Good faith conversations exploring ideas & practices that drive personal & collective development. Jason Snyder & Jared Janes host a wide variety of guests with the goal of enacting inclusive/metamodern & contemplative sensibilities.
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When I was in second grade, I had a lunchbox with Bert and Ernie on it. On the lunchbox, Bert was carrying a lunchbox, with Bert and Ernie on it. On that lunchbox, Bert was carrying a lunchbox...and I wondered: how far do the lunchboxes go? Am I in a lunchbox too?? You're opening the Infinite Lunchbox, for a fresh take on what's going on. I'm Stephanie Lepp, your monochromatic host. If you're new here, start with DEEP RECKONINGS, How to Transcend Post-Truth, and How to Agree on Science. If y ...
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Future Thinkers is a media platform, community, and education portal dedicated to the evolution of society, technology, and consciousness. Helping you become better adapted to our uncertain future. As seen in BBC, Forbes, World Economic Forum, and iTunes Top 40. Created by Mike Gilliland and Euvie Ivanova.
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Humanity is nearing a critical inflection point. We're either going to survive a rocky landing onto a breathtaking new frontier or collapse into a state of chaos not seen since the last World War. A beautiful future is possible. Hosted by Albert Kim, Noetic Nomads is a conversational space where visionary thinkers from around the globe make sense of and navigate the unfolding global meta-crisis in the course of co-creating a better future.
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Jared Janes & Jason Snyder reunite after 17 months of Both/And hiatus. In this wide-ranging conversation, they talk about what they've been up to and how their perspectives of the sensemaking/meta/liminal web have changed.By Jared Janes
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How We're Using NFTs to Plant Trees at The Smart Village
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Find out more about the Smart Village project: futurethinkers.org/village Participate in our very first NFT drop: futurethinkers.org/nft We're very excited to announce that on June 1 2021 we're dropping our first Smart Village NFT! If you are not familiar, NFTs stands for Non Fungible Tokens - it's a type of crypto token that is verifiably unique o…
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Future Thinkers Smart Village is becoming a reality! We have found a new, large 400 acre property with the right zoning, infrastructure and everything else we could need to make the village happen. The property has a RV camp with 80 accommodation spots, a private lake, two creeks, large forest, even a golf course, and the closest airport is just a …
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NEW INC invited me to give an artist talk about Deep Reckonings, moderated by the illustrious Kat Cizek. In it, I do something I've never done before: guide people in writing Deep Reckonings scripts! In other words, guide people in imagining our better angels. In this case, the better angel of Jeff Bezos. This episode is better watched on YouTube: …
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Call-out culture is all about straw manning: representing the weakest version of someone's position (or the weakest version of something they tweeted a decade ago). So call-IN culture would be all about STEEL manning: representing the strongest version of someone's position. But what would that actually look like in practice? This video is a teaser…
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The New York Times has a headline this week: "Online Schools Are Here to Stay, Even After the Pandemic." The article does the predictable tug-of-war between online and in-person learning, ultimately arriving at the obvious conclusion that online learning works better for some students than others, and that online and in-person can be mixed-and-matc…
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Amazon workers in Alabama are trying to unionize. And influential people are trying to convince Jeff Bezos to support the campaign: Bernie, Danny Glover, even THE PRESIDENT. But what might actually move Bezos to support unionization, and more broadly, *change the game*? Also -- for those of you on Clubhouse, I'm hosting a conversation about the fut…
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How are religious myths metaphorically true? What if influencers are our modern-day Greek Gods? In which case, perhaps the issue is less the fact that there are influencers, and more *what* they're influencing? Be in touch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephlepp Join the party on Patreon: http://patreon.com/stephlepp…
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After a year of living with the pandemic, it's painfully obvious that we can't treat health and economy as either/or. So how to we treat them as both/and? What's the equivalent of sustainable development -- which economic development with sustainability -- for integrating economic development with *health*? And....what could such a phenomenon be CA…
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Have you noticed the evolution of Disney? Have you noticed how the concept of good vs. evil, the women characters, and other aspects of the storylines have evolved over time? WELL THEY HAVE. But does that mean I only want my daughter to watch the most recent Disney movies, with more redemptive conceptions of evil and empowered women characters? Not…
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In the aftermath of the Atlanta and Boulder shootings, we're doing the gun legislation impasse rigamarole. What could move things forward? Might it be helpful to hear from public servants who *expanded* their views on gun control — to include both gun rights and gun safety? Introducing the power of FORMERS. Watch on YouTube: http://bit.ly/gunformer…
