Curating Content To Support Learning About Humanity's Transition

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Our global civilization faces multiple systemic threats.

The inevitable deeply disruptive transition will lead…
EITHER to untold pain and suffering – via chaos
OR (maybe) to a New Era – via conscious evolution.

On this site, we curate the content of some of the people and organizations who are consciously working directly or indirectly on Humanity’s Transition.

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Most recent 20 Videos, Podcasts and Medium Posts

Most recent 15 Videos, Podcasts and Medium Posts

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In this video, we get introduced to Anne-Mieke Vandamme from the Institute for the Future at KU Leuven University, the latest organization to join the Si Partner Network. The Institute …Read more

Brittany Hartley is a coach who works with really bright people struggling with Nihilism. I was very moved by her and our dialogue. Brittany’s channel: https://youtube.com/@nononsensespirituality?si=KZ6T4gu12qed9ix7 00:00 The Golden Nugget …Read more

This clip is from my recent interview on the LUNACY Podcast with Geoff Eido. Follow this link to watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ulVHByY72c Discover more from Charles by exploring these …Read more

Full episode: https://youtube.com/live/OKyMs5sPfoU Breaking news: Israel and the U.S. appear to have brokered a deal that includes several other countries in the Middle East, and leaves open the possibility of …Read more

Watch the full presentation here: What if the very act of seeking spiritual fulfillment is what prevents us from finding it? In this mind-expanding (and mind-transcending) exploration, renowned psychiatrist and …Read more

Previous episode: https://youtu.be/wx6C3neSD78 James Filler is a philosopher, theologian, and leading voice in metaphysics and post-Cartesian thought, specializing in substance ontology, the meaning crisis, and relational models of reason. With …Read more

In 1947, John Maynard Keynes warned the U.S. about the fatal flaw of making the dollar the world’s reserve currency. The U.S. didn’t listen. By choosing power, America locked itself …Read more

This clip is from a recent interview on the INSPIRED EVOLUTION Podcast with Amrit Sandhu. Follow this link to watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSMDQUQ72E0 Discover more from Charles by exploring …Read more

Richard D. Bartlett talked with Jeannine Roberts to learn more about her approach to parenting. It’s a quest to understand more about her son Andrew Rose, co-founder of Fractal NYC: …Read more

In this 282nd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens. …Read more

A rich and provocative conversation at the crossroads of philosophy, education, and technology, and a bold defense of religion in the modern age. Three intellectual titans — Alexander Bard, Marc …Read more

Lynn J. Rothschild is a research scientist at NASA Ames and Adjunct Professor at Brown University and Stanford University working in astrobiology, evolutionary biology and synthetic biology. Rothschild’s work focuses …Read more

In What is Intelligence?, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, VP, Fellow and CTO of Technology & Society at Google, explores what intelligence really is, and how AI’s emergence is a natural …Read more

Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manual Ryan O’Connell Ryan is a composer, harmonium player, and trumpet player from the United States. Music has been apart of his life …Read more

Functional neurochemistry reveals a powerful truth: texting a friend lights up your brain somewhat—but in-person connection activates a far richer neurochemical cascade. 🧬 Face-to-face time engages multiple bonding and reward …Read more

De Kai, the man who built the world’s first global translators and AI systems, says we better learn to parent our AI offspring before it’s too late. The author of …Read more

Jim talks with Anders Indset about his book The Singularity Paradox: Bridging the Gap Between Humanity and AI, co-authored with Florian Neutkart. They discuss the “final narcissistic injury of humankind,” Freud’s …Read more

Jim talks with J. Doyne Farmer about his book Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World. They discuss deterministic chaos & strange attractors, how chaos makes …Read more

Playing for Team Human today, LatinX professor, and the author of Hospicing Modernity as well as the upcoming book Outgrowing Modernity, my favorite civilizational doula, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira.Team Human …Read more

Jim talks with Samuel Arbesman about the ideas in his book The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Created and Connects Our World—and Shapes Our Future. They discuss Sam’s motivation for …Read more

Playing for Team Human today, the author of TechGnosis, High Weirdness, and the just released history of the LSD medium Blotter, esoteric scholar Erik Davis.https://techgnosis.com/Team Human is proudly sponsored by …Read more

Rushkoff explains the two ways we can understand magic in order to experience more of our embodied lives.Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone’s Earth.Learn more about Everyone’s Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/Change …Read more

Jim talks with Mark Stahlman about the new Pope Leo XIV and the Catholic Church’s evolving role in a digital age. They discuss Trump as an avatar of the digital paradigm …Read more

Jim talks with Daniel Mezick on the theme of games and their relationship to governance. They discuss Jane McGonigal’s four properties of games, the nature of authority, position-based vs role-based …Read more

Playing for Team Human today, Canadian pop artist, author, journalist, magician, and CEO of VOID Collective, Alex Kazemi.New Millennium Boyz: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/New-Millennium-Boyz/Alex-Kazemi/9798888459539 Alex’s website: https://alexkazemi.com/Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone’s Earth.Learn …Read more

