Navigating the human, Alien ocean

The best of its kind in existence

Keep your dictionary handy as these talks go deep. Always enjoy the perspectives and topics covered which I consider to be at the forefront our human experience and understandings of where we are and where we are going.

Such a delight, always thoughtful and thought provoking. Give it a listen and expand your ideas on almost everything .

Future Fossils allows Michael Garfield’s expansie pan-exclectic hyper-integrating genious and curiosity to spill out of its mysterious source, prod some of the most interesting thinkers of our time into a reverie of collaborative insight generation, and shine out through the internet to enlighten, disquite, and entertain us all. FF is one of the original and still very relevant portals into emerging post-post-modern thought and radical possibility-scapes. Good stuff.

An eclectic thinker if there ever was one. Michael is comfortable discussing everything from AI to dinosaurs to psychedelics to the evolution of the eye —plus jazz, aliens, and creativity among other things. I can’t say I always understand everything he says, but I always come away with a few new thoughts and a helluvalotta books/movies/music to dive into.

I love this pod, the host, and all the guests! Helps to snap me out of my day to day humdrum existence, and introduces me to concepts that I never would’ve considered. Grateful that it’s in the world!

In a time when most media seems to be compressing the English language, and human thought, into the lowest common denominator. Michael Garfield and his Guests are expanding the cultural landscape with fractal flames of ideas that push us to new horizons and beyond. Each episode is like a portal into a possible future that I couldn’t have imagined and that renews my hope in humanity. Michael’s skill as an interviewer and desire to collaborate and share ideas is a strong reminder that we need each other more than ever in these changing times. While the internet seems to be pushing so many in disparate directions, Future Fossils is an axis around which paths gravitate, converge, and evolve. Thank you Michael for all you do. I’m so glad I exist on this planet at the same time as you.

Great podcast with diverse perspectives on interesting topics. I’m looking forward to delving deeper into some older episodes, and keeping up with new ones as they come out!

Who needs psychedelics when you can just listen to Future Fossils. But seriously, what a great podcast. I feel smarter by the minute as I listen and it also makes me realize just how much I don’t know. Definitely a heady experience! More please! :)

Well worth a continued listen. Full of fascinating topics, well expressed with exceptional people. Michael Garfield is thoughtful and clear, and willing to dive into the wide weird complex ocean of subjects in any direction the tide takes. I highly recommend you take the dive too. Enjoy

Michael Garfield does a great job bringing in great guests and asking really thoughtful, unique, and deep questions. All in all it really helps to broaden the listeners' mind about the place in time we inhabit as future fossils.

Michael does a great job blending evolutionary concepts, futurism with allegorical examples of humanity’s past, present, and future. This is a really thought provoking podcast. Highly recommend it for all curious people. And best of all he’s independent!!

The ideas on this show have expanded my brain in countless unexpected ways

Just like the title says. But better. This pod is like a crossover between the world of Weird Studies, Aliens and Artists, and Expanding Mind and the world of Everyone is Right and The Daily Evolver. But it is greater than the sum of it's parts. A real freak show in the best possible sense.

Intriguing and wide-ranged.

Interesting topics and open minded people. Worth your time.

Amazing podcasts about all my favourite topics, Michael is truly unique and extraordinary. Honoured to listen, I’m very inspired by this work.

Love this podcast. Wonderful guests. Lovely and lively conversations.

Answering questions I didn’t know how to ask. Provoking thoughts I need to get out of my head. Such a great podcast. This is mind expanding

Future Fossils is the base camp for the liminal realms. When I grow weary of the hyper functional rational perspectives (or on the flipside weird for weird’s sake alternatives), I come back again and again to this podcast for a nourishing dose of macro-cognitive supplement to my healthy connectome. This is the source for the deeper tracks of conscious explorers, and Michael is an extraordinary host, riffing along with each guest and cultivating a foundational fabric of community for this journey into deep humanity.

