Childhood's End
Novel by Arthur C. ClarkeWikipedia
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Sep 24, 2026
Diana PasulkaGUEST
So reading through the works of Arthur C. Clarke, it appears that Arthur C. Clarke was very influenced by Teilhard, right, Desjardins, and inverts what Teilhard forecasts for our future.
Diana PasulkaGUEST
He inverts it completely, including the idea of the spiritual sense, which becomes something in Childhood's End.
Diana PasulkaGUEST
that's now colonized by, so we're getting back to extraterrestrials, to extraterrestrials.
Diana PasulkaGUEST
So the spiritual sense in, so, you know, Chardon talks about the spiritual sense and that he has a couple of different ones and he's very open about that.
Gregory Lessing GarrettGUEST
It's so complex and so well organized, it can't be anything but intelligent life.
Gregory Lessing GarrettGUEST
And then they'll like NBC, CBS, or Alex Jones, alternative media, they'll announce to the world that through the conduit of artificial intelligence, like that movie Arrival or Annihilation, another movie, that we've been contacted by ancient, yeah, by alien life, and they're coming to us, either through interdimensional portals, stargates, like a CERN idea, or literally some kind of creature will appear, like out of Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke.
Gregory Lessing GarrettGUEST
Okay, so I don't know exactly how it's going to go down, but I know it's going to go down, because it is going down.
Gregory Lessing GarrettGUEST
What has Elon Musk recently talked about? He's talking about Mars.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
I mean, we've talked about John Carpenter's The Thing recently.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
We did a little bit about, um, uh, Childhood's End, the book.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
Um, uh, you know, we talk about Star Wars a lot, all these great gems from the archive.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
I wrote to Matt Patches and I said, "Let's talk about one of the gems from your archive."
Yuri GellerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, to all the skeptics, I suggest you move out of this posting because you'll be furious.
Yuri GellerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But to all my dear friends, this posting might sound to you like it's taken out of a science fiction film or from Arthur C. Clarke's 1953 novel, which is called Childhood's End.
Yuri GellerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
in which the conclusion is the end of humanity as individual biological beings and Earth's destruction as the last generation of children transcend the aliens who arrived and created a peaceful utopia, a vast cosmic collection, an intelligence where children develop, wow, psychic powers and lose their individual identities.
Yuri GellerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now look, this man is called Chaim Eshed, Chaim Eshed, a brigadier general.
Isaac WeishauptHOST
It's sus.
Isaac WeishauptHOST
Okay? Damian, you're reading Childhood's End.
Isaac WeishauptHOST
No kidding.
Isaac WeishauptHOST
I, I wanna read the book.
Isaac WeishauptHOST
I've seen the series.
Isaac WeishauptHOST
It's, uh, it's an amazingly terrifying show.
Isaac WeishauptHOST
Oh, you're gonna love this, the, the conversation me and Professor Pasulka have about Childhood's End.
Isaac WeishauptHOST
We talk about it on the interview, okay? All right.
NateHOST
Yeah, this was...
NateHOST
Yeah, actually, Arthur C. Clark and this book, I think it was Childhood's End, and this book were one of the three books I had to read in an English class, and then...
BenHOST
I mean, I didn't,
NateHOST
but I started with Ender, at least.
Kenny RagerGUEST
I read a book about pastoral succession by Vanderbloom and Warren Bird.
Kenny RagerGUEST
I read Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clark, a science fiction book.
Kenny RagerGUEST
I read, again, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final years.
Kenny RagerGUEST
I read the Confessions of Augustine.
Jeffrey MishloveGUEST
It should, in their minds, never have the legitimacy of science or the legitimacy of a major public institution because after all, well, I'll give you the perfect archetype for this.
Jeffrey MishloveGUEST
Back in the days when Uri Geller was getting a lot of publicity, Arthur C. Clarke, the great science fiction writer who has written some beautiful books like Childhood's End, in which he writes rather positively about the paranormal.
Jeffrey MishloveGUEST
came out publicly and he said, you know, Geller's a fraud.
Jeffrey MishloveGUEST
And at the same time, he was giving a talk at Berkeley and I was in the audience.
Kerry CassidyGUEST
We're going to come and take over your country and, and, you know, make everything all better and get rid of war for you.
Kerry CassidyGUEST
And I have to say, if you haven't read Childhood Send by Arthur C. Clarke, then I highly recommend it because that's telling you what happens when a group of beings from another planet come in and tell you they're going to make everything all right.
Kerry CassidyGUEST
That's a takeover scenario.
Kerry CassidyGUEST
So it's really important to realize that we're not here to be rescued.
Keith WelshHOST
And, and meanwhile, research connected with people like T. Townsend Brown gets shoved into the margins, and I think that's crazy.
Keith WelshHOST
Um, anyway, so, uh, Arthur C. Clarke, uh, he wrote, um, "Childhood's End." He said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Interesting.
Keith WelshHOST
But the Vedas would offer a different perspective.
Keith WelshHOST
A sufficiently advanced consciousness may be indistinguishable from technology.
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