Host Daniel Pinchbeck explores ecology, politics, spirituality, technology, and social change. This podcast looks at our current world and proposes new ideas and solution-oriented approaches to the problems facing us.
Daniel is the author of "Breaking Open The Head," "2012 The Return of Quetzalcoatl", "How Soon Is Now?", and "When Plants Dream". He is the founder of The Liminal Institute, offering online courses, discussion groups, eBooks, audiobooks, and more!
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Crisis With The Strait Of Hormuz, Sixty Days To Famine? | LIMINAL NEWS Essay
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In this essay, I explore the rise of Palantir, Peter Thiel's techno-authoritarian worldview, and the emerging fusion of AI surveillance, militarism, techno-feudalism, and reactionary politics in America. Drawing on thinkers like Byung-Chul Han, Eva Illouz, and Catherine Liu, I examine how modern subjectivity itself has been reshaped by neoliberalism, social media, therapeutic culture, and algorithmic control — and why collective resistance to authoritarian power feels so fragmented and muted today. Is this simply a temporary backlash against progressive culture… or are we watching the birth of a permanent techno-fascist order?
#Famine #OilCrisis #StraitOfHormuz #GlobalCollapse #Geopolitics #EnergyCrisis #Trump #WorldWar3 #EconomicCollapse #FoodShortage #DieselShortage #IranWar #LiminalNews #DanielPinchbeck #SystemsCollapse #PeakOil #SupplyChain #Apocalypse #VideoEssay #LateCapitalism
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16 May 2026
Palantir, Techno-Authoritarianism, and the Forfeiting Of Our Future | LIMINAL NEWS Essay
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I explore the rise of Palantir, Peter Thiel's techno-authoritarian worldview, and the emerging fusion of AI surveillance, militarism, techno-feudalism, and reactionary politics in America. Drawing on thinkers like Byung-Chul Han, Eva Illouz, and Catherine Liu, I examine how modern subjectivity itself has been reshaped by neoliberalism, social media, therapeutic culture, and algorithmic control — and why collective resistance to authoritarian power feels so fragmented and muted today. Is this simply a temporary backlash against progressive culture… or are we watching the birth of a permanent techno-fascist order?
#Palantir #PeterThiel #AlexKarp #TechnoFascism #AI #SurveillanceState #Authoritarianism #Trump #LateCapitalism #LiminalNews #DanielPinchbeck #TechnologicalRepublic #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalControl #ByungChulHan #Technofeudalism #Neoliberalism #Geopolitics #IranWar #PalantirTechnologies
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Please subscribe to the Liminal News Substack Newsletter!
https://substack.com/@danielpinchbeck
Please buy my books!
https://tinyurl.com/mrsmtpwv
Please join my online seminars and community at THE LIMINAL INSTITUTE:
www.liminal.news (https://www.liminal.news/)
Instagram:
@danielpinchbeck
Official Website:
www.pinchbeck.io/ (https://www.pinchbeck.io/)
6 May 2026
Is Elon Musk Possessed By Demons? | LIMINAL NEWS Essay
What if Elon Musk is possessed?
This video essay examines the unsettling, dissociated facial expressions Musk made during his stint as Trump's chief buddy at the White House and Mar-a-Lago — and what they reveal about a crisis the materialist worldview can't explain.
When Musk fed USAID into "the wood chipper," Bill Gates told the Financial Times: "the picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one." Musk was unmoved. He had already gone on Joe Rogan to declare that "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy" — borrowing the Canadian marketing professor Gad Saad's notion of "suicidal empathy."
This video is adapted from my Substack essays:
https://substack.com/@danielpinchbeck/p-195875588 Part One
https://substack.com/home/post/p-195999100 Part Two
Drawing on the cultural philosopher William Irwin Thompson, the analytic idealist Bernardo Kastrup, the sociologist Peter Berger, and the 2022 and 2025 Nobel Prizes in Physics — which together overturn the materialist paradigm at its foundations — this essay asks whether what we are seeing is what older traditions accurately called demonic possession, and what it means for understanding our techno-fascist moment.
In an age where the boundary between the physical and the psychic is dissolving, where ketamine-besotted billionaires play god with our economy and our information environment, are we witnessing what Thompson warned of three decades ago: a screeching breach through which the demonic re-enters the world?
#ElonMusk #DemonicPossession #Psychedelics #Consciousness #AI #TechCulture #SimulationTheory #Spirituality #Philosophy #LiminalNews #DanielPinchbeck #Occult #QuantumPhysics #BurningMan #Transhumanism #TechBillionaires #EpistemicCrisis #NewAge #PsychedelicRenaissance #FutureOfConsciousness
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Please subscribe to the Liminal News Substack Newsletter!
https://substack.com/@danielpinchbeck
Please buy my books!
https://tinyurl.com/mrsmtpwv
Please join my online seminars and community at THE LIMINAL INSTITUTE:
www.liminal.news (https://www.liminal.news/)
Instagram:
@danielpinchbeck
Official Website:
www.pinchbeck.io/ (https://www.pinchbeck.io/)
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