Altered States Of Conversation

Tim Adalin | Voicecraft
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Addressing fundamental questions for consciousness and civilisation today. Featuring luminary voices in altered states of conversation. Hosted and produced by Tim Adalin. Previously the Voicecraft podcast. See the Altered States Of Conversation YT channel @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKeq9IUfzw-QvDKP7N9K8rw and The Voicecraft Network YouTube channel which contains many dialogues held in the spirit of Voicecraft @ https://www.youtube.com/@voicecraftnetwork Learn more about the project @ https://www.voicecraft.io

  1. 13h ago

    E148| Where Does Power Lie Today? Time, Attention, AI w/ Alexander Bard

    The return of philosopher Alexander Bard in dialogue on power, time, attention and AI in the liminal period associable to Capitalism and ‘Attentionalism’. This continues threads from the conversation ‘Where are we in history?’ in which the notions of paradigmatics, membranics, and archetypology framed how we might approach an understanding of the social and technological changes taking place today. See E146. --- Support this work at Substack: https://timadalin.substack.com/ Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e148-where-does-power-lie-today-time-attention-ai-alexander-bard --- Chapters - mostly AI gen (these conversations aren't linear and rarely map well to chapter stamps) 00:00 Intro (Recap of Where are we in history?) 04:31 Beyond Economics: Sex, Power and Violence 10:54 Chronomics: A New Paradigm of Time 26:18 Dystopian vs. Protopian Perspectives 36:48 The Shift from Capital to Attention 43:34 The Triad of Power: Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real (Lacan) 49:00 Imaginary Power and Its Contexts 55:30 Sensocracy and the Future of Governance 1:03:43 The Tyranny of the Past and AI's Limitations 1:07:47 The Chaos of Future Politics 1:12:01 Why Space Gives Potency to Time 1:15:28 Influencers and Elites 1:21:32 Populism, Mobs, and the Future of Collective Action 1:29:57 Rethinking Communism and Religion 1:40:55 Girard on the Mob, and Art Against Fundamentalism 1:46:24 The Future of AI and Mathematics 2:00:07 Emergentism and the Nature of Consciousness --- Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

    E148| Where Does Power Lie Today? Time, Attention, AI w/ Alexander Bard

  2. Aug 8

    E147 | Feminine Violence w/ Adriana Forte, Pamela von Sabljar & Valeria Ferreira

    On the challenging and often shadowed topic of feminine violence; seeking pathways toward understanding and healing for men and women. A live dialogue at the Voicecraft Network with three outstanding women, Adriana Forte, Valeria Ferreira and Pamela von Sabljar. Learn more @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e147-feminine-violence-adriana-forte-pamela-von-sabljar-valeria-ferreira --- About the speakers: Adriana Forte is a cultural architect, philosopher, and writer dedicated to bringing the cyclical nature of women’s minds into collective awareness. Through dialogue, writing, workshops, retreats, online group work, and one-on-one mentoring, she aims to create spaces for provocative thinking, reflection and transformation. Connect with Adriana's work on Substack where she is releasing her new book @ https://theclab.substack.com/ Pamela von Sabljar is a new breed of speaker, facilitator, and mentor working at the evolutionary edge. She practices dialoguing, sensing, creating, and leading from this ever-emergent edge. She calls this Living from Eros. Pamela has 25 years experience in leadership, personal development, and behavioral science. She has founded several systemic change projects and leadership programs in advanced self-awareness and self-leadership. Find out how to contact and work with her @ https://www.pamelavonsabljar.com/ Valeria Ferreira is a dialogic practitioner with a deep grasp of philosophies across the East and West, currently studying Mandarin to engage Chinese philosophy. She is a member of the Voicecraft Network. --- 0:00 Intro 01:23 The Significance & Shadow of Discussing Feminine Violence 05:03 Distinctions: Feminine as Psychological Principle 11:10 Etymology and Intentionality of Violence 18:26 What do we hold power over that we don't admit to? 27:25 What aggression do we need to integrate in ourselves? 34:22 Sexual Power, Visibility, and Modernity 46:29 What violence has been done to the feminine? 56:54 What are we willing to not see, to stay in relationship? 01:04:38 The Role of Motherhood and Generational Healing 01:18:34 The Collective Work of Healing Feminine Shadows 1:23:34 What does this land as, in a man's body?

