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What did Nietzsche mean by the will to power, and is it enough to answer the death of God? Layman Pascal, author of Nietzsche, All-Too-Nietzsche, in dialogue with Tim Adalin on command and obedience, master and slave morality, power over nature vs making with reality, and whether we should go full Nietzsche. --- Support this project on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/voicecraft Layman Pascal is a writer on metamodernism, integral theory, nonduality, postmetaphysics, theology, shamanism and politics; author of Nietzsche, All-Too-Nietzsche and Gurdjieff for a Time-Between-Worlds. Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e151-what-is-power-really-nietzsche-death-of-god-slave-morality-altered-states-layman-pascal-tim-adalin Nietzsche, All Too Nietzsche on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com.au/Nietzsche-All-Too-Layman-Pascal/dp/B0H1RVLB9D Work with Tim at https://www.timadalin.xyz Chapters 0:44 Introduction: Nietzsche's will to power 2:10 The will to power 6:29 Command and obey 17:10 Who was Nietzsche? 22:57 Did Nietzsche's insight come from altered states? 36:32 Master and slave morality 44:34 Power over or making with 55:34 Nature and Receptivity 1:11:20 Nietzsche and metamodernism 1:24:33 Multiplicity, deep time and AI 1:29:42 The death of God 1:38:04 Is the will to power enough after the death of God? 1:42:54 Eternal recurrence 1:46:55 Difference and return: Bergson, Deleuze and Jung 1:54:01 Going full Nietzsche, and Nietzsche, All Too Nietzsche Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0 #Nietzsche #WillToPower #Philosophy #GodIsDead #MasterSlaveMorality #Zarathustra #AmorFati #Nihilism #Metamodernism #LaymanPascal #AlteredStatesOfConversation #Voicecraft

What can be done if neither reform nor revolution can work? What is the right fight? Is there a path between dystopian control and collapse into chaos? With political theorist Benjamin Studebaker and philosopher O.G. Rose in dialogue with Tim Adalin.This follows the dialogues ‘What Are We Accelerating Towards?’ and ‘What is the Revolutionary Subject Today?’.Support this work on Substack at https://substack.com/@timadalin---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e150-what-if-the-way-is-shut-w/-benjamin-studebaker-og-rose-and-tim-adalinBenjamin Studebaker's Substack: https://bmstudebaker.substack.comO.G. Rose Substack: https://ogrose.substack.comChapters00:00 Introduction: paths between chaos and control01:37 The Way Is Shut: Benjamin's thesis07:33 Virtue without political power13:23 Positive and negative despair21:56 Internalised limits28:43 AI, sovereignty and the right fight44:16 The restricted imaginarium1:00:03 What kind of conversation actually changes people?1:16:52 Catastrophe and the drone1:28:57 Pluralism and apophatic speech​Subscribe to the Voicecraft Network YT channel  @voicecraftnetwork  Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

On right relation, serpent lore, truth and reality, with Tyson Yunkaporta, who works with Indigenous Systems Knowledge, Indigenous inquiry methods and complexity science to address global existential threats and issues in regenerative design. He is the author of Sand Talk, Right Story Wrong Story co-author with Megan Kelleher of Snake Talk.Chapters00:00 On talking properly04:31 Approaching circle, setting circle, keeping circle, closing circle08:23 The trouble with reciprocity16:36 Law and lore: what's real and what's true31:57 Flibbertigibbets, hard heads and two throats41:27 The serpent as master of semi-permeable boundaries46:06 Is the human being transitionary?53:01 Hyperstition, Harry Potter and poison as medicine57:05 Right destruction, wrong destruction, wisdom of crowds1:01:29 The basilisk, empire, and evil as simplificationFind a copy of Snake Talk at https://www.amazon.com.au/Snake-Talk-ancient-serpent-stories/dp/1923058460---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e149-snake-talk-w/-tyson-yunkaportaListen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

