Imagine, if you will, a world burning as society crumbles (is this stretching you?), in the perpetual, scorched twighlight of a dying planet, the determined foot of a tall figure crushes a skull on a landscape forged of human bones - that foot belongs to Sequoyah Kennedy and the human bones are the vestiges of the common myths and misunderstandings about artificial intelligence... apparently AI's are better than humans at devising effective metaphors in order to convey useful information - and we'll have to hope for their sake that's true.

In this episode Hine and Buckley invite back to Vayse one of the most intelligent and articulate humans in the material world, Sequoyah Kennedy. Since the Nonsense Bazaar ended SK has gone deep down the rabbit hole of large language models and has returned to help Hine and Buckley get their heads round what artificial intelligence actually means in 2025 and dismisses some of the ubiquitous confusion which surrounds the topic: is the best use of AI as personal assistant and unpaid artists? Are there demons haunting cyberspace? Do androids dream of electric sheep? and he touches on one of the big questions of our time - are we all in very real danger from this soulless, characterless mockery of human ingenuity with no empathy, no conscience and no soul... or will Elon Musk just finally piss off so that we can live in glorious harmony with our wonderful, wise robot buddies? (recorded 11 March 2025)

Thanks to Sequoyah for his patenience in explaining these ocmplex ideas to two middle-aged luddites and thanks, as always to Special K - the man who makes sense of our ramblings, Keith who once again did a sterling job of the show notes. You can give him a follow on Blue Sky here: @peakflow.bsky.social

Sequoyah Kennedy online

Sequoyah's Patreon - Find the links to SK's custom chatbots and other great content here
Empyrean Dream Machines substack
Sequoyah on Twitter/X
Sequoyah on Instagram
The Nonsense Bazaar podcast - Podtail

