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757. Ruben Laukkonen

 Meditation, Cessation, Consciousness, and Human Flourishing Ruben is the director of the Flourishing Intelligence Program (FLIP) at Linacre College, University of Oxford. Ruben is also co-director of the Centre for Eudaimonia and Human...

754. Julia Mossbridge

The Science of Unconditional Love -- Nonspeakers, Psi Abilities, and Healing  Summary: This conversation explores unconditional love as a foundational force, and how that perspective reshapes our understanding of healing, action, and spiritual...

752. Robert Lawrence Kuhn

752. Robert Lawrence Kuhn: Consciousness, God, and the Hard Problem  Summary: A wide-ranging conversation about the hard problem of consciousness, the limits of science, and whether mind might be fundamental to reality. The discussion also...

729. Stephan Martin

Stephan Martin: Cosmogenesis, Consciousness, and the Universe Becoming Itself Summary: This conversation explores modern cosmology as a living, evolving process rather than a fixed backdrop. It also looks at how deep time, science, and...

702. Neil Theise

Neil Theise: Complexity Theory, Consciousness, and Nonduality Summary: This conversation explores how complexity theory, quantum physics, and contemplative practice can illuminate the nature of life and mind. It also examines why consciousness...

692. Ruth Kastner

Ruth Kastner: Transactional Interpretation, Free Will, and Quantum Reality Summary: This conversation explores how quantum theory may point to a deeper level of reality beyond space-time and why the standard view may be missing a receptive, or...

684. Chris Niebauer

Chris Niebauer: The Left Brain Illusion of Self Summary: This conversation explores how the left brain constructs a convincing story of self, often confusing interpretation with reality. It also looks at how neuroscience, Buddhism, and...

682. Jill Bolte Taylor

Jill Bolte Taylor: Whole Brain Living, Character 4, and Consciousness Summary: This conversation explores Whole Brain Living, a framework for understanding four distinct brain-based characters and how they shape thought, emotion, and behavior. It...

681. Cynthia Larson

Cynthia Larson: Reality Shifts, Mandela Effects, and Quantum Jumps Summary: This conversation explores reality shifts, the Mandela Effect, and how quantum physics may point to a more participatory universe. It also looks at time, synchronicity,...

671. Jude Currivan, 2nd Interview

Jude Currivan, Ph.D., is a cosmologist, futurist, planetary healer, author, member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, and previously one of the most senior business women in the UK. She has a master’s degree in physics from Oxford University...

665. Mario Beauregard

Dr. Mario Beauregard, PhD., is a neuroscientist currently affiliated with the Department of Psychology, University of Arizona. He has received a bachelor degree in psychology and a doctorate degree in neuroscience from the University of Montreal....

663. Brian Thomas Swimme

Brian Thomas Swimme did his doctoral work in gravitational dynamics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon. From the publication of The Universe Is a Green Dragon to the Emmy Award–winning PBS documentary Journey of the...

656. Bernard Carr

Bernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. As an undergraduate, he read mathematics at Cambridge University and for his Ph.D. he studied the first second of the Universe, working under...

649. Duane Elgin 2nd Interview

Duane Elgin is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and social visionary. He has an MBA in business and an MA in economic history  He has worked as a senior staff member of the Presidential Commission on the American Future, and a...

631. Ed Kelly

EDWARD F. KELLY is currently a Professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in psycholinguistics and cognitive science from Harvard in 1971, and spent the next 15-plus years working...

611. Peter Russell, 2nd Interview

Peter Russell is a leading thinker on consciousness and contemporary spirituality. He coined the term "global brain" with his 1980s bestseller of the same name in which he predicted the Internet and the impact it would have on humanity. His new...

606. Stephen Meyer

Stephen C. Meyer received his Ph.D. in the philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge. A former geophysicist and college professor, he now directs Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Meyer is author of the New York...

584. Helané Wahbeh

Helané Wahbeh is the Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Wahbeh is clinically trained as a naturopathic...

582. Daniel P. Brown

Dr. Daniel Brown has been a clinical and forensic psychologist for almost 50 years. He has been at Harvard Medical School for almost 40 years. He has been a student of, translator for, and meditation master in the Indo-Tibetan and Bon meditation...

577. Rick Hanson, 2

This interview was recorded on October 9, 2020, as part of an online conference on "Living and Dying" offered by the Science and Nonduality Conference. Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science...

576. Dean Radin, 2nd Interview

Dean Radin, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and Associated Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). He occasionally gives lectures...

565. Iain McGilchrist

Dr. Iain McGilchrist is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and former Consultant...

549. Donald Hoffman

Donald Hoffman received a Ph.D. from MIT and is a Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He is an author of over 120 scientific papers and three books, including The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the...

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