Best Eric Spiegel Podcasts (2024)

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Marga Ortigas, "God's Ashes: Apocrypha" (Penguin, 2024) 37:10

1h ago37:10

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Climate change. The refugee crisis. The rise of social media. These big social questions—and others—inspired journalist Marga Ortigas in the creation of her new novel God’s Ashes (Penguin Southeast Asia, 2024) , a piece of speculative fiction set in a very different 2023. A transnational crime unites the book’s characters, rich and poor, on a journ…

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#369 The Science of Sight and Consciousness w/ Dr. Jacob Israel Lieberman 1:19:50

3h ago1:19:50

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Dr. Jacob Israel Liberman’s discoveries in the fields of light, vision, and consciousness have been enthusiastically endorsed by luminaries in the fields of health, science, and spirituality from Deepak Chopra and Bruce Lipton to Eckhart Tolle. His newest book, Luminous Life: How the Science of Light Unlocks the Art of Living, reveals how light gui…

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Rachel Kousser, "Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great" (Mariner Books, 2024) 50:05

6d ago50:05

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In 330 BC, Alexander the Great conquers the city of Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire. His troops later burn it to the ground, capping centuries of tensions between the Hellenistic Greeks and Macedonians and the Persians. That event kicks off Rachel Kousser’s book Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years o…

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#368 Nature's Wisdom w/ Daniel Firth Griffith 2:07:00

1h ago2:07:00

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In this thought-provoking discussion, Daniel Firth Griffith explores deep connections between humans and nature through the lenses of animism, spirituality, and regenerative agriculture. The conversation spans multiple aspects such as the interplay of modern agriculture with ancient practices, highlighting the misconceived ideal of large herd manag…

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#367 Beyond The Cage w/ Ian Mccall 1:12:52

15d ago1:12:52

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Ian McCall is a retired American Mixed Martial Arts World Champion, Psychedelic Research Advocate, Decriminalize California Event Director, Performance Coach & Mentor. From mastering martial arts to becoming an advocate for the healing potential of psychedelics. Ian was marked by personal struggles but overcame addiction and a tumultuous life throu…

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Juli Min, "Shanghailanders" (Spiegel & Grau, 2024) 41:00

8h ago41:00

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Shanghailanders (Spiegel & Grau: 2024), the debut novel from Juli Min, starts at the end: Leo, a wealthy Shanghai businessman, sees his wife and daughters off at the airport as they travel to Boston. Everyone, it seems, is unhappy. The novel then travels backwards through time, giving answers to questions revealed in later chapters, jumping from pe…

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231 - Nimrod Summer 1:21:36

12d ago1:21:36

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231 - Nimrod Last Summer It’s the dog days of summer and we turn our attention to the week of October 17, 1997. We talk about the album, Nimrod, from Green Day. Then on the second half, we discuss the movie, I Know What You Did Last Summer, from director, Jim Gillespie. Nimrod I Know What You Did Last Summer Other Links: -Top ten singles -Top Ten M…

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Lio Mangubat, "Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales from the Philippine Colonial Period, 1565-1946" (Faction Press, 2024) 55:16

5d ago55:16

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Baseball’s introduction to the Philippines. The slot machine trade between Manila and Shanghai. A musical based extremely loosely on the life of the sultan of Sulu. These are just a few of the historical topics from Lio Mangubat’s Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales from the Philippine Colonial Period (Faction Press: 2024), a collection of 13 …

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#366 The Fifth Face of Eros w/ Marc Gafni 49:25

6d ago49:25

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Back again with Marc Gafni to delve into the '12 Faces of Eros,' specifically focusing on the concept of the 'unique self.' Dr. Gaffney explains the intricacies of Eros, which is described as radical aliveness, desiring deeper contact and greater wholeness. The episode addresses how the unique self differs from the separate self and true self, emph…

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#365 Dr. David Spiegel On Hypnosis As A Tool For Mental Health 1:15:10

20d ago1:15:10

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Dr. David Spiegel is a highly respected psychiatrist and expert in the field of hypnosis. With a career spanning several decades, he has made significant contributions to the understanding of how hypnosis can be used to treat a variety of psychological and physical conditions. As the founder of Reveri, an innovative hypnosis app, Dr. Spiegel contin…

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Roger Crowley, "Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2024) 54:31

12d ago54:31

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The spice islands: Specks of land in the Indonesian archipelago that were the exclusive home of cloves, commodities once worth their weight in gold. The Portuguese got there first, persuading the Spanish to fund expeditions trying to go the other direction, sailing westward across the Atlantic. Roger Crowley, in his new book Spice: The 16th-Century…

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#364 Taylor Keen -The History of Indigenous Culture and The Prophetic Times We Live In 1:10:34

19d ago1:10:34

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This was my first time meeting Taylor Keen and I absolutely hope to have him out to the farm sometime for more. He is an incredible bridge to not just indigenous wisdom, but wisdom at large. He’s the author of an incredible book, "Rediscovering Turtle Island", which I am chewing through. He also founded the organization Sacred Seed which is dedicat…

