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Pursuing the Inconceivable | Peter Guy Jones
4 december 2025 · 1 uur 42 min
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Season 3 Episode 4 ‘Pursuing the Inconceivable’
Today my guest is Peter Guy Jones. Peter has had a career as a musician, studio engineer and CEO of a music and media company. He has devoted two decades to the research that informs his new book, In Pursuit of the Inconceivable. Over time he’s developed the view that most philosophers approach their chosen subject in an ineffective way, failing to address global and foundational issues before moving on to a study of the endless details, becoming trapped in a maze of problems without resolution.
He believes this to be the consequence of not engaging with the world-theory endorsed by the writers of the Indian Upanishads, the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Meister Eckhart and, many would say, Jesus and Muhammad. His mission is to persuade readers that when philosophy is approached in a naïve, open-minded and rigorous manner it may be rendered problem-free and comprehensible, and the world and human nature along with it. Join us for a provocative and hopefully enlightening dialogue!
Resources
Website of Peter Guy Jones.
His Substack.
Jones, P.G. (2025). In Pursuit of the Inconceivable: An Investigation of Metaphysics and Mysticism. Essentia Books.
My review of In Pursuit of the Inconceivable.
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People/Topics Mentioned
Strange Loops! A classic strange loop in logic is Epimenides’ paradox. See also Escher’s waterfall, above.
There’s one in Doctor Who, from ‘Castrovalva’ (1982).
More Strange Loops in:
Hofstader, D.R. (1979). Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Penguin.
Nagarjuna. (Peter’s pronunciation of his name in the interview is more accurate than mine!)
‘Middle Way’ Buddhist philosophy.
Catuṣkoṭi (4-way logic).
Gospel of Thomas.
Meister Eckhart.
350+ theories of consciousness.
Dan Dennett’s book:
Dennett, D. (1991). Consciousness Explained. Allen Lane.
Bertrand Russell on mysticism:
Russell, B…
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A Life of Philip K Dick | Anthony Peake
20 november 2025 · 1 uur 55 min
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Season 3 Episode 3 ‘A Life of Philip K Dick’
Today I have a dialogue with returning guest Anthony Peake. Anthony is a writer who deals with borderline areas of human consciousness. His first book, ‘Is There Life After Death?’, was published by Arcturus books in 2006. It detailed Anthony’s ‘Cheating the ferryman’ hypothesis, which argues that we experience our lives over and over again, like the movie Groundhog Day. This book has now sold over 60,000 copies world-wide and has been translated into various foreign language editions.
In 2013, Anthony Peake published a book on the Science Fiction writer Philip K. Dick, also known as PKD. Anthony sees many intriguing parallels between Philip K Dick’s ideas and his own. So in today’s feature-length dialogue, we take a deep dive into the life and literary career of PKD. We discuss the weird experiences that inspired much of that fiction. And we attempt to draw out the significance of PKD’s work for our understanding of consciousness, reality and time.
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Resources
Anthony Peake’s website.
His Book on Philip K. Dick:
Peake, A. (2013). A Life of Philip K. Dick: The Man Who Remembered the Future. Arcturus Editions.
PKD is also mentioned in:
Peake, A. (2010). Daemon: A Guide to Your Extraordinary Secret Self. Arcturus.
Anthony’s J.B. Priestley talk on YouTube from July 2025.
Philip K Dick: Works Mentioned
The Exegesis:
Dick, P.K. (2012). The Exegesis of Philip K Dick. Gollancz.
Sibyl illustration:
Novels Mentioned:
Dick, P.K. (1956). The World Jones Made. Ace Books.
Dick, P.K. (1959). Time Out of Joint. J. B. Lippincott Company.
Dick, P.K. (1962). The Man in the High Castle. Putnam.
Dick, P.K. (1967). Counter Clock World. Berkley Books.
Dick, P.K. (1968). Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Doubleday.
Dick, P.K. (1969). Ubik. Doubleday.
Dick,P.K. (1977). A Scanner Darkly. Doubleday.
Dick, P.K. (198…
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Science of Magic | Dean Radin
6 november 2025 · 1 uur 8 min
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Season 3 Episode 2 ‘Science of Magic’
Today my guest is Dean Radin. Dean is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and cofounder and vice chairman of the neuroengineering company, Cognigenics. He earned an MS (electrical engineering) and a PhD (psychology) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 2022 he was awarded an Honorary DSc (doctor of science) from the Swami Vivekananda University in Bangalore, India.
Before joining the IONS research staff in 2001, Radin worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International. He has given over 780 talks and interviews worldwide, and he is inventor of 12 patents and author or coauthor of 340+ scientific and popular articles, book chapters, and books, four of which have been translated into 15 foreign languages. These are The Conscious Universe (1997), Entangled Minds (2006), Supernormal (2013), Real Magic (2018), and most recently The Science of Magic, published in October 2025.
In today’s show we discuss the current status of the evidence in parapsychology. Dean describes some of his experiences working at the STARGATE Remote viewing program for US Intelligence. We talk about the challenges of designing experiments in parapsychology. And we discuss the relationship between psi phenomena and magic.
Resources
Dean Radin’s website.
His page at IONS.
His books:
Radin, D. (2025). The Science of Magic: How the Mind Weaves the Fabric of Reality. Harmony Books.
