E117| Is the Earth Enough? PART 2: Anthropocene, Global Brain, & Noosphere | Cadell Last, Layman Pascal, Sean Kelly, Simon van der Els

In this follow up to 'Is The Earth Enough?', Layman Pascal, Cadell Last, Sean Kelly and Simon van der Els extend the conversation with reference to the concepts of the Anthropocene, Global Brain, and the Noosphere. They consider the influences upon humanity, and our influences in turn, on this hyperconnected Earth.

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  KEYWORDS

  Anthropocene, Global Brain, Noosphere, Ecology, Human Relationships, Overshoot, Consciousness, Planetary Civilization, Technology, Enjoyment, excess, lack, religion, embodiment, network subjectivity, global structures, overshoot, rewilding, metacognition, Anthropocene

  Summary

  This conversation delves into the intricate relationships between humans and the Earth, exploring concepts such as the Anthropocene, the Global Brain, and the Noosphere. It discusses the implications of these ideas on ecological stability, technological coordination, and the evolution of human consciousness. The dialogue also addresses the challenges of overshoot in both the biosphere and the noosphere, emphasizing the need for intentionality and discipline in navigating these complexities. Ultimately, the conversation seeks to understand what it means to be a responsible planetary citizen in an age of rapid change. In this conversation, the speakers delve into the intricate relationship between excess and lack, exploring how these concepts intertwine within philosophical and religious contexts. They discuss the dual role of religion as both a defense against and an attraction to excess, emphasizing the importance of embodiment and network subjectivity in navigating modern challenges. The conversation also touches on the fragility of global structures, the positive aspects of overshoot, and the need for rewilding both externally and internally. They highlights the complexity of empire and the necessity of metacognitive frameworks to understand the Anthropocene, ultimately calling for a deeper engagement with the imaginal biosphere and the responsibilities that come with it.

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  01:10 Exploring Human-Earth Relationships

  14:02 The Interplay of Concepts: Anthropocene, Global Brain, and Noosphere

  25:56 Overshoot Dynamics: Balancing the Noosphere and the Biosphere

  39:45 The Role of Intentionality and Discipline in the Noosphere

  49:29 Exploring Excess and Lack

  52:53 The Role of Religion in Addressing Excess

  54:19 Embodiment and Network Subjectivity

  56:41 The Challenge of Coordination in Communities

  01:00:35 The Fragility of Global Structures

  01:04:27 Positive Aspects of Overshoot

  01:06:50 Rewilding the Interior

  01:10:10 The Dance of Implicit and Explicit

  01:18:02 The Complexity of Empire

  01:22:06 Metacognition and the Concept of Earth

  01:25:27 The Anthropocene and Mythic Imagination

  01:31:54 Embodiment and the Global Brain

  01:39:39 Closing Reflections and Future Directions

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• Cadell Last

  Cadell Last is a philosopher and founder of Philosophy Portal, with an interdisciplinary background in fields of evolutionary anthropology, psychoanalysis, complexity science, and big history. He has spent much of his life searching for the truth of being through questions about the difference between humans and nature, and the consequences of human difference for nature. His PhD thesis, Global Brain Singularity, places biocultural evolution, mind-matter relation, and speculative futures in discussion, which produces insight that he then enhances through his expertise on thinkers like Hegel, Freud, Žižek, and Zupančič.

  Access Philosophy Portal here: https://philosophyportal.online/

• Layman Pascal

  Layman Pascal was incarnated on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. He used to be a meditation teacher, yoga instructor & public speaker — but he's feeling much better now.

  He is a writer on themes of cultural philosophy, shamanism and organic spiritual development. Lately he has been active as a board member of the Foundation for Integral Religion and Spirituality and a founder of the Beyond Interfaith project.

  Links:

  • The Integral Stage: www.youtube.com/channel/UCaA4zkLRnR3lGm8Y7c5Tvdw

  Social:

  • Twitter: www.twitter.com/laymanpascal

  • Substack: www.substack.com/profile/11623282-layman-pascal

• Simon van der Els

  Simon van der Els

  Simon van der Els is a student of the invisible realm. He holds a PhD title in the empirical tradition of molecular microbiology. He also explores the subjective realm of shamanism, as a way of re-discovering the interiority of the living cosmos, and assisting in healing of Gaia. He enjoys time in nature, dance and other sensory embodied experiences. Dialogue is one of the practices in which he can encounter flowstate, and this is one of his favorite activities.
  
  Connect with Simon @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-van-der-els-66434b231/

• Sean Kelly

  Sean Kelly received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Ottawa in 1988. Before coming to CIIS, he taught religious studies at the University of Windsor, the University of Ottawa, and Carleton University (Canada). He is the author of Coming Home: The Birth and Transformation of the Planetary Era and Individuation and the Absolute: Hegel, Jung, and the Path toward Wholeness. Sean is also co-editor, with Donald Rothberg, of Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers and co-translator, with Roger Lapointe, of French thinker Edgar Morin's book, Homeland Earth: A manifesto for the New Millennium. Along with his academic work, Sean has trained intensively in the Chinese internal arts (taiji, bagua, and xingyi) and has been teaching taiji since 1990. Along with his abiding interest in the work of Jung, Hegel, and Morin, his current research areas include the evolution of consciousness, integral ecologies, and transpersonal and integral theory.

  Sean is the author of Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation:

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