The return of philosopher Alexander Bard in dialogue on power, time, attention and AI in the liminal period associable to Capitalism and ‘Attentionalism’. This continues threads from the conversation ‘Where are we in history?’ in which the notions of paradigmatics, membranics, and archetypology framed how we might approach an understanding of the social and technological changes taking place today. See E146. --- Support this work at Substack: https://timadalin.substack.com/ Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e148-where-does-power-lie-today-time-attention-ai-alexander-bard --- Chapters - mostly AI gen (these conversations aren't linear and rarely map well to chapter stamps) 00:00 Intro (Recap of Where are we in history?) 04:31 Beyond Economics: Sex, Power and Violence 10:54 Chronomics: A New Paradigm of Time 26:18 Dystopian vs. Protopian Perspectives 36:48 The Shift from Capital to Attention 43:34 The Triad of Power: Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real (Lacan) 49:00 Imaginary Power and Its Contexts 55:30 Sensocracy and the Future of Governance 1:03:43 The Tyranny of the Past and AI's Limitations 1:07:47 The Chaos of Future Politics 1:12:01 Why Space Gives Potency to Time 1:15:28 Influencers and Elites 1:21:32 Populism, Mobs, and the Future of Collective Action 1:29:57 Rethinking Communism and Religion 1:40:55 Girard on the Mob, and Art Against Fundamentalism 1:46:24 The Future of AI and Mathematics 2:00:07 Emergentism and the Nature of Consciousness --- Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

On the challenging and often shadowed topic of feminine violence; seeking pathways toward understanding and healing for men and women. A live dialogue at the Voicecraft Network with three outstanding women, Adriana Forte, Valeria Ferreira and Pamela von Sabljar. Learn more @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e147-feminine-violence-adriana-forte-pamela-von-sabljar-valeria-ferreira --- About the speakers: Adriana Forte is a cultural architect, philosopher, and writer dedicated to bringing the cyclical nature of women’s minds into collective awareness. Through dialogue, writing, workshops, retreats, online group work, and one-on-one mentoring, she aims to create spaces for provocative thinking, reflection and transformation. Connect with Adriana's work on Substack where she is releasing her new book @ https://theclab.substack.com/ Pamela von Sabljar is a new breed of speaker, facilitator, and mentor working at the evolutionary edge. She practices dialoguing, sensing, creating, and leading from this ever-emergent edge. She calls this Living from Eros. Pamela has 25 years experience in leadership, personal development, and behavioral science. She has founded several systemic change projects and leadership programs in advanced self-awareness and self-leadership. Find out how to contact and work with her @ https://www.pamelavonsabljar.com/ Valeria Ferreira is a dialogic practitioner with a deep grasp of philosophies across the East and West, currently studying Mandarin to engage Chinese philosophy. She is a member of the Voicecraft Network. --- 0:00 Intro 01:23 The Significance & Shadow of Discussing Feminine Violence 05:03 Distinctions: Feminine as Psychological Principle 11:10 Etymology and Intentionality of Violence 18:26 What do we hold power over that we don't admit to? 27:25 What aggression do we need to integrate in ourselves? 34:22 Sexual Power, Visibility, and Modernity 46:29 What violence has been done to the feminine? 56:54 What are we willing to not see, to stay in relationship? 01:04:38 The Role of Motherhood and Generational Healing 01:18:34 The Collective Work of Healing Feminine Shadows 1:23:34 What does this land as, in a man's body?