Radin, D. (2018). Real Magic: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and a Guide to the Secret Power of the Universe: Unlocking Your Natural Psychic Abilities to Create Everyday Miracles. Harmony/Rodale/Convergent.
Radin, D. (2013). Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities. Harmony/Rodale/Convergent.
Radin, D. (2006). Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a …
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Signs of Reincarnation | Jim Matlock
16 oktober 2025 · 1 uur 49 min
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Season 3 Episode 1 ‘Signs of Reincarnation’
Today my guest is Dr. James Matlock. Jim received a B.A. in English from Emory University in 1977 and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale in 2002. He has worked at the American Society for Psychical Research in New York City and at the Rhine Research Center in Durham, North Carolina. He is presently a Research Fellow at the Parapsychology Foundation. His chief research interests are the history of parapsychology, anthropology of religion, and reincarnation. Jim also teaches a 15-week online seminar course on reincarnation research and theory.
In today’s interview, we discuss the fascinating and puzzling phenomenon of children who seem accurately to recall past lives. We discuss the pioneering work of the Canadian-born psychiatrist Ian Stevenson, who founded the field. We examine some of the arguments of the skeptics. And we take a deep dive into startling cases where children exhibit not only memories but also behaviours and birthmarks associated with their past lives. We finish by discussing the shattering implications for these cases for understanding the human condition.
Resources
Jim Matlock’s website, including links to his ‘Signs of Reincarnation’ online course and Facebook page.
His book:
Matlock, J. (2019). Signs of Reincarnation: Exploring Beliefs, Cases, and Theory. Rowman & Littlefield.
Rylann O’Bannion reincarnation case. discussed in the episode. Entry in the Psi Encyclopedia.
A good general introduction to this work is episode 3 of the BBC documentary, In Search of the Dead. Includes discussion of the discussed case where a birth deformity seemed to reflect an accident with a thresher in a previous life.
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Ian Stevenson
Psi Encyclopaedia entry on Ian Stevenson.
Stevenson’s key books:
Stevenson, I. (1966). Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. …
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Free Will in Nature | Jem Bendell
5 juni 2025 · 1 uur 33 min
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Season 2 Episode 11 ‘Free Will in Nature’
Today my guest is Jem Bendell. Before the summer of 2023, Jem was a full Professor of Sustainability Leadership and Founder of the Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria. He was also the founder of the Deep Adaptation Forum and the co-founder of the International Scholars’ Warning on Societal Disruption and Collapse. A major transformation in his career began in 2017 as he took a year out to study the latest climate science and released the Deep Adaptation paper which went viral.
After the release of his book Breaking Together in May 2023, Jem decided to leave employment as a full Professor in the UK. Jem then entered a new phase of his life, where the development of the Bekandze regenerative farm school in Bali and playing devotional music for groups become his main focus. He still writes and lectures on collapse readiness and response.
Jem begins today’s discussion with an outline of the main thesis of Breaking Together: that societies globally have already begun to experience climate breakdown driven collapse. This gives a context for our main discussion of free will in nature. We look at the claims by some biologists and neuroscientists that free will is an illusion. Jem suggests reasons to doubt this verdict, and why free will might in fact exist throughout the natural world. We discuss Buddhist and Vedantic ideas about consciousness. And Jem explains why it’s crucial to admit the limitations of our knowledge in the face of the ultimate questions about life and death.
Resources
Jem Bendell’s website
His book, which includes chapters detailing the evidence for ongoing global systemic collapse. Chapter 11 discusses free will:
Bendell, J. (2023). Breaking together: A freedom-loving response to collapse. Schumacher Institute
Free audio reading of the introduction to Breaking Together.
His first essay in a series about Free Will. (Includes a discussion of the L…
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Transpersonal Psychology for Global Flourishing | Jessica Bockler
29 mei 2025 · 1 uur 6 min
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Season 2 Episode 10 ‘Transpersonal Psychology for Global Flourishing’
Today my guest is Jessica Bockler, PhD. Jessica is an applied artist, transpersonal psychologist and Co-founding Director of the Alef Trust. She serves as Deputy CEO and works across Alef Trust’s academic and applied portfolios. Trained in applied and physical theatre, Jessica has extensive experience of expressive arts facilitation, as well as experimental movement and voice work. She specializes in embodied approaches to accessing creativity and imagination, and she is the founder of Creative Alternatives, an arts-based mental wellbeing service in the UK, which provides creative interventions to adults experiencing depression, stress and/or anxiety. The service is one of the longest established social prescribing projects in the UK and has won several awards for innovation in public service delivery.
We begin with a look at how creativity, imagination and play can enhance your mental health. We explore the connections between embodiment, transpersonal psychology and mystical experience. Jessica describes some of her work with the Conscious Community Initiative, which explores the intersections between inner transpersonal practice and social change. We discuss the Inner Development Goals of the UN. And we finish with an important dialogue on how to acknowledge and respond constructively to the current moment of political, cultural and ecological turmoil.
Resources
The Alef Trust
Jessica at the Alef Trust.
The Conscious Community Initiative
Fields of Change
Topics discussed
Maharishi Effect paper
The Global Consciousness Project
Entangled Activist:
Lawson, A. (2023). The Entangled Activist: Learning to recognise the master's tools. Perspectiva Press.
