The threshold as a human choice
A threshold is not only technological; it is a point of choice about what kind of human future we will accept.
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A threshold is not only technological; it is a point of choice about what kind of human future we will accept.
The promise of extending or uploading life raises a deeper question: what exactly is being preserved?
Kingsley shares the personal rules he uses to keep digital tools in service of attention and choice.
The closing movement returns to the living world, the limits of scientific materialism, and where to continue Kingsley’s work.
Why are Nikola Tesla and the numbers 3, 6, and 9 so tightly linked online? HXP Shorts #003 examines the repeating digital-root pattern behind the viral 369 story, separates a striking mathematical curiosity from claims about hidden dimensions and free energy, and asks why the myth remains so compelling.
Explore episodeAuthor of The Polymath and founder of The DaVinci Network, Waqas Ahmed returns to The Human Experience to explore a question at the center of the AI era: what remains uniquely human when machines can generate answers across almost every field?
HXP Shorts #001 examines what research can—and cannot—say about consciousness near death. Drawing on cardiac-arrest studies, AWARE-II, survivor reports, and EEG activity during resuscitation, Xavier Katana separates evidence from speculation while asking what remains after the last heartbeat.
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What if the voice in your head is not one person? Psychedelic-research pioneer Dr. James Fadiman returns after 11 years to challenge the single-self assumption and connect our many selves with psychedelic experience, microdosing reports, depression, relationships, nature, and the limits of what science can yet claim.

Chance Gardner is an award-winning visual artist, 3D animator, composer, and writer/producer of the cult classic documentary series Magical Egypt. After a 25-year career producing 3d animation, graphics, and promotional campaigns for network television, Gardner retired in the late 90s to focus on producing esoteric…

Nathaniel Gillis is a religious demonologist and author. After living in a haunted house, Nathaniel spent 20 years researching what it was he encountered. Nathaniel has sought to redefine the nature of haunting phenomena, ghosts and high strangeness.

In this episode, Positively Angela explores the 7 Hermetic Principles and how these timeless ideas can shape the way we understand reality, consciousness, and everyday life.

In this episode award winning chance gardner and brad klausen join us to demystify various aspects of ancient egypt and kundalini.

Dr. Bernardo Kastrup is a scientist, philosopher and author who enjoys questioning the elements that make up our reality. He has Ph.Ds in both philosophy and computer engineering, and has worked in such prestigious places as the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories.

Wim Hof is a world-famous extremophile. He is internationally renowned for his countless ice endeavors that range from being up to his neck in a cylinder filled with ice cubes for over 90 minutes, swimming long distances under polar ice, running a marathon barefoot to climbing the Everest in nothing more than a pair…

Robert Waggoner is one of the foremost lucid dreamers on the planet. He is former President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD). For the past ten years, he has been the co-editor of the online magazine, The Lucid Dreaming Experience, the only ongoing publication devoted specifically to…

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake is one of the highest regarded scientists of our time. He is a biologist and author of more than 85 scientific papers and 9 books, many of his books have gone bestseller worldwide. He was voted among the top 100 Global Thought Leaders in the world for 2013.