Life Happens. We're just the storytellers.
Jay Ridley joins Harv in the studio to discuss music — why it attracts us, why we create it, how it affects the brain, and how it might just be linked to the collective consciousness.
Or not, we can’t really work it out either. But it’s an interesting conversation nevertheless!
Intro Clip – “A Star is Born”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SnMhTOGh3EThe Illuminati, an all powerful, mysterious group of anonymous shadowy figures with designs on full spectrum dominance of the entire planet.
But are they real, or is this just another story told by conspiracy theorists with nothing better to do? Let’s dig in!
There Will Be Blood – The Deal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdddIJd3bLc
How to spot a psychopath – Jon Ronson at TED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaBTbMW3vbc
Stanley Kubrick’s daughter speaks truth (alternative source, original removed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozqwo8mJQUQ
Keiser Report – Psychotic people make the best brokers and traders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AulY4CW3Qyk
James Corbett and Dr. Tjeerd Andringa on the Kakistocracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbKjbWaLt6I
One in five CEOs are psychopaths: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/psychopaths-ceos-study-statistics-one-in-five-psychopathic-traits-a7251251.html
The disturbing link between Psychopathy and Leadership: https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/04/25/the-disturbing-link-between-psychopathy-and-leadership/#500d21304104
Death is one of the fundamental things any self-aware sentient human has to come to grips with. But how do we do that, when all evidence seems to indicate that death is final, and there is nothing beyond?
Of course, that’s where story comes in…
Bill Nye on the Afterlife: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziwDvejyrA0
Today Show on Science and the Afterlife: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM073TBPLmk
Sam Parnia on NDEs and Consciousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KaPGnRJZfg
AWARE study results: https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/aware-results-finally-published-no-evidence-of-nde/
Skeptico interviews Sam Parnia: https://skeptiko.com/sam-parnia-claims-near-death-experience-probably-an-illusion/
BBC om Transhumanism – Could we live forever? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STsTUEOqP-g
Should a storyteller take responsibility for their effect on the collective consciousness? Do we as humans have a responsibility to share our own stories? And in a world with 8 billion people, are our individual voices really all that important?
Let’s discuss…
Memento clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1nvvaWX4gk
Music is story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpfuE1pgNsc
Photography is story: https://www.weareforward.uk/a-great-story-comes-with-great-responsibility/
Double-slit test explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOcPHOJ7GAQ
Jennifer’s body PCL review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmw0ZYUx_8I
Watchmen PCL Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Qksvp2C7Y
Sam Harris & Andrew Yang on Universal Basic Income: https://samharris.org/podcasts/130-universal-basic-income/