Burnout:
Wright, S. (2021). Burnout: a spiritual crisis: from stress to transformation. Sacred Space Publications.
Negative emotions:
Goleman, D. (2004). Destructive Emotions and How We Can Overcome Them. Bloomsbury Publis…
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Free What Lies Beyond Chapter One Audio Reading
22 mei 2025 · 48 min
This a free audio recording of Chapter 1 of What Lies Beyond: Consciousness, Science, the Paranormal and the Post-Materialist Future. Read by the author, Matt Colborn. What Lies Beyond will be available for purchase at Amazon and other retail outlets from Tuesday May 27th. (From June 1st in the US). Lees meer
Amazon UK
Amazon US
Title Music: ‘Stranger things’ by Music Unlimited on Pixabey.
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Miracles of Our Own Making | Liz Williams
15 mei 2025 · 54 min
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Season 2 Episode 9 ‘Miracles of Our Own Making ’
Today my guest is Liz Williams. Liz holds a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge. She is a science fiction and fantasy writer living in Glastonbury, England. She has been published by Bantam Spectra (US) and Tor Macmillan (UK) and is currently published by New Con Press, Reaktion Books, Llewellyn Books, Open Road and Thames and Hudson.
Liz is also an occultist and a pagan and has published several non-fiction books on that topic. One is the 2020 book Miracles of Our Own Making: A History of Paganism. Another is the 2025 book Compendium of the Occult: Arcane Artifacts, Magic Rituals, and Sacred Symbolism. She is also the author of Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain.
In our dialogue we discuss the status of AI and consciousness studies. We look at the intersection between consciousness, imagination and creativity. We touch on the value of Science Fiction for thinking about other worldviews. And we discuss Liz’s background in paganism and the occult.
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Resources
Liz Williams website.
Liz Williams fantastic fiction page (lists her fiction).
My original interview with Liz Williams from Interzone Magazine (discusses Liz’s first two novels The Ghost Sister and Empire of Bones).
Nonfiction Books
Williams, L. (2025). Compendium of the Occult: Arcane Artifacts, Magic Rituals, and Sacred Symbolism. Thames & Hudson.
Williams, L. (2025). Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain. Reaktion Books.
Williams, L. (2020). Miracles of Our Own Making: A History of Paganism. Reaktion Books
Jones, T. & Williams, L. (2012). Diary of a Witchcraft Shop. NewCon Press.
Topics Discussed
Artificial Intelligence
Gary Marcus’ critical blog on Artificial Intelligence.
Human beings have causal models in their heads:
Pearl, J. (2019). …
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The Ghost Experience | Ciaran O'Keeffe
8 mei 2025 · 1 uur 22 min
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Season 2 Episode 8 ‘The Ghost Experience’
Today my guest is Ciaran O’Keeffe. Ciaran is an Associate Professor of Education and Head of the School of Human & Social Sciences at Bucks New University. He is a popular sceptical voice on various paranormal shows and podcasts. Ciaran has become best known for his regular appearances on Living TV’s Most Haunted and later for featuring on the popular BBC podcast and TV show Uncanny, which is now in its second series on BBC 2.
Ciaran’s paranormal research has focussed on testing mediums & psychics in the lab and also field-work examining ghostly experiences. It has been reported in The Psychologist, The Times, The Independent, New Scientist and elsewhere. He has been involved in many unusual projects: physiological effects of infrasound in the Royal Festival Hall; ghost investigation of Hampton Court Palace; an exorcism ‘training day’; Hostage Negotiation simulations and lie detecting for the film Spy Game. He has written a number of ‘paranormal’ books including GhostHunters: A Guide to Investigating the Paranormal and is a co-author of the key work Ghosted!: Exploring the Haunting Reality of Paranormal Encounters.
The main focus of today’s fascinating talk is the ghost and poltergeist experience. Ciaran draws upon his extensive knowledge as a psychologist and parapsychologist, and on decades of talking to eyewitnesses of extraordinary and unsettling events. We discuss ‘Haunted People Syndrome’ and why it’s important to ‘loosen up’ when considering fantastic claims. We also discuss a shared love of the 1984 movie Ghostbusters!
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Resources
Ciaran’s Linktree page, with details of his writing and projects.
Page at Buckinghamshire New University:
https://www.bucks.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/ciaran-okeeffe
Books
Laythe, B. et al. (2021). Ghosted!: Exploring the Haunting Reality of Paranormal Encounters. McFarland.
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The Transliminal Mind | Christine Simmonds-Moore
1 mei 2025 · 1 uur 17 min
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‘Season 2 Episode 7 The Transliminal Mind’
Today my guest is Professor Christine Simmonds-Moore. Christine earned her Ph.D in psychology from the University of Northampton in the UK. In 2010, she left her native UK for the USA. Christine worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Rhine Research Center in Durham North Carolina until she moved to Carrollton in 2011 to join the psychology department at the University of West Georgia. Her research interests include the study of personality types who are prone to subjective anomalous and paranormal experiences and beliefs, synesthesia, anomalous experiences and sleep-related altered states of consciousness. Recent research has focused on the roles of the body in anomalous experiences. She is currently working on a Bial funded project about Aphantasia (people who have a lack of visual mental imagery). She is the editor of Exceptional Experience and Health: Essays on Mind, body and human potential and a co-author of a text book on Anomalistic Psychology.
