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Curious on Earth crafts slower media for an era of one-minute attention spans. Host Henry Soinnunmaa is a Finnish musician, writer and amateur generalist.
Some topics and keywords: deep time, cognition, creativity, mental health, technology, religion, play, ecology, sexuality, slowing down, AI, wisdom, cold swimming, reality tunnels, movement, stillness, psychedelics, antifragility, conscientiousness, beginner mindset, political polarization, pratītyasamutpāda, magic, music, game b, altered states of consciousness, commitment, BJJ, decentralization, energy policy, dance, language, adulting, drug policy, meditation, metamodernism, meaning crisis, neurodiversity, emergence, honesty, sensemaking, animalness, (post)rationality, media, death, love.
Teen myös suomenkielistä Ihmisiä, siis eläimiä -podcastia: @ihmisiis
Curious on Earth crafts slower media for an era of one-minute attention spans. Host Henry Soinnunmaa is a Finnish musician, writer and amateur generalist.
Some topics and keywords: deep time, cognition, creativity, mental health, technology, religion, play, ecology, sexuality, slowing down, AI, wisdom, cold swimming, reality tunnels, movement, stillness, psychedelics, antifragility, conscientiousness, beginner mindset, political polarization, pratītyasamutpāda, magic, music, game b, altered states of consciousness, commitment, BJJ, decentralization, energy policy, dance, language, adulting, drug policy, meditation, metamodernism, meaning crisis, neurodiversity, emergence, honesty, sensemaking, animalness, (post)rationality, media, death, love.
Teen myös suomenkielistä Ihmisiä, siis eläimiä -podcastia: @ihmisiis
9 Episodes
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You can support this podcast on Patreon: http://patreon.com/curiousonearth
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Episode 9: Philosopher of education and futurist Zak Stein. This episode was recorded on March 12, 2024.
Video version: https://youtu.be/6OOCLUijhZQ
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00:00:00 Foreword
00:02:18 AI and metacrisis.
00:05:13 Technology and humanity.
00:09:04 Both centralized and decentralized solutions.
00:15:42 What is education?
00:18:43 The uniqueness of human learning.
00:23:24 The dialectic between learning and education.
00:27:27 Reading is not seeing is not hearing.
00:32:48 A catastrophe that will be hard to recognize until it's too late.
00:36:32 Intrinsic values.
00:39:37 Love – the last value standing?
00:48:29 The Eye of Value and vulnerable forms of life.
00:51:37 The infinite value of a tree.
00:54:59 Desires.
00:59:53 Truth without experts.
01:05:17 Postmodernism and values.
01:08:26 Beyond postmodernism.
01:17:29 Planetary culture superstructure.
01:22:44 Social media and the pressure to have a public opinion.
01:26:33 The proper value of education, learning and technology.
01:28:13 Afterword
Zak's web page https://www.zakstein.org/
The Consilience Project https://consilienceproject.org
Zak's book Education in a Time Between Worlds https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44125536-education-in-a-time-between-worlds
Zak in Emerge podcast (episode AI Tutor Acocalypse) https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/zak-stein-ai-tutor-apocalypse/id1057220344?i=1000610403148
Scott Alexander's article Love and Liberty https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/love-and-liberty
Zak's essay on the Eye of Value: https://www.zakstein.org/uploads/1/4/2/4/142408092/opening_the_eye_of_value_stein_2024.pdf
David Chapman's Meaningness https://meaningness.com
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Driven by a deep thirst for understanding, Curious on Earth is a slow enough podcast by Henry Soinnunmaa, Finnish musician, writer and amateur generalist.
Facebook: https://facebook.com/curiousonearth
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Instagram: https://instagram.com/curiousonearth
You can support this podcast on Patreon: http://patreon.com/curiousonearth
Episode details: https://www.patreon.com/posts/96851116
My Finnish Patreon page http://patreon.com/soinnunmaanhenry
Episode 8: Erika Dyck, professor of the history of medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
This episode was recorded on November 25th, 2024.
