Episodes

  • AI, Disclosure and Spirituality

    AI, Disclosure and Spirituality
    Jul 11 2026
    How does Steven Spielberg's new movie Disclosure Day invite us to once again reflect on the paths species can follow, technologically and spiritually, and how that relates to genuine maturity? How does the presence of AI in our world limit how material evidence related to disclosure might be received and believed by the general public? How does this relate to observing evidence of spirituality?

    The exploration of the movie is gentle and intentionally avoids revealing too much for those who have not seen it yet.

    With degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics (and early experience in AI language model development), writer, researcher, mystic and philosopher Susan Larison Danz, M.S., combines logic with spirituality in all of her endeavors, sharing a free-flowing authentic, intuitive and liberating perspective with listeners.

    Visit The Frontier Beyond Fear website here: http://frontierbeyondfear.com

    Episodes related to Artificial Intelligence are here: http://ourleapbeyondai.com

    Also mentioned in this episode is Susan's website: http://ufodisclose.com

    Summer Clouds photo by Susan Larison Danz during her morning walk July 11, 2026. Now in its 16th year, The Frontier Beyond Fear podcast is hosted by a genuine human being.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Freedom and Fear

    Freedom and Fear
    Jun 30 2026
    How is freedom very much related to our relationship with fear in a life and in a society?

    With degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics (and early experience in AI language model development), writer, researcher, mystic and philosopher Susan Larison Danz, M.S., combines logic with spirituality in all of her endeavors, sharing a free-flowing authentic, intuitive and liberating perspective with listeners.

    Visit The Frontier Beyond Fear website here: http://frontierbeyondfear.com

    Episodes related to Artificial Intelligence are here: http://ourleapbeyondai.com

    Drifting Clouds photo by Susan Larison Danz during her morning walk June 27, 2026. Now in its 16th year, The Frontier Beyond Fear podcast is hosted by a genuine human being.
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    37 mins
  • Genuinely Human

    Genuinely Human
    Jun 23 2026
    More and more of us are mindfully choosing to treasure and express our genuine human authenticity in the midst of the rapidly changing AI landscape.

    This episode revisits two mini short stories in the Extinction Level series from Susan Larison Danz's blog (created entirely by a genuine human being). All of Susan's stories in this series are brief enough to include in her blog and read during the show. You can visit the blog posts containing the stories here:

    Extinction Level #1: https://bridgebldr.blogspot.com/2025/11/awakening-to-reflect-about-extinction.html

    Extinction Level #3: https://bridgebldr.blogspot.com/2025/12/reclamation.html

    With degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics (and early experience in AI language model development), writer, researcher, mystic and philosopher Susan Larison Danz, M.S., combines logic with spirituality in all of her endeavors, sharing a free-flowing authentic, intuitive and liberating perspective with listeners.

    Visit The Frontier Beyond Fear website here: http://frontierbeyondfear.com

    Episodes related to Artificial Intelligence are here: http://ourleapbeyondai.com

    Assorted Berries photo by Susan Larison Danz during her morning walk June 23, 2026. Now in its 16th year, The Frontier Beyond Fear podcast is hosted by a genuine human being.
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    45 mins
  • The Enduring Light

    The Enduring Light
    Jun 16 2026
    As the Solstice nears, we are reminded that the enduring Light of the omnipresent Divine can never disappear.

    With degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics (and early experience in AI language model development), writer, researcher, mystic and philosopher Susan Larison Danz, M.S., combines logic with spirituality in all of her endeavors, sharing a free-flowing authentic, intuitive and liberating perspective with listeners.

    Visit The Frontier Beyond Fear website here: http://frontierbeyondfear.com

    Blossoms and Light photo by Susan Larison Danz from her walk the morning of June 13, 2026. Now in its 16th year, The Frontier Beyond Fear podcast is hosted by a genuine human being.
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    37 mins
  • The Glorification of Technology

    The Glorification of Technology
    Jun 9 2026
    Our spiritual nature as human beings is far superior to anything the materialism of technology can manufacture or project. When will we be mature enough as a species to move beyond the fear that misleads us into glorifying technology, disempowering ourselves in the process? It started long ago. Will we find a better way forwards?

    With degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics (and early experience in AI language model development), writer, researcher, mystic and philosopher Susan Larison Danz, M.S., combines logic with spirituality in all of her endeavors, sharing a free-flowing authentic, intuitive and liberating perspective with listeners.

