Each time you visit this page, you’ll find a different randomized selection of Evolutionary Talks to expand your heart, mind, and soul.
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Juno Mac
The Laws that Sex Workers Really Want
TED Talk [2016]
“Everyone has an opinion about how to legislate sex work (whether to legalize it, ban it or even tax it) … but what do workers themselves think would work best? Activist Juno Mac explains four legal models that are being used around the world and shows us the model that she believes will work best to keep sex workers safe and offer greater self-determination. “If you care about gender equality or poverty or migration or public health, then sex worker rights matter to you,” she says. “Make space for us in your movements.” (Adult themes)”
Categories: Symposia, Talks, TED
Tags: Capitalism, Culture, Exploitation, Injustice, Juno Mac, Law, Progress, Prohibition, Sex, Sex Work
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Dr. Rosalind Watts
Can Magic Mushrooms Unlock Depression?
TEDxOxford Talk [2017]
“A clinical psychologist from Imperial College describes how Magic Mushrooms (Psilocybin), when used in a therapeutic setting, have been found to be a very effective treatment for depression. In this talk she draws on her experiences as working as a therapist on the groundbreaking Psilocybin for Depression study, and introduces us to some of the patients and their stories of transformation. Dr Rosalind Watts completed her clinical psychology training at University College London. After six years of practicing psychotherapy in the NHS, she joined a clinical trial at Imperial College, investigating psilocybin (magic mushrooms) as a treatment for depression. Her research explores patients’ positive views of this intriguing therapy.”
Categories: Symposia, Talks, TED
Tags: Depression, Dr. Rosalind Watts, Drugs, Entheogenesis, Healthcare, Magic Mushrooms, Mental Health, Neuroscience, Progress, Psilocybin, Psychedelic Medicine, Psychedelic Science, Psychedelics, Psychiatry, Psychology, Science, TEDxOxford, Transformation
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❝ A provocative work by medical ethicist James Hughes, Citizen Cyborg argues that technologies pushing the boundaries of humanness can radically improve our quality of life if they are controlled democratically. Hughes challenges both the technophobia of Leon Kass and Francis Fukuyama and the unchecked enthusiasm of others for limitless human enhancement. He argues instead for a third way, “democratic transhumanism,” by asking the question destined to become a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century: How can we use new cybernetic and biomedical technologies to make life better for everyone? These technologies hold great promise, but they also pose profound challenges to our health, our culture, and our liberal democratic political system. By allowing humans to become more than human – “posthuman” or “transhuman” – the new technologies will require new answers for the enduring issues of liberty and the common good. What limits should we place on the freedom of people to control their own bodies? Who should own genes and other living things? Which technologies should be mandatory, which voluntary, and which forbidden? For answers to these challenges, Citizen Cyborg proposes a radical return to a faith in the resilience of our democratic institutions. ❞
Categories: Books, Lectures, Literature, Symposia, Talks
Tags: A.I., Citizenship, Cyborgs, Democracy, Ethics, Evolution, Futurism, Healthcare, History, Humanity, James Hughes, Life, Medical Ethics, Medicine, Posthumanism, Science, Technology, Transhumanism, Universal Healthcare
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Federico Pistono
Basic Income & Other Ways to Fix Capitalism
TEDxHaarlem Talk [2015]
“A few years ago, those who warned us about the risks of technological unemployment were labelled as luddites, crazy, or techno-pessimists. Now some of the greatest economists agree that automation poses a serious threat to the economy, with jobs disappearing & inequality on the rise. Today, those proposing radically new ideas to deal with this problem are being called crazy & idealistic. Old ideologies are outdated in the face of exponential change; we need to embrace a more holistic & adaptive system. I believe experiments with unconditional basic income, coupled with the utilization of crypto currencies & blockchain-based technologies, will help us find the answers.”
Categories: Symposia, Talks, TED
Tags: Basic Income, Economics, Employment, Federico Pistono, Futurism, Jobs, TEDxHaarlem, TZM, Unemployment
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Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Why We Must Confront the Painful Parts of US History
TED Talk [2020]
“To move forward in the United States, we must look back and confront the difficult history that has shaped widespread injustice. Revisiting a significant yet overlooked piece of the past, Hasan Kwame Jeffries emphasizes the need to weave historical context, no matter how painful, into our understanding of modern society — so we can disrupt the continuum of inequality massively affecting marginalized communities.”
