Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Sound In Mind and Body Technology's life saving and life changing gifts only make sense when cradled by a network of human conversation, a robust conversation that forms a parallel human network just as powerful as our computer networks, holding any technology to standards of sense and meaning, ethics and personal freedom. David Whyte Crossing The Unknown Sea

The World Owes You A Living 1 Advance Of Technology World Unemployment Decline Of Individualism What We're Doing To The Children Hate, Murder And Social Ambition Today's Extraordinary Discourse Special is Episode 1 of The World Owes You A Living suite, a 6-part Associational Documentary. Its content was gathered from the early ramping of the "neo-liberal agenda" in the 1980s to the present, and paints a picture of that period which, arcing across the Millennium, appears, now to be approaching some kind of climax. Unfortunately, the narratives in this documentary, which weave 36 themes to outpicture the employment situation, are by no means dated or obsolete, though a new generation of voices has arisen. The good news is that there is indeed tremendous good news, if we look in the right direction-- and there has been for decades now. If there is a problem downloading from the RSS icon, you can download Extraordinary Discourse episodes fro...

A Cultural Counter-Environment

Long Trail Of Short Cuts Sorcery utilizes language to control and dominate reality, to limit human potential (like the pharmaceutical companies turning people into helpless victims by creating new chronic syndromes which they then medicate through new chemical potions), while shamanism provides the liberating act of breaking up certainties and returning reality to the status of mysterious perhapsness and infinite possibility. Daniel Pinchbeck

Utterance Mosh For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen. Margaret Mead

Conversation Pieces I do not subscribe to the chronological or historical illusion that events follow one another on a one-way street, in series. We think about them in that way because that is how we have decided to write and speak, and thus, if I am to communicate with you in words, I must "give you a line," and you must follow this string of letters. But of course, the world itself isn't strung out; it exists in many dimensions. I have, then, a preference for books that I can open at any place and begin to read-- books like a garden in which I can roam, and not like a tunnel, maze, or superhighway where I must enter at point A and come out at Point Z. Alan Watts In My Own Way , An Autobiography

Pass The Microphone Around, Ho Ho! Timelines are for high school text books. History itself is all indirection and angles, actions and events caroming off one another, one unintended consequence glancing into the next. David Rothkopf