"Right" and "Wrong" Are Not Fixed - An Incredible Excerpt from Neale Donald Walsch --- The changing right and wrong People’s ideas of “right” and “wrong” change—and have changed—over and over again from culture to culture, time period to time period, religion to religion, place to place... even from...
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FTP025: James Hughes – Cyborg Buddha, Transhuman Enlightenment and Basic Income
We are entering an era where increasingly, a single individual can have a major impact on the world. New technologies are constantly being developed. More and more, they are available to everyday people at a lower cost.
FTP024: David Brin – Building Future Societies with Transparency and Freedom
Brin’s classic non-fiction book, the Transparent Society, is concerned with the issues of privacy and transparency. Most people want privacy for themselves, yet demand transparency from others - namely, their leaders. Transparency and privacy often end up on the opposite sides of political debates, where we are forced to...
FTP023: Phil Torres – What Are The Biggest Existential Risks to Humanity?
From global climate change to nuclear war, there are many things threatening our existence at any given time. Existential risks are those that endanger the existence of the entire human species. These are threats that can potentially lead to human extinction, or cause irreversible damage to the human civilization.
What If Artificial Intelligence Was Enlightened?
This is the first video in our video series Deep Breath. What if Artificial Intelligence was enlightened? Video Transcript: I find it interesting that there are so many dystopian visions about Artificial Intelligence in popular culture and media nowadays. The Terminator or The Matrix situation, where it’s a hostile takeover...
FTP022: DMT – Crazy Psychedelic or Portal to Other Dimensions?
DMT, or dimethyltryptamine, is probably the most powerful hallucinogen known to humans. It is known for producing psychedelic experiences of the highest order - from encounters with benevolent beings and alien worlds, to nightmarish journeys into the depths of one’s own psyche, all in vivid color and detail.
FTP021: Psychedelics Changed My Life
Humanity has had a long history of seeking transcendent experiences, and the practice of using psychedelics and other mind altering substances to create these states goes back many millennia.
Daniel Pinchbeck – DMT Entities and the Future of Science
Daniel Pinchbeck and Reggie Watts
FTP020: The Three Bodies, Consciousness and How Environments Affect Us
Consciousness is a subject that has been pondered by philosophers all over the world for many thousands of years. In many spiritual traditions, there exists a concept of the three bodies - three overlapping entities that comprise the human being. They are often referred to as the physical body,...