Earth Ancients

What is artificial intelligence? How does it work? Who is behind it? What can we expect from it in the future? Good questions, and we have the answers!

Artificial intelligence is popping up everywhere: in Google searches, calls to customer service, and in healthcare, education, and personal assistants—to name just five. It’s rapidly changing businesses and our lives. Covering the basics, its history, and the science behind it, The Handy Artificial Intelligence Answer Book is the perfect starting point to understanding the emerging AI revolution, what is currently possible, what might be possible in the future—and what’s just hype. Tackling what has been, what is, and what will be—and the “what ifs”—of AI, this informative book answers more than 1,400 questions, such as …
What does the term "artificial intelligence" actually mean?
What real-world AI tools do people use daily, like Alexa, Netflix, and facial recognition?
How do AI algorithms adapt to changes in search trends and user behavior?
What is AI-based image stabilization in smartphones and cameras?
How does AI assist in surgical procedures and robotic surgery?
How does the use of AI in surveillance affect human rights?
What industries are most vulnerable to automation and AI-driven job loss?
How can AI recognize human emotions and adapt its responses accordingly?
What can we learn from other technologies as we consider how AI will shape our world?
And hundreds more!

Informative, provocative, and intriguing, The Handy Artificial Intelligence Answer Book looks at this emerging technology and what the past might tell us about the future. Ponder the potentials—and the perils—with this enlightening examination of AI!
A.G.G. Liu is a writer and online educator based in New Jersey. Liu has reached millions of online learners on YouTube—both as the lead script writer for the AI and futurism channel Rational Animations, and through their own educational channel, Signore Galilei, which was started during college at Harvard. Liu co-authored the book 30-Second Space Travel with Dr. Charles Liu and Dr. Karen Masters and co-hosts the podcast The LIUniverse with Dr. Charles Liu. Residing in Bloomfield, New Jersey, Liu also enjoys singing, amateur radio, and strategy games.

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My name is Bibhu Dev Misra and I live in Kolkata, India, with my family. 

Like most urban-educated boys, I followed the traditional route to success in my early life. As someone who was comfortable with science, I did my engineering from IIT Kharagpur and subsequently completed my MBA from IIM Kolkata. I worked as an Information Technology consultant for more than 20 years, and spent a number of years working in the US for various multinational organizations, including the World Bank and the United Nations. 

It was early on in my work life that I was exposed to the writings of researchers such as Graham Hancock, Michael Cremo, Adrian Snodgrass, Joseph Campbell, Walter Cruttenden, Subhash Kak and others, who were looking at our past with a new spirit of inquiry, and identified a number of glaring inconsistencies in the version of history that has been handed down to us. 

Their writings inspired me to begin a journey of seeking answers to a large body of mysterious knowledge left behind by our ancestors in the form of sacred texts, inexplicable artifacts, awe-inspiring architecture, cryptic symbols, and fantastic myths and legends. To this end, I also began traveling to many ancient sites around the world in order to gain a first hand experience of these remarkable places.

In addition to travel and writing, my other interests are music, sports, and photography. When I am not researching, writing, or traveling to ancient sites, I like to strike up a tune on my guitar or keyboard, read books or watch films on ancient mysteries and esoteric subjects, go for long walks, and practice yoga and meditation.

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Beyond Disclosure: Voices of Contact

With Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day reigniting public interest in UFOs, UAPs, and the possibility of non-human intelligence, Destiny takes a different path. Rather than focusing on headlines, government hearings, or speculation, this special presentation revisits some of the most compelling voices ever featured on the program. Through conversations with renowned authors, experiencers, researchers, and investigators—including Whitley Strieber, Chris Bledsoe, and others—we explore the deeply personal stories, groundbreaking research, and thought-provoking ideas that continue to shape the global conversation surrounding contact.