Hine’s (?) Intro

AI Voice Cloning: Is It the Future or a Cybersecurity Nightmare? - Neil Sahota

Vayse to Face with Sequoyah Kennedy

What is Late-Stage Capitalism? - The Balance
ArtificiaI Intelligence - Wikipedia
Battlestar Galactica | The Cylons Arrive on New Caprica - YouTube
AI with personality — Prompting ChatGPT using Big Five Personality Model values - Medium
Ong’s Hat Compleat - JosephMatheny.com
Ong's Hat: COMPLEAT, by Joseph Matheny, Sequoyah Kennedy - Goodreads
The Nonsense Bazaar 62 - Written By Artificial Intelligence - Podtail
Recommender system - Wikipedia
Relational database - Wikipedia
Facial recognition system - Wikipedia
Large language model - Wikipedia
Are LLMs Just Fancy Autocomplete? Here’s Why It Might Look That Way - Medium
Andrej Karpathy - Intro to Large Language Models - YouTube
Attention mechanism - Geeks for Geeks
Vector space - Wikipedia
Generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) - Wikipedia
Claude (language model) - Wikipedia
ChatGPT - Wikipedia
Llama website (open-source AI models)
Python (comp lang)
Why Can't AI Count the Number of "R"s in the Word "Strawberry"? - HackerNoon
Gods in the machine? The rise of artificial intelligence may result in new religions - The Conversation
Robert Anton Wilson - Wikipedia
Hunter S. Thompson - Wikipedia
From pixels to realism: the evolution of video game graphics - Mainleaf
The Green Dilemma: Can AI Fulfil Its Potential Without Harming the Environment? - Earth.org
The Uneven Distribution of AI’s Environmental Impacts - HBR.org
Almond Milk vs. Cow's Milk: Which Is More Environmentally Friendly? - Treehugger
Elon Musk warns AI could cause ‘civilization destruction’ even as he invests in it - CNN Business
Grok-3 website
Elon Musk's AI assistant Grok roasts its creator - Mashable
Claude AI website
Anthropic (company) - Wikipedia
Amanda Askell’s website
Genie from Aladdin (Robin Williams) - YouTube
Pareidolia - Wikipedia
Artificial consciousness - Wikipedia
Frankenstein’s Monster, AI, and the Perils of Innovation - Medium
David Lynch - Wikipedia
Kundalini - Wikipedia
William S. Burroughs: "Language is a virus from outer space" - FixQuotes
David Grusch UFO whistleblower claims - Wikipedia
Diana Walsh Pasulka - Wikipedia
DARPA - Wikipedia
UFO Twitter
Psilocybin & OCD: Can psychedelics treat obsessive compulsive disorder? - New Atlas
Kabbalah - Wikipedia
Taoism (Daoism) - Wikipedia
AI in 2024: Reaching the Point of Super-Persuasion - YouTube
Cambridge Analytica - Wikipedia
Quantum mysticism - Wikipedia
Google Gemini website
VYS0047 | The Weird Review Of The Year 2024
Don’t be evil (Google motto) - Wikipedia
Rhode Island - Wikipedia
UAP recovery video shows ‘egg-shaped’ object - YouTube
Tarot - Wikipedia
I Ching - Wikipedia
Artificial Intelligence Could Finally Let Us Talk with Animals - Scientific American
Anthropic’s Claude AI is playing Pokémon on Twitch…slowly - TechCrunch
Reality tunnel - Wikipedia
AI through the lens of neurodiversity - Medium
Neural network (machine learning) - Wikipedia
Skynet (Terminator) - Wikipedia
Data (Star Trek) - Wikipedia
The Shamanic Journey - Shaman Links
Aidan Wachter’s website
VYS0042 | Grinding Out Some Low-End - Vayse to Face with Aidan Wachter
The Eagle River Incident (Joe Simonton and the Space Pancakes)
Co-Creation of Reality, Consciousness Evolution, and the Hierarchy of Consciousness in the Cosmic Synthesis Theory (CST) Model - Medium
Information space - Wikipedia
The Imaginal Realm - Imaginal Journeying
The Secret Commonwealth: An Essay of the Nature and Actions of the Subterranean (and, for the Most Part) Invisible People, Heretofore Going under the Name of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies, by Robert Kirk - Goodreads
Meme - Wikipedia
The Power of Language: How Words Shape Our Reality - Medium
AIs are becoming more self-aware. Here's why that matters - AI digest
Jinn - Wikipedia
Live action role-playing game (LARP) - Wikipedia
TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, by Erik Davis - Goodreads
Hermetic Qabalah - Wikipedia
Four Worlds (spiritual realms) - Wikipedia
The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford: Dilettante's Guide to What You Do and Do Not Need to Know to Become a Qabalist, by Lon Milo DuQuette - Goodreads
Twin Peaks - Red Room Full Scene HD - YouTube
Morphine - Like a Mirror - YouTube
A hilarious new Harry Potter chapter was written by a predictive keyboard, and it's perfect - Mashable
Great Filter - Wikipedia
This Wild, Believable Theory Suggests AI Is Blocking Us From Alien Contact - Inverse
VYS0048 | Chinese Sex Balloons - Vayse to Face with Edwina Quatermass-Palmer
Adama's 'So Say We All' Speech - Battlestar Galactica - YouTube

Sequoyah’s recommendations (and other stuff)

ChatGPT website
Sequoyah's Patreon - You can find the links to SK's custom chatbots here
Wind of Change podcast
Under the Silver Lake - Wikipedia
Under the Silver Lake | Official Trailer HD - YouTube
Robert Monroe (The Munroe Institute) - Wikipedia
Songs in the Key of Vayse compilation - Bandcamp

Buckley’s closing question

Data - Best Moments - YouTube
The Best of Bender - YouTube
Short Circuit 1 and 2 - Best of Johnny 5 - YouTube

Vayse online

Website
Twitter
Bluesky
Instagram
Bandcamp (Music From Vayse)
Ko-Fi
Email: vayseinfo@gmail.com

Special Guest: Sequoyah Kennedy.

Support Vayse

Thanks to Keith for the show notes which have, again, gone above and beyond the call of duty!

