Gnostic Media - Jan Irvin

This episode is a presentation given by me, my first solo show, titled “Magic Mushrooms and the Psychedelic Revolution: Beginning a New History” – or “The Secret History of Magic Mushrooms” and is being released on Sunday, May 13, 2012.

Today is the 55^th anniversary since the publication of the May 13, 1957, Life magazine article, Seeking the Magic Mushroom, published by Gordon Wasson, which is what is largely considered to have launched the psychedelic revolution.

Today we’re going to toss out the last 55 years of academic history regarding the discovery of magic mushrooms, the beginnings of the field of ethnomycology, and this major event in launching the psychedelic revolution; and we’re going to start a new history – one based on truth and verifyable facts rather than legends and myths.

Six years in the making, this episode exposes one of the largest coverups in modern academic history – something that may one day be as large as the Piltdown Hoax. We’re going to reveal how the psychedelic revolution was launched by the CFR, CIA and the elite, and how R. Gordon Wasson, the so called discoverer of magic mushrooms, and the founder of the field of ethnomycology, was himself a government asset, a friend of Edward Bernays – the father of propaganda, and is one of the key figures for launching one of the largest mind control operations in history – information never before revealed until today. And it doesn’t stop there. I’m going to provide information that shows how R. Gordon Wasson may have been one of the key players in the organization of the JFK assassination.

The entire transcript of this show is posted for download on the page to this episode on the Gnostic Media website so that you can follow along. Also included in the transcript are 70 endnotes leading to the evidence presented herein.

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Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/SecretHistoryMagicMushrooms

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Experiential journalist Rak Razam talks with independent researcher, author and lecturer Jan Irvin from Gnostic Media about his forthcoming documentary on Gordon Wasson, influential New York banker and the godfather of the modern psychedelic movement. According to the historical record Wasson, an amateur mycologist, first ‘discovered’ ‘magic’ mushrooms via Maria Sabina in Oaxaca, Mexico in 1955, the account of which was published in the seminal LIFE magazine on May 13, 1957. Irvin, however has uncovered documentary evidence which points to the possibility of a secret history of the mushroom in the elite power structures of the West, and to the life and times of Gordon Wasson himself. What would it mean to history if the mushroom’s true story, at the foundations of world religions, came to light? Does Wasson’s entrenched position within the power elites of the banking and establishment world reflect an ongoing fixation with the mushroom and other mind altering sacraments within their own ranks, and in their approach to controlling the illumination of the masses? The sacred and the profane is all revealed in this in-depth, lively discussion that shakes the foundations of psychedelic history.

Link to original show:
http://in-a-perfect-world.podomatic.com/entry/2012-05-12T13_47_09-07_00

This episode is an interview with Gilad Atzmon, titled “Zionism and Jewish Identity Politics, Pt. 2” and is being released on Monday, April 16, 2012. My interview with Gilad was recorded on Thursday, April 12, 2012.

Gilad Atzmon was born in Israel in 1963 and had his musical training at the Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem (Composition and Jazz). As a multi-instrumentalist he plays Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone Saxes, Clarinet and Flutes. His album Exile was the BBC jazz album of the year in 2003. He has been described by John Lewis on the Guardian as the “hardest-gigging man in British jazz". His albums, of which he has recorded nine to date, often explore political themes and the music of the Middle East.
Until 1994 he was a producer-arranger for various Israeli Dance & Rock Projects, performing in Europe and the USA playing ethnic music as well as R&R and Jazz.
Coming to the UK in 1994, Atzmon recovered an interest in playing the music of the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe that had been in the back of his mind for years. In 2000 he founded the Orient House Ensemble in London and started re-defining his own roots in the light of his emerging political awareness. Since then the Orient House Ensemble has toured all over the world. The Ensemble includes Eddie Hick on Drums, Yaron Stavi on Bass and Frank Harrison on piano & electronics.
Also, being a prolific writer, Atzmon's essays are widely published. His novels 'Guide to the perplexed' and 'My One And Only Love' have been translated into 24 languages. Gilad's latest book, The Wandering Who? is a study of Jewish Identity political identity. It will be published in English in October 2011.
www.gilad.co.uk/

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/GiladAtzmon_pt2_143

Jan Irvin, host of the popular Gnostic Media podcast stops by to talk about the Trivium education. This podcast covers a general overview of what the Trivium is and how a knowledge of the Trivium can help you discern what is 'true' from what is fallacious.

The Trivium is an ancient method of critical thinking that has three components; grammar, logic, and rhetoric. These three components make up the only three of the seven Liberal Arts. The other four concepts are covered in the Quadrivium (but we did not cover that in this episode).

Jan explains how the sophisticated class (the elites, the sophists, the powerful) has employed the Trivium to use mind control over the lower classes of society. Due to the fact that the educated class has access to better critical thinking skills they employ techniques to manipulate the minds of the less educated. Think of advertisements, campaign slogans, and government propaganda.

With a knowledge of the Trivium (which can be self-taught and is easily accessible) anyone can quickly learn techniques to identify logical fallacies and propaganda.

Link to the original interview:
http://twobeerswithsteve.libsyn.com/episode-115-the-trivium-education-with-jan-irvin

This episode is an interview with Gilad Atzmon, titled “Zionism and Jewish Identity Politics, Pt. 1” and is being released on Monday, April 09, 2012. My interview with Gilad was recorded on Thursday and Friday, April 5 and 6, 2012.

Gilad Atzmon was born in Israel in 1963 and had his musical training at the Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem (Composition and Jazz). As a multi-instrumentalist he plays Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone Saxes, Clarinet and Flutes. His album Exile was the BBC jazz album of the year in 2003. He has been described by John Lewis on the Guardian as the “hardest-gigging man in British jazz". His albums, of which he has recorded nine to date, often explore political themes and the music of the Middle East.
Until 1994 he was a producer-arranger for various Israeli Dance & Rock Projects, performing in Europe and the USA playing ethnic music as well as R&R and Jazz.
Coming to the UK in 1994, Atzmon recovered an interest in playing the music of the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe that had been in the back of his mind for years. In 2000 he founded the Orient House Ensemble in London and started re-defining his own roots in the light of his emerging political awareness. Since then the Orient House Ensemble has toured all over the world. The Ensemble includes Eddie Hick on Drums, Yaron Stavi on Bass and Frank Harrison on piano & electronics.
Also, being a prolific writer, Atzmon's essays are widely published. His novels 'Guide to the perplexed' and 'My One And Only Love' have been translated into 24 languages. Gilad's latest book, The Wandering Who? is a study of Jewish Identity political identity. It was published in English in October 2011.

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
www.gnosticmedia.com/gilad-atzmon-interview-zionism-and-jewish-identity-politics-pt-1-142/

This episode is an interview with Joseph Atwill, titled “Caesar’s Messiah – The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus” and is being released on Friday, April 01, 2012. My interview with Joe was recorded on Wednesday, March 28, 2012.

Joseph Atwill spent his youth in Japan where he attended the only English-speaking school in the country, St. Mary's Military Academy. The school was run by Jesuits so removed from the events of the modern world that they did not even consider shutting it down during World War II, and taught a curriculum that had not changed since the eighteenth century. Joseph Atwill describes that, "The majority of every one of my school days was spent studying Greek, Latin and the Bible, which for some reason I found fascinating."

