How to live as a mystic in the global technocracy – a fresh look at the intersection of plant medicines, indigenous wisdom, planetary culture, pirate economies, radical love, and singing songs with wild animals. Sophia’s currently at work on a number of co…
Trusting Others in the Sharing Economy
TrustCloud is an emerging online service that provides a way to measure trustworthiness so you can estimate how others will behave.
Evolving Towards a Partner State in an Ethical Economy
A new model
of power that may
be an answer to the contemporary crisis of democracy is evolving out of new social practices. What can peer production teach us about the society of the
future?
The Creative Economy
There is no shortage of people who want to
do creative work and no shortage of creativity. What is scarce is the money to
pay them. If the creative class were a marginal, fringe sector of our economy,
this apparent lack of collective value might make some sense on a superficial
level, but in fact research shows that the creative class is central to
economic success.
Sacred Economics: Chapter 16, Transition to Gift Economy (Pt.17)
The new
exchange systems we are exploring blur the boundary between the monetary and
nonmonetary realms and therefore the standard definition of the "economy." How would we
measure it in the absence of a common unit of account? Ultimately, underneath money, is the totality of what
human beings do for each other.
Playing Doctor: Herbal Medicine in A New World Economy
Plants have been used for thousands of years to treat and cure illnesses, but in modern America, we're dissuaded from these proven methods by the interests of multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical companies. Is all that about to change?
The Peer to Peer Manifesto: The Emergence of P2P Civilization and Political Economy
Our political economy
is based on a mistake – that
natural resources are unlimited, and that it is an endless sink. This false assumption creates artificial scarcity for cultural resources, destroys the biosphere, and hampers a free culture. In a P2P-based society,
this situation is reversed.
The Political Economy of Peer Production
The P2P (peer-to-peer) revolution didn't end with Napster. P2P is giving rise to a new mode of production, a new mode of governance, and a new mode of property. It is poised to overhaul our political economy in unprecedented ways.
Delic Radio: Ask Dr. Cook 3: Wins, Telemedicine, and COVID-19
Dr. Cook and Jackee speak about the coronavirus, telemedicine, transcending adversity, and building the determination to walk your own path.
Culture / News / Psychology / Science
Coronavirus: The Cognitive Epidemic
On Bulletproof Radio, Dave Asprey spoke to anthropologist and cognitive scientist Samuel Veissière Ph.D about the coronavirus being a cognitive epidemic.