Video version: https://youtu.be/OFEie24ocN8
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00:00:00 In this episode...
00:00:47 Foreword
00:03:16 How Erika started doing LSD research
00:05:38 Neglected areas of LSD research
00:09:01 LSD research in Saskatchewan
00:15:26 Canada's involvement in World Wars
00:17:43 Humphry Osmond, LSD research pioneer
00:22:25 Etymology of "hallucinogen"
00:27:52 What is (a) psychedelic?
00:31:32 Origin story of "psychedelic"
00:34:15 Psychedelics and new cognitive categories
00:41:06 Interdisciplinary psychedelic conferences
00:42:53 Psychedelic ethics
00:47:32 Osmond and Saskatchewan
00:56:42 Native American Church
00:59:31 Psychedelics and reductionism
01:05:27 Peyote rituals and history of NAC
01:16:56 Psychedelic therapy and ceremony
01:22:26 Myths about indigenous use of psychedelics
01:27:12 Psychedelics, schizophrenia and AA
01:34:54 LSD inspired architecture
01:42:25 Huxleys
01:52:04 Neglected women in historical narratives
02:01:22 Rita and Al Hubbard
02:14:26 Sidney Cohen and side effects of LSD
02:19:39 Psychedelic backlash
02:27:12 Moral panics
02:34:03 Drugs – genuine concern or convenient scapegoats?
02:42:11 Unpredictability of psychedelics
02:51:27 Better drug education
02:55:49 Drug propaganda and institutions
02:58:32 Hype and psychedelic philanthropy
03:04:47 End of the first wave of psychedelic research
03:14:00 Final questions
03:17:57 Afterword
Erika's X https://t.ly/9KtSx
Erika's LinkedIn https://t.ly/22i2A
Erika's university page https://t.ly/xrFz1
Osmond's and Smythie's Schizophrenia: A New Approach https://t.ly/c_4Nl
Erika's book Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus https://t.ly/9Q3QL
The Hallucinogens by Hoffer and Osmond https://t.ly/YPlKL
Rick Doblin's psychedelic house https://t.ly/weel2
Noidan käsikirja (Usborne Guide to the Supernatural World) https://t.ly/cST3U
Sidney Cohen's 1960 paper https://t.ly/YYerw
Sidney Cohen's 1962 paper https://t.ly/V80f5
Sidney Cohen's 1963 paper https://t.ly/bB2ef
Stuart Hall Moral panic book https://t.ly/sK1rF
Pace and Devenot on right-wing psychedelia https://t.ly/6mbDe
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Curious on Earth crafts slower media in an era of one-minute attention spans. Host Henry Soinnunmaa is a Finnish musician, writer and amateur generalist.
Facebook: https://facebook.com/curiousonearth
X: https://x.com/curiousonearth
Instagram: https://instagram.com/curiousonearth
You can support this podcast on Patreon: http://patreon.com/curiousonearth
My thoughts on / introduction to the episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/93324871
My Finnish Patreon page mentioned on the podcast: http://patreon.com/soinnunmaanhenry
Episode 7: Wilderness guide, survival expert, sustainability consult and critical system thinker Huck Middeke.
This episode was recorded on Sep 25th, 2023
Video version: https://youtu.be/y3iB_zHRE4o
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00:00:00 Foreword
00:08:06 Introduction
00:10:34 What is a yurt?
00:19:54 The backstory of Huck's yurt
00:27:11 Yurt practicalities
00:35:43 Huck's basic premises
00:42:29 Circles of awareness and disturbance
00:54:57 We don't know what a sustainable lifestyle looks like
01:03:40 Do humans have a fundamental need to push their limits?
01:08:24 Exploration and the power of the individual
01:18:00 "Normal" lifestyles as an addiction
01:21:05 Superyachts
01:40:23 An intergenerationally sustainable lifestyle cannot be taught
01:47:52 Communities and illusions of independence
01:58:21 Exploring the edge of your comfort zone
02:04:45 Overshoot
02:08:27 You cannot force people into a lifeboat
02:23:06 Will there be a hi-tech civilization in a 100, 1000 or million years?
