Dr. Bruce Damer's Levity Zone

S1E1 - Genesis Engines @ Burning Man - Aug 2012

Dr.Bruce — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 05:53:45 PST

Genesis Engines, a Discussion Held at Burning Man, Aug 2012. Credits: Tom Riedel (recording), Kianna Alarid Cameron and Svamps (music), Chris Aman (edit)

S1E2 - Naeem at the Source, a visionary journey, Pakistan - June 2012

Dr.Bruce — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:01:45 PST

The story from a vision written by Dr. Bruce when leaving Pakistan, June 2012. Credits: Chris Aman (edit, music)

S1E3 - The Day the Universe Becomes Conscious @ Burning Man - Aug 2003

Dr.Bruce — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:05:22 PST

Dr. Bruce Damer's first talk at the first Palenque Norte, Burning Man, August 2003. Credits: Lorenzo Hagerty (event), Jake McDonald (cover art, editing), Ankur Dnyanmote, ChaosLab, Arturo and Kianna Alarid Cameron/Svamps (music).

S1E4 - Raising the Ruby Keystone - how one may hold the visionary state - Nov 2012

Dr.Bruce — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:01:15 PST

Dr. Bruce on how one may hold the visionary state. Credits: Bruce Damer (author and reader), Chris Adams (music), Chris Aman (editing), Jacob Aman (art).

S1E5 - Introducing Dr. R.P. Kaushik - Feb 2013

Dr.Bruce — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:06:36 PST

Dr. Bruce introduces Dr. Kaushik. Credits: Students of Dr. K (digitizing this session from Ithaca, NY, 1978), Cynthia Copple (photo), Bruce Damer (editing, introducer), MysticalSun (music).

S1E6 - Dr.Kaushik - The Universe Within Energy

Dr.Bruce — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:58:01 PST

Dr. Kaushik reveals how the energy moves within the universe inside each of us and gets caught up as tension. This tension is the source of all of our needs and ills and to move beyond it is to become a new kind of human being. Recorded Ithaca, NY, 1978. Find many more talks by Dr. Kaushik linked off our site at levityzone.org/podcasts. Music by Mystical Sun titled: Place of Refuge from his new album 26000.

S1E7 - Dr. Kaushik - The Universe Within Energy Part 2

Dr.Bruce — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:58:01 PST

The second half of a talk by Dr. Kaushik about how the energy moves through our internal universe. He addresses the original audience question about how to handle sexual energy. Next, he explores how when we relate to the universe through thought we become isolated in aloneness. When thought comes to an end, and we face the full void of loneliness it is only there, free of mind, that love has the space to grow to the point you become the energy. In this state all centers are one, and you have become a total human being.

S1E8 - John Suntiger - The Circle

Dr.Bruce — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:59:00 PST

Introducing a new voice to the levity zone: John Suntiger, a visual projection artist, and community and environmental activist who takes us on his profound life's journey through dis-ease, disease from Childhood to a terrifying hang gliding accident and beyond. John truly paid his dues and has emerged a strong advocate and practitioner of the circle. As Lorenzo Hagerty and Dr. Bruce initiated last year in programs about the life of Terence McKenna, the time of the mostly white male guru on stage is now, thankfully, being replaced by circles of sharing, of healing, of exploration and of the creation of a new world. John has formed a powerful circle in his community and will tell us how that came about and how you might find your own destiny in the circle.

S1E9 - The Ojai Salon

Dr.Bruce — Thu, 02 May 2013 09:14:00 PST

Journey to the beautiful valley of Ojai in Southern Californa where Dr. Bruce engages an intimate audience in the first Ojai Salon at the visionary compound of Jeffrey Harris near where J. Krishnamurti sat under the teaching tree.Come now with us in an inner journey from our insectivore primate ancestors 90 million years ago all the way out to the first flash of the total conscious manifesting rendering of the cosmos in our own minds in our own time. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (speaker, intro, edit), Jeffrey Harris (host), Mystical Sun (music), Jacob Aman (art). [released 2 May 2013].

S1E10 - Conversations with the Madre (Part 1)

Dr.Bruce — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:14:00 PST

There is reason for hope as I take you on a very personal voyage into a lifelong quest for contact with nature and the biosphere: the Madre. She is the entity that for me represents the sentient yet very alien presence that is the planetary living bolus, The following interview, conducted in Sierra Madre, Califonria in November 2012, is the first of two parts in what became a conversation with the Madre. It is a drama of the evolution and the fight for the soul and survival of us monkeys and the Madre herself. Credits: Bruce Damer (speaker, intro, edit), Chris Aman (editing), Mystical Sun, William and Bruce Damer (music), Jacob Aman (art). [released 24 May 2013].

S1E11 - Conversations with the Madre (Part 2)

Dr.Bruce — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:45:00 PST

In part 2 of the conversation with the Madre, mother nature, we reply back to her inquiry. The message? It is much needed information on the planetary state of us monkeys, her most promising yet problematic progeny. Why have this conversation? We may be considered crazy, but the survival of us, and all of Earth's life beyond its heat death in the distant future may rest in the balance. If the Madre can help us, we can help the Madre and there is truly reason for hope. Credits: Bruce Damer (speaker, intro, editing), Chris Aman (editing, musical overlay), Mystical Sun, William and Arturo (music), Jacob Aman (art). [released 12 June 2013].

S1E12 - Dr.Kaushik - The Evolution of God to the Energy Within

Dr.Bruce — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 03:51:00 PST

Join Dr. Kaushik in this tour de force talk from the late 1970s.The Doctor shows how our concept of God has undergone an evolution, from animalistic entities, to angry human deities, and finally progressing to compassionate avatars such as Jesus or the Buddha, But these gods always occupy a part of our mind that allowed them to manifest their opposite. This mind/opposite duality comes down to the persistent duality of the observer and the observed. In those rare moments, or for those rare people who are able to come to the end of thought, and for whom the observer vanishes, the fundamental energy of the immensity then pours in. In this state, the dualistic gods of the opposite have come to an end, replaced by a direct connection to God within and without that infuses the universe. Credits: Dr. R. P. Kaushik (speaker), Bruce Damer (intro, editing), Mystical Sun (music), Jacob Aman (art). [released 29 June 2013].

S1E13 - Ojai Salon 2 - The World of 2050

Dr.Bruce — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 02:54:00 PST

This second Ojai Salon opens with the sharing of a vision transporting us to the world of 2050. In this wondrous world of the imagination the ideal outcome has occured and we are living in a safe, sane and healthy civlization nestled nicely on a recovered and restored verdant Earth. How did we get there? Suspend yourself in disbelief for a while and just settle back and enjoy the given vision. In the next episode the audience dialogue will dive into how we might actually get there. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (intro, editing), Steve Murtaugh (music), Jacob Aman (art), Jeffrey Harris (introduction, photography). [released 19 July 2013].

S1E14 - Ojai Salon 2 - The World of 2050 Q and A #1

Dr.Bruce — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:28:00 PST

This first audience QA session for the second Ojai Salon (podcat 013) treats the sharing of a vision of a sane, sustainable and healthy world of the year 2050. We return to that intimate evening in a stone room in Ojai, California in June of 2013 and dive into dialogue, theories and stories shared by our audience. Audience contributor Dennis Leary emerges here as a powerful new voice of the Levity Zone. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (intro, editing), Steve Murtaugh (music), Jacob Aman (art), Jeffrey Harris (photography).

