Behind Greatness by Inspire North

Bringing you curious minds and profound ideas. Your weekly dose of real conversations. We chat openly with industry and thought leaders from all walks of life, exploring the “what ifs” and “why nots”.

221. Abby Lutz – Death Doula / Registered Nurse - Passing It On 09/09/2025

220. Ken Atchity – Film Producer / Author / Story Merchant / Former Uni-Prof – Embracing the Insecurity of Freedom 08/19/2025

219. Ralph Blumenthal – Award-Winning Journalist / Author - In Search for the Bottom Line 07/22/2025

218. Joe McMoneagle - Part 6 - Ret. US Army / Remote Viewer #001 / Author – Fearing Ourselves 07/08/2025

218. Joe McMoneagle - Part 6 - Ret. US Army / Remote Viewer #001 / Author – Fearing Ourselves Joe was a US Army intelligence veteran before being selected for the psychic intelligence unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1978. He became known as “Remote Viewer No. 1” within Project Stargate, the United States’ first organized research into psychic phenomena, conducted by the Defense Intelligence Agency and contractor SRI International. He is an author and the founder of Intuitive Intelligence Applications Inc. Today, he teaches Remote Viewing at The Monroe Institute, a leading center for exploring human consciousness. Chapters: 00:00 Trapped in a Lucid Dream 02:36 Secret Military Retirement 08:50 Joe’s Youth 19:33 Remote Viewing at the National Security Museum 27:39 Remote Viewing, Lucid Dreaming, Out-Of-Body Experiences 32:45 Why Lucid Dreaming Exists 36:35 Using Lucid Dreaming for Remote Viewing 41:45 Getting Stuck in Multiple Lucid Dreams Whilst Remote Viewing 55:37 Meeting Another Entity in an Out of Body Experience At 21, Joe was already a staff sergeant, nicknamed “Pop.” He shares insights into his upbringing, revealing why he was exceptionally experienced and mature when he enlisted. We discuss the practice of separating new war recruits from seasoned field operatives. Joe highlights his unclassified work as a psychic spy, now showcased at the NSA Cryptological Museum in Washington, to the apparent dismay of the CIA. He also explores OBE versus lucid dreaming, surviving a nested lucid dream state during a government-sponsored experiment, enduring bear attacks, and encountering informational beings in the out-of-body state. NSA Cryptological Museum: Joe’s Exhibit: Previous episodes/discussions on Behind Greatness 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. Smith (ep 180) Joe’s Links: Books: (via Amazon) Parapsychological Association: Monroe Institute: IMDb: To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here (as a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors): https://behindgreatness.org /episode/index/show/behindgreatness/id/37303485

217. Nick Cook & Dr. Rudy Schild, Part 2 – Seeing the Entanglement 07/01/2025

217. Nick Cook & Dr. Rudy Schild, Part 2 – Seeing the Entanglement For Rudy + Nick, part 1, see ep 211. For 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 a continuing 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 and a self-described “hopeless astronomer” – joins us from his place in Massachusetts. This is the second meeting between the two. Exploring again the depths of the “why nots” and “what ifs” in this conversation. Nick and Rudy get into plasmas and plasmoids, orbs and their mimicry and camouflage, a tear in the sky, Wilhelm Reich’s love-measuring waveform, stories on famed Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, an account of Wernher von Braun and Roswell, and Edgar’s space story about swapping consciousness with an elephant. For others: Series with Joe McMoneagle – Remote Viewer #001 – ep 198, 199, 200, 210, 215 Nick: Website: Books: Rudy: Center for Astrophysics – Journal of Cosmology – Personal website – List of Published papers – (via The SAO Astrophysics Data System) CCRI (Consciousness & Contact Research Institute) – Book (co-Author with Suzy Hansen) – Dual Soul Connection: The Alien Agenda for Human Advancement: (via Amazon) Book: Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness & Contact with Non Human Intelligence – (via Amazon) Edgar Mitchell Book: The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut’s Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds – (via Amazon) NASA – Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy “SOFIA” – 00:00 NASA's Unspoken Astronaut Challenges 04:46 Introduction to the Discussion 06:23 Nick and Rudy's Quest for Truth 06:47 Remote Viewing and Plasma Phenomena 10:56 The Nature of Consciousness and Entanglement 13:52 Love and Quantum Entanglement 18:50 Probes, Orbs, and Alien Surveillance 23:02 The Science of Plasmas and Orbs 42:14 Reflective Qualities of Orbs 46:51 Remote Viewing and Aerial Phenomena 50:26 Belief Systems and Perception 01:00:20 Edgar Mitchell: A Life of Exploration 01:13:59 Astronaut Experiences and Consciousness 01:19:50 Closing Thoughts and Reflections To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. /episode/index/show/behindgreatness/id/37216070