02:34:00 Celebrating lo-tech
02:42:20 Becoming an interplanetary species
02:55:12 Formula 1 and technological progress
03:05:23 Overshoot and nature deficit disorder
03:11:26 Forest destruction and protection
03:17:38 Nonlinear and slow forest time
03:22:34 Nature connection exercise
03:26:58 How Huck became a wilderness guide
03:36:15 What does a wilderness guide do?
03:45:40 The meaning of the wild
04:01:56 Fear in the wild
04:06:28 What Huck's wilderness sessions entail
04:21:10 Six survival priorities
04:24:40 Barefoot walking and cold exposure
04:40:51 Nomad Town
04:49:01 Creating electricity with a bike
04:51:47 Shared permanent living in Nomad Town
04:57:55 The yurt doesn't need to be warmed up all the time
05:03:02 Clever yurt hacks and other practicalities
05:10:33 Resilience hubs
05:14:17 Defining resilience
05:18:47 Types of survival situations
05:25:15 What to do in a survival situation & the STOP tool
05:32:42 Full moon full stop
05:47:29 The most important survival skills
05:51:56 Survivalism and preppers
05:55:30 Primitivism
06:00:14 Progress
06:03:32 Is there moral progress?
06:06:29 Roots
06:09:32 Fatherhood as biased responsibility
06:12:12 Initiation rites
06:14:52 Short final questions
06:09:11 Afterword
Huck's Linkedin: https://t.ly/GdRrH
Huck's Youtube https://t.ly/pHo9P
Nordic by Nature https://www.nordicbynature.net
Syvä työ – hyvä työ -kirja https://t.ly/8qT0f
Viznut's text about permacomputing https://t.ly/9fsog
Viznut on the Ihmisiä, siis eläimiä podcast https://t.ly/NUzEt
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Driven by a deep thirst for understanding, Curious on Earth is a slow enough podcast by Henry Soinnunmaa, Finnish musician, writer and amateur generalist.
Facebook: https://facebook.com/curiousonearth
Twitter: https://twitter.com/curiousonearth
Instagram: https://instagram.com/curiousonearth
You can support this podcast on Patreon: http://patreon.com/curiousonearth
My thoughts on / introduction to the episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/89445902
Episode 6: Neil Woods, former UK police officer and undercover drugs operative.
This episode was recorded on March 9th, 2023.
Video version: https://youtu.be/kBokFgQ6gP4
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00:00:00 Foreword
00:02:22 How a cop started opposing the drug war
00:05:26 In the beginning, Neil was a terrible cop
00:08:41 You can't talk your way through every conflict
00:11:02 Neil's pioneering undercover work in the UK
00:16:04 Why didn't UK cops learn from US cops?
00:20:14 Opposing approaches to doing undercover work
00:22:41 What people don't know about undercover work
00:27:12 The first time Neil thought he would die
00:30:35 Neil was a good liar.
00:32:41 Difficult ethical conclusions
00:34:27 When you can tell no one what you're doing
00:38:58 Neil's abusive relationship
00:43:19 Vicious encounters with The Burger Bar Boys
00:50:23 What you don't include in your reports
00:55:31 The knife in the groin
01:00:09 Neil's relationship with mortality and trauma
01:06:15 Neil and adrenaline
01:08:37 Saved by instinct and spontaneous aggression
01:16:28 Weaponizing empathy
01:21:16 How Neil and his colleagues harmed people and justified it
01:25:28 Does the militarization of police increase security?
01:33:05 Neil's shocking police corruption story
01:36:43 Instinct
01:39:16 Manipulating vulnerable people
01:42:34 Neil's systematic ruthlessness
01:44:40 Why do intelligent people disagree with Neil on the drug war?