S1E15 - Ojai Salon 2 - The World of 2050 Q and A #2

Dr.Bruce — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:58:00 PST

This second audience QA session for Ojai Salon number two (podcast 13) returns to a key theme for how we might reinvent a beautiful world by the year 2050. Central to that vision is the re-centering of civilization on the feminine. Sarah, Dennis, Jeff, and Dr. Bruce explore the rise of the feminine in the west, Travel from 21st Century Europe where women's power is strongly returning back to the shores of southern Africa where the male manic monkey may have been born in the very hearth and home of mitochondrial Eve, our common mother. So, are we finally witnessing the sunset of male patriarchy? Is there a powerful and transformative story that we could tell the world to begin that return to a healthy planet for us monkeys? Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (intro, editing), Steve Murtaugh (music), Jacob Aman (art), Jeffrey Harris (photography) [released 15 August 2013].

S1E16 - Ojai Salon 2 - The World of 2050 Q and A #3

Dr.Bruce — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:02:00 PST

This is the final audience QA session for Ojai Salon number two (podcast 13). We continue with Dennis, Jeff and Dr. Bruce delving deeply into the mad mesmeric monkey, creator of one of the greatest diversions in history from our path to personal freedom and to fashioning a better world by 2050. 200,000 years ago did the mad monkey run off with history's greatest secret? In the 21st Century will we finally witness the waning of male blood lust as he puts down the spear? You've spread our genes, monkey, but return now to our mitochondrial mother. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (intro, editing), Steve Murtaugh (music-hear his compositions), Jacob Aman (art), Jeffrey Harris (photography). [released 21 August 2013]

S1E17 - Ojai Salon 3 - Highest Purpose of Humanity

Dr.Bruce — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:02:00 PST

A spirited group in Ojai Salon number 3 takes on a big theme: what is the highest purpose of humanity? Topics include: our deepest origins in time, bringing a new myth to the extant world, alien abduction visions, Burning Man as a vehicle for ascension, the thinking of joseph campbell, or simply existing in the present. It is true that humanity is already on the best possible path, carried along by the enormity of nature, and that we are accelerating toward some kind of ascension? This positive group of young people including join Golan, Alali, Ingrid, Johann, Immanuel, Andros, Nathalie, David, Beth, Sol, Rebecca and yours truly, Dr. Bruce seemed well prepared ready to take on this transformation and through each of their good works were well poised to make that come to pass. The Salon ended with all of us coming back to the present to a glorious fruit pie and some beautiful improvised strings on the oud, guitar, flute and voice by David, Golan, Johann, Beth and Ingrid. Host a Salon for the Levity Zone in your own home, on a hilltop, deep in the woods, or anywhere that inspires the discussion. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (intro, editing), David Bergaud, Alali, Golan Donino, Johann Wolf, Beth Leone and Ingrid (music). [released 14 September 2013]

S2E1 - Symbiosis 2013 - Monkey Ascension

Dr.Bruce — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:56:00 PST

Join us on the Pantheon stage at Symbiosis Gathering 2013 for Dr. Bruce introduced by visionary activist and coyote spiritwoman Caroline Casey. Dr. Bruce threaded together five of his recent raps from the Levity Zone and Burning Man, weaving in the story of the birth of the visionary experience 300 million year ago, the Madre seeing through our tiny primate eyes and being challenged by the snake of tech, the birth and life of Mitochrondrial Eve, all the way up to the dreamed for ascension of us monkeys to a union with the universe. And hear a bonus piece on how we may find a way to move life off Earth to inhabit space. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (intro, editing), Caroline Casey (introducer, closer), Fabio Scalabroni (music), Jacob Aman (art). [released 27 September 2013]

S2E2 - Sacred Monkey Power @ Burning Man 2013

Dr.Bruce — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:52:00 PST

JDr. Bruce returns from the Amazon rainforest and opens the Burning Man 2013 talks series with Sacred Monkey Power, a talk about our 90 million year deep ancestry starting out on the limbs of rainforest giants. A real dragonfly graced the colorful pavillion of Sacred Spaces Village during the talk adding to the magic. Pressing on Dr. Bruce showed how we may push back against the coiling snake of technology, the thrall of our manic monkey masters and aim our civilization for that bright crack opening to a future we all know is possible. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (presenting, editing), David Houle (introducer, host), Jake McDonald (music), Jacob Aman (art). [released 19 November 2013]

S2E3 - Re-Imagining the World @ Burning Man 2013

Dr.Bruce — Sun, 15 Dec 2013 05:36:00 PST

JDr. Bruce returns with another 2013 Burning Man talk held in the spectacular dome at Fractal Planet, a camp centered around visionary art led by the eclectic crew of spectacular visionary artist Andrew (Android) Jones. Android and a large spirited audience resonated with a vision of how we monkeys might use our fully activated minds to re-imagine and then re-make our world. Is this even plausible or possible? Dr. Bruce invites you to try it in your own life and see for yourself, for the universe is a mighty big probability engine that is just waiting for you to plug in your big inspirational flash. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (presenting, editing), Andrew O'Keefe II (introducer, recording), Chris Adams (music), Jacob Aman (art). [released 15 December 2013]

S2E4 - Mitochondrial Eve @ Burning Man 2013

Dr.Bruce — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:50:00 PST

JThe Levity Zone features the third and final 2013 Burning Man talk held at the Palenque Norte tent in Camp Soft Landing, Dr. Bruce takes up the vitally important theme of the re-balancing of the feminine in the world as a force to re-center the course of our crazily careening civilization. Dive into this fanciful yet provokative story, based partly on profound new scientific discoveries yes mostly drawn out of the imagination, Follow the life of one of the most important figures in our deep human prehistory: a woman known as: Mitochondrial Eve, the true mother of us all. Is she now on her return? Dr. Bruce supplements his own creative license with well founded excerpts from scholar William Irwin Thompson. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (presenting, editing), William Irwin Thompson (excerpts), hiddenpath (music), Jacob Aman (art). [released 15 January 2014]

S2E5 - Leave the Machine @ Burning Man 2012 - Fractal Nation

Dr.Bruce — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 02:02:00 PST

This lost talk from Fractal Nation at Burning Man 2012 was resurrected by Andrew O'Keefe! Introduced by the artist Android Jones, Dr. Bruce goes on to unbolt the gears and camshafts of the machine that drives society, from the Mad Men who created the advertising that is supposed to define who we are, to how the machine may rattle itself apart like the long lost Soviet Union. How do we prepare for when the wheels come off? Listen in and find your way to slowly, but surely leave that machine and live an independent and powerful inner and then outer life. Dr. Bruce concludes by bringing us wise words from Dr. R. P. Kaushik from his Levity Zone #005 appearance which shows how new communities we might build to replace the machine must be based on shared experience of spirit, not on ideas. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (presenting, editing), Dr. R. P. Kaushik (excerpts), Andrew OKeefe (audio restoration), Dr. Magnus (music), Jacob Aman (art). [released 30 January 2014]