Today we have an in-depth discussion on the relationship between paranormal experience and what Christine calls the Transliminal Mind. We discuss the psychological dimensions of anomalous experience, and their relationship to certain, specific personality types. We discuss the evidence for psi phenomena. And we talk about possible future directions for parapsychology and consciousness studies.
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Resources
Christine at the UWA:
Christine Simmonds-Moore, Phd. Page at the University of West Georgia, USA.
Christine Simmonds-Moore’s entry on the Psi Encyclopaedia.
Books & Chapters:
Holt, N., Simmonds-Moore, C., Luke, D. & French, C. (2012). Anomalistic Psychology (Macmillan Insights in Psychology series). Red Globe Press.
Simmonds-Moore, C. (eds.) (2012). Exceptional Experience and Health: Essays on Mind, Body and Human Potential. McFarland & Co.
Simmonds-Moore…
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Near Death Experiences: Indigenous Approaches | Natasha Tassell-Matamua
24 april 2025 · 1 uur 8 min
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‘Season 2 Episode 6 Near Death Experiences: Indigenous Approaches’
Associate Professor Natasha Tassell-Matamua is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of the School of Psychology at Massey University in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is also co-Director of the recently established Centre for Indigenous Psychologies. Her research and teaching is in the area of indigenous psychologies, indigenous knowledges and Exceptional Human Experience. This research focusses on the interplay between spirituality, well-being and the wider ecosystem. She has spent the last decade researching the phenomenology, after-effects and cultural specificity of Near Death Experiences, and has published extensively in the area as well as providing numerous presentations both nationally and internationally.
In today’s talk, we discuss Natasha’s work in Near Death Experiences and the importance of indigenous psychologies and indigenous knowledges. We talk about the problem of power and privilege in Near Death studies, which often leads to the domination of materialist-reductionist approaches. And we talk about how Māori conceptions of spirituality might contribute to better mental health and wellbeing.
Resources
Natasha’s page at Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand:
https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=830930
And at the Centre for Indigenous Psychologies, with her writing and some media appearances:
https://www.doorofthenight.co.nz/natasha
Her page on Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.co.nz/citations?user=aKsLIN0AAAAJ&hl=en
The Centre for Indigenous Psychologies:
https://www.indigenouspsychologies.nz
Natasha’s talk at the Alef Trust can be viewed here.
Terminal Lucidity project:
https://www.indigenouspsychologies.nz/terminal-lucidity-in-children
The Door of the Night project:
https://www.doorofthenight.co.nz
Reference for the NDE paper we discuss:
Tassell-Matamua, N. (2024). Power and privilege in the study of near-death experiences. In The…
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Near Death Experiences: Cheating the Ferryman? | Anthony Peake
27 maart 2025 · 1 uur 40 min
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Season 2 Episode 5 ‘Near Death Experiences: Cheating the Ferryman?’
Today my guest is Anthony Peake. Anthony is a writer who deals with borderline areas of human consciousness. At university he specialised in the sociology of religion, the theory of language development and the art of the Italian Renaissance. A post-graduate course in management led Anthony away from his calling as a writer and into a career as a manager in various UK businesses.
In the year 2000 he was able to take a year’s sabbatical from his business career and he decided to research and write a book. This book was a distillation of all his areas of interest, quantum physics, neurology, ancient myths, altered states of consciousness and the mystery of death. Thanks to the help of Professor Bruce Greyson of the University of Virginia, an article based upon Anthony’s Cheating the Ferryman hypothesis was to appear in the Winter 2004 edition of the Journal of Near-Death Studies, the academic periodical of the International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS).
Anthony’s first book, Is There Life After Death?, was eventually published by Arcturus books in 2006. This book has now sold over 60,000 copies world-wide and has been translated into various foreign language editions including Spanish, Russian and Polish. Anthony has now written thirteen books. All of them further develop his speculative idea of ‘Cheating the Ferryman’. His latest book, an exhaustive review of the history, anthropology and science of the much-discussed Near-Death Experience (NDE) was published in November 2024.
Today’s dialogue focusses on controversies over Near-Death Experiences. We begin with a look at some of the anomalous features of NDEs, and with the tension between researchers who favour materialistic explanations in terms of brain function and those who advocate afterlife interpretations. We discuss the phenomenon of brain activity surges at the point of death. We also discuss some of the strange…
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Being, Time and Altered States | Marc Wittmann
20 maart 2025 · 1 uur 13 min
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Season 2 Episode 4 ‘Being, Time and Altered States’
Today’s podcast is the last of a trilogy on consciousness and time. My guest is Marc Wittmann, Ph.D. Marc is a research fellow at the Institute for Frontier Areas in Psychology and Mental Health in Freiburg, Germany. He studied psychology and philosophy at the Universities of Fribourg, Switzerland, and Munich, Germany. He received his Ph.D. at the Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Munich. From 2000 to 2004 he was head of the Generation Research Program, Bad Tölz, University of Munich. Between 2004 to 2009 he was a research fellow in the department of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego.