01:51:12 Have the effects of cannabis legalization been a disappointment?
01:54:53 Disadvantaged people bear the burden of the drug war
01:57:35 Prince Harry's comments on psychedelics
02:00:53 How Neil decided to stop being a cop
02:05:55 Policy are leading drug law reform in the UK
02:08:32 Neil – public enemy number one
02:10:32 Short final questions
02:18:25 Afterword
LEAP's (Law Enforcement Action Partnership) web page https://t.ly/YlCx_
Neil's web page https://t.ly/gjGeP
Neil's Twitter https://twitter.com/wudzee0
Neil's books on Goodreads https://t.ly/gKB23
The Heroic Hearts project https://t.ly/hC1hU
Jason Reed's Stop and Search podcast https://t.ly/wMUXB
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Driven by a deep thirst for understanding, Curious on Earth is a slow enough podcast by Henry Soinnunmaa, Finnish musician, writer and amateur generalist.
Facebook: https://facebook.com/curiousonearth
Twitter: https://twitter.com/curiousonearth
Instagram: https://instagram.com/curiousonearth
You can support this podcast on Patreon: http://patreon.com/curiousonearth
My thoughts on / introduction to the episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/87779598
Episode 5: Jeronimo Mazarrasa, social innovation director at ICEERS.
This episode was recorded on March 6th, 2023.
Video version: https://youtu.be/4NRy2fQQi2A
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00:00:00 Foreword
00:02:38 Introduction and Jeronimo's work with ICEERS
00:06:03 What is ayahuasca, and why is this a difficult question?
00:13:14 Ayahuasca as an adaptogen
00:17:40 Preserving and transforming traditions
00:22:51 Difficulties in integrating sacred plants
00:35:09 Yoga, meditation and the stripping of cultural contexts
00:41:48 The collective and communal aspects of ayahuasca practices
00:50:50 Local identity and ancestors
00:58:30 The dark side of glamorizing indigenous traditions
01:10:21 Modern initiation rituals
01:16:44 Psychedelics and the ethics of touch
01:22:54 The role of mentorship and apprenticeship
01:36:35 Tribes and tribalism
01:45:19 Relationships between indigenous and western cultures
01:51:46 Tourism destroys what it looks for
02:01:59 The tensions between individuals and communities
02:13:08 New age, globalization and populism
02:25:44 The unintended consequences of the psychedelic renaissance
02:44:19 After the renaissance, the enlightenment
02:51:33 Ayahuasca accidents, deaths and media panic
03:00:00 Envisioning a positive psychedelic future
03:07:57 Comparing ayahuasca to other risky activities
03:16:20 Proceeding slowly, responding to moral panics
03:24:31 Better ayahuasca practices
03:36:00 Ayahuasca and consent – tricky
03:42:55 The dangers of "ayahuasca told me"
03:55:24 Ayahuasca and narcissists
04:03:42 Brazilian ayahuasca churches
04:15:03 Infrastructural and financial aspects of ayahuasca churches
04:23:04 Innocently disrespectful psychedelic tourists
04:33:05 William Gibson and the starfish
04:41:11 The Ayahuasca Defense Fund
04:45:57 Meaning, disenchantment and psychedelic adaptogens
04:49:17 Psychedelics are hard to categorize
04:54:56 Jeronimo's separation ritual
04:56:51 Forgetting who we are
05:00:51 Short final questions
05:07:29 Afterword
Adam Curtis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis
A collection of Jeronimo's talks and interviews https://t.ly/VURFn
Jeronimo's film with Bruce Parry, Tawai: A Voice From the Forest https://www.tawai.earth
Jeronimo's Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ayadox
ICEERS: web page https://www.iceers.org/
ICEERS: Safety and Integration courses https://iceersacademy.mykajabi.com
ICEERS: "Towards Better Ayahuasca Practices" guide https://t.ly/N4gAu
ICEERS: Twitter https://twitter.com/NGO_ICEERS
ICEERS: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/weareiceers/
ICEERS: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ICEERS/
ICEERS: Telegram https://t.me/ICEERS
ADF: Twitter https://twitter.com/DefendAyahuasca
ADF: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/defendayahuasca/
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Driven by a deep thirst for understanding, Curious on Earth is a slow enough podcast by Henry Soinnunmaa, Finnish musician, writer and amateur generalist.
