Audio of the livestream titled “KOSMOPOLITIKA#2: Where Do We Belong?”—the latest installment in an ongoing (and evolving) collaboration between Nonzero and Psychopolitica.
INTRODUCTIONS:
4:14 Nikita: Leaving Russia. The psychedelic lineage. Humanity is a trip, not a species
21:59 16 years ago, Boris took such a good nap after visiting a sacred Ancient Greek site that he still thinks about it
25:25 In The Dark Places of Wisdom: mystical practices at the root of Western civilization
26:57 What makes us feel we belong: identity & community 31:00 Humanity as a planetary force
MEMBER PARTICIPATION PART:
39:15 What makes us feel we belong: values & norms
49:14 What makes us feel we belong: direct experience
52:26 Psychedelics & meditation in service of planetary identity
54:19 “To be” comes from the word "to grow", "am" & "is" from "to breath"
56:32 Rationalists
58:15 How Socrates got himself killed
1:04:30 What makes us feel we belong: awareness of inter-dependence
1:11:30 Gaia, humanity, and AI are 3 generations of planetary forces
1:15:32 Zizians. There's something to be said about dogma
1:17:47 “DMT, death, and nanobots are the same thing, somehow”
1:21:24 Humanity is still being born
1:23:21 Ideas are alive
1:25:59 JFK's "my fellow Americans" address, in which he casts the country as a peer to the citizen
1:30:13 VR brings us back into the body
1:34:33 The human experience is an image that arises from the play of ideas and matter
1:38:30 Agency found in choosing one's metaphors
1:42:15 Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Message
1:47:52 Homeric rhapsodes
1:52:34 Conversation as distributed thinking
Nikita Petrov, and Boris Shoshitaishvili. Recorded April 14, 2025.
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