Expanding Mind

Erik Davis

Progressiveradionetwork.com presents Expanding Mind with Erik Davis. He explores the culture of consciousness: magic, spirituality, psychology, technology.

  • 58 minutes 10 seconds
    Expanding Mind – Summer Pause
     Erik reflects on a decade of podcasting, the learning curves of the show, the work of conversation, the uncanniness of our moment.  
    20 June 2019, 1:00 pm
  • 57 minutes 5 seconds
    Expanding Mind – Liminal Mind
    A conversation with my wife Jennifer Dumpert about collaborative dreaming, iPad skrying, meditation, play, the problem with interpretation, and her new bookLiminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep (North Atlantic).   
    13 June 2019, 8:01 pm
  • 58 minutes 37 seconds
    Expanding Mind – Deconstructing Yourself
    A discussion with meditation teacher and author Michael Taft  about hardcore dharma, Buddhist modernism, shop talk, the soup of the sangha, and the problem of the achievement self and the blind leading the blind.  
    6 June 2019, 6:14 pm
  • 57 minutes 45 seconds
    Expanding Mind – Queering Psychedelia
    An informative chat with psychedelic researcher Dr. Alexander Belser about qualitative research, the Mystical Experience Questionnaire, queer spiritualities, and the idea of coming “out of the psychedelic closet.”
    23 May 2019, 2:13 pm
  • 58 minutes 3 seconds
    Expanding Mind – Sacred Matter
    A conversation with philosopher of religion Mary-Jane Rubenstein about wonder, horror, animism, the multiverse, Heidegger, Einstein, Hawaiian telescopes, and her book Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (Columbia).  
    16 May 2019, 5:32 pm
  • 57 minutes 38 seconds
    Expanding Mind – Patterns of Transformation
    A talk with experience designer Ida Benedetto about transformative games, trespassing, rules for sex parties, active introversion, magic circles, funerals, and queer spirituality.   
    2 May 2019, 5:09 pm
  • 56 minutes 59 seconds
    Expanding Mind – Decriminalize Nature
    Entheogenic and community activists Larry Norris and Kufikiri talk about decriminalizing entheogenic plant medicines within Oakland: blind spots, changing the narrative, and resisting “the metronome of programming."  
    26 April 2019, 3:07 pm
  • 57 minutes 27 seconds
    Expanding Mind – Feral Poetics

    Poet Janaka Stucky talks about guerrilla poetry, burlesque horror, mystical language, shame, prophecy, and the strange DMT experiences that inspired his latest book, Ascend Ascend (Third Mind Books).

    18 April 2019, 6:55 pm
  • 55 minutes 14 seconds
    Expanding Mind – Meditation Apps
    Science and technology researcher Rebecca Jablonsky talks about consciousness hacking, tech ethnography, information ecosystems, media fasts, and the ups and downs of outsourcing awareness.  
    11 April 2019, 6:49 pm
  • 57 minutes 39 seconds
    Expanding Mind – Ouija Board Poetics
    Poet and literary scholar Stephen Yenser talks about James Merrill's poetic epic The Changing Light at Sandover (1982).   
    4 April 2019, 5:55 pm
  • 58 minutes 8 seconds
    Expanding Mind – Yoga Tales
    Yogi, psychonaut, and dear old pal Spiros Antonopoulos returns to talk about the Ashtanga lineage, Crowley’s yoga chops, NYC punk yoga, and psychedelic Patanjali.
    28 March 2019, 6:38 pm
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