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Steven Kotler is an author and entrepreneur, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at Florida Atlantic University. He is the Founder and Director of the Flow Research Collective. His non-fiction books include The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer, Mapping Cloud 9, Tomorrowland: Our Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact, and The Rise of Superman. In addition, he has written three novels. He has also coauthored a number of non-fiction books with Peter Diamandis, including The Future is Faster Than You Think, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think, and Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World. He will be discussing his newest book coauthored with Peter Diamandis, We Are As Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance.
Steven discusses how humanity is rapidly entering an “Age of Abundance” driven by exponential technologies such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, automation, and advanced communications systems. He explains that while these innovations are creating unprecedented opportunity, they are also overwhelming human biology, contributing to anxiety, burnout, cognitive overload, and social instability because the human brain evolved for scarcity rather than exponential change. Kotler argues that cultivating flow states, adaptive flexibility, curiosity, creativity, and meaningful human engagement may be essential for thriving psychologically, spiritually, and socially in the accelerating world now emerging.
00:00:00 Introduction
00:03:10 Abundance and scarcity
00:08:07 Godlike technology
00:11:22 Anxiety and overload
00:18:50 Flow as survival
00:25:22 Understanding flow
00:32:31 AI and cognition
00:42:35 Environmental renewal
00:51:48 Adaptive flexibility
01:03:45 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 is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science.
(Recorded on May 16, 2026)
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Download and read Jeffrey Mishlove's Grand Prize essay in the Bigelow Institute competition, Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death, go to bigelowinstitute.org/docs/1st.pdf.
You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on amzn.to/3LzLA7Y (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.)
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Steven Kotler is an author and entrepreneur, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at Florida Atlantic University. He is the Founder and Director of the Flow Research Collective. His non-fiction books include The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer, Mapping Cloud 9, Tomorrowland: Our Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact, and The Rise of Superman. In addition, he has written three novels. He has also coauthored a number of non-fiction books with Peter Diamandis, including The Future is Faster Than You Think, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think, and Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World. He will be discussing his newest book coauthored with Peter Diamandis, We Are As Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance.
Steven discusses how humanity is rapidly entering an “Age of Abundance” driven by exponential technologies such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, automation, and advanced communications systems. He explains that while these innovations are creating unprecedented opportunity, they are also overwhelming human biology, contributing to anxiety, burnout, cognitive overload, and social instability because the human brain evolved for scarcity rather than exponential change. Kotler argues that cultivating flow states, adaptive flexibility, curiosity, creativity, and meaningful human engagement may be essential for thriving psychologically, spiritually, and socially in the accelerating world now emerging.
00:00:00 Introduction
00:03:10 Abundance and scarcity
00:08:07 Godlike technology
00:11:22 Anxiety and overload
00:18:50 Flow as survival
00:25:22 Understanding flow
00:32:31 AI and cognition
00:42:35 Environmental renewal
00:51:48 Adaptive flexibility
01:03:45 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 is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science.
(Recorded on May 16, 2026)
For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see newthinkingallowed.com/Listings.htm.
Check out the New Thinking Allowed Foundation website at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as opportunities to shop and to support our video productions – plus, this is where people can subscribe to our FREE, weekly Newsletter and can download a FREE .pdf copy of our quarterly magazine.
To order high-quality, printed copies of our quarterly magazine: NTA-Magazine.MagCloud.com
Check out New Thinking Allowed's AI chatbot. You can create a free account at awakin.ai/open/jeffreymishlove. When you enter the space, you will see that our chatbot is one of several you can interact with. While it is still a work in progress, it has been trained on 1,600 NTA transcripts. It can provide intelligent answers about the contents of our interviews. It's almost like having a conversation with Jeffrey Mishlove.
If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to friends@newthinkingallowed.com.
To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-thinking-allowed-audio-podcast/id1435178031.
Download and read Jeffrey Mishlove's Grand Prize essay in the Bigelow Institute competition, Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death, go to bigelowinstitute.org/docs/1st.pdf.
You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on amzn.to/3LzLA7Y (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.)
To order the second book in the New Thinking Allowed Dialogues series, Russell Targ: Ninety Years of ESP, Remote Viewing, and Timeless Awareness, go to amzn.to/4aw2iyr
To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: UFOs and UAP – Are We Really Alone?, go to amzn.to/3Y0VOVh
To order a copy of Charles T. Tart: Seventy Years of Exploring Consciousness and Parapsychology, go to amzn.to/4oOUJLn
