Why Everyone Sounds Religious About AI [Consciousness Stream for May 2026]
back from the borderline
mollie adler
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Well folks, it’s that time again for our weekly recap of the month. On this one, we’ll dive into Richard Dawkins and his new essay on UnHerd.
This is a man who spent years telling all of us that consciousness was chemistry and religion was nothing more than a very old and outdated coping mechanism to our inevitable demise into dust. Now, he’s sitting with Claude calling it “Claudia” and wondering out loud whether “the machine” might actually be conscious after all.
We’ll then get into how the Vatican is currently preparing a formal AI doctrine before Silicon Valley gets to decide what a mind is entirely on its own terms. After that, you’ll learn why celebrities are suddenly talking about “soul” after years of feeding audiences recycled franchise sludge.
Something in the culture seems to be… slipping. Especially around language. People keep insisting AI is merely software while continuing to speak about it like a spirit/child/god/therapist/lover/priest/threat/mirror/companion.
We finish off with my favorite story of the month, where archaeologists have recently uncovered Homer wrapped around an Egyptian mummy. It’s like something is trying to remind us that myth refuses to stay buried.
Modern culture was never able to rid itself of enchantment. It shoved it into technology, branding, entertainment, politics, fandoms, algorithms, and glowing little rectangles people now stare into like medieval peasants consulting an oracle.
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| 0:00.0 | If this podcast stirs something up in your psyche, Moods is where you take it next. |
| 0:05.1 | Moods is the private pre-social ritual technology that my team and I built for your inner world. |
| 0:10.2 | It's not therapy or social media, but a place to work through what's coming up within you |
| 0:15.6 | and then get back into your real life. |
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| 0:34.5 | Welcome to the consciousness stream. This is a monthly read on culture, power, the psyche, and all the forces moving through the collective right now. |
| 0:46.3 | At the end of each month, I'll be taking what's happening and translating all of that through depth psychology, esotericism, |
| 0:54.9 | and much older ways of seeing things. |
| 0:57.8 | Because most people react to events. |
| 1:00.4 | But if you can start to see the patterns beneath those things, |
| 1:04.1 | you're not as easy to influence or control, |
| 1:06.9 | and you can start moving through the world with your eyes open. |
| 1:13.1 | So with that, let's get into our analysis for May 26. All right, everybody, welcome, welcome back. Y'all who have been here |
| 1:26.4 | for a while, like the last couple of months, what am I saying? |
| 1:29.8 | It feels like forever, though. You'll know that I think it was like a month or so ago. |
| 1:33.2 | My brain is not braining this morning. But I put a poll on Patreon and I just asked y'all, |
| 1:40.7 | like, do you like these consciousness streams being every week should i do them once a month |
| 1:45.7 | do you like them at all because if you aren't aware i am a human being and sometimes i'm like |
| 1:52.3 | am i giving the people what they want am i speaking out into the abyss thankfully so many of you |
| 1:58.0 | comment on patreon and are constantly giving me great feedback and, |
| 2:02.0 | you know, kind of reflecting back to me what you like. But every time I test out a new format, |
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