In today’s interview, we discuss Marc’s book Altered States of Consciousness, from MIT press. We begin with a discussion of the history of psychedelic research. Then we move onto the central issue: the intimate relationship between time, consciousness and the self. We look at the phenomenon of time expansion experiences in meditation. We touch upon a famous controversy on the nature of time between Albert Einstein and the philosopher, Henri Bergson. We discuss the disturbing disintegration of the present moment in conditions like schizophrenia. And we finish by considering the implications of mystical states, which commonly feature a profound sense of unity with the cosmos.
Resources
Marc’s book:
Wittmann, M. (2018). Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time and Self. MIT Press.
First flotation tank study:
Hruby, H., Schmidt, S., Feinstein, J.S. et al. Induction of altered states of consciousness during Floatation-REST is associated with the dissolution of body boundaries and the distortion of subjective time. Sci Rep 14, 9316 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59642-y
Marc’s website:
https://sites.google.com/site/webmarcwittmann/
Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP):
https://www.igpp.de/allg/welcome_EN.htm
Marc on the Psi E…
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Contact with the Future | Jon Taylor
13 maart 2025 · 1 uur 23 min
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Season 2 Episode 3 ‘Contact with the Future’
Today’s podcast is the second of a trilogy on consciousness and time. Jon Taylor is an interdisciplinary scientist dedicated to the study of anomalous phenomena related to cognition. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MA in Natural Sciences. A long-time enthusiast of parapsychology, Taylor returned to Spain in 1992 to embark on a 25-year investigation into the physical and biological principles underlying precognition. In August 2024, a revised edition of his book Contact with the Future: The Astonishing Power of Intuition and Precognition, featuring a foreword by Stanley Krippner, was published on Amazon. Jon is also a Professional Member of the Parapsychological Association.
In this fascinating interview, Jon discusses his theory that precognition is the major form of Extra Sensory Perception. He also thinks that there might be a physical explanation for seeing the future, basing his theory on ideas from quantum physics developed by the late David Bohm. He questions the assumption that psi is linked to consciousness. He also questions the claim that the acceptance of precognition would also mean the acceptance of a post-material view of consciousness. He believes that the priority is to develop a physical theory for parapsychological effects because this might lead to a more general acceptance of the field in mainstream science.
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Resources
Jon Taylor’s website:
https://jontaylor.org
His book:
Taylor, J. (2024). Contact with the Future: The Astonishing Power of Intuition and Precognition. Amazon.
Other precognition books
J.W. Dunne’s book:
Dunne, J.W. (1927). An Experiment with Time. A. & C. Black
Eric Wargo’s book:
Wargo, E. (2018). Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious. Anomalist Books.
Danah Zohar’s book:
Zohar, D. (1982). Through the Time Barrier. Hein…
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Dreaming Ahead of Time | Gary Lachman
6 maart 2025 · 1 uur 33 min
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Season 2 Episode 2 ‘Dreaming Ahead of Time’
Today’s podcast is the first of a loose trilogy on consciousness and time. My guest is the writer and musician Gary Lachman. Gary is the author of many books on topics ranging from the evolution of consciousness to literary suicides, popular culture and the history of the occult. He has written a rock and roll memoir of the 1970s, biographies of Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, C. G. Jung, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Emanuel Swedenborg, P. D. Ouspensky, and Colin Wilson. He also written histories of Hermeticism and the Western Inner Tradition, studies in existentialism and the philosophy of consciousness, and about the influence of esotericism on politics and society. As Gary Valentine he was a founding member of the pop group Blondie and in 2006 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Gary was born in New Jersey, but since 1996 has lived in London, UK.
We begin our talk discussing the persistent and remarkable phenomenon of dreaming the future. This leads to a discussion of the writer and existential philosopher Colin Wilson, who associated future dreaming with something he called Faculty X. We discuss the phenomenon of ‘peak experiences’, times when life seems replete with meaning. And we talk about how general lack of meaning might have contributed to the rise of extreme politics in the US and elsewhere.
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Resources
Gary Lachman’s website:
https://www.gary-lachman.com
Some of his books:
Lachman, G. (2022). Dreaming Ahead of Time: Experiences with Precognitive Dreams, Synchronicity and Coincidence. Floris Books.
Lachman, G. (2016). Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson. Tarcherperigee. (Out of Print).
Lachman, G. (2016). The Caretakers of the Cosmos: Living Responsibly in an Unfinished World. Floris Books. (Contains a critique of philosopher John Gray and ‘everything is pointless’…
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The Case for Skepticism | Chris French & Cal Cooper
27 februari 2025 · 1 uur 17 min
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Season 2 Episode 1 ‘The Case for Skepticism’
Today’s episode is about skeptical perspectives on the paranormal. My first guest is Professor Chris French. Chris is the Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the Psychology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and also a Patron of the British Humanist Association. His main current area of research is the psychology of paranormal beliefs and anomalous experiences. He frequently appears on radio and television casting a sceptical eye over paranormal claims. His most recent book is The Science of Weird S**t, published by MIT press.
Dr. Cal Cooper appears on What Lies Beyond for the second time. Cal’s a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society, holding postgraduate degrees in psychology, social science research methods and education. He has a long-time association with the University of Northampton, and is based there as a senior lecturer in psychology.