After studying computer science in college, Atwill began working with one of the most renowned programmers in the world, David Ferguson. David had been granted the first two patents ever issued in computer software. Over the next twenty years, between 1975 and 1995, David Ferguson and Joseph Atwill started a series of companies including Ferguson Tool Company and ASNA. "After selling my interests in our companies to investors in 1995, I returned to my earlier interest; the origins of Christianity," Atwill says of this time period.

Atwill continues, "Though I had drifted away from the Catholic faith, my study of Christianity never stopped. Over the course of my life I had read perhaps six or seven hundred books relating to the historical Jesus and early Christianity, but none of them left me feeling like I really knew anything about how the religion began or its founder." Atwill contends that the more he studied Christian origins the more he saw the question of how the religion began as an open one. Atwill held this position in spite of the fact that in the popular mind, and in the minds of most scholars, Christianity began as a movement of lower class followers of a radical Jewish teacher in the 1st century CE.

Says Atwill, "I did not share in this certainty." What contributed most to his skepticism was that at the exact time the followers of Jesus were purportedly organizing themselves into a religion that urged its members to “turn the other cheek” and to “give to Caesar what is Caesar’s”, another Judean sect was waging a religious war against the Romans and seeking a Messiah who would lead them militarily. Atwill continues, "It seemed implausible to me that two diametrically opposite forms of messianic Judaism would have emerged from Judea at the same time. So the Dead Sea Scrolls became of such interest to me that I began what turned into a decade-long study of them." Like others, Atwill was hoping to learn something of Christian origins in the 2,000 year old documents found at Qumran. To assist in his understanding of them, Atwill began studying the history of the era.

It was then that Joseph Atwill came across the key that led to his discoveries. "While reading Josephus' War of the Jews, and his account of Titus' destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE," Atwill recounts, "I noticed some curious parallels. At first I could make no sense of the parallels between Titus' campaign and Jesus' ministry. So I tried to look at the Gospels with fresh eyes, as if I had never seen them before, giving up any preconceived notions about what they meant." This perspective resulted in the discoveries Atwill presents in Caesar's Messiah and his soon-to-be-published book, The Single Strand. A Roman imperial family, the Flavians, had created Christianity, and, even more incredibly, they had placed a literary satire within the Gospels and War of the Jews to inform posterity of this fact.

Understanding the symbolic framework for the Gospels opened up the hidden history of Western Civilization to Joseph Atwill. That framework enabled him to recognize the typology that underlies authors such as Marlowe and Shakespeare and see the incredible story their typology tells us, and is the basis for The Single Strand.

Joseph Atwill concludes, "I am an avid chess player and proud to state that I have more than 100 victories over Grandmasters and International Masters. I hold an ICC Masters rating of 2358." It is this form of strategic thinking that enabled Atwill to uncover the strategy behind the Romans' invention of the Gospels.

Books by Joseph Atwill include Caesar’s Messiah, Ulysses Press 2006, the best selling work of religious history in the US in 2007, and its German translation Das Messias Ratsel, Ulstein 2008, achieving #1 Best Seller status. Atwill's upcoming book, The Single Strand is also slated to be published by Ulstein. The German Magazine Focus published a cover article of Atwill's work: Issue #52
December 25, 2008.

Link to this episode at Gnostic Media:
www.gnosticmedia.com/CaesarsMessiah

This episode is an interview with Stefan Molyneux, titled “Government, the Fallacy of ad verecundiam, part 4” and is being released on Friday, March 30, 2012. My interview with Stefan was recorded on Tuesday, March 27, 2012.

Stefan Molyneux, MA, received his undergraduate degree in History at McGill University in Montréal Canada, and completed his Masters Degree in History at the University of Toronto. He then worked for 15 years as a software entrepreneur and executive, cofounding an Environmental Management software company, where he served as Chief Technology Officer until selling the company in 2000. He then worked in a variety of technical and marketing executive positions. In 2005, Mr. Molyneux began publishing a variety of libertarian articles, and started Freedomain Radio, which he has since grown into the largest and most popular philosophy show in the world, available at http://www.freedomainradio.com. Freedomain Radio shows have been downloaded over 35 million times over the past few years. On the show, as well as producing original material, Mr. Molyneux has interviewed a wide variety of experts in a large number of fields, ranging from psychology to economics to politics to philosophy. He has appeared on a number of television and radio shows, as well spoken at a wide variety of libertarian conferences. A number of his free books are available at http://www.freedomainradio.com/free.

Mr. Molyneux was the closing keynote speaker at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum in 2009, following Ron Paul and John Stossel the previous two years. He was also the keynote speaker at the Libertopia Festival in 2010, and was the master of ceremonies and opening and closing speaker at Libertopia 2011. He gave speeches at the 2010 and 2011 Porcupine Freedom Festival in New Hampshire, and was the closing speaker for the Freedom Summit 2010 in Phoenix Arizona. He spoke at Liberty Fest 2 in New York in September, along with Tom Woods and Adam Kokesh.

www.freedomainradio.com

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/stefan-molyneux-interview-government-the-fallacy-of-ad-verecundiam-part-4-140/

March 26, 2012:

I have the following bad news:
It was brought to my attention today by Prof. John Hoopes of the University of Kansas at Lawrence that Prof. Neil Whitehead has died on March 23rd.
http://www.news.wisc.edu/20484

Because of this, and in his memory, I have removed Whitehead’s interview from the archives and placed it for free download.

Published on: Nov 23, 2008
In this show we take a journey to the dark side – the dark side of shamanism – in our interview with Prof. Neil Whitehead, who was the victim of a Kanaima, or dark shaman attack in Guyana.

This show focuses on countering the New Age presentations of “shamanism” in western culture, and seeks to create balance, as well as educate about the dangers of dark shamanism – and the ignorance thereof.

Neil Whitehead is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He graduated from Oxford University in 1984 with a Ph.D. in Anthropology.

His books include:

Hans Staden’s True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil ed. By Neil Whitehead and Michael Harbsmeier, June 2008. Order: http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/0822342316

Terror and Violence – Anthropological Approaches (ed with Andrew Strathern and Pamela Stewart, Pluto Press), 2005. Order: http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/0745323987

In Darkness and Secrecy. The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia. (ed. with Robin Wright) Duke University Press, 2004. Order: http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/0822333457

Dark Shamans. Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death. Duke University Press, 2002. Order: http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/0822329883

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/006-dark-shamans-an-interview-with-prof-neil-whitehead/

This episode is an interview with James Kelley titled “Alchemy, the trinity and The Great Work” and is being released on Sunday, March 11, 2012. My interview with James was recorded on Friday, March 09, 2012.

James L. Kelley's new book, Anatomyzing Divinity: Studies in Science, Esotericism and Political Theology (Walterville, OR: TrineDay, 2011), is an attempt to afford the reader rare insights into the history and meaning of Western esotericism. What is alchemy? Is it mere gold-making, as many university pundits are saying, or is alchemy something more, something very close to the pulse of Western civilization? These queries and many others besides are tackled in Kelley's latest offering.

