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While David Delgado Shorter was in Santa Cruz for the 2023 conference “What Is Life? Ancient Answers to Modern Questions,” he joined Ethics and Astrobiology group member Gabriel Mindel in conversation at the UC Santa Cruz Institute for the Arts & Sciences in February 2023. Interview HERE.
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Dr.Shorter was talking ufo’s, ET contact, and what’s next for humans "A Little More Conversation." The show can be found on iHeart Radio, Apple Podcast, TuneIn, Spotify, Audible, GlobalNews, and others.
You can also click HERE to jump directly to his interview.
You can also click HERE to jump directly to his interview.
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Mother Jones | Politics Desk • April 5, 2022"According to Shorter, if humanity only views other planets as potential resources, science could miss out on deeper levels of understanding, such as the recent discovery that forests on Earth think or communicate. SETI researchers might also miss the presence of intelligent alien species if they assume that such species would necessarily prioritize technological advancement, Shorter said." To read the full article, click HERE.
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Tune In to Coast to Coast AM on Monday, March 14, 2022! Coast to Coast AM airs on more than 600 stations in the U.S., as well as Canada, Mexico and Guam, and is heard by nearly three million weekly listeners. With hosts George Noory, it is the most listened to overnight radio program in North America. A media phenomenon, Coast to Coast AM deals with UFOs, strange occurrences, life after death, and other unexplained (and often inexplicable) phenomena. Coast to Coast AM is overnight talk radio with daytime ratings.
Professor of World Arts and Cultures / Dance at the University of California Los Angeles, Dr. David Delgado Shorter has been interviewing psychics, mediums, and ufologists for the last decade, joining others to expand our definition of truth and knowledge. He'll discuss his work on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, as well as the subjects of his popular UCLA course "Aliens, Psychics, and Ghosts." Click HERE to tune in! |
Dr. Shorter joined others for a Special Event to announce the publication of the Special Issue of American Indian Culture and Research Journal devoted to the study of Settler Science and the Ethics of Alien Contact! You can see the recording of that event on YouTube by clicking HERE or on the image to the left.
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UCLA professor David Delgado Shorter has launched The Archive of Healing, one of the largest databases of medicinal folklore from around the world. The site aims to preserve Indigenous knowledge about healing practices, while preventing that data from being exploited for profit. Much of the entries involve food with healing properties, from traditional remedies involving ginger and turmeric, to others using salt cod and goose grease.
Shorter speaks with Good Food about the archive’s history, the conversations it has sparked, and the herbal discoveries within. To read or listen to Dr. Shorter's interview with Evan Kleiman, click HERE. |
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This episode of Perfume on the Radio explores practices, stories and experiences that lie in the outer limits of human perception, from trance states to witchcraft, from hauntings to abductions to sensorial trickery. Click HERE to listen to the podcast.
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David joined Dr. Sharon Stills to talk about healthcare and structural inequality in addition to a range of issues pertaining to non-Western ways of of thinking about health: dreams, object-orientated thinking, and how we are related. Click HERE to listen to the podcast.
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From Between the Worlds podcast page: "We are SO EXCITED to present to you this very special episode with guest Dr. David Delgado Shorter where we discuss the Flower Worlds of the Yaqui people of northern Mexico. In this cosmology there are nine interlocking worlds filled with magical creatures. Reality is danced and sung into being. Flowers are messengers from Spirit. In the Western Mystery traditions, the suit of wands relates to the wisdom flowers and trees, and in this episode we get to hear a radically different perspective on these beings." Click on image to the left to listen to the interview.
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David Interviews Ioanna Gick
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I had just arrived to Son of a Gun restaurant on West 3rd Street expecting to have another “business dinner” with associates of my then partner. I ordered a cocktail thinking of what sort of small talk I could make with this, Whoa, incredibly enchanting woman who just sat next to me. We started chatting and the hairs on my arms stood on end. My frequency was rising; someone from the other side was telling me “this one, pay attention.” And how could I not?
Ioanna Gika does not really walk on our earth; she seems to float a half inch above it, riding the planet’s aura, making it easier for her to shape shift through dimensions, appearing here and there at will. And the last few years she has in fact been here and there. She can be spotted on ABC’s drama “Stumptown”; her voice a trembling strength on “Gone,” the vexing song from “Snow White and the Huntsman” soundtrack; or perhaps you saw her last year on one of her two (!) tours, opening for Garbage on one and for Chelsea Wolfe on another. [To continue reading, click on the image to the left and download the QuaranZine app]. |
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Against Everyone with Connor Habib: February 9, 2018
Connor Habib has David on his podcast to discuss ally work particularly when considering the ways that non-Indigenous people seek to benefit from Native People's religiosity. Connor and David discuss the very real need for all people to recognize the dangers of objectivism and capitalism without having to consume other people's cultures. To listen to this episode, check out this link HERE.
