199. Joe McMoneagle (part 2) – Ret. US Army / Remote Viewer #001 / Author – Waiting in the Essence
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Release Date: 10/24/2024
214. Fr. Seán ÓLaoire – Former Catholic Priest / Clinical Psychologist / Author – Giving Death the Middle Finger
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Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We chat with Fr. Sean O’Laoire, joining us from his mountain side home in California. We delight in the dance with this conversation. Sean has a background in math, a PhD in transpersonal psychology, he speaks multiple languages and is an ordained catholic priest. We learn about his experience living in Africa, cataloging hundreds of Gaelic proverbs, dealing with death threats from politicians, receiving that letter from the Vatican and everything in between. We talk STATE vs STAGE of consciousness, churches and graveyards, “Irishing” Christianity, his...
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213. David Salmoni – Zoologist / Big Cat Expert / Animal Presenter - Trying A Lot of What-Ifs
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Dave Salmoni has been a television host, producer, zoologist, animal and animal/adventure expert. His work has ranged from wildlife and adventure, to competition reality, talk show expert and a regular on news outlets for everything and anything animal. Dave is forever that boy with a fascination for large predator cats and he easily enchants your host with his big cat stories. In his early 20s Dave picked up and left for South Africa to work on re-wilding tigers. There, his life changed forever. We talk about communication with animals, sharing a kill with a lion on his birthday, tigers vs...
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212. Dr. Paco Calvo - Cognitive Scientist / Philosopher of Biology / Author – Challenging Your Expectations
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We are speaking with Paco Calvo, who joins us from Southern Spain. Paco Calvo is a renowned cognitive scientist and a philosopher of biology, known for his groundbreaking research in the field of plant cognition and intelligence. At the University of Murcia he leads the Minimal Intelligence Lab (MINT Lab), focusing on the study of minimal cognition in plants. He is the author of Planta Sapiens. At his lab he studies the ecological basis of plant intelligence by conducting experimental studies at the intersection of the areas of plant neurobiology and ecological psychology. His...
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211. Dr. Rudy Schild & Nick Cook – Challenging Old Theories
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For earlier one-on-one episodes with Nick see ep 207. With Rudy, see ep 179 , 186, 192, 195, 196, 204. Welcome back to Behind Greatness. This is the second of a series of talks where we host two luminaries in one conversation. Nick - a prolific journalist and author - joins us from his home in the UK. Rudy - a preeminent astrophysicist – joins us from his place in Massachusetts. This is the first meeting between the two and as expected, it was a fun one. Rudy unpacks his groundbreaking work on black holes as finite, magnetic objects and the universe’s outer edge, while Nick ties it...
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210. Joe McMoneagle Part 4 - Ret. US Army / Remote Viewer #001 / Author – Being Shards of a Whole
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This episode is part 4 in our series with Joe McMoneagle. Joe was a US Army intelligence veteran already before he was chosen to be a part of the psychic intelligence unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1978. He became known as “Remote Viewer No. 1″ within Project Stargate. Project Stargate was the United States’ first organized research into psychic phenomena via the Defense Intelligence Agency and contractor SRI International. He is an author and also founder of Intuitive Intelligence Applications Inc. Today, he also teaches Remote Viewing at The Monroe Institute, a leading center...
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209. Dr. Jennifer “Kim” Penberthy – Clinical & Research Psychologist, University of Virginia / Author – Exploring the ‘So What?’
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We speak with Dr. Kim Penberthy today who joined us from the University of Virginia. Kim wears many hats. She is a professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She is also a board certified clinical psychologist and conducts research, teaches, and provides clinical care at UVA in psychiatry and the cancer center. She also studies and researches after death communication. She lived on a farm in a house that witnessed Civil War strife, with her mother a nurse and her father a would-be farmer surgeon. Exposed to life and death on a farm,...