S2E6 - Levity Zone Salon #1 - Integrating Experience

Dr.Bruce — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 11:31:00 PST

In this special edition of the Levity Zone we embark on a new leg of our journey with the start of Levity Zone Salons. The first one was held at Ancient Oaks Farm in the Santa Cruz Mountains on December 7th 2013 and featured: Dr. Bruce, Jacob Aman, Mark Boolootian, Mikey Siegel, and Travis Rios. The theme was: how do you integrate deeply powerful spiritual experiences into your everyday life? Those precious elevated states doled out from some ineffable source are rare in the human experience and successful practices to integrate them not only honor their source but could help to create a new Earth. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (hosting, editing), William Sol Family (music), Jacob Aman (art). [released 22 February 2014]

S2E7 - Levity Zone Salon #1 Part 2 - Chemical Consciousness

Dr.Bruce — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 01:41:00 PST

Part two of the first Levity Zone Salon held in December of 2013 at Ancient Oaks Farm covers Dr. Bruce's personal integration guided by the teachings of Eckart Tolle and J. Krishnamurti. Travis then shared his heartbreak and frustration with powerful prescription drugs given to kids at his school putting them into a manic monkey mind state. The medicating of generations of youth by society may be altering the future of human consciousness and the very world in which we will all live. Mikey casts a more positive light on all this suggesting we may be actually moving toward balance and freedom rather than dysfunction. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (hosting, editing), William Sol Family (music), Jacob Aman (art). [released 28 March 2014]

S2E8 - Studio Sessions #1 Part 1 - The Bubble Culture

Dr.Bruce — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 11:49:00 PST

Recorded at the Blue Lotus Temple of Sound and Light, this is the first of the "studio sessions" to be brought out into the Levity Zone. Featuring musician, artist and neighbor Dhiren Dasu in conversation with Dr. Bruce we tackle a topic not often taken on: the viability of the festival scene and the image and the reality of the "counter' or 'bubble' culture lifestyle prevalent on the West Coast of the US and elsewhere. As the philosopher Alan Watts counseled fifty years before, Dr. Bruce offers loving but concerted advice to young people that while you pursue peak experiences you must also develop skills and a grounding in this life. Credits: Dhiren Dasu and Dr. Bruce Damer (discussants, recording, editing), Dhiren Dasu-Dubr8r (music), Penny Slinger and Jacob Aman (photography and art). [released 15 April 2014]

S2E9 - Studio Sessions #1 Part 2 - The Bubble Culture

Dr.Bruce — Fri, 09 May 2014 10:16:00 PST

In part two of the Bubble Culture Dhiren Dasu and Dr. Bruce continue to tackle the trends, economics, and purported transformational community of the festival scene. This August 2013 studio session unravels the 'entitlement generation' and recalls the features of real community versus the ephemeral and unsustainable nature of the festivals. While peak experiences have value, Dr. Bruce asks the question: does the festival scene feed the machine? Still there is a chance for the opening of lives through transformational experience but we have the happenings from the fabled but failed 1960s Haight Ashbury to serve as our warning about the cost of casualties. Credits: Dhiren Dasu and Dr. Bruce Damer (discussants, recording, editing), Dubr8r (music), Penny Slinger (photography) and Jacob Aman (layout). [released 9 May 2014]

S2E10 - Esalen Visions

Dr.Bruce — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 04:08:00 PST

Back in June of 2012 Lorenzo Hagerty and yours truly, Dr. Bruce, presented a program on the life of Terence McKenna at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. Join us in the Big Yurt perched over the Pacific in one of the most beautiful places on Earth. I fulfilled a promise Terence and I made to 'do my own thing' and return to Esalen in his name to present my particular raps.Join me as I weave some new myths, flow out Esalen visions and inspire a hopeful view of our coming to consciousness. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (presentation), Lorenzo Hagerty (introduction,editing, photography), Tom Riedel (recording), Fabio Scalabroni (music),Jacob Aman (cover art). [released 20 June 2014]

S2E11 - Prague Gnosis

Dr.Bruce — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 02:01:00 PST

Rolling the clock way back to 1994 we find Dr. Bruce living and working in Prague, the beautiful medieval capital of the Czech lands. As well as leading a team of top class Bohemian engineers at Elixir, Dr. Bruce presents his very own Prague Gnosis in three interviews edited for you here in the Zone: Jan and Krystyna Kaplan's video documentary Good Morning Prague, Molly's interview on Radio Metropolis, and Wendy Haller's D-Salon arts piece on Radio Prague. Hear a very early Dr. Bruce wax poetically about the magic of Prague and the new alchemy of computers, give a futuristic view of the tech-nomadic life coming in the 21st Century, and the value of patronage of the arts in the post-communist world. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (interviewee), Jan Kaplan, Molly, Wendy Haller (now Drapac) (interviewers), Jacob Aman (cover art). [released 28 July 2014]

S2E12 - The Shulgin Chip

Dr.Bruce — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 01:35:00 PST

In honor of the passing of Dr. Alexander 'Sasha' Shulgin a special group journeyed to a lush green spring-fed valley in dry far Northern California back in June of 2014. Dr. Bruce spins a tale of how we came to vision, the coevolution of technology and then on into how we may open to a group overmind driven and connected through the 'Shulgin Chip' and reach a place where we resonate with a cosmic destiny.Thanks to author Ramez Naam for his novel Nexus which was the inspiration for this talk. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer, Jacob Aman (cover art), Erothyme (music). [released 27 Sept 2014]

S2E13 - Eleusis on the Playa

Dr.Bruce — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 02:00:00 PST

The Eleusinian mysteries of ancient Greece initiated an awakening into civilization, science and art but were lost when fanatical Christians and savage tribes smashed the temple as the Roman empire fell. Are we living in an inferior culture driven by non-initiates subjecting our world to the worst juvenile destructive tendancies? Dr. Bruce explores the return of Eleusisinian initiation through rites in circles held around the world in this talk from Burning Man 2014, Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer, Jacob Aman (cover art), Kyle Espenshade (music). [released 14 Nov 2014]

S3E1 - Radical Remake of America

Dr.Bruce — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 02:00:00 PST

In November 2011 at the peak of the Occupy movement Dr. Bruce was moved by the protesters who so bravely spoke truth to power. Occupy represented deep dissatisfaction with a nation and a system deeply riddled with corruption that even the founding fathers of the Republic had feared and foretold. So he penned a five part document: "By and for the 99%, a visionary Blueprint for a Radical Remake of America (or any country)" which drew enough attention that he ended up on conservative talk radio. Hear Dr. Bruce in conversation with Michael Zwerling of KSCO AM 1080 bravely put forth the idea that America needs a second constitutional convention to radically remake itself. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer, Michael Zwerling, Jacob Aman (cover art). [released 30 Nov 2014]

S3E2 - Radical Remake of America Part 2 - Callers

Dr.Bruce — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 02:00:00 PST

Join us for part 2 of the controversial Radical Remake show with Dr. Bruce, and KSCO Radio's Michael Zwerling as they take on a barrage of callers from a mostly politically right of center listenership. As a preamble Dr. Bruce summarizes the five points his Radical Remake blueprint as well as Lawrence Lessig's book Republic Lost. Both documents outline how a constitutional convention might be held in the USA to deal with corruption and reboot the country's system of governance. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer, Michael Zwerling, Jacob Aman (cover art). [released 11 Dec 2014]

S3E3 - The Jellicle Guild

Dr.Bruce — Fri, 9 Jan 2015 07:00:00 PST

In April, 2014 the members of the Boston-based Jellicle Literary Guild met to consider a question posed virtually by Dr. Bruce on: can we remake our communities in the old model of the closely knit circle? See how a group of intelligent New Englanders tackle this question. Host and publisher of Scriptor Press Raymond Soulard has guided the guild since its founding in New Britain, Connecticut in 1988. If you would like to host your own salon with a question posed in the Levity Zone, let us know! Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer, Raymond Soulard (recording, hosting, cover art) Catfilsh Rivers (music). [released 9 jan 2015]