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Check out Casa Apocalyptica with Dr. David Delgado Shorter, UCLA Professor and Director of the Archive of Healing and, and Hamilton Morris creator of the TV show Hamilton's Pharmacopeia.
Click on Poppy Hour to the left to see the Interview!
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David interviews The Oracle of LA
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Having been studying the borderlands of science and teaching classes on the paranormal for years, I was excited to meet a self-described “witch.” Yates Garcia not only practiced her witchery, she thought very deeply about her craft. Her feminism is communal and participatory, a hard-won standpoint that connects people across this city and, since her book came out and made a big splash last year, this globe. She is capable of connecting witchcraft to deep intellectual traditions and social theory. And her work is resoundingly political as her appearance on Tucker Carlson attests. Sitting with her is a polyglot experience. If Amanda and I are not talking about the Three of Cups, for example, we might be discussing the impact of Critical Race Theory on sex work. If you are unfamiliar with her yet, Amanda Yates Garcia is a writer, witch, and The Oracle of Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The LA Times, The SF Chronicle, The London Times, The Millions, The Believer, CNN, Salon, Bravo, as well as a viral appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight. [To continue reading this interview, please click on the image to the left and download the QuaranZine app].
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On March 8, 2017, David joins Rita Celli from the CBC to talk with callers about people who have "gone Native," or shifted their racial identity over time. Listen to the call-in show directly below.
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The Armory Center for the Arts is pleased to present Attunement, a group exhibition that includes paintings, photos, prints, text, and video that are prone to resonate beyond ranges of audio and visual perception. Curated by Leonardo Bravo, River Jukes-Hudson, and David Shorter.
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Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema (October 5, 2014)
In-person: Chris Eyre, Shelley Niro, Heather Rae, Randy Redroad; Moderated by UCLA Prof. David Delgado Shorter.
The scope of the cultural achievement represented by the films in this series is gigantic, but how may it be best understood historically? Native American filmmakers have attained increasing notice in the last quarter-century, and communities and artists have been energized to create more, and more elaborate, films and videos. Yet their aims have often been widely divergent, and differently infused with politics, cultural information and artistic ambition. This panel will explore the individual and group achievements made by myriad artists and communities, and the place of emergent Native American cinema within the contexts of North American and international cinema culture.
You can see a video recording of the panel discussion HERE.
The scope of the cultural achievement represented by the films in this series is gigantic, but how may it be best understood historically? Native American filmmakers have attained increasing notice in the last quarter-century, and communities and artists have been energized to create more, and more elaborate, films and videos. Yet their aims have often been widely divergent, and differently infused with politics, cultural information and artistic ambition. This panel will explore the individual and group achievements made by myriad artists and communities, and the place of emergent Native American cinema within the contexts of North American and international cinema culture.
You can see a video recording of the panel discussion HERE.
From May 1 to August 15, 2014, the Fowler Museum at UCLA exhibited a collection of Yaqui masks. This exhibit, curated by David Shorter, featured a wide variety of mask designs, videos from the Yoeme/Yaqui communities, images from the Yaqui homelands, and musical instruments from the Pascola arts.
The Daily Bruin enables us to take a virtual tour of the exhibit and hear Dr. Shorter explain some of the curatorial decisions made for this exhibit. If you want to get a sense of the exhibit, you can watch the tour HERE.
The Daily Bruin enables us to take a virtual tour of the exhibit and hear Dr. Shorter explain some of the curatorial decisions made for this exhibit. If you want to get a sense of the exhibit, you can watch the tour HERE.
We Will Dance Our Truth Book Talk
Shortly after arriving to UCLA, my book won the Chicago Prize for the Best Book that year in Folklore. I was honored to have a book talk in the Young Research Library, moderated by the wonderful Dr. Jessica Cattelino (Anthropology). We were all so much younger in 2009 as you can see below.
Shortly after arriving to UCLA, my book won the Chicago Prize for the Best Book that year in Folklore. I was honored to have a book talk in the Young Research Library, moderated by the wonderful Dr. Jessica Cattelino (Anthropology). We were all so much younger in 2009 as you can see below.
Paranormal Activity 3!
Having worked on the set as a consultant, the directors invited me to play myself in the movie. After months of filming, my parts were cut just before release. I was bummed as my scholarship to college was actually for acting. But I had a blast working on set with such a great team, including the people at Blumhouse and the actors. See the trailer, which did include me, below.
Having worked on the set as a consultant, the directors invited me to play myself in the movie. After months of filming, my parts were cut just before release. I was bummed as my scholarship to college was actually for acting. But I had a blast working on set with such a great team, including the people at Blumhouse and the actors. See the trailer, which did include me, below.