Mr. Kelley was born in Allen, Oklahoma. He is currently conducting research on the history of Western esotericism at the University of Oklahoma's History of Science Collections. His previous publications include: "A Realism of Glory: Lectures on Christology in the Works of Protopresbyter John Romanides" (Rollinsford, N.H.: Orthodox Research Institute, 2009); and "Anthropos: New Studies" (forthcoming).

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
www.gnosticmedia.com/james-kelley-interview-alchemy-the-trinity-and-the-great-work-139/

This episode is an interview with Larken Rose, pt 4 titled “Government - The Fallacy of Ad Verecundiam, pt. 3” and is being released on Sunday, February 19, 2012. My interview with Larken was recorded on Friday, February 17, 2012.

Larken has been here thrice previous: last June, and the last two weeks and he’s back again as we complete our 3 part conversation on freedom and the appeal to authority fallacy, and ultimately, Freedom.

What does it mean to have a leader, or government? Does government protect our freedoms, or are they the very cause of our enslavement? And what does it mean to vote? Does voting give us freedoms that we otherwise might not have?

What if the idea of government was nothing but a religious myth, created by criminals and followed by billions of mindless zombie zealots the world over - just as any other dogma? What would happen if one day, just all of a sudden, everyone stopped believing in government?

Today we’ll be discussing what it means to believe in government. Is government real, or a figment of your collective, religious imagination? Does not voting mean that we’d be sitting around like a bunch of lazy couch potatoes doing nothing? Or, if we use critical thinking, is it really our first course of action to disempower the criminals whom we call politicians? Is voting the only way to effect change? Or is it in reality one of the least effective ways to effect change and gain freedom? And what does it mean to live in a democratic (or “mob-ruled”) society, anyway?

Today we question some of our most firmly held governmental religious myths as we continue this investigation on the myth of government, exposing government as the fallacy of “ad verecundiam”.

Larken Rose is a self-described “enemy of the state” and “tax heretic.” The author of several books–two of which were written during his one-year stay as a political prisoner in the U.S. prison system–Mr. Rose is an outspoken advocate of self-ownership and a voluntary society. For more information, see
http://www.larkenrose.com/

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
www.gnosticmedia.com/AdVerecundiam3

This episode is an interview with Larken Rose, pt. 3 titled “Government - The Fallacy of Ad Verecundiam, pt. 2” and is being released on Sunday, February 12, 2012. My interview with Larken was recorded on Friday, February 10, 2012.

Larken has been here twice before: last June, and last week and he’s back again as we delve deeper into this most important, and yet most misunderstood topic: Freedom.

What does it mean to have a leader, or government? Does government protect our freedoms, or are they the very cause of our enslavement? And what does it mean to vote? Does voting give us freedoms that we otherwise might not have?

What if the idea of government was nothing but a religious myth, created by criminals and followed by billions of mindless zombie zealots the world over - just as any other dogma? What would happen if one day, just all of a sudden, everyone stopped believing in government?

Today we’ll be discussing what it means to believe in government. Is government real, or a figment of your collective, religious imagination? Does not voting mean that we’d be sitting around like a bunch of lazy couch potatoes doing nothing? Or, if we use critical thinking, is it really our first course of action to dis-empower the criminals whom we call politicians? Is voting the only way to effect change? Or is it in reality one of the least effective ways to effect change and gain freedom? And what does it mean to live in a democratic (or “mob-ruled”) society, anyway?

Today we question some of our most firmly held governmental religious myths as we continue this investigation on the myth of government, exposing government as the fallacy of “ad verecundiam”.

It is time to grow up. The time is now to stop having mommy and daddy government tell us what we want, and what we can or can’t do, say, eat, or what drugs we can take. Today we begin acting as adults, making our own decisions – rejecting the fallacy of appeal to authority, or ad verecundiam.

Larken Rose is a self-described “enemy of the state” and “tax heretic.” The author of several books–two of which were written during his one-year stay as a political prisoner in the U.S. prison system–Mr. Rose is an outspoken advocate of self-ownership and a voluntary society. For more information, see
http://www.larkenrose.com/

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
www.gnosticmedia.com/AdVerecundiam_pt_2

This episode is an interview with Larken Rose, pt 2 titled “Government - The Fallacy of Ad Verecundiam, pt. 1” and is being released on Monday, February 6, 2012. My interview with Larken was recorded on Saturday, February 4, 2012.

Larken has been here once before: last June, and he’s back again as we delve deeper into this most important, and yet most misunderstood topic.

What does it mean to have a leader, or government? Does government protect our freedoms, or are they the very cause of our enslavement? And what does it mean to vote? Does voting give us freedoms that we otherwise might not have?

What if the idea of government was nothing but a religious myth, created by criminals and followed by billions of mindless zombie zealots the world over - just as any other dogma? What would happen if one day, just all of a sudden, everyone stopped believing in government?

Today we’ll be discussing what it means to believe in government. Is government real, or a figment of your collective, religious imagination? Does not voting mean that we’d be sitting around like a bunch of lazy couch potatoes doing nothing? Or, if we use critical thinking, is it really our first course of action to disempower the criminals whom we call politicians? Is voting the only way to effect change? Or is it in reality one of the least effective ways to effect change and gain freedom? And what does it mean to live in a democratic (or “mob-ruled”) society, anyway?

Today we question some of our most firmly held governmental religious myths as we continue this investigation on the myth of government, exposing government as the fallacy of “ad verecundiam”.

It is time to grow up. The time is now to stop having mommy and daddy government tell us what we want, and what we can or can’t do, say, eat, or what drugs we can take. Today we begin acting as adults, making our own decisions – rejecting the fallacy of appeal to authority, or ad verecundiam.

Larken Rose is a self-described “enemy of the state” and “tax heretic.”
The author of several books–two of which were written during his one-year stay as a political prisoner in the U.S. prison system–Mr. Rose is an outspoken advocate of self-ownership and a voluntary society. For more information, see http://www.larkenrose.com/

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/larken-rose-interview-pt-2-government-the-fallacy-of-ad-verecundiam-pt-1-136/

This episode is an interview with George Hunt titled “Say What Is UNCED – The Elite and the Environmental Movement” and is being released on Tuesday, January 31, 2012. My interview with George was recorded on Monday, January 30, 2012.

George Washington Hunt served as a naval officer on cruisers and destroyers, held corporate positions for eight years, and worked as an entrepreneur in the health industry. He taught small business management and accounting as an adjunct professor at a college level for five years and started a health corporation in 1991 which became very profitable. He then sold it and has been retired for three years as of 2009. He was also a dedicated conservationist and in turn lost a career business because he stood up for nature. Mr. Hunt is here to inform every one of the concept of The Big Bad Bank it is ready for implementation whenever the directors feel the right time occurs, probably after all the world’s currency systems fail and there is chaos everywhere. It is presently called the World Conservation Bank but may open in the name of the United Nations or as a private Rothschild Bank The bank will replace all banks. There will be one big bank. It will issue the world currency, make loans and finance huge conservation programs. Its power will be great. It could bring any nation to its knees just by adjustments to credit and currency.

http://www.thebigbadbank.com

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Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/george-hunt-interview-say-what-is-unced-the-elite-and-the-environmental-movement-135/

This episode is an interview with Clint Richardson; pt. 3 titled “CAFR School: Your School District and the Mob” and is being released on Sunday, January 15, 2012. My interview with Clint was recorded on Thursday, January 12, 2012.
Today Brett Veinotte re-joins us as co-host for this joint School Sucks Podcast and Gnostic Media co-interview.