    E147 | Feminine Violence w/ Adriana Forte, Pamela von Sabljar & Valeria Ferreira

  3. Jun 26

    E146 | Aliens, Consciousness, and Reality (for Experiencers and Skeptics) | Michael Garfield in dialogue with Tim Adalin

    Evolutionary biologist, complexity thinker and UAP experiencer Michael Garfield joins Tim Adalin for a dialogue on UFOs, entity encounters, and the strange territory where consciousness studies, evolutionary biology, complex systems, the ontologically shocking, information theory and the imaginal meet. Can we engage the strange without becoming impotent, in a way that actually matters for how we live, belong, and make sense together? --- Stay in touch by subscribing on Substack here: https://timadalin.substack.com/ Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e146-uap-and-disclosure-for-experiencers-and-skeptics-michael-garfield-in-dialogue-with-tim-adalin Connect with Michael at on Substack @ https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/ And locate the rest of his work here @ https://linktr.ee/michaelgarfield --- Chapters 0:00 Intro 2:26 Meeting the strange where you are: evolutionary biology & the UFO 4:52 Telos, self-organisation & ontological shock 8:23 Integral philosophy & the Buddhist tetralemma 22:11 Has it become sayable? Psychedelics, channeling & attentional capitalism 26:47 Three frames: psyop, projection & the external other 38:23 The economy in ontological shock & noise in machine learning 40:52 Noise, precognition & retrocausal information 43:15 Metabolic ontology & the ecodelic 45:42 A psychedelic the whole civilisation is taking at once 49:54 Decoding animal communication & the interiority of plants 52:00 The self as the strangest alien 53:16 Kant, the noumenon & the limits of perception 55:42 Is there a "there" to break through to? 1:00:27 Dreaming, the imaginal & communication across time 1:04:40 A hermeneutics of imagination (William Irwin Thompson) 1:08:41 Danny Sheehan & a new faculty of perception 1:12:25 Flatland & higher-dimensional reality 1:24:42 Jacques Vallée's last word on disclosure 1:38:01 The stakes: The Big Others 1:44:03 "You can't do anything with it": impotence & relevance 1:57:30 Becoming planetary & emotion-projection weapons 1:59:59 Paranoid vs metanoid 2:07:16 Games, value capture & why consensus reality isn't enough 2:11:18 Closing Stories: Contact experiences --- Additional resources mentioned by Michael in this episode: Hear more of Michael's experiences on the ⁨@dannyjones⁩ podcast @ https://youtu.be/H0kzIsmZpqs https://www.realitystudies.co/p/michael-garfield-ai-deepfakes-rewilding-reality https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/t/the-phenomenon Miguel Fuentes on epistemic randomness https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/16/8/4489 Some related writing from Michael: https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/noisy --- Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

    E146 | Aliens, Consciousness, and Reality (for Experiencers and Skeptics) | Michael Garfield in dialogue with Tim Adalin

  4. Jun 5

    E145| Paradigms, Membranes, Archetypes: Digital Age Philosophy w/ Alexander Bard

    Where are we in history? What is the central question for social philosophy? What paradigm might be replacing capitalism? What will become of humanity in the age of information and attention? How can re-thinking a philosophy of membranes, paradigms, and archetypes help us situate living in the world today? Welcoming the return of philosopher Alexander Bard in conversation with Tim Adalin about membranics, paradigmatics, and archetypology in the chaos between capitalism and attentionalism. Support this work at Substack: https://timadalin.substack.com/ Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:11 Where are we in history? 2:07 What is 'paradigmatics'? 7:33 What is 'archetypology'? Plus definition of 'membranics' 15:20 How much is our sense of inside and outside (membranes) in flux today? 21:23 The 'sociont', tribal loyalty, and the central question for philosophy: mediating world-annihilating violence 25:33 What ideologies and material pressures shape our belonging today? 41:00 Shamanoids as go-betweens & the birth of religion 54:44 The dying paradigm: politics, finance & academia 1:03:27 What is attentionalism — and how does it differ from the "attention economy"? 1:14:50 Attention as sacred vs. attention as commodity 1:24:55 'Hacking synchronicity', corrupting attention, and power in attentionalism --- Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e145-membranes-paradigms-archetypes-w/-alexander-bard-and-tim-adalin Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

