In Conspirituality’s feature interview, world-weary rock star Alex Ebert — frontman for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros — joins Derek to map out the late 20th-century slide into infinitely co-opted creativity and revolution. They discuss the reasons America could use death rituals, the rise of Trump as the ultimate New Ager, wellness influencers as “the clerical class of the right,” and to ask if critical thinking and open-eyed spirituality are the new punk rock—and for how long.
“A powerful and positive thought can overcome the fact altogether..” says Trump’s spiritual mentor Norman Vincent Peale.
In Conspirituality’s feature interview, world-weary rock star Alex Ebert — frontman for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros — joins Derek to map out the late 20th-century slide into infinitely co-opted creativity and revolution. They discuss the reasons America could use death rituals, the rise of Trump as the ultimate New Ager, wellness influencers as “the clerical class of the right,” and to ask if critical thinking and open-eyed spirituality are the new punk rock—and for how long.
In our feature interview, world-weary rock star Alex Ebert—frontman for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros—joins Derek to map out the late 20th-century slide into infinitely co-opted creativity and revolution. They discuss the reasons America could use death rituals, the rise of Trump as the ultimate New Ager, wellness influencers as “the clerical class of the right,” and to ask if critical thinking and open-eyed spirituality are the new punk rock—and for how long.
In our feature interview, world-weary rock star Alex Ebert — frontman for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros — joins Derek to map out the late 20th-century slide into infinitely co-opted creativity and revolution. They discuss the reasons America could use death rituals, the rise of Trump as the ultimate New Ager, wellness influencers as “the clerical class of the right,” and to ask if critical thinking and open-eyed spirituality are the new punk rock—and for how long.
On this conversation, we freely and creatively explore a wide array of concepts, from creativity, flow states, the void & its avoidance, social anxiety and much, much more.
On this conversation, we freely and creatively explore a wide array of concepts, from creativity, flow states, the void & its avoidance, social anxiety and much, much more.
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros frontman Alex Ebert will discuss the phenomena of cool in a Zoom call on May 21. The dialogue is being curated and hosted by the philosophical platform The Stoa (Peter Limberg).
“For the past 9 years I’ve been working on a book on Cool,” Ebert said. “What I’ve discovered may change your life and view of social status and anxiety in the same way it changed mine. I’ll be sharing it all for the first time on May 21st.”
The non-fiction book, “Kingdom Cool,” is “basically entirely about the sort of self-relegation mechanism of social anxiety that is called ‘cool,'” Ebert said last year on an episode of The Resistance podcast.
“Alex demystifies the ‘rules of cool’ and discusses how coolness weaponized our status and colonized dissent.”
-The Stoa
To register and join the call and the conversation, RSVP here. Ebert will take questions at the end of the call.
The Stoa describes itself as a “space where people come, not for a reason, as they are coming for something that is beyond a reason. It is a space that holds space for what wants to emerge when people encounter each other.”
During her 2016 interview Olivia Wilde talked Howard Stern through directing the No Love Like Yours music video for Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros using an iPhone.
What is the link between spirituality and eugenics? What is the dark side of spirituality?
This conversation brings together Alex Ebert, singer and songwriter for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and Jules Evans, philosopher and writer.
Source: Rebel Wisdom
My girlfriend and I planned a week long road trip and I suggested we shoot a music video along the way for fun. She suggested we do “Home” by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros which I also love. From then on, I knew I would use this video to propose to her and surprised her with the result on New Year’s Eve and hid a camera to capture the moment.
On this Christmas eve, while I gather whatever last minute gifts in stoned surrender to expectation and decency, magically turning objects into fomites of my adoration with simple tape and wrap, gritting my eggnogged teeth ‘gainst my own Oeconomicus, I would like to share with you all a thought: soon, the most luxurious gift will be – nothing.
Sam I, the artist formerly known as Sam Spiegel, catches up with singer/songwriter/composer Alex Ebert, ring leader of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Ima Robot. Alex Ebert appears on Sam I’s latest album, “Shit from the Internet Era,” along with Sia, Vic Mensa, Cee-Lo, Tropkillaz, Freddie Gibbs, and more.
