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The Portal Podcast #027: Daniel Schmachtenberger – On Avoiding Apocalypses

In this second episode of the Portal to be released during shelter-in-place restrictions during the Corona Virus Pandemic, we release an older discussion with Daniel Shmachtenberger on whether there is any plausible long term scenario for human flourishing confined to a single shared planet.  Daniel is seen as a leader of the growing Game B subculture of the […]

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The Portal Podcast #023: Prof. Agnes Callard – Courage, Meta-cognitive Detachment and Their Limits

Philosopher and University of Chicago Professor Agnes Callard sits down with Eric on this episode of the portal. Agnes is a champion of the philosophical tradition of attempting to detach the capacity for inquiry and reason from the fog of feelings and societal taboos that often keep us from delving deeper into the questions that animate […]

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The Portal Podcast #022: Ben Greenfield – Wheat From Chaff in Human Fitness

Eric sits down with leading fitness geek, guru, thinker and human guinea-pig Ben Greenfield to learn how one of the world’s most highly regarded trainers and fitness experts cuts through the nightmare that is our medical literature.  The academic and medical literature in health and medicine is a disaster. Studies are performed and reported in […]