E115| Is the Earth Enough? | Cadell Last, Layman Pascal, Sean Kelly, Simon van der Els
Is the Earth enough? And are we worthy of the Earth? Layman Pascal, Cadell Last, Sean Kelly and Simon van der Els drop in to the Voicecraft nexus to meet these questions. This episode marks a new format for Voicecraft, where voices are invited to shape a dialogic response to a pre-recorded catalyst.
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KEYWORDS
Keywords
Earth, worthiness, human presence, industrial growth, biosphere, transhumanism, consciousness, planetary organism, enoughness, ecological interaction, humanity, cosmos, meta-biosphere, terraforming, human expansion, enough, anchoring, flowering, masculinity, death, rituals, shamans, shamanic dimension, societal constipation, impossibility, immortality, ecological civilization, revolutionary action, ideals, material reality, small actions, nature, civilization, Earth richness
AI GEN CHAPTERS (ignore timestamps)
00:00 Introduction and Setting the Stage
19:00 Exploring the Earth and Our Worthiness
24:51 The Limits of Human Presence
28:30 The Role of Industrial Growth Society
30:53 Defining 'Earth' and 'Enough'
37:22 The Human Organism's Role in the Planetary System
39:55 Human Ideological Projects and Transhumanism
52:05 Consciousness and Our Place in the Cosmos
53:21 Exploring the Interior of Humanity and Cosmos
54:41 The Meta-Biosphere and Human Superorganism
56:37 Terraforming and the Future of Human Expansion
01:00:43 The Question of 'Enough' and Human Aspirations
01:06:39 Anchoring and Flowering: The Human Condition
01:10:27 Masculinity, Death, and the Human Experience
01:17:19 Rituals, Death, and the Role of Shamans
01:32:34 The Shamanic Dimension and Societal Constipation
01:39:04 Impossibility and Immortality: A New Perspective
01:44:06 Ecological Civilization and Revolutionary Action
01:50:06 The Gap Between Ideals and Material Reality
01:54:39 The Value of Small Actions in a Fragile World
02:00:24 Nature vs. Civilization: A New Understanding
02:05:03 Exploring the Richness of the Earth
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Cadell Last is a philosopher and founder of Philosophy Portal, with an interdisciplinary background in fields of evolutionary anthropology, psychoanalysis, complexity science, and big history. He has spent much of his life searching for the truth of being through questions about the difference between humans and nature, and the consequences of human difference for nature. His PhD thesis, Global Brain Singularity, places biocultural evolution, mind-matter relation, and speculative futures in discussion, which produces insight that he then enhances through his expertise on thinkers like Hegel, Freud, Žižek, and Zupančič.
Access Philosophy Portal here: https://philosophyportal.online/
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Layman Pascal was incarnated on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. He used to be a meditation teacher, yoga instructor & public speaker — but he's feeling much better now.
He is a writer on themes of cultural philosophy, shamanism and organic spiritual development. Lately he has been active as a board member of the Foundation for Integral Religion and Spirituality and a founder of the Beyond Interfaith project.
Links:
The Integral Stage: www.youtube.com/channel/UCaA4zkLRnR3lGm8Y7c5Tvdw
Social:
Twitter: www.twitter.com/laymanpascal
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Simon van der Els
Simon van der Els is a student of the invisible realm. He holds a PhD title in the empirical tradition of molecular microbiology. He also explores the subjective realm of shamanism, as a way of re-discovering the interiority of the living cosmos, and assisting in healing of Gaia. He enjoys time in nature, dance and other sensory embodied experiences. Dialogue is one of the practices in which he can encounter flowstate, and this is one of his favorite activities.
Connect with Simon @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-van-der-els-66434b231/ -
Sean Kelly received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Ottawa in 1988. Before coming to CIIS, he taught religious studies at the University of Windsor, the University of Ottawa, and Carleton University (Canada). He is the author of Coming Home: The Birth and Transformation of the Planetary Era and Individuation and the Absolute: Hegel, Jung, and the Path toward Wholeness. Sean is also co-editor, with Donald Rothberg, of Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers and co-translator, with Roger Lapointe, of French thinker Edgar Morin's book, Homeland Earth: A manifesto for the New Millennium. Along with his academic work, Sean has trained intensively in the Chinese internal arts (taiji, bagua, and xingyi) and has been teaching taiji since 1990. Along with his abiding interest in the work of Jung, Hegel, and Morin, his current research areas include the evolution of consciousness, integral ecologies, and transpersonal and integral theory.
Sean is the author of Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation:
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