C. Derick Varn is the author, poet, and educator. He is the co-host of No Royal Road, Vulgar Complexity, Pop the Left, Diving Into The Wreckage, and Gaming Materialists. He is the author of Apocalyptics (Unlikely Books, 2018) "Liberation and All That Bright Etc." (Mysterioso Books, 2022).

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On this episode of The Liminauts, my guest is Robert Zevin. Zevin grew up in a family made of jewish refugees from Poland and the Ukraine. One side started the World Publishing Company, at one point the largest publisher of the King James Bible, while the other ran a Borscht Belt resort in the Catskills that became a refuge for Jewish communists and other leftists during the Depression. This intersection of entrepreneurship and radical politics shaped Zevin’s career from the start. In the late 60s as a professor of economics at Columbia, Zevin got involved with the United States Servicemen's Fund which was responsible for The FTA Show, an anti-war counterprogram of troop entertainment to oppose Bob Hope's USO tour. Then, in the 1970s and along with Robert Schwartz, Zevin helped invent the idea of socially responsible or sustainable investing, which is now a 30 trillion Dollar segment of investments known as ESG.

Robert Zevin is also my grandfather, so I hope you enjoy this very special episode as much as I did.

**If you are enjoying the podcast, please consider giving us five stars on Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. It will help the show get in front of new listeners! Much appreciated -- Ben**

Here is an interview with Robert about socially sustainable investing and the origins of ESG on Bloomberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRWxFNqaciA

Here's a trailer for the rereleased F.T.A.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWAbhonmCOg

If you want info on the United States Servicemen's Fund and the GI coffeehouses, here's the wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Servicemen%27s_Fund

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My friend Dr. Asher Walden is a former Zen monk who received his BA in Philosophy from the University of Chicago and his PhD in Theology from Drew University. His dissertation was on the moral metaphysics of Schopenhauer and the Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhu Xi. He taught undergraduate philosophy and religions courses for over ten years, and has published scholarly articles and a monograph on comparative religion and philosophy. His desire to understand consciousness has led him to research & write on idealistic philosophy and the ontology of realms encountered during psychedelic experiences. He is currently working in the applied sciences, and has developed a self-guided divination system for use in the integration of psychedelic experiences called the Empyrean Age Integration Deck.

Find some of Asher's most recent writings here: https://www.essentiafoundation.org/author/

Asher's Empyrean Project: https://empyrean-project.com/

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