New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove May 31, 2026 Psychology and Psychotherapy Steven Kotler is an author and entrepreneur, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at Florida Atlantic University. He is the Founder and Director of the Flow Research Collective. His non-fiction books include The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer, Mapping Cloud 9, Tomorrowland: Our Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact, and The Rise of Superman. In addition, he has written three novels. He has also coauthored a number of non-fiction books with Peter Diamandis, including The Future is Faster Than You Think, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think, and Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World. He will be discussing his newest book coauthored with Peter Diamandis, We Are As Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance. Steven discusses how humanity is rapidly entering an “Age of Abundance” driven by exponential technologies such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, automation, and advanced communications systems. He explains that while these innovations are creating unprecedented opportunity, they are also overwhelming human biology, contributing to anxiety, burnout, cognitive overload, and social instability because the human brain evolved for scarcity rather than exponential change. Kotler argues that cultivating flow states, adaptive flexibility, curiosity, creativity, and meaningful human engagement may be essential for thriving psychologically, spiritually, and socially in the accelerating world now emerging. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:10 Abundance and scarcity 00:08:07 Godlike technology 00:11:22 Anxiety and overload 00:18:50 Flow as survival 00:25:22 Understanding flow 00:32:31 AI and cognition 00:42:35 Environmental renewal 00:51:48 Adaptive flexibility 01:03:45 Conclusion 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. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on May 16, 2026)