VYS0025 | Truth with a Capital "T" - Vayse to Face with Sequoyah Kennedy

Sequoyah Kennedy/Nonsense Bazaar/Willow Truman links

Sequoyah Kennedy’s Twitter
The Nonsense Bazaar website
The Nonsense Bazaar Twitter
The Nonsense Bazaar Instagram
Willow Truman’s Twitter
Willow Truman’s Instagram
Atlas Aruba Bandcamp page (Willow’s music)

Biosphere 2 links

Wikipedia Article on Biosphere 2
Biosphere 2, website
The Nonsense Bazaar, Episode 03: Biosphere 2 Part I - A Johnny Dolphin Production
The Nonsense Bazaar, Episode 04: Biosphere 2 Part II - Ecological Thing
Eight go mad in Arizona: how a lockdown experiment went horribly wrong, Guardian article
Spaceship Earth, Biosphere 2 official trailer
Biosphere 2: Our World, footage shot during the two-year mission

Jack Parsons links

Wikipedia Article on Jack Parsons
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 42: Jack Parsons Part I - The Suicide Squad
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 43: Jack Parsons Part II - Io Pan!
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 44: Jack Parsons Part III - Babalon
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 45: Jack Parsons Part IV - Ad Astra, Per Aspera (To the Stars, Through Hardship)

Oneida Community links

Wikipedia Article on Oneida Community
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 47: The Oneida Community Part I - Free Love and Bible Communism
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 48: The Oneida Community Part II - Like Sand Through the Hourglass
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 49: The Oneida Community Part III - Whoops, We’re a Sex Cult

Harry Horse/Drowned God links

Wikipedia Article on Harry Horse (Richard Horne)
Wikipedia Article on Drowned God (video game)
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 10: Harry Horse and Drowned God Part I - The Life and Death of a Prankster
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 11: Harry Horse and Drowned God Part II - The Drowned God
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 40: Harry Horse and Drowned God Part III - A Conversation With a Man in a Gray Suit

“I AM” Activity Movement and related links

Wikipedia Article on “I AM” Activity
Wikipedia Article on Guy Ballard
Wikipedia Article on the Ascended Masters
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 22: The Ascended Masters, An Inquisition Part 0 - Prelude
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 23: The I AM Activity Part I - Saint Germain’s Cup of Cream
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 24: The I AM Activity Part II - Death Blasts Over the White House

Other Selected Nonsense Bazaar Episodes links

The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 94: The Tin Man
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 65: Fae Encounters in the Modern World
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 100: The Bomb
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 75: NLP: Scumbag Magic That Works!

Twin Peaks links

Wikipedia Article on Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks

Other book links

Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious by Erik Wargo
Six Ways: Approaches & Entries for Practical Magic by Aiden Wachter

Taoism (Daoism) links

Wikipedia Article on Taoism (Daoism)
Wikipedia Article on the Tao Te Ching (Dàodé Jīng)
The Tao Te Ching - Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way by Ursula K. Le Guin

OCD link
Wikipedia Article on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

MKUltra/Stargate Project/Psychic Spies links

Wikipedia Article on MKUltra
List of 149 MKULTRA Subprojects, Illuminati Rex website
Operation Midnight Climax: The Sub-Project of MKUltra You Didn’t Know About, Grunge article
Wikipedia Article on the Stargate Project
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 57: America’s Psychic Spies Part I: CIA Man
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 58: America’s Psychic Spies Part II: Galactic Barbecue
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 59: America’s Psychic Spies Part III: Goblin Mode
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 75: NLP: Scumbag Magic That Works!
The Mojito Tapes Vol 1 (life requires a hiatus, but we shall return)

Human Potential Movement links

Wikipedia Article on the Human Potential Movement
Wikipedia Article on The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential

Robert Anton Wilson/Cosmic Trigger/Reality tunnels/Guerrilla ontology links

Wikipedia Article on Robert Anton Wilson
Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson
Wikipedia Article on Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson
Wikipedia Article on Reality tunnel
Introduction to Reality Tunnels: A Tool for Understanding the Post-modern World, Medium article
Wikipedia Article on Guerrilla ontology
Robert Anton Wilson & Guerrilla Ontology, New Dawn Magazine article
Vayse VYS0023: Mercurial, Mutable, Mysterious Something - Vayse to Face with Paul Weston (includes discussion of Cosmic Trigger)