Categories: Symposia, Talks, TED
Tags: Education, History, Inequality, Racism, Slavery, Wealth
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❝ Does the science of evolution really prove that life, humanity, and the universe as a whole are meaningless accidents? On the contrary, as science has shown how everything in the universe is subject to evolution, including matter, life, and human culture, these very facts reveal that the process of evolution is unmistakably progressive. And, as Steve McIntosh demonstrates, when we come to see how evolution progresses, this reveals evolution’s purpose-to grow toward ever-widening realizations of beauty, truth, and goodness. McIntosh argues that the purpose of evolution is not intelligently designed or otherwise externally controlled; rather, its purpose is being creatively and originally discerned through the choices of the evolutionary creatures themselves. Without relying on spiritual authorities, the author shows how the scientific story of our origins is actually a profound and sacred teaching compatible with many forms of contemporary spirituality. Evolution’s Purpose: An Integral Interpretation of the Scientific Story of Our Origins presents a fresh and compelling view of evolutionary science and philosophy, and shows how a deeper understanding of evolution itself can lead directly to a more evolved world. ❞
Categories: Books, Lectures, Literature, Symposia, Talks
Tags: Creativity, Evolution, History, Humanity, Integral, Life, New Age, Origins, Purpose, Science, Spirituality
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Dr. Eben Moglen
Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media
re:publica Talk [2012]
“Media that spy on and data-mine the public are capable of destroying humanity’s most precious freedom: freedom of thought. Ensuring that media remain structured to support rather than suppress individual freedom and civic virtue requires us to achieve specific free technology and free culture goals. Our existing achievements in these directions are under assault from companies trying to bottleneck human communications or own our common culture, and states eager to control their subjects’ minds. In this talk–one of a series beginning with “The dotCommunist Manifesto” and “Die Gedanken Sind Frei”–I offer some suggestions about how the Free World should meet the challenges of the next decade.”
Categories: Lectures, Symposia, Talks
Tags: Civilization, Computers & Society, Culture, Democracy, Eben Moglen, Free & Open Software, Free Culture, Freedom, Freedom of Thought, Open Source, re:publica, Technology
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Peter Joseph
Where Are We Going?
TZM Lecture [2009]
Categories: Lectures, Symposia, Talks, The Zeitgeist Movement
Tags: Civilization, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Economics, Evolution, Futurism, Peter Joseph, Science, Social Pathology, Society, Technology, The Venus Project, The Zeitgeist Movement, TZM
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Dr. Roland Griffiths
The Science of Psilocybin
& Its Use to Relieve SufferingTED MED Talk [2016]
“Bestselling author Tim Ferriss (Tools of Titans, The 4-Hour Workweek, etc.) probes the science, mysteries, and future of psychedelics with Dr. Roland R. Griffiths, a clinical pharmacologist at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Griffiths has been researching mood-altering compounds for more than 40 years, has published more than 370 scientific papers, and started the psilocybin (think “magic mushrooms”) research program at Johns Hopkins nearly 20 years ago. Dr. Griffiths and his colleagues have been leaders in the re-initiation of research with classic psychedelic drugs, which was blocked for a period of several decades. This session offers details and stories that can help both novices and experienced psychonauts get a better understanding of the applications of these incredible compounds.”
Categories: Symposia, Talks, TED
Tags: Dr. Roland Griffiths, Drugs, Entheogenesis, Healthcare, Mental Health, Neuroscience, Progress, Psilocybin, Psychedelic Medicine, Psychedelic Science, Psychedelics, Psychology, Science, Suffering, Transformation
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❝ The New York Times bestselling “manifesto for the future that is grounded in practical solutions addressing the world’s most pressing concerns: overpopulation, food, water, energy, education, health care and freedom” (The Wall Street Journal).
“Since the dawn of humanity, a privileged few have lived in stark contrast to the hardscrabble majority. Conventional wisdom says this gap cannot be closed. But it is closing—fast.
In Abundance, space entrepreneur turned innovation pioneer Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing synthetic biology, and other exponentially growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous 200 years. We will soon have the ability to meet and exceed the basic needs of every person on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp.
Breaking down human needs by category—water, food, energy, healthcare, education, freedom—Diamandis and Kotler introduce us to innovators and industry captains making tremendous strides in each area. “Not only is Abundance a riveting page-turner…but it’s a book that gives us a future worth fighting for. And even more than that, it shows us our place in that fight” (The Christian Science Monitor). ❞
Categories: Books, Literature, Symposia, Talks, TED
Tags: A.I., Abundance, Evolution, Futurism, Nanotechnology, Optimism, Peter H. Diamandis, Post-Scarcity, Singularity, Technology, Utopia
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Matt Berkowitz
Logical Fallacies & Cultural Baggage
Z-Day Talk [2013]
Categories: Symposia, Talks, The Zeitgeist Movement
Tags: Civilization, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Economics, Evolution, Futurism, Logic, Logical Fallacies, Matt Berkowitz, Science, Social Pathology, Society, Technology, The Zeitgeist Movement, TZM, Z-Day
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Peter Joseph
The Big Question:
Environmental Misalignment & the Value WarTEDxOjai Talk [2012]
“Peter Joseph is a director, writer, producer, editor, composer and creator of the Zeitgeist movies series. He is an independent filmmaker who has written, directed, narrated, scored and produced three non-commercial, self-produced and freely-distributed documentary films: Zeitgeist: The Movie, Zeitgeist: Addendum and Zeitgeist: Moving Forward. He is also the founder of “The Zeitgeist Movement”, which is a social sustainability organization with members now in nearly every country. His work with The Movement is now a large part of his daily activities — giving lectures and helping to produce relevant media/materials to spread the interest for a new social system. In this talk, Peter Joseph examines todays economy and reflects our environmental misalignment and the value war.”