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Dan Morrison, "The Poisoner of Bengal: The 1930s Murder That Shocked the World" (Juggernaut, 2024) 46:08

19d ago46:08

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It’s the 1930s. Amarendra Chandra Pandey, the youngest son of an Indian prince, is about to board a train when a man bumps into him. Amarendra feels a prick; he then boards the train, worried about what it portends. Just over a week later, Amarendra is dead—of plague. India had not had a case of plague in a dozen years: Was Amarendra’s death natura…

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Bill Lascher, "A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War" (Blacksmith Books, 2024) 52:09

26d ago52:09

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Melville Jacoby was a U.S. war correspondent during the Sino-Japanese War and, later, the Second World War, writing about the Japanese advances from Chongqing, Hanoi, and Manila. He was also a relative of Bill Lascher, a journalist–specifically, the cousin of Bill’s grandmother. Bill has now collected Mel’s work in a book: A Danger Shared: A Journa…

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#363 Robert Forte's Surprising Takes On The Psychedelic Revolution(s) 1:41:49

1M ago1:41:49

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We have Robert Forte back on today. Robert is one of the most knowledgeable men I know on the psychedelic movement of the 60’s and has some hot takes on what we all think we know about the movement. He may surprise you with some of the things he says. As always come with an open mind and Fit For Service Trimester One was the best program I’ve perso…

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Eric Thompson, "The Story of Southeast Asia" (NUS Press, 2024) 1:08:52

1M ago1:08:52

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Does Southeast Asia “exist”? It’s a real question: Southeast Asia is a geographic region encompassing many different cultures, religions, political styles, historical experiences, and languages, economies. Can we think of this part of the world as one cohesive “place”? Eric Thompson, in his book The Story of Southeast Asia (NUS Press: 2024), sugges…

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#362 Erick Godsey on Actively Pursuing Your Dharma, Annihilation, Darkness Retreats 2:37:05

1M ago2:37:05

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Erick Godsey is back for the umteenth appearance. He is here to drop mic after mic on his recent work. He’s deep diving a concept called the “Dharma Artist Collective”. He goes down a rabbit hole around the movie “Annihilation”. He gives us some juice from his darkness retreats in the last year plus. It’s basically 2 hrs of Godsey being Godsey. Tak…

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#361 The Science of Miracles w/ Anna Yusim 1:01:24

2M ago1:01:24

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Dr. Anna Yusim is an internationally-recognized, award-winning, Board-Certified, Stanford- and Yale-educated Psychiatrist & Executive Coach with a Private Practice in New York City, Connecticut, California and Florida. With clients including Forbes 500 CEOs, Olympic athletes, A-list actors and actresses, and the Chairs of academic departments at to…

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Michelle T. King, "Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food" (Norton, 2024) 45:41

1M ago45:41

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In 1971, the New York Times called the Taiwanese-Chinese chef, Fu Pei-Mei, the “the Julia Child of Chinese cooking.” But, as Michelle T. King notes in her book Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food (Norton, 2024), the inverse–that Julia Child was the Fu Pei-Mei of French cuisine–might be more appropriate. Fu spent d…

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230 - Park Escape 56:24

2M ago56:24

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This episode we turn our eye back to the week of April 23, 1994. We talk over the merits of Blur's Parklife and then we discuss the faults of No Escape from director Martin Campbell. With guest, Greg Cejas. Parklife No Escape Links and Show Notes: Big Wheels Tim and Eric clip Britpop MadchesterBy My So Called Podcast

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#360 - My Brother In Farms, Eric Vaughn 2:33:23

2M ago2:33:23

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Eric Vaugh is a born and raised Texan, husband, father, and manager at our farm, Gardeners of Eden. He served in the GWOT as a helicopter mechanic and EOD specialist for the Navy being deployed to Afghanistan twice. He shares what I’m sure is an abridged version of his life story from growing up in TX to deployments, divorce, marrying his whole mat…

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Jin Feng, "The Transpacific Flow: Creative Writing Programs in China" (Association for Asian Studies, 2024) 39:42

2M ago39:42

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In 2009, Fudan University launched China’s first MFA program in creative writing, spurring a wave of such programs in Chinese universities. Many of these programs’ founding members point to the Iowa Writers Workshop and, specifically, its International Writers Program, which invited dozens of Mainland Chinese writers to take part between 1979 and 2…

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Clare Hammond, "On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey Through Occupied Myanmar" (Allen Lane, 2024) 30:59

2M ago30:59

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In 2016, journalist Clare Hammond embarked on a project to study the railways of Myanmar–a transportation network that sprawls the country, rarely used and not shown on many maps, and often used at the pleasure of the country’s military. In her book On the Shadow Tracks; A Journey Through Occupied Myanmar (Allen Lane: 2024), Clare travels the lengt…

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#359 Solocasting On My Latest Physically Fit Rabbit Holes 1:04:30

