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As Artificial Intelligence rapidly reshapes the landscape of human possibility, an essential question arises: what forms of intelligence are we amplifying, and which are we at risk of forgetting? In my presentation, The Original AI: Remembering Ancestral Intelligence, I explore the enduring presence of a far older intelligence—one rooted not in code, but in culture, embodiment, and lived experience. Ancestral Intelligence is the accumulated wisdom carried through generations in story, ritual, symbol, and the deep knowing of the human body. It offers context, meaning, and ethical grounding—qualities that no algorithm can fully replicate. Rather than positioning these two forms of intelligence in opposition, this talk invites a deeper integration. As we build increasingly powerful external technologies, we are called to also cultivate our inner technologies—the capacities of awareness, attention, and connection that have guided humanity for millennia. Ancestral Intelligence reminds us that intelligence is not only about what we can create, but how we live, relate, and make meaning together. In a world shaped by Artificial Intelligence, it may be this original intelligence that helps ensure our future remains not only innovative, but deeply human... Listen to the full presentation Presented at the Anthropology of Consciousness Conference, April 2026 by Paul Robear, President / Executive Director, CUYA- Cuyamungue Institute. Also available in Spotify  for download Laura Lee, Laura Lee Show, Conversation4Exploration. Conversation 4 Exploration, CUYA - Cuyamungue Institute, Paul Robear

Sacred Architecture is a re-discovery of our collective heritage, showing us how to understand the symbols of change provided by the buildings and monuments of our ancestors. The language of the sacred can be seen in buildings as diverse as the Parthenon, Hopi initiation lodges, Stonehenge, Temple at Luxor, the cathedrals and the Palladian memory theatre, in which astronomical, mythical geometric and structural patterns have been incorporated. From the early astrological and mythical influences which determined the location, form and function of early monuments. From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on  April 15, 1995  on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee . See more at www.lauralee.com Also available in Spotify  for download Laura Lee, Laura Lee Show, Conversation4Exploration. Conversation 4 Exploration, CUYA - Cuyamungue Institute, Paul Robear

Let’s look at the Myths of the Ancients. When you read the thousands of mythologies, as our guest has done over thirty years, we ask him what patterns emerge buried in the stories of the ancient left us? Are there accounts of actual happenings  What did they describe about the world and why did they all reminisce about a golden age? What was that all about? Our guest Dave Talbott, has got an interesting perspective on all of this - just what does ancient stories are your stories or actual histories? From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on July 26, 2001 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee . See more at www.lauralee.com Also available in Spotify  for download Laura Lee, Laura Lee Show, Conversation4Exploration. Conversation 4 Exploration, CUYA - Cuyamungue Institute, Paul Robear

The existence of a secret society known as the Illuminati remains one of the most enduring conspiracy theories of modern times, however it has it’s very real foundation and history - the group itself was real.  The Order of the Illuminati was a secret group founded in Bavaria in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, who believed “the monarchy and the church were repressing freedom of thought”, Weishaupt “decided to find another form of ‘illumination’, a set of ideas and practices that could be applied to radically change the way European states were run. He based his society on the Freemasons, with a hierarchy and mysterious rituals, and named it the Order of Illuminati to reflect the enlightened ideals of its educated members. Dr. Obadiah Harris (1930 - 2019) had spent decades devoting himself to the wisdom traditions of the world.  His career spanned decades and included serving as a minister, a counselor, teacher, professor at New Mexico State University and Arizona State University, public speaker and author of several books. Beginning in 1991 he served as President of the Philosophical Research Society. He also was able to digitize the Manly Hall Library which makes it available to the world. During this process he was able to protect and repair several ancient texts. He retired in 2017 and was granted the title of President Emeritus by the Board of Directors of the Philosophical Research Society and UPR. From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on August 7, 1999 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee . See more at www.lauralee.com Also available in Spotify  for download Laura Lee, Laura Lee Show, Conversation4Exploration. Conversation 4 Exploration, CUYA - Cuyamungue Institute, Paul Robear

