History of Philosophy Audio Archive

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon (00:00:00) - Intro (00:00:50) - Part 4: Fractal History (00:54:51 ) - Part 5: Creativity and the Imagination (1/2) (01:40:24) - Part 6: Creativity and the Imagination (2/2) -//- Part 4 - Fractal History at the Edge of the Millennium The fractal idea of history, and millennia as the plateaus of history. These bifurcation periods as opportunities to influence the creation of the future. What kind of future or change are we trying to create? The need for the enhancement and spread of clarity. Psychic pets and their role in breaking the spell of rationalism. Psychedelics, the World Wide Web and psychic pets as forms of boundary dissolution. The need for change in the educational system. The problem of the rejection of mathematics. Part 5 - Creativity and the Imagination (1/2) The crisis in science: collision between the permanent and evolutionary views of the nature of reality. The universe as an evolving system of habits. Did natural law exist before the Big Bang? Cosmic creativity, imagination and the womb of chaos. Chaotic sudden perturbations. The Omega Point. The ego's response to chaos. The cosmic attractor in the evolutionary process. Part 6 - Creativity and the Imagination (2/2) How is human imagination related to the creative principle of nature? The nature of the Gaian mind. Human history as a Gaian dream. The Divine Imagination as the source of all creativity. How can we extract the message of the Gaian mind? How could the imaginations of the solar system, galaxy and cosmos be related to each other? Dark matter and the cosmic unconscious. The nature of the Logos. The personal apocalypse. The journey of language to the Divine Imagination. Natural law, ordinary reality and chaos.

A DMT priest, an evolutionary biologist, and a chaos mathematician walk into a hot-tub in California... (00:00:00) - Host Intro (00:00:43) - Cast of Characters (00:51:12) - The Evolutionary Mind (02:00:17) - Superintelligent AI -//- My Patreon! Buy the ticket, take the ride! https://patreon.com/hemlockpatreon Descriptions courtesy Sheldrake.org https://www.sheldrake.org/audios/the-sheldrake-mckenna-abraham-trialogues Part 1 - Cast of Characters An introduction to the first series of public trialogues held at Esalen, California in 1989. Morphic Resonance, the novelty wave, chaos mathematics, and their roles in the paradigm shift. The vision of nature as alive, and a new understanding of the soul of the world. The three masks - evolutionary creativity, the cosmic imagination and chaos. Insights into the nature of time. The practical application of chaos theory to the problems of the world. The human soul as a reflection of the world soul. Part 2 - The Evolutionary Mind 1998, UC Santa Cruz. What could have been the cause for the breakthrough in the evolution of human consciousness around 50,000 years ago? Collective memories of predation and how they may shape our minds today. The role of the imagination in our evolution. Physiological evolution and the idea of divine brain surgery. The psilocybin hypothesis. The transformation of human nature through connection with higher levels of consciousness in the universe. The universal information field and cosmic evolution. Part 3 - Superintelligent AI 1998, UC Santa Cruz. A discussion on the evolution of consciousness as it relates to machines. Symbolic logic, nanotechnology and the possibility of a synthetic super-intelligence. Artificial Intelligence as a part of ourselves that could shape our evolution. Virtual computers as the source of the AI. Partnership or conflict between human and machine? How much control do we have in the evolution of machine intelligence? Challenges to the premises of the AI argument. Quantum computers, machine-time and the possibilities of the World Wide Web. Enjoy

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(00:00:00) Introduction (00:01:23) The Thresholds of Mythology (00:56:06) The Inward Journey (01:44:15) Confrontation of East and West In Religion (02:33:56) Imagery of Rebirth in Yoga (03:27:28) The World Soul -//- Come join my Patreon! ⁠https://www.patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Recorded in 1969. Enjoy

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How can the economy be reorganized to serve human needs and preserve the environment while maintaining growth and technological advancement? What future technologies promise a better future? Jeremy Rifkin is a path-breaking and heretical economist with a vision of a future in which the economy is re-conceived from the ground-up to ensure that everyone has what they need in order to flourish. -//- Credit for the episode art: https://www.reddit.com/r/VaporwaveAesthetics/comments/5lf1qz/hokusai_vaporwave/

It's election season and Professor Roy would like to tell you how unreal the Presidency is and give you some political science pointers while he's at it.

"I am suing the cigarette company - I have been smoking nothing but Pall Malls since I was 11. Right there on the package it says 'this stuff will kill you' - and I'm still alive, god damn it!" -Kurt Vonnegut, 81 years, old, Case Western Reserve University, 2004.

David Bentley Hart is an American theologian that works at the intersection of faith, philosophy, aesthetics, and Eastern religion. In this talk, he discusses the convergences of thought between (so-called) Eastern and Western mystics and outlines his critique of New Atheism. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt9HSQZMQYM Enjoy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bentley_Hart

How would a Marxist economy function without a state that backs property rights? How could a corporation operate without a board of directors? How could wealth be redistributed in an orderly, rational, and humane way? These questions and more answered in Professor Richard Wolff's seminar on the fundamentals of practical Marxist economics. Enjoy. -//- Original video: https://youtu.be/T9Whccunka4?si=BJSo2f64p5TTPDUv