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”.
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207. Nick Cook – Author / Journalist – Walking Between Places
02/06/2025
207. Nick Cook – Author / Journalist – Walking Between Places
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 discovery through boredom. To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors For others: · Rudy Schild pt 2 (ep186) re Edgar Mitchell · Russell Targ (ep 80) · Scarlett Heinbuch (ep164) re shared death experience Nick, · Website: · Books: Ingo Swann: · ·
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206. Dr. Salima Ikram – Egyptologist / Archeologist / Author – Co-Ruling of Felines and Humans
01/21/2025
206. Dr. Salima Ikram – Egyptologist / Archeologist / Author – Co-Ruling of Felines and Humans
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 in the East. And more… A fun, magical cat … uhm, we mean chat. Or do we? . See previous episodes referenced: Allan Savory (ep 138) , Jack Horner (ep 159), Andrea Lani (ep 205 re the feline) Salima, - Website: - University: FB: @slIkram To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors
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205. Dr. Andrea Lani – Aerospace Scientist/Engineer - Keeping to an Eagle Eye View
01/08/2025
205. Dr. Andrea Lani – Aerospace Scientist/Engineer - Keeping to an Eagle Eye View
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 spiritual awakening. We hear about losing time, the peculiar properties of the feline, the power of meditative states, the triangular prism inside a cube inside a sphere, Metatronic visions, Dr. Edgar Mitchell’s IONS and having an Eagle Eye view on things. See also Garry Nolan/Rudy Schild (ep 204), Ryan Graves (ep 141), Helane Wahbeh (ep134), Rey Hernandez (ep 153,154). To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors.
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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” –
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203. Marco Vigato – Archeological Explorer / Researcher / Author - Searching For Our Origins
12/16/2024
203. Marco Vigato – Archeological Explorer / Researcher / Author - Searching For Our Origins
Today we chat with Marco Vigato from his home in Mexico City. Marco works as a business executive, born and bred in Italy, educated also at Harvard and now working in Mexico City. He was also featured in Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse. Why? He has dedicated his time over the last 15+ years exploring archeological sites all over the world, charting uncharted ruins and documenting evidence of ancient advanced civilizations – in the ultimate search for our origins. Part of his current work is the excavating and exploring of an ancient subterranean labyrinth in Mexico, a project started in 2022. Follow along as we follow Marco’s curious question-making. History is a cemetery of civilizations. To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Marco, Website: ARX Project: Blog: FB: Book: The Empires of Atlantis -
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202. Matt Rizzetta (part 2) - Founder, North Sixth Group & Club Underdog / Author – Embracing the Unpredictability
11/29/2024
202. Matt Rizzetta (part 2) - Founder, North Sixth Group & Club Underdog / Author – Embracing the Unpredictability
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We reconnect with Matt, who last was on the podcast in February 2021 (episode 43). Matt brings us up to speed on his developing creation – building an ecosystem of football (soccer) clubs from Europe and the USA, under his new subsidiary Club Underdog. Matt is now an owner of European football clubs Campobasso FC and Dagenham & Redbridge and last year acquired Brooklyn FC, the first professional expansion soccer franchise in the history of Brooklyn. We explore his pivot from the business he founded and grew many years ago. We talk the drive of passion, the allure of the unpredictable, the magic of under-dogging, treating “no” as a driver, self-belief and the most valuable currency you can collect. A painter of canvases … Matt, LI: North 6 Group:
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201. Lars Krutak – Tattoo Anthropologist / Photographer / Author – Breaking Bread
