jessica mitford

In 1917 the design and marketing of American cemeteries would again change, as one man, a former chemist and miner, Hubert Eaton had a vision of a cemetery that was about life, not death. Eaton's unique marketing of the "memorial park" would eliminate gravestones, paint a glowing new-age Christian picture of death as a glorious resurrection, and most importantly monetize burial in ways never before imagined.

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This week Eliza Knight is pouring a glass of vino and diving into the Scandalous Mitford family past… This wild family of seven siblings were constantly in the papers. They were socialites, authors, models, two Nazis, one Communists, one duchess, volunteers during WWII, a spy and more! 

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Stuart and Andie talk with Jason Silva, philosopher, futurist, and host of National Geographic’s Brain Games, and the Shots of Awe video channel. Their talk is a wild ride through the nature of reality. It’s a mind-melting mind-meld of meanings as burners and as earthlings. 

They discuss life, death and how a bicycle can induce synchronicity. They explore how psychedelics cause pivotal mental states of suggestibility to brainwash ourselves for the better, or succumb to delusional thinking, or both.

They paradoxically try to schedule nowness, and control ecstatic surrender. And if you listen closely, you may hear a love story hidden between all the philosophy quotations. Finally, they explore key ingredients to Burning Man’s secret sauce that doesn’t exist. But then again, does existence even exist? 

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First published in 1963 The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford, later updated in 1998 after her death, challenged the funeral industry and its excess. What does it have to say about cemeteries?

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