And Something Else is Happening Explorations Beyond the Mechanical Mind Part 1 1
Myth Magic and Mystery. The first of a series of six programmes on emerging ideas, intuitions and enthusiasms together with new approaches in the sciences seem somehow to add up to a movement developing in the urban cultures of the west. It attempts to describe the new sensibility emerging in Western culture. There has been a loss of faith in the ability of technology to solve our problems and may have created new problems. The result has been the ecology movement. Also a loss of faith in political institutions and a re-assessment of urban life. This has resulted in a 'looking back', and interest in Eastern religions and a study of primitive cultures, the occult and astrology and other more esoteric ideas. Speakers are: William Irwin Thompson, Historian, Founder of the Lindisfarne Community, New York, USA; Dr Willis Harman. President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences; Theodore Roszak, Author, The Making of a Counterculture; Nevill Drury, Author and Publisher; Roger Meyer, Buddhist Monk; Francis Huxley, Anthropologist and Author, the Way of the Sacred.
The first of a series of six programmes on emerging ideas, intuitions and enthusiasms.
Primary Title
- And Something Else is Happening
Secondary Title
- Explorations Beyond the Mechanical Mind Part 1
Episode Title
- 1
Date Broadcast
- Wednesday 11 January 1978
Start Time
- 21 : 00
Finish Time
- 22 : 48
Duration
- 107:54
Channel
- 1YC
Broadcaster
- Radio New Zealand
Station
- 1YC
Programme Description
- The first of a series of six programmes on emerging ideas, intuitions and enthusiasms.
Episode Description
- Myth Magic and Mystery. The first of a series of six programmes on emerging ideas, intuitions and enthusiasms together with new approaches in the sciences seem somehow to add up to a movement developing in the urban cultures of the west. It attempts to describe the new sensibility emerging in Western culture. There has been a loss of faith in the ability of technology to solve our problems and may have created new problems. The result has been the ecology movement. Also a loss of faith in political institutions and a re-assessment of urban life. This has resulted in a 'looking back', and interest in Eastern religions and a study of primitive cultures, the occult and astrology and other more esoteric ideas. Speakers are: William Irwin Thompson, Historian, Founder of the Lindisfarne Community, New York, USA; Dr Willis Harman. President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences; Theodore Roszak, Author, The Making of a Counterculture; Nevill Drury, Author and Publisher; Roger Meyer, Buddhist Monk; Francis Huxley, Anthropologist and Author, the Way of the Sacred.
Classification
- Unknown
Owning Collection
- Chapman Archive
Broadcast Platform
- Radio
Languages
- English
Captions
Live Broadcast
- No
Rights Statement
- Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Genres
- Current affairs
Hosts
- Peter Fry (Host)
- Malcolm Long (Host)
Contributors
- William Irwin Thompson (Speaker)
- Dr Willis Harman (Speaker)
- Theodore Roszak (Speaker)
- Nevill Drury (Speaker)
- Roger Meyer (Speaker)
- Francis Huxley (Speaker)
- Tangerine Dream (Instrumentalists)
- Rupert Maslan (Production)
- Frank Banks (Production)
- ABC Radio Special Projects (Production Unit)