11/12/2024
201. Lars Krutak – Tattoo Anthropologist / Photographer / Author – Breaking Bread
Today, we talk to the world’s only well-known “tattoo hunter”. Lars is an Anthropologist and has been always uniquely curious about the stories of and behind the ancient ways of tattooing around the world in indigenous tradition. Lars brings us through his fascination with tattoo culture he’s researched over the last 20 years with his extensive travels to remote communities in South East Asia, India, Africa and South America. We talk about the world famous centenarian tattoo artist Whang Od in the Philippines, meeting head hunting warriors, his “cabinet of curiosities” and the power of uncovering ancient truth through face to face human contact. Chapters: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:45 Lars Krutak - The Tattoo Hunter 00:04:58 What is a Tattoo Hunter? 00:07:46 Why Tribes Are Losing the Ability to Tattoo 00:11:55 The Brutality of Tribal Tattoos and VIsiting Ultra Remote Locations 00:24:10 How Lars Became the Tattoo Hunter 00:30:12 How Tribal Tattoos Became a Tourist Destination 00:38:41 Being Alone in Remote Places 00:44:43 Why Tribal Tattooists Are Majority Female 00:51:43 How Lars Finances this "Hobby" 00:59:11 Where the Mind Goes Being Solo In Remote Locations 01:02:45 Where Lars Wants to Go But Can't To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Lars, Website: - for Books, Video, Other Media New book, October 2024 - Tattoo Traditions of Asia: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity - New Book, coming May 2025: Indigenous Tattoo Traditions: Humanity through Skin and Ink : YT Channel: IG: FB: Daniele Agostino Derossi Foundation:
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200. Joe McMoneagle (part 3) – Ret. US Army / Remote Viewer # 001 / Author – Grey Ghosting
11/05/2024
200. Joe McMoneagle (part 3) – Ret. US Army / Remote Viewer # 001 / Author – Grey Ghosting
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 is part 3 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 picked up where we left off from our part 2 chat. We hear about intelligence “collections” in the psychic program, a peculiar collaboration with a high profile Russian remote viewer, remote viewing Mars at the request of the DoD, coffee with a former director of the KGB, a wonderful story about the grey ghost, dinners at the Mermaid Inn, the importance of burping and farting in intelligence work, travelling the cosmos - and dying. … to be continued?… Ingo Swann talk: Part 1: Part 2: 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:
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199. Joe McMoneagle (part 2) – Ret. US Army / Remote Viewer #001 / Author – Waiting in the Essence
10/24/2024
199. Joe McMoneagle (part 2) – Ret. US Army / Remote Viewer #001 / Author – Waiting in the Essence
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 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: Parapsychological Association: Monroe Institute: IMDb:
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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:
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197. Michael Cremo - The Forbidden Archeologist - Questioning Your Assumptions
09/20/2024
197. Michael Cremo - The Forbidden Archeologist - Questioning Your Assumptions
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors Thank you for listening to Behind Greatness . We talk today with Michael Cremo from his home in LA. Michael is best known for his research and work in authoring a global best-seller in the 1990s: Forbidden Archeology. He brings us through his journey of an exploratory life starting with his youth spent as the son of an air-force intelligence officer. We talk about his seminal research work. Here, he first discovered that something was amiss as he researched what narrative the world’s prominent academic archeologists were fashioning in the late 1800s. Do we talk about a shoe print dating back millions of years? Do we talk about confronting an agenda of opinions forced through the educational system? Do we talk about paradigm-shifting discoveries made in near the Sierra Nevada? Do we talk remote viewing with Stephan Schwartz? Do we talk about physical reality vs consciousness? Do we talk hidden knowledge? Do we talk challenging Darwinism? Yes, ma’am. We do. See episodes with Stephane Schwartz (ep 155, 156). Michael, Website: The Hidden Origins of the Human Race – Talk: Forbidden Archeology & Evidence of Extreme Human Antiquity @ Google: Book:
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196. Dr. Rudolf Schild, continued (part 5) – Offering a Different View
09/09/2024
196. Dr. Rudolf Schild, continued (part 5) – Offering a Different View
For Rudy, part 1 to part 4 please visit episodes #179, #186, #192 and 195. To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors 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 immediately brings us to his thoughts on the big bang theory, the mother-daughter relationship of spawning universes and the blunder of the current dark matter theory. He lauds the work of his colleague Carl Gibson, an expert in fluid mechanics, on helping to unlock secrets of the universe. We hear about orbs, the spirality of consciousness and being forever marked by expanded possibilities after being in touch with a ufo (“miracles”?) and Rey Hernandez’s contact modalities. Previous episodes/discussions referenced in this episode with Rudy: Dr. Tony Cicoria (ep 55) Rey Hernandez (ep 153, 154) Dr. Garry Nolan (ep 187) 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” -
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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” -
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194. Dimitry Toukhcher – Founder, LGFG Fashion House – Existing at the Edge of Chaos
07/29/2024
194. Dimitry Toukhcher – Founder, LGFG Fashion House – Existing at the Edge of Chaos
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today we are speaking with Dimitry from his office in Estonia. In this conversation we are treated to a battle-ridden, caterpillar to butterfly story. Dimitry brings us through his ideas formed through his experience living under a Communist regime to a zealous video gaming obsession to selling books door-to-door to building a truly international bespoke fashion house. Along the way, we learn about the power of “being delusional”, the skills learned to diffuse a bomb and how to make yourself allergic to shrimp. We discuss growing up in a system where lying is the tool of ruling , the predictability of seduction, being more interesting, the right dose of desperation, creativity of the entrepreneurial mind and the power of being at chaos’ edge. Warning: hard lessons to be learned here. Have a listen to a bad-ass who lived under incarceration in a communist regime: Luis Zuniga (ep 115). See here other entrepreneurial luminaries: Alex Rechichi (ep20), Matt Rizzetta (ep43), Anthony DiIorio (45), Ryan Albright (ep50), Mike Fata (ep77), Edoardo Ghignone (ep91), Doug Putnam (ep119), Anthony Scilipoti (128 ), Werner Barkhuizen (ep162) Dimitry, Website: IG: @lgfg_ceo_dimitry X: @lgfg_dimitry
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193. Sergio Di Zio – Award-Winning TV, Film, Stage Actor / Downsview Boy – Creating Story by Letting Go of All Story
07/25/2024
193. Sergio Di Zio – Award-Winning TV, Film, Stage Actor / Downsview Boy – Creating Story by Letting Go of All Story
Welcome back to Behind Greatness! We’re back with another fun episode with a fun guy – actor, Sergio Di Zio. What don’t we talk about here? Sergio brings us through the moment where the “pope” declared that he become an actor at age 18. We hear about a once painfully shy kid who uses audacity, the monster at the end of the book and letting go of story to carve through the universe and to be delightfully entangled within it. We talk destroying and building lives. We talk piercing words of a loving father raking leaves. We talk Brando and his cat and we talk Jeff Daniels and his empathic laugh. We talk Elisa. And we talk love as home. Let’s go!! See episodes with trauma expert Dr Gabor Mate (ep 143) … Exorcist John Szada (ep 174) … Actors: Enrico Colantoni (ep2), Giacomo Gianniotti (ep 29), Ken Choi (ep 66) and Amy Jo Johnson (ep 92) To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors.
