Darkest Light Podcast

by Nathan Phelps & Bobby Lancaster

Hosted by artist Nathan Phelps and screenwriter Bobby Lancaster, the Darkest Light Podcast explores ideas about consciousness, religion, art, literature, mythology, mysticism and psychology.

Podcast episodes

  • Season 1

  • Darkest Light Podcast #3: ChatGPT & the Future of AI, Art and Consciousness

    Darkest Light Podcast #3: ChatGPT & the Future of AI, Art and Consciousness

    In this episode, Nathan and Bobby discuss ChatGPT, the future of AI and AIs potential impact on Art and Consciousness. We also discuss South Park, shamanism, the unconscious, Da Vinci, Van Gogh, Carl Jung, the Logos, the God Image, psychedelics and the experience of profound art.

  • Darkest Light Podcast #2 - The Suffering Artist

    Darkest Light Podcast #2 - The Suffering Artist

    In this episode, Nathan and Bobby discuss the artistic process, imagination, the line between art and insanity, suffering for your art, separating the art and artist, and Kanye West.

  • Darkest Light Podcast #1 - Discovering the individual within

    Darkest Light Podcast #1 - Discovering the individual within

    In this episode Nathan and Bobby discuss the challenge of identifying the individual within, and the role of consciousness and responsibility in discovering the individual. We discuss Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning theory and how his theory of the Divinity of Interest plays a role in understanding individuality. We also discuss inadequacy, sin, good and evil, chaos and order, Carl Jung, the Jungian Shadow, Jung's Answer to Job, Nisargadatta, Einstein, Christ and the Tower of Babel.