In this episode, Chris talks about his transition from paranormal believer to skeptic. We then discuss Anomalistic Psychology, which attempts to find ordinary psychological explanations for the apparently paranormal. We also discuss problems with replication in parapsychology, which means that some researchers seem to find positive results in their experiments, but others don’t. Our discussion demonstrates why multiple perspectives are important, and why anomalistic psychology can make a crucial contribution to our understanding of paranormal experience.
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Resources
Website of Chris French:
http://profchrisfrench.com
Website of Cal Cooper:
https://www.callumecooper.com
Chris French’s book:
French, C. (2024). The science of weird S**t: Why our mind conjure the paranormal. MIT Press.
Jim Matlock’s reincarnation course:
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Why I wrote WHAT LIES BEYOND....
6 januari 2025 · 9 min
Welcome to 2025! Here’s a short video on my book What Lies Beyond, which is out in May and now available to preorder on Amazon. In the video, I talk a little about my motivation for writing What Lies Beyond: consciousness science, the paranormal and the post-materialist future. I say a little about my intended readership, which is basically anyone who feels the need to re-think basic assumptions about consciousness, mind and the world. It’s for anyone who’s concerned about our dysfunctional responses to things like climate breakdown. Anyone who’s curious about controversies over psi phenomena and mystical or transpersonal experience. Anyone who is tired of dehumanising and disempowering visions of the future. And it’s for people who are experiencing a crisis of meaning and purpose in their lives. What Lies Beyond is an invitation to explore, re-discover and re-think, for a more humane future. Lees meer
Season 2 of the What Lies Beyond Podcast is coming in February 2025.
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Important Announcement!
13 december 2024 · 6 min
My book What Lies Beyond: Consciousness, Science, the Paranormal, and the Post-Material Future is now available on Amazon to preorder! Available 27th June 2025. Thank you to all my followers, and Merry Christmas. Lees meer
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Human-Centred Futures | Jennifer Gidley
12 december 2024 · 1 uur 1 min
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This is the final episode of season one. Today’s guest is Dr Jennifer Gidley. Jennifer is an Author, Climate Educator, Psychologist, and International Futurist. She’s a global thought leader and advocate for human-centred futures in an era of hi-tech hype.
Jennifer is an Adjunct Professor, Institute for Sustainable Futures (UTS) Sydney, and has held academic posts in four Australian universities. She is a Fellow at the Botin Centre, Santander, Spain, and a non-Resident Fellow of TRENDS Research & Advisory in Abu Dhabi. She’s held a Visiting Professorship at Olomouc University, Czech Republic and a Visiting Research Fellowship at SciencesPo, Paris, France. She was also the longest serving elected President of the World Futures Studies Federation from 2009 to 2017.
Jennifer's most recent project is the founding of Global Futures Education, as a platform to provide high-level online education for professionals and executives. Over several years she has created a series of executive-level online courses on 'Grand Global Futures Challenges and Solutions'. She’s also the author of 2016’s The Future: A very short introduction from Oxford University Press.
In this interview, recorded September 2024, we discuss the difference between what Jennifer calls a technocentric future and a human-centred one. Advocates of technocentric futures tend to assume that technology can solve everything. These sorts of futures are also based in a strongly materialist worldview. By contrast, Jennifer advocates human-centred futures, which see human beings as kind, fair, consciously evolving agents with a responsibility to maintain ecological balance between humans, world and cosmos.
If you’re feeling disempowered about the future, then I hope you’ll find our dialogue as inspiring as I did. And I’d like to thank all my audience for listening this season.
What Lies Beyond will be back in February 2025 for season 2!
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The Long Trip | Paul Devereux
5 december 2024 · 1 uur
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Today my guest is Paul Devereux. Paul is an independent scholar, writer, lecturer and researcher. He has authored over 20 published books since 1980, including his latest, The Powers of Ancient and Sacred Places. Paul is a trained artist and photographer and the former editor of a peer-reviewed journal, Time and Mind. He has a long-standing interest in consciousness and prehistory.
This show begins with a long description of Paul’s powerful experience on the psychedelic drug LSD in the 1960s. Paul took LSD a number of months before the drug was criminalised in the UK. Today in Britain psychedelics are schedule 1 drugs which means you can get 7 years in prison, an unlimited fine or both for possession. Because of this I feel it’s important to offer a disclaimer for this episode.
Here goes: The information presented in this podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. It does not constitute medical advice or endorse the use of illegal substances. We strongly advise against engaging in any activities that are illegal or harmful to yourself or others.
There are also mental health dangers with the illicit and uncontrolled use of psychedelics. Paul himself reports having to face significant psychological issues in the wake of his experience. One problem is that because of criminalisation, there was, and is, no safe social framework in the UK to take these drugs.
However, I’m far from alone in finding the legal situation in the UK regarding psychedelics totally unsatisfactory. Human beings have been taking psychedelics since prehistoric times. Paul himself suggests, in his book The Long Trip, that the yearning to reach other states of consciousness may be as strong as the sexual drive.