Jim talks with Zak Stein about the psychological and developmental risks of AI in K-12 education. They discuss education vs schooling, technology’s role in human-to-human interaction, GPS & skill atrophy, …Read more

Jim talks with Daniel Rodriguez about the state of AI software development and its implementation in industry. They discuss Daniel’s background at Microsoft & Anaconda, transformer-based technologies, software engineering as …Read more

Playing for Team Human today, activist, Blogger, and Director of the Reinventing the CommonsProgram at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, David Bollier.Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone’s …Read more

Jim talks with Ryan Blosser about the ideas in his book Mulberries in the Rain: Growing Permaculture Plants for Food and Friendship, co-authored with Trevor Pearsall. They discuss the motivation behind …Read more

Jim talks with Adam Lake about Reboot America, a project aimed at reforming American democracy. They discuss existential threats facing humanity, the two-party corporate duopoly, a Princeton study on policy …Read more

Playing for Team Human today, novelist, spiritualist and host of the podcast Against Everyone, my friend Conner Habib. This conversation continues tomorrow on Conner’s podcast, Against Everyone.Conner’s Patreon: patreon.com/connerhabibConner’s Website: …Read more

Jim talks with Sara Walker about the ideas in her new book Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence. They discuss Sara’s path from theoretical physics …Read more

Has digital technology turned us all into fascists? Rushkoff explores fascism as an environment in which we live, rather than the specific ideology of one “side.” He shows how technology, …Read more

Playing for Team Human today, occult historian, author, and esotericist Mitch Horowitz, sharing the formulas that give us all access to Practical Magic. Mitch Horowitz: https://www.mitchhorowitz.com/Practical Magic: https://www.mitchhorowitz.com/booksTeam Human is …Read more

Edward Ongweso Jr., Senior Researcher at Security in Context and co-host of This Machine Kills, journeys with us into the political economy of technology and the deep crazy that is …Read more

Culmination in the Second Trump Administration: A Clausewitzian ReadingCarl von Clausewitz observed that every offensive reaches a culminating point, the moment when accumulated resistance, logistical strain, and sheer chance sap …Read more

Theories of Consciousness Smackdown: IIT vs GNWTRelated Jim Rutt Show podcasts: — Team IIT: EP105 Christof Koch on Consciousness — Father of GWT: EP108 Bernard Baars on ConsciousnessConsciousness science has long been rich in hypotheses …Read more

I’ve been asking myself for a while now: Why are so many people today drawn to oligarchs and demagogues? I recently posted this question on Facebook, and the thread that …Read more

Over the past few weeks I’ve had a number of people coming to me to see if I could help them make sense of what was going on in the …Read more

In an era of planetary crisis and a time when universities are increasingly under attack, an underlying question that has gradually moved to the center of attention is this: what …Read more

Yesterday we embarked on a new journey of discovery to help strengthen and grow a planetary network of bioregions — with people from all over the world who want to help regenerate …Read more

I often use the phrase “intersubjective verification of the interobjective” to describe a key method of knowledge making and sense-making. Some people politely call it “mighty dense,” while others more …Read more

Chasing the Whisper of Telos in a Cosmic ImprovThe Discourse, it seems, is a never-ending tango between meaning and meaninglessness — between those who suspect the Universe has a grand, ineffable plan and …Read more

In these times of turbulent change, we cannot depend upon the stability of human systems. The boundaries through which most of them were created are fickle and unfit for the …Read more

As we enter 2025, I want to share some reflections and intentions.One realization of last year has been this: Our number one challenge isn’t biodiversity loss, climate change, polarization, countries …Read more

Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot of claims that Elon Musk isn’t the real deal — that he’s just riding on the ideas of others or that his accomplishments aren’t all that …Read more

On July 31st, 2024, my father, Dieter Scharmer, passed away peacefully. At the age of 94, he had lived and worked almost his entire life on the same piece of …Read more

Each new disaster brings my own healing process to a deeper level… as I grieve all that is dying and place my heart in the future that comes after collapse.Yesterday …Read more

In February 2024, the Territorial Foundations movement of Colombia decided to design and implement a Territorial Regeneration Fund. This fund is part of a collective bet as a movement to …Read more

At the Design School for Regenerating Earth, we are excited to announce our new learning journey for 2025 called How to Organize Your Bioregion.This will be a six month long …Read more

Hi everyone, my name is Joe Brewer and today I want to share with you some of my observations about the problematic framing of the climate discourse.Now some of you …Read more

In this room, we uncover hidden messages through steganographic methods and research.Task 2: Analyze the AudioQuestion: What is the link inside of the audio?To solve this task, I used Sonic Visualizer to …Read more

Seven Observations On 2024 and What’s NextIn 2024, over 2 billion of us voted in national elections. So what have we learned so far this year, in general and from the …Read more

— It’s Bigger Than You Think And It’s All About The Wasted Votes There is a lot of talk about a Republican Electoral College advantage — that the Republicans can win an …Read more

task fileThis TryHackMe room demonstrates how easy it is to extract identifiable information from a single photo, showcasing the power of Open Source Intelligence.1. What is this user’s avatar of?For the …Read more

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