SENSESPACE

In this roundtable, co-hosted with Kourosh Khoylou, we interview Eric Silcock-a k-12 teacher in the California public school system. This conversation was a great insight into the challenges faced by teachers today. We explore equity issues, teaching as financial self-sacrifice, school shootings, how Tik Tok and social media are disrupting schools and how we might be driven by technology to re-imagine education. Find Kourosh Khoylou at Kourosh Khoylou Podcast. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClyoWi4wqhdN7xKpcj8OuvQ Jacob Kishere is a philosopher, experimental artist and practitioner of Dialogos. He creates Culturepilgrim and captains SENSESPACE podcast an exciting emergent dialogue project now in its 3rd year.

A very special dialogue with Ryan Sprague of Highly Optimised. Ryan is leading in the cutting edge of Conscious Cannabis Culture which is exactly what we dive into in this podcast. We talk on: -Finding structure with Cannabis -Cannabis as a feminine agent -Cannabis as an Oracle for Insight -Cannabis as medicine in the metacrisis -Cannabis' place in an ecology of practice Find the connect with cannabis guide, Ryan's podcast and upcoming courses at https://www.highlyoptimized.me/ and on instagram at @therealryansprague Jacob is a philosopher, experimental artist and muse for Dialogos. He creates under his alias Culturepilgrim and captains SENSESPACE podcast, now in its 3rd year. He speaks and writes on Conscious Cannabis Culture on SENSESPACE Podcast and substack. Check out the essay 'Conscious Cannabis Culture' at the Culturepilgrim substack. https://culturepilgrim.substack.com/p/conscious-cannabis-culture #cannabis #consciouscannabis #ecologyofpractice #highlyoptimised #medicine #plantmedicine #insight #wisdom #healing #crisisofconnection #metacrisis #culture #sensespace

A dialogue with Ken Lowry (from his channel) in which we build upon John Vervaeke's 'After Socrates Ep.2: Socrates the monstrous' . Ken is one of my favourite interlocutors and in this dialogue we explore our experiences of christianity and the dynamism of combining socrates and Jesus as 'internalised sages'. We consider the differences between these two sages, Jesus being more 'perfect' and 'up and the clouds' whilst socrates displays a clearly carnal eroticism. We consider how they can both set us free in different ways and might be in dialogue with one another.

Laurence Shorter is an author, comic and creative consultant for leaders. His life journey has taken him through the the world of elite business, burnout, spirituality and a deep interest in the processes of flow and creativity. He is a regular consultant with McKinsey & Co and others where he works with groups and leaders. We talk about the: The virtues and vices of elite business culture The experience of burnout and how we grow with it The subtle energetics of working with 'fields' as a consultant The role of vulnerability in flexibility Different philosophies of history and findng hope in the midst of perennial uncertainty and challenge Find laurence at https://www.laurenceshorter.com/ and his particularly good substack https://laurences.substack.com/

An essay from the culturepilgrim substack on "A quantum philosopher's vision for the necessity of dialogue"

An essay from the culturepilgrim substack on "A quantum philosopher's vision for the necessity of dialogue"

The Wisdom of Birth. Exploring the dialectic of will and surrender in transformation and the necessity of philosophical midwives.    #surrender #will #midwifery #wisdom #philosophy #transformation #sensespace #culturepilgrim

We continue our novel exploration of Christianity.   What wisdom can be found in christianity for contending with life? What would a christianity that integrates Buddhism, psychedelics and science look like?  How can we integrate the insights of the peak experience/psychedelic mountaintop into day to day to day life?  How do we suffuse life with mystery?  How do we trust the mystery and one another?   With thanks to O.G Rose and Joseph Pickens. More to come.   Jacob Substack- www.culturepilgrim.substack.com  OG-Rose: https://www.og-rose.com/ Joe Pickens: https://www.josephpickens.com/

The most profound effects of transformation do not always result from the peak experience or being on the mountaintop but in the coming down and integrating. As we recouple our 'new' self with our existing relationships. To be sure, we're very thankful for the familiarity of and old friend or our parents. But, as we contend with ancestral trauma and stuckness within ourselves, we may become disheartened to percieve everything around us as staying the same. This belief that everything's staying the same is re-enforced by the world around us. However, it is a delusion. Change is happening in historically unprecedented ways at this time and we are all deeply entangled with it and the more than human world. The changes within us affect one another in ways we don't understand. This is an encouraging insight, and we never know the full range of the impact of our internal shifts have everyone we're connected to.    With that being said, there's a world of struggle waiting for you if you're expecting or needing your family/friends to change in the way you have. I've been there. Perhaps its a necessary learning curve to struggle with this but where I've arived now with experience is recognising that change is happening, but not because we want or need it to. People's life journeys are long. Some karma takes years or decades to be worked out. We cannot force this but we can rest in the knowledge of our entanglement and become better witnesses to one another as we are. We can be open to the transformative potential in one another merely by attending to that person as a thou, as a mystery and not as the fixed object they believe they are. In this attentive witnessing, we paradoxically end up give more affordance to their transformation.

One of the main challenges I face at this juncture in my journey is talking about Christ or Christ consciousness as I see it in culture. Doing so very readily brings on a range of assumptions and also triggers a lot of real and legitimate shadows around christianity.