Updates
New Podcasts, classes, what I'm reading, etc.
You can read the ResearchGate white paper that started it all here– our update to the living map of Autonomic states: Towards an Accurate In Vivo Reconceptualizing of Autonomic State. This is not as academic or esoteric as you might think, and every read tangibly helps us anchor the new foundation model in the research literature, setting the stage for us to move it into the world.
We have a couple of podcasts dropping this week that I’m pretty excited about.
I recently sat down with Dr. Sera Sheppard of the Vitalist podcast, for a conversation about what healing is, through an autonomics lens. The podcast, Beyond Fight-or-Flight: A Full Nervous System Map for Modern Stress with Gabriel Kram, is available on Youtube by clicking the title, and where you get your podcasts. Please check it out. Sera and Dr. Keiko Finnegan recently started this up-and-coming podcast, exploring animacy in the healing traditions. Small-worldly (that’s not really a word), they recently interviewed Dr. Jeff Karp, of the Karp Lab, with whom we are, at Hearth Science, in dialog. Jeff has created some of the most innovative medical products of the past decade, including a glue that can be used on living tissue that was biomimicked from geckos.
On Friday December 5, my conversation with Artem Zen for the Elevating Consciousness Podcast drops. This is a longform conversation we recorded at our film studio– free-ranging over the past several years of our work and the first two books of the Autonomic Trilogy, the second book of which, GROUND, releases December 15. You can read the first 45 pages of GROUND by following this link.
January 13, 20, 27, and February 3 I’ll be teaching the new book as a 4-part class series, focused on grounding in the context of
civilization
lineage
physiology
metabolism
More information, and applications for that class are here.
I recently started reading Paul Kingsnorth’s Against the Machine. Prose is magnificant. Uncannily similar diagnosis on modernity, VERY different prescription about how to address. I do find utility in thinking of the manifest form of the polycrisis as a machine. As Wendell Berry says, in Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition,
“It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.”