Facebook: https://facebook.com/curiousonearth
Twitter: https://twitter.com/curiousonearth
Instagram: https://instagram.com/curiousonearth
You can support this podcast on Patreon: http://patreon.com/curiousonearth
Episode 4: Ethan Nadelmann, founder and former executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance and host of the Psychoactive podcast.
This episode was recorded on July 20th, 2022.
Video version: https://youtu.be/c0_X6qdVgic
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00:00:00 Foreword
00:02:04 Ethan and Finland.
00:02:47 Ethan's interest in drugs.
00:05:09 Cannabis, psychedelics and drug policy activism.
00:08:07 Psychedelic exceptionalism.
00:11:07 US Constitution and freedom.
00:15:31 Drugs and poison in Portugal.
00:17:26 The Founding Fathers and drug policy.
00:21:31 Freedom of religion and drug use?
00:27:50 Ethan's interest in drug policy reform.
00:32:11 Does the drug war equal prohibition?
00:34:18 Drug war rhetoric in the Philippines.
00:38:30 Drug policy, racism and stigmatization.
00:43:38 Jewish roots as a motivational force.
00:49:49 Drugs and the Third Reich.
00:55:49 Recognizing the end of the drug war.
01:01:12 The war on e-cigarettes.
01:08:47 Snus and nicotine harm reduction.
01:14:11 Black market cannabis after legalization.
01:22:33 Why does prohibition make organized crime more violent?
01:27:20 More effective policing, more violent gangs.
01:34:59 The drug war makes cops stupid and corrupt.
01:39:24 Finnish cops and drug policy reform.
01:44:18 The rise of American neo-fascism.
01:53:10 Reform and anti-drug conservatives.
02:02:28 Liberty, freedom and the left.
02:06:40 Should all drugs be legally regulated?
02:10:52 A dark legalization scenario.
02:14:00 The idea of "a drug free world" as a form of totalitarianism.
02:17:40 Short final questions.
02:22:49 Afterword
Ethan's Twitter https://twitter.com/ethannadelmann
The Psychoactive podcast https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-psychoactive-84544756
Drug Policy Alliance's web site https://drugpolicy.org/
Drug Policy Alliance's Twitter https://twitter.com/DrugPolicyOrg
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Driven by a deep thirst for understanding, Curious on Earth is a slow enough podcast by Henry Soinnunmaa, Finnish musician, writer and amateur generalist.
Facebook: https://facebook.com/curiousonearth
Twitter: https://twitter.com/curiousonearth
Instagram: https://instagram.com/curiousonearth
You can support this podcast on Patreon: http://patreon.com/curiousonearth
Episode 3: Worker, author, musician, storyteller and culture activist Stephen Jenkinson
This episode was recorded on May 25th, 2022
Video version: https://youtu.be/U8HOlrHffZs
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00:00:00 Foreword
00:04:04 A culture that doesn't believe in endings or limitations. Machines and tools.
00:09:06 Tere Vadén, syntytieto and addiction to progress.
00:13:21 Elders and the alchemy of crafting wine.
00:17:10 The rough start of Henry's parenthood and diminishment.
00:20:41 Wisdom and elderhood
00:24:50 Particularity, locality and farming.
00:28:55 Leisure, parenthood and priorities.
00:33:16 Parenting in a sane culture.
00:39:27 Children, temporarity and community
00:44:11 Health and meaning
00:47:20 A wake. Becoming an ancestor.
00:51:02 Embracing ambivalence and temporariness.
00:54:53 What in our behavior shows that we really know that we are dying?
01:02:42 Death avoidance.
