We crank up the Gurometer to stare directly into our cosmic insignificance and ponder where Sagan resides in the guru cosmology.
Featuring some Weinstein World chat at the end.
Also note this is the UNEDITED video version. We will get an edited version up on the bonus feed this week!
Enjoy
2021-08-01 07:47:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Busy day for notifications (apologies!),
Chris here again. I’m currently commuting to get my second vaccine jab and just had an idea I thought I’d run past everyone.
I am currently reading Evan Thompson’s ‘Why I’m Not a Buddhist’ (which is a great book) on the train and was thinking it would be nice t...
2021-07-27 06:18:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Following Robert Wright's recently developed interest in Weinstein flavoured crack-pottery, we've exchanged some messages about doing crossover interviews.
This is likely to happen in the next month or so. We will likely cover the Weinsteins & IDW, secular Buddhism, alternative & mainstream media ecosystems &...
2021-07-27 02:25:21 +0000 UTC View PostWe got approached by a company that wants to advertise on the show. Matt and I are semi-ambivalent to the concept beyond being unwilling to promote anything that is too random or we do not agree with/approve of. In this case it's a news aggregator app which seems fine.
We are considering to accept with the intention bei...
2021-07-27 02:04:31 +0000 UTC View Post
With the release today of our Sagan episode we decided that for the next main episode we would return to modern gurus by leaping back into the cess pool with both feet and covering Gad Saad.
We are actually considering doing a twofer with some other terrible person he interviews, like Rubin…
If you have any sugg...
2021-07-23 22:31:07 +0000 UTC View Post
For those of you who want another fix of Gurology... here is a two hour interview with Chris on Stephan Kesting's 'the Strenuous Life Podcast'. Stephan is a BJJ instructor but also a very switched on guy when it comes to pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, and gurus.
Sadly Matt was on walkabout during the recording so o...
2021-07-21 08:15:36 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a little bit petty and I (Chris) apologise for that in advance but what is the point of having a Patreon if you can't occasionally post something that is a little indulgent.
These are some tweets from an FYI thread I got tagged into on Twitter. The person responsible has 4 followers so I'm not going to put them ...
2021-07-19 05:54:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys,
Episode update. We are 50% through the Carl Sagan episode and should have it out for next Friday. This is the second in the personal gurus season (Matt's guru) and we think is actually useful as it may be our first example of a 'good' guru.
If you want to see the lecture we are using it is available here...
2021-07-17 04:44:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone,
Sorry for the lack of updates recently.
Last week was a busy work week for Matt and me so we couldn't get finished with the editing we wanted.
We have two recorded interviews: one with Evan Thompson that many of you probably heard and one with Daniel Harper from I Don't Speak German podca...
2021-07-12 07:09:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys,
Matt is off this week on walk about so we are going to schedule the monthly livestream for next Monday (5th July) at 10am JST.
If anyone has any burning questions they want answered or comments/suggestions put them in the comments below and we will get to them even if you can't attend.
Assuming we...
2021-06-29 02:37:53 +0000 UTC View Post
We crank up the Gurometer to wake ourselves up, deprogram our conditioning, and calculate just how much of a guru is Anthony DeMello.
Featuring some bonus Weinstein World chat up front...
2021-06-26 05:05:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
We are in the very rare position of having a bunch of content recorded in advance of release. Editing is still necessary but here are the release plans for the coming few weeks:
This Friday: DeMello Episode (Recorded today!)
Next week: Amanda Montell episode on main feed (already out on bonus f...
2021-06-23 14:46:00 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys,
We are releasing the Amanda Montell interview early for Patreons.
It won't be out on the main feed for a few weeks but it should be in the Bonus 'Galaxy Brain' feed now. If you haven't got access to that feed yet just drop us a message or use this link: 2021-06-21 03:11:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a post to alert those waiting that the interview with Jesse is now out on the main feed.
This was a fun one, we cover his new book and the replication crisis but we also didn't shy away from discussing some of the more controversial culture war stuff.
Wherever you land on all of that, I hope you find the inte...
2021-06-18 07:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post
In this UNEDITED interview with philosophy professor we cover a wide range of topics, including Buddhist modernism & exoticism, the nature of the self(!), what Sam Harris and Robert Wright get wrong about Buddhism, and how all of this relates to the modern guru environment.
We enjoyed the discussion, Chris ca...
2021-06-17 04:59:47 +0000 UTC View Post
In case any of you missed it, we got some really nice coverage by the All in the Mind show on ABC in Australia.
