Alex Tsakiris |Talking the End of Materialism

Rune Soup

Gordon White

Magic, Occult, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Paranormal, Ufo, Spirituality

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2016

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week I speak to the one and only Alex Tsakiris from the powerhouse podcast, Skeptiko. The show has been regularly namechecked at Rune Soup for years so it was a real personal pleasure to get some of Alex's time.

Time that I may or may not have monopolised slightly thanks to about a hundred Skeptiko episodes of pent-up opinion I foolishly thought would fit in a single episode. This one really is more of a conversation then, and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out.

We talk through the limits of materialism (naturally), consciousness science, podcasting and having an authentic voice, money, the role of academia, UFOs and consciousness phenomena, the implications of after death communication and a whole lot more.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Roon Soup, a podcast about Magic, Culture and the Paranormal, coming to you from Sunny West London.
0:10.0	My name is Gordon and I shall be your host. Enjoy. Today on Roon Soup I have a very special treat for me. As a long time
0:27.4	listener of what is one of the best podcasts around Skeptico, I am very
0:31.2	pleased to be speaking to its creator and host Alex
0:33.7	securis. Alex how are you? I'm doing wonderful Gordon and thanks for such a nice
0:39.3	introduction. Well you have been I'm sure there's a German word for it like ear friend but Skeptico has been my sanity on on the commutes into Central London these these past few years so you have a
0:53.7	you have a quality show and I'm very pleased to be speaking to you. Oh that's
0:57.1	awesome that you said and it was nice kind of meeting you and I'm kind of really
1:00.4	excited to talk to you because I wasn't aware of Roon soup, you sent me the link, I started listening, and I'm like,
1:07.8	wow, this is a mix of ideas here, so we ought to have a good conversation.
1:12.0	I think so, I think funnily enough
1:14.5	before we get into the more classic questions I have kind of have this theory
1:19.8	I'm going to
1:23.0	Skeptico over the years.
1:25.0	It is interesting how so many people,
1:28.0	it doesn't matter what route they come down,
1:30.0	end up in a broadly similar space.
1:32.0	Your journey appears to have started and will get into it with
1:37.1	looking at consciousness science but from there it's kind of bled into
1:43.2	UFO experiences kind of experiences and it's blurred into some analysis of the deep state because
1:48.3	inevitably these if you're doing it right you start to realize these are all hands on the same
1:54.8	elephant? Absolutely and I think it's really cool and that's what I was
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