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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” -
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191. Shehnaz Soni – Rocket Scientist / NASA Aerospace Engineer / Quantum Coach / Author – Questioning the Question
06/20/2024
191. Shehnaz Soni – Rocket Scientist / NASA Aerospace Engineer / Quantum Coach / Author – Questioning the Question
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are joined today by Shehnaz Soni. Shehnaz is an Aerospace engineer for NASA and is currently working on the 1st ever human landing system – slated to be part of the Artemis moon mission in 2026. We are immediately touched by Shehnaz’s sparkle. She has a marvelous story that starts with a closed religious upbringing, to an arranged marriage, to a desperate situation in a new country to an education that led her to reach for the stars - literally. But, that’s just a small slice of this Rocket Scientist. We dive into many a topic: her quantum coaching, NASA’s lunar regulate harvest missions for travel to Mars, non-human intelligence interfering at launches, intuition and light, NPCs, the grocery store as a playground and a boundary-less existence of being. Shehnaz, Website: IG: LI: Book: The Quantum Being: A Self-Sustaining and Magnificent Human Craft -
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190. Dr. Chris Lowe – Marine Biologist / Director, The Shark Lab - Drilling in & Zooming Out
06/11/2024
190. Dr. Chris Lowe – Marine Biologist / Director, The Shark Lab - Drilling in & Zooming Out
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Thanks for joining us again at Behind Greatness. We’re speaking with Chris Lowe today from his office at California State, Long Beach. Chris is also the Director of The Shark Lab and has been studying shark for over 30 years. We talk about sharks as the new dinosaurs, his life-long fascination with them, the understanding their mysterious lives and the importance of “drilling in and zooming out”. He shares stories about sharks at play, sharks at Thanksgiving and sharks as precise and sentient beings. We talk Great Whites, hammerheads, sleepers and cookie-cutters and having scientists train in translating their work for the public - a reminder of scientists’ important role in serving humanity. A fun talk with a fun guy about a fun topic. See episode 94 with Julie Church for another pioneer of the sea. Chris, Website: FB/X/IG: @csulbsharklab
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189. Dr. Jeffrey Kripal – Chair in Philosophy & Religious Thought, Rice University / Philosopher / Author - Owning Our Own Divinity
05/26/2024
189. Dr. Jeffrey Kripal – Chair in Philosophy & Religious Thought, Rice University / Philosopher / Author - Owning Our Own Divinity
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. For our part one with Jeffrey, visit our discussion in episode 118 (August 2022). Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are back with Jeffrey for a part 2 in our discussion. Jeffrey holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he served as the Associate Dean of the School of Humanities (2019-2023) and chaired the Department of Religion for eight years. We delve into the Archives of the Impossible – a project that he began in 2014 at Rice University that now holds over 1 million documents. We talk about his very profound out of body experience, the “great big magnet in the sky”, dreams, and our culture both informed and “broken down” by impossible events. We hear about Jeffrey’s thoughts on the trickery of the paranormal and the cultural placebo effect that is religion and our unwillingness to own our divinity. We visit belief v thought and revisit the discussion on the “third space”. The impossibility of translation of one type of consciousness to another … non human intelligence being perhaps us … being the mask … and the superhuman. We recommend a listen to Diana Pasulka (ep 142), Werner Barkhuizen (ep 162), Scarlett Heinbuch (ep 164) and Mike Clelland (ep 176). Jeffrey: Website: http://jeffreyjkripal.com Archives of the Impossible: https://impossiblearchives.rice.edu/ Books: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=jeffrey+kripal&crid=2IWN90LKNGUV2&sprefix=jeffrey+kripal%2Caps%2C173&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
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188. Matthew Roberts – Former US Navy Cryptologist / Experiencer / Author – Pushing the Boundaries of Human Perception
05/14/2024
188. Matthew Roberts – Former US Navy Cryptologist / Experiencer / Author – Pushing the Boundaries of Human Perception
