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Explore "consciousness" with insightful episodes like "Episode #197 ... New Atheists and cosmic purpose without God - (Zizek, Goff, Nagel)", ""Do People Really Not Understand Ego?"", "Valentines cards come from the Pagan ritual of slapping bare arses with the hide of a skinned Dog", "#96 Col. John Alexander - Military Applications of the Paranormal" and "Episode 69: The Valley" from podcasts like ""Philosophize This!", "HealthyGamerGG", "The Blindboy Podcast", "Shawn Ryan Show" and "Otherworld"" and more!
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"Do People Really Not Understand Ego?"
Valentines cards come from the Pagan ritual of slapping bare arses with the hide of a skinned Dog
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#96 Col. John Alexander - Military Applications of the Paranormal
Episode 69: The Valley
#2091 - Diana Walsh Pasulka
Diana Walsh Pasulka is a writer and professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Her latest book is "Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences."
Dr Joe Dispenza: 4 Hacks to REWIRE YOUR MIND & Attract Your Dreams!
Imagine transcending your own limitations and embracing a world of change — that's what we're talking about today. Dr. Dispenza brings to life the concept of healing oneself through the power of thoughts and meditation, sharing heart-touching stories of individuals who defied the odds and healed from severe illnesses. As we navigate this conversation, we touch upon the transformative effects of belief, gratitude, and personal evolution. This isn't just about achieving material abundance; it's a journey towards enriching your inner self.
Dr Joe’s passion can be found at the intersection of the latest findings from the fields of neuroscience, epigenetics, and quantum physics to explore the science behind spontaneous remissions. He integrates that knowledge to teach people how to heal their bodies of health conditions, make significant changes in their lives, and evolve their consciousness.
In this episode you will learn
- How to leverage the power of thoughts and meditation for self-healing.
- The crucial role of gratitude in the healing process and personal transformation.
- Practical strategies to break free from negative cycles and embrace change for a prosperous life.
- The impact of emotions and beliefs in shaping our reality and the process of creating abundance.
- Methods to connect with the quantum field and the science behind synchronizing mind and body for holistic wellness.
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SC EP:1022 The Female Chewbacca
The first 19 minutes of show I briefly discuss artificial intelligence. I know it isn't bigfoot related but it applies to the time we are living in. It is a creepy subject. I give two examples.
Tonight I will be speaking to Andrew. Andrew is a Physical Therapist who moved from NY to CA. In 2002 he was mountain biking when he saw a large creature. In shock he was trying to get a better look and realized he was not alone. A short time after this sighting he caught something going through his trash and it wasn't a bear.
The Truth About Visualization & Manifestation
Your Mindset Is Your World
Sadhguru (World’s No.1 Guru) PREDICTS: "There Is A Mental Health Pandemic Coming! & We Are On The Brink Of Extinction!"
387. What You See and Feel is Not Reality | Dr. Donald Hoffman
Dr. Jordan B Peterson and cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Donald Hoffman discuss what we know as reality, why space time is now being considered a “doomed” framework, and how consciousness can be understood as a vast probability space within which we orient ourselves.
Hoffman received a Bachelor of Arts degree in quantitative psychology from the University of California at Los Angeles, and then his Doctorate of Philosophy in computational psychology at MIT. He briefly worked as a research scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, before taking on the role of assistant professor at the University of California at Irvine. He is now a professor in the department of Cognitive Sciences. He has written four books (below), on the topics of human vision, perception, consciousness, and the effects of/reasons for evolution on each. He is also a key proponent of MUI (Multimodal User Interface) theory, which states that "perceptual experiences do not match or approximate properties of the objective world, but instead provide a simplified, species-specific, user interface to that world." Hoffman argues that conscious beings have not evolved to perceive the world as it actually is but have evolved to perceive the world in a way that maximizes "fitness payoffs.”