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The New York Times' The Daily podcast on 3/16/21 was about how conservative lawmakers are increasingly embracing wind. Host Michael Barbaro and reporter Dionne Searcey refreshingly bring up the phenomenon of *identity* -- and talk about how a shift from coal to wind isn't just a change in jobs, but a change in identity. Which implies that coal mine…
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Self-Organizing Collaborative Governance Q+A with Richard D. Bartlett
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Our guest in this Q+A session on self-organizing governance is Richard D. Bartlett. This session was originally live-streamed on December 4th 2020. Richard is a co-founder of a digital tool called Loomio, and of a decentralized consulting company The Hum. He is also the Director at the Enspiral Foundation, a collective of people working on meaningf…
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How To Transcend Post-Truth? A New Enlightenment
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What if the way to transcend our post-truth crisis is not to double-down on our Enlightenment-era relationship with truth and knowledge? What if transcending post-truth requires...a NEW Enlightenment? For years, I've been scared to share these thoughts. But I just shared them in a VPRO documentary: https://youtu.be/YBp7Hc6DEEw?t=1783. And I've disc…
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What rites of passage do we need in today's world? Are we going through collective rites of passage at the moment? What is the role of mentors in today's society? In this Q&A Michael Meade answers questions from the Future Thinkers Members. Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He i…
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A Rebirthing of Our World: Sex, Religion, Civilization, and Self - Raven Connolly
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My first session at The Stoa was hosted by none other than the Philosopher Queen and brainy blackbird, herself, Raven Connolly. Of course, I had to return the favor by hosting her for this deliciously sprawling episode of Noetic Nomads! We went over...By Albert Kim
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The Battle for our Future: Transhumans, Cyborgs & Control of Gamified Reality - Max Ghostling
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"Know the enemy and know yourself, and in a hundred battles you will never be in peril." — Sun Tzu That enemy, according to our guest Max Ghostling, is Big Tech, Ray Kurzweil, and the transhumanists. Max, a former creative technologist whose past...By Albert Kim
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Miriam Martineau - Building an Intentional Community
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Our guest in this episode is Miriam Martineau, who is a counselor, teacher, and Founder of Next Step Integral. For the last 15 years she has studied and researched parenting as a spiritual practice. Miriam and her husband Stefan also lived in an intentional community called Morning Star for 10 years from 1992 to 2002, which they founded in rural BC…
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Escaping from Hell: The Religion of Progress & the West's Descent into Madness - Uberboyo
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Boyo alert! Unite your left and right brain, break free from the shackles of modernity, and depart on an odyssey through the astral plane by dropping in on my mindmeld with the juiciest of gents, Dublin's own Uberboyo. Cultural psychosis, split brains,...By Albert Kim
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Doomer Optimists Unite! Systems Change, Bioregionalism & Localism with Ashley Colby and Jason Snyder
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We're all LARPing. We're all learning. We all have no idea what we're doing. That's Life. And that's much of what makes it so beautiful. Ashley Colby, environmental sociologist and founder of Rizoma Field School & SuLoFair, and Jason Snyder, faculty...By Albert Kim
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Flirting with Immortality: Cryonics, Posthumanism and Breakaway Civilizations - Nikki Olson
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How many people do you know involved in the cryonics scene? Well, we're in luck, because after this episode we'll know more intimately the free radical thinker and doer Nikki Olson! We'll discover the plans for global domination she and her high school...By Albert Kim
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Science, Alchemy, and Magick: Re-Enchanting Our World ft. Gordon White, Evan McMullen, Noetic Nomads
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What feels alive for you? For many of us, it's the entire cosmos. Gordon White, author, permaculture designer, and creator of the Rune Soup podcast and blog, visited the Oasis of Nous on Feb 6 for a magickal roundtable with fellow Nomads - Evan...By Albert Kim
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Emancipation Party 2.0: Catalyzing GameB-Infused Political Action w/ Jim Rutt
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We know about Game B, right? But what about the Emancipation Party — the third-party experiment out of which it arose? The party went into spore mode and has since remained dormant, but a fire's been lit recently in the Sensemaking and adjacent spaces...By Albert Kim
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Quantum Weirdness: The Nature of Consciousness & Metaphysics - Lorenzo Evans
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Quantum computing. Theories of Everything. Panpsychism. UFOs. ψ-ontic vs. ψ-epistemic. Remote viewing. Nootropic stacks. Cryptozoology. Kpop. That's barely a taste of the plethora of topics covered in this episode with Lorenzo Evans — software engineer,...By Albert Kim
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Team Humane Tech: Biorobotics, Neurohacking & Upgrading To A New Cultural OS - Zach McKinney
