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.

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Most recent 20 Videos, Podcasts and Medium Posts

Most recent 15 Videos, Podcasts and Medium Posts

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Bret speaks with Neil Oliver on the subject of the fatigue and despondency stemming from ongoing global crises, the shift from production to consumption, and the complexities of the COVID …Read more

Creative technologist and futurist Kim Carson explains how we can honor the human capacity for creativity even as we make use of artificial intelligence tools. From Kim Carson’s Long Now …Read more

Here’s your sign to dance like nobody’s watching. …Read more

Here’s your sign to dance like nobody’s watching. …Read more

Here’s your sign to dance like nobody’s watching. …Read more

Here’s your sign to dance like nobody’s watching. …Read more

Ever tried to make an apple pie from scratch? You’ll need atoms. Molecules. Cells. Consciousness. Because to make a pie — you first need a universe. From the Big Bang …Read more

This conversation marks the beginning of a deeper inquiry for Dr. John Vervaeke: What if pilgrimage is not a retreat from the world, but a return to what is most …Read more

What if AI is not here actually to replace us, but to remind us who we actually are? That was the question at the heart of Kim Carson’s Long Now …Read more

Discover how this shared response to vibration can revolutionize pleasure, breaking myths about male and female arousal. Laurie Mintz, Ph.D., explains the science behind vibration in sexual wellness. Don’t miss …Read more

Dr. Sara Szal explores how female friendships heal stress and trauma through a dual lens of cognitive insight and somatic experience. She explains that trauma is not only stored in …Read more

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 167 As recently introduced on the New Discourses Podcast, the Nazis performed an experiment of sorts (https://newdiscourses.com/2025/03/woke-nationalism-and-the-nazi-experiment/) between the mid 1920s and …Read more

Save the date: Layman Pascals new book “Sex, Death & the Occult “Release date: June 21st https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FBVMR56F/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2RW99TZUP6TH3&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.burub0oCzx0PlNYckjY2Yw.fmG-BdQj4lhiWehpTUFByGzMVz7aPkItlGjpe_K9QmA&dib_tag=se&keywords=layman+pascal+sex&qid=1749020174&s=books&sprefix=layman+pascal+sex%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C170&sr=1-1 Laymans summer course: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/integralforidiots Homepage: https://www.parallax-media.com/ Academy: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses-and-events Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Network: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/ND8NVO1oMB3RjEyi?utm_source=ma …Read more

Internet Real Life (IRL), hosted by Katherine Dee & Peter Limberg, is a series exploring the shift toward a new way of relating to the internet—one beyond naive optimism or …Read more

Internet Real Life (IRL), hosted by Katherine Dee & Peter Limberg, is a series exploring the shift toward a new way of relating to the internet—one beyond naive optimism or …Read more

Internet Real Life (IRL), hosted by Katherine Dee & Peter Limberg, is a series exploring the shift toward a new way of relating to the internet—one beyond naive optimism or …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

Jim talks with Ashley Hodgson about her YouTube series “The New Enlightenment” and its heterodox perspectives on economics and social systems. They discuss Iain McGilchrist’s influence & his book “The …Read more

Radha Agrawal, Co-Founder of Daybreaker and author of Belong, helps us break from our online-induced community confusion and learn to find true connectedness again.About Radha AgrawalRadha Agrawal is a dynamic …Read more

Douglas Rushkoff recognizes the high weirdness of our circumstances, and the universal strange characterizing this moment in our shared history. He also offers four recommendations for us to take agency …Read more

How will AI shape our understanding of our creativity and ourselves? In February, artist and technologist K Allado-McDowell delivered a fascinating Long Now Talk that explored the dimensions of Neural …Read more

Sara Imari Walker – An Informational Theory of Life by The Long Now Foundation …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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