosis and biomedical intervention is, aka adderall and ritalin. Zak is a hero and he's fighting for the lives and experiences of children and I love him for it. Please listen to this episode. Here's Zak's article and a link to his book. http://www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/covid-19-a-war-broke-out-in-heaven https://www.amazon.com/Education-Time-Between-Worlds-Technology/dp/0986282677?fbclid=IwAR3YTyLEAwvR9-p4XS9y2tWtP5XhBu3pjoX4ptE60AXr0EeLnWOPootr0YU Please support this podcast by subscribing, sharing and reviewing. Also donate at www.paypal.me/ariintheair Thanks so much to those of you who have donated! Means a ton to me. And thanks to Dr. Zak Stein, for being a person worthy of teacherly authority and for standing up for the children of the world, the ones both growing up now, and the ones still living in the hearts of adults.