Today my guest is hardcore crypto tantric engineer Vinay Gupta.

I first heard Vinay on a podcast a few years ago speaking about enlightenment and saving the world with Bucky Fuller style innovation and inspiration. His approach seemed radically applied and pragmatic - with intense spiritual practice comes real moral responsibility. This is antithetical to a lot of the philosophically inept and castrated New Age thought we see today in the Spiritual Marketplace. What does it mean to take this work seriously?

This is (fortunately) a sprawling conversation. We start by discussing the prophetic nature of certain special science fiction authors, emotional processing in spiritual practice, empathy disorders, save-the-world psychology, uncanny valleys in tech, and how to make sense of our current moment as a bunch of confused monkeys.

I hope you get as much from this conversation as I did.

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