19 . Integrity With All Life - Edward West

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My guest this episode is entrepreneur, designer, engineer, educator, and executive Edward West.

This conversation is divided between two very different topics. First, a deep dive into a profound mystical experience Edward had as a young man, and then an exploration of how the insights from that experience have informed his work in creating culture and infrastructure.

We touch on

* Fatherhood

* The theme of Edwards work

* A vision in a windowless garage

* Ego vs Surrender

* Nisargadatta Maharaj and Ramana Maharshi

* Infrastructure for a new kind of community

* Living in Capital’s world

* The possibility of Utopic AI, and Dystopic alternatives

* And more!

References

Applied Alchemy

Tesseract Integrated Real Estate

Bio Regional Finance

Grant Morrison discussing his mystical experience

I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisagardatta Maharaj

Talks with Ramana Maharshi

Paraguayan Sorrow: Writings of Rafael Barrett, a Radical Voice in a Dispossessed Land (Afaict this doesn’t have the chickens piece in it unfortunately. But this is the guy)