Dr. Bruce Damer's Levity Zone: Recent Episodes
Dr. Bruce Damer
Visionary scientist Dr. Bruce Damer is pursuing two great questions: how did life on Earth begin, and how can we give life (and ourselves) a sustainable path forward into the cosmos? Follow him on this personal podcast diary through decades of adventures to the edges of the Earth, deep into space and inward, beyond the bounds of consciousness.
Dr. Bruce returns for 2021 to mark Terence (McKenna) Day, take up his call for 'boundary dissolution' and update Terence's notion of 'novelty' to new science to understand how the universe complexifies and how life itself might have arisen.
Dr. Bruce returns from fire evacuation with a tale of traumatic pattern breaks, resting into the Field and introduces key themes taken up by the discussants in Levity Salon #9.
Dr. Bruce's take on the COVID-19 pandemic with a lively conversation with participants in Levity Salon #4.
Dr. Bruce gives a heartfelt report on the passing of Ram Dass and the passing of humanity into the decade of the 2020s. He offers some warnings but also Climate Moonshot solutions for a world increasingly destabilized.
Dr. Bruce gives his loving thanks and appreciation to his family and home town of Kamloops, BC, Canada as the Distinguished Alum at Thompson Rivers University on March 29, 2019.
Dr. Bruce returns after a 4 month hiaitaus to report on remarkable events in his life which he hopes will have an impact on the future of humanity.
Dr. Bruce celebrates the life of environmentalist Fred McPhereson and his role in saving the San Lorenzo River (and Valley) creating the paradise in which we live.
Dr. Bruce from leading edge science to Deepak Chopra to the Merry Pranksters on the Science and Nonduality (SAND) Emergence Series webinar in preparation for the SAND 2018 conference in San Jose, California.
Dr. Bruce and Allan Lundell in their next HotTubCast explore a CubeSat test of the SHEPHERD asteroid resource spacecraft and implications for expanding civilization into the Solar System, life in the universe and (not small) matters of the heart.
Dr. Bruce brings his Emerald and Azure Civilization talk from the 2015 Earth Frequency festival in Queensland, Australia following by a report from his recent science and Middle Earth adventures in New Zealand.
An emergent connection between Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. Bruce Damer discussing the science of life's origins live on Facebook from the Tuscon Consciousness Conference on April 6th, 2018.
Dr. Bruce and Shahnaz Minallah at a lakeshort retreat in Islamabad engage in a spirited "gup shup" conversation about lock-in, Jedi healers and ways to save the ancient and beautiful Pakistani crafts.
Allan Lundell and Dr. Bruce engage in hot tub dialogue on healing humanity from its core traumas. Hear Dr. Bruce's newest practice and interest going way beyond ideas and flowing deep from his own heart.
Dr. R.P. Kaushik provides a vital teaching for our times around the wiles of the mind... thoughts which create our suffering "little self" and then shows us how to become the observer of these thoughts, coming into the peace of an elightened awakening
Journey into a deeper communion in the Playalchemist pyramid with Dr. Bruce and Wizards Light at Burning Man 2017 and grok why we may now rethink our origins and remake our future around a powerful new insight.
Dr. Bruce and Wizards Light perform Communion in the Pyramid at Burning Man 2017: take a journey on the illuminated cosmic disk of the Playa!
Dr. Bruce presents at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan on the origins of life and search for life in space.
Two friends join Dr. Bruce to witness the totality of the Great Eclipse of August 21, 2017 and muse as to what all of this cosmic perfection truly means.
Dr. Bruce is interviewed by Nick Day at the Science of Consciousness Conference in La Jolla, California in June 2017.
Dr. Bruce and Adam Fisher interview Bob Taylor, the innovator and leader of teams creating the ARPANET, personal computing and much of the digital world we use every day.
Dr. R.P. Kaushik returns to the Levity Zone to describe how listening to the body and becoming the observer separate from mind can open us to healing and transformative intelligent energy, unifying us with the source of life itself.
Dr. Bruce and Allan Lundell explore the origin and evolution of power and an explanation of why there are those who distort and abuse it, Dr. Bruce concludes with a possible healing pathway forward to a brighter future for Humanity.
Dr. Bruce speaks from his heart about the "non-election" of 2016, the broken national political system, and implications for the future.
