Dean Radin is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and cofounder and chairman of the biotech company, Cognigenics. He earned an MS (electrical engineering) and a PhD (psychology) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and in 2022 was awarded an Honorary DSc (doctor of science) from the Swami Vivekananda University in Bangalore, India.   ➡️ Learn more about Dr. Radin at...

Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is among the top 0.1% most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience. She is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University. She also holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is Chief Science Officer for the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior. In addition to the books Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain and How Emotions are Made,...

Iain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital, London, a former research Fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore. He is committed to the idea that the mind and brain can be understood only by seeing them in the broadest possible context,...

"What is this thing called love?" - Cole Porter It's one of life's most mysterious experiences - coveted by all yet, strangely, also a source of immense pain and suffering. Where did love come from and what ultimate purpose does it serve? Rabbi Adam Jacobs discusses many intriguing facets of the idea of love with Oxford anthropologist Anna Machin. Watch the interview, https://youtu.be/QsNOxozRDwM?si=_hvoehXcIfaK3gK6 Explore more at www.beyondbelief.blog 01:38 What is love? 05:31 Wouldn’t...

Philosopher James Tartaglia is a nihilist - he believes that existence has no ultimate purpose. He also believes that there is an immaterial world beyond our own which at least "opens the door" for religious thinking. Can these two ideas really exist side by side? Watch the interview, https://youtu.be/pPanw9OUhf4?si=-6XWIusxMTmHVwD5 Explore more at www.beyondbelief.blog

Rabbi Adam Jacobs speaks to Dr. Edward Kelly, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia about the existence of non-material reality.  Watch the interview, https://youtu.be/rcbYG6crWPk?si=hrG1Bsm-U8HkV0cZ Explore more at www.beyondbelief.blog To find out more about Dr. Kelly's work, visit https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-s...   01:03 What do you mean by “tyranny of materialism”? 03:15 How did the Division of Perceptual Studies begin? 06:05 How...

Noted author and scholar Sara Rigler interviewed hundreds of people who claim to have had a previous life during the Holocaust. Many of them suffer recurring dreams and visions of terror and pain. Many of their stories also seem inexplicable. Are these experiences the product of overactive imaginations or could they be indicating something important about a hidden aspect of reality? Three remarkable accounts are featured in this episode. 01:15 What is the story of your book? 05:02 Can you...

Why we should be "profoundly shocked" at the nature of reality with Dr. Ruth Kastner. Read the transcript, https://www.beyondbelief.blog/p/adven... Watch the video: https://youtu.be/sni6MGy785U?si=-utpQV5DsVUQuVRt Explore more at www.beyondbelief.blog

A conversation on the hidden, lost, and suppressed knowledge of the Western World featuring Mr. Gary Lachman. Watch the interview: https://youtu.be/nrctA_Wgfhg Read the transcript, https://www.beyondbelief.blog/p/the-secret-teachers-of-the-western  Explore more at www.beyondbelief.blog

Most of us consider ourselves to be "good" but how do we truly know? Is there any objective standard? Dr. Massimo Pigliucci skillfully tackles this important question and others. Explore more at www.beyondbelief.blog 01:22 What does it mean to do the right thing? 03:36 Is it human nature to do the right thing? 06:18 Why would evolution have selected negative traits? 11:28 Is the highest virtue to do for oneself? 14:46 What happens if science shows there are no objective virtues? ...

The idea of a multiverse has captivated humanity for thousands of years (including two current major films about it). Do many worlds actually exist? What are the implications if they do? Rabbi Adam Jacobs speaks with Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Professor of Religion and Science in Society at Wesleyan University. Explore more at www.beyondbelief.blog 01:18 What is wisdom? 03:34 Does wisdom affect how we behave or only how we think? 6:34 Why does philosophy evoke rage in scientists? 10:39 Is God...

Rabbi Adam Jacobs discusses science, religion, and philosophy with Dr. George Ellis, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Cape Town. Explore more at www.beyondbelief.blog 02:22 What can a non-scientist appreciate most about the scientific endeavor? 04:34 Isn’t more grains of sand just a bigger pile of sand?  08:03 Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts? 11:20 Is evolutionism sufficient to produce complex information? 13:53 What is the philosophy of...

What If All Things Are Conscious? with Dr. Loriliai Biernacki Read the transcript: https://www.beyondbelief.blog/p/infinite-awareness Watch the interview: https://youtu.be/ve2hRd3fZ74 Explore more at www.beyondbelief.blog

Dr. Donald Hoffman has made the astounding discovery that everything that we experience through our senses is an illusion. Space and time do not exist and consciousness is the true building block of reality. Learn more about Donald Hoffman's research at http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/ Purchase Donald Hoffman's book The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes at https://www.amazon.com/The-Case-Again... 01:06 What is consciousness? 04:44 How does evolution hide the...

Oxford physicist Chiara Marletto shares her thoughts on some of life's deepest mysteries and explores if there can be any true synergy with the spiritual way of considering them. 02:01 What is your deepest motivation to study physics?  06:21 Is science ever frustrating?  11:51 What is the cause of all causes? 15:56 Should philosophers seek out the uncaused cause? 20:55 Is significant information being preserved within the human body? 23:13 Is Your Mind in a Computer Still You?  27:10 Can we...

Dr. Rick Strassman of the University of New Mexico ran the first federally sanctioned experiments with a psychedelic since the 1970s. He subsequently developed a fascination with what he perceives is an overlap of the psychedelic experience with the states of consciousness described by the Hebrew prophets.  Explore more at https://www.beyondbelief.blog/ 01:49 Do psychedelics unlock reality or illusions? 05:22 Why do psychedelics tend to produce feelings of love and oneness? 08:11 Does God...

How Columbus, Galileo, and Scopes were never persecuted by religious authorities and other popular myths. Watch the video interview here: https://youtu.be/UWfNde_tUe8 Explore more at www.beyondbelief.blog

Reflections on one of our most treasured, confusing, and elusive emotions. For more, explore www.beyondbelief.blog Find the transcript here https://www.beyondbelief.blog/p/the-strange-truth-about-happiness

Marjorie Woollacott is a neuroscientist who came to the conclusion that our consciousness is not solely generated by our neurons. Through her meditative practice she has also discovered a powerful "energy" that lies just below the surface of our day to day awareness, and is a source of profound joy and tranquility. Watch the intergiew here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBO8dT8-RT8 Explore more at www.beyondbelief.blog To learn more about Dr. Woollacott, visit...

Dr. Christopher Satoor is an expert in the philosophy of Friedrich Schelling—a German Idealist thinker who was fascinated by the spiritual underpinnings of nature, history and the idea of freedom. He is also the writer whose words Beethoven chose to set to music in his celebrated "Ode to Joy." Explore more at www.beyondbelief.blog

The Grateful Dead had one of the most enduring and dedicated fan-bases of all time. For many, it was almost a religious experience. Dr. Steve Gimbel is a philosopher (and Dead Head) who has explored and uncovered many fascinating concepts that has been generated by this iconic band and their legendary following. Explore more at www.beyondbelief.blog

One of humanity’s oldest and deepest questions is "why do bad things happen to good people?" All of the world's faith traditions and philosophies have attempted to answer it. Sarah Schneider is an author and an expert on Kabbalah. In this video she explains the Kabbalistic take on the nature of suffering - how to understand it, and also how to transcend it. A postscript to the interview by Sarah: https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/SS... Explore more at www.Beyondbelief.blog Watch the...