216. Dr. Kevin Knuth – Physicist / Former NASA scientist - Why is There Not Nothing? 06/17/2025

215. Joe McMoneagle, Part 5 - Ret. US Army / Remote Viewer #001 / Author – Violating Time 05/27/2025

215. Joe McMoneagle, Part 5 - Ret. US Army / Remote Viewer #001 / Author – Violating Time Joe McMoneagle 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’re back into the jungle of Joe’s experiences. We discuss how Joe actually never wanted to work in the military psychic spy program, begging his superior not to assign him to that desk. We hear about double blinded RV exercises on live Japanese TV and saving/finding missing people – live. We learn about the incredible stresses in the program and the early deaths of his comrades succumbing to those stresses. We hear about the several years that Joe spends with congress and senators demonstrating the success of the program and securing funding for 20+ years through his efforts. We talk beliefs, violating time, building a house after a triple by-pass, ingesting agent orange, growing back his liver, another angle to the grey ghost story and being knighted. Oh, and Joe explains to us what God is. “Time is not what we believe it is.” Previous episodes/discussions on Behind Greatness with Remote Viewers: · Russell Targ () – Co-Founder, SRI Institute · Courtney Brown () · Stephan A. Schwartz (, ) · Lyn Buchanan () · Nancy DuTertre () · Paul H. Smith () Joe, · Books: () · Parapsychological Association: · Monroe Institute: · IMDb: To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors /episode/index/show/behindgreatness/id/36709170

214. Fr. Seán ÓLaoire – Former Catholic Priest / Clinical Psychologist / Author – Giving Death the Middle Finger 05/06/2025

213. David Salmoni – Zoologist / Big Cat Expert / Animal Presenter - Trying A Lot of What-Ifs 04/22/2025

212. Dr. Paco Calvo - Cognitive Scientist / Philosopher of Biology / Author – Challenging Your Expectations 04/01/2025

211. Dr. Rudy Schild & Nick Cook – Challenging Old Theories 03/25/2025

210. Joe McMoneagle Part 4 - Ret. US Army / Remote Viewer #001 / Author – Being Shards of a Whole 03/18/2025

210. Joe McMoneagle Part 4 - Ret. US Army / Remote Viewer #001 / Author – Being Shards of a Whole 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 in exploring human consciousness. We continue to follow Joe in the deep-end of his experiences. We start with telepathy and lying, language as an inhibitor and a protector, an incredible near death experience in East Germany, love v empathy, a life review and remembering, heaven and hell, being shards of a whole, more out of body experiences, losing the fear of death and dying, and reaching more people who are suffering. “As living entities what we are is perhaps the grand engineer or the architect of reality trying to understand what it is.” 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:19 Telepathy Before Language 00:03:55 Telepathy Tapes 00:10:38 The Link Between Autism and Telepathy 00:12:50 Joe's Near Death Experience - "Which One?" 00:31:55 The Cause of Death in the Near Death Experience 00:40:09 What Exists After Death 00:48:12 Could Humans Just Be Shards of a Larger Being? 00:53:07 What Deja Vu Is 00:58:38 Continuous Learning 01:06:40 Fixing Anaesthesia Complications with Coca-Cola? See here other previous guests mentioned: - Dr. Diane Hennacy re telepathy (ep 113) https://behindgreatness.org/episode/dr-diane-hennacy/ - Natalie Sudman re NDE (ep 97) https://behindgreatness.org/episode/breaking-down-our-beliefs/ Previous episodes/discussions on Behind Greatness with Remote Viewers: Russell Targ (ep 80) – Co-Founder, SRI Institute https://youtu.be/7Gw3fIFI73k Courtney Brown (ep 131) https://youtu.be/_jCZzPgdzcM Stephan A. Schwartz (ep 155) https://youtu.be/0E6jhiMd7Dk Stephan A. Schwartz (ep 156) https://youtu.be/VATz-Y59UiY Lyn Buchanan (ep 163) https://youtu.be/K2Ig3C88BxQ Nancy DuTertre (ep 167) https://behindgreatness.org/episode/nancy-du-tertre/ Paul H. Smith (ep 180) https://behindgreatness.org/episode/dr-paul-h-smith/ Joe McMoneagle: - 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/ Listen to Behind Greatness: - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/67B5chxVFze3EWUgs9iPJg - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-greatness-by-inspire-north/id1511953342 To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here (as a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors): https://behindgreatness.org /episode/index/show/behindgreatness/id/35743750

209. Dr. Jennifer “Kim” Penberthy – Clinical & Research Psychologist, University of Virginia / Author – Exploring the ‘So What?’ 03/07/2025

