Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke

Alexandre Christoyannopoulos is a political scholar and leading expert on Christian Anarchism, based at Loughborough University. His PhD on this topic was published as the book Christian Anarchism, a leading scholarly text in this area. He is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence. Today we discuss Christian Anarchism, Pacifism, and Nonviolence.

Graham Harvey, a respected religious studies professor, dives deep into animism and its transformative impact on our perception of the natural world. He recounts a pivotal experience at a powwow that reshaped his understanding of Indigenous perspectives. The conversation critiques the historical dismissal of animism and emphasizes our interconnectedness with all beings. Harvey challenges human exceptionalism through fascinating examples of animal behavior, fostering a call for respect and empathy in our relationships with nature and one another.

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Willoughby Britton is a clinical psychologist, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University Medical School, and the director of the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory there. Her lab researches the psychophysiological and neurocognitive effects of meditation and mindfulness-based interventions for mood and anxiety disorders, with a particular focus on potential risks of meditation practice. She is also the founder of Cheetah House, a nonprofit organization that provides evidence-based information and support for meditators in distress, as well as meditation safety trainings to providers and organizations. Today we discuss the potential adverse effects of mediation and how to meditate safely.

Explore the power of Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) for awakening and nondual realization with Christina Guimond. Learn about integrating TRE with mindfulness practices, emotional release through tremoring and breathwork, and enhancing psychological resilience. Dive into navigating discomfort to find comfort within the body and receive guidance on starting TRE and dynamic breathwork.

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Michael Levin, a developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, co-discovered Xenobots and focuses on regenerative medicine. He explores how intelligence might transcend traditional notions by merging neuroscience and philosophy. Levin discusses bioelectricity's role in collective intelligence and unveils amazing regenerative capabilities in organisms like planaria. The conversation also delves into the ethical implications of these discoveries, pushing the boundaries of our understanding of life and consciousness.

The Genocide in Gaza & the Psychology of Denial

Alicia Juarrero is President and co-founder of VectorAnalytica, Inc., a data collection and analysis platform. She is also a research associate at the University of Miami and is the author for influential complexity theory text Dynamics in Action. Her new book is called Context Changes Everything and it explores how we can think about causality in emergent systems, such as living things, in terms of constraint.

Jim Newman holds meetings about nonduality, in a style that has come to be known as uncompromising or radical nonduality. This style began with the book The Open Secret by Tony Parsons, and along with Tony, Jim is the arguably most prominent person speaking of nonduality in this way. Whereas some approaches to nonduality advocate the following of a path in order to eventually realise that we are not separate from the rest of existence, the uncompromising perspective sees this as mistaken, the fundamental idea being that because reality is already non-dual, whole, and undivided, there is nothing anyone could ever do to move closer to or further away from the wholeness of what is. Today, we explore the intricacies that somehow seem to arise out of this very simple message.