S3E4 - Hugo's Ode to Ishtar

Dr.Bruce — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 08:00:00 +1000

UK-Australian performer Hugo Farrant teams up with DJ Treats and enters the Levity Zone with his unique visionary rap. Hugo takes us back way before Eleusis to Mesopotamia's Spring Goddess Ishtar. We fall into his spell of words and music and journey as the grateful pilgrim in search of the divine feminine and our collective rejuvenation from Mother Nature herself. Hugo also raps with whimsical world band Dub The Magic Dragon, and PhD historian and musician Giordano Nanni, co-creator of Juice Rap News, a ship of the spoken word that pilots us through a cosmos of ideas. Hugo's own journeys have taken him afar, even featuring Mr. Julian Assange in a Rap News telling of the 2010 launch of Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs. Yours truly, Dr. Bruce was personally moved by Hugo and Treat's performance at the Rainbow Serpent Festival among the gum trees of Victoria, Australia and and thrilled to bring him and his mates to the Levity Zone. Credits: Dr. Bruce (intro), Hugo (spoken word performance), DJ Treats (music), Jacob Aman (site and art). [released 6 February 2015]]

S3E5 - Sydney Serenade Part 1

Dr.Bruce — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 11:34:00 +1000

Join Dr. Bruce midway through his 2015 Levity Zone down under tour of eastern Australia. In an artsy warehouse in the artsy Sydney district of Newtown Dr. Bruce presented an evening serenade of visionary story threads woven with the chill tones of live DJ Tsentsak (aka Richard Baron). Lie back with the Aussies and take in part one of a trip through our deepest history hyperdriving up through to the fragile but potent present, riding the liminal zone between reason and magick. Credits: Dr. Bruce and Vince Polito (intro), DJ Tzentsak (music), Bo Millward (sound editing), Craig Brown (aka Slinky and Snudis-photography), Jacob Aman (site and cover art). [released 27 March 2015]]

S3E6 - Sydney Serenade Part 2

Dr.Bruce — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 18:09:00 +1000

Rejoin Dr. Bruce during his 2015 Levity Zone Tour in Australia for part 2 of the Sydney Serenade. Ray trace a visionary beam through the crystalline structure of Endo, diffracting through the azure jewel of civilization, passing back through ancient Australian zircons to the origin of life, completing our photonic journey in a glint off Incan temple foundations. The crystal sphere then went out to dance by moonlight and found itself in a Gaian dialogue with the local Lukuma and together they paced out a five hundred year runway to the stars. The beautiful monkeys, greatest creation of Gaia's tool of evolution, turned the serpent to the favor of life's future. Credits: Dr. Bruce (presenter), Vince Polito (host), DJ Tzentsak (music), Bo Millward (sound editing), Craig Brown (aka Slinky and Snudis-photography), Jacob Aman (site and cover art). [released 25 April 2015]]

S3E7 - Dr. Kaushik - The Long Minding Road to Freedom

Dr.Bruce — Thu, 28 May 2015 14:18:00 +1000

Dr. R.P. Kaushik returns to the Levity Zone in what I call "the Long Minding Road to Freedom", He first recounts the long history of spiritual traditions in India and the West all of which eventually devolve into limited products of Mind and Ego. He then examines the nature of the mind itself showing that this most sensitive instrument can become our guru, if we will only choicelessly follow its meanderings until the end. In this way we will open out into a new space: the flow of universal energy some call freedom or enlightenment. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (introducer), Dr. R.P. Kaushik (presenter), Bo Millward (sound editing), Mystical Sun (music), Jacob Aman (site and cover art). [released 28 May 2015]]

S3E8 - Dr. Bruce's TEDx Talks - Next Space SHEPHERD

Dr.Bruce — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:22:00 +1000

Dr. Bruce presents his greatest idea yet for spaceflight in the first of two TEDx talks given for TEDxSantaCruz on April 24, 2015. Hear how humanity might create a sustainable presence in the solar system in this century through SHEPHERD, an innovative new type of spacecraft. After the TEDx talk we continue with an extended discussion about new possibilities in space with Michael Phillip of the Midwest Real podcast. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (introducer and presenter), TEDxSantaCruz (event host), Ryan Norkus (TEDx graphics and animation), Reno de Caro (Photography), Bo Millward (sound editing), Michael Phillip (Midwest Real Podcast segment), Jacob Aman (site). [released 12 June 2015]]

S3E9 - Dr. Bruce's TEDx Talks - Origin of Life

Dr.Bruce — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 21:48:00 +1000

Dr. Bruce presents his most deeply held idea: a new hypothesis for how life began on the Earth, The Coupled Phases model was developed over thirty years of inquiry and completed with the collaboration of his mentor and colleague at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Professor David Deamer. Hear how the model works and how it might help us refigure our civilization, first in his TEDx Santa Cruz talk, then in an interview on the Midwest Real podcast, and finally from his presentation of at the Astrobiology Science Conference in Chicago. It's been a truly stunning three months for Dr. Bruce from April to June of 2015. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (introducer and presenter), TEDxSantaCruz (event host), Ryan Norkus (TEDx graphics and animation), Reno de Caro (Photography), Bo Millward (sound editing), Michael Phillip (Midwest Real Podcast segment), Jacob Aman (site). [released 7 July 2015]]

S3E10 - Deep 90's - Craig Newmark - March 1996

Dr.Bruce — Sat, 29 Aug 2015 02:54:00 +1000

Teleport back to the Deep 90s in March of 1996 when Dr. Bruce and the founder of Craigslist Craig Newmark were interviewed for UC Berkeley radio KALX by journalist Darek Milewski. They opined on the future of publishing and whether the printed book would survive in the future. This brief dialogue with Craig, now a household name on the Internet, captures that innocence and dreamy time of all possibility. Craig is optimistic that many more people would soon be hooked up the Internet and that some might even take their computers to bed. This is the first in our Deep 90s series which will continue with Dr. Bruce and Darek talking about the medium of virtual worlds. Credits: Darek Milewski (host and interviewer), Dr. Bruce Damer and Craig Newmark (interviewees), Bo Millward (sound editing). [released 29 August 2015]]

S3E11 - Deep 90's - DigiBruce - 1995-96

Dr.Bruce — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 12:01:00 +1000

In the next of our "Deep 90s" episodes join Dr.Bruce back in 1995 and '96 in two seminal conversations with journalist Darek Milewski on the emergence of a new medium: Internet virtual worlds with users represented as "avatars". Dreams of Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" metaverse were being realized by users placing millions of 3D objects into personal homesteads in Alphaworld. Bruce relates how his new organization, the Contact Consortium, was also building its first experimental project: Sherwood Forest Towne and planning its first real-world conference. Hear some of the first musings of the medium that later grew into popular platforms like Second Life and Minecraft. Credits: Darek Milewski (interviewer for KALX Radio at UC Berkeley), Bruce Damer (interviewee), Bo Millward (sound editing). [released 24 September 2015]]