Dr. Bruce is interviewed for the documentary "VR The Movie" and maps out the origins, evolution and possible future of Virtual Reality.
In another Tubcast, Dr. Bruce and Dr. Future (Al Lundell) take on the destiny of life beyond Earth, the search for our ancestor and how to escape from story to be here now to what is.
Dr. Bruce brings you "Fire in the Sky" for the Levity Zone's 50th podcast. Set to music this four part poem takes you from cosmogenesis to biogenesis and the opening of human conscious awareness.
In another Studio Session Dhiren Dasu and Dr. Bruce take on the question: "what is your prime driver?" and how does humanity seek equalibrium, Be Here Now, and free from the cause and effect of inequality.
In a 2012 Studio Session, Dr. Bruce waxes poetically about primordial thinking behind his later theory of the origin of life, and musings on cosmogenesis, life and God in the universe.
Dr. Bruce hosts a lively 2006 event for Apple's 30th birthday featuring Steve Wozniak, Randy Wigginton, Chris Espinosa, and Daniel Kottke talking about how Apple started in a garage and went on to change the world.
Steve Wozniak visits the DigiBarn Computer Museum with Dr. Bruce Damer, and Allan Lundell and shares deep stories in the history of Apple and the personal computer.
Part 2 of The Merry Pranksters on the Levity Zone as Lee Quarnstrom recounts the bust at Ken Kesey's La Honda pad, the Acid Tests 50th is celebrated in Jerry Garcias voice and the bus rolls on!
The Merry Pranksters come to Santa Cruz to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Acid Test. George Walker, Mountain Girl and Ken Babbs join John Leopold on stage at Don Quixote's in Felton for this once-in-a-lifetime counter-cultural event!
The inaugural TubCast with Dr. Bruce, Future Al and Mythic Peter soaking on Future Peak with spiritual drag racers, novel science, schmooze cruising billionaires, conferring with Gaia, owning our avatar selves and the inaugural flight of a drone.
Bruce Damer is interviewed in January 1998 on the TechNation radio show by Dr. Moira Gunn about virtual worlds and his new book "Avatars".
Dr. Bruce is interviewed in 1995 and '96 by journalist Darek Milewski about the emergence of Internet virtual worlds, avatars and the first projects of the Contact Consortium.
Dr. Bruce is interviewed in March 1996 with Craigslist founder Craig Newmark by journalist Darek Milewski. They discuss the future of publishing and whether the book would survive the onslaught of the Internet.
Dr. Bruce presents a second TEDx talk about his most deeply held idea: a new model for the origin of life on Earth. Developed with Dr. David Deamer, this model may help us rethink where we humans came from and where we may be going.
Dr. Bruce presents a TEDx talk about his most powerful idea in spaceflight: SHEPHERD. Developed with collaborators to open space to sustainable human life in the 21st Century.
Dr. R.P. Kaushik takes us on a journey through centuries of spiritual tradition to show how their ultimate devolution leaves us with but one choice: to choicelessly follow mind to its end, and our freedom.
Dr. Bruce in part 2 of the Sydney serenade traces a moonlit ray of vision through crystal Endo out to dance with the Lukuma and dream of a runway to the stars.
Dr. Bruce serenades a Sydney Aussie audience on a trip through our deepest history up to the potent present riding the liminal zone between reason and magick.
Welcome Hugo Farrant to the Zone with his Ode to Ishtar restoring the magick of the Temple.
Join the Boston-based Jellicle Literary Guild in a spirited discusson around a question posed by Dr. Bruce.
In part 2 of Radical Remake, Dr. Bruce and Michael Zwerling take calls in their controversial radio program promoting the Radical Remake of America through a constitutional convention.
Dr. Bruce in conversation with Michael Zwerling of KSCO AM 1080 putting forth the idea that America needs a second constitutional convention to radically remake itself.
The return of the ancient Greek Eleusinian mysteries in our time may signal the initiation of a new civilization beyond the the destructive juvenility of the un-initiated we are trapped in today.
Dr. Sasha Shulgin's passing is celebrated in this talk by Dr. Bruce about a possible future global group overmind made possible in the 2040s by a 'Shulgin Chip'.
