The link to the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgBacPtZIYU About Nikki Giovanni: Nikki Giovanni is one of America’s foremost poets. Over the course of a long career, Giovanni has published numerous collections of poetry—from her first self-published volume Black Feeling Black Talk (1968) to New York Times best-seller Bicycles: Love Poems (2009)—several works of nonfiction and children’s literature, and multiple recordings, including the Emmy-award nominated The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection (2004). Her most recent publications include Make Me Rain: Poems and Prose (2020), Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid (2013) and, as editor, The 100 Best African American Poems (2010). A frequent lecturer and reader, Giovanni has taught at Rutgers University, Ohio State University, and Virginia Tech, where she is a University Distinguished Professor. Born Yolande Cornelia Giovanni. Jr, in Knoxville, Tennessee, Giovanni was the younger of two daughters in a close-knit family. She gained an intense appreciation for African American culture and heritage from her grandmother, explaining in an interview, “I come from a long line of storytellers.” This early exposure to the power of spoken language influenced Giovanni’s career as a poet, particularly her sophisticated use of vernacular speech. When Giovanni was a young child, she moved with her parents from Knoxville to a predominantly black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio but remained close to her grandmother. Giovanni was encouraged by several schoolteachers and enrolled early at Fisk University, a prestigious HBCU (historically Black college or university) in Nashville, Tennessee. A literary and cultural renaissance was emerging at Fisk, as writers and other artists of color collaborated in cultural projects that explored and delineated the possibilities of Black identity. In addition to serving as editor of the campus literary magazine and participating in the Fisk Writers Workshop, Giovanni worked to restore the Fisk chapter of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Giovanni graduated with a B.A. in history in 1968 and went on to attend graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University in New York Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwTHKfD7tTwT5FwDQU2r6TA/join — I Am Root Co. is a Lifestyle Brand that specializes in events and productions for Local, Underground, and Emerging creative arts. The I Am Root Collective is made up of 7 independent artists and a blog/media team whose mission is to inspire and be inspired. Please subscribe! Links: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/iamrootco​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamrootco​ Facebook: https://www.facbook.com/iargs11​ Website: https://www.iamrootco.com​ Email: iamrootco@live.com Donate: https://www.iamrootco.com/donate Donate: www.iamrootco.com/donate Please subscribe!

This clip is from Robert Anton Wilsons talk How to Tell your Friends From the Apes. Link to full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caT0lSxYnFU About Robert Anton Wilson: Robert Anton Wilson (January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) wrote 35 books and over 1,500 published articles. He coauthored, with Robert Shea, the underground classic The Illuminatus! Trilogy, which won the 1986 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award. His writings include Schrödinger’s Cat Trilogy, called “the most scientific of all science fiction novels,” by New Scientist, and nonfiction works of Futurist psychology and guerrilla ontology, such as The Cosmic Trigger Trilogy, Prometheus Rising, Quantum Psychology and The New Inquisition. Bob worked as an associate editor at Playboy magazine from 1966 to 1971. In 1975, with his wife Arlen, he founded the Institute for the Study of the Human Future. In 1976, he created the Starflight Network to help implement Timothy Leary’s SMI2LE philosophy (Space Migration, Intelligence Increase, and Life Extension), and promote The Eight Circuit Model of Consciousness (see Prometheus Rising). Bob regularly gave seminars at Esalen and other New Age centers, and lectures across North America and Europe. He made both a comedy record (Secrets of Power) and a punk rock record (The Chocolate Biscuit Conspiracy), and his play Wilhelm Reich in Hell was performed at the Edmund Burke Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. His novel Illuminatus! was adapted as a 10-hour science fiction rock epic and performed under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Great Britain’s National Theatre, where Bob appeared briefly on stage in a special cameo role. In 2006, as the unofficial write-in candidate for the Guns and Dope Party, Bob ran in the election for Governor of California. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwTHKfD7tTwT5FwDQU2r6TA/join — I Am Root Co. is a Lifestyle Brand that specializes in events and productions for Local, Underground, and Emerging creative arts. The I Am Root Collective is made up of 7 independent artists and a blog/media team whose mission is to inspire and be inspired. Please subscribe! Links: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/iamrootco​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamrootco​ Facebook: https://www.facbook.com/iargs11​ Website: https://www.iamrootco.com​ Email: iamrootco@live.com Donate: https://www.iamrootco.com/donate Donate: www.iamrootco.com/donate Please subscribe!

The link to the full conversation by David Bohm on thought: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjNAMOMN0P4 About David Bohm: David Bohm was an American-born British theoretical physicist who developed a causal, nonlocal interpretation of quantum mechanics. Born to an immigrant Jewish family, Bohm defied his father’s wishes that he pursue some practical occupation, such as joining the family’s furniture business, in order to study science. After receiving a bachelor’s degree (1939) from Pennsylvania State College, Bohm continued graduate research at the California Institute of Technology and then the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D., 1943), where he worked with physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. In 1947 Bohm became an assistant professor at Princeton University. In 1943 Bohm was denied security clearance to work at Los Alamos, N.M., on the atomic bomb. His research in Berkeley still proved marginally useful to the Manhattan Project and directed his attention to plasma physics. In postwar papers, Bohm laid the foundations of modern plasma theory. Bohm’s lectures at Princeton developed into an influential textbook, Quantum Theory (1951), that contained a clear presentation of Danish physicist Niels Bohr’s Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. While working on that book, Bohm came to believe that a causal (non-Copenhagen) interpretation was also possible, contrary to the view then almost universally held among physicists. Encouraged in this pursuit by conversations with Albert Einstein, he developed an interpretation on the assumption that there existed unobserved hidden variables. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwTHKfD7tTwT5FwDQU2r6TA/join — I Am Root Co. is a Lifestyle Brand that specializes in events and productions for Local, Underground, and Emerging creative arts. The I Am Root Collective is made up of 7 independent artists and a blog/media team whose mission is to inspire and be inspired. Please subscribe! Links: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/iamrootco​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamrootco​ Facebook: https://www.facbook.com/iargs11​ Website: https://www.iamrootco.com​ Email: iamrootco@live.com Donate: https://www.iamrootco.com/donate Donate: www.iamrootco.com/donate Please subscribe!

