new podcast interview

[daniel]

Let me know your thoughts:

http://nearthwort.com/2007/01/06/nearthwort-podcast-5-psychedelic-author-daniel-pinchbeck/

[Mars]

I think this interviewer, more so than the others I've listened to, asked certain questions that were suggestive to me of the mindset of the mainstream media. Questions like "are you a spiritual person?" and "do you advocate the use of drugs?" strike me as very likely to come up (in much less palatable ways) from interviewers who really have no framework/context for understanding these ideas and who may be trying to reflect what they perceive to be the attitudes and values of suburban middle-class America. Which is not to say that I think the interviewer was of that ilk - far from it. Rather it was elements of the interview rather than the whole.

In this sense I think it was a very good thing. Hearing your responses to those questions will, I suspect, help me to articulate better to friends, colleagues and relations that which I've learned from your writing in a way they can grasp given their lack of exposure to the study of consciousness, indigenous traditions and psychedelics - not to mention their possible (probable) prejudices.

As I listen to the interviews you've done recently consecutively, I also feel like you're arriving at simpler, more concise and yet still precise ways of expressing some things, e.g., breaking the impending future change into three consumable trends: biospheric crisis, accelerating technology, psychic shift. That's an excellent conceptual trifecta.

You mentioned the Jnana (sp?) yogic intellectual tradition which sounds very interesting - is there a particular book you or anyone else might recommend?

[Karyn]

Let me know your thoughts:

http://nearthwort.com/2007/01/06/nearthwort-podcast-5-psychedelic-author-daniel-pinchbeck/

Daniel you did a great job. You were wonderful.

[graffitirun]

yes, well said. soild, fluid

ive never thought of the beatles like that...

[K.J]

I just listened to the first part of this last week. It was really nice to turn on the computer today and find the second part posted. Great interview Daniel.

[K.J]

Oh, and I loved the plug for Worldchanging.com!

[stfrequency]

I agree with poster #2. I have a friend that attended Burning Man last year -- I directed her to your talk at Entheon, and she returned a little put off (confused, perhaps). I forwarded this podcast to her, and she feels a lot more connnected to your message now. Part of her response:

"Much more cohesive talk from the pinch man especially compared to what I heard at BM. He really resists talking too new agey, very good tactic on his part considering the current climate towards what he's actually doing. He can sound so laissez faire about the whole thing like it doesnt matter all that much to him in the long run. If he was out there soap boxing it could put people on the defensive and make them think he's a hack.
He's definitely got the right angle at the right time."

Hope this helps. Keep doing these interviews!

**Ethan Nadelmann on Colbert tonight! Am I spotting a trend here?? Fingers crossed for Rick Doblin in '07**

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[drew hempel]

New Scientist is better than worldchanging.com you should read their review of the new worldchanging book.

I just got professor Karl Zimmerer's new book on globalization. That's the REAL DEAL -- He got a Guggenheim. I got an A in his class at UWisconsin Madison.

Read Karl S. Zimmerer. Not that stupid science writer Carl Zimmer. No -- not him!! haha.

[K.J]

I must have hit the wrong link, because I just listened to this after having found it via Google and it wasn't the same one I was posting about above. Doh!

Great interview though. Each one gets better and really introduces people to your ideas rather effectively. The only complaint I have is that the audio could have been better, but I guess that's what happens with phone interviews.

[Isaiah Mpski]

I think the guy's comment about being hit in the head with a baseball hat was a bit juvinile and I would be the first to ask him=or tell him-I promise he will learn everything and more of psychedelia when he dies if he even thinks about things like that.
Observing it a bit early-not too many times Daniel-is good for the soul and the psyche.

[marcfiszman]

Marc from Nearthwort here -- I conducted the interview with Daniel.

We've just posted another show to our site which may be of interest. It features an interview with the Siberian shaman Biven Mamonta, who doesn't seem to be a huge fan of the use of hallucinogenic medicines in shamanic rituals.

http://nearthwort.com/2007/02/16/nearthwort-podcast-13-siberian-shaman-biven-mamonta/

[suebee]

i believe the interviewer's mindset changed over the course of the interview and it almost sounded like the discovery channel, which is good for calming hysteria. nicely done daniel. i havent heard others of yours but i liked this.


(my only fear is that the 100th monkey thing doesnt work with humans maybe due to the clutter assault on us 24/7....)