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208. Antonio Cupo – TV / Film Actor, Producer – Being Rooted
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We are sitting down with Antonio Cupo at his home in Vancouver. Antonio grew up in Vancouver and early in his career he spent many years in Italy as a lead actor in one of the most popular TV drama shows in Italian TV history – Elisa di Rivombrosa. But, that was just a start. We explore some great human themes in our conversation – the meaning of “immedesimarsi”, using “as ifs” to explore, performing the experience while reliving it, acting from pictures in your head, the power in losing the need to make money, grandmothers being shot at and a beautiful story about a guy in...
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207. Nick Cook – Author / Journalist – Walking Between Places
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Nick Cook is the best-selling author of The Hunt For Zero Point and has been a writer for almost 4 decades, with 25 books to his name. Nick started his career as a journalist – where he first learned to ask the question: what am I now being shown? In this conversation, we dive head first -- into what we are, living in a simulation, sea monsters, a profound shared death experience, Edgar Mitchell’s telepathy experiment while on the moon, Nick’s relationship with Ingo Swann. We also discuss imagination, intuition and hunches, running free unfettered, thinking on a ladder and...
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206. Dr. Salima Ikram – Egyptologist / Archeologist / Author – Co-Ruling of Felines and Humans
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Dr. Salima Ikram is an Egyptologist and Archeologist. Thanks for joining Behind Greatness. We recorded this chat “coincidentally” on the opening day of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), October 16 2024. Salima graciously joined us from Cairo to have this conversation that day. Salima decided on Egyptology at age 8 and “hasn’t grown up since”. We learn about experimental archeology, puppy farms, slavery, cattle vs elephants and Egyptian cocktails. Salima brings us through her fascination with mummification, felines and their majesty, “chatting with the dead” and how death is viewed...
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205. Dr. Andrea Lani – Aerospace Scientist/Engineer - Keeping to an Eagle Eye View
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Andrea Lani is an aerospace scientist and engineer. Andrea has had experience working with NASA, NATO and the von Karmen Institute and he is now working on an EU project to develop a leading-edge shielding prototype for space vehicles. Andrea had an experience as a young boy viewing an object in space that he could not explain. He decided to dedicate his adult life to academic and practical scientific exploration to help inform him on the technology that he witnessed as that little boy. As a lifelong scientific explorer, he elaborates on how his undying curiosity also eventually led him to a...
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Thanks again for joining us at Behind Greatness. This episode is part 2 of a developing series with Joe.
Joe was a US Army intelligence veteran already before he was chosen to be a part of the psychic intelligence unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1978. He became known as “Remote Viewer No. 1" within Project Stargate. Project Stargate was the United States' first organized research into psychic phenomena via the Defense Intelligence Agency and contractor SRI International. He is an author and also founder of Intuitive Intelligence Applications Inc. Today, he also teaches Remote Viewing at The Monroe Institute, a leading center in exploring human consciousness.
We plunge into the deep end again - and immediately into Joe’s experience and partnership with the Monroe Institute, out of body experiences, lucid dreaming training, travelling the cosmos, the magic of being human, bubbles, artists and their contribution to humanity, how to live a good life – and waiting in the essence.
… to be continued…
Previous episodes/discussions with Remote Viewers:
- Russell Targ (ep 80) - Co-Founder, SRI Institute
- Courtney Brown (ep 131)
- Stephan A. Schwartz (ep 155, 156)
- Lyn Buchanan (ep 163)
- Nancy DuTertre (ep 167)
- Paul H. Smtih (ep 180)
Joe,
- Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/
Joseph-McMoneagle/author/ B00MD24CZW?ref=sr_ntt_srch_ lnk_5&qid=1728261714&sr=1-5& isDramIntegrated=true& shoppingPortalEnabled=true - Parapsychological Association: https://www.parapsych.org/
users/jmcmoneagle/profile.aspx - Monroe Institute: https://www.monroeinstitute.
org/pages/trainer-joe- mcmoneagle - IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/
nm2140996/