New Thinking • Jun 9, 2024 James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, artist, scholar, novelist, 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, Human Entrance to Transhumanism: Machine Merger and the End of Humanity, and Plantation of the Automatons, Mystic Murmuration, and The Mythic Aim of AI: Maiming the Mind. His most recent book is AI-Posthumanism: A Cryptic Soap Opera. His website is https://www.jamestunney.com/ Here he suggests that trends leading up to the extinction of humanity have been building for centuries. They are culminating today in the combination of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Posthumanism. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:02 Origins of Posthumanism 00:18:13 The role of religion 00:27:17 The Great Game 00:35:42 Acquiescence of humanity 00:41:59 The new world order 00:52:29 Design of the universe 00:57:26 Humanity in a pincer 01:08:40 The importance of spiritual paths 01:13:33 Conclusion Edited subtitles for this video are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish. 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 May 24, 2024)