    E145| Paradigms, Membranes, Archetypes: Digital Age Philosophy w/ Alexander Bard

  5. May 30

    E144| Future Human w/ Carl Hayden Smith, Simon van der Els, Sarah Janes, Pamela von Sabljar, Jon Garner, Tim Adalin @ The Big Dinner

    A multimodal experiment in altered states of conversation, sensing for qualities of the Future Human. This took place at The Big Dinner: like pirate radio, but with dinners hosted at homes around the world, held by the Voicecraft Network. Welcoming psychonaut and hyperhuman theorist Carl Hayden Smith, dreaming mysteries teacher Sarah Janes, biologist and neo-Shamanic practitioner Simon van der Els, artist Jon Garner, field facilitator Pamela von Sabljar, joined by philosopher Tim Adalin. To learn about the next opportunity to participate in The Big Dinner, stay in touch with the project by following the breadcrumbs, and subscribing on Substack here: https://timadalin.substack.com/ --- 00:00 Intro to The Big Dinner and Guest Intros 5:30 The somatic praxis begins — dropping into the body together 17:00 The oracular world: dreams and signs as glimpses of the future 20:30 "The future is analog" — embodiment as our edge over AI 30:40 The soul, the placenta, and the modern terror of dying 44:45 Child time, elders, and the case for communal rhythm 47:40 "Presence is longevity" — Carl on humans as nested ecologies 1:01:45 Advertising as mind control — and a gentler vision of technology 1:10:50 Reclaiming our capacity for grief 1:21:00 Decoding the languages of whales, plants, and fungi 1:33:00 The reality of violence — and the "wizardry" of containing it Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/the-big-dinner-future-human-w/-carl-hayden-smith-simon-van-der-els-sarah-janes-pamela-von-sabljar-jon-garner-tim-adalin Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

    E144| Future Human w/ Carl Hayden Smith, Simon van der Els, Sarah Janes, Pamela von Sabljar, Jon Garner, Tim Adalin @ The Big Dinner

  6. Apr 13

    E143| What Are We Accelerating Towards? | Benjamin Studebaker, Michel Bauwens, O.G. Rose, Tim Adalin

    On geopolitical shifts, civilisational cycles, and the potential for new social coordination mechanisms in an increasingly frenetic world. This dialogue welcomes the return of political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, philosopher O.G. Rose, and Commons / Civilisation theorist Michel Bauwens in dialogue with Tim Adalin. --- Access the shownotes for more on the guests & more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e143-what-are-we-accelerating-towards-w/-benjamin-studebaker-michel-bauwens-og-rose-and-tim-adalin MIchel Bauwen's Substack: https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com Benjamin Studebaker's Substack: https://bmstudebaker.substack.com @O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel Substack: https://ogrose.substack.com Tim Adalin's Substack: https://timadalin.substack.com/ Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:10 US, China, Geopolitical Shifts and Military Spending 06:01 The 5,000-Year Transition: Modes of Exchange 25:22 Social Coordination Mechanisms and Global Pluralism 40:21 Exploring Accelerationism: Positive vs. Negative Forms 47:45 The Dilemma of Nation States vs. Globalization 56:14 The Crisis of European Identity and Sovereignty 01:07:04 Communication and Social Coordination in a Complex World 01:18:45 Incompleteness of Institutions and the Potential for New Ideas 01:20:12 The Opportunity in Institutional Failure 01:20:51 Fragmentation and the Search for Unity 01:22:08 The Challenge of Encountering Otherness 01:24:37 Metaphysical Possibilities in Human Encounters 01:30:27 Navigating Geopolitical Dynamics 01:38:20 The Role of Invisible Colleges in Crisis 01:46:02 Reflections on Trust and Society 01:52:43 Alienation and the Quest for Sameness Listen to the full outro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

