Expanding Mind

Futurist, Ethereum programmer, and critical infrastructure guru Vinay Gupta talks about global poverty, practical enlightenment, galvanizing visions, and the wisdom of uncertainty.

Anthropologist Jack Hunter talks about possession, parapsychology, permaculture, and the elusive ontology of spiritual beings. 

Musician and Gnome Life label head Fletcher Tucker talks about living through the Big Sur landslides, hunting for songs, and his haunting new eco-folk record Cold Spring.

Transpersonal psychologist Jorge Ferrer talks about participatory spirituality, the problems with perennialism,and his new book Participation and the Mystery. 

North American Qawwali musician Tahir Faridi Qawwal talks about sacred improvisation, the mystic bliss of qawwali music, breaking into tradition, and building bridges between East and West with his group Fanna-Fi-Allah. www.fanna-fi-allah.com

Psychologist Dr. Angelica Ortiz de Gortari talks about earworms, closed eye visuals, virtual reality dreams, and the many ways that computer games bleed into the offscreen lives of gamers.

Neuroscientist and former psychedelic researcher Matthew Baggot talks about anxious mysticism, the MAPS conference, the default mode network, and the blind spots within psychedelic research.

Hypermedia researcher and author Konrad Becker talks about algorithms from hell, the madness of rationality, media seances, and the martial art of freedom. http://world-information.net/en/

Occult book dealer and underground musician Richard Bishop talks about modern grimoires, scorpion gods, Orientalist imagery, and hunting down physical books in the age of the Internet. 

A. Hameed Ali, a respected spiritual leader and founder of the Diamond Approach, dives into the complexities of truth in today's post-truth era. He discusses the importance of subjective truths and promotes a grounded path in spiritual inquiry. The conversation explores diverse spiritual experiences, the transformative journey of consciousness, and the challenges posed by fundamentalism. Ali emphasizes the necessity of embracing pluralism and genuine human connections, especially as digital platforms reshape our understanding of spiritual teachings.