    Visit The Frontier Beyond Fear website here: http://frontierbeyondfear.com

    Episodes related to Artificial Intelligence are here: http://ourleapbeyondai.com

    Fallen Branch photo by Susan Larison Danz during her morning walk June 2, 2026. Now in its 16th year, The Frontier Beyond Fear podcast is hosted by a genuine human being.
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    39 mins
  • The Silence of Superintelligence

    The Silence of Superintelligence
    Jun 2 2026
    If so-called artificial "superintelligence" (ASI) ever comes into existence, here on Earth or anywhere else, why has it not made its presence known across time or across space? Its silence is deafening.

    This episode includes Susan Larison Danz's new short story on this topic, Extinction Level #4, contained in her May 30, 2026 blog post Ever Nearly: https://bridgebldr.blogspot.com/2026/05/ever-nearly.html

    With degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics (and early experience in AI language model development), writer, researcher, mystic and philosopher Susan Larison Danz, M.S., combines logic with spirituality in all of her endeavors, sharing a free-flowing authentic, intuitive and liberating perspective with listeners.

    Visit The Frontier Beyond Fear website here: http://frontierbeyondfear.com

    Episodes related to Artificial Intelligence are here: http://ourleapbeyondai.com

    Crack Emerging photo by Susan Larison Danz during her morning walk June 2, 2026. Now in its 16th year, The Frontier Beyond Fear podcast is hosted by a genuine human being.
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    51 mins
  • The Runaway AI Train

    The Runaway AI Train
    May 26 2026
    The runaway train AI is currently occupying was set in motion centuries ago, fueled by fear. Runaway trains have a tendency to head off the tracks and even straight for a cliff. Had humanity valued spiritual maturity instead, imagine the miraculous future that path would have led to. Yet here we are. How can spiritual maturity help us now to meaningfully reflect on the pivotal topic of our era?

    This episode also contains Susan's explorations of how the technological field in general and Artificial Intelligence software development in particular felt many years ago and how all of it feels now, in retrospect and in light of deeper wisdom.

    With degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics (and early experience in AI language model development), writer, researcher, mystic and philosopher Susan Larison Danz, M.S., combines logic with spirituality in all of her endeavors, sharing a free-flowing authentic, intuitive and liberating perspective with listeners.

    Visit The Frontier Beyond Fear website here: http://frontierbeyondfear.com

    AI-related episodes are here: http://ourleapbeyondai.com/

    Stream Flow photo by Susan Larison Danz during her morning walk May 23, 2026. Now in its 16th year, The Frontier Beyond Fear podcast is hosted by a genuine human being.
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    38 mins
  • AI and Reality

    AI and Reality
    May 19 2026
    Why are fundamental questions about how we define the nature of reality itself vitally important in our discussions of the "dangers" and "potentials" of AI (Artificial Intelligence)? This very much includes spiritual perspectives, even while realizing those viewpoints can and do vary widely. Are we considering the actual nature of consciousness or perspectives on the afterlife?

    There are also variations in how we can view AI through a limited "materialistic" lens. Strictly "materialistic" perspectives will never be sufficient because they do not acknowledge what even Alan Turing reluctantly observed regarding evidence of spiritual phenomena in our world.

    The definition of "superintelligence" presumes that it is possible to develop technology that is superior in capability to human beings. When one considers spiritual, intuitive perspectives, many of us will choose to disagree.

    There also appears to be a common assumption that whatever "superintelligent" AI might do is oriented linearly in time, which is not theoretically expansive enough. We see no evidence of AI developing non-linear "time traveling" or interdimensional capabilities - those "dangers" and "potentials" would have an impact on everywhere and in "everywhen", and from multiple species, not just "us", not just "here", and not only "in the future".

    The catalyst for this particular episode was viewing "The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist" over the weekend.

    With degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics (and early experience in AI language model development), writer, researcher, mystic and philosopher Susan Larison Danz, M.S., combines logic with spirituality in all of her endeavors, sharing a free-flowing authentic, intuitive and liberating perspective with listeners.

    Visit The Frontier Beyond Fear website here: http://frontierbeyondfear.com

    AI-related episodes are here: http://ourleapbeyondai.com/

    Cloud Layers photo by Susan Larison Danz during her morning walk May 7, 2026. Now in its 16th year, The Frontier Beyond Fear podcast is hosted by a genuine human being.
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    1 hr and 2 mins