At what point is never better than late? We push the envelope this week with a podcast episode on the July 21st 2023 cinematic phenomena Barbenheimer! Me, Michael Porcelli [https://www.metarelating.com/], and my very own wife Lindsay Chrisler, exchange hot takes and deep in the weeds analysis about these two radically different, yet strangely intertwined movies.

Christiane Pelmas is a teacher and mentor in the realms of the erotic, ecology, ethics, soul, myth, sexuality and intimacy. Today she's talking with me about her wild and fun transformational origin story, as well as the power of telling stories for healing, the dangers of materialism and more. If you want to dig deeper into her work, you can find her here: https://www.christianepelmas.com/

I talk with Michael Porcelli [https://www.metarelating.com/] about reasons to fear and hope as we enter a new period of history, the Age of AI. Topics include * What's happening right now? * An overview of the technology, how it works and what makes it different from previous computing technologies * The good news / bad news of technology * Economics and copyright * Searching for depth * Implications for Art * Machine Consciousness * The alignment problem * Intelligence explosion * And then we get into some more Sci Fi stuff at the end there This is obviously an extremely timely topic, and I think it's an important one, technologically, politically, philosophically and spiritually. References Some things we reference WarGames [https://letterboxd.com/film/wargames/] Adversarial Policies Beat Superhuman Go AIs [https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00241] And two things that are extremely relevant to the conversation that we didn't reference because they happened after we recorded Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down [https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/] - Eliezer Yudkowsky Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 [https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712]

Teacher, coach and founder of The Relateful Company [https://www.relateful.com/], Jordan Myska Allen, jumps onto talk about MANY THINGS. * What is relatefulness? * Nerding out on the limitations of Circling and T-Group * Constraint based practice vs Options based practice * Opening to beauty in all its forms * Meditation and non dual stuff * and lots more Find Jordan at https://www.relateful.com/ References I think this is all the people and works directly referenced in this conversation, in case you want to explore any of these topics more: John Wheeler [https://johnwheelernonduality.wordpress.com/], nondual teacher in the lineage of Nisargadata Maharaj The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle [https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-power-of-now-a-guide-to-spiritual-enlightenment-eckhart-tolle/15546242?ean=9781577314806] Ken Wilber [https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-brief-history-of-everything-20th-anniversary-edition-ken-wilber/9759738?ean=9781611804522], integral philosopher Alan Watts [https://alanwatts.org/audio/], spiritual entertainer and popularizer of Zen in the west. A Course In Miracles [https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-course-in-miracles-combined-volume-foundation-for-inner-peace/11738626?ean=9781883360269] - Helen Schucman Kennth Wapnik [https://facim.org/], interpreter of A Course in Miracles Tao Te Ching [https://bookshop.org/p/books/lao-tzu-tao-te-ching-a-book-about-the-way-and-the-power-of-the-way-ursula-k-le-guin/9765206?ean=9781611807240] (linked is Ursula Le Guins translation, a great one and there are many many others) On Becoming an Alchemist [https://bookshop.org/p/books/on-becoming-an-alchemist-a-guide-for-the-modern-magician-catherine-maccoun/10543035?ean=9781590306871] - Catherine MacCoun Recommendations Babe [https://boxd.it/1Yh8] Harley Quinn Animated Series [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley_Quinn_(TV_series)] The Lego Batman Movie [https://boxd.it/azp0]

ZEN! And Poetry! Zen monk and Poet Brooke McNamara has a lovely chat with Robbie about many things, among them: * Sacred ritual * Oceans of Love * The student teacher relationship * Paths of Spirit and Soul * Publishing a poem a day * Unorthodox sentient beings * ...and Zen Brookes Website [https://www.brookemcnamara.com/] Awakening to the Poetic [https://www.brookemcnamara.com/awakening-to-the-poetic/], Brookes online poetry course Recommendations From Brooke CULTIVATING THE EMPTY FIELD: The Silent Illumination of Zen Buddhist Master Hongzhi - Taigen Dan Leighton [https://www.tuttlepublishing.com/religion-spirituality/cultivating-the-empty-field] The Creative Act: A Way of Being - Rick Rubin [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717356/the-creative-act-by-rick-rubin/] From Robbie Mother! - Darren Aronofsky, and "friends". [https://letterboxd.com/film/mother-2017/] A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin [https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-wizard-of-earthsea-1-ursula-k-le-guin/6389611?ean=9780547773742] I just have to say, the cover art on the current edition of A Wizard of Earthsea is the blandest, saddest piece of weak soulless Harry Potter wannabe nonsense. Please don't, as they say, reject this text based on its appearance,

Introducing The Sane & Miraculous! Host Robbie Carlton gives an overview of the territory we'll be exploring in this podcast. * The God Shaped Hole in Modernity * Explaining mind & Enchanted mind * Three (count them!) of Ken Wilbers's variations on the theme * The land the road of integration (likely) takes us through * And a dainty brush with - Sex - Art - and Magic