Nikola Tesla is the forgotten genius of electricity. He invented or laid the groundwork for many things we take for granted today. Everybody assumes that Thomas Edison devised electric light and domestic electricity supplies, that Guglielmo Marconi thought up radio and George Westinghouse built the world's first hydro-electric power station. not true.  The man who dreamt up these things also invented, inter-alia, the fluorescent light, seismology, a worldwide data communications network and a mechanical laxative. His name was Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American scientist, and his is without doubt this century's greatest unsung scientific hero. Robert Lomas is a British writer, physicist and business studies academic. He writes primarily about the history of Freemasonry as well as the Neolithic period, ancient engineering, and archaeoastronomy. From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on November6, 1999 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee . See more at www.lauralee.com Also available in Spotify  for download Laura Lee, Laura Lee Show, Conversation4Exploration. Conversation 4 Exploration, CUYA - Cuyamungue Institute, Paul Robear

Could the Egyptian Sphinx have been built many centuries earlier than conventional history would have us believe? Could the great natural disasters that propelled the evolution of life on Earth have played a dominant role as well in the rise and fall of civilizations? Could Earth have been home to civilizations far greater in number -- and far older -- than orthodox researchers have suspected?  From his geological analysis of the Sphinx,  Dr. Robert M. Schoch  draws a conclusion that he admits is controversial: that a technologically advanced civilization rose and faded in Egypt long before the time of the pyramids. Adding speculative science and drawing on myth, he asserts that other similarly advanced civilizations flourished around the world, only to be obliterated by global catastrophes brought on by a century-long rain of asteroid impacts. Similar cosmic storms strike once a millennium, he says, triggering or ending ice ages, causing floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions of biblical proportion, precipitating shifts in the earths axis. Robert Milton Schoch is an American associate professor of Natural Sciences at the College of General Studies, Boston University. From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on June 19 1999 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee . See more at www.lauralee.com Also available in Spotify  for download Laura Lee, Laura Lee Show, Conversation4Exploration. Conversation 4 Exploration, CUYA - Cuyamungue Institute, Paul Robear

Dr. Donald Schnell  tells stories where he says  he had extraordinary encounters, where saints and deities appear and offer guidance, and sacred objects materialize from thin air. It is a spiritual adventure  story that includes encounters with an Indian rabbi, levitating gurus, disappearing taxi drivers, and psychedelic (without the use of chemicals) mystical experiences. It is also the story of one man's quest for answers to the "big" questions: Who am I? Where do I fit in the universe? How can my life have meaning? How can I touch the infinite? From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on August 24, 2000  on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee . See more at www.lauralee.com Also available in Spotify  for download Laura Lee, Laura Lee Show, Conversation4Exploration. Conversation 4 Exploration, CUYA - Cuyamungue Institute, Paul Robear

When confronted with a problem, be it ill health, financial worries, or relationship difficulties, we often depend on intellect to solve it. In this radical book,  Wayne Dyer shares with us that there is an omnipotent spiritual force at our fingertips that contains the solution to our problems.   He walks us through a path of seeing and knowing that problems are only illusions created in our minds and that any possible problem that a person can encounter will literally evaporate by following simple life learning principles. Dr. Wayne W. Dyer was the bestselling author of 20 books and had a doctorate in counseling psychology. He lectured across the country to groups numbering in the thousands and appeared regularly on radio and television. He passed away in August of 2015. From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on November 16 2001 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee . See more at www.lauralee.com Also available in Spotify  for download Laura Lee, Laura Lee Show, Conversation4Exploration. Conversation 4 Exploration, CUYA - Cuyamungue Institute, Paul Robear

