Can This Spiritual Technology Help You Survive AI? | Roger Wolfson | TEDxPacific Avenue
NOTE FROM TED: This talk only represents the speaker’s personal views and understanding of manifestation, health, and performance. Several claims lack legitimate scientific support. We've flagged this talk because it falls outside the content guidelines TED gives TEDx organizers. TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers. The guidelines we give TEDx organizers are described in more detail here: http://storage.ted.com/tedx/manuals/tedx_content_guidelines.pdfIn this mind-expanding TED Talk, screenwriter, speechwriter, and former Senate staffer Roger Wolfson shares how manifestation—long dismissed as mysticism—is actually a powerful, scientifically-supported tool that could be humanity’s most important defense against artificial intelligence.Through compelling studies, ancient wisdom, and personal experience, Roger reframes manifestation as a form of spiritual technology—one that can influence not just mood or mindset, but biology, luck, and even the physical world. He explores how emotions and belief systems create tangible outcomes—and why that makes manifestation something AI can never replicate.With humor, heart, and evidence from both neuroscience and religious traditions, this talk is a call to action: before AI reshapes our world, let’s rediscover the tools that shape ourselves.Roger Wolfson has written for five TV series, including Law and Order: SVU, Century City (starring Viola Davis), Saving Grace (starring Holly Hunter), and The Closer, where one of his episodes earned Kyra Sedgwick an Emmy nomination. He has sold two feature films and eleven pilots with producers like Charlize Theron, Denis Leary, and Neal Moritz.He has been counsel to U.S. Senators Joe Lieberman, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, and Paul Wellstone, Congresswomen Rosa Delauro and Mary Gay Scanlon, and written speeches for world leaders including Joe Biden, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. He earned a JD from the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters in Writing from Johns Hopkins, and a BA from Vassar. He is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court bar.Wolfson lectures on spirituality, animal rights, and emotional storytelling techniques, and has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, and NBC. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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