The Emerging Future: Part One with futurist Benjamin J. Butler
with Benjamin J. Butler
Episode 17 Lang English
Meet futurist Benjamin J. Butler for the first part of a discussion on where we could be headed. Educated at King’s College in London he is the founder of the Emerging Future Institute’s grounbreaking approach to the tricky field of future prediction. Having a solid background in Korean zen practice Benjamin encompasses far more than a data-based analysis of trends His eclectic understanding rather eschews a holistic approach that takes into account consciousness itself and how an evolving human understanding of its reality has begun to sense its own role in the creation of the future. He has addressed corporations, world leaders and successfully predicted events that are only now in the news..like Brexit and the re-unification of the Koreas. His full bio can be seen here:
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Episode 18
And Zen the emerging Future* Part two
Guest Benjamin J. Butler
Lang English
Here we continue the second part of a wide ranging interview with futurist Benjamin J. Butler. Before the interview this most unusual futurist, one who has a rather more holistic view of the ‘future’ prediction paradigm, suggested we go for a dip in the chilly River Dart to better prepare ourselves. Having walked with him in the ancient forests of Devon to get there I can say that it did impact the quality of our conversation. Talking heads is an expression we come across often now. It means solely cerebral communication to many. But Benjamin prepared the interviewer better and I must say that we did have a more meaningful dialogue that the walk and the river ablution surely helped prepare us for. In part two Benjamin spends more time discussing the spiritual aspects of futurism, i.e. human consciousness itself. Follow his work here.
Episode 23
Kazuya Yokozawa the stone flautist
Guest Kazuya Yokozawa
Lang Japanese
One day the already well practised flautist was told to blow on a stone flute. This is not exactly an instrument since no human hand had anything to do with its formation. Apparenly small crabs excrete an acidic substance on rocks to slowly create holes into which they will burrow their future homes. This make the stone flute a completely natural creation. To play it then requires an entirely different approach to ‘music’ as he explains to us. The Shinto priest who encouraged him to start also reprimanded him for having an attitude of ‘practise’ since this device can be considered a way of inviting the Gods to come to us. “Could you rehearse a talk with God” he quips? Or would you give that moment your full attention, with no intention of showing off, sounding perfect or even making any musical sense? Like a zen riddle you cannot really learn to play the stone flute, you have to just just press it to your lips and see what happens! In the future thi
Episode 20
Microbial intelligence and complexity
Guest Tatiana Kassessinoff PhD
Lang English
Tatiana Kassessinoff PhD certainly knows her chemistry and knows how important a role science plays in our understanding of health and well being. She also has a clear understanding of the problems scientists face due to not seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. We constitute the forest and yes we BE the tree. The great dichotomy of delving perhaps too deeply into the chemical engines of our bodies, the protein machines that make us tick, comes down to this: Does it really make us whole, healthy and vibrant as human beings? Given the dismal track record of just how seriously our health has degenerated (if you doubt it walk outside and look at obesity, depression, chronic psycho-somatic syndromes and most of all lack of vivacity) we look deeper into the human condition in this episode. Drawing from a wealth of experience including transformational analysis, shamanism and work for the National Institute of Health in the US Tatiana shows us that rare talent of a true ‘mad sci
Episode 8
Shamanic Resurgence in London
Guest Daren Ellis
Lang English
Urban shamanism: the proliferation of workshops and actual plant ceremonies in cities across the world is fast becoming a social statement perhaps of our dissatisfaction with the current medical approach to human dis-ease. Daren Ellis, a former graphic design artist provides a ‘space’ called Aho in East London where people can get connected to the profound power and transformative energy of sacred plants and other shamanic tools for exploring consciousness, purging our bodies of ill-ness and thus creating a stronger possibility of renewal. He shares his experiences with shamans from Siberia to Peru with a quiet understanding and a humble heart. Whether it is the Amazonian tree frog or the now (in)famous use of ayahuasca as well as techno-shamanic tools for hacking consciousness there is clearly a need for new ways and new understanding. This is where the ‘archaic revival’ as Terence Mckenna so aptly called it, has resurged into the social sphere the world’
Episode 19
Elephants in the sky: Leading water research
Guest Professor Gerald Pollack
Lang English
We start with a zen riddle in this interrupted-by-internet-breakdown interview, essentially asking how clouds really form. Professor Gerald Pollack is a world renowned scientist from the University of Washington whose landmark book, The Fourth Phase of Water challenged the long held belief (not fact) that water can only exist as a solid, liquid, or vapour. Long and patient research in his laboratory has revealed one more ‘state’ or phase of water..closer to a gel or a semi-crystallised snow flake. Even more astonishing that is the kind of water we are made of-in our cellular structures. With great humour and panache Dr. Pollack takes us through and past long held superstitions about water and shows us how light and electricity play a far greater role in water’s movement than we have previously assumed. He shows us just how regimented science has become and how to overcome the limitations of its own restictive paradigms through the creation of the Institute for Ventur
Episode 10
Thinking allowed
Guest Dr. Jeffrey Mishelove
Lang English
Parapsychology. How many people have an accredited degree in this field? One. Join Dr. Jeffrey Mishelove in a conversation about his decades long research and sharing of astonishing information about the still emerging new paradigms in science, healing, remote viewing, ancient archaeology, shamanism, dream research, spiritual experience, altered states, the afterlife and the most important of all: consciousness itself. His PBS television program enlightened millions from 1986 for almost two decades before he began the current New Thinking Allowed, available on youtube. He has interviewed hundreds of leading edge men and women in these areas with a careful, erudite and warm personality that this interview will clearly reveal. From the problems he has encountered as the first and foremost researcher to tackle issues that science still continues to belittle, through his singular study of a real psychokinesis subject the PK man, to where we are now in a world still amnesiac to the depths