Understanding Insect Infrared Detection.   Plants and insects communicate through emissions in the infrared frequency range. Why certain insects are attracted only to certain plants, the role of pheromones work in nature, and how plants under stress literally signal insects to come devour them. Deep research into how insects are communicating on the infrared band of frequencies, how they can "read" the plants from a "birds perspective", choosing those plants to feed on, which are weak because those plants have a weaker infrared emission. New concept and knowledge on insect/plant relationships, and points to a whole new way of understanding . Philip S. Callahan, Ph. D., schooled as an entomologist, was stationed in Ireland as a radio technician during World War II. He has written two books dealing specifically with his discoveries there of the seemingly magical properties of the ancient Irish round towers and of certain rocks and rock powders. Dr. Callahan explains that a particle moving faster than the speed of light is called a tachyon, and a message sent by such a particle would actually arrive before it was sent. He also states that he published, in 1986, the first experimental proof that tachyon particles actually exist. (One of the world's great unsolved mysteries is why Dr. Callahan has never been honored with the Nobel Prize in physics for such an amazing and historic achievement.) From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on  April 14,  1994 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee (The Laura Lee Show) . See more at www.lauralee.com  Also available in Spotify  for download Laura Lee, Laura Lee Show, Conversation4Exploration. Conversation 4 Exploration, CUYA - Cuyamungue Institute, Paul Robear

Reinoud de Jonge (a Dutch chemist) and Jay Wakefield (an American biologist) have specialized in the study of megalithic culture. They present their controversial analysis of a dozen archaeo­logical sites, proposing that many petroglyphs are geographic maps. They show how monuments provide numerical data revealing megalithic religion and ancient sailing discoveries in the Atlantic. Examples presented by the guests ,  numeric picture writing at Loughcrew, Ireland, which they suggest reveals that these people gave up their efforts to cross the Ocean west of Green­land in 3200 BC. However, decip­herment of the petro­glyphs at Dissignac, France, shows that they next explored the earth to the east, where they discove­red Australia and Alaska. Subsequently, they found routes across the Atlantic, and built Stonehenge, the monument for the discovery of America. They concluded that these decipherments shed light on a number of mysteries in American prehistory, such as the origin of the Olmec civilization, the Michigan copper mines, and the stone chambers of New England. From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on  August 2,  2002 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee (The Laura Lee Show) . See more at www.lauralee.com  Also available in Spotify  for download Laura Lee, Laura Lee Show, Conversation4Exploration. Conversation 4 Exploration, CUYA - Cuyamungue Institute, Paul Robear

A conversation on the  geometry which, as modern science now confirms, underlies the structure of the universe. The thinkers of ancient Egypt, Greece and India recognized that numbers governed much of what they saw in their world and hence provided an approach to its divine creator. Robert Lawlor sets out the system that determines the dimension and the form of both man-made and natural structures, from Gothic cathedrals to flowers, from music to the human body. He takes us from simple principles to a grasp of the logarithmic spiral, the Golden Proportion, the squaring of the circle and other ubiquitous ratios and proportions. Robert Lawlor (1938-2022) was a mythographer, symbologist and author of several books.  After training as a painter and a sculptor, he became a yoga student of Sri Aurobindo and lived for many years in Puducherry, where he was a founding member of Auroville. In India, he discovered the works of the French Egyptologist and esotericist, R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, which led him to explore the principles and practices of ancient sacred science. From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on  November 20, 1999 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee (The Laura Lee Show) . See more at www.lauralee.com  Also available in Spotify  for download Laura Lee, Laura Lee Show, Conversation4Exploration. Conversation 4 Exploration, CUYA - Cuyamungue Institute, Paul Robear

Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance. Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love--the northern resident orca. In remote Echo Bay, in the Broughton Archipelago, she found the perfect place to settle into all she had ever dreamed of: a lifetime of observing and learning what these big-brained mammals are saying to each other. She was lucky enough to get there just in time to witness a place of true natural abundance, and learned how to thrive in the wilderness as a scientist and a single mother. Then, in 1989, industrial aquaculture moved into the region, chasing the whales away. Her fisherman neighbours asked her if she would write letters on their behalf to government explaining the damage the farms were doing to the fisheries, and one thing led to another. Soon Alex had shifted her scientific focus to documenting the infectious diseases and parasites that pour from the ocean farm pens of Atlantic salmon into the migration routes of wild Pacific salmon, and then to proving their disastrous impact on wild salmon and the entire ecosystem of the coast. Alex stood against the farms, first representing her community, then alone, and at last as part of an uprising that built around her as ancient Indigenous governance resisted a province and a country that wouldn't obey their own court rulings. She has used her science, many acts of protest and the legal system in her unrelenting efforts to save wild salmon and ultimately the whales — a story that reveals her own doggedness and bravery but also shines a bright light on the ways other humans doggedly resist the truth. Here, she brilliantly calls those humans to account for the sake of us all. From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on  May 21, 2002 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee (The Laura Lee Show) . See more at www.lauralee.com  Also available in Spotify  for download Laura Lee, Laura Lee Show, Conversation4Exploration. Conversation 4 Exploration, CUYA - Cuyamungue Institute, Paul Robear

