552. Lars Muhl

Lars MuhlLars Muhl is a Danish author, mystic, and musician, born in Aarhus, Denmark in 1950.

Already as a 10-year-old, Lars Muhl had experienced glimpses of another reality. The shock following the sudden death of his younger sister, caused painful kundalini-like experiences, giving access to the ethereal worlds and a hypersensitive insight into other people’s pain. This lasted for three years.

A turning point came when Lars was 15 and received a book anonymously in the post. Hazrat Inayat Khan’s ‘Gayan Vadan Nirtan’ became the start of a lifelong esoteric study.

Like Paulo Coelho, Lars was for many years a successful singer/songwriter who, concurrently with his music, studied the world’s religions and esoteric knowledge. Then in 1996, he was struck down by an unexplained illness, which neither doctors nor alternative therapists could diagnose. For three years he lay in bed without being able to move or think straight.

Through a close friend’s intervention, Lars was put in touch with a seer who, via the telephone, brought him back to life. That was the start of a completely new existence and the beginning of that quest he has so grippingly described in his trilogy book ‘The O Manuscript: The Seer, The Magdalene, The Grail’.

Other books:

Movie Lars referred to during the interview: The Gate of Light by Lars Muhl

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Interview recorded May 30, 2020

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

  • 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
  • 00:04:54 – A Sensitive Perception in Childhood
  • 00:09:08 – Visualization and the Power of Intention
  • 00:13:35 – The Wisdom of the New Testament and the Essenes
  • 00:17:28 – Jesus and the Essenes
  • 00:22:01 – The Potential within Each of Us
  • 00:26:07 – The Kingdom of Heaven in Aramaic
  • 00:30:53 – The Possibility of Animals Being Enlightened
  • 00:34:54 – Scribe at Qumran
  • 00:38:47 – A Transformative Experience
  • 00:43:07 – The Choice to Leave Showbiz
  • 00:47:21 – The Profound Experience of Gazing
  • 00:51:24 – Being True to Yourself and the Essence of Hypocrisy
  • 00:55:41 – Prophets and Reincarnation
  • 01:00:26 – The Departure of Yeshua and the Role of the Holy Spirit
  • 01:04:32 – Higher Consciousness and Other Dimensions
  • 01:08:44 – The Deep Level of Human Abilities
  • 01:13:07 – The Power of Healing Wine
  • 01:17:35 – Encounter with a Guardian Angel
  • 01:21:32 – Nervous System Stress and Purification
  • 01:25:52 – Dealing with dark and light forces; The role of guardian angels and fallen angels
  • 01:29:53 – Introduction to the Chariot of Fire and Esoteric Christianity
  • 01:34:09 – Investing Your Whole Being in Success
  • 01:38:38 – The Feminine and Masculine in the Kingdom of Heaven
  • 01:43:23 – Mary Magdalene and Her Misrepresentation
  • 01:47:41 – The Marriage of Jesus and Mariam Magdalene
  • 01:52:02 – Embracing Diversity and Fluidity
  • 01:56:29 – Awakening to the Inner Abilities
  • 02:00:33 – The Need for Activism and Spiritual Warriors
  • 02:04:46 – Respecting Differences and Making the Best of Life
  • 02:08:44 – Webinars and Upcoming Events

546. Stephen G. Post

Stephen G. PostAn opinion leader and public speaker, Stephen G. Post, Ph.D. (University of Chicago, 1983) is the best-selling lead author of Why Good Things Happen to Good People: How to Live a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life by the Simple Act of Giving. He has been quoted in more than 4,000 newspapers and magazines and featured on numerous television shows including The Daily Show. Described by Martin E.P. Seligman in Flourish as one of “the stars of positive psychology,” Post is a leader in research on the benefits of giving and on compassionate care in relation to improved patient outcomes and clinician well-being. He addressed the U.S. Congress on volunteerism and health, receiving the Congressional Certificate of Special Recognition for Outstanding Achievement.

Post was co-recipient (2012) with Edmund D. Pellegrino MD of the Pioneer Medal for Outstanding Leadership in HealthCare from the HealthCare Chaplaincy Network, and the Kama Book Award in Medical Humanities from World Literacy Canada (2008). His book The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying was designated a “medical classic of the century” by the British Medical Journal (2009), which wrote, “Until this pioneering work was published in 1995 the ethical aspects of one of the most important illnesses of our aging populations were a neglected topic.” Post is a recipient of the Alzheimer’s Association’s national distinguished service award “in recognition of personal and professional outreach to the Alzheimer’s Association Chapters on ethics issues important to people with Alzheimer’s and their families.” In 2021 Post published Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer’s Disease (Hopkins).

Co-Recipient of the 2019 Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society Professionalism Award for development the Professional Identity Formation curriculum of the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Post has taught at the University of Chicago Medical School, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (1988-2008), and at Stony Brook (2008-present), where he is Founding Director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics. The Center was selected (2011) for special institutional excellence by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (AMA & AAMC accrediting body), the only humanities and ethics entity in American medical school history to receive this distinction. An elected member of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the Royal Society of Medicine, London, Post is the author of 300 articles in journals such as Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, Psychosomatic Medicine, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and the Journal of the American Medical Association.

In 2003 Post was invited to join the Founding Fellows of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), based at Cambridge University. Founded in 2002, ISSR is the world’s preeminent learned society devoted to this intersection, with 200 Fellows from the sciences and humanities. In 2001 he founded the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, so named by philanthropist Sir John Templeton, who selected Post as the Institute’s President. A non-profit 501(c) 3 public charity that investigates kindness, giving, and spirituality, Post has written popularly on this topic in God and Love on Route 80: The Hidden Mystery of Human Connectedness.

