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Philosopher and theologian David Bentley Hart joins Milo and Jack for a wide-ranging long-form conversation on screens, smartphones, cinema, dreams, Gnosticism, and the spiritual consequences of modern technology. We explore Hart’s latest fiction collection Prisms and Veils, the nature of illusion and reality, prophetic dreams, David Lynch, Kurosawa, memory palaces, and what it means to live in an increasingly virtual world.

In this discussion, David Bentley Hart reflects on how digital screens shape consciousness, attention, and the soul — comparing smartphones to “magic mirrors,” demoni ...