8 - Kingsley Dennis (New Monasticism)
“The battlefield has gone more and more internally, more into our minds.” - Kingsley Dennis http://kingsleydennis.com/ In this episode we hang out with Kingsley Dennis, prolific author and one of the most articulate voices in the emerging global movement of “new monasticism.” * Support Future Fossils Podcast on Patreon: patreon.com/michaelgarfield * Kingsley joined us from his gorgeous home in Spain to talk about…well, almost everything: – Reimagining the planet as a living cell with the help of biologist Lewis Thomas; – Flocking and schooling behavior in humans, and how outlier “weirdos” form the skin/edges/sensate drivers of culture (a shift from the periphery, not the center); – Gregory Bateson’s “difference that makes a difference” and information as inherently meaningful (a qualitative dimension to “data” that we largely ignore, but will be integrated into the wisdom of a mature society); – Violent revolutions in the aftermath of new information technologies, and the deconstruction of hierarchical control – trees falling and saplings springing up; – Time compression in a digital society and the increasingly inhospitable urban environment optimized for machines; – Time compression in psychology and increased rates of travel and communication; – New generations will be brought up in a fully digital society, and their epigenetic response will sprout new organs of perception, instinctively more adjusted and naturalized to time-space compression; – Evolutionary whiplash vs. cruising altitude comfort/complacency; – Soul work and evolution through difficulty: “Disruptive energy is actually needed in order to catalyze the shift to a different order [but] it’s hard to talk about this without sounding distant.” - Kingsley Dennis Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/futurefossils. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
