The Shepheard-Walwyn Podcast

Philip Allan (Part 2) - The New School of Economics

Welcome to the second part of our interview with Phil Allan to celebrate the second edition of The New School of Economics.
 
0-0-2      Introduction to Phil Allan.  
2             Why do we have so much unfairness in the system? 
6-            Why is unfairness not inevitable? 
10           The original Physiocrats were 18th century economists. What were their key ideas? 
14           Who are the New Physiocrats? What are their links to Henry George? 
19.30      How do your views differ from the prevailing neoclassical view of economics? 
21           What makes a prosperous economy?  
26           How can you move from rent seeking economics to ways to promote production?  
28           How government monopolies spread even to marriage! 
31.30       Lessons from Thailand and other countries.  
37.30       How do we implement your ideas to transform economic systems?
43            Closing thoughts for the listeners.  
 
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Philip Allan (Meet The Author) - The New School of Economics

Welcome to the Shepheard-Walwyn Podcast. Today we are speaking with Phil Allen author of the revised edition of critically acclaimed, The New School of Economics.   Here’s a summary of what we talk about.  
 
0-2         Intro and Welcome 
2             What personal and or professional experience led to your writing this book? 
6             How did your experience of the 2008-9 crash affect your research focus? 
10           Where can following your own interest lead you? 
12           What have you been working on since the first edition of the book?  
16           How has living and working in different countries shaped your perspective? 
18           What do you hope readers will get from the book? 
19:30     Do you feel more inspired or more challenged today compared to the first launch? 
21:30     What’s your focus today? 
 
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Akhil Patel (Meet The Author) - The Secret Wealth Advantage

My guest today is Akhil Patel, author of a fantastic new book The Secret Wealth Advantage- How you can profit from the economy’s hidden cycle. Now regular listeners and friends of Shepheard-Walwyn will recognise Akhil as the director of Property Share Market Economics along with Phil Anderson. Here they teach subscribers how to remember the future and to profit from the real economic order. Akhil has professional experience both in the UK civil service and in international development and business. And he's worked on a range of issues from reviewing large infrastructure deals to helping establish a UK International Climate Fund. Akhil has two master's degrees both in finance and public policy, and also a first-class honours degree in classics from Oxford.   
In this interview, we talk about how the book came about, his inspirations from the Shepheard-Walwyn authors and also what readers can take from the book to improve their investing success. Here are the time stamps.  
Welcome and introduction.  
1.45      What prompted you to write the book?  
5.30      How did you get interested in alternative views of economics? 
8.40      What’s your take on the cycle? 
11.00   What are the chances that economies like UK and Australia don’t have a boom the way Japan did in the last cycle? 
17.00   Who is the book aimed at? 
1930    How can our readers make the most of the next few years and prepare effectively for the crash? 
23.00   How can you stay safe in crazy times? 
26.00   What are you working on now? 
27.50   Where can our readers learn more? 
 
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Marika Henriques (Meet The Author) - The Hidden Girl

In today’s podcast we speak with Marika Henriques, therapist and author of The Hidden Girl – the Journey of a Soul. An amazing combination of art and prose with some poetry, Marika tells her amazing journey of recovery from having to hide from the Nazis as a child in Hungary during the occupation, to being forced to leave her home in 1956 with the Communist takeover where she had to make her way overland to England which has been her home ever since.
Once settled, she trained to be a Jungian therapist. The Hidden Girl tells the story of her remarkable journey of recovery. It’s both a beautiful and insightful book and this was a particularly heart-warming conversation. Here’s what we covered:
 
                0.0                 Welcome and introduction.
2.00        What prompted you to write the book and how long did it take?
9.00        What drew you to become a healer?
11.30     What makes this different from other books about the Holocaust?
13.00     How a false cancer diagnosis led her to start her recovery journey through art.
19.30     Healing happens through creativity. Connecting with your spiritual self.
22.30     How the books create space for us to make our own way home.
24.30.    Even if there’s no cure, there can be healing.
29.00     How Marika finds ways to be grateful for her journey and how she can now help others through her book.
32.00     Wrap up and close. 
35.00     Summary of the Marika’s insights. 
 
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Edi Bilimoria - Unfolding Consciousness Part 6

Welcome to the final instalment of our dialogue with Edi Bilimoria, author of the stunning 1200 page work Unfolding Consciousness. This is the second part of our dialogue exploring Book three entitled - Gazing through the Telescope – Man is the Measure of All Things.
As with all the conversations in this series, we have done our best to make this audio friendly. However, I encourage you to watch this on Youtube if you can or at least check out the diagrams in the video when you have listened.
 