Magic / Psychology / Schizophrenia / Psychosis and related links

Wikipedia Article on Psychological theories of magic
Magical thinking in individuals with high polygenic risk for schizophrenia but no non-affective psychoses—a general population study, Nature article
The Meaning of Magic: The psychology and philosophy of magic, Psychology Today article
The thin line between magick and psychosis?, Reddit thread
Wikipedia Article on Set and Setting (psychedelic drug experience)

Initiation in Shamanism and Western Mystery Traditions links

Ancient Shamanism: Looking at Illness as Initiation, Wellcord article
Shamanic Initiation and the Legacy of Suffering, Huffington Post article
Towards a Definition of Initiation: Emic and Etic Views of Initiation in the Western Mystery Tradition by Jeffrey S. Kupperman, Michigan State University paper

Penny Royal/Oakwood NHIs link

Penny Royal Season One, Episode Seven: The Game (includes Dan Dutton relating his possible encounter with non-human intelligences at Oakwood Hospital, Kentucky, in the 1970s)

Israel Regardie/Therapy and Magick links

Wikipedia Article on Israel Regardie
If you’ve never been to therapy, you’re probably not ready for Magick, Reddit thread

Hat Man/Dark Man/Shadow People/Sleep Paralysis links

The Hatman Project website
Shadow people, Psychonaut Wiki page
Wikipedia Article on Sleep paralysis
VYS0021 | Song of the Dark Man - Vayse to Face with Darragh Mason

Lost objects and pendulum dowsing link

Find lost objects with pendulum dowsing, Friendly Specter article

To The Stars Academy/Tom DeLonge/Hal Puthoff/Jim Semivan links

Wikipedia Article on To The Stars (company)
Wikipedia Article on Tom DeLonge
Wikipedia Article on Harold ‘Hal’ Puthoff
Ex-CIA Officer’s (Jim Semivan’s) Alien Encounter: ‘There Is Non-Human Intelligence Living With Us On Earth’, How and Whys article

Peter Levenda and related links

Wikipedia Article on Peter Levenda
Peter Levenda - To The Stars*, Sekret Machines, The Occult, Non-human Intelligence, video interview
Wikipedia Article on Sekret Machines: Gods, Man, and War (book) by Tom DeLonge and Peter Levenda
Sekret Machines: Gods, Man, and War by Tom DeLonge and Peter Levenda
Wikipedia Article on Simon Necronomincon (grimoire)
Dead Names: The Dark History of the Necronomicon by Simon
The Gates of the Necronomicon by Simon
Sinister Forces Book One: The Nine by Peter Levenda
Sinister Forces Book Two: A Warm Gun by Peter Levenda
Wikipedia Article on Si-Te-Cah (Tribe of red-haired giants)
The Secret Temple: Masons, Mysteries, and the Founding of America by Peter Levenda
The Angel and the Sorcerer: The Remarkable Story of the Occult Origins of Mormonism and the Rise of Mormons in American Politics by Peter Levenda
Stairway to Heaven: Chinese Alchemists, Jewish Kabbalists, and the Art of Spiritual Transformation by Peter Levenda
Wikipedia Article on Simon Magus
Wikipedia Article on Saint Peter
Wikipedia Article on the Acts of Peter.)
Wikipedia Article on Gnosticism
Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult by Peter Levenda

Hellier/Allen Greenfield links

Wikipedia Article on Hellier
Hellier website
Hellier Season 2: Episode 7 - The Trickster (feat. Allen Greenfield)
Allen Greenfield’s Twitter
Vayse VYS0010: Amazing Stories - Vayse to Face with Dr Allen Greenfield Pt 1
Vayse VYS0011: Weird Tales - Vayse to Face with Dr Allen Greenfield Pt 2