S3E12 - Deep 90's - AvaBruce on NPR - TechNation 1998

Dr.Bruce — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:30:00 +1000

In the next "Deep 90s" episode in the Levity Zone we roll the clock to January of 1998 when Bruce Damer appeared on National Public Radio's TechNation program with host Dr. Moira Gunn. By this time Internet virtual worlds had exploded as hundreds of thousands of users, clothed in digital representations called avatars, had homesteaded their way into second lives in Cyberspace. Well before Internet voice chat and video, social networks, and networked games these worlds hosted group building, families, football games, school classrooms, architecture competitions and even the youngest ever user of the Internet. It was a wonderful pioneering time as the Contact Consortium had just held its first conferences and Dr. Bruce's first book "Avatars" had just been published. Credits: Dr. Moira Gunn (interviewer for NPR-KQED San Francisco), Bruce Damer (interviewee), Bo Millward (sound editing). [released 30 October 2015]]

S4E1 - TubCast #1 with Dr. Bruce, Future Al and Mythic Peter

Dr.Bruce — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 11:12:00 +1000

Returning from the Deep 90s back to the future in 2015 Dr. Bruce joins Allan Lundell and his mythic friend Peter Fae for a hot tub confab high on the mountaintop of Future Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Not only is Al a true bon homme but he is also a keen observer of the cyber-culture and developing trends in tech and the social landscape, chronicling all of this in his KSCO Santa Cruz radio show, Dr. Future. Realizing a twenty year dream of networking hot tub conversations, Dr. Bruce, Al and Peter present their first ever TubCast for the Levity Zone. Dip in as the three tubsters ply the waters of topics as diverse as the veracity of spiritual teachers, the interplay between science and Gaia, an upcoming schmooze cruise with the billionaire set, recent insights on a new theory of the origin of life, and living within the avatars of our mythic selves. Emerging from the epic soak Al piloted his brand new high-def drone on its maiden voyage high off Future Peak to a fate uncertain. Credits: Allan Lundell (TubCast host and recorder), Dr. Bruce Damer (Tubster) and Peter Fae (Mythic Threader and Documenter), Jim Matus (theme music). [released 28 November 2015]]

S4E2 - Merry Pranksters - The Acid Test Turns 50!

Dr.Bruce — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 06:30:00 +1000

The Merry Pranksters return to Santa Cruz to mark the 50th anniversary of the first Acid Test! Hear George Walker, Mountain Girl Carolyn Garcia and Ken Babbs on stage at Don Quixote's hold forth on deep counter-cultural history. Hosted by County Supervisor John Leopold, this important historical event, which back in 1965 spawned the Grateful Dead, is commemorated by a proclamation, and a historic marker... a bus stop! Santa Cruz honors its Psychedelic history and Dr. Bruce was there to capture it for you here the Levity Zone. Credits: John Leopold, George Walker, Jami Cassady, Carolyn Garcia, Ken Babbs (presenters), Dr. Bruce Damer (recorder and editor), Rob Menzies and Galen Brandt (cameo appearances), Slugs N' Roses (closing music). [released 17 December 2015]]

S4E3 - Merry Pranksters - Lee Quarnstrom and the Acid Test at 50

Dr.Bruce — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 19:09:00 +1000

Returning for the second half of the Merry Pranksters visit to the Levity Zone, Prankster Lee Quarnstrom reads from his autobiography "When I was a Dynamiter" with a spectacular telling of the 1965 bust at Ken Kesey's house in La Honda. Yours truly, Dr. Bruce, shares Leon Tabory's hitherto untold tale of the accidental painting of Kesey's magic bus before its epic 1964 New York trip, a chance inspiration that colored up the whole 60s. And John Leopold, First District Supervisor of Santa Cruz County introduced the set and setting of the 50th anniversary of the first Acid Test then introduced Nicholas Meriweather, archivist for the Grateful Dead collection at UC Santa Cruz. Nick gave us historians view of the importance of the acid test, through the the words of beloved departed Jerry Garcia. A fine time was had by all and the bus rolls on. Credits: Lee Quarnstrom, John Leopold, Nicholas Meriwether (presenters), Dr. Bruce Damer (recorder and editor), Slugs N' Roses (closing music). [released 29 January, 2016]]

S4E4 - Steve Wozniak visits the DigiBarn

Dr.Bruce — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:36:00 +1000

Roll open the doors to the DigiBarn Computer Museum as we enter a new theme in the Zone. Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak gets a grand tour of Dr. Bruce's vintage computer collection. Deep nerd wisdom is mixed with whimsical techie banter as first person true stories of Apple and the rise of the personal computer are shared. Credits: Steve Wozniak, Dr. Bruce Damer, Allan Lundell, Sellam Ismail (speakers, recording and editing), Bo Millward (sound cleanup) Kyle Espenshade (theme music). [released 29 February 2016]]

S4E5 - The DigiBarn does Apple @ 30!

Dr.Bruce — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:44:00 +1000

Apple Computer's 30th birthday was celebrated back in November 2006 when Dr. Bruce and his DigiBarn Computer Museum hosted a lively, nerdly and funny panel featuring Steve Wozniak, Randy Wigginton, Chris Espinosa, and Daniel Kottke. The theme was: "Apple in the garage" when these four gentlemen along with Steve Jobs assembled Apple 1 computers in his parents' garage, cooking up what would eventually become the world's most valuable company. This episode is released to coincide with Apple's 40th anniversary on April 1st, 2016. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (host), Allan Lundell (video and audio recording), Bo Millward (sound cleanup) Kyle Espenshade (theme music). [released 31 March 2016]]

S4E6 - Primal Theory

Dr.Bruce — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 16:42:00 +1000

Dr. Bruce returns for a Studio Session with Dhiren Dasu recorded back in 2012 where he dove into his primordial thinking behind the recently published hypothesis on the origin of life, musings on the origin of the cosmos, and the unique place of life and God in the universe. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (speaker), Dhiren Dasu (interview and audio recording), Ryan Norkus (cover art) Mental Physix (theme music). [released 2 July 2016]]

S4E7 - Prime Driver

Dr.Bruce — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 23:45:00 +1000

Dr. Bruce returns with a report on science field work in Australia and at the Bumpass Hell volcanic springs in California. And then following on to our last episode "Primal Theory" which took up questions on how the universe might work, Dhiren Dasu and Dr. Bruce sit down in the studio and take up the more pertinent, personal question of where humanity might be going next. We asked ourselves the question: "what is your prime driver?" We cycled through whether we should live in tune with rhythms, seeking equlibrium or be driven by cause and effect. Should we always expect to be in reaction, find vision only through strong drivers like psychedelics, be ruled by difference and inequality or come to rest in the magic of just "being here now".Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (speaker), Dhiren Dasu (interviewer and audio recording), Ryan Norkus (cover art), Mental Physix, Paradiso and Rasamayi (music and mixing). [released 31 August 2016]]

S4E8 - Fire in the Sky

Dr.Bruce — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:37:00 +1000

For the 50th Levity Zone podcast Dr. Bruce offers: "Fire in the Sky" a four part full tilt poetic journey from the birth of the cosmos through the origin of life and human conscious awareness. This piece was later performed on stage with Android Jones and Val Santana at the 2016 Lightning in a Bottle festival. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (performer), Lisa Cory (cover photography), Val Santana/DJ DISSOLV (recording and music mixing). [released 29 September 2016]]

