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Episode 54 – Zane Claes

This entry was tagged Computers Health Mindfulness Psychiatry and posted on April 24, 2016

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Called by some a “productivity machine,” Zane refuses to accept his destiny a code-writing robot. He balances these tendencies with an appreciation for the artistic and creative by traveling and connecting with others. This led him to study foreign languages and human learning. In his quest to find a heart, he dedicates his time to helping others become more effective with his blog “Skill Cookbook.” Formally trained in video game design and neuroscience, Zane enjoys building games for social good. He has worked on a variety of such projects, including games to battle depression and teach new skills. Zane Claes is a programmer and author. In this episode […]

Episode 53 – Adrian Van Deusen

This entry was tagged Health Learning Neuroscience and posted on April 17, 2016

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Adrian Van Deusen is a researcher, explorer and published author. He has worked in the fields of applied psychophysiology and neurotherapy for over 20 years. Adrian has worked in the field of applied psychophysiology and neurotherapies since 1995; first as an educational professional, then as a clinical supervisor and since 2001 as a business owner as well as content creator. Adrian works to create test and commercialize physiological interfaces as applied by healthcare, education andartistic/athletic professionals through neurofeedback and biofeedback paradigms. He is a published scientific author from his experience in experiment design with doctoral candidates. His product focus is in digital signal processing applied to, game theory and thus in quantifying “the human experience”. His 20 year career […]

Episode 52 – Brad Burge

This entry was tagged Healing Trauma Health Plant Medicine Psychiatry PTSD Research and posted on March 30, 2016

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Brad Burge is the Director of Communications and Marketing for MAPS (Multidisplinary association for psychedelic studies). In this episode we go over the stages in which the phase trials are being conducted. We also discuss global psychedelic dinners and the upcoming 30th anniversary dinner for MAPS itself and much more. Brad Burge earned his B.A. in Communication and Psychology from Stanford University in 2005 and his M.A. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego in 2009. His graduate work focused on the political, scientific, and cultural changes required to make illicit drugs into legitimate medicines. He has also interned for the Drug Policy Alliance and has […]

Episode 51 – Lewis Mehl-Madrona M.D. Ph.D

This entry was tagged Healing Trauma Health Neuroscience Psychiatry and posted on March 27, 2016

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Lewis E. Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD, (born January 26, 1954, Berea, Kentucky) is the author of the Coyote trilogy. His work discusses healing practices from Lakota, Cherokee and Cree traditions, and how they intersect with conventional medicine (via a social constructionist model). Mehl-Madrona has been writing about the use of imagery and narrative in healing since the 1980s. Mehl-Madrona is certified in psychiatry, geriatrics and family medicine. His research collaborations include work on various psychological conditions, issues of psychology during birthing, nutritional approaches to autism and diabetes, and the use of healing circles to improve overall health outcomes. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine and trained […]

Episode 50 – Gerald Clark 2

This entry was tagged Author Evolution Religion Research Universe and posted on March 20, 2016

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Gerald Clark is a 1994 graduate of the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). Gerald holds an MSEE in Electronic Circuits and Systems, and a BS in Computer Engineering both from UCSD. Gerald’s books include The Anunnaki of Nibiru and The 7th Planet Mercury Rising. Gerald is the author of several papers in the communications and electronics field and is well known for his work in the San Diego high technology industry, awarded several patents in the Free Space Optical Laser Communications field while serving as Vice President of Engineering, LightPointe Communications, Inc. Gerald’s career involved companies like Loral Telemetry and Instrumentation where he lead the final […]

50th Episode Anniversary – BOOK CONTEST **Winner: Erin Rea

This entry was posted on March 8, 2016

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We’ve been meaning to do this for awhile now – and we’re excited to be making it happen for you. So as we approach our 50th episode here is the contest we’re launching, the rules, what’s included and everything you need to know on how to enter: You will win 4 of the best books we’ve read all year : Advanced Spiritual Intimacy – by Stuart Sovatsky This book is a practical guide for both individuals and couples to transform sexual energy into spiritual and erotic fulfillment. This book explains how to awaken advanced stages of sexual development for spiritual intimacy and deep erotic satisfaction. it Includes illustrated instructions for […]