    E143| What Are We Accelerating Towards? | Benjamin Studebaker, Michel Bauwens, O.G. Rose, Tim Adalin

  7. Mar 24

    E142| Are We Running Out Of Time as a Species? | Dave Snowden

    What is Anthro-complexity? What makes humans different? How can we respond with wisdom, at scale, to our entanglements? Welcoming polymathic thinker and renowned complexity practitioner Dave Snowden, in dialogue with Tim Adalin. Dave's previous conversations on Voicecraft / Altered States Of Conversation: "Civilisation, Science & Spirituality" https://youtu.be/uXvWQzGcNCo "Artificial Intelligence & Human Reasoning" | Metacrisis vs Polycrisis" https://youtu.be/TrMZL55Nzl0 Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e142-anthro-complexity-entanglement-wayshaping-and-addressing-existential-threat-w/-dave-snowden Learn more about Dave and Cynefin @ https://thecynefin.co/team/dave-snowden Find Dave's blog series on Anthro-complexity: https://thecynefin.co/anthro-complexity-1-3/ --- Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:10 What is anthro-complexity? 8:33 Entanglement, not relationship? 15:45 Orientation and the ancient debate that still structures how we think 23:05 Why workshops don't work (and what does) 34:30 You can't simplify a falcon into a pigeon (and have it still be a falcon) 45:25 Three dangers: appropriation, distraction, destruction 53:04 Who is this actually for? 57:30 Demes: the forgotten structure humans evolved to live in 1:04:55 Do we need new shamans? 1:42:50 Changing how decision-makers listen 1:55:00 The limits of dialogue and what comes next Listen to the full outro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

    E142| Are We Running Out Of Time as a Species? | Dave Snowden

  8. 12/20/2025

    E141| The Dreaming Mysteries, Incubation, and Ancient Initiatory Rites w/ Sarah Janes

    Sarah Janes is reviving the dreaming mysteries of Western civilisation, rooted in ancient Greece and Egypt. We dialogue on the esoteric history and culture of dreaming, consciousness, mysticism and sensemaking. Sarah is the author of Initiation Into Dream Mysteries, a psychomagic journey to awaken lucid dream consciousness. She is a researcher, curator, and retreat/workshop facilitator. --- Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e141-the-dreaming-mysteries-incubation-and-ancient-initiatory-rites-w/-sarah-janes Sarah's Links: Website: https://themysteries.org/ Book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Initiation-into-Dream-Mysteries-Mnemosyne/dp/164411514X --- 00:00 Intro 01:44 What Are Dreams? 05:15 The Meaning of Mystery 09:31 Etymology and Magic of Language 17:01 Dreaming Consciousness as Response to Tech Enslavement 28:10 Creation, Songlines & Memory Palaces 33:40 Hieroglyphs as Holographic Writing 41:40 Prophecy, Truth & Healing 55:41 AI, Desire & Vitality 1:0:55 Receptivity and Context 1:07:30 Dying Before You Die 1:20:28 Magic, Sympathy & Serpent Symbolism --- Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

    E141| The Dreaming Mysteries, Incubation, and Ancient Initiatory Rites w/ Sarah Janes
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Addressing fundamental questions for consciousness and civilisation today. Featuring luminary voices in altered states of conversation. Hosted and produced by Tim Adalin. Previously the Voicecraft podcast. See the Altered States Of Conversation YT channel @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKeq9IUfzw-QvDKP7N9K8rw and The Voicecraft Network YouTube channel which contains many dialogues held in the spirit of Voicecraft @ https://www.youtube.com/@voicecraftnetwork Learn more about the project @ https://www.voicecraft.io

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  • Creator
    Tim Adalin | Voicecraft
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2026
  • Episodes
    133
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Tim Adalin | Voicecraft
  • Show Website
    Altered States Of Conversation

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