S4E9 - Tubcast #2 - Ancestry, Destiny and Bubbly

Dr.Bruce — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 01:12:00 +1000

Join Dr. Future (Al Lundell) and Dr. Bruce in another Tubcast, a spirited (and bubbly) hot tub conversation ranging from the cosmic destiny of life beyond Earth, to our own ancestry at the birth of our world, to how we might best survive and thrive for another five hundred years. Is all we have to do to wake up to how rare we are and to the wonder of *what is* rather than falling into stories invented by others? Please join us again in the Levity Zone for dialogues at the edge of the west, or at least the edge of the wet! Credits: Allan Lundell and Dr. Bruce Damer (conversants), Bo Millward (audio editing), Peter Fae (cover art). [released 26 October 2016]]

S4E10 - Dr. Bruce on VR

Dr.Bruce — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 11:32:00 +1000

Dr. Bruce is interviewed by the "VR The Movie" documentary film crew in April of 2015 on his past and current views of Virtual Reality. This sweeping discussion starts with the story of Jaron Lanier escaping to Silicon Valley in an old car to create the first VR headset and glove in the late 1980s, We then motor on through the mid 90s revolution in online "avatar" virtual worlds and drive up to the second coming of VR with Oculus Rift in the 20-teens. We finally look through the windshield for a forward view of VR and AR given to us by science fiction and James Cameron's film "Avatar". Througout the trip Bruce compares the medium of VR and virtual worlds to the birth of film and the cinema a century ago. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer and Zach Jankovic (conversants), slugware (music), Dr. Bruce Damer (cover art). [released 30 November 2016]]

S4E11 - The Non-Election of 2016

Dr.Bruce — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 01:30:00 +1000

Dr. Bruce shares some heartfelt words on the recent so-called "election" of 2016 in the USA. Recorded on the eve of the new year 2017 and offered on the eve of the so-called "inauguration" of a non-elected "president". It reflects a Canadian but also a human view of the broken nature of the US national political system and its need to be radically remade some time in the future. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (recording and cover art). [released 19 January 2017]]

S4E12 - The Origins and Evolution of Power

Dr.Bruce — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 23:56:00 +1000

Dr. Bruce returns for another TubCast with Allan Lundell in a pot boiling historical hot tub conversation about the origins and evolution of the power structures, brokers and abusers we find ourselves surrounded by today. Part One of this investigation takes us through the shaping of power from the temple at Eleusis through the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution up to Dr. Bruce's 1986 meeting of "Kojak and the Serpent". Dr. Bruce then offers a ray of hope through science and the shaman's understanding of childhood traumas that underlie all of the old and new pathological abuses of power we see rising. Dr. Bruce puts forth that it may be possible to call forth a larger intelligence to heal these traumas and open up the path to a sustainable and brilliant future for humanity. Allan Lundell and Dr. Bruce Damer (recording and cover art). [released 28 February 2017]]

S4E13 - Dr. Kaushik from Body to Realization

Dr.Bruce — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:34:00 +1000

Dr. R.P. Kaushik returns to the Levity Zone to describe how listening to the body and becoming the observer separate from mind can open us to a healing and transformative intelligent energy. This energy can unify us with what is: the source of life itself. Dr. Bruce has recently been engaged in practices that are taking him closer to opening to this energy, so his heart was wide open to Dr. Kaushik's telling of this link between the body, the mind and this path to transformation. As our world is increasingly dominated by fear and anxiety through politics and the pressures of life, we need such sage guidance more than ever. When it comes right down to it, as Dr. Kaushik says... "there is only one problem and one solution". Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (introducer), Dr. R.P. Kaushik (presenter), Mystical Sun (music), Jacob Aman (site and cover art). [released 21 March 2017]]

S4E14 - Bob Taylor - Innovating our World

Dr.Bruce — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 23:14:00 +1000

Dr. Bruce marks the sad passing in April 2017 of Bob Taylor, the innovative father of much of the digital technology that we use every day. Bob funded Doug Engelbart's lab in the mid 1960s creating the first interactive computing information environment using a mouse and conceived of and headed the ARPANET project, forerunner of the Internet. In the 70s he directed the Xerox PARC Computer Science Lab which brought us the Alto. the first networked personal computer, and ran DEC labs in the 80s-90s launching the first Web search engine before Google. This is the first of several interviews conducted in October 2014 by Dr. Bruce and author Adam Fisher at Bob's home in Woodside, California. Credits: Adam Fisher, Dr. Bruce Damer (interviewers), Bob Taylor (interviewee), Xerox PARC (cover photo). [released 19 April 2017]]

S5E1 - The Origin of Life and Consciousness - Part 1

Dr.Bruce — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 23:56:00 +1000

Dr. Bruce returns after a two month hiatus with the first of two talks from the June 2017 Science of Consciousness Conference in La Jolla, California. The first, an interview by Nick Day of Consciousness Central, is a wide ranging conversation exploring the implications of the new Hot Spring Origin of Life hypothesis for biology, physics, philosophy and the origin and phenomenon of consciousness. Credits: Nick Day (interviewer), Dr. Bruce Damer (interviewee), Consciousness Central (recording and cover photo). [released 31 July 2017]]

S5E2 - Oregon Eclipse Live!

Dr.Bruce — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:44:00 +1000

Dr. Bruce returns after a magickal mystery tour of epic proportions performing and speaking at the Oregon Eclipse festival and then on to Burning Man. Join John Zielinski, Michael Moore and Dr. Bruce on a hillside above the Eclipse stage to witness the union of darkness and light as totality swept across Eastern Oregon on August 21, 2017. The boys wax poetic on what all of this means as the totality tells the story of perfect chance that pulled us into existence. Shpongle provides a surprise musickal gift to the thousands of gob smacked revelers. Credits: Michael Moore, John Zielinski and Dr. Bruce Damer (conversants), John Zielinski (cover art photo), Mystical Sun (intro and outro music). [released 29 Sept 2017]]

S5E3 - Origin Science comes to Pakistan

Dr.Bruce — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 17:29:00 +1000

Dr. Bruce reports in from Islamabad, Pakistan where he is on a round the world tour from the Science and Nondualists of San Jose, to the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador, to Mars rover roboticists in Pasadena, and from here onwards to China. He gave perhaps the first talk on the origins of life and search for life in the Universe in Pakistan at the Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad. His host, renowned physicist and activist Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, hosted this talk at the Physics department auditorium. Dr. Bruce "inflamed the minds" of Pakistani students and professors alike as he took them on a rapid romp through life's possible origins on Earth to the search for evidence for life on Mars in 2020, icy Enceladus in the next decade and onwards to the likelihood of life on exoplanets. Dr. Bruce Damer and Pervez Hoodbhoy (presenters), Elixir Technologies Pakistan (recording and photo). [released 18 November 2017]]

S5E4 - Communion in the Pyramid at Burning Man 2017

Dr.Bruce — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 15:23:00 +1000

For the 60th Levity Zone podcast, Dr. Bruce brings you Communion in the Pyramid, a team performance of cosmic proportions held at Burning Man 2017. Join Samantha Sweetwater for an invocation from our deepest communal origins followed by Valentin Santana and Andre Reinero (aka DJ DISSOLV) rocking their board bringing forth a new composition in their "Calibrate" line... danced to by the phenomenal Jasmine. A crack of thunder signaled yours truly, the Wizard, to stride slowly forward into the light on stage in possibly the largest interior space ever constructed on the Playa. Burner brothers and sisters were then piloted on a vocal and musical journey from life's origins to the point where we monkeys set foot on our moon and turned on at the Summer of Love, fifty years ago. The illuminated disk ship that is Burning Man then wheeled its way through alien encounters toward a glorious future in the cosmos. Credits: Brad Nye, Chris Krywulak, Mark Lee and the organizers of Playa Alchemist for the venue; Josiah Ruben and his team at Promosa (stage support, audio recording); Samantha Sweetwater (leadership, invocation, choreography); DISSOLV (music, effects); Jasmine (dance) and Dr. Bruce Damer (spoken word journey). [Released 30 December 2017]]