Michael Garfield has an amazing mind, capable of being open to a vast array of evidence and interpretations, while becoming ever more self aware of his own pre/misconceptions in order to open himself to still larger horizons. I become a regular listener after the episode called “An Oral History of the End of Reality,” and I have been totally inspired by his conversations about retrocausality and other mind-bending topics. Well worth the listen!

Michael is brilliant, and his guests are equally so. Future Fossils will expand your mind until it blows open, help you put it back together, and then blow it right back open again. I love Michael Garfield and Future Fossils, one of the best podcasts out there. 👏

I recently adopted Michael Garfield on Patreon, and Episode 109, with the brilliant Bruce Damer, validates that action again. Listening to such agile minds converse templates my modest capacities for upgrades. Thanks Michael!

So grateful to this highly intelligent , heart-centered humorous silver-tongued guide to blowing my mind and filling my soul with purpose every week .

I stumbled across this podcast by chance and I don’t think it was really an accident ✨. MG has a way of making very forward thinking ideas understandable and relatable to everyone. Beautiful mind, well spoken, interesting topics! Highly recommend to anyone who likes to think big. So thankful I found it! 💜🙏🏽💜

First off, the preceding reviews are spot on and I can only offer my full support of their adoration and gratefulness expressed for this podcast. Some great talks on genetics, time, music, biology, and somehow always fractals. Show notes are impressively detailed, but makes sense considering how many tangents and topics are explored, and yet the conversation always finds itself back on track. That being said, go find an episode on our favorite topic and listen now. Otherwise, read on: As to the title of my review, this show is so densely packed with information that I find myself listening in 10 minute chunks just so I can digest and make notes of my own. Michael is thoroughly adept at integrating and maintaining highly interesting and engaging conversation with such a wide variety of scholars of various fields that it blows my mind. He does what my mind aspires to, to see the whole system in motion from the widest point of view possible, and yet stay stay grounded with scientific intelligence and rigorous philosophy. To end, I can’t be as smart or silver tongued as Michael Garfield, but thank god he can be, and for the work he is doing.

This is the sort of podcast that causes you to take constant note of writers, theories, and even other podcasts discussed. Michael and his guests go deep on a variety of topics related to how we live and where we are heading. I would start with the Charles Eisenstein episode to get a sense of what FF is all about!

This podcast is such a trip I can’t even describe it. I’m confident telling people to pick any episode at random and you’ll still land on a good one. They’re all good. So all the podcasts in the world are part of a ship traveling towards the outskirts of the ever-expanding cosmos we call EVERYTHINGNESS. At the very front of the ship stands Michael Garfield with a machete. The very edge of the blade of that machete is the FUTURE FOSSILS podcast.

Through a playful lens akin to the best science-fiction, Future Fossils looks back from a hypothetical future to reveal humanity teetering on the cliff-edge that is our technological and moral present. But framing devices aside, host Michael Garfield brings the innocent, yet sophisticated edge of a rogue intellectual into a vast array of brilliant and creative guests, each willing to roll up their sleeves and take a chance in a philosopher's sandbox where ideas synergize into fantastical castles or else fall away with the wind. Often more of a conversation than an interview, which is a good thing, listeners are along for a wild ride with no bounds and magical surprises along the way.

From the first episode I listened to—with Daniel Schmachtenberger—I loved this podcast. Can't wait to listen to the new one with Charles Eisenstein. Outstanding work, thank you for helping to birth the necessary next stage of this grand earthly opera

Thanks for your work, Michael! So many great conversations here!

And it would be Kubrick’s favorite podcast.

I’ve only listened to the first episode so far and I can tell this podcast is enhancing my ability and privilege to be alive as human. Absolutely love the dialogue and examples. Thank you, so much.

You are my Erik Davis and Dale Pendell rolled into one. I love love love your polypanaptic view and flow and your splay of guests. Thank you so much!

Thought provoking. Can't find convos like this anywhere else. Looking forward to more podcasts!

