October 9, 2026 • 10:00 – 11:30am PDT (find your local time)

A Time Between Worlds:
AI, Mythology, and the Battle for the Soul of Humanity

A Community Gathering with Michael Meade, hosted by Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo

We live in a moment of profound uncertainty, marked by existential planetary threats and the dizzying rise of Artificial Intelligence. Yet this threshold offers a choice: to see these times not simply as a crisis to solve, but as a collective rite of passage.

Drawing from nature, myth, psychology, and ancient wisdom, Michael Meade explores transformation as a fundamental pattern of life—the relentless movement through death, dissolution, uncertainty, and renewal. As humanity navigates unmapped technological landscapes alongside ecological breakdown, Meade traces a path from the metamorphosis of the butterfly and the mystery of the psyche, through the liminal “time between worlds,” toward a larger transformation of humanity and the Earth.

At the heart of this journey lies a vital truth: in an age increasingly dominated by algorithms and rapid machine intelligence, human imagination remains our deepest capacity for navigating radical change, opening our eyes to possibilities that technology, reason, and willpower alone cannot reveal.

Rather than promising easy certainty about where we are headed, Meade invites us to cultivate attention—to recognize the patterns of transformation already unfolding around and within us, and to discover how each of us can actively participate in the renewal of life.