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The purpose of these events is to gather wonderful people and to converse on the core themes of the Trumpocalypse essays published on Metapsychosis.com. This session dives into the theme of LIFE POWER. Led by Trumpocalypse creators and featuring diverse & visionary guests: let’s have generative dialogues!

Douglas Prater is an author, musician, media engineer, and designer of audio tracks that offer support for meditation, flow states, and personal development. In this episode, we discuss how audio brainwave entrainment technology can be used to cultivate consciousness, creativity, and mental health, especially when used in the context of a holistic or integral practice.

In this outtake from Infinite Conversations LIVE, Greg Thomas talks with Marco and Ed Mahood about the life and literary legacy of Albert Murray, whose Collected Essays & Memoirs were published by the Library of America in 2016. We discuss Murray’s ideas on Omni-American identity, culture and race, and his conception of “antagonistic cooperation”…

In Part 2 of their talk, Caroline and Marco continue exploring the relation between meditation and the body. Can meditation can help transmute the karma that comes with the development of abstract thinking and the rise of civilization? Caroline argues that the expansion of the notion of the individual I, which may have once conferred advantage, is now massively maladaptive on a planetary scale.

In this episode, Marco and Caroline formulate their responses to the Buddhist Geeks podcast episode “Secularizing Buddhist Ethics” with Vincent Horn and Stephen Batchelor. Caroline explains how her understanding of the ways consciousness materially evolves in complex systems—via Douglas Hofstadter of Godel, Escher, Bach and Maturana/Varela’s Santiago School Theory of Cognition—intersects profoundly with her understanding of Buddhism.

John Davis and Marco V Morelli discuss who could benefit from Clean Language training, and John attempts to help Marco understand how Clean Language could help writers and artists develop richer metaphorical landscapes. John also relates his experiences as a counselor and activist during the AIDS crisis, and touches on how psychic and paranormal experiences have informed his creative writing.

In this kickoff episode of The Electric Symposium I am joined by author and Metapsychosis contributor J.F. Martel, as well as Metapsy editors Natalie Bantz and Marco V Morelli. Together we talk about J.F.’s latest essay, “Reality is Analog,” our curious fascination with the “lifeworld” of 80s analog, and the Metapsy team’s various theories behind the pop cultural Netflix sensation, “Stranger Things.”

Jenn Zahrt and host Marco V Morelli discuss a series of Jenn’s poems recently published in Metapsychosis journal under the titles “Dialogues with the Inscrutable” and “There is a Hydrogen Bomb on Your Raspberry Eyelid.”

J.F. Martel is a writer and filmmaker living in Ottawa, Canada. He is the author of Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, published by North Atlantic Books. This episode is a companion to J.F.’s essay, “Consciousness in the Aesthetic Imagination,” published in Metapsychosis.

How can organizations support our authentic and meaningful engagement in work we actually care about? How can we value openness, participation, reputation, legitimacy, connectivity, and abundance in the way we work together? How can we can organize in ways that liberate rather than stifle our creative spirit? Social philosopher Bonnitta Roy thinks we need a new kind of organization to meet these challenges. She calls it the Open Participatory Organization….

What happens when we bring some of the same principles of a meditation or mindfulness practice into our conversations with each other? That is to say, what becomes possible when we become fully present and engaged in the experience of listening, speaking, and relating to others as a dialogical practice?

A discussion of Winter of Origins—the #litgeeks book club reading of The Ever-Present Origin, by Jean Gebser—with Jeremy D. Johnson. We explore how a return to literary, philosophical, and spiritual origins could reinvigorate our creativity and communities of thought.

This pilot episode of the Infinite Conversations podcast—featuring writer, actor, mystic, and activist Mark Binet—explores the difficult relationship between art, commerce, and activism—and asks to what degree contemporary artists are implicated in unjust systems and self-serving motives. Must an artist necessarily oppose power, or can she work with power—especially economic power—to serve noble ends? What might be these ends be? In other words: What are the ethics of aesthetics?