Buddhist Geeks

In this episode Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined in dialogue with CEO and Head Teacher at the popular meditation app Brightmind, Toby Sola. Memorable Quotes"The broader mission of Brightmind is to help you establish positive feedback between your meditative practice and your ability to make the world a better place." - Toby SolaEpisode Links📱 Brightmind Meditation👤 Toby on Twitter🔗 Monastic Academy👤 Shinzen Young👤 Soryu Forall🔗 Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School🔗 Forte Labs📖 Sacred Economics by Charles EisensteinSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Get full access to Buddhist Geeks at www.buddhistgeeks.org/subscribe

In this timely episode–released just weeks before the 2020 US Election–host Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined by human rights advocate, public intellectual, and old friend Theo Horesh.  Theo is a long-time meditator, was one of the earliest guests on Buddhist Geeks, and is author of several books, including the one that serves as the basis for this conversation: “The Fascism this Time : And the Global Future of Democracy.”  During this conversation Vince & Theo explore what Fascism is–both historically & philosophically–how nihilism and despair are playing out in global society right now (especially in America), the many dimensions of human identity that are at play for us all, and the way that our current “split-level development” involves both a profound regression, as well as the potential for transcendence in service of the public good. Memorable Quotes“Marx once noted that all great historical events repeat themselves, the first time as tragedy, and the second as farce.  And what we’re seeing now is a farce, but we should take it seriously, because it’s the same nihilistic drives that lie behind it.” - Theo Horesh“Fascism is going to end in destruction for a couple of key reasons.  One is it’s driven by nihilism. The second thing is that what sustains it, is its insulation from reality.  So, it’s not just going to be irrational in its approach to things, it’s going to be completely divorced from reality, and as time goes on it’ll be more and more divorced.” - Theo HoreshEpisode Links📖 The Fascism this Time : And the Global Future of Democracy📖 Convergence: The Globalization of Mind🎙 Convergence (Theo Horesh’s Talk from the 2014 Buddhist Geeks Conference)📃 The revenge of the 'Oxy electorate' helped fuel Trump's election upset📃 CosmopolitanismSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Get full access to Buddhist Geeks at www.buddhistgeeks.org/subscribe

In this episode Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined in dialogue with journalist, educator, & scholar Greg Thomas to meditate together on race. Greg’s work is informed by Integral Theory, the philosophies of Albert Murray and Ralph Ellison, and draws upon the rich history of the African American experience and Jazz. In this dialogue, Greg shares his reflections on race, from an integral perspective, exploring the potential for liberation–especially from racial ignorance & animus–on personal, cultural, & institutional levels.Memorable Quotes“Race is just one more tool of the ego to separate and to create structures–whether it’s subjective, inter-subjective or objective structures–to separate, divide and categorize.” - Greg Thomas“There is a truth to the fact that we all are one, and that we share in the ineffability of the source, of the fullness of emptiness.  And all these things that signify–because we’re using human language–that our origins, our source, from and through which all things come and flow, and towards which we’re moving.  But in-between time, on this human level, in this particular incarnation we have to deal with the reality of materiality, of the material plane that we’re on.  That materiality itself, is going to bring suffering.  Duality will do that.  Non-duality is Oneness.  We have to navigate skillfully, using skillful means.  And that’s where we get to Wisdom.  Wisdom allows us to be able to play with these dualities. ... [Wisdom] takes into consideration I, We, & It, it takes into consideration the dual & the non-dual, it takes into consideration the reality of the oneness and the particularity of the many.” - Greg Thomas“They have planted and we ate. We plant and others will eat.” - Siddho Ahmad Fakhoury, Vince’s Great-Grandfather on planting olive treesEpisode Notes:👤 Greg Thomas’s Online Portfolio👤 The Jazz Leadership Project👤 Greg Thomas @ Integral Life🔗 Integral Life👤 Diane Musho Hamilton👤 Anthony Appiah👤 Danielle Allen @ Twitter📃 Ralph Ellison📖 “My Grandmother’s Hands” by Resmaa Menakem📖 “Turning the Wheel: Essays on Buddhism and Writing” by Charles Johnson👤 Bell Hooks🔗 Essentialism📖 “Mindful of Race” by Ruth King📃 Jazz vs. Racism by Greg Thomas📖 “The Ethics of Identity” by Kwame Anthony AppiahSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Get full access to Buddhist Geeks at www.buddhistgeeks.org/subscribe

Richard D. Bartlett, author of Patterns for Decentralised Organising and co-founder of Loomio and The Hum, discusses interesting topics including Decentralised Organising, Microsolidarity, Fractal Narcissism, and the Occupy Movement. They explore convergence, reconstructing views, and the difference between oral and written cultures. They also discuss the shift from individual to collective interpersonal meditation practices and the concept of decentralized organizing and micro solidarity.

