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Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck

Daniel Pinchbeck

Exploring the edge realms of culture, politics, science, and consciousness. danielpinchbeck.substack.com

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22:42

Should Elon Musk Be King of America?

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2025/01/06

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danielpinchbeck.substack.comLast week, investigative journalist and MAGA mainstay Laura Loomer was "deplatformed" on Twitter/X by Elon Musk, for comments about the H1B visas. Loomer describes herself as a "free speech absolutist" whose book, Loomered, chronicles how she was previously censored and banned by tech platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and even UberEats. For many Leftists, this seemed a big "I told you so" moment: it was

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30:00

Psychedelics and the Underground

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2025/01/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danielpinchbeck.substack.comThe event "Psychedelics and the Underground," organized by The Psychedelic Assembly, took place on December 17, 2024, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at 222 E 46th St, New York.Moderated by Daniel Pinchbeck, the panel featured experienced facilitators discussing the evolving landscape of underground psychedelic practices. The conversation shed light on the chal…

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35:47

The Seductive Emptiness of Bitcoin

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2024/12/28

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danielpinchbeck.substack.comLike everyone else, I notice the skyrocketing value of Bitcoin compared to anything else. On the one hand, feel uneasy about it, yet, on the other, I wonder if I should invest my paltry life savings into the stuff. Bitcoin seems to defy any economic law of gravity to keep going up, and up, unattached to anything tangible or real. To address my uneasiness, I spoke with Brett Scott, who writes the Altered States

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40:18

The Coming Cryptocracy

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2024/12/08

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danielpinchbeck.substack.comToday we are experimenting with a slightly different podcast format. I am introducing a guest host, Mark Patterson (see below for his bio), who has great insight into the crypto world, Elon Musk, Vitalik Buterin, and so on. In this wide-ranging conversation, we discuss both the dangerously totalitarian and potentially emancipatory power of cryptocurrencies; the rise of Elon Musk; Technocracy, Inc.; the Venus

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15:00

The State of Disunion

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2024/12/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danielpinchbeck.substack.com“The thing that might save us is if [Trump] overreaches over the next year or two, crashes the economy, screws things up badly, and Democrats take power again in the 2026 elections and can bring America back to a rational center and back to its senses.” - Thom HartmannI always enjoy my conversations with the political analyst and ecologist Thom Hartmann…

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122:20

Should the US Become a Technocratic Monarchy?

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2024/11/25

A few weeks ago, I attended Hereticon in Miami, an annual conference dedicated to “thoughtcrime,” hosted by Founders Fund, the legendary investment vehicle steered by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, who helped Donald Trump win in 2016 and funded JD Vance’s Senate campaign. I am not sure why I was invited. Probably because the event has a Doomsday / Apocalypse theme and I wrote books on that topic. I will write more about Hereticon later. Topics discussed included biotechnology, geo-engineering,

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16:00

A Global Shift to Authoritarian Populism

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2024/11/16

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danielpinchbeck.substack.comQuick note: I am trying out bluesky and invite you to follow me there.I am grateful for my friendship with Melik Kaylan, a Conservative journalist and New York bon vivant with a long, fascinating career. He currently writes regularly for Forbes (archive of his contributions here) and The Wall Street Journal. I remember him, decades ago, as a writer on antiquities for Connoisseur Magazine, where I worked for a

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30:00

What Now?

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2024/11/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danielpinchbeck.substack.comWe held a community call last Friday for paid subscribers. I intend to start holding these every two weeks, with the next one on Friday, November 22. I will let you know the exact time and date in a few days. I really hope you will join us. I find this community a remarkable braintrust of intelligent, kind, and open-minded people who have the rare ability to balance social/political and esoteric/mystical modes

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64:01

Should the US Support Ukraine?

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2024/10/29

Many people support Trump over Harris in the upcoming election because they believe he will resolve the Ukraine War by ending US military support to Ukraine. This will allow Putin’s army to conquer a sovereign, Democratic country, “Russify” its population and take its resources. There is fear, also, that the conflict could escalate into nuclear war. People also think it is too costly for the US to keep supplying Ukraine with armaments. But what do we lose if we let Putin have his way?To provide

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15:14

Podcast: Radical Love

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2024/10/27

I am going to record audio versions of some of my recent essays, which will go out as podcast episodes on Spotify, etc. I hope you enjoy them in this form! Radical LoveAs a counterpoint to technological elitism, this essay introduces the philosophy of radical love, inspired by thinkers like Satish Kumar. It argues that empathy and compassion are powerful responses to authoritarianism, contrasting the values of love and human connection with the tech oligarchs' vision of control and conquest. Radical

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105:44

Our Predicament

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2024/10/20

Hi Folks, Above is the video of yesterday’s community call on the election. We are moving into action mode! From what I understand, the two best groups which need your donations right now are Move the Vote and Seed the Vote. If you want to help prevent a Fascist dictatorship in the USA, I would give to both of these groups as much as you can today. The other highest leveraged way to contribute doesn’t require donating money:We will be holding a training session on how to use the Reach app for my

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7:15

Humility or Humiliation?

