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Hello friends!
Here’s episode 20 where I go deeeeeeeep into the woods and tall grass and the reaches of space with Dr. David Shorter. David is the the author of We Will Dance Our Truth: Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances, a healer, and a professor at UCLA, where he teaches courses like “Aliens, Psychics, and Ghosts,” “Meditation for College Students” and more. David is awesome, and we don’t hold back in this conversation, and I’m so happy with it. This is the first episode in February – and one of three in a row that will be looking at reality claims, objectivity, and postmodernism. All in plain language, hopefully, even if there’s a little inside baseball here and there.
Show notes with further reading here.
*IN THIS EP
- Spirituality as capitalist consumption
- How to avoid appropriation but not blind yourself to other cultures
- Allies and their blind spots
- Why “I’m not religious but I’m spiritual” doesn’t describe anything
- Why social justice narratives can become scientistic materialism
- How do we accept the truth value of different spiritual pathways even though we can’t have access to them?
- You should be working in the language of the community you’re working in
- Why do philosophers and activists privilege language so much?
- We experience the world in content, not language
- When a snake is a place
- Why you shouldn’t trust talking butterflies and coyotes, but squirrels that run away from you are cool
- There are different scientific methods, and some are better than others
- Why plants don’t come from seeds
- The scientific method turns the world into objects, and capitalism likes objects
- Objectification is not dehumanization
- The spread of English objectifies the mental world (or “objectivate” it)
- I get mildly cranky about Chapo Traphouse for a sec
- Why is the Left obsessed with denigrating spirituality and worshipping science with very little power critique
- How our medical concepts create new diseases
- Dear indigenous people: “Sorry for everything we’ve ever done to you, now save us.”
- So-called “alternative” medicine is often just allopathic medicine in disguise
- How responsible are you for your pain
- ESTHER HICKS, I AM ENVISIONING YOU ON MY SHOW
- Health and healing is a language
- How my Syrian grandmother survived cancer without knowing about it
Here’s David’s website, which has a link to all his articles, his book, and more. Lots of stuff, good stuff, there.
*NOTE: I’m ditching the time signatures, because only a few people use them and they take me literally 2X the episode length to make. So I could be at it four 4 hours just to make those fuckers. If you miss them and are willing to step up and make them for me, let me know!
Conner Habib 
The podcast is about 5 minutes shorter than the youtube version — it just cuts off mid-sentence.
This conversation is amazing. I really enjoyed it.
Thank you, Frank! Taking care of the glitch right now!
Hey, dude. This was an incredible dialogue. It tidied up a lot of problematic concepts, or at least concepts that become problematic through memetic lenses. Quite a bit to take away and happily chew on. Thank you for your work.
Thank you so much, Kevin!