Reflecting on the INSIGHT psychedelic science conference by the MIND Foundation. On "the Woo", Science and Subjectivity, Spirituality, and Psychedelic Ontology.

uniMIND Aachen #01 - Insights and Reflections from INSIGHT2023

In this episode, Justin and Matt speak with Andrew Culp. Andrew Culp (MA 2009, Ph.D. 2013) is a Professor of Media History and Theory and Program Director of the MA Aesthetics and Politics program (starting Spring 2023) in the School of Critical Studies and in the MA Aesthetics and Politics Program, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). In his first book, Dark Deleuze (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), he proposes a revolutionary new image of Gilles Deleuze’s thought suited to our 24/7 always-on media environment, and it has been translated into eight languages. With his second book, A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), he arms the reader with critical theory as part of a journey through anarchist infowar, queer outlaws, and Black insurgency. He is currently working on two projects: a new structuralist theory of the state’s arkhḗ, and a critical history of cybernetics from those subverting it from its inside. Culp’s writing on these and other topics has appeared in Flügschriften, Radical Philosophy, symplokē, parallax, angelaki, Deleuziana, The Alienocene, and Boundary 2 online. As part of The Destructionist International, he also makes films and other media. His most recent is the experimental documentary Machines in Flames (2022), which explores the legacy of techno-sabotage. 

Andrew Culp: http://www.andrewculp.org/

Link to PDF of Guerilla Guide to Refusal: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ml50d6vO80Ev2bF03yZGkP1RjNPGhpo1/view?usp=drive_link

Destructionist International: https://destructionist.international/

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Music for this episode:
Exhausted Divinity, Niky Nine https://lazerdiscs.bandcamp.com/track/exhausted-divinity-2
Primitivo, Axons https://onsetaudio.bandcamp.com/track/primitivo
Bone Orchard, Void Stasis https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/track/bone-orchard


Andrew Culp /// Guerrilla Guide to Refusal

In this episode, Jake and Matt speak with Sheri Kling who is an author, speaker, singer, and spiritual mentor offering courses, keynote concerts, retreats, and one-on-one soul work for wholeness, purpose, passion, and joy. Dr. Sheri has spent a lifetime focusing on transformation and human flourishing. Her specialty is harnessing proven wisdom from a range of sources to address the individual and societal problems that keep us divided and suffering.

The Renewing Faith conference is a three day online event (Jan 23-25, 2025) sponsored by Process and Faith, and the Center for Process Studies. It is designed specifically for forward-looking Christian pastors, staff members, lay leaders, spiritual directors, chaplains, and those outside traditional church settings - whether you consider yourself a progressive mainliner, a quiet contemplative, a spiritual seeker, or a “deconstructing” post-evangelical - who are seeking to reignite their passion and find life-giving purpose in their faith journeys. For more information: https://processandfaith.org/renewing-faith/#main

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Music for this episode: 
Untitled Intro Music, Matt Baker
Nomad's Theme, Matt Baker

Sheri Kling /// Process Spirituality

In this episode, Matt speaks with Richard Tarnas about his book Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New Worldview. 

Richard Theodore Tarnas is a cultural historian and astrologer known for his books The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View and Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View. Tarnas is professor of philosophy and psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and is the founding director of its graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. In 1968 Tarnas entered Harvard, graduating with an A.B. cum laude in 1972. He received his Ph.D. from Saybrook Institute in 1976 with a thesis on psychedelic therapy. In 1974 Tarnas went to Esalen in California to study psychotherapy with Stanislav Grof. From 1974 to 1984 he lived and worked at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, teaching and studying with Grof, Joseph Campbell, Gregory Bateson, Huston Smith, Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, and James Hillman. He also served as Esalen's director of programs and education.

Get the book: https://a.co/d/4gJFNxS

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Music for this episode:
Lamentium, Monasterium Imperi
Nomad's Theme, Matt Baker

Richard Tarnas /// Cosmos and Psyche

In this episode, Matt and Justin Speak with Professor Elliot Wolfson about his book Heidegger and Kabbalah: Hidden Gnosis and the Path of Poiesis. Wolfson is a renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism, philosophy of religion, and comparative mysticism. His work blends rigorous textual scholarship with insights from literary theory, feminist thought, postmodern hermeneutics, phenomenology, and Eastern mystical traditions. Widely regarded as the leading scholarly interpreter of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Wolfson has significantly reshaped contemporary understandings of Jewish esotericism.

In addition to his academic writing, Wolfson is also a poet and visual artist, with several published volumes of poetry and a gallery exhibition. He served as founding editor of the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy and remains an influential voice in the study of religion and mysticism.

Heidegger and Kabbalah: https://iupress.org/9780253042576/heidegger-and-kabbalah/

Music for this episode: 
Prey, Niky Nine
Dunes, Jonathan Fitoussi

Elliot Wolfson /// Heidegger and Kabbalah

This episode features a special session from a recent conference hosted by the Center for Open and Relational Theology. The conversation centers on Catherine Keller’s latest book, No Matter What: Crisis and the Spirit of Planetary Possibility. The episode includes Keller’s opening remarks, a response from matt, and Keller’s reply. Other panelists have been omitted for length and focus, but a link to the full panel discussion is available for free at this link: https://c4ort.com/ortline25-audio-downloads/

Catherine Keller /// OrtLine25 Response

In this episode, Matt speaks with Thomas Nail about his book "The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction". Nail is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver and the author of numerous books including The Figure of the Migrant, Theory of the Border, Marx in Motion, Theory of the Image, Theory of the Object, Theory of the Earth, Lucretius I, II, III, Returning to Revolution, and Being and Motion, The Philosophy of Movement. 

Read more about the Philosophy of Movement: https://philosophy-of-movement.com/
Read the Introduction: https://udenver.academia.edu/ThomasNail
Get the book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917456/the-philosophy-of-movement/

Music for this episode: 
Adonis, Birds ov Paradise
Enchanted Lands, The Guild of Ambience
Cleocathral, Farkas

Thomas Nail /// The Philosophy of Movement

This episode features an audio essay from Matt Baker titled “The Panarchist Politics of Amipotence”. The essay appears in a recently published volume centering on Tom Oord’s concept of amipotence. The volumes also feature entries from Josh Patterson, Catherine Keller, Ilia Delio, et al and is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Amipotence-Support-Criticism-Brandon-Brown/dp/1958670774

Music for this episode provided by CryoChamber: https://www.cryochamberlabel.com/

The Panarchist Politics of Amipotence [Audio Essay]

In this episode, Justin speaks with Nicholas Laccetti about his 2021 article, "AL and LA: Thelema and the Death of God". Nicolas is a member of the National Communications Team of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. He is the author of The Inner Church is the Hope of the World: Western Esotericism as a Theology of Liberation (Wipf and Stock, 2018). Nic holds an M.A. in Medieval Studies from Fordham University and an M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary.

Read the Article: https://thelemicunion.com/al-and-la-thelema-death-of-god/

Nicholas Laccetti /// Thelema and the Death of God

Psychedelic Science, reflections on psychedelics, philosophy of mind, on society and the phenomena of substance use and psychedelic culture.
I want to inspire critical thought, embody a rational evidence-based discourse and acknowledge Spiritualities surrounding psychedelics.
I discuss science here as well as topics like mysticism and spirituality mainly from a psychedelic humanities perspective and someone interested in philosophy beyond the armchair. I want to be clear, I am a naturalist, and evolutionary humanist. I hold in high regard the values of philosophical enlightenment, secularism and peace.

uniMIND Aachen #01 - Insights and Reflections from INSIGHT2023

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