New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove • Dec 20, 2022 James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a scholar, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution; also Empire of Scientism: The Dispiriting Conspiracy and Inevitable Tyranny of Scientocracy, TechBondAge: Slavery of the Human Spirit, and Human Entrance to Transhumanism: Machine Merger and the End of Humanity. His most recent book is Plantation of the Automatons. Here he shows that our understanding of plants, implants, plantations, culture, cultivation, inculcate, etc., has both positive and negative implications. He warns of the dangers inherent in treating humans as plants that can be cultivated for purposes of social control. He points out that the system of plantations goes back to ancient times and, typically, has involved transplanting humans. He notes that factories are referred to as “plants” and involve turning the natural world into one of steel and silicon. He urges us to listen to the wisdom of indigenous elders about living in balance with nature. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. (Recorded on November 23, 2022)