This clip is from the Bompton episode of Noisey link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGggHodlqLk&t=142s About Kendrick Lamar: Kendrick Lamar was raised in Compton, California, Lamar embarked on his musical career as a teenager under the stage name K-Dot, releasing a mixtape that garnered local attention and led to his signing with indie record label Top Dawg Entertainment. He began to gain recognition in 2010 after his first retail release, Overly Dedicated. The following year, he independently released his first studio album, Section.80, which included his debut single "HiiiPoWeR". By that time, he had amassed a large online following and collaborated with several prominent hip hop artists. Lamar's major label debut album, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, was released in 2012 to critical acclaim. It was later certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). His third album To Pimp a Butterfly (2015) incorporated elements of funk, soul, jazz, and spoken word. It became his first number one album on the Billboard 200, and was the most acclaimed album of the 2010s, according to statistics from Metacritic.[4] It was followed by Untitled Unmastered (2016), a collection of unreleased demos that originated during the recording sessions for To Pimp a Butterfly. He released his fourth album, Damn (2017) to further acclaim; its lead single "Humble" topped the US Billboard Hot 100, while the album became the first non-classical and non-jazz album to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music.[5] In 2018, he wrote and produced 14 songs for the soundtrack to the superhero film Black Panther, which also received critical acclaim. Lamar has received many accolades over the course of his career, including 13 Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, five Billboard Music Awards, a Brit Award, 11 MTV Video Music Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and an Academy Award nomination. In 2012, MTV named him the Hottest MC in the Game on their annual list.[6] Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2016.[7] In 2015, he received the California State Senate's Generational Icon Award. Three of his studio albums have been listed in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2020). Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwTHKfD7tTwT5FwDQU2r6TA/join — I Am Root Co. is a Lifestyle Brand that specializes in events and productions for Local, Underground, and Emerging creative arts. The I Am Root Collective is made up of 7 independent artists and a blog/media team whose mission is to inspire and be inspired. Please subscribe! Links: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/iamrootco​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamrootco​ Facebook: https://www.facbook.com/iargs11​ Website: https://www.iamrootco.com​ Email: iamrootco@live.com Donate: https://www.iamrootco.com/donate Donate: www.iamrootco.com/donate Please subscribe!

This clip is from the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbecKv2xR14 About Dr. Maya Angelou: Dr. Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.[3] Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim. She became a poet and writer after a string of odd jobs during her young adulthood. These included fry cook, sex worker, nightclub performer, Porgy and Bess cast member, Southern Christian Leadership Conference coordinator, and correspondent in Egypt and Ghana during the decolonization of Africa. She was also an actress, writer, director, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs. In 1982, she was named the first Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was active in the Civil Rights Movement and worked with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Beginning in the 1990s, she made approximately 80 appearances a year on the lecture circuit, something she continued into her eighties. In 1993, Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" (1993) at the first inauguration of Bill Clinton, making her the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwTHKfD7tTwT5FwDQU2r6TA/join — I Am Root Co. is a Lifestyle Brand that specializes in events and productions for Local, Underground, and Emerging creative arts. The I Am Root Collective is made up of 7 independent artists and a blog/media team whose mission is to inspire and be inspired. Please subscribe! Links: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/iamrootco​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamrootco​ Facebook: https://www.facbook.com/iargs11​ Website: https://www.iamrootco.com​ Email: iamrootco@live.com Donate: https://www.iamrootco.com/donate Donate: www.iamrootco.com/donate Please subscribe!

This clip comes from Awakening from the Meaning Crisis episode 2 by John Vervaeke. Clip to the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF9HeXg65AE About John Vervaeke: John Vervaeke is an Assistant Professor, in the teaching stream. He has been teaching at the University of Toronto since 1994. He currently teaches courses in the Cognitive Science program including Introduction to Cognitive Science, and the Cognitive Science of Consciousness; courses in the Psychology department on thinking and reasoning with an emphasis on insight problem solving, cognitive development with an emphasis on the dynamical nature of development, and higher cognitive processes with an emphasis on intelligence, rationality, mindfulness, and the Psychology of wisdom. He also teaches a course in the Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health program on Buddhism and Cognitive Science. He has won and been nominated for several teaching awards including the 2001 Students’ Administrative Council and Association of Part-time Undergraduate Students Teaching Award for the Humanities, and the 2012 Ranjini Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award. He has published articles on relevance realization, general intelligence, mindfulness, metaphor, and wisdom. His abiding passion is to address the meaning crisis that besets western culture. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwTHKfD7tTwT5FwDQU2r6TA/join — I Am Root Co. is a Lifestyle Brand that specializes in events and productions for Local, Underground, and Emerging creative arts. The I Am Root Collective is made up of 7 independent artists and a blog/media team whose mission is to inspire and be inspired. Please subscribe! Links: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/iamrootco​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamrootco​ Facebook: https://www.facbook.com/iargs11​ Website: https://www.iamrootco.com​ Email: iamrootco@live.com Donate: https://www.iamrootco.com/donate Donate: www.iamrootco.com/donate Please subscribe!