In this episode we talk about Rituals and you can listen to this episode and others here https://open.spotify.com/show/28bX0LwbkDuWQMLxGjqzvL?si=8YFBJ8Q4SOGmG_H9V8Vtgg&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1 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!

Link to full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYV2RGI3RHQ About Toni Morrison: Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford;[2] February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987); she gained worldwide recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English.[4] In 1955, she earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University. In 1957 she returned to Howard University, was married, and had two children before divorcing in 1964. In the late 1960s, she became the first black female editor in fiction at Random House in New York City. In the 1970s and 1980s, she developed her own reputation as an author, and her perhaps most celebrated work, Beloved, was made into a 1998 film. Her works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the United States. In 1996, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected her for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. The very same year, she was honored with the National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. On May 29, 2012, President Barack Obama presented Morrison with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2016, she received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. In 2020, Morrison was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. 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!

Link to full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUcFqb-DxOA 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!

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vkt3D_tAs8 About Buckminster Fuller: R. Buckminster Fuller was a renowned 20th century inventor and visionary born in Milton, Massachusetts on July 12, 1895. Dedicating his life to making the world work for all of humanity, Fuller operated as a practical philosopher who demonstrated his ideas as inventions that he called “artifacts.” Fuller did not limit himself to one field but worked as a 'comprehensive anticipatory design scientist' to solve global problems surrounding housing, shelter, transportation, education, energy, ecological destruction, and poverty. Throughout the course of his life Fuller held 28 patents, authored 28 books, received 47 honorary degrees. And while his most well know artifact, the geodesic dome, has been produced over 300,000 times worldwide, Fuller's true impact on the world today can be found in his continued influence upon generations of designers, architects, scientists and artists working to create a more sustainable planet. 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!

Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C7Y8WEIsBU&list=WL&index=35 About Philp K. Dick: Philip K. Dick, in full Philip Kindred Dick, (born December 16, 1928, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died March 2, 1982, Santa Ana, California), American science-fiction writer whose novels and short stories often depict the psychological struggles of characters trapped in illusory environments. Dick worked briefly in radio before studying at the University of California, Berkeley, for one year. The publication of his first story, “Beyond Lies the Wub,” in 1952 launched his full-time writing career, which was marked by extraordinary productivity, as he oftentimes completed a new work, usually a short story or a novella, every two weeks for printing in pulp paperback collections. He published his first novel, Solar Lottery, in 1955. Early in Dick’s work the theme emerged that would remain his central preoccupation—that of a reality at variance with what it appeared or was intended to be. In such novels as Time out of Joint (1959), The Man in the High Castle (1962; Hugo Award winner; television series 2015–19), and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), the protagonists must determine their own orientation in an “alternate world.” Beginning with The Simulacra (1964) and culminating in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968; adapted for film as Blade Runner [1982]), the illusion centres on artificial creatures at large and grappling with what is authentic in a real world of the future. 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!

Link to full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNAKr1TQ0xc About Rick Roderick: Rick Roderick was born in Abilene, Texas on June 16, 1949, and received his bachelor’s degree at University of Texas, Austin, Texas. He did post-graduate work at Baylor University, and earned his Ph. D. at University of Texas, Austin, Texas. From 1977 to 1978, he was the editor of the Baylor Philosophy Journal, and from 1977 to 1979 he was a member of the Phi Sigma Tau National Honor Society of Philosophy. He was the recipient of the Oldright Fellowship at the University of Texas and served as associate editor to The Pawn Review, and Current Perspectives in Social Theory. He was the undergraduate director of the Duke Marxism and Society Program. He is the author of the book Habermas and the Foundation of Critical Theory (1986), as well as numerous articles in professional journals. He has presented over 24 papers, and published 13 reviews and literary criticisms. From 1977 to 1993, he taught Philosophy, first at Baylor, then University of Texas and then at Duke University. His areas of specialization were Marx and Marxism, Social and Political philosophy, Critical Theory (Habermas and the Frankfurt School), 19th Century Philosophy, and Contemporary Continental Philosophy. He also taught Ethics, Logic, History of Modern Philosophy, Aesthetics and Existentialism. He was a four-time nominee for the Alumni Undergraduate Distinguished Professor Teaching Award and has been recognized by the Smithsonian Institute as the best teacher in his field. His “The Philosophy of Human Values” lecture series has been the best selling videotape in the history of academia. He has been published in five countries. His “Habermas and the Foundations of Critical Theory” is an internationally recognized standard in the field. His work has been studied and reviewed worldwide–India, China, Denmark, Germany, etc. 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!