Episode 49 – Kingsley L. Dennis Ph.D. 1

This entry was tagged Consciousness Evolution Philosophy Society and posted on March 7, 2016

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KINGSLEY L. DENNIS, Ph.D., is a sociologist, and writer. He is the author of New Consciousness for a New World, he spends his time between Andalusia, Spain, and the United Kingdom. From Kingsley’s website: Life is an incredible journey and learning curve. This may sound like a cliché to some, yet when it is experienced you’ll know it’s exactly how it is. As they say: ‘Those who taste, know’. Life is also an awakening to which each impact and encounter provides food and nutrition. ‘The bird which knows not of sweet water has his beak in salt water all the year’ So how I got to be where […]

Episode 48 – Christian De Quincey Ph.D

This entry was tagged Consciousness Philosophy Psychology Relationships and posted on February 27, 2016

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Christian de Quincey, Ph.D., is a philosopher and author who teaches consciousness, spirituality and cosmology at universities and colleges in the United States and Europe. He is also an international speaker on consciousness Christian De Quincey is a professor of Philosophy and Consciousness Studies at John F. Kennedy University, Dean of Consciousness Studies and the Arthur M. Young Professor of Philosophy at the University of Philosophical Research, and adjunct faculty at the Holmes Institute, and at Schumacher College, Devon, England. He is founder of The Wisdom Academy that offers personal mentoring in consciousness studies (combining the “four Gifts of Knowing: The Scientist’s Gift of the senses and experimental […]

Episode 47 – Simon G. Powell

This entry was tagged Experiences Hallucination Psychedelics and posted on February 15, 2016

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Simon G. Powell is Author of: The Psilocybin Solution (2011), Darwin’s Unfinished Business (2012) and Magic Mushroom Explorer In this episode we briefly touch on the neurological benefits of psilocybin. We cover aspects of the global consciousness system, nature; as an intelligence system and its role in our history and culture as a species. We talk about ways to reconnect with this intelligence and how we can further this re-connection by realigning with the “inner” part of ourselves. eviews of Simon’s Work: “Simon G. Powell has crafted a magnificent, multifaceted argument for the reintegration of psychedelics into science, culture, psychotherapy, and religion to inspire our unbalanced species before we ‘push the biosphere […]

Episode 46 – Mr. Peter Panagore

This entry was tagged Experiences Meditation Philosophy Religion and posted on February 9, 2016

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Peter Baldwin Panagore is the host of a daily inspirational TV and radio broadcast that airs on two NBC stations throughout Maine. Peter is an avid sailor and alpine. He earned his B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts and a Masters of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, with a focus on systematic theology and Christian mysticism. His educational background and his 30 years of yoga and meditative practice and work as a pastor with the dying and grieving has given Peter a unique insight, language, and perspective on heaven, God, death, life, love, beauty, and hope. The retired pastor, who writes for The Huffington Post Blog […]

Episode 45 – Dean Radin PhD 2

This entry was tagged Dreams Experiment Human Potential Parapsychology and posted on January 14, 2016

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Dean Radin, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES (IONS) and Volunteer Faculty in the Department of Psychology at Sonoma State University. His original career track as a concert violinist shifted into science after earning a BSEE degree in electrical engineering, magna cum laude with honors in physics, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and then an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For a decade he worked on advanced telecommunications R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories and GTE Laboratories. For over two decades he has been engaged in frontiers research on the nature of consciousness. Before […]

Episode 44 – Mr. Rick Simpson – The Healing Powers of Marijuana 3

This entry was tagged Health Plant Medicine Self Help and posted on October 18, 2015