Videos that go along with this episode are listed on the website and include:
CAFR School, School Districts and the Lottery (RIM of the World Unified School District Expose), CAFR School: Commingled funds video, as well as Larken Rose's Tiny Dot, and Agenda 21 videos.

Presidential candidate Clint Richardson is the protégé to Walter Burien at CAFR1.com and has been here twice before - last January to discuss his video The Corporation Nation, part 1, and also in October to discuss his documentary Lethal Injection The Story of Vaccination. Today he's with us to discuss his most recent film, a film that I personally requested as it focuses on the crimes right here in my own mountain community.

You can find out more about Clint at www.thecorporationnation.com, and at www.clint4p.com, as well as at his blog at http://realitybloger.wordpress.com/

CAFR SCHOOL: RIM of the World Unified School District Expose - shorter version

CAFR School: The California Lottery (video #2)

Agenda 21 - best presentation ever - must watch!!!

CAFR School: What is a Commingled Fund?

Larkin Rose - The Tiny Dot

My interview with Larken Rose: http://www.gnosticmedia.com/larken-rose-interview-dialectic-and-the-demise-of-government-115/

This episode is an interview with Gene Odening, pt. 4 titled “Beyond the Trivium” and is being released on Sunday, January 08, 2012. My interview with Gene was recorded on Saturday, January 07, 2012.

Happy New Year, everyone, we’ve made it to 2012, and Terence McKenna’s end of the world is soon upon us, or so we’re to believe.

But today I’ve got someone very special for you, someone who’ll help you see through all of the bullshit. Today, for our episode #133, the long awaited Gene Odening is back to teach us about what lies beyond the trivium. We’ll be discussing the difference between Plato and Aristotelian philosophy, as well as teaching the trivium to children.

This is the story of the 3 successive stages of the “Philosophic Life” which almost all of us live. Some of us live it consciously, others, not so much.
Gene’s story is one of good fortune. Early in adolescence he was given the tools to recognize and to pursue the Philosophic Life, which he undertook to do, not as a vocation but as a serious hobbyist. This is part of what the talk is about, defining those tools and following time-tested ways of applying them.
Gene lived through the first part, the Stage of Preparing For Life, in a fashion which the ancient Vedic Sages called: “Learning by grazing through the fields of the Brahma (the Creator God), in sobriety, and with a guru”. He even had his own guru! He graduated from this stage in a less than sober state. At age 18 . . . He ingested the Eucharist in fact, rather than only in effigy, and had his Crown Chakra opened.
When he was 20 years old, he began the second part, the Stage of Receiving From Life. This is when he began his vocational career and started his family life. Life was good. He and his wife traveled many parts of the English speaking world scouring the libraries in particular; she reading her beloved fiction; he in the reference and antiquarian sections. His quest was to find out what Money was. Money is a very elusive thing. As ghostly as it is, it takes up much of our life’s time and energy. By happenstance, in pursuit of its secrets, almost all other known topics come into view for a closer examination, including Philosophy, a treasure beyond measure.
As he reached the age of about 56, he had the realization that he was now in the final stage, the Stage of Giving Back To Life. This is when one should properly become the elder advisor, not ‘offering’ advise, but giving of it freely when asked. It is also the time of beginning one’s journey through mentality. This is the time of: “Examining a life which has been worth living”, as the Greek sage Socrates counceled.
http://www.triviumeducation.com

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/gene-odening-interview-pt-4-beyond-the-trivium-133/

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10. Shield of the Trinity (on Wikipedia)


11. Classical Trivium + 7 Liberal Arts (on Wikipedia)


12. George Orwell (on Wikipedia)


13. (Book) “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell (1984) (on Wikipedia)


14. Newspeak (on Wikipedia)


15. Walter Lippmann (on Wikipedia)


16. (Book) “Public Opinion” by Walter Lippmann (1922)


17. Aristotle’s Logic (on Wikipedia)


18. Aristotle (on Wikipedia)


19. Dialectic (on Wikipedia)


20. Five W’s (+ How) (on Wikipedia)


21. (Document) Abraham Lincoln’s Speech Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30, 1859


22. Mudsill Theory (on Wikipedia)


23. British Class Structure / Social Structure of the United Kingdom (on Wikipedia)


24. Vernon Louis Parrington (on Wikipedia)


25. (Book) “Main Currents in American Thought” (Vol. I-III) by Vernon Louis Parrington (1927)


26. Emancipation Reform in Russia (1861) (on Wikipedia)


27. British Empire Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (on Wikipedia)


28. Roundtable Discussion of minutes 1-15:


29. (Book) “Social Science for Teachers” (Riverside textbooks in education, edited by E. P. Cubberley ... Division on secondary education under the editorial direction of A. Inglis); "Education a process of adjustment."


30. Definition of Psittacism


31. Definition of Mettle


32. Hour 1, minutes 15 -30 (approx.)


33. Wage Slave (on Wikipedia)


34. (Video) Noam Chomsky on Wage Slavery (on YouTube)


35. Welfare (on Wikipedia)


36. Definition of Deadwood


37. Simon Legree (character in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe in1852) (on Wikipedia)


38. Harriet Beecher Stowe (on Wikipedia)


39. Count Leo Tolstoy (on Wikipedia)


40. Chautauqua Movement (on Wikipedia)


41. William Rainey Harper & Chautauqua Movement (on Wikipedia)


42. Lewis Lapham & Harper Magazine (on Wikipedia)


43. (Film) “The American Ruling Class” (2005)


44. (Video) “The American Ruling Class” trailer (onYouTube)


45. Carnegie + Homestead Strike (1892) (on Wikipedia)


46. PBS special Homestead Strike


47. John D. Rockefeller (on Wikipedia)


48. Rockefeller + Ludlow Massacre (1914) (on Wikipedia)


49. Horatio Alger (on Wikipedia)


50. Charles Loring Brace (on Wikipedia)


51. (Book) “The Dangerous Classes of New York: And Twenty Years’ Work Among Them” by Charles Loring Brace (1872):


52. Orphan Train (on Wikipedia)


53. Adoption (on Wikipedia)


54. Indentured Servant (on Wikipedia)


55. The Adoption History Project (University of Oregon Archive)


56. (Document) “Orphan Train Myths and Legal Reality” by Rebecca Trammell (pdf)


57. Minutes 15 -30 / roundtable discussion references:


58. Definition of Rhetoric (on Wikipedia)


59. Definition of Leverage


60. (Book) “The Human Use of Human Beings” by Norbert Wiener (1950)


61. (Book) “The Force of Fantasy: Restoring the American Dream” by Ernest Bormann (1985)


62. (Book) “Foundations: Their Power and Influence” by Rene Wormser (1958)


63. (Book) “The Babylonian Woe” by David Astle (1975)


64. Thomas Jefferson / Sally Hemings (PBS “Jefferson-Hemings Story&rdquo


65. (Book) “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time” by Carroll Quigley (1966) (PDF file)