So I remain strongly supportive of legal reform in this area. I believe that adults have the right to alter their consciousness in any way they see fit, and there is by now good evidence that psychedelics have a positive use as therapeutic tools and in the co…
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Consciousness Unbound? | Ed Kelly
28 november 2024 · 1 uur 17 min
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Today my guest is Professor Ed Kelly. Ed has a BA in psychology from Yale and a Phd in psycholinguistics and cognitive science from Harvard. From 2002 to the present he has been a research professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies, which is part of the department of psychiatry and neurobiological sciences at the University of Virginia. His research interests are psychical research and functional neuroimaging.
Ed is also a member of the survival seminar or ‘Sursem’ group at Esalen. The Sursem group was formed in 1998 to examine and collate evidence suggestive of the survival of human personality beyond bodily death. The group ended up producing three large volumes exploring post-materialist theories of consciousness. These were Irreducible Mind in 2007, Beyond Physicalism in 2015 and Consciousness Unbound in 2021. Each of these volumes is co-edited by Ed.
In today’s talk we discussed Ed’s early disillusion with the theory of computer-as-mind, and his lab work with a psychic ‘star’ that convinced him of the reality of psi phenomena. We go on to discuss his work with the Sursem group, developing an alternative to mainstream, materialist theories of mind and consciousness. We finish looking at signs that a major revolution might be underway in terms of our understanding of life and consciousness.
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The Division of Perceptual Studies
https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/
Sursem group
Kelly, E.F. (2015b). ‘Toward reconciliation of science and spirituality: A brief history of the “Sursem” project’, Edgescience No. 22, pp. 3— 7. Available here.
Esalen’s website:
https://www.esalen.org
The Sursem Group books:
Kelly, E.F., Kelly, E.W., Crabtree, A., Gauld, A., Grosso, M., Greyson, B. (2007). Irreducible mind: toward a psychology for the 21st century. Rowman & Littlefield.
Kelly, E.F., Crabtree, A. & Marshall, P. (eds) Beyond Physicalism: Toward…
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Psi Wars | Craig Weiler
21 november 2024 · 1 uur 3 min
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Today’s guest is Craig Weiler. Craig is a San Francisco Bay Area based author. He covers controversies in parapsychology, such as the Wikipedia controversy and the TED controversy of 2013, which we discuss today. He’s an associate member of the Parapsychological Association and author of Psi Wars: TED, Wikipedia and the battle for the Internet. He pays the bills with his small construction business on the peninsula in northern California, where he lives with his wife and just enough cats.
Today we discuss some key campaigns of organised skepticism in the last decade. In the interview we make clear that there is a distinction between the kind of skepticism we might called informed critique and what sociologist Thomas Gieryn calls boundary work. Informed critiques in parapsychology might point to flaws in experiments, or important weaknesses in eyewitness testimony. They’re very important and part of the scientific process. Boundary work in this context means dismissing parapsychology as pseudoscience or ‘woo-woo,’ and trying to shut down debate. This second often problematic strategy is the main focus of this fascinating talk.
Resources
Craig’s book:
Weiler, C. (2020). PSI WARS: TED, Wikipedia and the Battle for the Internet (2nd ed). White Crow.
Craig’s page at the Parapsychological Association:
https://www.parapsych.org/users/cweiler/profile.aspx
Craig at the Paranormal Daily News:
https://paranormaldailynews.com/author/craig-weiler/
On Linked In:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-weiler-5288b616/
Link to Graham Hancock’s banned TED talk.
Link to Rupert Sheldrake’s banned TED talk.
Rupert Sheldrake’s website.
Graham Hancock’s website.
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Science and Magic | Serena Roney-Dougal
15 november 2024 · 59 min
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Today’s guest is Dr. Serena Roney-Dougal. Serena is one of the few people in Britain to have obtained a PhD for parapsychology, exploring the relationship between subliminal perception and psychic awareness. She has had over 40 years of study and experience in scientific, magical and spiritual explorations of the psyche, has lectured and taught courses, seminars and workshops in America, Britain, Europe, Japan and India; has written numerous articles both technical and popular, and two books; Where Science and Magic Meet and The Faery Faith. She is currently a green councillor in Glastonbury, England.
In today’s conversation, we discussed Serena’s early work comparing psi to subliminal perception and also her work linking the pineal gland in the brain to psychic experience. We spoke about her experiments with meditation and psi, which were conducted in India and included a life-changing visit to Ladakh, or ‘Little Tibet’. We discussed the Tibetan view of consciousness and rebirth, and the experiences of some the Tibetans with whom she worked. We also briefly spoke about an experiment at Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland, linking psi performance with geomagnetic cycles. We finished off with some discussion of the links between environmental awareness and consciousness.
Serena’s website and Books
https://www.psi-researchcentre.co.uk
Roney-Dougal, S. (2010). Where Science and Magic Meet. Green Magic.
Roney-Dougal, S. (2003). The Faery Faith: An Integration of Science with Spirit. Green Magic.
Referenced books
David-Neel, A. (2007). Magic and Mystery in Tibet. Souvenir Press.
Meadows, D.H, Meadows,D.L., Randers,J, Behrens III, W. (1972). The Limits to Growth. Universe Books.
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Cal Cooper | Halloween Special
31 oktober 2024 · 50 min
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Today’s guest is Cal Cooper. Callum is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS) holding postgraduate degrees in psychology, social science research methods and education. He has a long time association with the University of Northampton, and is based there as a senior lecturer in psychology. He also conducts research on amongst other things Death and Bereavement and Parapsychology.
