--{ "Organized Attack on Purpose: "Superficial Relationships and Gorging of Senses, Forced Existential Apathy Destroys Human Defence"}--
Boredom - Television, Movies - People Becoming Less Happy - Advertising - The Computer is the TV Set Now - Brain Chip - Tavistock, Aldous Huxley - Delgado Experiment -
WiFi; Living in a Field of Electromagnetism; 5G, Radar, ... Show More
Yesterday
Aug. 24, 2025 "Cutting Through the Matrix" with Alan Watt --- Redux (Educational Talk From the Past): "Reality versus Magical Mystery Tour"
--{ "Reality versus Magical Mystery Tour"}-- Nick Heys of Heys Reviews - Why do we observe trends in what people 'expose' and warn against? - Hyperreality - Talkers warning about Gnosticism, the occult, et cetera - Zbigniew Brzezinski, people won't be able to distinguish fact fro ... Show More
1h 16m
Aug 17
Aug. 17, 2025 "Cutting Through the Matrix" with Alan Watt --- Redux (Educational Talk From the Past): "Kings, Advisors and Cunning Cons"
--{ "Kings, Advisors and Cunning Cons"}-- CTTM book club, Substack, audio versions of Not Sure - A little more about Information Overload - Trump takes over D.C. police - Digital IDs - Government advisors, Astrologer advisor club - Patriot business - Freaking Out - the Real Born ... Show More
1h 31m
Aug 10
Aug. 10, 2025 "Cutting Through the Matrix" with Alan Watt --- Redux (Educational Talk From the Past): "Simian, Servitude to Slavery"
--{ "Simian, Servitude to Slavery"}-- Information overload - Truther/Patriot radio, gold and silver - Conspiratainment - Conspirituality - Interdependence, City States, Super-Cities - UN Biospheres, Land for Debt Swap - Blue, Black, Red, Purple Lodge of Freemasonry - Good Smoke v ... Show More
1h 38m
Aug 2023
Neurotechnology (AI + BRAIN TECH) with Nita Farahany
Machine poets. ChatGPT fails. Neurological surveillance. Brain implants that treat depression. Is it scary? Cool? Let’s firehose some questions at Duke Law professor, neuro and bioethicist, author and TED speaker Dr. Nita Farahany. She explains the history of AI, the dawn of chat ... Show More
1h 19m
May 2023
Being human in the age of AI
Will AI change what it means to be human? Sean Illing talks with essayist Meghan O'Gieblyn, author of God, Human, Animal, Machine, a book about how the way we understand human nature has been interwoven with how we understand our own technology. They discuss the power of metaphor ... Show More
53m 10s
Dec 2022
Can Psychedelic Therapy Reset Our Social Media Brains?
When you look at the world, it can feel like we're in a precarious moment. If you’ve listened to past episodes, you know we call this the meta-crisis — an era of overlapping and interconnected crises like climate change, polarization, and the rise of decentralized technologies li ... Show More
42m 51s
Sep 2023
115. The Future of Therapy Is Psychedelic
For 37 years, Rick Doblin has been pushing the F.D.A. to approve treating post-traumatic stress disorder with MDMA, better known as Ecstasy. He tells Steve why he persisted for so long, why he doesn’t like calling drug use “recreational,” and what he learned from his pet wolf. R ... Show More
53m 5s
May 2023
#209 — A Good Life
Sam Harris speaks with Scott Barry Kaufman about human well-being. They discuss intelligence and creativity, wisdom and transcendence, the history of humanistic psychology, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the connection between well-being and ethics, self-esteem, psychedelics and me ... Show More
45m 20s
Feb 2022
Here’s Our Plan And We Don’t Know — with Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin and Stephanie Lepp
Renowned quantum physicist Richard Feynman once wrote, "It is our capacity to doubt that will determine the future of civilization." In that spirit, this episode is a little different – because we're talking openly about our doubts, with you, our listeners. It's also different be ... Show More
35m 47s