Jan Irvin of GnosticMedia.com is clearly one of the hardest working researchers in the expanding culture of consciousness. The Gnostic Media podcast brings together leading independent and academic scholars to focus in on subjects like shamanism, entheogens, religion, archaeoastronomy, fertility cults, and so much more.

I'm really excited about his most recent direction of focus towards the area of education. It's a complex subject, and he's taking the time to build a foundation of facts on how and why our current state of academic learning for the masses is in such poor condition.

A good place to begin unraveling the mess of modern education is the Gene Odening interview that delves into some of the meat behind concepts like critical thinking and logic. The number 2 installment of Peace Revolution which Jan is hosting at his site and participating in does a great job at setting the ground work for a hypothesis that suggests how critical thinking is being hijacked by a small group of elite families to further their own agenda. This is one of the most lucid and grounded arguments I've heard to date concerning what some call a "hidden" course of action to dumb down America.