66. W. Cleon Skousen (on Wikipedia)


67. (Book) “The Naked Capitalist” by W. Cleon Skousen (1970)


68. Hour 1, minutes 30 -45 (approx.):


69. (Document) “Frustration and Aggression” by John Dollard (Yale University Press, 1939)


70. Adam Robinson (on Wikipedia)


71. The Princeton Review (on Wikipedia)


72. (Book) “What Smart Students Know” by Adam Robinson (1993)


73. George W. Bush (on Wikipedia)


74. John Forbes Kerry (on Wikipedia)


75. Bush, Kerry, C-Average at Yale (The Chicago Tribune)


76. Bush, Kerry, Yale, Skull & Bones (CBS News)


77. (Book) “How The Order Controls Education” by Antony Sutton (1985)


78. (Book) “America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones” by Antony Sutton (1986)


79. Citibank of New York Corporate History


80. Citigroup (on Wikipedia)


81. Minutes 30-45 / roundtable discussion references:


82. (Document) “Frustration and Aggression” by John Dollard (Yale University Press, 1939)


83. (Document) “The Great American Bubble Machine” by Matt Taibbi (Rolling Stone)


84. (Book) “The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One” by William K. Black (2005)


85. (Book) “Power in the Highest Degree: Professionals and the Rise of a New Mandarin Order” by Charles Derber, William A. Schwartz, Yale R. Magrass (Oxford University Press, 1990)


86. (Book) “Politics and Progress: The Emergence of American Political Science” by Dennis Mahoney (2004)


87. Woodrow Wilson PhD (on Wikipedia)


88. (Book) “Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine” by Norbert Wiener (1948)


89. Thorstein Veblen (on Wikipedia)


90. Conspicuous Consumption (on Wikipedia)


91. Andrew J. Galambos (In “Sic Itur Ad Astra”, Galambos defines “Profit” as any increase in wealth or happiness which is achieved without violating the volition of another human being)


92. Sic Itur Ad Astra: The Theory of Volition (Volume I) by Andrew J. Galambos


93. Definition of Volition


94. (Video) Tim Russert /Bush /Kerry /Skull & Bones (on YouTube)


95. Yale Troika


96. (Video) Trader Alessio Rastani on BBC (Youtube)


97. Hour 1, minutes 45 –end:


98. Outcome-Based Education (on Wikipedia)


99. Prussian Education System (on Wikipedia)


100. Robber Barons (on Wikipedia)


101. Johann Fichte (on Wikipedia)


102. (Book) “Addresses to The German Nation” by Johann Fichte (1806); trans. R. F. Jones & G. H. Turnbull (University of Chicago Press, 1922)


103. The Battle of Jena (on Wikipedia)


104. Baruch Spinoza (on Wikipedia)
     (Book) “Tractatus Theologico-Politicus” (or) “Theologico-Political Treatise” by Baruch Spinoza (1670)
     John Calvin (on Wikipedia)


105. (Book) "Institutes of the Christian Religion" by John Calvin (1536)


106. “Justified Sinners”/ Calvinism (on Wikipedia)


107. “The Elect” / Calvinism / Predestination (on Wikipedia)


108. Final roundtable discussion (min 45 –end) references:


109. (Book) “War is a Racket” by Maj. General Smedley Butler (1933)


110. (Video) “20/20 Hindsight: Censorship on the Frontline” Divergent Films (2010 /YouTube)


111. Immanuel Kant (on Wikipedia)


112. (Book) “Vom Kriege” (or) “On War” by Carl von Clausewitz (1832)


113. Carl von Clausewitz (on Wikipedia)


114. Eugenics (on Wikipedia)


115. (Book) “War Against The Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race” by Edwin Black (2003)


116. (Video) Maafa 21: The History of Eugenics and Slavery (Youtube)


117. Johann Pestalozzi (on Wikipedia)


118. (Book) "Godwin's letter to Olgilve, Friend of Jefferson, and the Federalist
     Propaganda" by Burton R. Pollin (source of Jefferson receiving a Pestalozzi book)


119. (Book) "War and Education" by Porter Sargent (1943)


120. (Book) “Compromised Campus: The Collaboration of Universities with the Intelligence Community, 1945 – 1955” by Sigmund Diamond (1992)


121. (Book) “Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences During the Cold War” edited by Christopher Simpson (1999)


122. (Book) “The Impact of Science on Society” by Bertrand Russell (1952): (Fichte quote; page 51 -52)


123. (Book) “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives” by Zbigniew Brzezinski (1998)


124. (Video) Comedian Lee Camp “Evil People Have Plans” (on YouTube)

Stay tuned for Peace Revolution Episode 042: The Ultimate History Lesson with John Taylor Gatto / Hour 2 + Commentary

Peace Revolution partner podcasts:

Corbett Report dot com

Media Monarchy dot com

Gnostic Media Podcast

School Sucks Project Podcast

Remedy Radio Podcast

Meria dot net

The Unplugged Mom Podcast

Other productions by members of the T&H network:

Navigating Netflix (2011) our new video series wherein we conduct a critical analysis of films you might have missed; Navigating Netflix is available for free on YouTube.

"Memories of a Political Prisoner", an interview with Professor Chengiah Ragaven, graduate of Oxford, Cambridge, and Sussex; AFTER he was a political prisoner, who was exiled from South Africa, during Apartheid. (2011)

What You've Been Missing! (2011) is our video series focusing in on the history of corruption in our public education system.

Top Documentary Films dot com: Hijacking Humanity by Paul Verge (2006)

Top Documentary Films dot com: Exposing the Noble Lie (2010)

Top Documentary Films dot com: The Pharmacratic Inquisition by Jan Irvin (2007)

This episode is an interview with Scott Onstott, titled “The Quadrivium and Sacred Architecture” and is being released on Wednesday, July 13, 2011. My interview with Scott was recorded on July 13, 2011.

Scott Onstott went to college at UC Berkeley and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Architecture in 1992. He began his career doing manual drafting and soon transitioned to AutoCAD and gained experience in several prominent engineering, architecture and interiors firms in San Francisco. Scott worked as a Draftsman, CAD Designer, Job Captain, Animator, and Programmer before becoming an independent consultant. He’s taught over 45 semester courses at three Bay Area colleges and has written and edited dozens of technical computer books. Scott is also the maker of the video series “Secrets in Plain Sight”, an exploration of art, architecture, and urban design which unveils an unlikely intersection of geometry, politics, numerical philosophy, religious mysticism, new physics, music, astronomy, and world history.

http://www.secretsinplainsight.com

Watch Secrets in Plain Sight:

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/scott-onstott-interview-the-quadrivium-and-architecture-119/

This episode is an interview with John Taylor Gatto, pt. 3, titled “Public Education and The Hall of Mirrors” and is being released on Sunday, June 26, 2011. My interview with John was recorded on June 25, 2011.

Today John Taylor Gatto is back for this long awaited part 3 interview with me, and we’ll be discussing the true definition of liberal, the CFR, Prof. Carroll Quigley, Prof. Antony Sutton, Douglass Reed, Edward Bernays, Charlotte Iserbyt, The Great Books of the Western World, and the state of compulsory education.