Future Fossils has expanded my brain and heart and in a very playful way. I made a rule for myself that I only listen to it when I go on runs, and this has become my favorite part of the day... Exercising my mental physical and spiritual health all in one, all while learning and laughing. I'm a long time fan of Michael's other artistic mediums, but somehow only stumbled into this podcast around episode 50. I've been doing a lot of running trying to catch up! Thank you Michael!

Easily one of my favorite futurist podcasts. Michael has completely flipped my view of the future on its head in the best way possible. Keep up the incredible work!

I'm so enjoying listening to your podcasts. The topics are provocative. The guests are a cross-section of fascinating complex thinkers, bringing ideas and concepts from diverse backgrounds to look at today's world from unique perspectives! Your questions and contributions are equally engaging and compelling. Bowing with appreciation.

FF consistently rewards the wayward browser. Keep up the good work Micheal.

Mr. Garfield is always on the hunt for exploration and discovery.

For the past eleven months I have been looking for a podcast that engages my understanding of multiple interdisciplinary topics, stimulate my curiosity on subjects I am interested in, and help me understand and answer questions I have about complex topics in a simple, straightforward, and dare I say FUN and inspirational conversations. I am happy to announce that I have found it in this Future Fossil podcast. Available on both iTunes and Spotify, Future Fossils is an add free, crowd sponsored show that explores our space in time. It is essentially a time capsule stored as an audio file intended to highlight the scientific, philosophical, and technological advancements in research and development happening today for our curious ancestors in the future. The podcast episodes range anywhere between an hour to two hours long, and one of the things that makes Future Fossils stand out over other educational channels is that you don’t have to listen to the podcast episodes in order for you to have a relative understanding of the topics being covered. The host, Michael Garfield, is an evolutionary biologist, artist and musician who goes through strenuous lengths of doing hours worth of research, editing, note-taking, outreach, and upkeep with every episode. He does this act of service out of love for all sentient beings. A truly educational, altruistic and entertaining podcast that I, for one, enjoy.

A consistently splendid dose of topics and thought-forms to expand your mind and POV — offered from a modern and educated, yet out of the box perspective. Fun, insightful, and extremely thought provoking, this is the good stuff you won’t find on your mom’s NPR program.

This podcast is an amazing distillation of the unbounded curiosity and imagination that defines Michael Garfield. Excellent selection of guests with a wide breadth of topics. Highly recommended! I just listened to the episode with David Krantz on cannabis nutrogenomics, super interesting! Definitely re-framed my own previous experiences with the plant as well as shed light on how my experience could possibly differ so much from what others have reported from its use. Take a listen

This podcast is the only one I've found that with each episode helps expand perspectives on reality. Helps keeps your eyes off the ground and on the horizon. Nice work Michael, thank you!

This podcast mimics a first-year college experience. Acid, existential angst, an emergent reordering of paradigms distilled into a finite droplet of eternity. 👅 go for it.

I discovered this podcast by searching for William Irwin Thompson in the iTunes podcast app. This is the ONLY podcast that featured him; naturally, I clicked. 'Nuff said! Scrolling through some of the other episodes, I was thrilled with what/who I saw. I went through a huge figure-ground shift recently (thanks to a "heroic dose"), and have been in a rut to "find the others" in terms of exposing myself to ideas by other like-minded individuals. Thank you, Michael!!! Right on, ride on!

Powerful probing perspectives presented here. Good addition to the toolbox. Then I power off the devices and live it.

Every episode that I have listened to so far has been time well spent. I am grateful for thinkers like Michael and for the Mindpod crew!

As someone who has becoming increasingly aware that my mental/spiritual health suffers greatly when I am not extremely mindful of the kinds of energy I allow in from the internet - I am wholeheartedly endorsing this podcast! It demands my attention without ever leaving me feeling depleted. I'm thoroughly enjoying catching up on past episodes and hope to see it continue forever and everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...