🔮 Intuition & Mindfulness: Defines layers of intuition: Bodily interception (subconscious signals), Post-materialist perspective (consciousness as foundational). Believes cultivating intuition is crucial for human evolution alongside AI. 🎨 Personal Joy & Creativity Dr. Annie is a very strong advocate for daily meditation as it improves regulation, emotional balance, and “fine-tunes the radio of the brain.” Considers meditation and spiritual practice as hobbies. Loves to read, walk her dog, create music and art (even if imperfect). Current art project (launching November): digital art exploring imagination and putting phones down. ✅ Big Picture Takeaway: Dr. Annie emphasizes that while technology and algorithms are designed to capture our attention, we can reclaim control by anchoring ourselves in meaning, values, and mindful practices. Her work blends science, psychology, and spirituality to help people live more intentional, human-centered lives.
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My work at CU Boulder and through the Post-Internet Project focuses on helping people align their media consumption with their values, meaning, and purpose - which often means consuming less, not more. I frequently speak to spiritual communities and organizations about how we can close the gap between our paleolithic emotional wiring and our godlike technologies in service of deeper connection and collective thriving.
I also teach and podcast on post-materialism, idealism, and the view of consciousness as foundational to reality, which has surprisingly practical implications for how we direct our attention and intention in everyday life.
These two threads—media and mind—dovetail more than one might expect. As tech companies compete to extract our attention and commodify our intention, the frontiers of science are simultaneously discovering the power of our attention and intention to (literally) shape material reality. From this post-materialist perspective, we have a moral imperative to limit extraction and reclaim our focus in order to create the more beautiful worlds our hearts know are possible.