S5E5 - Deeper Communion in the Pyramid at Burning Man 2017

Dr.Bruce — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 23:51:00 +1000

Celebrate Dr. Bruce's Blue Moon Eclipse (56th) birthday on January 31st, 2018 by returning to a magickal night last August 31st, at Burningman 2017 with the Wizards Light troupe in the Playalchemist pyramid. Journey on this mystical musical spoken word performance on why communion traces back to our very origins and is the likely mechanism for our very survival. On top of all that, grok a novel insight of a tripartite system that may actually generate everything, from life's beginning through all of evolution to culture, technology and even our experience of spirit in the union of communion. Credits: Brad Nye, Chris Krywulak, Mark Lee and the organizers of Playa Alchemist for the venue; Josiah Ruben and his team at Promosa (stage support, audio recording); Samantha Sweetwater (leadership, invocation, choreography and dance); DISSOLV (music, effects); Jasmine (dance) and Dr. Bruce Damer (spoken word journey). [Released 30 January 2018]]

S5E6 - Dr. Kaushik on The Wiles of the Mind

Dr.Bruce — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:55:00 +1000

Dr. Bruce brings you a vital new teaching for our times from Dr. R. P. Kaushik. We live in a time dominated by the "wiles of the mind", thoughts which swirl around mind and trap it within limits, conditioning it and morphing it into "the me", "the ego" or simply "self-centeredness". Operating from this "small self" defined by cycling thought creates suffering within each of us and for the whole world. Fake news and not so fake news, social media, and ordinary computer interactions all trigger thought which activates the small self, often providing initial rewards followed by a hollowed-out collapse. Dr. Kaushik guides us step-by-step to become an observer of these thoughts triggered, for example, through an episode of anger. By letting thoughts pass and dissipate, we enter into a great silence, opening to a sense of peace and universal energy, and from there we may then cross the threshold to enlightened awakening. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (introducer), Dr. R.P. Kaushik (presenter), Mystical Sun (music), Jacob Aman (site and cover art). [released 26 February 2018]]

S5E7 - Tubcast #3 - Healing Humanity

Dr.Bruce — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 11:35:00 +1000

Dr. Bruce and Al Lundell submerge together in the hot tub on Future Peak to record a new Tubcast. Levity Zone listeners get a first peek into a whole new practice Dr. Bruce has been immersed in for several years within a community called the Luminous Awareness Institute. In Luminous, skilled practitioners use powerful combinations of methods for healing various types of trauma which, for many of us, were "coded in" by experiences in childhood. As living conditions have improved worldwide, people are healthier and live longer than ever before. However, many suffer in a state of anxiety induced by destructive narratives that can lead to depression and dissociation. This situation seems to be rooted in a variety of character styles driven in party by these core traumas. Will science and the healing arts converge to discover how to rewrite our "psychological boot code" and heal humanity? Hear how this audacious possibility, perhaps the biggest story of our time, may hold the key to creating a beautiful and sustainable civilization. Credits: Dr. Future-Allan Lundell (recording and discussion), Dr. Bruce Damer (discussion and editing), Ryan Beck (music-ProgeNotes), [released 31 March 2018]]

S5E8 - Shahnaz Minallah on Lock-In, Jedis and Crafts

Dr.Bruce — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 19:14:00 +1000

Your Dr. Bruce finds himself back in Islamabad, Pakistan spending one beautiful April spring day at a flower-decked lakeside retreat hand-crafted by a dear friend, Shahnaz Minallah. We spent a delightful time "gup shupping" (Pakistani for shooting the breeze) while breezes flowed and Pashtuns from the wild north worked around us. We explored the theme of "lock-in" which is entering Pakistani society with Chinese development to garner millions in apartment building/shopping mall/smartphone living. Lock-in will soon threaten thousand year old ways of life including craft hand-workers such as a Pashtun weaver who "says a prayer with every thread." Shahnaz vows to do something about it by creating an online export business to preserve these ancient and beautiful crafts and village ways. In between we speak about our shared passion for healing practices and the rise of "Jedis" and their energetic "Force" around the world. Credits: Shahnaz Minallah and Dr. Bruce Damer (recording and discussion) [released 26 April 2018]]

S5E9 - Deepak Chopra and Dr. Bruce's Emergent Connection

Dr.Bruce — Tue, 29 May 2018 19:50:00 +1000

Dr. Bruce Damer and Dr. Deepak Chopra meet and share news and views about the science of life's origins, old rocks and new chemistry, and the fundamental engine of creation in a mutual sense of spirit of healing in this emergent connection. Recorded in Facebook Live in front of 22,000 of Deepak's followers on Friday April 6th at the 2018 Science of Consciousness Conference in Tucson, Arizona this was Dr. Bruce's first experience of mass audiences in social media. It was fun so there is more to come! Credits: Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. Bruce Damer (recording and discussion), Kristof (editing and cover art) [released 29 May 2018]]

S5E10 - The Emerald and Azure Civilization at Earth Frequency 2015

Dr.Bruce — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 23:38:00 +1000

Dr. Bruce returns from science fieldwork and Middle Earth adventures in New Zealand with a full report following this episode featuring his 2015 Earth Frequency festival talk on "The Emerald and Azure Civilization" held in the gum tree forests of southern Queensland, Australia. This free-flowing rap takes you from how our visionary viewpoint has been constricting as we replace a formerly emerald green world of nature with the harsh azure blue glare of technological civilization. He then offers how we might collectively push back against the forces of our darker nature with the calling forth of the evolving forces of light, emanating from the old world of Eleusis to the new tools of the Elixirs and Endo. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (recording), Kristof (editing), Tranzporter (cover photo) [released 31 July 2018]]

S6E1 - TubCast #4 - Bagging the Future

Dr.Bruce — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 22:26:00 +1000

Your Dr. Bruce shares a hot tub and a chorus of crickets with Dr. Future (Al Lundell) after returning from highly stimulating and encouraging meetings in Boston and Providence where he met a new team of Mac and Mike who are serious about building a "CubeSat" prototype of SHEPHERD. SHEPHERD is the audacious spacecraft design worked out with Peter Jenniskens and Julian Nott back in 2015. It is a "sailing ship for space" which if it works could encapsulate, handle, extract and make new little worlds out of asteroids and thereby creating the stepping stones for us to become a Solar System Civilization and spread complex life out into the cosmos. During the East Coast meetings I sketched out a simple "bag with rock" design that could be flown on a CubeSat, a tiny satellite that hitches a ride on a bigger launcher. We start out there and then come down from such heady fare to matters of the heart and my own daily breathwork and yoga practice where I turn OFF the mind! Of course we end up swinging back to space and SHEPHERD and wrap it up with some pretty visionary stuff. So join us now for a steamy journey on a lazy night in late August of 2018 for a moment of pleasurable contemplation in a world getting ever weirder and weirder. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer and Allan Lundell (recording), Kristof and Dr. Bruce (editing) [released 31 August 2018]]

S6E2 - Becoming Human

Dr.Bruce — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 22:19:00 +1000

Dr. Bruce is back after a heartfelt series of major life changes to bring you this podcast Becoming Human, a recording by SAND (Science and Nonduality) for their Emergence Series webcast in preparation for the SAND2018 Conference in San Jose, California. Join us for a wide-ranging storytelling salon with topics as diverse as the cold realms of science, intuition and the synchronous field, connecting with Deepak Chopra, holding Endo thought experiments, my original vision to work on the origin of life, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, deep human evolution, the Eleusinian Mysteries and kitchen biogenesis. Credits: Vera de Chalambert (host), Kristof and Dr. Bruce (editing), Kristof and others (music). [released 23 October 2018]]

S6E3 - Fred McPherson Saving the San Lorenzo!