Evolutionary biologist, complexity thinker and UAP experiencer Michael Garfield joins Tim Adalin for a dialogue on UFOs, entity encounters, and the strange territory where consciousness studies, evolutionary biology, complex systems, the ontologically shocking, information theory and the imaginal meet. Can we engage the strange without becoming impotent, in a way that actually matters for how we live, belong, and make sense together? --- Stay in touch by subscribing on Substack here: https://timadalin.substack.com/ Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e146-uap-and-disclosure-for-experiencers-and-skeptics-michael-garfield-in-dialogue-with-tim-adalin Connect with Michael at on Substack @ https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/ And locate the rest of his work here @ https://linktr.ee/michaelgarfield --- Chapters 0:00 Intro 2:26 Meeting the strange where you are: evolutionary biology & the UFO 4:52 Telos, self-organisation & ontological shock 8:23 Integral philosophy & the Buddhist tetralemma 22:11 Has it become sayable? Psychedelics, channeling & attentional capitalism 26:47 Three frames: psyop, projection & the external other 38:23 The economy in ontological shock & noise in machine learning 40:52 Noise, precognition & retrocausal information 43:15 Metabolic ontology & the ecodelic 45:42 A psychedelic the whole civilisation is taking at once 49:54 Decoding animal communication & the interiority of plants 52:00 The self as the strangest alien 53:16 Kant, the noumenon & the limits of perception 55:42 Is there a "there" to break through to? 1:00:27 Dreaming, the imaginal & communication across time 1:04:40 A hermeneutics of imagination (William Irwin Thompson) 1:08:41 Danny Sheehan & a new faculty of perception 1:12:25 Flatland & higher-dimensional reality 1:24:42 Jacques Vallée's last word on disclosure 1:38:01 The stakes: The Big Others 1:44:03 "You can't do anything with it": impotence & relevance 1:57:30 Becoming planetary & emotion-projection weapons 1:59:59 Paranoid vs metanoid 2:07:16 Games, value capture & why consensus reality isn't enough 2:11:18 Closing Stories: Contact experiences --- Additional resources mentioned by Michael in this episode: Hear more of Michael's experiences on the ⁨@dannyjones⁩ podcast @ https://youtu.be/H0kzIsmZpqs https://www.realitystudies.co/p/michael-garfield-ai-deepfakes-rewilding-reality https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/t/the-phenomenon Miguel Fuentes on epistemic randomness https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/16/8/4489 Some related writing from Michael: https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/noisy --- Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Where are we in history? What is the central question for social philosophy? What paradigm might be replacing capitalism? What will become of humanity in the age of information and attention? How can re-thinking a philosophy of membranes, paradigms, and archetypes help us situate living in the world today? Welcoming the return of philosopher Alexander Bard in conversation with Tim Adalin about membranics, paradigmatics, and archetypology in the chaos between capitalism and attentionalism. Support this work at Substack: https://timadalin.substack.com/ Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:11 Where are we in history? 2:07 What is 'paradigmatics'? 7:33 What is 'archetypology'? Plus definition of 'membranics' 15:20 How much is our sense of inside and outside (membranes) in flux today? 21:23 The 'sociont', tribal loyalty, and the central question for philosophy: mediating world-annihilating violence 25:33 What ideologies and material pressures shape our belonging today? 41:00 Shamanoids as go-betweens & the birth of religion 54:44 The dying paradigm: politics, finance & academia 1:03:27 What is attentionalism — and how does it differ from the "attention economy"? 1:14:50 Attention as sacred vs. attention as commodity 1:24:55 'Hacking synchronicity', corrupting attention, and power in attentionalism --- Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e145-membranes-paradigms-archetypes-w/-alexander-bard-and-tim-adalin Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

A multimodal experiment in altered states of conversation, sensing for qualities of the Future Human. This took place at The Big Dinner: like pirate radio, but with dinners hosted at homes around the world, held by the Voicecraft Network. Welcoming psychonaut and hyperhuman theorist Carl Hayden Smith, dreaming mysteries teacher Sarah Janes, biologist and neo-Shamanic practitioner Simon van der Els, artist Jon Garner, field facilitator Pamela von Sabljar, joined by philosopher Tim Adalin. To learn about the next opportunity to participate in The Big Dinner, stay in touch with the project by following the breadcrumbs, and subscribing on Substack here: https://timadalin.substack.com/ --- 00:00 Intro to The Big Dinner and Guest Intros 5:30 The somatic praxis begins — dropping into the body together 17:00 The oracular world: dreams and signs as glimpses of the future 20:30 "The future is analog" — embodiment as our edge over AI 30:40 The soul, the placenta, and the modern terror of dying 44:45 Child time, elders, and the case for communal rhythm 47:40 "Presence is longevity" — Carl on humans as nested ecologies 1:01:45 Advertising as mind control — and a gentler vision of technology 1:10:50 Reclaiming our capacity for grief 1:21:00 Decoding the languages of whales, plants, and fungi 1:33:00 The reality of violence — and the "wizardry" of containing it Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/the-big-dinner-future-human-w/-carl-hayden-smith-simon-van-der-els-sarah-janes-pamela-von-sabljar-jon-garner-tim-adalin Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