2M ago1:04:30

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Guess who’s back, back again. Kingsbu’s back, tell ALL your friends! Here’s a little open source solocast on where I’ve gotten my go-to regimens to remain Physically Fit. I’m talking mitochondrial health habits/supps, sunlight, leveraging blood flow restriction in my workouts and of course some sleep talk. Enjoy and share it yall! Trimester One wit…

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#358 The Fourth Face of Eros - Wholeness w/ Marc Gafni Part VI 54:46

2M ago54:46

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Today Marc gives us as deep a dive as anyone can on Wholeness, the fourth face of Eros. He shows us how Metatron is weaved into this lesson as well. This one is a super treat to absorb. Listen, re-listen, share it far and wide and let’s discuss! Fit For Service trimester one was absolute fire! The Physically fit cohort got totally dialed in and the…

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Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 52:36

2M ago52:36

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Running and securing an empire can get expensive–especially one known for its opulence, like the Mughal Empire, which conquered much of northern India before rapidly declining in the eighteenth century. But how did the Mughals get their money? Often, it was through wealthy merchants, like the Jhaveri family, who willingly—and then not-so-willingly–…

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Scott Crawford, "The Han-Xiongnu War, 133 BC-89 AD: The Struggle of China and a Steppe Empire Told Through Its Key Figures (Pen & Sword, 2023) 44:59

3M ago44:59

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For two centuries, the Xiongnu people–a vast nomadic empire that covered modern-day Siberia, Inner Mongolia, Gansu and Xinjiang—were one of the Han Dynasty’s fiercest rivals. They raided the wealthy and prosperous Chinese, and even forced the Han to treat them as equals—much to the chagrin of those in the imperial court. There’s not much known abou…

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Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023) 49:21

3M ago49:21

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In December 1948, a panel of 12 judges sentenced 23 Japanese officials for war crimes. Seven, including former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, were sentenced to death. The sentencing ended the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, an over-two-year-long trial over Imperial Japan’s atrocities in China and its decision to attack the U.S. But u…

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#357 The Second Face of Eros - Presence w/ Marc Gafni Part V 1:03:36

3M ago1:03:36

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We’re back at it today with the good Rabbi Marc Gafni. He explains the order of things vis-a-vis the different faces and their corresponding episodes. Today we’re in episode 3 of the series, and actually discussing the 2nd face of Eros, Presence. If you’re following along in A Return To Eros, chip in on the convo. You can ask questions and review o…

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229 - All This Useless Twister 1:22:04

3M ago1:22:04

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This episode we look back at May 1996. We discuss the album, All This Useless Beauty, from Elvis Costello & the Attractions. We also explore the movie, Twister, from director, Jan De Bont. All This Useless Beauty TwisterBy My So Called Podcast

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Peter Harmsen, "Bernhard Sindberg: The Schindler of Nanjing" (Casemate, 2024) 36:39

3M ago36:39

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In December 1937, Bernhard Sindberg arrives at a cement factory outside of Nanjing. He’s one of just two foreigners, and he gets there just weeks before the Japanese invade and commit the now infamous atrocities in the Chinese city. As the writer Peter Harmsen notes, Bernhard’s background isn’t particularly compelling: He’s bounced from job to job,…

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#356 Core Archetypes In The World w/ Greg Schmaus 1:09:27

3M ago1:09:27

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Hopefully most of y’all know Greg from our previous convos or you’ve worked with him. For any newcomers though… Greg Schmaus is the CEO of Healing 4D, a Holistic Health Practitioner, Shamanic Energy Healer, and Massage Therapist. He is the creator of “Healing The Mind,” a 21 day holistic mental health program. In today’s episode we get a little ref…

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#355 Homeschooling, Sports, and Rites of Passage w/ Hannah Frankman 2:03:03

4M ago2:03:03

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Hannah Frankman was kind enough to invite me on her podcast to talk parenting, schooling, rites of passage and transformational experiences. Then she went over the top and allowed me to use our audio there to release to yall. This is an excellent sample of the conversations Hannah has on, The Hannah Frankman Podcast. Go subscribe and 5-star her sho…

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Rajrishi Singhal, "Slip, Stitch and Stumble: The Untold Story of Financial Reforms in India" (Viking, 2024) 47:02

3M ago47:02

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India’s stock markets are booming. One calculation from Bloomberg puts India as the world’s fourth-largest equity market, overtaking Hong Kong, as domestic and foreign investors pile into the Indian stock exchange. But getting to the point where India’s stock markets—and its financial system more broadly—could work effectively took a long time. As …

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Jeremy Garlick, "Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption" (Bloomsbury, 2023) 43:54

3M ago43:54

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China’s rise to global prominence is a pretty good contender for the most important world development in the past 30 years. But now the question is how Beijing managed to be successful on the international stage–let alone how large that success is—with fierce debates between hawks and doves in the West and elsewhere. Jeremy Garlick tries to offer a…

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