Voicecraft Dispatch | The Overton Window, Underground Philosophy & Re-thinking Economics

The latest Voicecraft dialogues, and the window is closing on public invitations in 2024.

We are nearing the halfway point of Voicecraft’s August event schedule. We’ve welcomed

Michel Bauwens

,

Ferananda

Ibarra,

O.G. Rose

,

Matthew David Segall

,

Cadell Last

and many other members into session, for public and private dialogues on topics from economics to mysticism.

There are also dialogues to come with

Michael Garfield

of Future Fossils and Humans On The Loop, whom I had the pleasure of meeting this week. A real highlight.

And while we’re still a few days away and anything could yet happen, I’ve been looking forward to a rare conversation with Jordan Hall, John Vervaeke, and Forrest Landry — thanks to a nudge back in that direction by Joey Robinson, who will also be joining the context. It’s been three years now since I recorded a series of dialogues between John and Forrest, with this one in particular in truly rare company of intellectually powerful dialogic compressions of many of the social and existential dynamics facing civilisation.

Back to the present, the latest Voicecraft podcast welcomes

Alex Ebert

on the politics, psychology and philosophy of the Overton window: the present limits of socially acceptable policy and opinion.

The second half of this is philosophy in the lab, connecting Alex’s thinking on metaphysics, limits and frequency to the political dimension. You will find some of Alex’s related thinking on

O.G. Rose

’s The Net conversations and inside

Cadell Last

’s Philosophy Portal.

The release prior featured the aforementioned O.G. Rose and Matt Segall, which you can listen to below. Across audio and YT platforms it has been received with great interest, and it was a pleasure to connect Daniel and Matt. I’d also like to thank Tom Lyons for his graciousness in participating in a constrained collective intelligence role in this dialogue. The Voicecraft Network will be increasing its experimentation with enabling constraints of role based participation in some, but by no means all, session types.

Upcoming invitations…

The Voicecraft Network remains open to expressions of interest to join. But the principle invitation today may well be one of the last few public facing local Voicecraft events of the year: Underground Philosophy: Consciousness.

As you may be able to tell from the work shared above, there is a tremendous amount of value in cultivation and expression across the Voicecraft context as a whole. There are organisations funded to the tune of 6 and 7 figures that are not able to offer pathways into the genuine depth of process-relational philosophical praxis that Voicecraft does. It doesn’t feed those pathways by spoon, because they are real.

And so the next Underground Philosophy, which I introduced in the video below back in June, hasn’t been shouting from the rooftops to convince anyone of the value on offer. Last time I advertised a guest (though most tickets were bought already), they didn’t arrive.

In my personal experience of living here in Melbourne since 2016, I haven’t encountered an open event on this topic which has opened to the depth I once hoped for, and which will be welcome on Friday August 16. I’ll be joined by the philosopher, counsellor and independent researcher Cam Duffy for the first part of the evening.

You can learn more about Underground Philosophy and purchase your tickets here.

My sense is of all the local public events so far, this one is closest to the wilderness that the Voicecraft context is most capable of slowing down time with.

You could be a student or professor of the philosophy of mind at a top academic institution, allergic to academia but sincere in your care for participation in life and understanding, or early through mature in meditative or contemplative spiritual practices.. I believe there is an equal chance this event is worth attending if you care about the mystery of consciousness and contributing to contexts that can genuinely share space with its significance.

The catch is, you probably will have had to engage with the resonance across multiple Voicecraft public or private contexts to know that.

For the rest, it’s an additional step through uncertainty.

Discernment on the Way,