Panel discussion on Connective Intelligence at the Psychedelic Society's 5th birthday festival, featuring:
Stephen Reid: Transdisciplinary thinker, cultural changemaker and metamodern mystic http://stephenreid.net/
Phoebe Tickell: Renegade scientist, complex systems designer and social entrepreneur http://phoebetickell.com/
David Satori: Founder of Myceliate - mushroom cultivation, wild food walks and medicine workshops in London https://www.myceliate.org/
Chaired by Tom Mansfield https://paleblue.uk/
Dr Andy Letcher is a writer, performer and scholar of religion who began life as an ecologist, completing his D.Phil in Ecology at Oxford University. After a spell as an environmental activist during the 90s, especially during the anti-roads protests, he moved across to the humanities, completing a PhD at King Alfred’s College Winchester. He is an expert on contemporary alternative spiritualities, especially modern Paganism, neo-shamanism and psychedelic spiritualities. A writer known for his critical approach, he is the author of Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom and a range of academic papers on subjects as diverse as fairies, animism, folklore, bardism and Druidry. He wrote the companion volume to The English Magic Tarot. A folk musician, he plays English bagpipes and Dark Age lyre, and for ten years fronted psych-folk band, Telling the Bees.
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Schumacher College: https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk
Extinction Rebellion: http://rebellion.earth
Earth Wisdom Tenders: https://www.facebook.com/groups/725194284575006/
The Psychedelic Society: http://psychedelicsociety.org.uk
Apocalyptic Witchcraft: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18680114-apocalyptic-witchcraft
Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/877432.Shroom
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Talk given at Fungi Fest on 6th October 2019 in London. Pretty much ad lib, no slides.
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New Mystical Anarchists Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/mystical.anarchists/
Alnoor on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alnoorladha
The Rules: https://therules.org/
Brave Earth/Tierra Valiente: https://www.braveearth.com/
Psychedelic Communities, Social Justice, and Kinship in the Capitalocene https://kahpi.net/psychedelic-communities-social-justice/
Mystical Anarchism: A Journey to the Borderlands of Freedom https://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/mystical-anarchism-a-journey-to-the-borderlands-of-freedom/
Seeing Wetiko: On Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition https://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/seeing-wetiko-on-capitalism-mind-viruses-and-antidotes-for-a-world-in-transition/
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An interview with Halea Isabelle Kala, director of Transmodernity (https://www.transmodernity.org/), recorded November 2018.
Mentions The Psychedelic Society, Satish Kumar, Schumacher College, Alexa Clay, Metamoderna, Emerge and Rebel Wisdom.
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Audio from the event Psychedelics, Extinction and Social Change with Stephen Reid and Gail Bradbrook (co-founder of Extinction Rebellion) at Conway Hall on Tuesday 15th January 2019. Video with slides at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7jttWq4WjY
Mentions The Psychedelic Society, Extinction Rebellion, Charles Eisenstein, Alan Watts, Rupert Sheldrake, Metamoderna/Hanzi Freinacht, Frederic Laloux / Reinventing Organizations, Noyanete/Jakon Rate, UK Uncut, New Economics Foundation, Green Party of England and Wales, The Labour Party, 350.org, 38 Degrees, Greenpeace UK, Shambala Festival and Nowhere.
Recent inspiration from Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jordan Hall, Bonnitta Roy, Nora Bateson, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Jamie Wheal, Max Borders, Daniel Thorson, Richard Dennis Bartlett, Phoebe Tickell, David Luke, Robin Carhart-Harris, Enspiral, DAOstack, Emerge, Rebel Wisdom, Future Thinkers, Inner Truth, Alter Ego, The Future Is Beautiful, The On Being Project and For the Wild.
OLD STORY → NEW STORY
Geomechanical → Gaian
Sustainable → Regenerative
Linear → Nonlinear
Complicated → Complex
Rivalrous → Antirivalrous
Fragile → Antifragile
Materialist → Idealist/Animist
Postmodern → Metamodern
SLIDES
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1t07v3vftAElIcXXqBpiKeqQhwBr8-pqyf_EI5dA7CIk/edit?usp=sharing
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An interview with Alexander Beiner of Rebel Wisdom.
Mentions David Fuller, Stefana Bosse, Rafia Morgan, Indra Adnan, The Alternative, Jordan Greenhall, John Vervaeke, Jordan Peterson, Hanzi Freinacht, Daniel Gortz, Emil Ejner Fris, Metamoderna, Alter Ego
Hanzi's Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=559489611232678&id=100015149321507
Ali's Downfall response: https://www.captiongenerator.com/1283742/Hanzi-Freinacht-Loses-It
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