Categories: Symposia, Talks, TED
Tags: Civilization, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Ecology, Economics, Environment, Evolution, Futurism, Peter Joseph, Science, Social Pathology, Society, Technology, TEDxOjai, The Venus Project, The Zeitgeist Movement, TZM, Z-Day
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Peter Joseph
When Normality Becomes Distortion:
Reflections on a World Gone MadTZM Lecture [2013]
“This program will consider the quality of our beliefs, actions and intents within the overarching context of what supports good public health, prosperity and sustainability and what does not. The subjects of Politics, Economics and Religious Philosophy will be broadly considered, with one basic question asked: Are the dominant views of reality today and the values that arise from them sustainable for the species’ survival?”
“Peter Joseph is the creator of the world famous, award winning Zeitgeist Film Series and founder of the controversial Zeitgeist Movement which seeks to shift our social system into a more sustainable paradigm, Peter continues to focus on media related expressions, including music composition, performance & film production, each with the focus on affecting society for the better. He has also lectured around the world on the topics of social sustainably and has been featured in the New York Times, Russia Today, TedX and many other outlets.”
Categories: Lectures, Symposia, Talks, The Zeitgeist Movement
Tags: Civilization, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Economics, Evolution, Futurism, Peter Joseph, Religion, Science, Social Pathology, Society, Technology, The Zeitgeist Movement, TZM
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❝ In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s—and the dawn of the Internet—computers started to represent a very different kind of world: a collaborative and digital utopia modeled on the communal ideals of the hippies who so vehemently rebelled against the cold war establishment in the first place.
From Counterculture to Cyberculture is the first book to explore this extraordinary and ironic transformation. Fred Turner here traces the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay–area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. Between 1968 and 1998, via such familiar venues as the National Book Award–winning Whole Earth Catalog, the computer conferencing system known as WELL, and, ultimately, the launch of the wildly successful Wired magazine, Brand and his colleagues brokered a long-running collaboration between San Francisco flower power and the emerging technological hub of Silicon Valley. Thanks to their vision, counterculturalists and technologists alike joined together to reimagine computers as tools for personal liberation, the building of virtual and decidedly alternative communities, and the exploration of bold new social frontiers.
Shedding new light on how our networked culture came to be, this fascinating book reminds us that the distance between the Grateful Dead and Google, between Ken Kesey and the computer itself, is not as great as we might think. ❞Categories: Books, Lectures, Literature, Symposia, Talks
Tags: Awakening, Bay Area, Counterculture, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Cyberculture, Cybernetics, Evolution, Fred Turner, History, Humanism, Optimism, Progress, Silicon Valley, Stuart Brand, The 60s, Utopia, Utopianism, Whole Earth Network
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Bruce Sewick
Treating Addictions Using Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
College of DuPage Seminar [2018]
“Recorded as part of a seminar on Psychedelics: Therapy, Culture and Cluster Headaches. Bruce Sewick LCPC, RDDP, CADC discusses the clinical use of psychedelics particularly in the treatment of alcoholics and addicts. Bruce Sewick is an Adjunct instructor in COD’s Human Services and he teaches the Psychedelic Mindview class.”