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Rick Simpson is a legend in the cannabis community and he has become a catalyst for the way we see marijuana as a medicine. In this episode we spoke to Mr. Rick Simpson about his discovery, his life and his journey to bring awareness to the healing properties of Cannabis. The Rick Simpson story is an interesting one; In 1974 Simpson was driving his car in his native Nova Scotia when a radio report came on about a study that found marijuana reduced cancerous tumors in mice. Specifically, researchers at the University of Virginia had found that several chemicals in marijuana acted against both cancerous tissue taken from mice and on […]

Episode 43 – Rick Doblin Ph.D

This entry was tagged Ethics Experiences Psychedelics Psychotrope Medicine Study and posted on September 20, 2015

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Rick Doblin, Ph.D is the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Rick Doblin received his doctorate in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he wrote his dissertation on the regulation of the medical uses of psychedelics and marijuana and his Master’s thesis on a survey of oncologists about smoked marijuana vs. the oral THC pill in nausea control for cancer patients. He currently resides in Boston with his wife and three children. His undergraduate thesis at New College of Florida was a 25-year follow-up to the classic Good Friday Experiment, which evaluated the potential of psychedelic drugs to catalyze religious experiences. […]

Episode 42 – Will Johnson

This entry was tagged Experiences Health Meditation Religion and posted on August 10, 2015

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Will Johnson received his BA, magna cum laude, in art and archaeology from Princeton University in 1968. After writing art criticism in New York for several years, he moved to the west coast, where he became a Buddhist practitioner in 1972 and trained as a Rolfer in 1976. Over the years he came to understand that the body was the doorway, not the obstacle, to personal growth and spiritual transformation, and that the worlds of somatics and dharma practice each possessed a kind of missing link to the other’s path of inquiry. In 1995 he founded The Institute for Embodiment Training, a teaching school that combines the orientation […]

Episode 41 – Stuart Sovatsky PhD

This entry was tagged Human Potential Relationships Spirituality and posted on July 27, 2015

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Stuart Sovatsky PhD (AB, Ethics/Psychology, Princeton University; PhD, CIIS), was first choice to co-direct Ram Dass’s “prison ashram” and first in the US to bring meditation to the homeless in the 1970s that led to being selected to the 1977 Princeton University Outstanding Alumni Careers Panel. Copresident of the premiere professional organization for spiritually-oriented psychologists in the US, the Association for Transpersonal Psychology since 1999, he was a board trustee for the California Institute of Integral Studies for 20 years and in 1999, recipient of its Most Outstanding Alumni Award 1978-2008. He has consulted with the Chair of the Association of Unaligned Nations of the World and been […]

Graham Hancock Gets Controversial

This entry was posted on July 15, 2015

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This is one of the best GH rants you will ever hear. Taken from our full episode with Graham which you can find here. “If there is a god he gave you a brain why don’t you use it?” – GH Just as there is good and evil in the physical realm there is also good and evil in the spiritual realm, there are dark and negative entities out there who’s sole purpose is to delude and mislead the human race” -GH From the Gnostic point of view we have been deluded for the last 2000 years” -GH “We are no longer putting up with the bullshit.” -GH […]

Episode 40 – Dr. Rick Strassman – DMT: The Spirit Molecule

This entry was tagged Consciousness Psychedelics Psychotrope Medicine Research Science and posted on July 5, 2015

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RICK STRASSMAN M.D. holds degrees from Stanford University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. He took his internship and general psychiatry residency at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center in Sacramento and he spent ten years as a tenured professor at the University of Mexico he performed the first new human studies with psychedelic drugs in the US in over 20 years. His research involved the powerful naturally-occurring compound, DMT – N,N-dimethyltryptamine. Led to this substance through his earlier study of the pineal gland as a potential biological locus for spiritual experiences, he administered several hundred doses of DMT to approximately 60 volunteers between […]

Episode 39 – Dr. Marco Iacoboni 1

This entry was tagged Consciousness Neuroscience Science and posted on June 28, 2015

