My Scientific Path to Spirituality | Laleh Quinn
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Dr. Quinn has a Ph.D in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. She has been a neuroscience research faculty member in the Department of Cognitive Science at UCSD for 25 years. She also teaches mindfulness meditation to students, faculty, and friends.
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Science of the Sacred | Bernard Carr
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Bernard Carr is a cosmologist and author, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. He has a long association with the Society for Psychical Research, serving as its president in 2000-2004. He is interested in the role of consciousness in physics and is working towards a new psycho-physical paradigm linking matter and mind, that accommodates both normal and paranormal mental experiences.
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The Rebirth of Trans-Materialist Science | Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín
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Àlex Gómez-Marín (Barcelona, 1981) is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. Combining experimental, computational and theoretical neuro-physics, his current research deals with human minds in the real world, concentrating on what he calls “the edges of consciousness.” Explore more at www.feedyourhead.blog
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What If Magic Is Actually Real?
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Dean Radin is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and cofounder and chairman of the biotech company, Cognigenics. He earned an MS (electrical engineering) and a PhD (psychology) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and in 2022 was awarded an Honorary DSc (doctor of science) from the Swami Vivekananda University in Bangalore, India. ➡️ Learn more about Dr. Radin at ➡️ Read the transcript at ➡️ Explore more at www.feedyourhead.blog ...
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Your Brain Is Not For Thinking
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Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is among the top 0.1% most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience. She is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University. She also holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is Chief Science Officer for the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior. In addition to the books Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain and How Emotions are Made, Dr. Barrett has published over 275 peer-reviewed, scientific papers appearing in Science, Nature...
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Your Control Freak Left Brain
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Iain McGilchrist is a former 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, a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital, London, a former research Fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore. He is committed to the idea that the mind and brain can be understood only by seeing them in the broadest possible context, that of the whole of our physical and spiritual existence, and of the wider human culture in which they...
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The Purpose of the Universe
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Philip Goff is a philosophy professor at Durham University, UK. He spends most of his time trying to work out the ultimate nature of reality. In his recent book Why? The Purpose of the Universe (Oxford University Press, 2023) he explores whether panpsychism can offer a kind of middle way between traditional belief in God and secular atheism.
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Love: an Artifact of a Higher Dimension?
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"What is this thing called love?" - Cole Porter It's one of life's most mysterious experiences - coveted by all yet, strangely, also a source of immense pain and suffering. Where did love come from and what ultimate purpose does it serve? Rabbi Adam Jacobs discusses many intriguing facets of the idea of love with Oxford anthropologist Anna Machin. Watch the interview, Explore more at www.beyondbelief.blog What is love? Wouldn’t we be better off without love? Are people loving less? Does love transcend scientific meaning? Does the love of God require an intermediary? How does...
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Atheist vs Rabbi: Is Life Meaningless?
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Philosopher James Tartaglia is a nihilist - he believes that existence has no ultimate purpose. He also believes that there is an immaterial world beyond our own which at least "opens the door" for religious thinking. Can these two ideas really exist side by side? Watch the interview, Explore more at www.beyondbelief.blog
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The Tyranny of Materialism
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Rabbi Adam Jacobs speaks to Dr. Edward Kelly, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia about the existence of non-material reality. Watch the interview, Explore more at To find out more about Dr. Kelly's work, visit What do you mean by “tyranny of materialism”? How did the Division of Perceptual Studies begin? How is parapsychology received at the University of Virginia? Why can’t we explain the origin of consciousness? How is our understanding of the metaphysical world? How do we overcome this wall of resistance? ...
info_outlineDr. Rick Strassman of the University of New Mexico ran the first federally sanctioned experiments with a psychedelic since the 1970s. He subsequently developed a fascination with what he perceives is an overlap of the psychedelic experience with the states of consciousness described by the Hebrew prophets.
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01:49 Do psychedelics unlock reality or illusions?
05:22 Why do psychedelics tend to produce feelings of love and oneness?
08:11 Does God communicate with humans through our brains?
13:06 Do our brains block the ultimate reality?
17:02 Do psychedelics reduce our brain’s block on reality?
18:39 What is closer to the DMT experience: Judaism or Buddhism?
25:53 How do near-death experiences compare to psychedelics?
29:18 Did Ezekiel describe a drug-induced experience?
32:52 Why do people enter a prophetic future-telling state?
39:50 Can an Atheist experience transcendence through psychedelics?
41:46 Do you experiment with psychedelics?
43:31 What did you learn through your own psychedelic experience?