On geopolitical shifts, civilisational cycles, and the potential for new social coordination mechanisms in an increasingly frenetic world. This dialogue welcomes the return of political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, philosopher O.G. Rose, and Commons / Civilisation theorist Michel Bauwens in dialogue with Tim Adalin. --- Access the shownotes for more on the guests & more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e143-what-are-we-accelerating-towards-w/-benjamin-studebaker-michel-bauwens-og-rose-and-tim-adalin MIchel Bauwen's Substack: https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com Benjamin Studebaker's Substack: https://bmstudebaker.substack.com @O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel Substack: https://ogrose.substack.com Tim Adalin's Substack: https://timadalin.substack.com/ Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:10 US, China, Geopolitical Shifts and Military Spending 06:01 The 5,000-Year Transition: Modes of Exchange 25:22 Social Coordination Mechanisms and Global Pluralism 40:21 Exploring Accelerationism: Positive vs. Negative Forms 47:45 The Dilemma of Nation States vs. Globalization 56:14 The Crisis of European Identity and Sovereignty 01:07:04 Communication and Social Coordination in a Complex World 01:18:45 Incompleteness of Institutions and the Potential for New Ideas 01:20:12 The Opportunity in Institutional Failure 01:20:51 Fragmentation and the Search for Unity 01:22:08 The Challenge of Encountering Otherness 01:24:37 Metaphysical Possibilities in Human Encounters 01:30:27 Navigating Geopolitical Dynamics 01:38:20 The Role of Invisible Colleges in Crisis 01:46:02 Reflections on Trust and Society 01:52:43 Alienation and the Quest for Sameness Listen to the full outro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

What is Anthro-complexity? What makes humans different? How can we respond with wisdom, at scale, to our entanglements? Welcoming polymathic thinker and renowned complexity practitioner Dave Snowden, in dialogue with Tim Adalin. Dave's previous conversations on Voicecraft / Altered States Of Conversation: "Civilisation, Science & Spirituality" https://youtu.be/uXvWQzGcNCo "Artificial Intelligence & Human Reasoning" | Metacrisis vs Polycrisis" https://youtu.be/TrMZL55Nzl0 Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e142-anthro-complexity-entanglement-wayshaping-and-addressing-existential-threat-w/-dave-snowden Learn more about Dave and Cynefin @ https://thecynefin.co/team/dave-snowden Find Dave's blog series on Anthro-complexity: https://thecynefin.co/anthro-complexity-1-3/ --- Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:10 What is anthro-complexity? 8:33 Entanglement, not relationship? 15:45 Orientation and the ancient debate that still structures how we think 23:05 Why workshops don't work (and what does) 34:30 You can't simplify a falcon into a pigeon (and have it still be a falcon) 45:25 Three dangers: appropriation, distraction, destruction 53:04 Who is this actually for? 57:30 Demes: the forgotten structure humans evolved to live in 1:04:55 Do we need new shamans? 1:42:50 Changing how decision-makers listen 1:55:00 The limits of dialogue and what comes next Listen to the full outro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Sarah Janes is reviving the dreaming mysteries of Western civilisation, rooted in ancient Greece and Egypt. We dialogue on the esoteric history and culture of dreaming, consciousness, mysticism and sensemaking. Sarah is the author of Initiation Into Dream Mysteries, a psychomagic journey to awaken lucid dream consciousness. She is a researcher, curator, and retreat/workshop facilitator. --- Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e141-the-dreaming-mysteries-incubation-and-ancient-initiatory-rites-w/-sarah-janes Sarah's Links: Website: https://themysteries.org/ Book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Initiation-into-Dream-Mysteries-Mnemosyne/dp/164411514X --- 00:00 Intro 01:44 What Are Dreams? 05:15 The Meaning of Mystery 09:31 Etymology and Magic of Language 17:01 Dreaming Consciousness as Response to Tech Enslavement 28:10 Creation, Songlines & Memory Palaces 33:40 Hieroglyphs as Holographic Writing 41:40 Prophecy, Truth & Healing 55:41 AI, Desire & Vitality 1:0:55 Receptivity and Context 1:07:30 Dying Before You Die 1:20:28 Magic, Sympathy & Serpent Symbolism --- Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Welcoming master craftsman and philosopher Forrest Landry in dialogue on the deep structures underlying money, power, and inequality in modern civilization. Starting with fundamental questions about what money really is, we move through an analysis of why inequality has reached unprecedented levels, to urgent questions about artificial intelligence, the future of human choice-making, and a foundational orientation of response. --- Desire, Want and Need on Delicate Fire: https://youtu.be/rejVuh1Knn8 Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e140-money-power-inequality-and-ai-w/-forrest-landry-and-tim-adalin Chapters 0:00 Introduction: Money, Power & AI 0:55 Lenses for Understanding Money: Choice, Energy & Game Theory 06:12 Why Inequality Exploded: Technology as Extraction Amplifier 29:30 The Three Stages of Mastery: Change, Causation & Choice 41:05 Beyond Capitalism vs Socialism: Upgrading the Game 57:40 The Maker-Taker Inversion: When Extraction Became Valued Over Creation 1:16:08 Virtual vs Virtue: Humility and Being Rooted in Reality 1:26:38 Rewilding Ourselves: Embodiment and Collective Wisdom 1:38:31 Why Everyone's Investing in AI: The Loss of Trust in Ourselves 1:47:40 The Path Forward: Distributed, Embodied, Contextualized Choice-Making --- Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Welcoming Dr Iain McGilchrist, renowned psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar, in dialogue with Tim Adalin for Voicecraft. We explore the relation between cosmic drives, the left and right hemispheres, attention, religion, power, good, evil, AI and the soul. Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e139-cosmic-drives-intuition-ai-and-the-soul-w/-iain-mcgilchrist-and-tim-adalin --- 0:00:00 Introduction 0:00:04 What is Intuition? 0:02:28 Intuition and the Hemispheres 0:04:41 The Basis of Understanding 0:08:13 Left and Right Hemisphere Dynamics 0:11:49 Participation in Reality 0:18:29 Bundling and Unbundling: Economics and AI 0:23:11 Dividing and Uniting: When and Why 0:30:02 Understanding vs. Information 0:34:19 Animate and Inanimate: A Continuum 0:42:53 The Artificial Intelligence Predicament 0:54:26 Narcissism and Echo Chambers 1:00:43 Consciousness as Field 1:07:15 Cancer, Bureaucracy, and Runaway Systems 1:17:09 The Assault on Nature, Body, and Culture 1:25:00 Authority, Doubt, and Transformation 1:34:12 Religion, Certainty, and Common Truths 1:40:57 The Soul and Life as Pilgrimage --- Dr Iain McGilchrist is a renowned psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and his influential work explores the relationship between the brain's hemispheres and the nature of human experience, reality, and culture. He is the author of The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World and the monumental two-volume work The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World. Find his YouTube channel @DrIainMcGilchrist --- Tim Adalin is a philosopher and the founder of The Voicecraft Project. Connect with Tim @ https://www.timadalin.xyz Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

