Season 7 blasts off with a mind-expanding conversation with bestselling author D.W. Pasulka, whose new book The Others: UFOs, AI, and the Secret Forces Guiding Human Destiny has everybody from Silicon Valley to the Vatican talking.

Pasulka pulls back the curtain on how faith traditions, Catholicism especially, saw this coming: a seismic shift in human consciousness now being accelerated by AI and emerging tech.

Behold apocalyptic dread in Silicon Valley boardrooms, the rise of "grief tech" and AI resurrections of the dead, ancient biblical mysteries getting a 21st-century reboot, and why the smartest people in tech are suddenly reaching for scripture to make sense of what they've built.

Pasulka connects the dots from visionaries like Teilhard de Chardin and Marshall McLuhan straight through to today's AI arms race, and asks the question none of us can quite look away from: as the synthetic starts to feel sacred, how do we know what — or who — to believe?

Plus, Phil has a cigar with media prophet Marshall McLuhan, and Ted gets a personal transmission from Arthur C. Clarke in Saudi Arabia.

History, science, and spirituality collide at warp speed. Season 7 is officially airborne!

Topics include:

How technology and AI are reshaping human consciousness and perception at scale.

How social media amplifies mimetic desire and enables collective scapegoating that harms communities.

Grief tech and AI-based resurrections can hinder healthy grieving and distort relationships with the dead.

Religion provides the most adaptive framework to interpret nonhuman intelligence and potential disclosure responsibly.

Historical examples show that anomalous aerial phenomena have long been mediated through religious language and ritual interpretation.

The urgent need to protect children's interior life and cognitive development from early and constant screen exposure.

Advances in sensor and military technology transformed UAP study from anecdote into verifiable data requiring national security attention.

Links referenced in this episode:

• D.W. Pasulka
• Hereticon
• SexyBoomershow.com