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For Dr. Donald Hoffman:
"The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes" (Book) https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Reality-Evolution-Truth-ebook/dp/B07JR1FDXH/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OMOD0ZGPHCT9&keywords=the+case+against+reality&qid=1697060197&s=digital-text&sprefix=the+case+against%2Cdigital-text%2C189&sr=1-1
"Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See" (Book) https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Intelligence-How-Create-What/dp/0393319679/ref=sr_1_1?crid=QZBIXXULF7VC&keywords=Visual+intelligence+hoffman&qid=1697060273&s=digital-text&sprefix=visual+intelligence+hoffman%2Cdigital-text%2C138&sr=1-1-catcorr
Dr. Hoffman on X https://twitter.com/donalddhoffman?lang=en
Dr. Hoffman's Ted Talk https://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as_it_is?language=en
249 | Peter Godfrey-Smith on Sentience and Octopus Minds
The study of cognition and sentience would be greatly abetted by the discovery of intelligent alien beings, who presumably developed independently of life here on Earth. But we do have more than one data point to consider: certain vertebrates (including humans) are quite intelligent, but so are certain cephalopods (including octopuses), even though the last common ancestor of the two groups was a simple organism hundreds of millions of years ago that didn't have much of a nervous system at all. Peter Godfrey-Smith has put a great amount of effort into trying to figure out what we can learn about the nature of thinking by studying how it is done in these animals with very different brains and nervous systems.
Blog post with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/09/11/249-peter-godfrey-smith-on-sentience-and-octopus-minds/
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Peter Godfrey-Smith received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, San Diego. He is currently professor in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. Among his books are Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness and Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind.
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Here are some of the papers mentioned in this episode:
- Crook (2021), Octopus pain
- Gibbons et al. (2022), Bee pain
- Gutnick et al. (2011), Octopus arm behavior
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The Monstrefact: DC Comics' Swamp Thing
In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses Swamp Thing from DC Comics…
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#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies
Night School: How to Meditate While You’re Asleep | Andrew Holecek
This is a fun, weird, extremely interesting and inspiring episode.
It’s about lucid dreaming, something that people might perceive as hippie nonsense, but is actually deeply woven into ancient and time-tested Buddhist traditions.
Our guest today has been studying and practicing Buddhism and what he calls nocturnal meditations for more than four decades. And he has remarkably simple and down to earth tips for doing this in your own life. He argues anybody can do this. And the proposition is pretty compelling. We’re asleep for a huge percentage of our life, and from a perspective of contemplative development, or training your mind, that’s a huge stretch of land that is lying fallow.
Andrew Holecek is an expert on lucid dreaming and the Tibetan yogas of sleep and dream. He is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and the author of scientific papers on lucid dreaming. He has also written many books on the subject, including: Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep.
In this episode we talk about:
- The Five Nocturnal Meditations, which include: liminal dreaming, lucid dreaming, dream yoga, sleep yoga, and bardo yoga
- Why bother with these nocturnal practices in the first place?
- How these nocturnal practices might be the next phase of human evolution
- The problem of wake-centricity
- Practical tips for trying this stuff yourself
- And if lucid dreaming is meant for everyone – including those of us with sleep issues
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#2003 - Killer Mike
Killer Mike is a Grammy-nominated rapper, activist, and entrepreneur. His new album, "Michael," is available now.
Making Sense of Meditation | Episode 10 of The Essential Sam Harris
In this episode, we traverse a decade of Sam’s conversations on the topic of meditation.
We start with the very first recorded episode from the archives: a conversation with Sam’s meditation teacher and friend, Joseph Goldstein. Goldstein recalls how his thinking was unlocked—allowing him to fully realize the power of the practice—by the utterance of one single word.
We then hear from author Richard Lang as he guides us towards a strangely obvious insight that came to be known as “the headless way.” Next, philosopher and neuroscientist Thomas Metzinger employs his vast expertise in both neurobiology and meditation to show how our brains generate a model of the world and self, and how meditation can help us catch that process in the act.
