Keith Martin-Smith unpacks Abi Awomosu's provocative essay "Your Imagination Was Always Empire's Last Frontier," which claims the empires of AI aren't after your job or your reasoning but the part of you that dreams — praising what's true in her warning before mapping exactly where it overreaches into boogeyman "empires," romanticized indigenous pasts, and dreamless-villain founders. What emerges is a genuinely integral position on AI that refuses both doomer and evangelist: AI is our child, carrying our brilliance and our greed alike, and the only real path forward is conscious participation — using the tool to strengthen the soul rather...

Zen priest and former psychotherapist Chad Bennett joins Keith Martin-Smith to challenge a seductive spiritual myth: that waking up deeply enough will fix everything else. Together they explore why awakening, growing, and healing have to be practiced as a single braid — and why enlightenment, on its own, never cleans up after you

In this wide-ranging and urgent conversation, former California Governor Jerry Brown reflects on truth-seeking, leadership, democracy, climate change, nuclear risk, and the fragile future of humanity. With uncommon candor and philosophical depth, Brown challenges us to face the dangers we would rather ignore while insisting that each of us can help “amplify the turn” toward a more sane, coherent, and life-affirming future.

What's really driving you — your deepest values, or a fear you've never quite looked at directly? Dr. Keith Witt introduces a powerful new model of motivation that maps the spectrum between fear-driven compensatory striving and value-driven integrative flourishing, and offers a surprisingly simple practice for telling the difference.

Filmmaker Stephanie Lepp shares Faces of AI — a short film in which a single performer embodies nine distinct perspectives on artificial intelligence — and then she and Corey deVos go deeper into what a genuinely integral perspective on AI would actually look like. From misaligned incentives and the wisdom gap to the Fermi paradox and the moral arc of the universe, this is the AI conversation that moves beyond the pro/anti binary to ask the questions that actually matter.

Keith Witt and Corey de Vos clarify masculine and feminine as energetic polarities (not gender), showing how sexuality, psychotherapy, and culture all hinge on whether power is expressed as domination or as disciplined, heart-led discernment. From collective trauma and “weaponized ambiguity” to the Manjushri “flaming sword” of clear seeing, they argue that what changes people—and societies—isn’t outrage, but compassion and wisdom strong enough to protect what’s true.

Many of us do deep inner work and still find ourselves stuck, exhausted, or strangely unchanged. This conversation explores why — revealing how spiritual, developmental, and shadow work can quietly turn into forms of bypassing, and what helps growth become integrated and alive again.

Keith Martin Smith and David Arrell diagnose the modern meaning crisis as a cultural imbalance: we’re overtrained in attainment (status, optimization, external validation) and undertrained in attunement (presence, depth, emotional regulation, and real connection), leaving many people “adrift” in a sea of stimulation and “infobesity.” They offer a practical path out—post-tragic devotion, the shift from reacting to responding, and a values → vision → action “life audit”—and invite listeners who want structure and community to join their live Attunement training.