Alex,
I really enjoyed this interview - more like exchange. One reason is that you clearly really laid out how you see things and I find your outlook refreshingly similar to my own in all aspects (consciousness hierarchies, moral imperative, etc). Your unresolved questions are also much like my own. I think Curt does see thing very similarly. You guys were just batting nuances back and forth. Of course, there are some seeming paradoxes, but that is expected. Paradoxes often dissolve in the ineffable realms only to re-appear in this more coarse physical one. You guys discussed the lack of computing power of the physical brain to which our consciousness has a relationship when it is participating in the physical dimension.
I thought your take-aways from NDEs were brilliant and, again, echo my own.
SJW movement socially engineered? Yes and no, IMO. European immigrants - especially Jews of the Euro intelligencia (not a racist slight, just a fact) brought Marxism with them to the US. This accelerated immediately before and after WW2. They gained footholds in the US higher education system, but also in media and Hollywood. As their position strengthened, the 1960s happened. This was largely a coincidence. Lots of boomers tilting the population balance and resulting zeitgeist toward youthful energy. At the same time psychedelics were being explored, there was a war and a draft created by old people, but killing the young people, to be protested - and the war was against communism, the very preferred philosophy of the new educational elite. Then there was the Civil rights movement and all it brought, right down to acceptance of "black music", which the mass of youth embraced and spun into rock and roll; a means of expressing all that lower kundalini energy. This was one big organically evolving wild party. Wish I had been old enough at the time to participate ;-) Anyhow, it was the "perfect storm". It fed off itself (for example, psychedelics would not have become popular sans all the youthful energy).
However, the party scared the establishment and they sought to infiltrate and control it lest it rage on and cause some long term break down of society (a foolish fear - it would have died out on its own and pretty much did - once the kundalini cooled with age). Another group, the Marxists, deliberately seized the opportunity to hijack the party and instill their ideas into the opened and naive minds of all of the youth (youth is always naive). They also hijacked and hid behind the righteousness of the largely successful civil rights movement. They further infiltrated the education system by creating lower level adherents that became K-12 teachers and teachers' union leaders. All of their "product" went out into the world to become politicians, lawyers, etc. We are now almost three generations into that production line. However, systemic racism, once a real thing, has been tamed. Anyone who wants to be prosperous relative to the vast majority of people on earth, can follow the attainment program and achieve to the best of their ability. There is really little left to fight for in terms of social justice; which is why the SJWs seem so stupid to many of us. They're desperately tilting at windmills.
Now a new group of hijackers have entered the scene. The globalists and the Chinese. These are pure profiteers cynically using the Marxist ideology to expand their empires, virtual and geographic. These hijackers have entered into an alliance, for now, with the true Marxists.
Is that social engineering? Yes, but maybe not how you meant it. Are intelligence agencies behind it? Not so much. IMO they were caught flat footed and blind 60 years ago. Now they have been purged (especially during the Obama years) and the new leads are people who see the future as being globalism. So they are helping the movement, now, but I am sure that they had little to do with kicking this whole thing off other than misinterpretation and incompetence.