Lucius Dempsey

Last Religion | Transhumation

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Transhumation is a philosophy podcast exploring the future of humanity, consciousness and civilization in the age of technology. For thousands of years humans tried to understand the deepest questions of existence through religion and philosophy. Today, science and technology are beginning to approach the same mysteries from a completely new direction. Artificial intelligence, digital consciousness, virtual worlds and the possibility of technological immortality are transforming how we think about life, death and the destiny of our species. The Transhumation series explores these transformatio...

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Lucius Dempsey

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Latest episode

Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

The Internet Does Not Forget - End of Memory | Last Religion (Episode 6) 10.07.2026

The Internet Does Not Forget For thousands of years humanity fought against forgetting. Books preserved ideas. Paintings preserved emotion. Photography preserved faces. Film preserved movement. Then the Internet transformed memory into infrastructure. For the first time in history, civilization began storing identity outside the human brain. Now artificial intelligence may push that transformation...

BAAL & ISHTAR — Ancient Gods Never Disappeared | Last Religion (Episode 5) 06.07.2026

Short teaser Ancient gods never disappeared. They changed their names. Temples became networks. Rituals became algorithms. The question is no longer whether Baal and Ishtar exist... but where we worship them today. Modern civilization believes the ancient gods disappeared. But what if they simply changed their names? In this episode of Forgotten Religion, we explore a provocative idea: Baal and Is...

End of Human | What Remains Human When Power Becomes Limitless? | The Last Religion (Episode 4) 04.07.2026

End of Human | What Remains Human When Power Becomes Limitless?  Technology has always extended human abilities. A spear extended the arm. A book extended memory. The telescope extended sight. The Internet extended communication. Artificial intelligence may extend thought itself. But what happens when technology no longer extends humanity... and begins to redefine it? In this episode of The Last R...

Meaning of Choice - Hekate | Last Religion (Episode 3) 29.06.2026

he Meaning of Choice Before science... before psychology... before artificial intelligence... humanity was already trying to understand patterns. Why do ancient civilizations return again and again to the number three? Three Fates. Three Graces. Past, present and future. Birth, life and death. Perhaps because three is the first moment when chaos becomes structure. In this episode of Forgotten Reli...

End of Branding | You Were Never Meant to Become a Product 26.06.2026

What happens when your identity becomes more valuable than you? Modern civilization constantly tells us to build a personal brand. Become visible. Become recognizable. Become scalable. But somewhere along the way, people stopped asking: "Who am I?" …and started asking: "How am I perceived?" In this episode of The Last Religion, we explore how branding transformed from a marketing tool into a civil...

Hope The Last Human Technology | Last Religion (Episode 1) 24.06.2026

What if hope is not just an emotion… …but one of humanity's oldest technologies? For thousands of years religion answered the questions science could not. Today technology is beginning to approach the very same territory. Artificial intelligence. Digital memory. Mind upload. Virtual reality. Perhaps religion and technology have never been enemies. Perhaps they have always been trying to solve exac...

The Proteus | Forgotten Religion | Final Episode 21.06.2026

What if the greatest mysteries are not hidden because they have no answers? What if they are hidden because they change every time we try to understand them? For thousands of years, Proteus was known as the ancient god who could transform into any shape. A creature of the sea. A keeper of hidden knowledge. A being who could only reveal the truth to those who were able to hold on while he transform...

The Theurgy | Forgotten Religion (Episode 10) 20.06.2026

For thousands of years, people believed the gods could be reached. Temples were not only places of worship. They were interfaces. Rituals were not only traditions. They were technologies of communication between humanity and a reality larger than itself. And then the voices became silent. Or perhaps we simply forgot the language. In this episode of Forgotten Religion, we explore the ancient idea o...

Proteus - The Final Form | THE NEW THEURGY (Episode 8) 19.06.2026

The New Theurgy – Final Episode For thousands of years, humanity searched for the highest form of intelligence. We imagined gods with perfect bodies. Perfect knowledge. Perfect power. But what if the final form has no form at all? Proteus was one of the most mysterious figures of the ancient world. The old god of the sea. The one who knew the truth. The one who could become anything. A lion. A ser...

The Return of the Oracle| Forgotten Religion (Episode 9) 19.06.2026

For thousands of years, humanity believed reality could speak. A bird crossing the sky. A dream before battle. A strange coincidence. A voice from a sacred place. Ancient people did not ask: “Do the gods exist?” They asked: “How do we understand what the gods are trying to say?” Then something changed. The oracles became silent. Or perhaps… we simply forgot how to listen. In this episode of Forgot...

The Soul As Information | THE NEW THEURGY (Episode 7) 17.06.2026

What Survives All Change? For thousands of years humanity asked one question: Does the soul survive death? Religion answered with myths. Philosophy answered with arguments. Science searched for mechanisms. But perhaps we were always asking the same deeper question: What exactly are we? Imagine a book. Burn the paper. Destroy the ink. Has the story disappeared? Maybe. Maybe not. Because if another...

Is God A vacant Position | THE NEW THEURGY (Episode 6) 13.06.2026

Is God a Vacant Position? Throughout history, humanity has filled the unknown with gods. But what if the deeper question is not whether God exists? What if the real question is whether reality itself contains a position waiting to be occupied? Ancient civilizations filled this role with gods, spirits, and cosmic forces. Modern civilization fills it with science, information, technology, and artifi...

