Convexplorations—with Anna Grear

Melissa Tiers is a clinical hypnotist, integrative hypnotherapist, activist, and multi-award-winning author. She has been changing minds and training practitioners in Integrative Hypnosis for over thirty years. In this conversation, Anna and Melissa explore ideas related to political hypnosis, 'hypnocracy', the structure of persuasion, the materialities of reality-tunnelling and contemporary political formations, including algorithmic and other forms of the narrowing of attention in ord...

In this episode, Anna speaks with Ralph Cree—another long-time spiritual practitioner—about psychedelics, self-constructs, 'not knowing', maturation, and the current political and civilizational inflection point that humanity is facing. You can find Ralph's work on Soundcloud and on his website. Watch out, too, for Anna and Ralph's new collaboration, 'Hypgnosis', a state-altering set of hypnotic, profound soundscapes that have, at least once now, stimulated a listener's first immersive exper...

David Bollier is an American activist, writer, thinker and author whose work focuses on the commons as a paradigm for re-imagining economics, politics, and culture. He is a director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics and is co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group. In this conversation, Anna and David have a wide-ranging, invigorating discussion of commons and related subjects. You can find his free audiobook Think Like a Commoner (2nd ed) a...

In this conversation, Anna explores some contemporary political and geopolitical tensions with former US immigration judge George Pappas. George covers the the challenges currently facing democracy, in the US in particular, and names chaos, the politics of cruelty and culture war distractions (including around immigration) as techniques being used to distract from the deeply material challenges faced by so many, and that are now in such urgent need of addressal. To find out more, visit https:...

Andreas and Anna discuss the figuration of 'hydrojustice'—a justice 'always defined in relation to water, the element that constitutes and unites all bodies, human and nonhuman. Hence justice is not an ideal state reached through merely human procedures (legal, political, economic, etc.) but also a planetary one, always conjoined with the element of water that both constitutes and transcends the boundaries of the human. In short, hydrojustice is the just confluence of all bodies, human and no...