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MARCO IACOBONI, MD PhD is Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Director of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Lab at the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center. Iacoboni is a neurologist and neuroscientist originally from Rome, Italy. He joined the faculty of the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center at UCLA in 1999. He is also author of the book “Mirroring People: The Science of Empathy and How We Connect with Others“ “To be honest, I really don’t give a damn about the brain. I care about the human soul. However, I happen to believe that the soul is in the mind, and that the mind is a functional process instantiated by the […]

Episode 38 – Raghu Markus

This entry was tagged Experiences Human Potential Religion Self Help Spirituality and posted on June 22, 2015

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RAGHU MARKUS has been involved in music and transformational media since the early 1970s when he was program director of CKGM-FM in Montreal. In 1974 he collaborated with Ram Dass on the box set Love Serve Remember. In 1990 he launched Triloka Records and Karuna Music in Los Angeles, California. Triloka established itself as a critical leader in the development of world music and for 17 years was home to such artists as Krishna Das, Hugh Masekela, Walela, Jai Uttal and transformational media projects that featured Ram Dass, Deepak Chopra, and Les Nubians. He is currently the Executive Director of the Love Serve Remember Foundation and has been an […]

Episode 37 – Mr. Dick Sutphen

This entry was tagged Experiences Human Potential Marketing Spirituality and posted on June 14, 2015

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DICK SUTPHEN is the author of the million-copy bestseller, You Were Born Again To Be Together. He has authored over 21 book titles⎯He has created over 300 mind-programming CDs. Over 190,000 people have attended a Sutphen Seminar, workshop, or retreat, which are conducted in major cities throughout the world. Richard is also a featured speaker at Professional Hypnosis conferences and has appeared on over 400 radio and television shows. Simon & Schuster calls him “America’s Foremost Psychic Researcher.” Richard is called “America’s leading past-life therapist” by the Body Mind Spirit Festivals in England and Australia. Richard first introduced the Sedona Vortexes to the world in his 1978 bestseller, “Past […]

Episode 36 – Mr. Graham Hancock 10

This entry was tagged Author Ayahuasca Research Shamanism and posted on June 8, 2015

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GRAHAM HANCOCK is the author of the major international bestsellers The Sign and The Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, and Heaven’s Mirror. His books have sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been translated into 27 languages. His public lectures, radio and TV appearances, including two major TV series for Channel 4 in the UK and The Learning Channel in the US – Quest For The Lost Civilisation and Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age – have put his ideas before audiences of tens of millions. He has become recognised as an unconventional thinker who raises controversial questions about humanity’s past. In this episode we begin […]

Episode 35 – Dr. James Fadiman

This entry was tagged Human Potential LSD Psychedelics Science and posted on June 3, 2015

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JAMES FADIMAN, Ph.D., did his undergraduate work at Harvard and his graduate work at Stanford, doing research with the Harvard Group, the West Coast Research Group in Menlo Park, and Ken Kesey. He is the author of The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide. From the back cover: “The publication of The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide could not be more timely; it coincides with a major renaissance of interest in psychedelic research worldwide. The information that it provides will thus be useful not only for the hundreds of thousands of people involved in self-experimentation but also for the new generation of psychedelic researchers.” –Stanislav Grof, M.D., author of LSD: Doorway to the […]

Episode 34 – Stephen Linsteadt 2

This entry was tagged Computers Consciousness Spirituality and posted on May 27, 2015

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Scalar Heart Connection is a culmination of ten years of research into the geometry of consciousness. This process explores the connection the heart has with the heartbeat of the Earth, Sun, Galaxy, and beyond. Stephen Linsteadt describes the heart as the interface between mind-brain consciousness and universal Consciousness. When we become heart-centered, we move into greater harmony within ourselves and with the planet as a whole. In this episode we spoke with Mr. Stephen Lindsteadt who is a researcher in the realm of consciousness and heart expansion and has developed a software that helps people reconnect with themselves in the most fundamental way – through their heart. This […]