What is presence? How can we inoculate against coercive programming? How does presence relate to the revolutionary subject? This dialogue welcomes philosopher, neuroscientist and host of Love and Philosophy, Andrea Hiott, microbiologist and shamanic practitioner Simon van der Els, and design ontologist Anna Gyllenklev, in dialogue with philosopher Tim Adalin. --- Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e138-presence-and-the-machine-w/-andrea-hiott-simon-van-der-els-anna-gyllenklev-tim-adalin Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

What are the prospects of social and political revolution? How can we understand revolutionary subjectivity today? Who, what, when, and where is the revolutionary subject? Inspired by a Philosophy Portal conversation between Cadell Last and Michel Bauwens, this dialogue welcomes political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, philosopher O.G. Rose, and Commons / Civilisation theorist Michel Bauwens in dialogue with Tim Adalin. Find the Philosophy Portal conversation with Michel here: https://youtu.be/9bR-bsvi0Nk?si=CDKv2TqLwWyjJZvS --- Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e137-who-or-what-is-the-revolutionary-subject-today-w/-benjamin-studebaker-michel-bauwens-og-rose-and-tim-adalin 00:00 Introduction to Revolutionary Subjectivity 03:53 Embedded Democracies and Revolutionary Prospects 08:30 Civilizational Inter-Cycles and New Contradictions 16:19 Constructive Networks and the Commons 26:20 Navigating Political and Social Dynamics 35:56 The Role of the Military in Revolution 53:37 Defining Revolutionary Subjectivity 01:10:58 Jurisdictional Alliances and Historical Contexts 01:15:02 The Crisis of Education and Intellectual Spaces 01:20:13 Emerging Alternatives to Traditional Education 01:27:11 Creating Indispensable Spaces for New Subjectivities 01:39:57 Navigating the Political Landscape for Change 01:52:43 The Role of Presence and Receptivity in Conversations Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0