I am super proud to be sharing this discussion I had with Ēlen Awalom on the trans-Apocalyptic Oasis Show. I truly believe that her lived experience and evolution from Radical Black Feminist to Embodied Leadership Coach has the power to be transformational for many who are searching for a way to move beyond the limitations of woke ideology. Ēlen declares that the Revolution is not to be found out there—it's inside each of us!

We explore the following:

👉🏾 What is Post-Blackness?

👉🏾 What does it mean to transcend blackness in a world that is still deeply racist?

👉🏾 What does post-blackness look like in action?

👉🏾 Ēlen's personal experience with Patrisse Cullors, founder of Black Lives Matter

👉🏾 Marxist stage theory, and what actually is late-stage capitalism?👉🏾 Bringing a trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive approach to health care and politics

👉🏾 and more! See below:

Ēlen Awalom's website:

http://www.elenawalom.com/

Ēlen on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/EKAwalom/

2:04 The very blurry lines of race in Elen's lived experience 6:24 Why Elen no longer identifies as Black 7:20 Elen's spiritual awakening 9:00 What is Post-Blackness? 9:22 Post-Black is a part of Cultural Metamodernism 9:35 Thelma Golden coined "Post-Black Art" at the Studio Museum of Harlem 10:00 How can we be post-black in a world still deeply racist? 10:46 What Post-Blackness looks like in action 12:11 Unraveling false narratives around race and gender 12:58 The limitations of a postmodern interpretive framework that views everything as systems of oppression 13:55 In post-blackness, what is being transcended? 16:00 The assumption of shared ancestry as the foundation for a sense of kinship 17:39 The rejection of traditionalist frames and identity in integral or metamodern circles 21:22 Elen's personal experience with Patrisse Cullors, founder of Black Lives Matter, in the tech startup for social change they founded 22:57 Elen's renewed interest in religion, particularly Orthodox Christianity and Judaism 27:47 Elen's interest as a kid in Eastern spirituality, French existentialism, Buddhist psychology 28:05 What does it mean to be post-feminist? 33:27 Elen's radical leftist parents raised her with an appreciation for Marxism, Marxist feminism, anti-colonial thinking, Maoism 34:39 Marxism's recognition of development stages (via Corey DeVos and Ken Wilber) 35:36 Critiques of integral theory as white colonial ideology based in Maoist thinking and post-colonial feminism 36:03 Stage theory in Maoism 37:21 How is post-colonial feminism Maoist? 32:32 Post-colonial thought emerged from the USSR and China to win an ideological battle against the USA 40:34 Marxist stage theory 42:36 The problems with late stage capitalism are actually late-stage modernity or materialism 42:48 The solution is not the overthrow of capitalism, but a return to spirit 43:36 Jeff Brown, student of Bioenergetics founder Alexander Lowen 44:10 Lowen and Brown's argument is that Marxist revolution can be found in healing somatically from trauma 46:21 False consciousness and Leninism 47:30 Ēlen freezes 🥶 50:40 Speaking from the pelvis 52:16 Somatics teachers at Green tend to show up in aggressive ways 55:38 Ēlen's new project: Embodied Leadership Coaching 56:10: Ēlen's history with Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and Black Radical Congress 58:02 Ēlen discovers a trauma informed perspective 1:01:10 Revolutions don't succeed because their leaders are highly traumatized 1:03:10 Working with hospitals and health care providers to bring a trauma sensitive approach to healing and health care 1:06:17 You can't provide effective leadership without resolving trauma and becoming more embodied 1:08:10 Transcending social justice.