Dr.Bruce — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 23:55:00 +1000

Dr. Bruce celebrates the life of environmentalist Fred McPhereson and his role in saving the San Lorenzo River (and Valley) creating the paradise in which we live. Credits: Fred McPherson, Alexa Razma and Dr. Bruce Damer (recording and discussion), Kristof (editing and sound warming), music (Max Hartstein and the 25th Century Ensemble) [released 12 December 2018]]

S6E4 - Dr. Bruce springs forward!

Dr.Bruce — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 15:22:00 +1000

Your Dr. Bruce returns after a four month absence from the Levity Zone. Remarkable changes have been happening in my life and I am now "springing forward" into a bright new season of starting up ventures in space, origins of life, evolutionary biology, and computing as well as constructing my Gandalf House here at Ancient Oaks. So, rejoin me now as I return for our 70th podcast with an update from my world, now more hopeful and more globally connected than ever to support an emerging positive future for humanity. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (recording and editing), Arlene Olynyk (cover photo). [released 19 April 2019]]

S6E5 - Dr. Bruce TRU Alum - The Boy Comes Home!

Dr.Bruce — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 21:22:00 +1000

Your Dr. Bruce returns after yet another four month absence from the Levity Zone. I am thrilled to report that my life transition is going very well with this property transforming into a community with members and retreats, a dream of mine for 25 years. My Gandalf House rising on the hill is almost complete and I moved into the upstairs back on June 30th. New ventures are progressing with Mason and Carlos and I am even getting involved in a global effort called Climate Mitigation Associates which will build a network of experts to help bridge our civilization over the coming shocks from climate change. On top of this I have started a Patreon and 20 of you have already signed up! Find the link to my Patreon page, which has many tiers of benefits, in the resources for this podcast. This episode of the Levity Zone features a dinner talk I gave at Thompson Rivers University in my hometown of Kamloops in south central British Columbia, Canada back on March 29th, 2019. I was honored there as Distinguished Research Alumn by the university which I attended right out of (and during) high school in 1979-82. What I was moved to do that night was to give my most heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the people and land that really made me, a sort of love poem to my home community. Kamloops is at the center of some key early climate changes as you will hear from some of the audience questions. Thanks go out to Nancy Bepple and the staff of TRU for making this beautiful event happen, and to my surviving family members, Eric and Susan Damer and cousins Margaret and Mike Stewart-Smith and the many other friends who came and occupied two tables. It may be a truism that once in your life... the boy, or girl, must come home... and boy did I do that! I hope you enjoy this as much as I did! Credits: Thompson Rivers University faculty and staff (hosts), Dr. Bruce Damer (recording and editing), Kristof (audio cleanup), Eric Damer (cover photo). [released 31 August 2019]]

S6E6 - A Heartfelt New Years 2020!

Dr.Bruce — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 23:18:00 +1000

With the passing of Ram Dass, your Dr. Bruce speaks from his heart to prepare humanity for the decade of the 2020s, calling for a humane and sane response to coming climate shocks, giving a happy report on the publication of the Hot Spring Hypothesis for and Origin of Life article (his greatest intellectual work), and the blessing of his new home, the Gandalf Wizard's Abode. He departs 2019 in bed in a state of exhaustion, but also holding deep gratitude for our very existence and the conscious, loving awareness which humanity can attain through a Human Wellbeing Climate Moonshot. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (recording and editing), Sun Lundell (cover photo). [released 30 December 2019]]

S6E7 - LevityZone Salon 4: Pandemics and the Human Future

Dr.Bruce — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 23:24:00 +1000

The Levity Zone after six months of life-changing events for Dr. Bruce including his move in with a new love into a new house, the Gandalf Abode at Ancient Oaks. The Zone welcomes in the new Levity Salons. These Salons are live online Zoom sessions which started late in 2019 with Dr. Bruce's Patreon community. This Salon (#4) featured the timely theme of Pandemics and the Human Future, it being recorded in March 2020 during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Bruce gives his take on the situation and then shares a lively dialogue amongst almost forty participants. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (hosting and recording), Allan Lundell (editing and music overlay), Aaron Thayne (final release edit) and Bodhi Setchko (music). [released 8 June, 2020]]

S6E8 - Pattern Break

Dr.Bruce — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:16:00 +1000

Dr. Bruce returns from evacuation to tell the dramatic, traumatic tale of the horrific CZU fire nearby, coming within a mile of Ancient Oaks. Climate shocks come home as giant redwoods burn bottom to top for the first time in a thousand years. A pattern break, and then another, and another will impact and transform our lives, individually and collectively as we move deeper into the century. Dr. Bruce himself is entering into his own pattern break, a month of breaking from his mostly mental life into a new state with nowhere to go, nothing to do. How often do we just... stop? While in this state he plans to test a hypothesis, that there is something deep within, and casting its tendrils far and wide in our lives: the Field. The Field is a probabilistic ninja, hurdling walls of improbability to shape our futures. Our focused attention in the Field could just possibly pull us through the coming siege of pattern breaks, forcing us to survive and thrive as the body human moves toward life and light. After this update, we then dive into Levity Salon #9: 'Is there a silver lining in an orange cloud?', featuring discussions with Salon regulars on the subject of the fires, pattern breaks, metamordernism, post-traumatic recovery and more on the Field. Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (hosting and recording) and Aaron Thayne (Levity Salon edit). [released 30 September, 2020]]

S7E1 - Boundary Dissolution and Novelty

Dr.Bruce — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:15:00 +1000

Dr. Bruce returns for the first Levity Zone of 2021 to mark 'Terence Day' celebrating 21 years since entheo-raconteur Terence McKenna passed through the azure veil on April 3rd, 2000. Terence's call to dissolve the boundaries which separate us inspired this rap on how humanity might move forward with healing the trauma beneath these divisions. Since Terence's time we know these boundaries better than ever and the little inner personalities within which can sometimes drive us to be less than our better natures. Next, taking up where Terence left off with his notions of novelty, Dr. Bruce recounts his past two decades of work to characterize how the universe could build its complexity through a formulaic 'wiggle', and how this insight led to the 'Hot Spring Hypothesis' for the origin of life. So, join us now for this special recounting recorded from Dr. Bruce's presentation to a room in the Clubhouse app celebrating 'International Boundary Dissolution Day.' Credits: Dr. Bruce Damer (hosting and recording) and Aaron Thayne (editing, music layering, cover art), photo of Bruce and Terence by Galen Brandt. [released 15 April, 2021]]