Three 1994 interviews with Bruce while he was living and working in Prague, the beautiful capital of the Czech lands. He remarks on the magic of the city,the new alchemy of computer graphics, and gives a futuristic view of the tech-nomadic life coming in the 21st Century.
Join Lorenzo Hagerty and Dr. Bruce in the Big Yurt at Esalen in June of 2012 for a special program featuring Bruce's raps on new myths for humanity, an optimistic look back on our coming to consciousness and an appreciation of Terence McKenna.
In this studio session Dhiren Dasu and Dr. Bruce again take on the 'bubble culture' of the festival scene and the 'entitlement generation' that flows through it.
The first 'studio session' on the Levity Zone finds Dhiren Dasu and Dr. Bruce tackling the 'bubble culture' of the festival scene and so-called alternative tribe lifestyles of the west coast and elsewhere.
The second part of the first Levity Zone Salon takes up the tragedy of the over medication of kids with powerful prescribed mind altering drugs and implications for concsciousness and the future.
The first Levity Zone Salon takes up the important theme of: how do we integrate profound powerful spiritual experiences into our daily lives?
A way to see the machine that runs civilization and how it may come to an end. Dr. Bruce gives a proscription of how to gradually leave that machine to prepare a new civilization that may rise in its place.
The story of Mitochondrial Eve may help us return to the feminine center and a re-balancing of civilization, Dr. Bruce tells us that story and follows up with the solid scholarship of William Irwin Thompson.
Dr. Bruce continues his Burning Man 2013 talk series with Re-Imagining the World, a talk about how our elevated minds might actually resonate with the universe, creating a probability engine so powerful that the pathway to literally anything becomes possible.
Dr. Bruce opens the Burning Man 2013 series with Sacred Monkey Power, a talk about our deep ancestry on the limbs of rainforest giants, leading up to recapturing our power to balance out today's coiling of the snake of tech and the mania in our hearts.
Dr. Bruce weaves together five stories starting with the birth of color and ending with the ascension of us monkey's to a unity with the universe.
Dr. Bruce and a talented, spirited group take on the theme: what is the highest purpose of humanity in the third Ojai Salon.Is it time to bring some new myths to the world? You be the judge and sit down with us for this discussion, pie and wonderful music.
Dr. Bruce, Dennis Leary, and Jeff Harris delve into the mesmeric power of the mad monkey, where he came from and how to return him from his blood lust to the emerging wondrous world of 2050 and our universal, mitochondrial mother Eve.
Dr. Bruce, Sarah, Dennis, and Jeff weave a powerful new story of the return of the feminine to the center of the human world, from its departure long ago on the shores of southern Africa.
Dennis Leary and other audience members comment on Dr. Bruce's vision for a renewed civilization of 2050 bringing a remarkable theory to the fore as we seek pathways for transformation of our world and ourselves.
Dr. Bruce transports us to the world of 2050, a world in which the ideal outcomes have ocurred for human civlization and the restoration of balance with nature on our planet.
Dr. Kaushik shows of the evolution of God progressed to the point where we can move beyond the duality of God and its opposites to a place beyond thought where a truly profound and trustable energy wells up within.
The second part of the conversation with the Madre, or nature herself, is to inform her of the state of us monkeys and show her that if she can help us, we can help her, and there truly is reason for hope.
The first part features a conversation with the Madre, the entirety of nature on Earth, and why there is reason for hope in the competition for the soul and survival of humanity and the Madre herself.
The first Ojai Salon features a journey from our insectivore ancestors 90 million years ago to the conscious manifesting of the cosmos in our own minds in our own time.
John Suntiger takes us on a journey through disease, injury and addiction to the bright light of the healing circle.
Dr. Kaushik explores How to deal with sexual energy and move beyond, through mind and to contact with universal energy.
Dr. Kaushik explores the universe within each of us and how moving beyond inner tension can create a new kind of human being.
Dr. Bruce entered into Sudarshan Kriya yoga breathwork to find how one may hold the visionary state.
Journey with Dr. Bruce passing through the dark abyss of unbeing to the coming to consciousness of the universe.
Dr.Bruce's visionary journey in the mountains of Pakistan with Naeem, his Pashto friend and guide.
Dr.Bruce's Genesis Engines talk delivered at Burning Man 2012 as part of the Palenque Norte Speaker Series.