0.00        Welcome and introduction
1.30        Introduction to the final half of book three including how consciousness unfolds from the divine to the human.
5.30        Why is Newton’s alchemy research integral to his “scientific” research?
9.00        Holy Science, real truth v relative truth.
17.30     Schrodinger’s mind-sensation problem and how it can help us.
21.00     The violin and the violinist.
26.45     Why focusing on how the brain generates consciousness is the wrong focus.
32.00     How do we awaken our latent faculties and powers of consciousness?
36.15     Deepening our conversation on vitalism.
43.00     The potential dangers of using or relying on psychedelics to achieve spiritual insight.
52.00     Some thoughts on intuition and it’s real role in scientific discovery.
60.00     Why is consciousness an element – that is, irreducible? And why must we have a greater moral and spiritual compass when conducting scientific research?
105.30   Holding the balance between intellect and devotion.
110        Some final thoughts on destiny, meaning and purpose and the unfolding of consciousness.
114       Summary and close.
 
Thank you for listening to this Edi Bilimoria series.  I hope as an Shepheard Walwyn podcast listener you’ll agree that as a publisher we are committed to encouraging different voices and perspectives. For example, Phil Anderson and Fred Harrison on economic cycles, John Butler on spiritual practice. We think Edi’s work as I hope you’ve experienced in this series has the potential to change the dialogue in so many areas, most significantly perhaps, in the interaction between science and spirituality and a reappraisal and reintroduction of our ancient wisdom traditions into our discourse on how to add meaning to our existence.
If you have listened to this series of conversations with Edi then I hope you feel ready to make the investment in his magnus opus. It’s taken 6 months to complete these recordings. I think I am on the third or fourth reading of each of the books and they still feel like I am reading them for the first time as there’s so much new wisdom to consider on each successive reading. My conviction is that even if you much more awareness with the perennial philosophy you’ll have a similar experience.
So for the last time with Edi at least thank you for listening to the Shepheard Walwyn podcast. Be sure to connect with us at shepheardwalwyn.com and join our mailing list for updates and special offers. And if you feel it’s appropriate give us a like wherever you get your podcasts and on YT too.
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Edi Bilimoria - Unfolding Consciousness Part 5

Today we continue our mini series with Edi Bilimoria, author of the stunning 4 volume work Unfolding Consciousness. As book four is the reference book for the series, this is the penultimate dialogue with Edi.  Book three entitled - Gazing through the Telescope – Man is the Measure of All Things – has a lot of ideas so we felt it was best to split the conversation into two.  In this part we look at the first half of book three.
 
We have done our best to make this audio friendly. However, I encourage you to watch this on Youtube if you can or at least check out the diagrams in the video when you have listened. They made a massive difference to my understanding and our feedback suggests they could help you too.
We jump straight into this conversation with Edi explaining what is consciousness and why we need to focus more on relationships than on things so let’s get into the interview.
 
0.0         Welcome and intro
01.45     What is consciousness and what’s the matter with things? 
06.30     Why do you say that man mirrors the cosmos, and is a miniature universe?
11.00     Why is it important to place so much emphasis on the instrument of our perception- our physical senses?
17.30     Why is symbolism so important for our understanding of the inner realms of existence?
20.00     Examples of useful symbols to appreciate the nature of our beings especially the divine self, the intuitional principle and the higher mind.  
25.00     What are the different types of labyrinths? And how have some symbols eg animal sacrifice become distorted?
31.00     Why astrology is not a pseudo science and why as scientists we need to do our own research.
39.30     What does the symbolism of the human body tell us that medical facts can’t?
45.00     Cardiology and the deeper importance of heart centered living.
48.00     What is the human kingdom?
52.00     The lotus and the rose
60.00     The hermetic axiom and the related concepts of analogy and correspondence and the outpouring of love.
1.07        What can you tell us about the divine mandate?
1.13        What’s the difference between Cosmos and Kosmos?
1.16        What is Akasha and what is astral light?
1.20        Wrap up and close.
 
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Edi Bilimoria - Unfolding Consciousness Part 4

Today we welcome back Edi Bilimoria to talk about the second volume of his stunning work Unfolding Consciousness. As a quick recap, Edi is an award-winning engineer, glider pilot, concert pianist, philosopher and student of ancient wisdom – the perennial philosophy.
 
Book two is the shortest volume in the series so we have presented this conversation on one instalment. In many ways it could be the most impactful for the reader as it puts us as beings under the microscope. And in just over 200 densely packed pages Edi manages to integrate almost all of the wisdom traditions into one breath taking, coherent picture. 
If you have an interest in the areas Edi covers, I guarantee he’ll shake your world view in the politest yet most thorough way you can imagine. My invitation is to listen to the interviews in this series and buy the books and take a year or two to digest them!
 