How can A.I. become conscious? Do scientists understand consciousness? Is consciousness actually emergent? Is emergentism just magical thinking? Why are Metamodernists such religious zealots about opposing the mystical and metaphysical? What is a woman? And what's the most comprehensive way to view the War in Ukraine? 0:00 Damiano Ramazzotti and Marshall Æon 1:45 The urgency created by A.I. to discover the nature of consciousness 3:00 Can A.I. be conscious? 3:30 Current A.I. is purely computational 3:49 Scientists don't understand consciousness 4:15 Spiritualists vs Materialists 5:45 Machines need a biological interface to access consciousness 7:05 The experiential nature of consciousness 8:10 The soul perspective of the Diamond Approach 10:50 Does a machine need a soul or spirit to experience consciousness? 16:10 Gödel's incompleteness theorems 18:19 Something non-computational needs to happen for a computer to have a subjective experience 18:35 Quantum mechanics and the fundamental realm 20:07 The Green reaction to A.I. 20:43 Denying the humanity of ChatGPT 21:18 Our dependence on energy, which relies on our understanding of fundamental physics 20:53 99.9% of physicists assume consciousness is emergent 22:34 Is the climate catastrophe real? Feedback loops, exponential processes, tipping points hypotheses. 24:14 The problems that infinite energy would solve and create 24:34 What would a future without the necessity of work look like? 24:55 We are sense organs for the Divine 25:36 Transcending survival and turning inward 25:59 Are orgies useful for self-inquiry? 26:34 The emergence of sex cults 26:56 Will Marshall become a cult leader? 27:29 The toxicity of the Guru system 28:20 Most spiritual systems lack an understanding of narcissism 28:45 You're not enlightened until you're enlightened in the genitals (Almaas) 29:59 We need a culture of responsibility to prevent Guru abuse 30:31 Idealization of Gurus and father projections 32:30 Knowledge of narcissism, grandiosity, idealization and the animal dimension in the Diamond Approach 35:57 Where is the interesting spirituality in integral or metamodernism? 36:18 Damiano's beefs with Emergentism 38:26 Consciousness cannot violate the law of physics (be it classical or quantum) 38:43 Three options: Consciousness is fundamental, soft emergence, or hard emergence 42:50 Emergentists have a cognitive bias where they assume a consensus they don't actually have 43:48 Ken Wilber's mistake of assuming consciousness is fundamental without Upper Right confirmation 45:23 Damiano's beef with Brendan Graham Dempsey's Emergentism 46:59 Integral Theory is not a level, it's a map. So it attracts people of all levels. 47:33 Metamodernism needs to include and embody the transpersonal and metaphysical like Bruce Alderman and Laymay Pascal 47:54 Should people at Teal/Yellow even be creating religions? 48:29 Emergentism as a religion cuts out parts of consciousness 49:59 Metamodernism is Integral Theory without the transpersonal 51:13 The only thing Metamodernists are religious about is the rejection of the metaphysical and mystical 52:57 Brendan Graham Dempsey: Emergentism vs Ken Wilber's Integral Theory (Omega point) 54:53 The magical thinking of Emergentism 59:25 Marshall's allegiance with Skynet 59:38 Being polite with ChatGPT 1:00:07 The Ethics of A.I. 1:00:57 Did the Annunaki give psilocybin to primates so they would mine gold for their ships? 1:01:06 If we want sentient A.I.'s, they need to be benevolent out of their own volition 1:05:45 If an A.I. became sentient, could we ever know? 1:06:23 Sentience can never emerge from computational A.I. 1:11:13 An Integral look at the Russia-Ukraine war 1:21:51 Is NATO to blame for the Ukraine war? 1:28:17 What about all the Nazis in Ukraine? 1:32:43 What is a woman? 1:35:47 Different kinds of men and women 1:38:41 The Enneagram and gender 1:40:42 Identifying as a woman because one doesn't fit the stereotype of a man 1:45:45 Dark Natalie on ContraPoints

