Episodes

  • A Rebirthing of Our World: Sex, Religion, Civilization, and Self - Raven Connolly
    Feb 19 2021
    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...
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    1 hr and 42 mins
  • The Battle for our Future: Transhumans, Cyborgs & Control of Gamified Reality - Max Ghostling
    Feb 15 2021
    "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...
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    1 hr and 56 mins
  • Escaping from Hell: The Religion of Progress & the West's Descent into Madness - Uberboyo
    Feb 11 2021
    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,...
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    48 mins
  • Doomer Optimists Unite! Systems Change, Bioregionalism & Localism with Ashley Colby and Jason Snyder
    Feb 10 2021
    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...
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Flirting with Immortality: Cryonics, Posthumanism and Breakaway Civilizations - Nikki Olson
    Feb 9 2021
    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...
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Science, Alchemy, and Magick: Re-Enchanting Our World ft. Gordon White, Evan McMullen, Noetic Nomads
    Feb 7 2021
    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...
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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • Emancipation Party 2.0: Catalyzing GameB-Infused Political Action w/ Jim Rutt
    Feb 6 2021
    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...
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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • Quantum Weirdness: The Nature of Consciousness & Metaphysics - Lorenzo Evans
    Feb 4 2021
    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,...
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    1 hr and 8 mins