Ari in the Air

Spencer is a highliner, one of the best in the world. He's a freesoloist, walking across 1'' webbing thousands of feet in the air without a tether. He's also incredibly handy, building, modifying, engineering nearly anything with whatever is available. He's been telling us to 'get involved' for every second of 6 years. And this really is the secret that we need right now, to get involved in our own maturation, our own communities, our own food systems, our own shadows, our own cultures. Akira the Don told me yesterday, "politics are downstream of culture, culture is downstream of vibes". We gotta take our culture back by taking back our vibes. We gotta get involved in how we feel, how we act, how we think. We literally have to get involved in our own evolution as a species; each person growing up and taking responsibility and thus raising the tides, bringing all boats up into a new level of personhood, a new way of being, thinking and doing. If you like this podcast, SHARE, REVIEW AND DONATE! www.paypal.me/ariintheair Thanks to Spencer for being an inspiration. And thanks to you for listening to and supporting this podcast. I love you for it. I love you either way, really. I also mention Andy Lewis, GGBY, Squamish highline gathering, The Cheif, base jumping, Akira the Don, The Stoa, and more. Stay tuned ya'll!!!

What YOU Can Do, NOW by Ari in the Air

Have we overreacted to Covid? Have we given our power away to coronavirus? This is a genuine inquiry that I'm in. This episode I talk about what its like to use a tool like world governments to address social issues and our pandemic, I talk about the fact that where I live, there is no pandemic, and that what NYC needs to do to control their outbreak is very different than what we need to be doing here in Oregon to respond to our own situation. Please support this podcast by subscribing and sharing, leaving a review really helps, if you'd be so kind! Also, keep this show going by donating at www.paypal.me/ariintheair

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.

Shane is a permaculturalist and agriculture consultant, and talking with him changed some of my perspectives on some big topics. In this episode he outlines that without a permanent system of agriculture, one that is truly sustainable, permanent civilization is impossible. We also talk about human nature and how it is typically misconstrued and weaponized against us. We talk about politicized science, the ecological impact of the coronavirus lockdown, which he argues that it is not big, because our agriculture has not been impeded or reformed in the midst of pandemic. Its an amazing talk I hope you enjoy it. Find Shane at www.actionecology.com Please support this show by sharing, subscribing and by leaving a review! It helps! Support by donating! 100% listener supported show. www.paypal.me/ariintheair From Shane's bio on Action Ecology's site - "Shane Ward is a regenerative land use & soil health consultant, speaker, teacher and communicator passionate about sustainable food production, ecosystem restoration, plant & soil ecology as well as designing closed-loop systems. Shane brings an international perspective, scientific rigour and pragmatic approach to his work - drawing on innovations from both on-the-ground practitioners and scientific research. In addition to his consulting work, Shane also enjoys teaching and speaking engagements both locally and abroad and is also actively engaged in getting his hands dirty and developing and experimenting on his own small property, and in the future looks forwards to bringing his expertise to international development work, sustainable food-system design and large-scale land regeneration. In previous careers, Shane has also worked at a senior level in large FTSE100 organisations as a communications specialist in the financial, banking, property and energy sectors in addition to many years working in Film & Television in creative, technical and business/project management roles."

Terry Patten is a lifelong anti-war and civil rights activist, turned spiritual teacher and philosopher. He's the co-author of Integral Life Practice and the author of A New Republic of the Heart. He's been a devotee, he's been a teacher. He's been an leader of peace movements and human potential movements. He's an OG, a legend, a wise mentor for a lot of us. This conversation is one of, if not the, most impactful conversations I've had on this show. Terry left me feeling seen and heard, loved and supported, empowered and encouraged. I hope you get similar effects from this episode. I am so so so grateful to have Terry on the show. Here's Terry's website, I encourage you to check it out. https://www.terrypatten.com Please support this show by sharing, subscribing and by leaving a review! It helps! Support by donating! 100% listener supported show. www.paypal.me/ariintheair From Terry's Website... "As a philosopher-activist, he has long been a leading voice for facing, examining, and healing our global crisis through the marriage of higher consciousness and activism. As creator and host of the webcast “Beyond Awakening,” he has explored the biggest questions of our time in over a hundred public conversations with some of the world’s most prominent and dynamic thought leaders. As a teacher and coach, he has introduced thousands of people to Integral Practice in person and over the web where he created and taught the online courses, Integral Spiritual Practice, Living the Integral Heart, An Integral Soul Journey, and Awakening Your Revolutionary Heart. And he has helped hundreds of people activate a transformative practice, realize awakened consciousness, and discover and fulfill their life purpose."

