Electric Lyre: Recent Episodes
Jeremy
A podcast that examines consciousness and culture through various lenses – religious studies, psychology, philosophy – exploring myth, media and religious experience.
The revolution will be distributed.
40 years ago, new, experimental spaces like Esalen Institute, Findhorn, and the Lindisfarne Association were the face of the new spiritual counter-culture.
Today, with the exponential rise of internet communication, our situation is different. New institutions find their home in hybrid zones. Online and offline. Local and planetary. These new breeds of transformative cultures are creating what I dubbed "distributed Esalens," and they're what Kingsley L. Dennis calls the "New Monastics" in his latest book, The Phoenix Generation: A New Era of Connection, Compassion and Consciousness.
For episode two of Electric Lyre, I speak with Kingsley L. Dennis about what the Phoenix Generation, how it might just address our planetary crisis.
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Session notes:
Buy The Phoenix Generation on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1vIPZF5
See an excerpt here: The Rise of the New Monastics, on Reality Sandwich: http://realitysandwich.com/220394/the-rise-of-the-new-monastics/
My response article: A Note on the New Monastics: http://realitysandwich.com/231972/a-note-on-the-new-monastics-distributed-networks-and-transformational-communities/
Featured Music: Gregorian Selfie via Papi & Creative Commons License: https://soundcloud.com/papi-daydream/gregorian-selfie
For the first podcast, Benton Rooks and J.F. Martel chat with me about art and artifice, entheodelic storytelling and other visionary storytelling narratives. JF Martel is the author of Art in the Age of Artifice, a North Atlantic book coming out in February of 2015. Benton Rooks is the author of the indie graphic novel TRETA YUGA, KALI YUGA, and the forthcoming cyberpunk fiction IMMOLATION. He is also an old friend. Years ago, we started a transmedia project dubbed "Single Eye Movement" and made very similar podcasts, circa 2009. It felt great to connect with two good friends. I hope you enjoy episode 1 of the Electric Lyre. Stick around for more alterations of consciousness.
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Show Notes:
See Art in the Age of Artifice: http://www.northatlanticbooks.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781583945780
JF's Homepage for the book: http://www.reclaimingart.com/
See Benton Rooks Homepage for updates: http://bentonrooks.com/
Artwork by: Juan Chavarriga for KALI YUGA
Music by Quitral "Konunantu" https://soundcloud.com/quitral/awna-epe-konunantu-quitral
and Vaporia "Interlude" https://soundcloud.com/maximosuperfluo/interludio