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Interview recorded April 18, 2020

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

  • 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
  • 00:05:14 – The Angel’s Message in the Dream
  • 00:10:04 – Adolescent Spirituality & the Meaning of Experiences
  • 00:14:38 – Following a Dream
  • 00:19:16 – Chasing Dreams in Nebraska
  • 00:23:40 – A Life-Changing Encounter on the Ledge
  • 00:28:26 – Exploring Comparative Spirituality and Religion
  • 00:33:22 – Meeting Ken Kesey at Reed College
  • 00:37:41 – The Bridge and the Phone Call
  • 00:42:22 – The Power of Compassion and Kindness
  • 00:47:31 – Theodicy and the Problem of Evil
  • 00:52:32 – The Role of Parents in Modeling Kindness
  • 00:57:18 – The oneness of the other
  • 01:01:58 – The Perspective of Life as One Chapter
  • 01:06:29 – Sensitivity of Alzheimer’s patients to empathic qualities
  • 01:10:53 – Honoring the Divine in Individuals with Disabilities
  • 01:15:31 – The One Mind in the Universe
  • 01:20:45 – The Plausibility of the Big Bang Theory and Open-Mindedness
  • 01:25:24 – Selfless Service and the Expansion of the Heart
  • 01:30:41 – The Experience of Beautiful Energy and Spiritual Nature
  • 01:35:23 – Everyday Divine Interventions
  • 01:39:54 – Synchronicity and the Carl Jung Story
  • 01:44:40 – The Neurology of Helping Others
  • 01:49:23 – Cultivating Compassion in Medical Education
  • 01:53:52 – Cultivating Empathy and Compassion in Medical Students
  • 01:58:17 – Benefits of Compassionate Care and the Role of Love
  • 02:03:11 – The Power of Spiritual Experiences
  • 02:08:08 – Spreading Unlimited Love Through Poetry
  • 02:12:47 – Dreaming about the Future
  • 02:17:01 – The Importance of Lightness of Being
  • 02:21:28 – Interspirituality and the UN

535. Diane Hennacy Powell

Diane Hennacy PowellDiane Hennacy Powell, M.D. is a Johns Hopkins-trained psychiatrist, therapist, neuroscientist, and public speaker. She develops multidisciplinary theories towards understanding psychological anomalies, such as savant skills and verified accounts of spacetime navigation. Her current research focuses on controlled testing of autistic savants and children reported to be telepathic and/or precognitive by their caregivers.

Dr. Powell has been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, a member of a think tank on human consciousness at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, and Director of Research for the John E. Mack Institute. Her investigation into the neurocorrelates of ESP is discussed in her 2008 book The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena, and in Seriously Strange: Thinking Anew about Psychical Experiences.

Dr. Powell is also an expert on PTSD and created the psychiatry program for Survivors of Torture, International in San Diego, California. She was the principal author of IONS The 2007 Shift Report: Evidence of a World Transforming and a contributing author to Beyond Forgiveness: Reflections on Atonement, the 2014 Campus Book of the Year at Indiana University. She is also a participant in the #NeverAlone movement for suicide prevention launched by Deepak Chopra.

Website: drdianehennacy.com

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Interview recorded February 1, 2020

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

  • 00:00:00 – Introduction to Diane Hennacy Powell Interview
  • 00:03:48 – Autistic Savants: Extraordinary Abilities
  • 00:07:14 – The Brain’s Processing Unit
  • 00:11:07 – Acquired Savant Syndrome and Twin Intuition
  • 00:14:54 – Extraordinary Mental Calculation Abilities
  • 00:18:05 – Extraordinary Abilities and Experiments
  • 00:21:43 – Accessing Universal Knowledge
  • 00:25:25 – Contributions to the Universal Field of Intelligence
  • 00:29:21 – Haley’s Remarkable Abilities
  • 00:33:04 – The Blind Savant Syndrome and Blind Seers
  • 00:36:43 – Phenomenal Stories of Twins Raised Apart
  • 00:40:28 – The Academy for the Advancement of Post-Materialist Sciences
  • 00:44:31 – A New Paradigm: Consciousness as Fundamental
  • 00:48:19 – The Three Theories of Post-Materialism
  • 00:52:37 – The Role of Junk DNA and Glial Cells
  • 00:57:02 – The Beauty of Specialization and Connection
  • 01:00:52 – The Manifestation of Human Consciousness
  • 01:04:09 – Challenging the Scientific Paradigm
  • 01:07:51 – Challenges in Biological Sciences Research
  • 01:11:27 – Embracing the Evolution of Human Beings and Unusual Perceptions
  • 01:15:28 – Knowledge Beyond Experience
  • 01:19:30 – Reincarnation and Desire
  • 01:23:09 – Technologically Assisted Telepathy
  • 01:27:20 – The Subtler Aspects of the Senses and Emotions
  • 01:31:53 – The Relationship Between Physiology and Emotions
  • 01:35:58 – The Evolution of Consciousness and Free Will
  • 01:40:04 – The Illusion of Free Will and Conscious Decision-Making
  • 01:44:12 – The Tragedy of Suicide
  • 01:48:12 – The Importance of Preserving Human Consciousness
  • 01:51:39 – Rational Vaccination and the Pharmaceutical Industry
  • 01:55:07 – The Great Awakening and the Next 20 Years