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We sat down with Matthew Roberts at his home on the East Coast and we were treated with a thoughtful talk on a fascinating subject. Matthew worked in the US Navy as a Cryptologist for 16 years where he spent many years working on encryption/decryption communication process to catch the bad guys the world round. He is also recognized as being featured in Episode 1 of the 2023 Netflix series Encounters. Starting in 2015 he began to have a series of fascinating profound personal experiences after being on board the USS Roosevelt during the famous Gimbal and the Go Fast events. The Navy later described these events as incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena into military training ranges. These events completely changed the course of Matthew’s life, who had been a life-long atheist up to this point in his life. We learn about his journey of self-discovery, the subsequent opening up of his world view and his exploration of our place in the cosmos. Amongst the several themes in this episode, we discuss his insight on humanity’s lack of insight on evolution beyond us, the dead-end nature of our materialistic western mindset, what he thinks non-human intelligence is trying to communicate and the significance of “picking at the edges of human perception”. See episodes with Ryan Graves (ep 141) and Kevin Day (ep 171) to hear about more experiences from other former US Navy servicemen. See also the session we had with Dr. Steven J. Dick, Astrobiologist and former Chief Historian at NASA (ep 150). Matthew, · Book: Initiated: UAP, Dreams, Depression, Delusions, Shadow People, Psychosis, Sleep Paralysis, and Pandemics - https://www.amazon.com/Initiated-Depression-Delusions-Psychosis-Paralysis/dp/0578796589/ref=sr_1_1?crid=6HWBYQGYM0S1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.lltlR28XYO_x5DRo4HGgSWYxvGaJQg1DK4W3CkWLJgmXL37VrjYt67DMU1tADLt7Jd43Z5PevFzJJL6krv51GiKokBbbNepfDFM8HpDVyYLyxLX_VYz9G3cTAMvAEeB4aSAAAHLnmkgMVa2Bq95T2PXCdnqf67wrFlf3-sLqcqEFV_cBbrBhcEO2y0gvd0rq3deFrF75ZnsmsR1Uc3_cw2S3s5mJ8SvddHgU6-EqAQo.vGhULIFP2DCdSFoiJOtkCo30fP0CRlArozzC7Rmm4D8&dib_tag=se&keywords=matthew+roberts&qid=1715556136&sprefix=matthew+roberts%2Caps%2C118&sr=8-1 Netflix series Encounters (episode 1), featuring Matthew - https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/encounters-trailer-release-date-news Gimbal event: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/navy-confirms-videos-did-capture-ufo-sightings-it-calls-them-n1056201 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKHg-vnTFsM Go Fast event: Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxVRg7LLaQA&t=5s
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187. Dr. Garry Nolan – Immunologist / Inventor / Founder, The SOL Foundation - Asking the Zen Question
04/29/2024
187. Dr. Garry Nolan – Immunologist / Inventor / Founder, The SOL Foundation - Asking the Zen Question
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Thanks for joining us at behind Greatness. We sit down with Dr. Garry Nolan at his home in California. Garry is an Immunologist, an academic, an inventor and patent holder and a business executive. Dr. Nolan holds the Rachford and Carlotta A. Harris Endowed Chair in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. We pack this conversation with Garry’s practice on focusing on the data to provide the conversation piece with other scientists and the public. We talk about Garry’s personal experiences when he was younger and how they serve as fuel to his scientific inquiry. He elaborates on the importance for him in hiding his long term intent behind a cloak of real science. We hear about his research in a Harvard lab on the basal ganglia, prompted by earlier work done with Kit Green and high functioning remote viewers and intuition. We learn from him about doing science best with asking the Zen question - so that the answer will always move you forward. And, we hear a refreshing perspective on speculation of the non-human intelligence question and that “something behind the scenes”. As a life-long question-maker, he also shares with us the type of person he honours and why. Why? Because ‘why’ is the answer. That’s why. Garry, Bio: SOL Foundation: Youtube: SOL Foundation Talk : Interview with Ross Coulthart: SALT Talk: X: @garrynolan See episode with Diana Pasulka (ep 142). Garry is also “James” in Diana’s book American Cosmic
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186. Dr. Rudolf Schild, continued (part 2) - Opening up your Mind to the Mind of the Universe
04/15/2024
186. Dr. Rudolf Schild, continued (part 2) - Opening up your Mind to the Mind of the Universe