01:08:57 Griefwalker and parents faced with the prospect of a dying child.
01:15:10 Grief illiteracy and death phobia. Loving when there's no forever.
01:26:38 Short final questions.
01:31:25 Afterword
Other keywords:
Hands
Prejudice
Parentling
Village
Clarity
Humility
Mastery
Vagrancy
Uncertainty
Prayer
Links:
James W. Jesso's podcast Adventures Through the Mind https://www.jameswjesso.com/podcast
Stephen's book Die Wise https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22716546-die-wise
Griefwalker, a documentary on Stephen's work https://www.nfb.ca/film/griefwalker
Stephen's page Orphan Wisdom https://orphanwisdom.com/
Orphan Wisdom's Facebook https://www.facebook.com/orphanwisdom
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Driven by a deep thirst for understanding, Curious on Earth is a slow enough podcast by Henry Soinnunmaa, Finnish musician, writer and amateur generalist. Some topics and keywords: deep time, cognition, creativity, mental health, technology, religion, play, ecology, sexuality, slowing down, AI, wisdom, cold swimming, reality tunnels, movement, stillness, psychedelics, antifragility, conscientiousness, beginner mindset, political polarization, pratītyasamutpāda, magic, music, game b, altered states of consciousness, commitment, BJJ, decentralization, energy policy, dance, language, adulting, drug policy, meditation, metamodernism, meaning crisis, neurodiversity, emergence, honesty, sensemaking, animalness, (post)rationality, media, death, love.
Facebook: https://facebook.com/curiousonearth
Twitter: https://twitter.com/curiousonearth
Instagram: https://instagram.com/curiousonearth
You can support this podcast on Patreon: http://patreon.com/curiousonearth
Episode #2: Theory artist Emil Ejner Friis who's strangely involved with Hanzi Freinacht's very inspiring books The Listening Society and The Nordic Ideology.
This episode was recorded on Oct 13, 2021
Video version: https://youtu.be/g8CBgfvkjv4
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3FNvykR
Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/3CVqCIM
RSS: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:879419647/sounds.rss
00:00:00 Foreword
00:05:08 Introduction.
00:05:39 What is a listening society?
00:11:18 Polarization and metamodern bridgebuilding. Understanding developmental stages and value memes.
00:16:17 Learning to talk with people who you disagree with and that as a privilege.
00:19:55 Effective value memes and the relationship between modernism, postmodernism and metamodernism.
00:26:03 Happiness and its critics.
00:28:30 Categorizing metamodernism.
00:32:20 Criticisms of stage theories. Multiplicity of paradigms.
00:37:34 The flat earth rabbit hole and epistemic disagreements. Gandhi and attractors.
00:43:51 Metamodernism and new sincerity. Both both/and and either/or thinking. Metamodern movies.
00:50:40 How (not) to become a good metamodern philosopher. Post-cynicism, hope and despair.
00:53:55 David Foster Wallace and real rebels.
00:56:34 Short final questions.
00:59:39 Afterword.
Other keywords:
Alienation
Loneliness
Self-actualization
Self esteem
Gemeinschaft politics
Relationships
Welfare state
Psychological development
Integral theory
Spiral dynamics
Cognitive complexity
Happiness
Hedonism
Suffering
Postrationality
Game B
Metamemes
John Vervaeke
Daniel Schmachtenberger
Postpostmodernism
Fatalism
Polarities
Sincirony
Links:
Peter Limberg's post mentioning existential ultracatastrophes https://bit.ly/3nRi3dX
Nora Bateson's post on stage theories https://bit.ly/3nRi2Xr
Future Islands's performance on Letterman https://bit.ly/310UdDp
David Foster Wallace quote https://bit.ly/3DVrX3Y
Emil Ejner Friis on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/emil.e.friis
Hanzi Freinacht on Twitter https://twitter.com/HFreinacht
Hanzi Freinacht's Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/HanziFreinacht
Hanzi Freinacht's personal Facebook https://bit.ly/3raUrD8
Hanzi's Metamoderna think tank https://metamoderna.org
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Driven by a deep thirst for understanding, Curious on Earth is a slow enough podcast by Henry Soinnunmaa, Finnish musician, writer and amateur generalist. Some topics and keywords: deep time, cognition, creativity, mental health, technology, religion, play, ecology, sexuality, slowing down, AI, wisdom, cold swimming, reality tunnels, movement, stillness, psychedelics, antifragility, conscientiousness, beginner mindset, political polarization, pratītyasamutpāda, magic, music, game b, altered states of consciousness, commitment, BJJ, decentralization, energy policy, dance, language, adulting, drug policy, meditation, metamodernism, meaning crisis, neurodiversity, emergence, honesty, sensemaking, animalness, (post)rationality, media, death, love.
