Your shadow isn’t your enemy: The eight archetypal forces and how to work with them

What if the behaviour you’re trying to change is simply the distorted expression of a force you haven’t yet learned to use? We tend to think of archetypes as personality types. You’re the Warrior, the Sage, the Rebel or the Caregiver. You identify with certain characteristics, recognise a few weaknesses and perhaps discover something interesting […]

Terence McKenna predicted where we are now

“Things are going to get weirder and weirder until we hit constantly weird, when you won’t believe anything anymore, and we’re moving to a point where everything will be totally different.” That was Terence McKenna, icon of psychedelic culture, in a 1995 lecture called The End of Time. I was listening to a recording of […]

What the psychics are saying about AI — and why it’s the opposite of what the tech world thinks

The singularity is coming — but do we need to fear it? The AI singularity, the point where artificial intelligence becomes smart enough to improve itself, creating a runaway loop of ever-increasing intelligence beyond anything humans can predict or control, could be less than a year away. The tech bros are building bunkers. They’re tossing […]