Rich, co-founder of The Hum (a non-heirarchical business consultancy), is back to talk about the differences, both positive and negative, with virtual and physical relationships. We talk about how geographical location affects his work at Enspiral and how a 'home base' can alter our feelings. We talk about a ton of stuff in this episode, so tune in and enjoy. Here’s some of Rich's articles that we talk about. You can find him on Medium. https://medium.com/@richdecibels https://medium.com/microsolidarity/how-to-weave-social-fabric-9385a841559f Please support this show by sharing, subscribing and by leaving a review! It helps! Support by donating! 100% listener supported show. www.paypal.me/ariintheair Thanks so much for your time and insight Rich! Really fun interview and some really great things to think about. From Loomio's website about Rich "I have a background in open source hardware (as Rich Decibels) and creative community organising (with Concerned Citizens Collective). I got swept up in the Occupy movement when it arrived in Wellington in 2011. I’ve always been pretty concerned about the so-called ‘wicked problems’ facing society: runaway climate change, resource depletion, ecosystem collapse, and the pervading sense of alienation throughout society… This Occupy experience totally transformed my view on all that – it was the first time I’ve ever really had any hope for the future. My participation in that movement lead me to believe that there’s no problem that can’t be solved by an engaged community of empathetic equals. Occupy totally changed my life, and my hope is that Loomio can make that transformative experience much more sustainable, and accessible to millions of other people."

There is a reality rarely seen, that shows the limits of our ability to understand the complexities that we live in. This concept, coined Hyperobjects by Timothy Morton, is a humble way of placing our own ability to understand complexity. This is coupled with the increasingly obvious reality that our old systems are simply not fit to address the problems and meet the needs of our global community, especially for the future which is unseen and unknowable. We're constantly solving for right where we are, which is leaving us a day late and a dollar short time and time again. My point in this episode is that there is a better way to think, a better way to frame the question, the problems. Instead of staying stuck in a Left/Right, Me/You, Us/Them battle where we're forced to take a multiple choice test (voting) between two futures that are bought and sold by greed and power by people who have never talked to us about it and who, frankly, don't give a fuck about us. This episode is an invitation into a global collaboration of our future. We are building a new world, together. Please support this podcast by subscribing, reviewing and by donating at www.paypal.me/ariintheair Also mentioned is Zak Stein, tim morton, terry patten, rich bartlett and more.

Howard wrote his first article studying virtual communities 1987. Yes, 1987. That's before the official internet and long before anything that resembled what we know of today as social media. In 2012 he authored the book, Net Smart; How to Thrive Online, which laid out 5 essential literacies for users of digital communication and networks. He’s got a ton of great insights and perspectives on our current situation with Facebook and Google and Youtube. He’s hopeful it seems, and he doesn’t bash the tech itself. Rather, he tries to empower its users to see it for what it is, and to make the most of it. Find Howard’s work online at www.rheingold.com and on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/howardrheingold Please support this show by sharing, subscribing and by leaving a review! It helps! Support by donating! 100% listener supported show. www.paypal.me/ariintheair Thanks to everyone who has listened, shared, donated and encouraged me on this podcast. It means a lot to me, I’m so grateful. So much good stuff coming up. Stay tuned! The About Section from Howard’s Website reads as follows “I fell into the computer realm from the typewriter dimension in 1981, then plugged my computer into my telephone in 1983 and got sucked into the net. In earlier years, my interest in the powers of the human mind led to Higher Creativity (1984), written with Willis Harman, Talking Tech(1982) and The Cognitive Connection (1986) with Howard Levine, Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind: A Book of Memes (1988),Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming (1990), with Stephen LaBerge, and They Have A Word For It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases.(1988). I ventured further into the territory where minds meet technology through the subject of computers as mind-amplifiers and wrote Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Amplifiers (1984). Next, Virtual Reality (1991)chronicled my odyssey in the world of artificial experience, from simulated battlefields in Hawaii to robotics laboratories in Tokyo, garage inventors in Great Britain, and simulation engineers in the south of France. In 1994, I was one of the principal architects and the first Executive Editor of HotWired. I quit after launch, because I wanted something more like a jam session than a magazine. In 1996, I founded and, with the help of a crew of 15, launched Electric Minds. Electric Minds was named one of the ten best web sites of 1996 by Time magazine and was acquired by Durand Communications in 1997. My 2002 book, Smart Mobs, was acclaimed as a prescient forecast of the always-on era. In 2005, I taught a course at Stanford University on A Literacy of Cooperation, part of a long-term investigation of cooperation and collective action that I have undertaken in partnership with the Institute for the Future. The Cooperation Commons is the site of our ongoing investigation of cooperation and collective action.The TED talk I delivered about “Way New Collaboration” has been viewed more than 265,000 times. In 2008, I was a winner in MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning competition and used my award to work with a developer to create a free and open source social media classroom. I have a YouTube channel that covers a range of subjects. Most recently, I’ve been concentrating on learning and teaching 21st Century literacies. I’ve blogged about this subject for SFGate, have been interviewed, and have presented talks on the subject. I was invited to deliver the 2012 Regents’ Lecture at University of California, Berkeley. I also teach online courses through Rheingold U. My latest book, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online, published in 2012, was reviewed in Science.”

Peter is a philosopher and steward at The Stoa. He's got some really useful ideas about how we should be thinking right now, and more importantly, how we should be embodying our philosophies. We discuss stoicism, method acting, the memetic war, the culture war, his ideas about culture war 2.0, the difference between truth and truthfulness and why truthfulness is our only way to get through our current meta crisis. I really appreciate peter's work at the stoa and his time coming on the podcast. Read Peter's article "The Memetic Tribes of Culture War 2.0" here - https://medium.com/s/world-wide-wtf/memetic-tribes-and-culture-war-2-0-14705c43f6bb Find the Stoa at www.thestoa.ca