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. For Rudy, part 1, please have a listen to episode #179. Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are back 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 begin in the deep end with Rudy on this talk. We discuss his research experience and scientific exploration and the modern realities of getting ahead of the current science. He describes how the current belief in dark matter is incorrect, his discovery of the cluster of planets, the importance of MECOs (magnetospheric eternally collapsing objects) vs the classical definition of black holes. And that’s just the start. We discuss his friend’s (astronaut) Edgar Mitchell’s mystical experience in space in the 1970s, his desire to get NASA explore this with him, the experience of shared animal and human consciousness in space, our thoughts in the quantum field and the importance of empathy as a driver for the universe. We discuss Rudy’s desire for academics to mathematically study the lights emitted by ufos and for establishing intellectual academic research studies in this field, his belief in non-human intelligence and the wish that we open our minds to the wisdom of the universe. … to be continued… See earlier episodes with Rudy’s FREE/CCRI co-Founders Rey Hernandez (ep 153, 154) & Mary Rodwell (ep 149). See also Michael Masters (ep. 184) @ Montana Tech University, Diana Pasulka (ep 142) & Dean Radin (ep 122). 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” -
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185. Dr. Iya Whiteley – Space Psychologist / Korean Medicine Practitioner / Founder, Cosmic Baby Academy – Listening Through a Different Sense
03/28/2024
185. Dr. Iya Whiteley – Space Psychologist / Korean Medicine Practitioner / Founder, Cosmic Baby Academy – Listening Through a Different Sense
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Thanks for stopping by at Behind Greatness. Today we’re having a chat with Dr Iya Whiteley. She is currently the Director for the Centre for Space Medicine in London. Iya is an Aviation and Space Psychologist a Korean Medicine practitioner, an adventurer and martial artist and also the Founder of the Cosmic Baby Academy. Iya studies what motivates people to go beyond the edge of their capabilities, researching professional intuition. Her work focuses on pilots and astronauts to "hear their thinking”. We learn about childhood innocence and the astronaut, the significance of coincidences, the shattering of beliefs with the experience of space travel, ghosts in the cockpit, plonking to earth and fragility. And, she brings us through the cosmic connection with the baby’s experience and her desire to create a language for babies and parents not bound by linguistic parameters. A Searcher without needing to prove a point. Proposing a way forward. Have a listen to Diana Pasulka (ep 142) and former Navy fighter pilot, Ryan Graves (ep 142). Iya, IG: @driyawhiteley
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184. Dr. Michael Masters – Paleo-Anthropologist / Author / Musician / Painter – Wondering About the Future Us
03/19/2024
184. Dr. Michael Masters – Paleo-Anthropologist / Author / Musician / Painter – Wondering About the Future Us
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We have a chat today with Michael from his home in Butte, Montana. Michael is a professor of biological anthropology at Montana Technological University in Butte where he actively researches hominin evolutionary anatomy, human variation, archaeology, biomedicine, and the UFO phenomenon. His research examines the premise that ‘aliens’ may be our human descendants, returning from the future to visit and study their own hominin evolutionary past. He brings us through his early fascination with the unknown as a young boy and his personal follow through on his what ifs straight into a life in anthropology – and back beyond. We learn about his experience holding ancient skulls, non-local consciousness and the question on whether or not rocks and mountains are ‘alive’. We talk manufactured stigma, telepathic downloads and the support of his university in his quest to investigate the ufo question with both a scientific fastidiousness and an open-minded viewpoint of the world informed by his own mystical experiences. Straight-up, straight-talk. See our talks with Archeologist Dr. Vera Tiesler (ep 81) and world renowned Paleontologist Jack Horner (p 158) …. And Jeffrey Kripal (ep 118). Michael, Amazon Book Link: Website: X: FB: IG: Podcast discussion with the 2 strangers with whom Mike had the experience:
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183. Fr. Francis Tiso – Expert on Tibetan Buddhism / Author / Alchemist – Rising Informed