209. Dr. Jennifer “Kim” Penberthy – Clinical & Research Psychologist, University of Virginia / Author – Exploring the ‘So What?’ 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, she began at an early age asking herself and her parents metaphysical questions – long before she became a clinician and research scientist. We hear about her life changing story at the beach and fascinating surgical table stories heard from her aging father. We learn about her pursuit in researching after death communications from those who lose loved ones and how this research may help develop more wholistic therapeutic approaches to grieving. Timestamps: 00:00:00 Coming Up 00:01:21 Introduction 00:03:50 The Division of Perceptual Studies 00:07:45 Does Your "Soul" Exist After Death? 00:13:58 Asking "What is the purpose of life?" and "What happens after death?" 00:20:26 Seeing a Person that is Dead 00:26:01 Divine Interventions 00:32:11 After Death Communication 00:42:34 Living Mindfully Across the Lifespan 00:46:26 Government Funding for Near Death Experiences 00:57:12 Aftermath of NDE's and OBE's Episodes to check out: Dr. Bruce Greyson (ep 69), Dr. Antonia Mills (ep 88) and Dr. Iya Whiteley (ep 185) Kim, Book w Morgan: For fun, story about Meat from the Sky: To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors /episode/index/show/behindgreatness/id/35573295

208. Antonio Cupo – TV / Film Actor, Producer – Being Rooted 02/23/2025

207. Nick Cook – Author / Journalist – Walking Between Places 02/06/2025

206. Dr. Salima Ikram – Egyptologist / Archeologist / Author – Co-Ruling of Felines and Humans 01/21/2025

205. Dr. Andrea Lani – Aerospace Scientist/Engineer - Keeping to an Eagle Eye View 01/08/2025

204. Dr. Garry Nolan & Dr. Rudy Schild – Informing Your Wonder 12/20/2024

204. Dr. Garry Nolan & Dr. Rudy Schild – Informing Your Wonder This is the first of a series of talks where we host two luminaries in one conversation. Garry from the West Coast and Rudy from the East Coast and both preeminent scientists and explorers in their field. This is the first meeting between the two and as expected, they go big. Fast. We talk the purpose of the universe, non human intelligence, the question of God, speciation, artificial intelligence, “extranormal”, the re-wiring of the brain, horse whispering, spiralling brain waves, orbs, inside out black hole, electric bath. And, we end this bounty of plenty with a definition from each about the secret of living an interesting life. Strap yourselves in. Timestamps: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:09 Explaining the Unexplained 00:06:22 What is "God" and the Universe? 00:11:31 Non-Human Intelligence 00:15:07 Explaining UAP and NHI Sightings 00:25:49 The Future of Human Evolution 00:29:26 The Deep State and Being Bullied Into Silence 00:35:55 "Not Are They Here, But Could They Get Here?" 00:38:44 What the Government is Hiding 00:52:13 How Was the First Universe Created 01:00:37 Garry's Out Of Body Experience For earlier one-on-one episodes with Garry and with Rudy, see ep 179 , 186, 187, 192, 195, 196. See also Russell Targ (ep 80), Avi Loeb (ep 105), Diana Pasulka (ep142), Mary Rodwell (ep149), Rey Hernandez (ep 153,154). Garry: Bio: SOL Foundation: YouTube: SOL Foundation Talk : Interview with Ross Coulthart: SALT Talk: X: Rudy: Center for Astrophysics – Journal of Cosmology – Personal website – List of Published papers – () CCRI (Consciousness & Contact Research Institute) – Book (co-Author with Suzy Hansen) – Dual Soul Connection: The Alien Agenda for Human Advancement: () Book: Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness & Contact with Non Human Intelligence – () Edgar Mitchell Book: The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut’s Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds – () NASA – Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy “SOFIA” – /episode/index/show/behindgreatness/id/34544940

203. Marco Vigato – Archeological Explorer / Researcher / Author - Searching For Our Origins 12/16/2024

202. Matt Rizzetta (part 2) - Founder, North Sixth Group & Club Underdog / Author – Embracing the Unpredictability 11/29/2024

201. Lars Krutak – Tattoo Anthropologist / Photographer / Author – Breaking Bread 11/12/2024

200. Joe McMoneagle (part 3) – Ret. US Army / Remote Viewer # 001 / Author – Grey Ghosting 11/05/2024

199. Joe McMoneagle (part 2) – Ret. US Army / Remote Viewer #001 / Author – Waiting in the Essence 10/24/2024

198. Joe McMoneagle (part 1) – Ret. US Army / “Remote Viewer #001” / Author - Letting Go of Your Assumptions 10/08/2024

198. Joe McMoneagle (part 1) – Ret. US Army / “Remote Viewer #001” / Author - Letting Go of Your Assumptions To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors Thanks again for joining us at Behind Greatness. This episode was recorded with Joe in June 2024 and is part 1 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 #001" 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. During this introductory episode, we get exposed to some of Joe’s military adventures from the Vietnam war – falling out of a helicopter, breaking his nose multiple times while under enemy fire and taping himself to the top of a tree for 14 hours. We learn about his recruitment into the then classified remote viewing intelligence program and the ensuing 40+ years as one of the worlds most accomplished remote viewers. Joe helps us understand what remote viewing is and what it isn’t, the operationalization of the practice, using the skills to help police department and detectives across the US in missing children cases, the need to “unlearn your habits” and the uphill battle he’s been fighting for a long time. And, so much, much more. … 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: Parapsychological Association: Monroe Institute: IMDb: /episode/index/show/behindgreatness/id/33372407