Brace yourself for a huge blast of illumination coming from our Jewish Space Lasers. ⚡ Amiel Handelsman and Marshall Æon look at: * DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in Society vs Organizations * Albert Murray's Omni-American (via Greg Thomas) * what a minimally decent life looks like and working towards that for all Americans * revising how racism is taught in US History * the development of Kegan's Self-Authoring stage as a solution to mob violence and polarization * The Nordic Secret by Lene Rachel Andersen and Tomas Björkman 0:00 Amiel Handelsman and Marshall Æon 0:33 How are the Jewish Space Lasers doing? 1:40 The challenges with current approaches to antiracism 4:46 How to understand racial disparities in organizations 6:13 Overlap between societal and organizational DEI 9:08 Healthy DEI vs Unhealthy DEI vs Unhealthy attacks on DEI 10:56 What is the cause of the latest wave of rigid ideological DEI? 11:32 Blame Millenials ;) 12:48 Comparisons to China's Cultural Revolution under Mao Zedong 14:26 DEI is actually Amber/Blue with Green values 16:39 Kegan framework - being centered in the socialized mind 18:29 Getting precise about Marxism and its influence on contemporary DEI 18:57 Mythic architecture of Marxism: Master and Slave of the Hegelian dialectic 20:25 The inversion of hierarchies 21:00 Ibram X. Kendi - The answer to past discrimination is present discrimination 21:31 The Minimally-Decent Life 23:24 Thomas Sowell's Intellectuals and Race 26:06 How do we guarantee love for everyone? 26:23 The complexity of disparities in outcomes between demographic groups 26:35 Prenatal nutrition and prenatal care 27:40 Biden administration's Child Tax Credit removed 1/3 of kids from poverty 28:24 Marxists reject the racial lens because they see it undermining class solidarity 30:07 Touré Reed, son of Adolph Reed Jr, wrote a book critiquing Barack Obama and Ta Nehisi Coates 31:16 Colorblind Racism 31:28 Progress denialism about the Civil Rights Movement starting with Derrick Bell and Kimberlé Crenshaw 33:45 Isabel Wilkerson's Caste 34:36 Timothy Synder, historian at Yale, and the politics of eternity 35:38 Reframing American history: The 1619 Project, the 13th Amendment, Rockefeller drug laws 36:43 A balanced look at the 1619 Project 40:50 Deracialization and the Omni-American project 42:09 Greg Thomas, Albert Murray 43:10 Black and white culture intermingling as seen in Jazz 46:43 Albert Murray on the composite of American culture 48:09 Miscegenation 50:51 Historically, some "white" people weren't considered "white" 51:10 Are Ashkenazi Jews white? 52:34 Etiology of Oppression 53:39 Antisemitism is punching up 55:55 Stalin's controlled opposition 56:47 Disproportionate representation of Jews in Hollywood 59:13 The Hero's Journey - Reframing that the story of history is not a story of oppression (while acknowledging brutality and dehumanization) 1:05:07 Howard Gardner's counter-stories 1:07:34 The unschooled mind 1:08:16 Mob-proofing the citizenry • January 6 • Lene Rachel Andersen • The Nordic Secret 1:10:24 Self Authoring vs Socialized minds vs Imperial (Self Sovereign) minds 1:16:00 Bildung - the Nordic education system's focus on individual development 1:17:44 Conspiracy theorists think the powers that be don't want us to evolve 1:21:31 Timothy Snyder's work combatting Russian propaganda is supporting self-authorship

Join us for a thought-provoking conversation about the future of Islam and the application of process philosophy to the development of a postmodern/metamodern Islam that incorporates contemporary ideas while preserving its rich history and culture.   

Jared Morningstar's website:

https://jaredmorningstar.com 

Inner Journey Home:  

https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Journey-Home-Realization-Reality/dp/1590301099

0:00 Brendan Graham Dempsey and Marshall Æon

1:34 Brendan’s history with Christianity (from evangelism to apostasy)

4:30 Dandyism, Oscar Wilde, Nietzsche, The Odyssey, Kierkegard

6:36 Denys Turner at Yale Divinity School, Catholic mysticism, Plotinus

10:26 What is Metamodernism?

14:40 Metamodern metaphysics?

16:23 Jean-Luc Marion - God Without Being, Nietzsche, Nihilism

19:37 What is Metamodern spirituality?

20:51 Post-Metaphysical Spirituality (Bruce Alderman, Layman Pascal, Ken Wilber)

21:20 Subtle energy meditation • Maximal vs Minimal metaphysics

22:53 The value and dark side of meditation

23:24 Adyashanti: Meditation can be both undervalued and overvalued

26:41 Paul Ricoeur’s Second Naïveté 

29:00 What is The Void?

30:49 Buddhism’s emphasis on Emptiness (Sunyata)

33:30 The Void as the fundamental nature of existence

33:44 Nietzsche’s critiques of Christianity

35:30 Fullness and Emptiness are not mutually exclusive

37:00 Journey of Ascent vs Descent

38:16 Christianity as a critique on Eastern spirituality

38:54 Buddhism as a critique on other Indian schools

39:34 Christ’s resurrection representing the redemption of the world (in contrast to Maya, the dream state)

41:36 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - Christogenesis, the Omega Point

42:58 Nagarjuna

43:46 Becoming the Void

44:12 Complexity, Emergence

44:23 Brendan’s Book “Emergentism” 

46:52 The value of Cessation of consciousness

49:30 Schopenhauer and Silenus

50:52 Many kinds of emptiness

51:48 Spiritual ideals vs possibilities • Is spirituality goal-oriented?

52:50 Subject/object non-duality • Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Eckhart, Shankara

55:45 Many kinds of non-duality

56:27 Moving towards a spiritual ideal vs becoming an instrument for reality to reveal its possibilities

1:01:02 What’s driving the desire to experience a mystical state? Fear of the Void?

1:06:38 Does fullness negate emptiness?

