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Subscribe to Future Fossils: https://patreon.com/michaelgarfield Learn more about the Psilocybin Summit: https://2021.psilocybinsummit.com/talks/myth-and-mycelium-ecological-embodiment-and-mycelial-storytelling/ • Richard Doyle, PhD, is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State University, where he has taught since 1994. Ever since reading the work of futurist Alvin Toffler at age twelve, Doyle has been on a scholarly and personal quest to understand the effects of information technologies on the evolution of human culture and consciousness. Through personal practice and sheer luck, Doyle, aka mobius, has been healed of severe asthma, nearly whole body eczema and severe depression through the grace of ayahuasca, LSD, psilocybin, chanting and meditation, all of which taught him, and continue to teach him, techniques for letting go of ego and abiding states which transcend the “I”, such as agape or selfless love. The states available to human consciousness through these practices, particularly meditation, are observed by Doyle, after long suffering and much stumbling practice, to be the necessary and sufficient modes of healing ourselves, and by extension humanity and the planet. In the paroxysms of despair and distress now convulsing the planet through the pandemic and global unrest, Doyle has devoted himself to sharing simple, non denominational, free, and open source tactics and guidance for achieving these states on our own, and to do so without taking himself very seriously at all and recognizing his comic and joyful insignificance. • Sophie Strand is a poet, historical-fiction writer, and essayist based in the Hudson Valley with a focus on the intersection of spirituality and ecology. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transpecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine is forthcoming from Sacred Planet Books (Inner Traditions). Her writing has been published by The Dark Mountain Project, www.poetry.org, Unearthed, Braided Way Magazine, Creatrix Magazine, and Your Impossible Voice. And you can continue to follow her work and poetry on Facebook or Instagram: cosmogyny. • Dr. Sam Gandy has a PhD in ecological science from the University of Aberdeen and an MRes in entomology from Imperial College London. He has a lifelong interest in nature and wildlife and has been fortunate enough to conduct field research in various parts of the world including the UK, Kefalonia, Almeria, Texas, the Peruvian Amazon, Vietnam, Brazil and Ethiopia. He is a writer and speaker and has experience working within the psychedelic field, as a past scientific assistant to the director of the Beckley Foundation, and is currently working as a collaborator with the Psyc ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKsCapIKDFM

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Listen to the full episode here https://www.patreon.com/posts/25266520 This week’s guest is Nadja Oertelt – research scientist turned film-maker and founder of Massive Science, a science communication community that cares about restoring care to the storytelling of scientific discovery. Not only is the website wonderfully both rigorous and easy on the eye, the writing takes you on a journey. Clearly she and her colleagues are doing something right by teaching scientists it’s not just okay, but vital to the meaning-making of their work, to have a story and not just solutions. Here’s her amazing publication: https://massivesci.com/ And an interview she did with Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/catescottcampbell/2017/04/10/the-limit-does-not-exist-nadja-oertelt-has-a-massive-take-on-science/ Super cool short film series Nadja did for HarvardX Neuroscience: https://vimeo.com/channels/972301   We Discuss: How working with scientists was a revelation into the social process of knowledge production and translation. Anna Wexler & DIY brain interfaces. http://www.annawexler.com/ David Cox, Director MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=ibm-David.D.Cox The erasure of the subject in academic writing. Integral psychology and the application of psychometric information to the addressing of truth claims. How do psychedelics change the way we understand and practice science? Alex & Allyson Grey’s Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. https://cosm.org https://evolution.bandcamp.com/album/technologists-of-attention-at-the-chapel-of-sacred-mirrors The Fundamentalism-Zen Continuum in the thermodynamics of computation. Creating a new neural ecology of science by including more kinds of people in the investigations. “We’re approaching some sort of memento mori for reality.” The “black box” of AI is not as big of a problem as the “black box” of why we feel the need to create these technologies in the first place. The human reality and personal sacrifices of science and knowledge production. The pain of becoming a storyteller for so many who have been trained as scientists. How social media has changed the subjectivity of young researchers. The importance of care in all of this. Allison Parrish - artist & programmer. https://tisch.nyu.edu/about/directory/itp/853082171 Irreversible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing & Science - Steven Meyer https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=750 This episode is backed by Mike Schwab of KnowYourMeme.com , a fascinating living document/community exploring memes and their effects. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwTK7eYnBFM