Jeremy Johnson
Jeremy is a writer of short stories and essays, a blogger, rogue academic and new media scholar. He received his MA from Goddard in Consciousness Studies and a BA from Fordham in Sociology. Interested in the interstices of myth, media and religious experience, his writing attempts to outline the direction of our planetary, interconnected age.
His intellectual heroes include Jean Gebser, William Irwin Thompson, Henry Corbin and Carl Jung. Literary muses include Virginia Woolf, Kim Stanley Robinson, Philip K. Dick, and Daniel Quinn. Still more, his spiritual influences include Sri Aurobindo, William Blake and Zen.
Electric Fairytales: The Return of Mythic Consciousness in Movies
Is the return of the repressed simply regression or is it something much more?
Cyborgs, Dubstep, and Human Evolution
A look at what music has to say about biology & machines.
Bridging Worlds of Myth and Science: The Poetic Scholarship of William Irwin Thompson
Take a tour through the works of integral scholar and historian, Bill Thompson, as he spins a whole-picture view of myth, mysticism and evolution.
There Be Dragons! Or Mythopoeisis, Chaos, Catastrophe and Evolution
Jeremy Johnson returns to Beams and Struts with a meditation on what's possible in the eye of a storm.
The World is a Global Village
Marshall McLuhan illuminates the return of the tribe and the evolution of mind through media. (video)
The Integral Philosopher- Jean Gebser and Time
Will post-postmodern culture bring with it an entirely new sense of time? Or will our species run out of time? What should be our relationship to this most fundamental reality? Perhaps Jean Gebser would offer us some clues.
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Leslie - thanks so much for being there. Very glad the show reached you the way it did.
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T. Collins - exactly. A near death experience isn't necessary for these realizations, but it'll probably accelerate it. But meditation,…
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Thanks you TJ for such an amazing life changing event, I've been paying it forward ever since :)
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