Buddhist Geeks

In this episode Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined in dialogue with journalist, educator, & scholar Greg Thomas to meditate together on race. Greg’s work is informed by Integral Theory, the philosophies of Albert Murray and Ralph Ellison, and draws upon the rich history of the African American experience and Jazz. In this dialogue, Greg shares his reflections on race, from an integral perspective, exploring the potential for liberation–especially from racial ignorance & animus–on personal, cultural, & institutional levels.

Memorable Quotes

“Race is just one more tool of the ego to separate and to create structures–whether it’s subjective, inter-subjective or objective structures–to separate, divide and categorize.” - Greg Thomas

“There is a truth to the fact that we all are one, and that we share in the ineffability of the source, of the fullness of emptiness. And all these things that signify–because we’re using human language–that our origins, our source, from and through which all things come and flow, and towards which we’re moving. But in-between time, on this human level, in this particular incarnation we have to deal with the reality of materiality, of the material plane that we’re on. That materiality itself, is going to bring suffering. Duality will do that. Non-duality is Oneness. We have to navigate skillfully, using skillful means. And that’s where we get to Wisdom. Wisdom allows us to be able to play with these dualities. ... [Wisdom] takes into consideration I, We, & It, it takes into consideration the dual & the non-dual, it takes into consideration the reality of the oneness and the particularity of the many.” - Greg Thomas

“They have planted and we ate. We plant and others will eat.” - Siddho Ahmad Fakhoury, Vince’s Great-Grandfather on planting olive trees

Episode Notes:

👤 Greg Thomas’s Online Portfolio

👤 The Jazz Leadership Project

👤 Greg Thomas @ Integral Life

🔗 Integral Life

👤 Diane Musho Hamilton

👤 Anthony Appiah

👤 Danielle Allen @ Twitter

📃 Ralph Ellison

📖 “My Grandmother’s Hands” by Resmaa Menakem

📖 “Turning the Wheel: Essays on Buddhism and Writing” by Charles Johnson

👤 Bell Hooks

🔗 Essentialism

📖 “Mindful of Race” by Ruth King

📃 Jazz vs. Racism by Greg Thomas

📖 “The Ethics of Identity” by Kwame Anthony Appiah

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We're joined in this episode by Writer-Director-Actor-Comedian-Songwriter and run of the mill fucked up human, Stuart Davis, as he shares his deep experience of navigating what is generally referred to as "the phenomenon." Both in his work as the host of the Artists & Aliens Podcast and as the convener of The Experiencer Group–a virtual learning community for people who've had anomalous experiences–Stuart is helping people confront and confer with the high strangeness of our shared reality.

Episode Links:

👤 Stuart Davis

👽 Artists & Aliens

🔗 The Experiencer Group

📖 A CE-5 Handbook: An Easy-To-Use Guide to Help You Contact Extraterrestrial Life

👤 Steven M. Greer

📰 Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program

📺 Navy pilots describe encounters with UFOs

📺 Ten Tools for Sovereignty

🖋 ET PRESENCE & THE FORFEITURE OF HUMAN SOVEREIGNTY by Stuart Davis

🌐 Buddhist Geeks Network

Additional Links from Stuart:

Kimberly Theresa Lafferty's Three Parter on Tantra, Non Human Entities, how transitory states become enduring stages of consciousness, how human contact with non-human entities impacts the attachment cycle in human development, the use of consorts in monastic Tantric tradition, and how we make meaning of the things that make no sense. A cautionary tale of what happens when you fail to make cakes for the spiritual denizens of your retreat cabin.

• Part One: https://youtu.be/Wz1juIwK5aU
• Part Two: https://youtu.be/amlajXh3viQ
• Part Three: https://youtu.be/a5v_I1sxFY8

And, magician Gordon White on how to protect your home spiritually by turning it into a Human Dwelling:

• Part One: https://youtu.be/sYpdE2lTabk
• Part Two: https://youtu.be/9HM_-_5xJAc

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From practicing hindu tantra with a guru he met at a new age bookstore in Chicago, to building open source hexayurts on the playa of burning man, to helping launch the second biggest crypto-network, Vinay Gupta is a man on a mission. Bringing a Vaderesque approach to spiritual, social, cultural, & engineering topics, Vinay offers an ultra-compelling apocoloptimistic vision of the future. -Vince Fakhoury Horn

Memorable Quotes:

"Social problems can be fixed with social change, and engineering problems have to be fixed with better technology. And most of what's wrong with capitalism is engineering limits not social limits, and we get very confused about this." - Vinay Gupta

Episode Links:

👤 Vinay Gupta

🔗 Mattereum

🔗 The Hexayurt Project

🔗 Industrialisation

🔗 Haidakhan Babaji

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In this episode, Vince Horn is joined in dialogue, once again, by Diane Musho Hamilton–Zen teacher, professional meditator, and Integral facilitator. The conversation begins with Vince's reflections on an Integral Facilitator Training that he attended with Diane, where a bulk of the training centered around facilitating small group conversations around issues related to differences of identity. After discussing a number of topics that are often taken up in the Social Justice movement, and an Integral perspective on these topics, the conversation turned toward the role of the Teacher, and on transmission, hierarchy, embodiment, feedback, and projection.

Memorable Quotes:

“I found that rather than trying to teach stage models to groups, that I like to invoke them into models.” - Diane Musho Hamilton

“We don’t challenge basketball coaches the way we challenge spiritual teachers.” - Diane Musho Hamilton

“Every moment of adulation is followed by a great disappointment.” - Diane Musho Hamilton

Episode Links:

👤 Diane Musho Hamilton

🔗 Ten Directions, Integral Facilitator Training

📄 Everything the Same, Everything Different by Diane Hamilton

📺 Saturday Night Live: Dinner Discussion

🔗 Two Arrows Zen

🔗 Black Elk

🔗 Worldcentric

📺 Future Thinkers Interviews with Ken Wilber

🔗 The Five Stages of Grief

📖 Compassionate Conversations by Diane Musho Hamilton, Gabriel Wilson, & Kimberly Loh

📺 The Role and Importance of the Teacher by Ken McLeod

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In this episode, Vince Horn is joined in conversation with Jason Snyder, PhD. Co-host of the Both/And Podcast and an adjunct lecturer at ASU’s Department of Sustainable Development, Jason joins Vince in a sit-down conversation, where they discuss the topics of memetic mediation, metamodernism, integral theory, responding to the meta-crisis, sensemaking and more.

Memorable Quotes:

"We are all complicit in history whether we like it or not. Both the good parts and the bad parts. I think that speaks to the notion of interconnectedness." – Jason Snyder

"How do we respond to the meta-crisis? We have to create this new kind of collective intelligence that as humans we can accurately respond to the serious transition we’re in." – Jason Snyder

Episode Links:

👤 Jason Snyder

🎙 Both/And Podcast

🎙 Both/And: Decoding Ourselves with Vince Horn

🎙 Deconstructing Yourself

📃 On Memetic Mediation & Perspectival Pidginism

🔗 Integral Life

🔗 The Evolving Self

👤 Hanzi Freinacht

👤 Clare Graves

🔗 The Bahá’í Faith

📃 New Atheism

👤 Shinzen Young

👤 Daniel Ingram

🎙 Buddha at the Gas Pump

👤 Otto Scharmer

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