As a prerequisite to this interview, you may wish to go back and hear my two previous interviews with Gatto, episodes #68 and 69 – which are packed full of information, as well as episodes #49 and 50 with Gene Odening on the trivium and quadrivium.

John Taylor Gatto – probably the most famous school teacher in the world, and he was New York State teacher of the year when he quit on the OP Ed page of the Wall Street Journal in 1991. John climaxed his teaching career as New York State Teacher of the Year after being named New York City Teacher of the Year on three occasions. He quit teaching on the OP ED page of the Wall Street Journal in 1991 while still New York State Teacher of the Year, claiming that he was no longer willing to hurt children. Later that year he was the subject of a show at Carnegie Hall called “An Evening With John Taylor Gatto,” which launched a career of public speaking in the area of school reform, which has taken Gatto over a million and a half miles in all fifty states and seven foreign countries. In 1992, he was named Secretary of Education in the Libertarian Party’s Shadow Cabinet, and he has been included in Who’s Who in America from 1996 on. In 1997, he was given the Alexis de Tocqueville Award for his contributions to the cause of liberty, and was named to the Board of Advisors of the National TV-Turnoff Week. Order Gatto’s books: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992): http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/0865714487 The Exhausted School (1993): http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/1893163423 A Different Kind of Teacher (2000): http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/1893163407 The Underground History Of American Education (2001): http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/0945700040 Weapons of Mass Instruction (2009): http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/0865716692

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/john-taylor-gatto-interview-pt-3-public-education-and-the-hall-of-mirrors-117/

I’m happy to announce the release of the latest Pop-Up Fallacies video. This one is Obama’s May 1, 2011, speech on The Death of Osama bin Laden, with an average LPM (Lies Per Minute) rating of 9.5! Have a laugh as Obama fires his fallacies like rubber bullets from a Tommy gun.

See the original at http://www.popupfallacies.com

Filmed in April 2011 at Tragedy & Hope.

This episode is an interview with Larken Rose titled “Dialectic and the Myth of Government” and is being released on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. My interview with Larken was recorded on May 30, 2011.

Larken Rose is a self-described “enemy of the state” and “tax heretic.”
The author of several books–two of which were written during his one-year stay as a political prisoner in the U.S. prison system–Mr. Rose is an outspoken advocate of self-ownership and a voluntary society. For more information, see http://www.larkenrose.com/

Please note that the audio podcast version includes an interview with Larken Rose, while the video does NOT.

Watch the Free Your Mind presentation:

This episode is an interview with David Harriman, part 2 “The Philosophic Corruption of Physics and the Logical Leap” and is being released on Sunday, May 8, 2011. My interview with David was recorded on May 01, 2011.

Today we continue our interview with David Harriman in this explosive two parter. Quantum theory, the big bang, String theory, what’s real and what’s based on Kantian delusions – or Kant-tradictions?

David Harriman earned his Master’s degree in physics from University of Maryland, and his Master’s in philosophy from Claremont Graduate University. He has worked as an applied physicist and he is editor of Journals of Ayn Rand. His book, The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics, presents Leonard Peikoff’s theory of induction as it applies to the physical sciences. Recently, he has co-founded Falling Apple Science Institute (with Tom VanDamme), a nonprofit that is developing a unique science curriculum based on the inductive method.

Falling Apple Science Institute
http://www.fallingapple.org
The Philosophic Corruption of Physics:
http://www.aynrandbookstore2.com/prodinfo.asp?number=CH54M

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/david-harriman-interview-pt-2-the-philosophic-corruption-of-physics-and-the-logical-leap-112/

This episode is an interview with David Harriman, part 1 “The Philosophic Corruption of Physics and The Logical Leap” and is being released on Monday, May 2, 2011. My interview with David was recorded on May 01, 2011.

David Harriman earned his Master’s degree in physics from University of Maryland, and his Master’s in philosophy from Claremont Graduate University. He has worked as an applied physicist and he is editor of Journals of Ayn Rand. His book, The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics, presents Leonard Peikoff’s theory of induction as it applies to the physical sciences. Recently, he has co-founded Falling Apple Science Institute (with Tom VanDamme), a nonprofit that is developing a unique science curriculum based on the inductive method.

Falling Apple Science Institute
http://www.fallingapple.org
The Philosophic Corruption of Physics:
http://www.aynrandbookstore2.com/prodinfo.asp?number=CH54M

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/david-harriman-interview-the-philosophic-corruption-of-physics-and-the-logical-leap-111/

This is my lecture on the foundations of mind control and freeing yourself through the trivium method of the classical 7 Liberal Arts.

For more information on the trivium method, please see www.triviumeducation.com.

For other interviews, lectures and videos from Jan Irvin, please see www.gnosticmedia.com

For more from Tragedy & Hope, visit: www.tragedyandhope.com

The Free Your Mind Conference website is found at www.freeyourmindconference.com

Link to the original thread at Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/the-trivium-how-to-free-your-mind-jan-irvin-at-the-free-your-mind-conference-04-10-11/

This episode is an interview with Dr. Jason Martineau “The Spiritual Dimensions of Music” and is being released on Monday, March 28, 2011. My interview with Jason was recorded on March 24, 2011.

Jason Martineau is an award-winning composer, pianist, arranger, and instructor, and has been active in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1995. He is a graduate of the University of South Florida, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Manhattan School of Music, and has composed numerous works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo piano, and chorus, as well as a full-length musical, multiple film scores, and over 200 songs, both instrumental and vocal. Dr. Martineau has recorded more than ten CDs in various genres, and has also been featured on numerous other artists’ recordings, as pianist, music director, and producer. He provides scores, arrangements, original compositions, soundtracks, sound design, accompaniment, private instruction, and musical direction for a diverse and eclectic client base.

Dr. Martineau works in multiple capacities with many different idioms and styles, from world fusion and jazz, to avant-garde, industrial, rock, pop, and classical. Recently he orchestrated string arrangements by Vanessa Carlton for her latest album “Heroes and Thieves”. He has also authored a book on music theory released October 2008 entitled “The Elements of Music,” published by Wooden Books and Walker Books/Bloomsbury, distributed both nationally and internationally. His film scores have been featured in documentaries broadcast on PBS stations around the US since 1998. He also provides music cues and backgrounds for a large variety of multimedia projects. He has been playing the piano for 36 years, performing since 1989 at numerous venues in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and more recently, the 10th International Festival of Dance and Music in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2011 he joined the faculty at the Academy of Art University, teaching music notation and theory.

www.jasonmartineau.com
www.martineauarts.com
www.dodecahedron.us

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/dr-jason-martineau-interview-the-spiritual-dimensions-of-music-109/

This episode is an interview with Dr. Scott Olsen titled “The Golden Ratio” and is being released on Monday, March 21, 2011. My interview with Scott was recorded on March 19, 2011.

