Dictionary Psychedelica Podcast

A rambling 13 minute exploration of how we understand personality in a consumer culture. I (Connor) am wondering whether spirituality might offer a way to understand one's "inner world" through a rejection of external forces (ie marketing) and directing all attention inwardly.

Podcast episode 6: The Ego Has Landed

Link-a-rama (stuff I talked about... online):
1. My article about the "Lets-Destroy-Religion" set
2. Tim Boucher's "Pop Occulture" Blog

This week Chloe and Connor ask, "What's wrong with suburbia exactly?" and find that there is quite a bit wrong, actually. According to the Situtationists, the suburbs should be decomposing right now... but we can only find a better structure if we work to change our educational and social systems. So come on and join us on a disjointed ride through suburbia!

Podcast episode 5: Talking About Architecture and Suburbia

(Connor is also looking at suburbia in a series entitled "Short Stories of Suburban Sprawl" . You can find them at his Stirred Herd Blog .)

This week we talk about psychedelic author Daniel Pinchbeck and his 2012 meme. Featuring audio clips from Daniel explaining his ideas, interspersed with Chloe and Connor talking about whether the times really are a changin'. Are we heading for an imminent economic and environmental collapse in the West, or will the next five years herald a turning point in human consciousness? Is the 2012 change to be taken literally, or as a metaphorical goal to work towards?

Podcast episode 4: Talking about Daniel Pinchbeck's 2012 Meme

(Also, keep sending in your views on 2012 and we will feature them on next week's podcast...)

Greetings and salutations (again). This podcast we discuss a distinctly unpsychedelic substance - alcohol. Whether your poison be beer or Bacardi Breezers, we discuss why alcohol is underpinning our entire social structure as we know it and why we may in fact be living in an alcohol cult. Do we permanently see the world through beer goggles? Is ecstacy ten times safer than alcohol? Is vodka the Russian Prozak? Listen in to the Dictionary to find out.

Here it is... episode 2 - alcohol!

Welcome to the first Dictionary Psychedelica Podcast. Greetings and salutations and the whole shindig! So what have we here? The essence of the show is that, each week (or so) we choose a word and discuss it from unexpected angles. Thus, we're creating a psychedelic dictionary - sort of. We may move into more obviously psychedelic matters in later weeks, so if you're more interested in the altered states of awareness angle, stay tuned!

The first word is... "art".
We look at whether ads are art, whether graphic designers are bad people, whether art stems from repression and the formation of the subconscious etc etc.

I think we're getting more snappy as we go along (you should hear our outtakes), so next week there will be distinctly less "ums" and far less "likes". We are a product of the MTV generation, though, so we can't be helped. Hey, at least we don't sound like Paris Hilton... right?

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