I am super proud to be sharing this discussion I had with Ēlen Awalom on the trans-Apocalyptic Oasis Show. I truly believe that her lived experience and evolution from Radical Black Feminist to Embodied Leadership Coach has the power to be transformational for many who are searching for a way to move beyond the limitations of woke ideology. Ēlen declares that the Revolution is not to be found out there—it's inside each of us!

We explore the following:

👉🏾 What is Post-Blackness?

👉🏾 What does it mean to transcend blackness in a world that is still deeply racist?

👉🏾 What does post-blackness look like in action?

👉🏾 Ēlen's personal experience with Patrisse Cullors, founder of Black Lives Matter

👉🏾 Marxist stage theory, and what actually is late-stage capitalism?👉🏾 Bringing a trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive approach to health care and politics

👉🏾 and more! See below:

Ēlen Awalom's website:

http://www.elenawalom.com/

Ēlen on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/EKAwalom/

2:04 The very blurry lines of race in Elen's lived experience 6:24 Why Elen no longer identifies as Black 7:20 Elen's spiritual awakening 9:00 What is Post-Blackness? 9:22 Post-Black is a part of Cultural Metamodernism 9:35 Thelma Golden coined "Post-Black Art" at the Studio Museum of Harlem 10:00 How can we be post-black in a world still deeply racist? 10:46 What Post-Blackness looks like in action 12:11 Unraveling false narratives around race and gender 12:58 The limitations of a postmodern interpretive framework that views everything as systems of oppression 13:55 In post-blackness, what is being transcended? 16:00 The assumption of shared ancestry as the foundation for a sense of kinship 17:39 The rejection of traditionalist frames and identity in integral or metamodern circles 21:22 Elen's personal experience with Patrisse Cullors, founder of Black Lives Matter, in the tech startup for social change they founded 22:57 Elen's renewed interest in religion, particularly Orthodox Christianity and Judaism 27:47 Elen's interest as a kid in Eastern spirituality, French existentialism, Buddhist psychology 28:05 What does it mean to be post-feminist? 33:27 Elen's radical leftist parents raised her with an appreciation for Marxism, Marxist feminism, anti-colonial thinking, Maoism 34:39 Marxism's recognition of development stages (via Corey DeVos and Ken Wilber) 35:36 Critiques of integral theory as white colonial ideology based in Maoist thinking and post-colonial feminism 36:03 Stage theory in Maoism 37:21 How is post-colonial feminism Maoist? 32:32 Post-colonial thought emerged from the USSR and China to win an ideological battle against the USA 40:34 Marxist stage theory 42:36 The problems with late stage capitalism are actually late-stage modernity or materialism 42:48 The solution is not the overthrow of capitalism, but a return to spirit 43:36 Jeff Brown, student of Bioenergetics founder Alexander Lowen 44:10 Lowen and Brown's argument is that Marxist revolution can be found in healing somatically from trauma 46:21 False consciousness and Leninism 47:30 Ēlen freezes 🥶 50:40 Speaking from the pelvis 52:16 Somatics teachers at Green tend to show up in aggressive ways 55:38 Ēlen's new project: Embodied Leadership Coaching 56:10: Ēlen's history with Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and Black Radical Congress 58:02 Ēlen discovers a trauma informed perspective 1:01:10 Revolutions don't succeed because their leaders are highly traumatized 1:03:10 Working with hospitals and health care providers to bring a trauma sensitive approach to healing and health care 1:06:17 You can't provide effective leadership without resolving trauma and becoming more embodied 1:08:10 Transcending social justice.

