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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In this deeply embodied conversation, Pamela von Sabljar joins us to explore the fierce grace of relational leadership, the subtle art of polarity, and the invitation to live from the wisdom of the felt sense.

We explore how awakening the feminine is not about gender—but about presence, eros, and the movement of life itself.

Pamela shares how letting go of control and embracing the unknown has shaped her path as a leader and facilitator of emergence.

We also touch on mythic archetypes and how they guide us toward a more connected and life-affirming way of being.

Topics include: shadow integration, decolonizing leadership, Eros as life force, and the future of feminine intelligence in systems change.

If you’ve ever wondered what it means to lead from the body, this one’s for you.

What if artificial intelligence could be a mirror for your soul?

It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the chaos of the world today. But what if, instead of turning away, we could use all that intensity to create something new?

In this episode, we talk with Timothée Brès, a fascinating guide who works at the intersection of technology, culture, and what it means to be truly human. He bridges the worlds of electronic music, body-based healing, and AI to explore how we can grow in confusing times.

In this conversation, you'll discover:

• The surprising power of our inner masculine and feminine energies and how to use them for personal growth.
• A new take on leadership: Why a leader's ability to stay calm is more important than any grand vision.
• How to use AI to see your hidden patterns or "shadow," and why real change has to happen in your body, not just your mind.
• What modern online communities often get wrong and the new kinds of role models we need for the future.
• How to find authentic, unshakable hope by facing reality head-on, not by escaping it. Timothée is the co-creator of the Genesis Experience and a pioneer in AI-assisted inner work.

This conversation is an invitation to step into that messy but creative space where grief, technology, and myth all come together. If you're looking for your footing in a world that feels like it's falling apart, you don't want to miss this.

In this soul-nourishing episode of Voices of Emergence, we’re joined by writer, facilitator, and community builder Monika Jiang, founder of The Oneliness Project. Monika’s life and work explore the fertile space between loneliness and belonging, between estrangement and interdependence.

We talk about the hidden beauty in aloneness, the language of the body, and what it means to build community rooted in care, not hierarchy.

Monika shares her journey of reconnecting with her Chinese heritage, the influence of Thích Nhất Hạnh and Plum Village, and how she holds spaces that soften shame, awaken presence, and invite relational healing.

Together, we reflect on feminine wisdom, ancestral repair, digital intimacy, and why the next Buddha may be a sangha—a collective.

This conversation is an invitation into tenderness, presence, and radical hope.

Learn more: https://oneliness.com
Monika’s Substack: https://oneliness.substack.com

What happens when the stories we grew up with no longer make sense?

In this episode, we sit down with Brendan Graham Dempsey—writer, poet, and cultural philosopher—to explore how we find meaning in uncertain times. Brendan shares his personal journey from losing faith to rebuilding a new relationship with spirituality, story, and culture.

We talk about:

• How to face collapse without falling into despair
• Why grief is a necessary step in any transformation
• What role myth, art, and ritual still play in a modern world
• And how new archetypes might be emerging to guide us

It’s a conversation about meaning-making, inner change, and the bigger picture of where we go from here—individually and collectively.

Whether you're questioning old beliefs, navigating a period of change, or just curious about where culture might be heading, this one’s for you.

In this episode of Voices of Emergence, we sit down with regenerative strategist and eco-linguist Thomas Mansfield, founder of Pale Blue and creator of Cards for Life and the Thinking Like Gaia framework.

Thomas invites us into a living conversation about language, systems, and transformation—from addiction and spiritual awakening to co-designing regenerative cultures. We explore how language either contracts or expands our perception, and how Cards for Life functions as a “synchronicity engine” that rewilds not only our organizations but our very way of seeing the world.

Thomas shares his journey from personal breakdowns to planetary purpose, weaving concepts from permaculture, NLP, and biomimicry into a beautiful new mythos of emergence.

Learn more about Thomas’s work: https://paleblueperspective.com/

Explore the Cards for Life: https://paleblueperspective.com/cards-for-life