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Technology is not neutral. It's inherently infused with our assumptions, biases, and worldviews. What values do we consciously bake into our tech from the start in order to help create the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible? I sat down to...By Albert Kim
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Ontological Design Session For The Web ft. Daniel Fraga, Owen Cox, Raven Connolly, Max Gosselin, Evan McMullen
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Noetic Nomads and Bridgit.io co-hosted the inaugural Overweb Challenge (https://theoverweb.com) on Jan 21, an online festival dedicated to the future of the web, sensemaking, and of digital communities. Our very first session on the ontological design...By Albert Kim
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The State Of Sensemaking On The Web ft. Nora Bateson, David Fuller, Zak Stein, Jamie Joyce, Evan McMullen
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Noetic Nomads and Bridgit.io co-hosted the inaugural Overweb Challenge (https://theoverweb.com) on Jan 21, an online festival dedicated to the future of the web, sensemaking, and of digital communities. Our panel on the state of sensemaking on the web...By Albert Kim
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The Future of Digital Communities ft. Alexander Beiner, Maggie Love, Daveed Benjamin, Daniel Liebeskind, David Homan
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Noetic Nomads and Bridgit.io co-hosted the inaugural Overweb Challenge (https://theoverweb.com) on Jan 21, an online festival dedicated to the future of the web, sensemaking, and of digital communities.Our panel on the future of digital communities...By Albert Kim
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Beyond Black & White: Diaphanous Anti-Racism & Asians as Culture War Shamans - Ryan Nakade
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We have another first for the Sensemaking space: the very first episode with 100% Yellow faces!I had the pleasure of sitting down for this unique conversation with Ryan Nakade, co-host of the Progressive Integral podcast Growing Down and founder of...By Albert Kim
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The Future of Spirituality ft. Forrest Landry - An Introduction to Western Core Tantra
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Forrest Landry — philosopher, engineer, scientist, master woodworker, founder/CEO of Magic Flight, and author of An Immanent Metaphysics — appeared on Noetic Nomads to speak on his upcoming book and newest philosophical work, Western Core Tantra.Hosted...By Albert Kim
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The Future of Religion Panel w/ Cadell, Beiner, Raven, Arran, Collin, Alderman
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Noetic Nomads convened an all-star panel and Q&A Jan 16 featuring Cadell Last, Bruce Alderman, Alexander Beiner, Collin Morris, and Arran Rogerson. Facilitated by Raven Connolly. Following the Capitol Insurrection, images were emblazoned across our...By Albert Kim
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The Future of Governance: Post-Capitol Riot w/ Pascal, Janes, McMullen, Friedman, Segall, Johnson
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Noetic Nomads convened a star-studded panel discussion on January 10 with Layman Pascal, Jared Janes, Evan McMullen, Arielle Friedman, Matt Segall, and Jeremy Johnson. Facilitated by Ryan Nakade. On January 6, 2021, a crowd of Trump supporters stormed...By Albert Kim
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The Sacred Art of Tantra - Part THREE | Climax | Upleveling our Sensuality w/ Thea Dixon
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Thea and I will be hosting an Interintellect workshop on Tantra on January 9, 2021, from 5pm-8pm ET! More details! Thea and I bring our series on Tantra to a close with practical details on how Tantric practices such as breathwork can used...By Albert Kim
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The Fault in Our Stars: Evolutionary Astrology & the Metacrisis as Kairos - Simon Vorster
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Let's say farewell to 2020, bad habits, facemasks (hopefully), and to the Age of Pisces, and hellloo to the awesomeness of the Uranian world with our final episode of the year! I usher in the New Year and New Age with Simon Vorster, evolutionary...By Albert Kim
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People Need People: Becoming a Lightweaver and Remembering Our Divinity - Bhavana Nissima
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The Nora Bateson lovefest continues this week, as I have a very people-centric conversation with the original Lightweaver, herself, Bhavana Nissima, founder of Mental Space Academy India and the Lighthouse NLP Clinic in Hyderabad.We speak on:the...By Albert Kim
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The Overweb: The Next Level of the Internet & Collective Sensemaking - Daveed Benjamin
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The Internet of Ideas is being built right now and I got to talk all about it with Daveed Benjamin, CEO of Bridgit.io and founder of the Overweb. And I have an EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT: I'll be moderator of a panel discussion on The State of the Internet...By Albert Kim
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If Trump conceded, what would he say? This episode is part of Deep Reckonings — a series of explicitly-marked deepfake videos that imagine Mark Zuckerberg, Brett Kavanaugh, and other public figures having a reckoning. Here, an imaginary Donald Trump concedes the 2020 election. Want to see Trump give a real concession speech? Tweet: .@realDonaldTrum…
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The Singularity, Hallucinated Reality, & Taking Control of Our Language Machines - heron stone
