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The Coming of a Spiritual Dustbowl with James Tunney

James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, artist, scholar, novelist, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution; also Empire of Scientism: The Dispiriting Conspiracy and Inevitable Tyranny of Scientocracy, TechBondAge: Slavery of the Human Spirit, Human Entrance to Transhumanism: Machine Merger and the End of Humanity, and Plantation of the Automatons, Mystic Murmuration, The Mythic Aim of AI: Maiming the Mind, and AI-Posthumanism: A Cryptic Soap Opera. His most recent book is AI-Govnerveance: Care and Possession in Dustopia. His website is https://www.jamestunney.com/

Here he focuses on the implications of nanotechnology and artificial intelligence if used for the purpose of controlling human beings in a near-robotic manner. He warns that humanity is at risk of seeing such challenging developments emerge in the coming decade, and will extend its reach inside our bodies.

00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:08 Total control of the human being
00:10:06 Nanotechnology and “smart dust”
00:20:28 Materialism and atomism
00:28:09 Damage to the human soul
00:40:33 Human freedom to rebel
00:46:53 Abusive forms of caring
00:55:30 Achieving balance
01:06:19 Spirituality within religion
01:15:13 Final thoughts and conclusion

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He currently serves as Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science.

(Recorded on April 19, 2025)

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