In this episode, we sit down with futurist and visionary Lisanne Buik, founder of the Gracious AI philosophy. Lisanne shares her journey from tech entrepreneurship and burnout to receiving a transformative vision that reshaped her approach to technology.

Together, we explore:

• What it means to design technology with grace rather than control
• How feminine and masculine energies can balance in leadership and innovation
• The role of archetypes from nature—like fungi, water, and pollinators—in shaping our future stories
• Why agency, discipline, and embodied practices matter in our relationship with AI
• How storytelling and somatic intelligence can help us navigate between dystopian and regenerative futures

This conversation invites us to rethink not only how we use AI, but how we embody the values that guide it. Will we build technologies that deplete, or ones that regenerate? The choice is ours—and it begins now.

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What does it truly mean to be human in an age of artificial intelligence, cyberdelics, and immersive technologies?
In this electrifying conversation, we’re joined by Carl Hayden Smith—professor, researcher, and mythic technologist—whose work spans extended-state DMT research, journaling as consciousness architecture, and a framework he calls Hyperhumanism: a radical alternative to transhumanism that honors our inner technologies as the real source of transformation.

Carl takes us into the heart of Holotechnica, his practice of stacking embodied and symbolic modalities to create lasting shifts in perception and behavior. Along the way, we explore themes like AI psychosis, sigil magic, and umwelt hacking, and how each relates to the design of rituals and protocols that reshape our relationship to time, death, and meaning.

From DMT entities and memory palaces to journaling with a Hegelian twist, this episode is a deep dive into how context, awe, and symbolic design can remake our inner worlds—and perhaps our futures.

Topics We Explore

* Hyperhumanism vs. transhumanism
* AI and the mythopoetic field of resonance
* Extended-state DMT & the "DMT Island" project
* Context engineering and symbolic protocol design
* Endo-technologies, altered traits, and embodied practices
* Umwelt hacking, sigils, and the edges of perception
* Journaling as a map of time and transformation
* Death literacy, humility, and cathedral consciousness

About Carl Hayden Smith

Carl Hayden Smith is Associate Professor of Media at the University of the Arts London, director at Noonautics, founder of the Museum of Consciousness, and co-founder of the Cyberdelics Nexus. He has raised over £10M in research funding, delivered more than 300 talks in 40 countries, and published widely on consciousness, embodiment, and symbolic design.

Voices of Emergence is a podcast about inner transformation and systemic regeneration, hosted by Alex de Carvalho and Rudy de Waele.

Subscribe to explore the edges of leadership, culture, and consciousness.

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What happens when we treat work as a path of individuation rather than performance?

How do we hold sacred space amid collapse, and what does it take to build the New Earth from the ground of our bodies—not the illusion of control?

In this mythic, soul-stirring episode, strategist-turned-mystic Schuyler Brown joins us to explore the journey from corporate towers to kundalini awakenings, from feminine integration to ethical AI, from old success scripts to the irreversibility of awakening.

We talk about:

- The energetic cost of performing success

- Rebuilding trust between women in leadership

- Feminine and masculine integration through birth, grief, and co-creation

- The role of AI as a mirror for healing and intimacy

- How to stay coherent through collapse without bypassing

- Why control is the illusion that most urgently needs to die

This is a conversation for anyone walking the long road from head to heart—and ready to listen for what wants to emerge.

🔗 Learn more about Schuyler at https://www.artofemergence.com/

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