Facebook: https://facebook.com/curiousonearth
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You can support this podcast on Patreon: http://patreon.com/curiousonearth
Episode 1: Professor of geosciences and environmental studies Marcia Bjornerud, the author of Timefulness and Reading the Rocks.
This episode was recorded on Sep 16, 2021.
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00:00:00 Foreword
00:02:53 Introduction. How Henry found Marcia's work.
00:04:38 What is the earth? Marcia and science.
00:07:01 What is and isn't geology?
00:09:11 What are pure and applied sciences?
00:11:10 The effects of thinking like a geologist. Timefulness.
00:15:39 Contextualizing geology in education.
00:18:45 Thinking in long timescales. Chronos and kairos.
00:21:19 Examples of things that have taken a billion years.
00:25:38 The impact of oil on or societies. Oil as a hyperobject. No manual for living on this planet.
00:28:18 Hope in solace. Our lack of wisdom.
00:31:35 Viewing oil as sacred.
00:33:06 The Onkalo nuclear waste repository project in Olkiluoto and long-term thinking.
00:36:42 Rocks as nouns instead of verbs.
00:38:57 Thinking of phenomena as processes and systems. Expanding our cultural grammar.
00:42:19 Respecting the power of time, the processes of evolution and natural objects. Healing.
00:44:20 The map of the geological timescale and glorification of the lone genius.
00:47:38 The history of maps and thinking about maps.
00:49:20 What is time and how does Marcia think about it? The earth's creativity.
00:52:13 Time as an illusion. Cartesian dualism and the conflict of axioms.
00:55:44 Marcia's relationship with the future.
00:58:33 Polytemporality.
00:59:57 Samuel Scheffler and the role of yet unborn generations in our life and our sanity.
01:03:00 The secretary of the future.
01:05:23 Short final questions.
01:09:37 Afterword
Other keywords:
Geography
Supercontinents
Plate tectonics
Pangaia
Fossil fuels
Materialism
Onkalo
Olkiluoto
Deep time
Civilization
Deep history
The long now
Links:
Marcia's book Timefulness https://bit.ly/39DH58j
Vincent Ialenti's book Deep Time Reckoning https://bit.ly/3zQtB44
Dialogue series "Untangling the Worldknot of Consciousness" by John Vervaeke and Gregg Henriques https://bit.ly/3ufTGIj
P. D. James's book The Children of Men https://bit.ly/3ANkkuy
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Driven by a deep thirst for understanding, Curious on Earth is a slow enough podcast by Henry Soinnunmaa, Finnish musician, writer and amateur generalist. Some topics and keywords: deep time, cognition, creativity, mental health, technology, religion, play, ecology, sexuality, slowing down, AI, wisdom, cold swimming, reality tunnels, movement, stillness, psychedelics, antifragility, conscientiousness, beginner mindset, political polarization, pratītyasamutpāda, magic, music, game b, altered states of consciousness, commitment, BJJ, decentralization, energy policy, dance, language, adulting, drug policy, meditation, metamodernism, meaning crisis, neurodiversity, emergence, honesty, sensemaking, animalness, (post)rationality, media, death, love.
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