Beyond Disclosure: Voices of Contact is more than a retrospective—it's an exploration of one of humanity's greatest mysteries through the words of those who have lived it, studied it, and challenged conventional thinking. From extraordinary encounters and unexplained phenomena to the relationship between consciousness and contact, this special edition of Destiny invites listeners to look beyond disclosure itself and consider the profound questions that remain unanswered.

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“Mythology and ancient esoteric beliefs are finally found in cutting-edge science.”—Rick Rubin, bestselling author of The Creative ActFrom the author of the global bestseller The Secret History of the World comes an epic new history of the relationship between spiritual belief and cutting-edge science. Includes beautiful black-and-white illustrations throughout.Human beings have a deep-rooted desire to find something worth believing in. But there is a widespread assumption that science is at odds with spiritual belief and offers the only intelligent way to think about the universe.In this epic new history, Mark Booth offers an alternative view, showing us how the great geniuses of modern science, from Marie Curie, Nikola Tesla, and Albert Einstein to today’s architects of AI, turned instead to secret, mystical, and “higher” teachings, including Indian mysticism and Freemasonry, to make sense of the strange phenomena they were encountering.

Experimenting with alternative states of consciousness, they risked isolation and even madness.Here then is the dark, dramatic story of modern science—of love, betrayal, attempted murder, multiple suicides, sexual experimentation, and transgression—from which unfolds the awe-inspiring discoveries which have transformed our lives for good, and potentially for evil. For just as the work of J. Robert Oppenheimer and others ended the Second World War but brought humanity to the brink of extinction, so, too, has the spectacular growth of AI.The result of many years of research, and deep conversations with prominent academics in the field, this book takes us on an exhilarating journey, in the company of some of the greatest minds of our age, toward a deeper understanding of our place in the cosmos.

Jonathan Black is the pen name of  Mark Booth. He was educated at Ipswich School and Oriel College, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy and Theology. After a long career in publishing, he now writes full time.   ​He is the author of the global bestseller The Secret History of the World, The Secret History of Dante: Unearthing the Mysteries of the Inferno and The Sacred History of the World: How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made our World.   ​His books are the result of a lifetime spent reading literature in this area, publishing many of the leading authors in the field and hanging around antiquarian bookshops.  He and his wife live in the south of England.

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“A comprehensive guide to healing that incorporates psychological, physical, and spiritual practices for overall wellness.”—Kirkus Reviews

• Explains how to connect with your Soul for inner guidance, peace, and an opportunity to reach your highest potential

• Offers integrative psychological, spiritual, and mind-body practices to help you reduce stress and your reactive behaviors, and reconnect with your higher consciousness

• Reveals your Soul’s purpose through proven methodology and shows how to cultivate gratitude, compassion, and happiness by living an authentic life

Exploring the intersection of spirituality and neuroscience—utilizing both to optimize spiritual and mental health—psychiatrist and neuroscientist Helen Lavretsky shows that the evolution of the Soul is the purpose of life. Drawing on the latest research and examples from her clinical practice, Lavretsky helps you know and embody your Soul—a union that provides inner guidance, peace, balance, happiness, and an opportunity to reach your highest potential.

Lavretsky aims to put the psyche (soul) back into psychology using a proven methodology to enable you to control reactive behavior and reconnect with higher consciousness. She gives guidance on how to navigate challenges and spiritual emergencies, such as the Dark Night of the Soul, with enhanced intuitive abilities and clarity.

With clinical examples and more than 20 practical exercises, Lavretsky shows how you can incorporate the neuroscience of spiritual awakening to transform negative thoughts and feelings into a sense of excitement and curiosity. This will increase your ability to reduce stress, regulate negative emotions, improve your brain health, and cultivate gratitude, compassion, and a consistent sense of serenity and well-being by living a truly authentic life.

Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS, is an integrative and geriatric psychiatrist, neuro-scientist, and a professor of psychiatry at UCLA. She directs clinical and research programs in integrative mental health and serves as a director of research for the UCLA Integrative Medicine Collaborative. She lives in Los Angeles.

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