Love Is the Physics: Tam Hunt on Resonance, the ʻĀina, and the AI Reckoning

What if love, resonance, and political courage were not separate conversations, but facets of the same underlying reality?

In this new episode of The Rose Woman Podcast, Christine welcomes back philosopher, environmental lawyer, and homesteader Tamlyn (Tam) M. Hunt to explore how consciousness, AI, renewable energy, and tropical panpsychism all meet in a single resonance-based view of the world. From Hawaii’s ʻāina to the AI tsunami, from back-to-the-land experiments to a “resonance model of politics,” they trace how a deeper understanding of consciousness might change the way we do policy, leadership, and love itself.

Tamlyn M. Hunt applies a unique blend of expertise in different but related fields to lead discussions on big picture trends. Tamlyn's decades of work as an environmental lawyer focused on renewable energy law and policy have given him tools to frame the necessary conversations on how we can make wise changes.

Coupled with his academic work in philosophy, spirituality, and cognitive science, Tamlyn explores how we can use a deeper understanding of consciousness to relate to ourselves and our world in a more beneficial way.

Through his work as a writer, scholar, and speaker, Tamlyn seeks to bridge connections across the gap between science and spirit. He is co-developer of the General Resonance Theory of consciousness, with Prof. Jonathan Schooler, and has published a number of peer-reviewed articles fleshing out the details of this rigorous approach to the study of consciousness.

Tamlyn is also a novelist, working on his second novel, Leilani, set on the Big Island of Hawaii where he has lived since 2016.

Listen in as Christine and Tam follow the thread from “it’s all vibrations, man” to the AI reckoning, resilience politics, and ontological loveand invite you to feel how “the many become one and are increased by one” in your own life.

(00:00:00): Introduction and Chapter Five of The Hippies Were Right (00:04:59): Overview Of General Resonance Theory and How “Everything Vibrates” Becomes A Theory Of Consciousness(00:08:39): Tam’s Run For Hawaii State House and The Authenticity Tension In Modern Politics(00:13:06): Tam Explores Identity and Cultural Dynamics In Hawaii Politics (00:14:31): Tropical Panpsychism(00:16:02): Tam Examines The Inherent Salesmanship And Authenticity Tension In Politics (00:19:12): Framing The “Resilience Candidate” and The Polycrisis Of AI, Climate, And Governance(00:21:53): Tam Connects Social Movements, Virality, and Resonance In Politics (00:25:02): Origin Of The Hippies Were Right as a Memoir Plus Consciousness Philosophy(00:27:05): General Resonance Theory and The Changing Academic View Of Consciousness (00:31:13): Core Claims Of GRT: Universal Vibration, Tiny Units Of Awareness, and “The Many Become One”(00:35:49): Love As Ontological Reality and Entheogenic Experience(00:38:48): Indigenous Knowing and Green Ethics Of Reverence (00:42:35): Love For ʻĀina, Climate Law, And The Urgency Of Energy Transition (00:44:25): AI’s Exploding Energy Demand Versus Its Huge Practical Upsides For Work and Creativity(00:53:03): Honoring Feminine Labor, Back-To-The-Land Women, and The Unseen Work That Sustains Movements(00:55:45): The Real Work Of Homesteading and The Need For Community-Scale, Shared-Resource Living(00:59:23): Three Core Takeaways: It’s All Love, It’s All Consciousness, and We Need System-Level Change Now

Helpful links:

Tam Hunt - Author of The Hippies Were Right!: About Consciousness and Everything Else available now on AmazonThe Hippies Were Right: It's All about Vibrations, Man! By Tam Hunt for Scientific AmericanEpisode #102: How are we related: Ecology, Consciousness and Enchantment with Tam HuntThink B.I.G. HawaiiTam Hunt on SubstackStephen StrogatzEpisode #124: Minding the Mind with Jonathan SchoolerFrito Capra's work on the Tao of Physics

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