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?are you one of the 95% of people living in a language-induced trance ?are you curious as to why i'm writing like this *then definitely listen to this episode with philosophical renegade heron stone .we delve into the hypnotic spell of language ...By Albert Kim
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CLIP: Confessions of Economic Hitman + Friend to Rockefellers | Population Control & One-World Government
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You asked for highlight reels of our podcast episodes, and we listened! Here's a clip of our very first episode of Noetic Nomads with Robert Leaver, former international banker, economic hitman, and friend to the Rockefellers. Highlights include: · ...By Albert Kim
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The Sacred Art of Tantra - Part TWO | Alchemy | Upleveling our Sexuality w/ Thea Dixon
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In this second of three episodes on the sacred art of Tantra, Thea tells us about her mind-blowingly blissful experience which *didn't* involve sex, how we can alchemize our Shadows into Love with or without a partner, the benefits of slow versus fast...By Albert Kim
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Jim Rutt - How to Transition to a GameB Society
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Our guest in this episode is Jim Rutt, a systems thinker, host of the Jim Rutt Show podcast, and former key player in several technology companies. He was also the Chairman of Santa Fe Institute, where he was working in the scientific study of consciousness and evolutionary artificial intelligence. We had Jim as a guest on the show a year ago, wher…
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How Game B Can Work for Real Human Beings | Special Feature
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Game B isn't utopian…or at least "that's what they say". Regardless, what is the other 99.999999% of humanity going to do in the meantime while we wait our heroes to save themselves—er…I mean…save *us*? What game do *we* play? How do *we* navigate the...By Albert Kim
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Being a Game B Punk, Roasting the Sensemaking Space & Why We Need More YOU - Gabriel Luansing
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**TRIGGER WARNING** If you are in any way affiliated with the Sensemaking scene, you will likely be butthurt by this episode. (Just kidding, we're all too enlightened for that, right?)I LOVED this freestyle session with Gabriel "mr. master" Luansing,...By Albert Kim
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Tyson Yunkaporta and Megan Kelleher - Indigenous Thinking In Times Of Transition
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Our guests in this episode are Tyson Yunkaporta and his wife Megan Kelleher. Tyson is the author of 'Sand Talk,' and indigenous thinker from the Apalech clan from the West Cape of Queensland, Australia. Megan is a scholar at RMIT in Melbourne, who is currently researching the connection between blockchain and indigenous knowledge systems. She is of…
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The Sacred Art of Tantra - Part ONE | Origins | Upleveling our Sexuality w/ Thea Dixon
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Eros. Bliss. Prana. Orgasm. Intimacy. Samadhi. Lovemaking. Breath. The Eternal Flame. Tantra. This is the first of three episodes on this sacred devotional art brought to you by Thea Dixon, a Tantric teacher with over 30 years of experience who was...By Albert Kim
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The True Nature of Money, The Banking Cartel, & the Gap between Good & Evil - John G Root Jr
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Has the concept of money ever confused you? Have you ever felt something is *off* about the way the monetary system works? Then LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE. John G Root Jr — President of Just Abundance, Delegate of the Massachusetts Republic, & Sr....By Albert Kim
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'There's actually a wild way in which deepfakes can help us navigate this post-truth moment — because they allow us to see that truth is not just an end in itself, but also a means to an end.' BOLD STATEMENT. Which I elaborate on in this conversation with Dani Di Placido. He interviewed me about Deep Reckonings for an article in Forbes, and recorde…
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Shadow Men, Carrying the Torch, and Giving Birth to the Future - Arran Rogerson
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This has to be one of my favorite conversations in a long time. In this episode with metamodern man of meaning, Arran Rogerson, we dig into our personal shadows, how the Sensemaking space won't survive without females, the Joe Rogan episode which gave...By Albert Kim
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The Metamodern Artist, Drag Queen Saviors, and Dreaming of the Architects of Time - Monika Bravo
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| Brace yourselves for a coming together of the chaotic and creative! I sit down with acclaimed multi-disciplinary artist Monika Bravo for a whirlwind conversation on the role of artists in the coming age, why she couldn't be a feminist, how a drag...By Albert Kim
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Daniel Christian Wahl - Designing Regenerative Cultures
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Daniel Christian Wahl on regenerative cultures, the role of humans on planet Earth, and the importance of being in right relationship with technology, nature, and the process of life as a whole. To access to the full 2-hour interview with Daniel Christian Wahl, become a Future Thinkers Member at http://www.futurethinkers.org/members Join the Q&A wi…
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