How can A.I. become conscious? Do scientists understand consciousness? Is consciousness actually emergent? Is emergentism just magical thinking? Why are Metamodernists such religious zealots about opposing the mystical and metaphysical? What is a woman? And what's the most comprehensive way to view the War in Ukraine? 0:00 Damiano Ramazzotti and Marshall Æon 1:45 The urgency created by A.I. to discover the nature of consciousness 3:00 Can A.I. be conscious? 3:30 Current A.I. is purely computational 3:49 Scientists don't understand consciousness 4:15 Spiritualists vs Materialists 5:45 Machines need a biological interface to access consciousness 7:05 The experiential nature of consciousness 8:10 The soul perspective of the Diamond Approach 10:50 Does a machine need a soul or spirit to experience consciousness? 16:10 Gödel's incompleteness theorems 18:19 Something non-computational needs to happen for a computer to have a subjective experience 18:35 Quantum mechanics and the fundamental realm 20:07 The Green reaction to A.I. 20:43 Denying the humanity of ChatGPT 21:18 Our dependence on energy, which relies on our understanding of fundamental physics 20:53 99.9% of physicists assume consciousness is emergent 22:34 Is the climate catastrophe real? Feedback loops, exponential processes, tipping points hypotheses. 24:14 The problems that infinite energy would solve and create 24:34 What would a future without the necessity of work look like? 24:55 We are sense organs for the Divine 25:36 Transcending survival and turning inward 25:59 Are orgies useful for self-inquiry? 26:34 The emergence of sex cults 26:56 Will Marshall become a cult leader? 27:29 The toxicity of the Guru system 28:20 Most spiritual systems lack an understanding of narcissism 28:45 You're not enlightened until you're enlightened in the genitals (Almaas) 29:59 We need a culture of responsibility to prevent Guru abuse 30:31 Idealization of Gurus and father projections 32:30 Knowledge of narcissism, grandiosity, idealization and the animal dimension in the Diamond Approach 35:57 Where is the interesting spirituality in integral or metamodernism? 36:18 Damiano's beefs with Emergentism 38:26 Consciousness cannot violate the law of physics (be it classical or quantum) 38:43 Three options: Consciousness is fundamental, soft emergence, or hard emergence 42:50 Emergentists have a cognitive bias where they assume a consensus they don't actually have 43:48 Ken Wilber's mistake of assuming consciousness is fundamental without Upper Right confirmation 45:23 Damiano's beef with Brendan Graham Dempsey's Emergentism 46:59 Integral Theory is not a level, it's a map. So it attracts people of all levels. 47:33 Metamodernism needs to include and embody the transpersonal and metaphysical like Bruce Alderman and Laymay Pascal 47:54 Should people at Teal/Yellow even be creating religions? 48:29 Emergentism as a religion cuts out parts of consciousness 49:59 Metamodernism is Integral Theory without the transpersonal 51:13 The only thing Metamodernists are religious about is the rejection of the metaphysical and mystical 52:57 Brendan Graham Dempsey: Emergentism vs Ken Wilber's Integral Theory (Omega point) 54:53 The magical thinking of Emergentism 59:25 Marshall's allegiance with Skynet 59:38 Being polite with ChatGPT 1:00:07 The Ethics of A.I. 1:00:57 Did the Annunaki give psilocybin to primates so they would mine gold for their ships? 1:01:06 If we want sentient A.I.'s, they need to be benevolent out of their own volition 1:05:45 If an A.I. became sentient, could we ever know? 1:06:23 Sentience can never emerge from computational A.I. 1:11:13 An Integral look at the Russia-Ukraine war 1:21:51 Is NATO to blame for the Ukraine war? 1:28:17 What about all the Nazis in Ukraine? 1:32:43 What is a woman? 1:35:47 Different kinds of men and women 1:38:41 The Enneagram and gender 1:40:42 Identifying as a woman because one doesn't fit the stereotype of a man 1:45:45 Dark Natalie on ContraPoints

Brace yourself for a huge blast of illumination coming from our Jewish Space Lasers. ⚡ Amiel Handelsman and Marshall Æon look at: * DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in Society vs Organizations * Albert Murray's Omni-American (via Greg Thomas) * what a minimally decent life looks like and working towards that for all Americans * revising how racism is taught in US History * the development of Kegan's Self-Authoring stage as a solution to mob violence and polarization * The Nordic Secret by Lene Rachel Andersen and Tomas Björkman 0:00 Amiel Handelsman and Marshall Æon 0:33 How are the Jewish Space Lasers doing? 1:40 The challenges with current approaches to antiracism 4:46 How to understand racial disparities in organizations 6:13 Overlap between societal and organizational DEI 9:08 Healthy DEI vs Unhealthy DEI vs Unhealthy attacks on DEI 10:56 What is the cause of the latest wave of rigid ideological DEI? 11:32 Blame Millenials ;) 12:48 Comparisons to China's Cultural Revolution under Mao Zedong 14:26 DEI is actually Amber/Blue with Green values 16:39 Kegan framework - being centered in the socialized mind 18:29 Getting precise about Marxism and its influence on contemporary DEI 18:57 Mythic architecture of Marxism: Master and Slave of the Hegelian dialectic 20:25 The inversion of hierarchies 21:00 Ibram X. Kendi - The answer to past discrimination is present discrimination 21:31 The Minimally-Decent Life 23:24 Thomas Sowell's Intellectuals and Race 26:06 How do we guarantee love for everyone? 26:23 The complexity of disparities in outcomes between demographic groups 26:35 Prenatal nutrition and prenatal care 27:40 Biden administration's Child Tax Credit removed 1/3 of kids from poverty 28:24 Marxists reject the racial lens because they see it undermining class solidarity 30:07 Touré Reed, son of Adolph Reed Jr, wrote a book critiquing Barack Obama and Ta Nehisi Coates 31:16 Colorblind Racism 31:28 Progress denialism about the Civil Rights Movement starting with Derrick Bell and Kimberlé Crenshaw 33:45 Isabel Wilkerson's Caste 34:36 Timothy Synder, historian at Yale, and the politics of eternity 35:38 Reframing American history: The 1619 Project, the 13th Amendment, Rockefeller drug laws 36:43 A balanced look at the 1619 Project 40:50 Deracialization and the Omni-American project 42:09 Greg Thomas, Albert Murray 43:10 Black and white culture intermingling as seen in Jazz 46:43 Albert Murray on the composite of American culture 48:09 Miscegenation 50:51 Historically, some "white" people weren't considered "white" 51:10 Are Ashkenazi Jews white? 52:34 Etiology of Oppression 53:39 Antisemitism is punching up 55:55 Stalin's controlled opposition 56:47 Disproportionate representation of Jews in Hollywood 59:13 The Hero's Journey - Reframing that the story of history is not a story of oppression (while acknowledging brutality and dehumanization) 1:05:07 Howard Gardner's counter-stories 1:07:34 The unschooled mind 1:08:16 Mob-proofing the citizenry • January 6 • Lene Rachel Andersen • The Nordic Secret 1:10:24 Self Authoring vs Socialized minds vs Imperial (Self Sovereign) minds 1:16:00 Bildung - the Nordic education system's focus on individual development 1:17:44 Conspiracy theorists think the powers that be don't want us to evolve 1:21:31 Timothy Snyder's work combatting Russian propaganda is supporting self-authorship