New Thinking Allo • Apr 11, 2023 James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, artist, 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. His website is https://www.jamestunney.com/ Here he describes a crucible of consciousness at Oxford in the early twentieth century when a group of writers converged around C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien at the Eagle and Child pub. They were known as the Inklings. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:18 C. S. Lewis & Tunney 00:06:37 Lewis’ religion 00:20:47 Reinchantment 00:28:49 Scientocracy 00:41:36 The afterlife 00:49:47 Amputated spirit 00:56:19 Eudaemon 01:05:46 Conclusion Edited subtitles for this video are available in Russian, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, and Spanish. 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 March 28, 2023)