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2024/09/20

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danielpinchbeck.substack.comHi People! I wanted to get back into the habit of offering more informal videos in which I encapsulate my thoughts… You can listen to my ramblings as you do your morning exercises, or whatever is best. Right now, I am exploring the catastrophic degeneration of formerly “spiritual Left” influencers like Russell Brand and Charles Eisenstein, who now suppo…

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51:50

Sex, Shame, Consciousness, and Freedom

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2024/09/09

Chloe Macintosh is the founder and CEO of Kama, the #1 destination for sexual education and sexual exploration. Kama is a community and app that launched in 2020 with the mission to bring great Sex and Intimacy Education to every body. She is also a Venture Partner at Felix Capital. Before Kama, Chloe was the Chief Creative Officer for the Soho House Group. She co-founded Made.com in 2010, which IPO’d just under 1B in 2021. She spent the first 9 years of her career as Associate Partner at Norman

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9:06

Islamic Angels, Nuclear Fusion, DMT Visions, and...

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2024/06/23

I thought I would share some current thoughts. Also, I wanted to promote our upcoming seminar, The Future of Consciousness, with over 15 incredible speakers.Please join up now, while the “early bird” special is still available. The full price for the seminar is $333.33 but we are offering an early bird special until next Thurday at $223.33 (1/3rd off):Please let me know your thoughts and comments! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus

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3:01

The Future of Co-Creativity

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2024/06/22

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danielpinchbeck.substack.comI first encountered Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler when I read his “Dark Forest Theory of the Internet” (2019). Recently, I discovered his new company, Metalabel, and new manifesto, “The Post Individual”, as well as his recent book, This Could Be Our Future, where he proposes countering the current financial model of profit-maximization with a …

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1:31

Does Free Will Exist?

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2024/05/23

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danielpinchbeck.substack.com(Transcript)I've been looking forward to getting back to some of the questions that people raised when I first put a call out for these videos. Somebody, I think it was Victoria, asked me about free will, what my thoughts were on free will. And actually, I addressed this in Quetzalcoatl Returns, originally published as 2012, the Return of Quetzalcoatl. …

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0:46

Post-Capitalism or Bust

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2024/05/17

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danielpinchbeck.substack.comThis morning on Twitter, I came across Roger Hallam's tweets. Roger is one of the co-founders of Extinction Rebellion. He shared a video featuring James Lovelock, a renowned scientist and one of the founders of the Gaia hypothesis who passed away recently. In this video clip from a few years back, Lovelock stated that, according to his understanding of climate change, Europe will essentially no longer be

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6:30

The Psychedelic Future of the World

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2024/05/14

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danielpinchbeck.substack.comWhat follows is the first in a series of video responses to questions from subscribers on any aspect of my work and thought, or even other related ideas. Please join our community and share your thoughts and questions in the comments.Hey, everyone!First of all, thank you for so many amazing questions in the chat. Over the next days, I'll try to get through some of them. Also, I think it would be really

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3:00

How Does Magic Work?

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2024/05/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danielpinchbeck.substack.comHey everybody!I'm excited about this new video exploration as I feel it might be a great way to get ideas out, share ideas, communicate. And once again, I'd love it if anybody has questions that they would love me to address, knowing my work, basically any topic or even, it doesn't even have to be connected to my work. I will try to do it in a future video if it seems pertinent.Today I just wanted to share a

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3:30

What's Wrong with Romantic Love?

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck ·

2024/05/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danielpinchbeck.substack.comI thought I would try something new: I will do weekly videos responding to questions that Subscribers have on any topic whatsoever, if I feel I have useful or interesting ideas on the subject. Please let me know what you think of this video in the comments, and please ask me questions on any aspect of my work or beyond, and I will seek to answer in future videos. Below is a transcript for those who prefer to

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