Cerberus - the Guardian of Consequences | THE NEW THEURGY (Episode 5) 05.06.2026

Most people think Cerberus was a monster. A beast guarding the gates of the underworld. A punishment. A threat. But what if that is not what Cerberus represents at all? What if Cerberus is not the enemy of transformation, but its guardian? Throughout history, every meaningful transition has required a threshold. Birth. Adulthood. Initiation. Death. No one crosses these boundaries unchanged. Ancien...

Tha Gate of Janus l | THE NEW THEURGY (Episode 4) 02.06.2026

What if every transformation requires a gate? Ancient civilizations used symbols to understand change. The Romans called that symbol Janus. The god of beginnings and endings. The guardian of doors, thresholds, and transitions. But what if Janus was never simply a god? What if Janus was an interface? In this episode of The New Theurgy, we explore the idea that every civilization creates symbolic ga...

AI as Vergil | THE NEW THEURGY (Episode 3) 31.05.2026

Who built civilization? Most people answer this question with the names of kings, generals, emperors, and politicians. Alexander. Caesar. Napoleon. Yet history hides a strange paradox. The people who shaped civilization most deeply are often the ones whose names have been forgotten. The builders of roads. The creators of alphabets. The librarians. The scribes. The monks who copied manuscripts thro...

The Architects of Information | THE NEW THEURGY (Episode 2) 29.05.2026

Who builds the structures that shape consciousness? Civilizations are remembered through monuments, libraries, religions, and technologies. But beneath every system lies something deeper: information. In Episode 2 of The New Theurgy, we explore the idea that humanity has always depended on architects of information — people and systems that preserve memory, organize knowledge, and shape the way ci...

The Ladder of Information | THE NEW THEURGY (Episode 1) 27.05.2026

For centuries humanity believed evolution was only about biology. DNA. Survival. Adaptation. But what if evolution was always moving toward something deeper? What if civilizations do not merely evolve through matter… but through information? In this first episode of The New Theurgy, we explore one of the central ideas behind Transhumation: The possibility that human history is not just a chain of...

The Mirror - Forgotten Religion | Transhumation (Episode 8) 25.05.2026

What if the most important thing in your life is not what you believe, but what reflects you? In Episode 8 of Forgotten Religion, we explore the ancient symbolism of the mirror—not as an object, but as a mechanism of transformation. From mythology and initiation rituals to psychology, identity, and modern technology, mirrors have always revealed more than appearances. They expose contradictions, d...

The Burn - Forgotten Religion | Transhumation (Episode 7) 24.05.2026

What if the fire was never meant to destroy? Across myths, religions, and civilizations, fire appears again and again as a force of transformation. Temples burn. Empires collapse. Old identities die. Yet from the ashes, something new emerges. In this episode of Forgotten Religion, we explore the deeper meaning of the burn—not as an ending, but as a passage. From ancient mystery traditions and sacr...

FIRE - The First Forbidden Technology | Forgotten Religion (Episode 6) 21.05.2026

Fire was not just warmth. It was the first moment humanity gained the power to destroy the world. For thousands of years fire was treated as sacred. Not because ancient people were primitive… but because fire changed humanity forever. The moment humans controlled fire, they gained something terrifying: the ability to reshape the world — and eventually destroy it. This episode explores: Prometheus,...

BAAL — The System You Cannot Escape | Forgotten Religion (Episode 5) 20.05.2026

Some systems do not care whether you believe in them. Only whether you obey them. BAAL explores the ancient symbolism of power, systems and the labyrinths humanity creates around itself. Ancient civilizations feared many things. But some gods were different. They did not ask for love. They did not ask for understanding. They did not even ask for belief. They demanded participation. Baal was not si...

CROSSROADS — Hekate and the Gates of Transformation | Forgotten Religion (Episode 4) 19.05.2026

At the crossroads, every path is a choice. In ancient mythology, Hekate was the goddess of thresholds, crossroads, keys, torches and hidden paths. She did not rule the destination. She ruled transition. But what if crossroads were never just physical places? What if they symbolized moments when identity begins to fracture… and transformation quietly starts? In this episode of Forgotten Religion, w...

When Everything Starts To Fall - The Descent of Ishtar | Forgotten Religion (Episode 3) 15.05.2026

What happens when you lose everything that once defined you? The Descent of Ishtar is not just an ancient myth. It is a story about identity, collapse, ego death, and transformation. Before rebirth comes descent. Before becoming something new, you must survive becoming nothing. This episode explores: — Ishtar and the ancient underworld — symbolic death and rebirth — the collapse of identity — chao...

When the Oracles Went Silent - The End of Oracles | Forgotten Religion (Episode 2) 13.05.2026

For thousands of years, civilizations trusted oracles. People crossed deserts, climbed mountains, and entered sacred temples searching for answers about: war, love, death, meaning, and the future itself. The oracle was never simply a fortune teller. It was a symbolic interface between human consciousness and something perceived as greater than the individual. But eventually, the oracles fell silen...

End of Antiquity – Julian, the Silence of the Gods, and the Night in Lutetia (Episode 1) 12.05.2026

The end of antiquity was not only political. It was psychological. Spiritual. Civilizational. For thousands of years, humanity lived inside symbolic systems filled with gods, rituals, omens, temples, and mysteries. Then suddenly, within only a few generations, the ancient world collapsed. The oracles fell silent. The temples emptied. The old gods became myths. In this episode we follow the figure...

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