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The Lindisfarne Tapes The Schumacher Center for a New Economics
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On a rocky outcropping off the northeastern coast of England, the monastery of Lindisfarne once stood as an outpost of religious, philosophic, and intellectual study against the “dark” times of early medieval Europe. Inspired by the foresight and dogged determination of these medieval monks, William Irwin Thompson founded the Lindisfarne Association in 1972 to gather together bold scientists, scholars, artists, and contemplatives to realize a new planetary culture in the face of the political, cultural, and environmental crises of the twentieth century.
Brought to you by the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, The Lindisfarne Tapes podcast represents some of the most visionary thinking of the time, drawing connections between culture, economics, society, and technology. While the germs of new ideas contained in these tapes are now beginning to take root, they remain an invaluable source of speculative thinking that will continue to inspire our visions of a more just and regenerative future.
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Gregory Bateson: How We Know What We Know
Gregory Bateson, anthropologist, cyberneticist, and systems theorist, develops a theory of “how we know what we know” using a number of parables. Bateson is the author of Mind and Nature and Steps to an Ecology of Mind. (Episode photo courtesy of wildculture.com)
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E.F. Schumacher: Moving from Cleverness to Wisdom
E.F. Schumacher, author of Small is Beautiful, suggests how one might begin to transition from violent to non-violent technology, from chemical to biological agricultural methods, from cleverness to wisdom. (Episode photo courtesy of schumacherinstitute.org.uk)
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Kathleen Raine: Spirituality in William Blake
British poet and scholar, Kathleen Raine, discusses religion and spirituality in Blake’s life and work. Raine is the author of many highly respected studies on the work of William Blake, W.B. Yeats, and Thomas Taylor. (Episode photo courtesy of counterpointpress.com)
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Stewart Brand: How Could We Possibly Get a Photograph of the Whole Earth?
Stewart Brand, editor of The Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly, describes the experiences that culminated in the creation of The Catalog and leads a lively discussion joined by most of the Lindisfarne conference speakers. (Episode photo courtesy of theculturecrush.com)
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Thomas Banyacya: The Prophecy of 1948
Thomas Banyacya, spokesman for the Elders of the Hopi, describes his people’s prophecy and way of life. Revealing some of the “signs of the times” which guide the Hopi in the present epoch, Banyacya relates this to other great spiritual traditions. (Episode photo courtesy of windspeaker.com)
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David Spangler: Co-Creating our Future in the New Age
David Spangler, spiritual philosopher and author of Revelation: The Birth of a New Age, speaks on the synthesis and transformation of science, religion, and government in the new age. (Episode photo courtesy of fairycongress.com)