03/11/2024
183. Fr. Francis Tiso – Expert on Tibetan Buddhism / Author / Alchemist – Rising Informed
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We sit down with Fr. Francis today who joins us from Molise, Italy. Fr. Francis is an author, a scholar, an expert on Tibetan Buddhism an alchemist and an artist. He lives a life of science and spirituality and we discuss how alchemy plays an important part in his life as a reflection of that balance. We dive into languages and dialects and their interconnectivity to geography and culture, the trek of the snow leopard and a discussion on the most important laboratory on earth. We hear about his mystical experiences as a young man and the wonder that has pushed him since. We learn about his searching for those in Tibet who have experienced the actual dissolution of their physical body and the manifesting of their light body – the so-called rainbow body. And we learn about the wisdom collected along the way. Fr. Francis, Book: YT - Rainbow Body in Gebchak Nunnery -
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182. Pacho Flores - Trumpeter, Composer, Dreamer - Seeing the Sound
02/27/2024
182. Pacho Flores - Trumpeter, Composer, Dreamer - Seeing the Sound
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are honoured today to be speaking with Pacho Flores from Valencia, Spain, in his first interview in English. A native of San Cristobal, Venezuela and an early student of El Sistema, Pacho is a globally recognized trumpeter. He is also a leader in the blending of Latin American sounds in his compositions, with composers drafting pieces explicitly for his style. He is also the lead artist in residence with the world's leading brass instrument manufacturer Stomvi. He hear about his thoughts on genius v crazy, investing for quality, the miracle of Jose Antonio Abreu's El Sistema and the joy that the Southern Hemisphere brings to the world (of music). We learn about the trumpet as the big protagonist in music and Latin American sound, the joy and the sorrow it emotes and his personal/professional mission to show Latin culture through his repertoire. We discuss why music is "the queen of the arts", the role of empathy in music and why dreaming for Pacho is pivotal in creating pathways. Our warmest abrazo to our friend Dr. Vera Tiesler (ep 81) and a tip of the hat to Joan Koenig (ep 79) and Wynton Marsalis (ep126). Pacho, Website - IG: @pachofloresofficial FB: X: @pacho_flores YT - Concierto de Otoño para trompeta - Arturo Marquez Stomvi, Website -
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181. Dr. Eric Wargo - Science Writer / Author, Precognitive Dreamwork & The Long Self - Being Broken Open
02/19/2024
181. Dr. Eric Wargo - Science Writer / Author, Precognitive Dreamwork & The Long Self - Being Broken Open
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Thanks for joining us again at Behind Greatness. We chat with Eric Wargo today who lives in the Washington DC area. Eric is a science writer with a PhD in Anthropology working for government institutes conducting archaeology, psychology, and neuroscience research. He is a writer and an author and is well known for writing about dreaming, creativity and precognition. We delve immediately into the "long self" and exploring the idea of connecting to our future surviving long self and how dreams are about our future thoughts on experiences. We learn about his early precognitive dream experiences and the personal ufo sighting that fired him up - and his new intellectual and creative path that ensued. We discuss art and literature as prophetic and how artists borrow from other artists precognitively. And for fun, we talk about his developing theory on inspiration actually being precognition. A thanks to Jeffrey Kripal (ep 118) and Diana Pasulka (ep 142). Eric, Books: and Blog: X:
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180. Dr. Paul H. Smith – Major, US Army (ret.) / Remote Viewer & “Psychic Spy” / Author - Using the Gift for your Potential
02/07/2024
180. Dr. Paul H. Smith – Major, US Army (ret.) / Remote Viewer & “Psychic Spy” / Author - Using the Gift for your Potential
