100 episodes
Expanding Mind Erik Davis
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- Society & Culture
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4.8 • 200 Ratings
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Progressiveradionetwork.com presents Expanding Mind with Erik Davis. He explores the culture of consciousness: magic, spirituality, psychology, technology.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.”
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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).
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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.
Customer Reviews
50th birthday
I was there in San Francisco for Erik Davis’s 50th birthday party in some theater downtown.. an old psychedelic film montage from the 60’s was played...followed by a creepy bit of an Old Alan Watts audio tape at the end of which he asks everyone in the audience to start laughing quite angrily..and then screams it...everyone in the audience but me started laughing like robots..then the filmed ended..strange place..stranger evening
Not liking it.
This is for the baby boomers. The good ol days kind of vibe.
Rise Lazarus (or u picked a fine time to leave me:)
As global events spiral out into new and weirder unprecedented depths, we could use the wit and wisdom of Mr Davis and his guests more than ever. The archive of shows is a treasure chest I enjoy exploring, the breadth and depth of which will stand as a thorough contribution to our current intellectual, cultural and spiritual life. Mr Davis has certainly “earned” his break or retirement of the the show but a return would be most welcome. The world needs guidance in these strange times. We seem to be facing a portal of sorts, hopefully into a brighter and more mindful future but such a future needs to be articulated, shared and envisioned. The lame stream media can’t be counted on for this role, “elders” like Mr Davis can though. Much thanks and praises 🙏