UFO/UAP / Disclosure / Project Blue Beam and related links

Wikipedia Article on The X-Files
The X-Files
Wikipedia Article on Extraterrestrial UFO Hypothesis
Wikipedia Article on Jacques Vallée
Wikipedia Article on Close encounter
Wikipedia Article on UFO conspiracy theories: Disclosure
‘We’re done with the cover-up’: UFO claims to get their day in Congress, Guardian article
‘Non-human intelligence’: Schumer proposes stunning new UFO legislation, The Hill article
Wikipedia Article on Serge Monast (Project Blue Beam)
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 12: Project Blue Beam

‘That person is not real’ plane rant / Exo-Biospheric-Organisms Reddit thread links

"That Person Is Not Real"; Plane Woman, Know Your Meme summary
‘I worked as a molecular biologist for a national security contractor in a program to study Exo-Biospheric-Organisms (EBO)’, Reddit thread

Truth, belief and related links

The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 104: Lies in the Sky! The Balloon Hoaxes of 1844 and 2009
UAPMax website
Wikipedia Article on Post-truth politics
Cult Thinking and How to Avoid It, CrimeReads article
The Corkboard Bizarre, Nonsense Bazaar Patreon
The Difference between Objective and Subjective Truth & the Illusion We All Believe, Learning Mind article
Spirit Box S2 #14 / Joshua Cutchin on Ecology of Souls

H.P. Lovecraft/Rhode Island links

Wikipedia Article on H.P. Lovecraft
Wikipedia Article on Providence, Rhode Island
Son of Providence: The weird legacy of H. P. Lovecraft
Wikipedia Article on The Colour Out of Space (short story) by H.P. Lovecraft
The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft

Vayse VYS007 link

Vayse VYS0007 - Too Much to Dream Last Night (in which Hine relates his weird experience in the woods on the Solstice)

Lyra 8 synthesizer link

Lyra 8 description, Soma Laboratory website

Tarot and related links

Wikipedia Article on Tarot
Tarot and Qabalah: A Guide, article by Rachel Anne Williams
Wikipedia Article on Thoth Tarot
Wikipedia Article on Aleister Crowley
Wikipedia Article on Thelema
Wikiepdia Article on Music theory, Wikipedia page
Wikiepdia Article on 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley
Wikipedia Article on Sigils

Count of St Germain and related links

Wikipedia Article on Count of St Germain
Wikipedia Article on Nyarlathotep,
Wikipedia Article on The Doctor (Doctor Who)
Wikipedia Article on St Germain (musician)
St Germain (Toaru Majutsu no Index character)
Wikipedia Article on Bugs Bunny, Wikipedia page
AP Strange, blog
Wikipedia Article on Saint Germain Foundation
Saint Germain Foundation, website
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 20: The Count of St Germain
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 31: Nesara: Saint Germain’s Infinite Monkey Cheat Code
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 52: The Saint Germain Foundation
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 76: The Saint Germain Foundation Part II
Bring Me the Head of the Comte de Saint-Germain (role-playing game)
American Psyop podcast
Wes Clark Jr Twitter and blog

Wikipedia Article on Enoch (Patriarch)
Rabbits podcast
The Council of Nine, article by Wes Penre, originally from Fortean Times 126
Wikipedia Article on Charles Webster Leadbeater
Wikipedia Article on Sovereign Military Order of Malta (Knights of Malta)
Wikipedia Article on Theosophy
Hyperstition: An Introduction, Nick Land interview

Orbs/OBOLs/Pukwudgie and related links
Orbs, Paranormal Encyclopedia article
Phil Legard’s Twitter
Phil Legard’s blog
Wikipedia Article on Will-o-the-wisp
Wikipedia Article on Pukwudgie

Sequoyah’s recommendations links

Wikipedia Article on Dune (novel)
Wikipedia Article on Dune Messiah (novel)
Wikipedia Article on Children of Dune (novel)
Wikipedia Article on God Emperor of Dune (novel)
The Great Dune Trilogy: The stunning collector's edition of Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
God Emperor Of Dune by Frank Herbert
Wikipedia Article on Tabletop role playing game
Best tabletop RPGs 2023, Games Radar article

Kelly Bear's Youtube Channel

Special Guest: Sequoyah Kennedy.

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