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Thanks for joining us again at Behind greatness. We are tuned in today with Paul Smith. Paul is a retired major in the US Army. He is most known as being a key member in the US government’s secret Psychic Espionage Program, Star Gate, during the 1980s and 90s. He is a leading expert on ESP, Remote Viewing and applied consciousness. He was only part of a handful of people trained by the father of remote viewing: Ingo Swann and he in turn became one of the few trainers in the unit of other remote viewers. Paul brings us through the Men in Black scenario of his recruitment at Fort Meade … to his time in the unit and the stories of his remote viewing exercises … to unofficially using his skills when he served in Desert Storm … and to his wife figuring out about his psychic military duties. We discuss non-local consciousness and the difficulties that main stream scientists still have with non-physical realities. We discuss applied intuition and ESP-informed intuition, bilocation and when Ingo Swann saved the world. We also learn about Pat Price (the country’s most capable remote viewer at the time and Police Commissioner) finding 4 presumed UFO bases on the planet in the 1970s using remote viewing - and Paul’s experience in remote viewing the same and his discussion of the “people” he viewed there. See other remote viewers: Russell Targ (ep 80) , Dean Radin (ep 122), Stephan Schwartz (154, 155), Lyn Buchanan (ep163), Nancy DuTetre (167). Paul, Website: Book: Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate: America's Psychic Espionage Program - Book: The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing: The Secret Military Remote Perception Skill Anyone Can Learn - Link to Ingo Swann: Ingo Swann Speech, Human Super Sensitivities, 2006: An Experimental Psychic Probe of the Planet Jupiter: Documentary – Ingo Swann: A Life Gone Wild:
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179. Dr. Rudolf Schild – World Renowned Astrophysicist / Black Hole Expert / co-Founder, FREE (CCRI) – Being Responsible for Understanding
01/31/2024
179. Dr. Rudolf Schild – World Renowned Astrophysicist / Black Hole Expert / co-Founder, FREE (CCRI) – Being Responsible for Understanding
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We sit down with Rudy, who joins us from his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Rudy is a pre-eminent expert on black holes and a world renowned Astrophysicist from Harvard, practicing 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. Are you ready, listener? We plunge into the vastness of the universe and swim in the nothingness and fullness of it all. We hear about blackholes as nature’s hard drive, the nature of existence and reality, his friendship with Dr. Edgar Mitchell (storied astronaut) and Dr. John Mack (famed Harvard psychiatrist) and their unique research, the quantum hologram, the alien breeding program, interaction with non-human intelligence post-Hiroshima/Nagasaki, changes in the brain post ufo-contact, and the important work of scientist Wilhelm Reich in quantum medicine and quantum engineering . And we only got to swim in Rudy’s shallow end on this talk. To be continued. See earlier episodes with FREE/CCRI co-Founders Rey Hernandez (ep 153, 154) & Mary Rodwell (ep 149). See also Kevin Day (ep 171). CCRI: 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 -
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178. Dr. Stephen Aizenstat - World-Renowned Professor of Depth Psychology / Imagination Specialist / Founder of Dream Tending - “Bringing the Witnessing Presence”
01/26/2024
178. Dr. Stephen Aizenstat - World-Renowned Professor of Depth Psychology / Imagination Specialist / Founder of Dream Tending - “Bringing the Witnessing Presence”
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are sitting down today with Stephen at his home in Santa Barbara. Among other things, he is the founder of Dream Tending and the Academy of Imagination in California. He’s a depth psychologist and he has been exploring dreams for over 4 decades. He conducts dreamwork and imagination seminars and workshops throughout the world, including presentations to the UN and to legislators in the US. We dive into the language of dreams, hearing the imagery and the intelligence of the planet learned through the dreaming state. He explains the imperialistic impulse in our dreaming and the importance of asking the questions in the dreaming state. We learn about the witnessing presence, treating the dream as the very beginning: the “ongoingness of the conversation” and “the difference that makes all the difference”. And we talk about leaning forward with curiosity in facing malevolent dream characters and “allowing the creativity that is indigenous to come to life”. A trip. Ask yourself, “who is dreaming the dream?” For other episodes on dream talk, see Antonia Mills (ep88), Athena Laz (ep100), Kenneth Oppel (ep106), Fr. Nathan Castle (ep140) Stephen, Website: Website: IG: @dreamtending Dream Tending book: Imagination Matrix book:
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