SCOTT A. OLSEN, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy & Religion at the College of Central Florida, Scott first received international acclaim by successfully decoding the geometric mysteries of Plato. His book, The Golden Section: Nature’s Greatest Secret received rave reviews, and in 2007 was awarded a 1st place for design by the Bookbinders’ Guild of New York. A life-long student of the Ancient Wisdom, he has studied under physicist David Bohm, world religion expert Huston Smith, sacred geometers Keith Critchlow & John Michell, and esotericist Douglas Baker. A member of the Theosophical Society in America, Scott lectures widely on the Perennial Philosophy (in both its ancient and modern forms) with special emphasis on the Divine Proportion and transformative states of consciousness. In 2009 he assisted Alexey Stakhov with his highly acclaimed book, The Mathematics of Harmony: From Euclid to Contemporary Mathematics and Computer Science. Today he is working on his new book, Divine Proportion: the Mathematical Perfection of the Universe, due out in the Spring of 2012. Scott will be giving a lecture and workshops in New York in May on Nature’s Divine Proportion and the Canon of the Human Body. Then in June he will travel to the Bibiotheca Alexandrina, Egypt where he will present a workshop on The Philosopher Mathematicians of Alexandria: Euclid and Hypatia for the New York Open Center’s “Esoteric Quest for Ancient Alexandria: Greco-Egyptian Birthplace of the Western Mind.” Applying his knowledge of proportional symmetry in physique competition, Scott won 1st place as Mr. Minneapolis, Mr. Twin Cities, Mr. Gainesville, Mr. Northeast Florida, and the prestigious New York open title, Mr. Apollo. A member of the Florida Bar, he resides in Ocala, Florida.

Education: 1983: Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Florida;
Dissertation: The Pythagorean Plato and the Golden Section:
a Study in Abductive Inference
1982: JD, University of Florida
1977: MA, Philosophy, University of London, Birkbeck College;
(philosophy of science thesis: The Collapse of Continuous Space-Time)
1975: BA cum laude, Philosophy & Sociology, University of Minnesota;
Senior Honors Thesis: Platonic Aesthetics

NY Open Center Esoteric Quest for Ancient Alexandria that I mention in my bio: http://www.esotericquest.org/egypt/

And here is the site for my upcoming sacred geometry workshop in New York:
http://www.fengshuiseminars.com/workshops/2011-natures-divine-proportion.html

http://www.springerlink.com/content/y25x8710708507j7/fulltext.pdf

Theosophical Society in America lecture on The Golden Section and the Roots of Theosophy (March 10, 2011): http://www.theosophical.org/online-resources/video/recent-webcasts

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/dr-scott-olsen-interview-the-golden-ratio-108/

This episode is an interview with John Martineau titled “Quadrivium – Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology” and is being released on Monday, February 07, 2011. My interview with John was recorded on February 07, 2011.

Today we’ll be revisiting the Quadrivium, but this time with John Moniteau from Wooden Books, publisher of, amongst many books, the Quadrivium.

Architectural consultant and publisher, John has published more than 50 books on all subjects related to the modern sciences and ancient arts.

In this interview we’ll talk with John about how he got started, the ideas behind his work and future publications of Wooden Books.

http://www.woodenbooks.com/
Browse books: http://www.woodenbooks.com/browse/index.php

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/john-martineau-interview-quadrivium-number-geometry-music-cosmology-103/

This show is being released on Friday, March 15, 2010. Part 2 of my interview with John Taylor Gatto was recorded on February 24, 2010. Today we continue learning the significance behind Pink Floyd’s song Another Brick in the Wall, part 2, and how utterly fubar our public education system is in our second interview with John Taylor Gatto. We continue with some important questions: Is there a relationship between eugenics, mind control and compulsory education? Is compulsory education good for anyone and what are the negative effects of our “modern” education system? Where did our education system originate, and by whom? What’s happened to our educational system since the 1800s? Has there been an intentional effort by the elites and government to dumb us down? What do compulsory education and Pavlov’s dogs have in common? Are children better off working, or being in school? Order Gatto’s books: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992): http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/0865714487 The Exhausted School (1993): http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/1893163423 A Different Kind of Teacher (2000): http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/1893163407 The Underground History Of American Education (2001): http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/0945700040 Weapons of Mass Instruction (2009): http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/0865716692

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/john-taylor-gatto-interview-another-brick-in-the-wall-part-2-069/

This show is being released on Friday, March 05, 2010. My interview with John Taylor Gatto was recorded on February 23, 2010. I simply could not wait to share this interview with all of you, it’s just too important, and I just have to share, so I’m releasing it 3 days early. So it’s like Christmas in spring, but without the mushrooms. Today we’re going to learn the significance behind Pink Floyd’s song Another Brick in the Wall part 2. We ask some important questions: Is there a relationship between eugenics, mind control and compulsory education? Is compulsory education good for anyone and what are the negative effects of our “modern” education system? Where did our education system originate, and by whom? What’s happened to our educational system since the 1800s? Has there been an intentional effort by the elites and government to dumb us down? What do compulsory education and Pavlov’s dogs have in common? Are children better off working, or being in school? To answer these questions, we first have to reach the foundation of our education system. Continuing our education on the Trivium method, this is one of the most important and powerful interviews to date, and my guest for this week and next is John Taylor Gatto – probably the most famous school teacher in the world, and he was New York State teacher of the year when he quit on the OP Ed page of the Wall Street Journal in 1991. John Taylor Gatto climaxed his teaching career as New York State Teacher of the Year after being named New York City Teacher of the Year on three occasions. He quit teaching on the OP ED page of the Wall Street Journal in 1991 while still New York State Teacher of the Year, claiming that he was no longer willing to hurt children. Later that year he was the subject of a show at Carnegie Hall called “An Evening With John Taylor Gatto,” which launched a career of public speaking in the area of school reform, which has taken Gatto over a million and a half miles in all fifty states and seven foreign countries. In 1992, he was named Secretary of Education in the Libertarian Party’s Shadow Cabinet, and he has been included in Who’s Who in America from 1996 on. In 1997, he was given the Alexis de Tocqueville Award for his contributions to the cause of liberty, and was named to the Board of Advisors of the National TV-Turnoff Week. Order Gatto’s books: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992): http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/0865714487 The Exhausted School (1993): http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/1893163423 A Different Kind of Teacher (2000): http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/1893163407 The Underground History Of American Education (2001): http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/0945700040 Weapons of Mass Instruction (2009): http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/0865716692

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/john-taylor-gatto-interview-another-brick-in-the-wall-part-1-068/

This show is being released on Monday, January 31, 2010. My interview with Michael Labossiere was recorded on January 29, 2010. Today we continue our series with Dr. Michael Labossiere on general grammar and the subject and the predicate.