Psychiatrist Judson Brewer then shifts the conversation to some very practical applications of mindfulness meditation, addressing the problem of addiction to things like food, smoking, or drugs by retraining the reward centers in our brains. Next, Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson dig into the neuroscience of meditation and discuss how experienced meditators may actually be physically altering their brains.
We then listen in on Sam’s conversation with author Robert Wright, who defends the claim that “Buddhism is true.” Sam and Wright discuss the validity of this claim while ensuring they keep it separate from the political and moral behaviors of Buddhist nations and individuals.
We conclude with Sam delivering the answer to a question posed by the Belgian neuroscientist Steven Laureys. In doing so, Sam provides a comprehensive tour of his philosophies. He ties together his personal brand of moral analysis, his reverence for science and truth seeking, and his reasoning as to why he still meditates and why he proudly promotes the practice.
About the Series
Filmmaker Jay Shapiro has produced The Essential Sam Harris, a new series of audio documentaries exploring the major topics that Sam has focused on over the course of his career.
Each episode weaves together original analysis, critical perspective, and novel thought experiments with some of the most compelling exchanges from the Making Sense archive. Whether you are new to a particular topic, or think you have your mind made up about it, we think you’ll find this series fascinating.
Dreamfall into the Dark, Part 1
The wonders and terrors of the dreaming mind do not always flee completely with the dawn. At certain times and places in history, it seems that dreams suddenly ascend to new heights of cultural fascination. In this Stuff to Blow Your Mind series, Robert and Joe explore periods when the eye of culture fixes on the dream world.
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Deepak Chopra - How Self-Awareness Connects Humanity
My guest today needs absolutely no introduction - Deepak Chopra. If you’ve ever followed this work, my podcast here you would know I normally am not the type of person that would get excited by a rockstar or a top athlete but, when I meet one of my teachers I am so humbled in his presence, and I am so grateful for the opportunity. We met a couple of times. The first time was around the time I published my first book, I had no idea what I was doing. Deepak’s always been Deepak, and we spoke together on a panel in New York City, where obviously he knew a million times more than I did but, he was so kind and so generous. For every question that came to the panel, Deepak would look at me and say “I think Mo would answer this better.” No, I would not answer it better, but the confidence and kindness of his encouraging me to do what I was doing, is probably the reason I am here today speaking to you, and probably the reason you’ve heard of my work.
I have learned so much from Deepak that I honestly feel I spent a retreat with him because I followed all of his work, and I always found nuggets of wisdom that are summarized in such a precise and articulate way that it would blow me away. It’s such a joy because today is the second time I meet my teacher.
Deepak Chopra is a world-renowned speaker and author. He is the founder of The Chopra Foundation, a non-profit entity researching well-being and humanitarianism, and Chopra Global, a health company at the intersection of science and spirituality. He is also a Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, San Diego and serves as a senior scientist with Gallup Organization. Deepak has written over 90 books, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. Chopra has been at the forefront of the meditation revolution and his 93rd book, Living in the Light (Harmony Books) taps into the ancient Indian practice of Royal Yoga. TIME magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of their top 100 most influential people.”
Listen as we discuss:
- 03:00 - Figuring out our identity
- 05:00 - ‘I’ is a constant and infinite
- 07:30: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Deepak and consciousness
- 11:30 - How awareness unites us
- 15:00 - There is no universe
- 17:30 - ‘Our life is a dream’
- 19:30 - Perplexity and entropy
- 23:30 - What is happening right now
- 28:00 - Space is awareness
- 30:00 - The Multiverse and The Singularity
- 34:00 - Sensations, Images, Feelings and Thoughts
- 36:00 - You are not the roles you play - You are the awareness
- 37:30 - Superintelligence
- 40:00 - Love is the ultimate truth
- 42:30 - The more you know, the less you know
- 44:00 - ‘God’s language is silence’
- 47:00 - Resist or Flow
Connect with Deepak Chopra on Instagram @deepakchopra and on Twitter @DeepakChopra. Find out more about his work here.
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