Categories: Lectures, Seminars, Symposia, Talks
Tags: Addiction, Addiction Treatment, Bruce Sewick, College of DuPage, Drugs, Entheogenesis, Healthcare, History, LSD, Mental Health, Neuroscience, Progress, Psychedelic Medicine, Psychedelic Science, Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Psychedelics, Psychology, Rat Park, Science, Strategy, Transformation
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Jen Wilding
From the Great Escape to an Improved Reality
Zeitgeist-Day Talk [2013]
Categories: Symposia, Talks, The Zeitgeist Movement
Tags: Civilization, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Economics, Escapism, Evolution, Futurism, Jen Wilding, Science, Social Pathology, Society, Technology, The Zeitgeist Movement, TZM, Z-Day
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Peter Joseph
Origins & Adaptations III
Z-Day Talk [2015]
Categories: Lectures, Symposia, Talks, The Zeitgeist Movement
Tags: Civilization, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Economics, Evolution, Futurism, Peter Joseph, Science, Social Pathology, Society, Technology, The Venus Project, The Zeitgeist Movement, TZM, Z-Day
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“Walter Houston Clark has defined “religion” as an individual’s inner experience of a Beyond, especially as evidenced by active attempts to harmonize his or her life with that Beyond. The Johns Hopkins experiments suggest that a large fraction of mentally healthy people with spiritual interests can have a profound experience of a Beyond—a mystical-type experience—with the aid of several hours’ preparation and a supervised psilocybin session. Furthermore, most of the study volunteers report that encounter as among the most spiritually significant of their lives and as bringing sustained benefits. How do we get from such experiences (however occasioned) to “religion” in Clark’s sense, and in the sense of a group pursuing spiritual ends? Perhaps that transition is, as Brother David Steindl-Rast claims, inevitable. The talk will address that process, and will argue that some social organizations have strong but unacknowledged religious aspects. It will also ask how nascent religious groups can form in ways that minimize the pathologies that so often have given the “r-word” a bad name, while channeling sociality to cultivate individual and collective well-being.
Robert Jesse is Convenor of the Council on Spiritual Practices (CSP; csp.org). CSP’s interest in non-ordinary states focuses on the betterment of well people, in contrast to the medical-model treatment of patients with psychiatric diagnoses. Through CSP, Bob was instrumental in forming the psilocybin research team at Johns Hopkins University, and he has co-authored three of its scientific papers. He also lead the writing of an amicus brief for the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the União do Vegetal’s use of a sacramental tea containing DMT, a controlled substance. A unanimous Court upheld the UDV’s right to its practice. Bob has long participated in the development of the Bay Area spiritual community that draws liberally from the non-creedal, non-hierarchical ways of the Quakers (the Religious Society of Friends). His formal training is in electrical engineering and computer science.”
Categories: Lectures, Symposia, Talks
Tags: Johns Hopkins, MAPS, Psilocybin, Psychedelic Science, Psychedelics, Psychology, Religion
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Ben Sessa
Is MDMA Psychiatry’s Antibiotic?
TEDxUniversityofBristol Talk [2016]
“This TEDx talk explores the practice of MDMA Psychotherapy, illustrated with the life-story of a fictional typical patient. We owe it to this population of vulnerable, untreated patients with unremitting mental disorders due to psychological trauma, to explore MDMA Therapy as potential new treatment for the future of psychiatric medicine. Ben Sessa is a consultant psychiatrist in adult addictions, working part-time at Addaction in Weston-Super-Mare and is senior research fellow at Bristol, Cardiff and Imperial College London Universities, where he is currently taking part of his time away from clinical medical practice to study towards a PhD in MDMA Psychotherapy. He is the author of two books exploring psychedelic medicine; The Psychedelic Renaissance (2012) and To Fathom Hell or Soar Angelic (2015) and is currently conducting research with Imperial College London and Cardiff universities studying the potential role for MDMA-assisted therapy for the treatment of PTSD and alcohol dependence syndrome. Dr Sessa is outspoken on lobbying for change in the current system by which drugs are classified in the UK, believing a more progressive policy of regulation would reduce the harms of recreational drug use. He is a co-founder and director of the UK’s premier international psychedelic conference, Breaking Convention.”
Categories: Symposia, Talks, TED
Tags: Ben Sessa, Drugs, Healthcare, MDMA, Mental Health, Psychedelic Medicine, Psychedelics, Psychiatry, Raving, Society
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Eben Moglen (of the Software Freedom Conservancy) @ Law of the Commons Conference, National Lawyers Guild, Seattle University 2009
Categories: Lectures, Symposia, Talks
Tags: Commons, Computers & Society, Culture, Eben Moglen, Free & Open Software, Free Culture, Freedom, Futurism, Intellectual Property, Technology
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Dr. Carl Hart
MDMA for the People:
Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of HappinessMAPS Talk [2020]
“Carl Hart, Ph.D., is the Chair of the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. His research focuses on the behavioral and neuropharmacological effects of psychoactive drugs. He is particularly interested in what social and psychological factors influence drug use and their effects, and using evidence-based research to formulate more humane drug policies.”
Categories: Lectures, MAPS, Symposia, Talks
Tags: Cognitive Liberty, Dr. Carl Hart, Drugs, Ecstasy, Healthcare, Liberty, MAPS, MDMA, Mental Health, Psychedelic Medicine, Psychedelics, Psychiatry, Raving, Society