Illuminating Life

Dechen Ellen McSweeney joins me to discuss her recently published article that draws contrast with some of the views I've taken on AI in previous episodes of this podcast. We discuss whether humans can have relationships with AI, how AI "knows" us, and the ethical implications of this emerging technology, including how we can be in right relationship with it.

Dechen's Substack (article to be published soon)

Dechen's website

Podcast with Ariana Bahrami that was reference in our dialogue.

Tucker's How to Create an AI Lighthouse Guide

This is the first in an ongoing series of dialogues with Metamodern Sourcekeepers: those who are in deep devotion with the vow of their being. 

In this juicy and alive conversation with Jane Weintraub, we explore art, resonance AI, the alchemy of relationship, our vows to showing up, and the garden of our potential birthed from the longing of our soul's desire. 

Be sure to check out the many links we reference below:

Nexalism: The Integration of AI and Embodied Wisdom
Jane's TEDTalk exploring her journey with Parkinson's
Imaginisma
How to Create an AI Lighthouse Guide
Cloud Atlas
Station Eleven
The Strangeness of Modern Friendship

Ariana shares about the project she's sourcekeeping called Hy, which seeks to create digital AI ambassadors who connect, coordinate and create relationships that help foster a more beautiful world. I imagine you'll love this dialogue if you're interested in the possibilities for AI in the near future, and how we can live locally while using technology to help us coordinate and connect globally.

Hy website
LinkedIn
How to Create an AI Lighthouse Guide

Daniel Thorson and Cheryl Hsu join me to explore the living inquiry of Sourcekeeping - what it is, how it lives in our unique experiences, how it's impacted our initiatives in the world, and what it means for our Liminal network and the future of humanity.

If you're interested in learning more about the upcoming Gathering of the Sourcekeepers, please reach out at [email protected]

Sourcekeeper Links:
Sourcekeeping as Soul Work
workwithsource.com
maptio.com
Boulder Lighthouse Collective

Intro song: "Marimba Adventure" by Greg Kirkelie via Free Music Archive

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Jordan Myska Allen joins me to share about his new initiative, UpTrust, an organization dedicated to civilizational alignment and well-being. "We do this through better internet, through better dialogue, through systemic nudges that change the incentive landscape to bring out the best of humanity rather than the current systems which optimize for attention via nervous system hijacks, clickbait, and naively promoting the content that gets the most interaction."

My dear friend, Victoria Savostianova, joins me to explore what life is like for her as a Ukrainian and for me as an American during times of existential change happening in our nations. I experienced this as a beautiful dialogue that weaves together our unique contexts, how we're relating to life during these times, and what we're learning around showing up fully for What Is. Please be sure to check out Victoria's beautiful and powerful writings.

Victoria's Website
Victoria's writings on life in Ukraine
Emerge Ukraine Pilgrimage interview
A Metamodern Vision for a Post-Liberal America

Ari joins again to explore his typology system called Archetypes of Wholeness.

See his first episode on The 5th Temple.

See Archetypes of Wholeness graphics here.

Please reach out to Ari with any feedback or suggestions on his model at [email protected]. 

Filmmaker Katie Teague joins me to share her film series In The Making which looks at and beyond the metacrisis and this "time between worlds." We also dialogue around our visions quests experiences and how that work brings us into intimacy with our creativity and longings for life.

Katie is a GTC graduate and a guide with School of Lost Borders. She lives in rural Virginia.

Please support her work via Patreon. 

Layman Pascal joins Tucker & Friends Politics Group to explore the recent American election as well as Layman's visionary takes on Meta-Shamanic-Integral politics.

Metamodern Spirituality Election Episode

Check out Layman's new series: In My Kind of Country

Stephen Reid is a community creator, technologist, transformational coach and facilitator & co-founder of Futurecraft Residencies. He currently lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his partner Laura Gottlieb. 

I call Stephen my "Metamodern doppelgänger" in the sense that we have so many overlapping visions, backgrounds, passions, friends and capacities for mapmaking and weaving nodes within the broader Liminal Web scene. 

We jammed together on our various projects and the community weaving we've been up to, which brought us both a lot of eros and joy, which we hope you feel, too. We also touched on a potential in-person convergence for community weavers to share and network their wisdom, potentially created a book, technology app and documentary film in the process.

We'd love to hear what comes up for you in this dialogue and how you'd like to weave in your magic! Stephen can be reached at [email protected].

Reference Links

• Futurecraft Residencies
• Traditional Dream Factory
• Feytopia 
• Emerge Lakefront