Upcoming podcasts - Thru January 12 2009

[Jan Irvin]

Upcoming interviews (These are approximate release dates):

Podcast #006 - Prof. Neil Whitehead, Dark Shamans (11-24-2008)
Neil Whitehead, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Graduated from Oxford University in 1984 - Ph.D. in Anthropology.

• 2005 Terror and Violence - Anthropological Approaches . (ed with Andrew Strathern and Pamela Stewart, Pluto Press).
• 2004 Violence . (SAR Press)
• 2004 In Darkness and Secrecy. The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia. (ed. with Robin Wright) Duke University Press .
• 2004 Nineteenth Century Travels, Explorations and Empires: Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910; South America , (ed.). Chatto & Pickering.
• 2003 Histories and Historicities in Amazonia, (ed.). University of Nebraska Press.
• 2002 Dark Shamans. Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death. Duke University Press.
• 2001 Beyond the Visible and the Material, (ed. with Laura Rival). Oxford University Press.



Podcast #007 - Dr. James DeMeo - Saharasia - Sexual Suppression and the origins of human violence (12-01-2008) - Part 1
James DeMeo, Ph.D., formally studied the Earth, atmospheric, and environmental/social sciences at Florida International University and the University of Kansas, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1986. At KU, he openly undertook graduate-level natural scientific research specifically focused upon Wilhelm Reich's controversial discoveries, subjecting those ideas to rigorous testing with positive verification of the original findings. DeMeo has undertaken field research in the arid American Southwest, Egypt, Israel, sub-Saharan Eritrea, and Namibia, Africa. His published works include dozens of articles and compendiums, and several books, including Saharasia, The Orgone Accumulator Handbook, On Wilhelm Reich and Orgonomy and Heretic's Notebook. He is also co-editor for the German-language compendium Nach Reich, and editor of the journal Pulse of the Planet. DeMeo served on the Faculty of Geography at Illinois State University and the University of Miami, is a former Research Associate of the American College of Orgonomy, and is on the Advisory Board for the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC), and the Natural Philosophy Alliance (NPA). He founded the Orgone Biophysical Research Lab and Greenspring Center in rural Ashland, Oregon, holding the post of Director since 1978.


Podcast #008 - Dr. James DeMeo - Saharasia - Sexual Suppression and the origins of human violence (12-08-2008) - Part 2
The continuation of my interview with Dr. James DeMeo.

Podcast #009 - The 2012 Meme, Part 2. An Interview with John Major Jenkins. (12-15-2008)

In our continuing investigation, John Major Jenkins will be given the platform to voice his agreements and disagreements with Prof. John Hoopes (Podcast #004), regarding the Maya Calendar and 2012. In this interview Jenkins roles up his academic sleeves and shows his stuff.


Podcast #010 - MAPS - The Multidisiplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. An Interview with Rick Doblin, Ph.D. (12-22-2008)

In this interview Rick Doblin tells all. How he started his research, what psychedelic studies are underway, what victories have been won, and where research is headed.

Podcast #011 - On the Gnostics - An interview with John Lamb Lash. (12-29-2008)

Comparative mythologist, author and teacher John Lash is one of the foremost exponents of the power of myth to direct and shape an individual’s life, as well as history itself. Described as the true successor of Joseph Campbell, John is a teacher of world mythology, Tantra, Buddhism, Gnosticism, the pre-Christian Mysteries, alchemy, astrology, and naked-eye astronomy. He had traveled widely throughout the world and lived in Japan, the UK, Greece, Norway, France, Spain and Belgium. He lives in Europe.

John’s published works:

The Seeker’s Handbook: The Complete Guide to Spiritual Pathfinding (Crown, 1991)
Twins and the Double (Thames & Hudson, 1993)
The Hero - Manhood and Power (Thames & Hudson, 1995)
Quest for the Zodiac (Starhenge Books, 1999)
Not in His Image (Chelsea Green Publishing, November 2006)

Podcast #012 - LSD Studies - An Interview with Dr. Stanislav Grof. (01-05-2009)

In this show I interview the father of LSD and psychedelic research, Dr. Stanislav Grof. Just how deep does the rabbit hole go?

Podcast #013 - Ayahuasca and Meso-American studies. An interview with Prof. Marlene Dobkin de Rios (01-12-2009)

In this show pioneering researcher, Prof. Em. Marlene Dobkin de Rios, will be given the proper platform to voice her studies to others in the academic community regarding her findings of entheogen use in Maya, Inca and other Meso-American cultures. The academic community largely dismissed her findings in the 1970s and 1980s, but this time around the academics will have to answer as why they did not incorporate her research sooner.

[braha_kahn]

damn lot to look forward too... unfortunatly I'm way behind with my fav. podcasts... Now i'm listening to the MAY episodes of those I follow up