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This show is an inquiry into new possible worlds of well being. Potential Paradigms also endeavors to discover how to transmit myths using ancient and future technological devices or yantras. We host conversations, panel discussions, retreats, workshops and more. <br/><br/><a href="https://potentialparadigms.substack.com/s/podcast?utm_medium=podcast">potentialparadigms.substack.com</a>
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July 27, 2026
<p>► About This Episode</p><p> What if technology wasn't always the extractive, mechanical thing we've made it into? In this conversation with Journalist Cincinnatus Hibbard, we start from an unlikely place — the planetarium — and work outward: how every culture has held its own notion of technology, how astronomy and astrology were once a single unified science, and what it might mean for AI to support our oracular and intuitive capacities rather than become an instrument of extraction. This conversation sits at the center of what I'm building at StarGate Labs — an alchemical technology incubator exploring the intersection of consciousness, cosmology, and technology. It's only by becoming aware of the deeper relationship of these three that we can usher in the full version of a new paradigm of well being. </p><p>► Links </p><p>🔗 StarGate Labs: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUM4Zm9rUXVwdnJhdXNGVEtwczlPVi1KYWtxeXxBR3JiS2FtaC1ySW1oWENVY1p2WWdPbXJDX0pkYkxmZ1BDOHFSUlY2OEVHS1FpelNuNnd5aWw2bUFUN2c1VUZ4TzNGTlJpMm1aZDQ5U01EOU1HQXdCb1FQbTFwdXJKbUdzRWhZ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fstargatelabs.org%2Fresearch&v=NQCUD56E3Y8">https://stargatelabs.org/research</a> </p><p>📝 The essay this conversation draws from — Tattva Technologies: A Cosmological Foundation for the Tools We Build: </p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://potentialparadigms.substack.com/p/tattva-technologies">https://potentialparadigms.substack.com/p/tattva-technologies</a></p><p> ✍️ Cincinnatus Hibbard is a journalist whose work has appeared in the East Bay Express, North Bay Bohemian, and Pacific Sun. </p><p>See his full body of work: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUM4Zm9rVG9TOEYyVUJPejY1d1d5aWR1RlpWWHxBR3JiS2Fub3I1LXJhQnBlRzRjWFd4MUxDaWk2SERqUDRRZllKMXNJWHpNSGxMOG5JYVFEcnBjdFFtMGIzcFpWVWJ4U1ZUSjNLQmYzVl9ZdzZPLUJuTnBsM29TVmFpNnUzcXNZ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fmuckrack.com%2Fcincinnatus-hibbard&v=NQCUD56E3Y8">https://muckrack.com/cincinnatus-hibbard</a> </p><p>🎙️ This conversation originally aired on his podcast, Sonoma County: A Community Portrait: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUM4Zm9rU0JRNjhtakNVYXlWY1JJN0VDZGdFanxBR3JiS2FteE5NUkhoZm84QWVQdFNkaWtuc3o1UXM0cDVsSjlJM0QxV2o1M1RmV1lXNUExYzBxYU1HLUpxLW1EOFllTFhObGgxR21QbU1MMzUyYmwzSVFwY2FNcW82TDdtM0lG&q=https%3A%2F%2Fpodcasts.apple.com%2Fus%2Fpodcast%2Fsonoma-county-a-community-portrait%2Fid1639639582&v=NQCUD56E3Y8">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...</a> </p><p>► YouTube Chapters</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQCUD56E3Y8">0:00</a> Trailer</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQCUD56E3Y8&t=95s">1:35</a> Welcome & Introduction </p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQCUD56E3Y8&t=195s">3:15</a> The Planetarium: Restoring the Spirit of Technology </p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQCUD56E3Y8&t=673s">11:13</a> Living in a Cosmos: When Astronomy and Astrology Were One </p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQCUD56E3Y8&t=2240s">37:20</a> Indra's Net, Fractals & Subhash Kak <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQCUD56E3Y8&t=2730s">45:30</a> Newton, Alchemy & the Splitting of Science from Spirit </p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQCUD56E3Y8&t=3127s">52:07</a> What Is Technology? Craft, Poiesis & Revelation </p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQCUD56E3Y8&t=3431s">57:11</a> Technology as Memory: Culture, Agriculture & Lost Lineages </p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQCUD56E3Y8&t=4368s">1:12:48</a> Spiritual AI: Polymath, Oracle & the Socratic Method </p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQCUD56E3Y8&t=5380s">1:29:40</a> Talismans, Wearables & Coming Into Cosmic Rhythm</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://potentialparadigms.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">potentialparadigms.substack.com</a>
July 16, 2026
<p>What if consciousness isn’t something your brain produces — but something woven into the fabric of reality itself, all the way down to atoms and molecules?</p><p>In this episode of Potential Paradigms, I sit down with philosopher Dr. Christian de Quincey — professor at the Holmes Institute and the International University of Professional Studies, and author of Radical Knowing, Radical Nature, and Blind Spots — for a deep dive into panpsychism: the view that matter and mind are never separate, and that sentience goes all the way down.</p><p>We walk through the four major worldviews on the mind-body relationship — dualism, materialism, idealism, and panpsychism — and explore why panpsychism might be the most internally coherent framework for understanding reality. Along the way, we touch on:</p><p>* Why materialism’s account of consciousness amounts to “and then a miracle occurred”</p><p>* The Matrix as a modern retelling of Plato’s cave and the idealist worldview</p><p>* Being and becoming, explored through both Kashmir Shaivism and the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead</p><p>* The difference between intelligence and intelligent behavior — and why Christian believes true “artificial intelligence” may be a contradiction in terms</p><p>* Whether machines built from sentient matter could express a kind of augmented, rather than artificial, intelligence</p><p>This was a rich, wide-ranging conversation, and I’m grateful to Christian for the depth and generosity he brought to it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.Learn more about Christian de Quincey's work: https://www.christiandequincey.com/?page_id=2377</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://potentialparadigms.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">potentialparadigms.substack.com</a>
April 25, 2026
<p>What if space itself is not three-dimensional — and what if that single insight resolves the deepest crisis in modern physics? Mainstream science currently accounts for only half a percent of the observable universe. Dark matter and dark energy are not explanations — they are placeholders for something our current frameworks cannot see. </p><p>In this conversation, I sat down with Dr. Subhash Kak — mathematician, information theorist, and polymath — to explore his e-Dimensionality Framework: the proposition that physical space has a non-integer number of dimensions, specifically e ≈ 2.718, the same mathematical constant governing natural growth and information theory. </p><p>From this single foundational idea, this framework derives the inverse square law of gravity, explains nuclear forces, illuminates the structure of DNA, and resolves the Hubble tension that has divided cosmologists for years. The conversation then moves into even deeper territory — the nature of consciousness, the One Observer Theorem, the connection between e-dimensionality and Kashmir Shaivism's concept of spanda, and what it means that the universe is not in a container but is itself still evolving. This was a deep dive for me, not just because it is mathematically elegant but also because it brings consciousness and technology into the picture with possible applications that can create a more coherent world than the one in which we find ourselves! </p><p>If you feel inspired or have a contemplation or question, feel free to leave a comment below, I look forward to it! 📄 Here is Dr. Kak's accessible introduction to the e-Dimensional Universe: https://subhashkak.medium.com/our-e-dimensional-universe-febb3a20fa64</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://potentialparadigms.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">potentialparadigms.substack.com</a>
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