197. Michael Cremo - The Forbidden Archeologist - Questioning Your Assumptions 09/20/2024

196. Dr. Rudolf Schild, continued (part 5) – Offering a Different View 09/09/2024

195. Dr. Rudolf Schild, continued (part 4) – Recognizing the Vast Sea of Potential 08/05/2024

195. Dr. Rudolf Schild, continued (part 4) – Recognizing the Vast Sea of Potential To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors For Rudy, part 1, part 2 and part 3 please visit episodes #179, #186 and #192. Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are back again with Rudy. Rudy is a pre-eminent expert on black holes and a world-renowned Astrophysicist from Harvard, practising in the field since the mid-1960s. He is also the co-Founder of FREE / CCRI (see co-Founder past guests Rey Hernandez & Mary Rodwell) and also the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Cosmology. We dive into the burning of libraries and conservatories, the magic of operatic music, composition, intent and emotions - and accessing history and the potential future from the black hole. We talk about the ultimate cosmic intelligence, the purpose of the universe, the “sponsoring” of the “big G” of our universe of universes, the limiting of the size of the black holes by the quantum field, and the limitations of math. And, there’s more (as always) … Rudy goes on to describe the agreement he had with Dr. Edgar Mitchell before he died in 2016, the rewiring of the brain after the exposure of light from UFOs and a device that was developed by colleagues which he helped test “to the limits” to detect consciousness beyond the grave. … to be continued… Movie - A Tear In the Sky (Caroline Cory) - Previous episodes/discussions referenced in this podcast episode with Rudy: Dr. Diane Hennacy (ep 113) – Psychiatrist / Author Dr. Dean Radin (122) – Chief Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) Kevin Day (ep171) – Ret US Navy Rudy, Center for Astrophysics – Journal of Cosmology - Personal website - List of Published papers - CCRI (Consciousness & Contact Research Institute) - Book (co-Author with Suzy Hansen) – Dual Soul Connection: The Alien Agenda for Human Advancement: Book: Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness & Contact with Non Human Intelligence - Edgar Mitchell Book: The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut’s Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds - NASA – Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy “SOFIA” - /episode/index/show/behindgreatness/id/32439437

194. Dimitry Toukhcher – Founder, LGFG Fashion House – Existing at the Edge of Chaos 07/29/2024

193. Sergio Di Zio – Award-Winning TV, Film, Stage Actor / Downsview Boy – Creating Story by Letting Go of All Story 07/25/2024

192. Dr. Rudolf Schild, continued (part 3) – Accessing Quantum Information 07/05/2024

192. Dr. Rudolf Schild, continued (part 3) – Accessing Quantum Information To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. For Rudy, part 1 and part 2, please have a listen to episode #179 and #186. Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are back again with Rudy. Rudy is a pre-eminent expert on black holes and a world-renowned Astrophysicist from Harvard, practising in the field since the mid-1960s. He is also the co-Founder of FREE / CCRI (see co-Founder past guests Rey Hernandez & Mary Rodwell) and also the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Cosmology. Rudy brings us through a discussion on various cosmic topics: the earth’s giant radio telescope, that we can now see the character of the black hole for the 1st time, and an explanation on why our classical definition of the black hole is now proven to be incorrect (congruent with his theory from decades ago). We hear about the significance of interstellar dust samples, biological material in space and plants spilling out their DNA. Rudy further tickles us with his thoughts on the quantum attribute of space that records what we say and think and his thoughts on the inside-out black hole: the distant horizon. And in case you’re wondering, we get to the “G-word” and the possibility of a supreme being. Play with this: “The human mind accesses the black hole to get glimpses of the past” - Rudy Schild. … to be continued… See earlier episodes with Rudy’s FREE/CCRI co-Founders Rey Hernandez (ep 153, 154) & Mary Rodwell (ep 149). Rudy, Center for Astrophysics – Journal of Cosmology - Personal website - List of Published papers - CCRI (Consciousness & Contact Research Institute) - Book (co-Author with Suzy Hansen) – Dual Soul Connection: The Alien Agenda for Human Advancement: Book: Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness & Contact with Non Human Intelligence - Edgar Mitchell Book: The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut’s Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds - NASA – Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy “SOFIA” - /episode/index/show/behindgreatness/id/32020197

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