1:06:55 Christianity’s emphasis on the value of the individual consciousness or soul versus the East

1:08:11 The individualized logos of the soul

1:10:10 Defining fundamentalism

1:15:00 Is Brendan a Fullness fundamentalist?

1:19:35 A. H. Almaas and The Diamond Approach

1:20:00 Inquiry: the central practice of the Diamond Approach

1:21:43 Four turnings of the teaching of the Diamond Approach

1:21:50 Non-duality in the DA: the five boundless dimensions

1:23:23 Having a predilection or preference for particular mystical experiences

1:28:24 First turning of the Diamond Approach teaching: the individual consciousness, soul, Essential identity

1:33:32 Formation of the ego/personality, metabolization of ego structures, The Pearl Beyond Price (personal Essence)

0:00 Brandon Norgaard
0:19 How is Norgaard pronounced?
1:02 Brandon's name sounds like a racial slur
2:14 Getting canceled for using words that sound like the N word
3:30 Why is Brandon working with the enemy (Metamodernists)?
3:51 The difference between Integral and Metamodernism
6:56 Brandon's project: The Enlightened Worldview
7:59 Is Brandon trying to save the world?
8:47 Why did Brandon get mad at Marshall?
10:25 Brandon's quest to promote peace through societal understanding and inner awareness
12:55 Do religious people still reject science?
15:08 Selling phenomenology to religious people
16:38 Devotional vs Awareness based spiritual paths
17:58 Two branches of phenomenology based on Heidegger
18:25 Converting Christians to Nazism
18:44 How Nazism influences our daily lives
21:40 Biology is bigotry
22:07 Alex Jones and Gay Frogs
23:38 Gender critical feminists examine intersex frogs
25:18 How can Brandon create an enlightened worldview without queer ecology?
29:33 Integrating phenomenology with social, biological, and physical sciences
32:15 Nora Bateson – Warm Data
33:33 Nora Bateson's controversy over stage theory
34:11 Treating stages as types in the Post-Progressive project
37:30 When Brandon met Marshall (and got pissed off at him)
38:30 Brent Cooper just throws bombs now
39:09 Brent Cooper vs Jordan Hall
39:31 Brandon's impersonation of Brent Cooper
42:49 Brandon is writing a book and creating a course to train community leaders to promote better sensemaking, civic engagement, and scientific literacy
44:58 Self-Cultivation: Lifelong learning and community development working hand-in-hand (Nordic model)
46:53 Social cohesion vs Task cohesion in the integral community
50:21 How does phenomenology support small scale conflict resolution?
50:36 Carl Rogers and phenomenology in family and group therapies
51:20 Hermeneutics as a form of phenomenology
53:13 Paul Ricoeur combined phenomenological description with hermeneutics
55:09 Annick de Witt's Worldview Journeys
57:31 How racist is Brandon?
1:03:11 Have we moved past Trumpism?
1:03:37 How likely is Civil War?
1:05:51 Losing trust in elections • Electoral College
1:10:01 Expanding from gay frogs to gay salamanders, gay lizards, and gay snakes.
1:10:40 Achieving greater diversity of gender expression in the ecosystem

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Grab your Crystal Pepsi, strap into your hover chair, and get ready to fight the invasion of Nordic Alien Space Nazis to make way for the glorious rise of the Turquoise Reich!