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/dr-michael-labossiere-interview-general-grammar-subject-and-predicate-part-2-063/

What would happen if everyone in society received an immunization against all of today’s media and political propaganda? Is there a simple, logical process to arm ourselves against such attempts at mind manipulation and control? What if you had the ability to quickly and easily break down words and sentences to identify lies and untruths and propaganda? What do grammar and rhetoric have to do with logic and critical thinking, or, for that matter, marketing, PR and propaganda spin, and more importantly, exactly how can they help you? If someone presents evidence of a claim, do you have a mental duty to study it before you attack it? How can we make our minds sharper? Is it possible to level the playing field against corporate and government propaganda by creating a critical thinking meme? Today we launch the critical thinking meme into society and I ask for your help to spread it, to share today’s talk with all you know: friends, co-workers, family, business associates and school mates. If you want to help make an immediate change in your own and other people’s lives for the better, today’s show is one of the primary ways to do it. We’re going to continue our study of the trivium with Dr. Michael Labossiere who is here to discuss logical fallacies. Micheal will be back in the next week or two to also discuss the subject and predicate. This show is being released on Monday, January 25, 2010. My interview with Michael Labossiere was recorded on January 09, 2010. Michael LaBossiere is a guy from Maine who went to school in Ohio and ended up in Florida. Professionally he is a philosophy professor at Florida A&M University. He started teaching there in the Fall of 1993 and greatly enjoy his choice of careers. He teaches a wide variety of classes that range from Aesthetics (theories of art and beauty) to Theory of Knowledge. His first philosophy book, What Don’t You Know? hit the shelves in the spring of 2008. He also blogs for The Philosophers’ Magazine and has numerous academic publications. In addition to his love of wisdom, he has a great love of running. Michael started running at the age of fifteen. He tried out for the basketball team, but sucked badly. The coach told him that the track team had to take anyone and suggested that he become a runner. It turned out to be a great choice. He ran in high school and then ran in college. He kept running in grad school and still runs today, mostly to combat the effects of pie consumption. He is a member of the Gulf Winds Track Club, the local running club in Tallahassee. Michael also enjoys the martial arts, specifically tae kwon do. He started training in grad school at Ohio State and still practices today. He enjoys the physical and mental training. Plus, hitting a punching bag is a great way to burn off stress. It also makes it possible to survive committee meetings. He started gaming (Dungeons & Dragons) when he was 15 and fell in love with the idea of creating worlds and stories and ended up writing professionally for several game companies. Yes, gaming is for nerds- he freely accept his nerdtastic ways. He also enjoys computer and console gaming. Despite playing far too much World of Warcraft, he claims he is not obsessed with games and alleges that reality is still much better than virtual reality. He is very fond of animals and has two cats (Ash & Zax) and a hyper husky (Isis). Here are the links My philosophy blog: http://aphilosopher.wordpress.com/ The Philosophers’ Magazine Blog: http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/ My website: www.opifexphoenix.com Gulf Winds Track Club: www.gulfwinds.org/

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/dr-michael-labossiere-interview-logical-fallacies-the-critical-thinking-meme-part-1-062/

Video version:

REFERENCES:

Gorgias by Plato 386 B.C.E.

The Republic by Plato 380 B.C.E.

Phaedrus by Plato 370 B.C.E.

The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle 322 B.C.E.

The Metalogicon: A 12^th Century Defense of the Trivium by John of Salisbury 1159 C.E.

Utopia by Sir Thomas More 1516

The Last Will and Testament of Cecil J. Rhodes by William T. Stead 1902

Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann 1921

Propaganda by Edward Bernays 1928

The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric by Sister Miriam Joseph 1937

The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers, Oxford 1947

Great Books of the Western World edited by Dr. Robert M. Hutchins 1952

The Reece Committee Report by Norman A. Dodd and Carroll Reece 1954

Tragedy and Hope, a History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley 1966

The Hidden Agenda: How the Foundations controlling Education are also creating a World Government - An Interview with Norman Dodd (Transcript and Video) by G. Edward Griffin 1981

The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, Political, and Economic Decline of the United States of America by Dr. John Coleman 1991

Dumbing us Down by John Taylor Gatto 1992

Outcome-Based Education by Ron Sunseri 1994

The Underground History of Education by John Taylor Gatto 2001

(you can also read The Underground History of Education on his site)

The Trivium Study Guide by Gene Odening 2009

Gnostic Media Podcasts 49, 50, and several recent podcasts 2009/2010

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/peace-revolution-002-the-million-dollar-education/

Peace Revolution the official Podcast of Tragedy and Hope: episode 001: The Great Conversation

Featuring: Jan Irvin of GnosticMedia.com, Paul Verge of DivergentFilms.com, and Richard Grove and Lisa Arbercheski of TragedyandHope.com

The Peace Revolution Podcast is a Public Service of Tragedy and Hope Magazine (http://www.TragedyandHope.com )

http://peacerevolution.podomatic.com/

Link on the Gnostic Media website:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/peace-revolution-001-the-great-conversation/

Our first interactive podcast.

In tonight’s show we continue our discussion on the Trivium and Quadrivium and go for a full-blown as we complete this series with the Qabalah and the mystery schools with Gene Odening. Here we continue to learn about learning, logic, critical thinking, Hegelian dialectics, Plato, the Trivium, the Quadrivium, the 7 liberal arts, and freeing your mind from the box that’s been built around it.

This is an interactive interview. For those following along with the audio version, you’ll need this website: http://www.ifdawn.com/

This episode will free your mind. But before you continue listening, please be sure that you’ve heard the prerequisite episodes: #49 and #50.

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/051-the-kabbalah-and-the-mystery-schools-an-interview-with-gene-odening-part-3/

In tonight’s show we continue our discussion on the Trivium and discuss the Quadrivium with Gene Odening. Here we continue to learn about learning, logic, critical thinking, Hegelian dialectics, Plato, the Trivium, the Quadrivium, the 7 liberal arts, and many other facets of human cognizance.

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/050-the-quadrivium-an-interview-with-gene-odening-part-2/

Gnostic Media’s 1 Year anniversary show!

Tonight’s show is an important one. Without it, it’s hard to build on the information presented in the other shows. Here we begin to learn about learning, logic, critical thinking, Hegelian dialectics, Plato, the Trivium, the Quadrivium, the 7 liberal arts, and many other facets of human cognizance.

My guest is Gene Odening.
This is the story of the 3 successive stages of the “Philosophic Life” which almost all of us live. Some of us live it consciously, others, not so much.
Gene’s story is one of good fortune. Early in adolescence he was given the tools to recognize and to pursue the Philosophic Life, which he undertook to do, not as a vocation but as a serious hobbyist. This is part of what the talk is about, defining those tools and following time-tested ways of applying them.
Gene lived through the first part, the Stage of Preparing For Life, in a fashion which the ancient Vedic Sages called: “Learning by grazing through the fields of the Brahma (the Creator God), in sobriety, and with a guru”. He even had his own guru! He graduated from this stage in a less than sober state. At age 18 . . . He ingested the Eucharist in fact, rather than only in effigy, and had his Crown Chakra opened. That is, he had his mind blown on large doses of LSD.
When he was 20 years old, he began the second part, the Stage of Receiving From Life. This is when he began his vocational career and started his family life. Life was good. He and his wife traveled many parts of the English speaking world scouring the libraries in particular; she reading her beloved fiction; he in the reference and antiquarian sections. His quest was to find out what Money was. Money is a very elusive thing. As ghostly as it is, it takes up much of our life’s time and energy. By happenstance, in pursuit of its secrets, almost all other known topics come into view for a closer examination, including Philosophy, a treasure beyond measure.
As he reached the age of about 56, he had the realization that he was now in the final stage, the Stage of Giving Back To Life. This is when one should properly become the elder advisor, not ‘offering’ advise, but giving of it freely when asked. It is also the time of beginning one’s journey through mentality. This is the time of: “Examining a life which has been worth living”, as the Greek sage Socrates counceled.

Link to this episode on Gnostic Media:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/049-the-t-r-i-v-i-u-m-an-interview-with-gene-odening-part-1/