The format is an extended interview, interspersed with narration and clips. Was really nice to chat with Sana, she actually knew a tonne about the gurometer which was an unexpected surprise.
A side effec...
2021-06-14 21:08:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys,
Busy week but a couple of updates...
So remember those interviews I mentioned? Well, we have been working hard and have already completed some of them. Specifically:
Jesse Singal - Recorded.
Amanda Montell- Recorded.
Next up this week are:
Evan Thompson (Western Buddhism & Exo...
2021-06-14 21:04:23 +0000 UTC View Post
For anyone interested, here is a video of the talk we will be covering on the next full episode on Anthony DeMello. It is a little awkward to find online so here is a copy for reference (please do not share).
2021-06-07 21:28:29 +0000 UTC View Post
As mentioned on the last episode, we are taking a needed holiday from the culture war to delve into our personal gurus.
Anthony DeMello was a Jesuit and Christian mystic who produced some 'popular' lectures about spirituality in the 80s/90s. The now ex-pope, then Cardinal Ratzinger, also issued a warning about how his t...
2021-06-04 20:34:18 +0000 UTC View Post
As I'm sure some of you already noticed the Jordan & Bret episode is released! This was a very enjoyable episode, perhaps because of the positive contrast with the anti-vaccine heavy rhetoric from Bret & Heather. Sadly, as the image above shows Jordan is far from immune to such impulses.
Also, clips are now adde...
2021-06-04 20:29:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, following on from the Tim Nguyen interview we've now got a couple of other interviews scheduled for the next couple of weeks so I thought I would share. This is not the release date but the unedited versions might pop up here before we edit for release on the feed.
Jesse Singal - 7th June
Amanda Montell - 11...
2021-06-03 02:22:50 +0000 UTC View Post
We conduct an extended interview with Tim Nguyen- the co-author on a recent paper attempting to critically examine Eric Weinstein's 'Geometric Unity' theory of everything.
A lot of topics are covered and the content will be substantially reduced for the podcast but here for your viewing pleasure is the full UNEDIT...
2021-06-02 10:48:24 +0000 UTC View PostJust a short note.
The next episode is completely recorded and now in the editing bay. Current length around 3hrs 10mins, but still a lot of editing to do.
Includes about 20 mins on the Lab Leak controversy.
Was a fun one!
Next up the Christian mystic and Jesuit, Anthony De Mello!
Also, the...
2021-06-01 04:49:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys,
Not as good as last month, but better than a few hours notice... our May live hangout will be in 3 days! Join us if you are a Galaxy Brain and have the time and fancy a chat about gurus and whatnot.
Date is in the link above but just for reference: June 1st 9am Japan time.
Will release on the ...
2021-05-29 00:59:58 +0000 UTC View PostI thought some of you might enjoy seeing an ancient DTG artefact.
The link above will take you to a pdf annotated transcript produced by me (Chris) for The Portal episode 19 with Eric and Bret Weinstein.
This was the topic for our first episode and is a good illustration of my problematic levels of neuroticism.&nb...
2021-05-28 21:56:19 +0000 UTC View PostSince I'm posting updates, it might be a good time to mention about interviews.
We did have a bunch of interviews scheduled (or at least penciled in) for May but then due to various issues (people being unavailable, work deadlines, family illness, etc.) we were not able to record them. I'm hoping that we can reschedule ...
2021-05-28 21:27:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys,
Time for an update!
We had hoped to get this episode out for the weekend but our schedules didn't align well this week so we only got to recording on Friday. We are about an hour or so in and will record the res...
2021-05-28 21:09:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Chris, crank up the Gurometer and engage in the esoteric (but highly precise) science of Gurometry in order to quantify the contrarian essence taken human form of Heather Heying.
Chris had some mic issues so sorry about the questionable audio quality on his end. Won't happen again we promise!
Hi guys,
It's been a week so here's an update on the episode schedule.
First, we have already started recording the Jordan and Bret crossover extravaganza. And the revolutionary thinkers certainly are colliding in the night.
However... as part of the episode we made the somewhat ill advised choice to intro t...
2021-05-18 21:23:07 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys,
I added this to the bonus feed already today but just in case anyone prefers to access on here, find the edited audio above. We did record video that I had planned to share but am currently battling with the software to get the individual video files combined (supposed to happen automatically) so afraid this is...
2021-05-11 07:06:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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