2013

Twig Harper talks improvisation, isolation tanks, and transformative encounters with an often misunderstood psychoactive plant

Katherine MacLean, who helped guide psychedelic and meditation sessions in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins, talks meditation, psychedelic science, and the integration of the end game.

Professor Andrew Chestnut discusses the cult of death, narco spirituality, and Mexico's increasingly international folk saint.

Erik and Maja talk shock, distraction, and techniques of working with trauma.

Collector and curator Douglas Mcgowan talks crystal visions, flutes, and the hidden sublimity of a reviled genre.

Media theorist McKenzie Wark discusses Situationist practices, critical design, and the politics of Guy Debord action figures.

Magical thinking and the technology of serendipity.

The Creative Imagination in the Age of Neuroscience and Hypermedia

A performance lecture with musician Mark Pilkington.

Enchanted objects and the new animism.

A discussion with Dr. Robert Wallis about the life of things.

The Encinitas controversies

A conversation with Miguel Conner