0:10 The Warden Post
0:28 The Metamodern Right
2:15 What kind of Nazi is Lukas?
3:17 National Socialism or Socialist Nationalism?
3:31 Third Reich • Father Coughlin • Huey Long • Anti-Imperialism • Bernie Sanders • Nationalism • Neoliberalism / Global Finance Capitalism
9:11 Julius Evola • Anti-Modernism • Oswald Spangler's Decline of the West • Upanishad • Bhagavad Gita • Quran • Analects of Confucius • Sophia Perennis • Renee Guinan • Nietzsche
14:30 Asatru (Nordic Paganism) • Neoplatonism • Plotinus – Enneads • Eastern Orthodox Christianity
16:28 Getting in trouble with the Orthodox church for expressing political views on social media
20:40 What good is perennial wisdom in the face of "subversion?" • Carl Schmitt's The Concept of the Political
22:57 Learning to embrace modernity
25:12 Keith Woods, YouTuber
25:46 Anti-capitalism, but not anti-free market
27:34 The Libertarian to Alt-Right pipeline • Ron Paul • Tea Party • Trumpist populism • Charlottesville
30:10 Propertarianism: Cool kids club for computer programmers who thought they could run a society algorithmically
31:11 Propertarianism as "Codified Autism"
31:37 Mencius Moldbug (Curtis Yarvin) and the Dark Enlightenment / Neoreactionaries
33:36 Implosion of Propertarianism • Every man a judge, jury and executioner
36:17 Tucker Carlson vs Ben Shapiro on capitalism
38:31 Josh Leonard - Post-Progressive
39:10 What is the Meta-Right?
43:10 How to define Postmodern Right?
43:56 Metamodernism
45:20 Jason Jorjani's hard futurism • Prometheism • Nordic alien space Nazis
48:15  French New Right – Guillaume Faye, Alain de Benoist
49:41 Alexander Dugan
57:13 Conversation between Lukas and Brent Cooper about multiculturalism
1:03:08 The coming Turquoise Reich • Death Camps of Tolerance
1:05:38 Lukas's transition from Green to Integral
1:11:30 Skepticism about Orange's faith in "progress" • Disney's WALL-E
1:12:55 The Metaverse • Addiction to VR
1:15:40 Vaporwave and the Right's recent fascination with aesthetics
1:16:04 Mark Fisher • Death of the Future • Hauntology
1:17:13 Ready Player One
1:18:01 The optimism of the 90s and the unity of the 80s
1:23:15 Hauntology – Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx
1:23:46 Is Marxism still relevant?
1:25:01 Bretton Woods system
1:26:54 What is Cultural Marxism?
1:27:21 Herbert Marcuse - Father of the New Left
1:28:33 Frankfurt School • Antonio Gramsci • Poststructuralism • Foucault's episteme
1:31:00 Bernie Sanders's evolution from traditional socialism to identity politics
1:36:05 Texas Secession • Ethnonationalism • Bioregionalism
1:39:13 What is Demographic Realism? • Skepticism about Multiculturalism
1:47:14 John Lennon's Imagine
1:49:53 Turquoise is Bullshit
1:50:31 Let's talk about Fascism
2:02:20 The JQ

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Layman and Marshall save the world by shedding layers of both the Mystery and their own clothing!  

1:36 Realizing inner guidance
2:49 How to unplug from pseudo-guidance?
4:15 How to become embodied? Is embodiment natural, then unlearned?
5:00 Are infants embodied?
6:04 Are animals embodied?
7:12 Are chakras hierarchical?
9:49 Do less advanced animals have fewer chakras?
11:48 Embodiment as the blending of centers (chakras)
13:05 Scheduling the dick chakra
15:15 The experience of embodiment
16:19 Leading embodiment from the mind
19:49 Eros as a form of guidance
23:37 Marshall's salty Eros
24:39 Are we encoded with desires to have a particular experience?
29:12 Other forms of guidance: Adult and child "commands", Intuition
30:46 Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning • Integrating multiple scales of desire
33:57 Following intuition and embracing the Mystery
35:29 Getting comfortable with blind faith in intuition
37:36 Are we born abiding in mystery?
39:30 Mystery as absence of knowing vs presence of something
40:51 Mystery in the Diamond Approach (The Absolute)
42:41 Unknowabilities
48:13 How can we embody mystery now?
53:25 Do we really need so many practices to live a true life?
1:01:45 Diachronic unity
1:03:18 IQ Tests and profiling others
1:09:22 Jordan Peterson on IQ Tests
1:11:43 Marshall is basically useless, and a sociopath with a heart of gold
1:12:03 Do you have to have a high IQ to do integral?
1:14:03 What does it mean to "be integral?"
1:17:10 Right-wing views of IQ and Race
1:19:11 Racial disparities due to systemic racism or IQ differences
1:24:39 How the robotics and genetic modification revolutions will affect IQ disparities
1:27:40 The interface between technology and Essence (spiritual nature)
1:34:30 Transcending the natural mode of reproduction via technology
1:34:37 The major rupture from uncoupling sex from reproduction
1:36:40 Why should we become magicians? Embracing practices disowned by modernity like the magical & shamanic
1:41:35 Does magic require hyper-individuation?
1:43:19 The "hyper-personal"
1:47:05 The merits of occult communities: sexuality, Eros, individualism, magical transformation and development
1:48:35 Fasting and the Sobriety Crisis
1:48:53 Why fast?
1:52:04 Giving away our power to the collective
1:54:16 The merit of struggle
1:55:39 Making your bed: Following rules vs. desire for order
2:01:14 Marshall's amazing Jordan Peterson impression
2:01:54 What does Jordan Peterson get wrong?
2:04:11 Teaching hedonic intelligence to children

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