Transcendence can come in many forms. For Mary Rose O’Reilley a year tending sheep seemed a way to seek a spirituality based not on “climbing out of the body” but rather on existing fully in the world, at least if she could overlook some of its earthier aspects.  "Deciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, Mary Rose O’Reilley, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this decidedly down-to-earth, often-hilarious book, O’Reilley describes her work in an agricultural barn and her extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France, where she studied with Thich Nhat Hanh. She seeks, in both barn and monastery, a spirituality based not in “climbing out of the body” but rather in existing fully in the world.”—Publishers Weekly   Mary Rose O'Reilley is an American poet, novelist and writer of non-fiction. From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on  October 29, 2001 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee (The Laura Lee Show) . See more at www.lauralee.com  Also available in Spotify  for download Laura Lee, Laura Lee Show, Conversation4Exploration. Conversation 4 Exploration, CUYA - Cuyamungue Institute, Paul Robear

Our thoughts and emotions follow our beliefs and create the attitudes, assumptions, expectations, and behaviors that determine how we react to life events and what we think is possible. These underlying belief systems drive our behavior.  Similarly, health beliefs influence health behaviors and health outcomes. Growing evidence shows us that negative and worrisome beliefs predispose your body to illness; positive and hopeful beliefs are healing and curative. Can our beliefs be self-fulfilling prophecies? Lolette Kuby brings together inter-disciplinary analysis, the data of common sense, historical data gathered from centuries of observation on the topic of self healing. . she explores the psychological, anthropological, political and historical dimensions of a question that is fundamental not only to the practice of medicine but to understanding the workings of the human mind and human consciousness. Lolette Kuby  taught in the English Department of the Cleveland State University. She held a Ph.D. from the Case Western Reserve University. She also taught at Humber College during her in Toronto.   From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on  September  14,  2001 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee (The Laura Lee Show) . See more at www.lauralee.com  Also available in Spotify  for download Laura Lee, Laura Lee Show, Conversation4Exploration. Conversation 4 Exploration, CUYA - Cuyamungue Institute, Paul Robear

The quest culture has generated a "marketplace" of new spiritual beliefs and practices and of revisited traditions. As Roof shows, some Americans are exploring faiths and spiritual disciplines for the first time; others are rediscovering their lost traditions; others are drawn to small groups and alternative communities; and still others create their own mix of values and metaphysical beliefs.  Here we see an  emergence of five subcultures: dogmatists, born-again Christians, mainstream believers, metaphysical believers and seekers, and secularists. Drawing on surveys and in-depth interviews for over a decade, Roof reports on the religious and spiritual styles, family patterns, and moral vision and values for each of these subcultures. Wade Clark Roof  (1939 - 2019) was a PhD in the sociology and psychology of religion from the University of North Carolina. He was Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion at UCSB. His main areas of research interest are sociology of religion and American religious trends, and he has published widely in both fields, and was serving as editor in chief for Macmillan Reference’s Contemporary American Religion (2000). He also taught a range of both undergraduate and graduate courses on religion and society. From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on  October 23, 1999 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee (The Laura Lee Show) . See more at www.lauralee.com  Also available in Spotify  for download Laura Lee, Laura Lee Show, Conversation4Exploration. Conversation 4 Exploration, CUYA - Cuyamungue Institute, Paul Robear