1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 What if Elon Musk is possessed? This video essay examines the unsettling, dissociated facial expressions Musk made during his stint as Trump's chief buddy at the White House and Mar-a-Lago — and what they reveal about a crisis the materialist worldview can't explain. When Musk fed USAID into &quot;the wood chipper,&quot; Bill Gates told the Financial Times: &quot;the picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one.&quot; Musk was unmoved. He had already gone on Joe Rogan to declare that &quot;the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy&quot; — borrowing the Canadian marketing professor Gad Saad's notion of &quot;suicidal empathy.&quot; This video is adapted from my Substack essays: https://substack.com/@danielpinchbeck/p-195875588 Part One https://substack.com/home/post/p-195999100 Part Two Drawing on the cultural philosopher William Irwin Thompson, the analytic idealist Bernardo Kastrup, the sociologist Peter Berger, and the 2022 and 2025 Nobel Prizes in Physics — which together overturn the materialist paradigm at its foundations — this essay asks whether what we are seeing is what older traditions accurately called demonic possession, and what it means for understanding our techno-fascist moment. In an age where the boundary between the physical and the psychic is dissolving, where ketamine-besotted billionaires play god with our economy and our information environment, are we witnessing what Thompson warned of three decades ago: a screeching breach through which the demonic re-enters the world? #ElonMusk #DemonicPossession #Psychedelics #Consciousness #AI #TechCulture #SimulationTheory #Spirituality #Philosophy #LiminalNews #DanielPinchbeck #Occult #QuantumPhysics #BurningMan #Transhumanism #TechBillionaires #EpistemicCrisis #NewAge #PsychedelicRenaissance #FutureOfConsciousness ================================== Please subscribe to the Liminal News Substack Newsletter! https://substack.com/@danielpinchbeck Please buy my books! https://tinyurl.com/mrsmtpwv Please join my online seminars and community at THE LIMINAL INSTITUTE: www.liminal.news Instagram: &amp;nbsp; @danielpinchbeck Official Website:&amp;nbsp; www.pinchbeck.io/ LIMINAL NEWS with Daniel Pinchbeck http://liminalnews.libsyn.com/podcast <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/41152910/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/item/41152910