2.00              What is the purpose of Book Two – Peering Down the microscope – man’s internal landscape.
5.00                The perennial philosophy resolves many “scientific” challenges.
10.00             Why we need to consider both the value and inevitable limitations of the “scientific” perspective.
11.00             Why have we become fascinated with our own image and what damage does this do?
14.30             Are we really “hackable animals” as one commentator says?
16.30             Why do you think it’s safe to share the previously secret philosophy today?
22.00             Why should we never accept one view as definitive and final?
27.00             What is the constitution of man?
33.00             Going deeper into the popularly known split of mind, body and spirit.
39.00             Connecting with Ian McGilchrist’s fantastic works and his left-right brain research.
48.00             Are all desires evil?
52.00             Some thoughts on Prana.
57.00             Edi explores Paul Brunton’s description of man as a miniature copy of the universe.
62.00             The importance of the bridge between the levels of body-mind-spirit and how our actions affect the quality of this connection.
110                How we can increase our connection with universal intelligence.
117.30           What happens when we die?
126                How our unresolved psychological baggage can hinder our journey (and what we can do about it!)
133                What’s the difference between immortality, infinity, and eternity?
136                Are we actually lumbering robots?
140                The difference between things and phenomena or things and relationships and why we won’t be taken over by robots.
Reconciling the different philosophical traditions.
157                 Close.
 
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Nic Tideman - Land and Taxation 2nd edition

Today we're speaking with the editor of the soon-to-be re-released classic Land and Taxation, Professor Nick Tideman. He edited this book with the authors Vic Blundell, Fred Foldvary, Mason Gaffney, and Fred Harrison. Nick was raised in Chicago in San Francisco. He got his first degree in math and economics at Reed College and a PhD from the University of Chicago. He's held positions at Harvard University and served as an economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers. He moved to Virginia Tech almost 50 years ago, where he became a full economic professor in 1985. Nick's authored over 100 professional articles focusing on public finance and improving the efficiency of public decision-making. In 2006, he wrote the book Collective Decisions and Voting: The Potential for Public Choice. 
 
0.00                Welcome and Introduction
2.00                How did Nick get into the area of land economics and fairness? 
4.00                Going to Chicago and getting advice from Milton Friedman
6.20                Life in Chicago -the bad and the good
9.15                Insights around public choice and collective decision-making. 
11.50              The key to disagreeing successfully and other findings on voting 
17.00              The three sources of rent
21.00              Working for Paul McCracken, top advisor to Richard Nixon
23.00            The difference between government in the 1970s and government today
25.00              What drew Nick to the book, Land and Taxation? 
29.00              Why is Neo-classical economics hanging on? 
35.00              The value of being closely connected 
40.00              The importance of human freedom 
41.00              Making decisions when information is distorted. 
 
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Edi Bilimoria - Unfolding Consciousness Part 3

Today's author is Dr. Edi Bilimoria. Edi is joining us for what will become a series of conversations to celebrate and explore his extraordinary for volume 1200 Page Magnus Opus, unfolding consciousness exploring the Living Universe and intelligent powers in nature and humans. Edi was born in India and educated at the University of London, Sussex and Oxford, and he presents an unusual blend of experience in the fields of science, engineering, art and philosophy. He's worked as a consultant in many industries including oil and gas, aerospace and construction. And he's been a project manager and head of design for major innovative projects, which is a channel tunnel, London Underground systems and other off stock installations. A student of the perennial philosophy for over four decades, he has given courses and lectures extensively around the world. He's organised and chaired several major conferences, and his written work has been published extensively in the fields of science, engineering and the esoteric philosophy. And on top of all of this, he is also an accomplished concert pianist.
 
Unfolding consciousness is a culmination of a life's work and has already garnered much critical acclaim. In this episode, we have part two of Edi's discussion of volume one panoramic survey, science contrasted with the perennial philosophy on consciousness. And man, if you haven't already captured part one, be sure to catch that now. So Edi, I think at this stage, we've given people an overview. Well, it certainly will not cover the extraordinary 150-200 pages that you've got around the wonder and the challenge of modern science, and we're now moving in towards your conversation and the dialogue around ancient teaching in the Mystery Schools. I just wonder where would be the best place for us to start that conversation?
 
Here’s the time stamps of the conversation.
00                 Welcome and Introduction.
02.45             How is the Perennial Philosophy expressed through the esoteric teachings?
6.30                What “occult” and the mystery in the mystery schools actually mean?
13.00             The difference between psychic and spiritual powers.
16.00             What’s the difference between spirit and spiritual?
18.10             Who was Helena Blavatsky?
27.00             What do the mystery schools have that the West is still missing?
34.50             Man as the universe in miniature and the hermetic axiom.
38.10             Entropy in the system.
43.00             Science confusing the map and the territory.
49.00             The belief system of scientism.
55.00             Thorns in the body of mainstream science.
59.00             The Evergreen tree.
1.04.00          The purpose of the mysteries.
 
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