In this episode, Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined by long-time partner, and Teaching Lead of Buddhist Geeks, Emily Horn, to meditate together on race. They discuss the unique opportunity for transformation presenting itself to white people, and share some of their personal stories regarding racial conditioning, and how/why this largely invisible conditioning makes this conversation on difference so difficult to engage in.  Memorable Quotes“I know that trust is earned, I can’t just put up a sticker on my wall and call it safe, no matter how much I’m dedicated to diversity & inclusion.” - Emily Horn“As an individual my experience didn’t just come from nowhere. It’s actually part of this heritage, this 4.5 billion year heritage, that goes back to the Big Bang.” - Vince Fakhoury Horn Episode Links🔗 Black Lives Matter🔗 Naropa University📺 Integral Justice Warriors📄 Transparent Generosity🔗 HolacracySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Get full access to Buddhist Geeks at www.buddhistgeeks.org/subscribe

In this episode, Vince Horn is joined in conversation with Jason Snyder, PhD. Co-host of the Both/And Podcast and an adjunct lecturer at ASU’s Department of Sustainable Development, Jason joins Vince in a sit-down conversation, where they discuss the topics of memetic mediation, metamodernism, integral theory, responding to the meta-crisis, sensemaking and more.Memorable Quotes:"We are all complicit in history whether we like it or not. Both the good parts and the bad parts. I think that speaks to the notion of interconnectedness." – Jason Snyder"How do we respond to the meta-crisis? We have to create this new kind of collective intelligence that as humans we can accurately respond to the serious transition we’re in." – Jason SnyderEpisode Links:👤 Jason Snyder🎙 Both/And Podcast🎙 Both/And: Decoding Ourselves with Vince Horn🎙 Deconstructing Yourself📃 On Memetic Mediation & Perspectival Pidginism🔗 Integral Life🔗 The Evolving Self👤 Hanzi Freinacht👤 Clare Graves🔗 The Bahá’í Faith📃 New Atheism👤 Shinzen Young👤 Daniel Ingram🎙 Buddha at the Gas Pump👤 Otto ScharmerSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Get full access to Buddhist Geeks at www.buddhistgeeks.org/subscribe

In this episode we’re joined again by meditator & medical doctor Daniel M. Ingram, to discuss his current efforts at helping mainstream knowledge of the common patterns of experience that unfold during contemplative practice–commonly referred to as “the stages of insight” in the early Buddhist tradition–so that this knowledge can become integrated into our modern medical systems.Episode Links:👤 Daniel M. Ingram🔗 The Dharma Overground📃 The Progress of Insight📃 What is Exploding Head Syndrome? 📃 The Varieties of Religious Experience🔗 Consciousness Hacking🔗 Kathryn “Katy” DevaneySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Get full access to Buddhist Geeks at www.buddhistgeeks.org/subscribe

From practicing hindu tantra with a guru he met at a new age bookstore in Chicago, to building open source hexayurts on the playa of burning man, to helping launch the second biggest crypto-network, Vinay Gupta is a man on a mission. Bringing a Vaderesque approach to spiritual, social, cultural, & engineering topics, Vinay offers an ultra-compelling apocoloptimistic vision of the future. -Vince Fakhoury HornMemorable Quotes:"Social problems can be fixed with social change, and engineering problems have to be fixed with better technology. And most of what's wrong with capitalism is engineering limits not social limits, and we get very confused about this." - Vinay GuptaEpisode Links:👤 Vinay Gupta🔗 Mattereum🔗 The Hexayurt Project🔗 Industrialisation🔗 Haidakhan BabajiSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Get full access to Buddhist Geeks at www.buddhistgeeks.org/subscribe

Marcin Jakubowski, Founder of Open Source Ecology, shares his journey from being a PhD student in Fusion Physics to building an open source economy of abundance. They discuss reducing costs of living, cultural barriers, balancing individual agency with collective collaboration, and the concept of a distributive enterprise. They also explore teaching and translating meditation practices to promote interconnectedness.

In this episode, Vince Horn is joined in dialogue, once again, by Diane Musho Hamilton–Zen teacher, professional meditator, and Integral facilitator. The conversation begins with Vince's reflections on an Integral Facilitator Training that he attended with Diane, where a bulk of the training centered around facilitating small group conversations around issues related to differences of identity. After discussing a number of topics that are often taken up in the Social Justice movement, and an Integral perspective on these topics, the conversation turned toward the role of the Teacher, and on transmission, hierarchy, embodiment, feedback, and projection. Memorable Quotes:“I found that rather than trying to teach stage models to groups, that I like to invoke them into models.” - Diane Musho Hamilton“We don’t challenge basketball coaches the way we challenge spiritual teachers.” - Diane Musho Hamilton“Every moment of adulation is followed by a great disappointment.” - Diane Musho HamiltonEpisode Links:👤 Diane Musho Hamilton🔗 Ten Directions, Integral Facilitator Training📄 Everything the Same, Everything Different by Diane Hamilton📺 Saturday Night Live: Dinner Discussion🔗 Two Arrows Zen🔗 Black Elk🔗 Worldcentric📺 Future Thinkers Interviews with Ken Wilber🔗 The Five Stages of Grief📖 Compassionate Conversations by Diane Musho Hamilton, Gabriel Wilson, & Kimberly Loh📺 The Role and Importance of the Teacher by Ken McLeod See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Get full access to Buddhist Geeks at www.buddhistgeeks.org/subscribe