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HITW is hosted by depth counselor, writer and cultural activist Brian James: http://brianjames.ca

Check out my new book Traumadelic: Re-Visioning Psychedelic Therapy http://traumadelicbook.com

Catherine Liu (born 1964) is an American cultural theorist and author whose areas of research include Sinophone cinema, French literature, critical theory, identity politics, and visual arts. She is known for her critique of the professional–managerial class.

Her research and teaching focuses on the intellectual history and formation of cultural criticism, the history of the professional-managerial class, psychoanalytic theory, the political economy of cultural revolutions, and the work of the Frankfurt School and Walter Benjamin. She has also published on various topics in art criticism, museum history, and cultural politics.

Her most recent book published in 2021, Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class, is a polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste and consumption habits.

Catherine’s Substack: cliuanon.substack.com

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HITW is hosted by depth counselor, writer and cultural activist Brian James: http://brianjames.ca

Check out my new book Traumadelic: Re-Visioning Psychedelic Therapy http://traumadelicbook.com

Erik Davis was born during the Summer of Love within a stone’s throw of San Francisco. He grew up in North County, north of San Diego, and spent a decade on the East Coast, where he studied literature and philosophy at Yale and spent six years in the freelance trenches of Brooklyn and Manhattan before moving to San Francisco, where he currently resides.

He is the author of five books: High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the 70s (MIT Press/Strange Attractor Press); Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica (Yeti, 2010); The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape (Chronicle, 2006), with photographs by Michael Rauner; and the 33 1/3 volume Led Zeppelin IV (Continuum, 2005).

His first and best-known book remains TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information (Crown, 1998), a cult classic of visionary media studies that has been translated into five languages and most recently republished by North Atlantic Press.He currently writes the Substack publication Burning Shore.

https://techgnosis.com

https://www.burningshore.com

Previous episodes with Erik:

HITW 125 Is GenX Still Relevant? https://www.patreon.com/posts/hitw-125-erik-is-92906404

On his book High Weirdness https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-high-with-32872409

On psychedelics and spiritual practice https://www.patreon.com/posts/01-12-and-with-34272619

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This is the first half of a longer conversation. If you’d like to gain access to early release of full, ad-free episodes and support the podcast, consider becoming part of the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewilderness. We are an independent production and rely on the support of listeners like you. Make a one-time contribution to http://paypal.me/brianjamessoul

C. Michael Smith (aka Mikkal) is Director of Crows Nest Wilderness Retreat and Conference Center, Dowagiac, Michigan and director of Crows Nest Centers for Shamanic Studies International in France and Belgium, and currently teaching in Paris and Payzac; Captetown, South Africa, and Iquitos, Peru.

An active clinical psychologist and medical anthropologist, Mikkal is author of PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE SACRED (Chicago), and JUNG AND SHAMANISM IN DIALOGUE (Paulist, Trafford), and has served as peer reviewer for the Journal of Anthropology of Consciousness, and published his research with Kye Nelson on “Heart, Health and Disease: A Medical-Anthropological Study” (NOVA Science Publishers).

He has led more than 200 workshops and retreats on shamanism, Jungian psychology, and his method of Sacred Breathwork, world-wide and for many years is a teaching faculty and member of the the international circle of shamanic teachers, Le Cercle de Sagesse Ancestrale de l’Union. He was elected into Le College de Chamanique in Paris in 2014.

Links:

Crow's Nest Center for Shamanic Studies: https://crowsnestshamanism.com

My previous conversation with Michael: https://www.patreon.com/posts/mpp79-c-michael-56880128

Our free course TUKUY: Showing Up with Presence & Purpose: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8p9DS5PqUJ_rPtM24y3HKd2yLCF58q7m

Show Links:

http://brianjames.ca

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http://paypal.me/brianjamessoul

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