📖 Prophetic Culture Book Club Recording

Perhaps the only way to make an impact in the world is by realizing it is just a world...

I recently met with insightful friends Jeremy Johnson, James Curcio, Paul Bloch, Kevin DeLand, and Jay Bachhuber, to play mind-jazz on the themes of Federico Campagna’s marvelous book Prophetic Culture: Recreation for Adolescents.

This was a deeply enjoyable conversation (1:46:09) touching on topics like:

• The spatial or extensional nature of time and viewing history like a physical object
• Campagna’s “Tetrapharmakon” of the mystic, shaman, metaphysician, and prophet
• The reclamation of the sacred and the role of the oracle in “adolescent” societies
• Prophecy vs. prediction and reconciling eternity with deep time
• Pre-figuring the future by imagining it has already happened
• A-causal vision, Tolkien's eucatastrophe, and Meillassoux's hyperchaos
• The grotesque (e.g., web memes) in culture’s search for new possibilities
• Apocalypse (final judgment) vs. Apocatastasis (always-already redemption)
• Story Hour for our personal prophetic experiences and how we integrated them

Whether or not you’ve read this book, you’ll find plenty of inspiration here.

Our next live community call is on Saturday, May 31st at 1 pm Pacific/5 pm Eastern!

And there is still time to enroll in How To Live In The Future, my course at Weirdosphere where I’m drawing on a huge library of inspirations to to provoke new ways of thinking about our cosmos and how to surf accelerating change:

Lastly, here is a special treat for those of you in the mood for psychoactive reading: What Is “Being More Than A Machine”? and Why Should “I Contain Multitudes”?