In today’s Halloween special, Cal and I discussed a number of suitably spooky topics. We talked about Cal’s early experiences as a ghost hunter and his move into professional psychology and parapsychology. We talked about classic ghost hunters, some of the interesting results from Northampton’s parapsychology experiments and finished up with phone calls from the dead. So light your Jack O’Lantern, hang up your rubber bats, kick back and enjoy this foray into the unknown.
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Resources
Cal’s website & a guide to his work:
https://www.callumecooper.com
Duggan, M. (2020). ‘Callum E Cooper’. Psi Encyclopedia. London: The Society for Psychical Research.
(Includes details of Cal’s research).
Video: statistician Jessica Utts on taking psi seriously.
Ghost Hunters
Fraser, J. (2017). ‘Harry Price’. Psi Encyclopedia. London: The Society for Psychical Research.
Borley Rectory
Willin, M. (2015). ‘Borley Rectory’. Psi Encyclopedia. London: The Society for Psychical Research.
Ganzfeld & Remote Viewing
Parker, A. (2017). ‘Ganzfeld ESP’. Psi Encyclopedia. London: The Society for Psychical Research.
Schwartz, S. (2017). ‘Remote Viewing’. Psi Encyclopedia. London: The Society for Psychical Research.
Chris Roe’s chapter in the following book:
Smith, M. (eds). (2009). Anomalous Experiences: Essays from Parapsychological and Psychological Perspectives. McFarland & Co.
Phone Calls from the Dead:
Cooper, C. (2012). Telephone calls from the dead. Tricorn books…
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High Strangeness Anthropology | Jack Hunter
24 oktober 2024 · 58 min
Welcome to What Lies Beyond with your host Matt Colborn. Conversations on consciousness science, the paranormal and the post-material future. Visit us and subscribe on whatliesbeyond.substack.com Lees meer
Today my guest is Dr. Jack Hunter. Jack is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology and the paranormal. He lives in the hills of Mid-Wales with his family. He is a tutor with the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He is also a tutor with the Alef Trust on their MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology. His PhD at the University of Bristol took the form of an ethnographic study of contemporary trance and physical mediumship. He is also a musician and an ordained Dudeist Priest.
In today’s conversation, we discussed the anthropology of high strangeness experiences and why we need to take them seriously. Jack has himself experienced a number of strange things, including a vision in Bristol Spirit lodge while he was researching his doctorate. We discussed how strange experiences might feed into and enrich consciousness studies, and how a rejection of animistic worldviews is connected to the exploitation of the Earth.
WARNING: This episode contains some discussion of illicit drug use.
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Website
https://jack-hunter.yourwebsitespace.com
Jack’s article on anthropology and psi research:
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/anthropology-and-psi-research
Recent books by Jack
Hunter, J. (ed). (2023). Deep Weird: The Varieties of High Strangeness Experience. August Night Press.
Hunter, J. (2023). Ecology and Spirituality: A Brief Introduction. Sophia Centre Press.
Hunter, J. (ed). (2019). Greening the Paranormal: Exploring the Ecology of Extraordinary Experience. August Night Press.
Hunter, J. & Ironside, R. (eds). (2023).Folklore, People, and Places: I…
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Reality is Mind | Bernardo Kastrup
17 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 10 min
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Todays’ guest is Bernardo Kastrup. Bernardo is the executive director of the Essentia Foundation and a promoter of a philosophy called metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and another in computer engineering. As a scientist he worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research at CERN and the Philips Research Laboratories. He’s also been active in the high-tech industry for almost 30 years. His ideas have been featured on the Scientific American, the magazine of The Institute of Art and Ideas, the Big Think, and many other places.
We had a wide-ranging conversation that began with his experiences as a computer engineer working on physics problems. We explored his Idealist philosophy and its impact on Artificial Intelligence, understanding consciousness and psychedelic experience. As we spoke, it became clear that idealism is a worldview that has world-shaking implications.
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Bernardo’s website and the Essentia Foundation
https://www.bernardokastrup.com
https://www.essentiafoundation.org
Some key books
Kastrup, B. (2024). Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A straightforward summary of the 21st century’s only plausible metaphysics. Iff Books.
Kastrup, B. (2014). Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to life, the Universe, and Everything. Iff Books.
Kastrup, B. (2012). Meaning in Absurdity: What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us About the Nature of Reality. Iff Books.
Additional Resources
AI & Consciousness:
Searle’s Chinese Room.
David Chalmer’s Hard Problem of Consciousness.
Bernardo’s full lecture on AI.
Quantum Theory
Article introducing non-locality or ‘spooky action at a distance.’
Micro-psychokinesis experiments:
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/psychokinesis-research
Bernardo on Psychedelics….
https://www.bernard…
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Consciousness and Synchronicity | Bethany Butzer
3 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 11 min
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Welcome to episode 1 of season 1 of the What Lies Beyond podcast. In this season, which is ten episodes, I’m focussing mainly on what we might call post-materialist perspectives. This is to introduce the broad themes of the show, which concern the nature of consciousness, and how that might impact crises of ecology, health and meaning. It’s an exploration of extraordinary experience — and here my guests do have some fascinating stories to tell. What Lies beyond also explores what kind of a world we might want to live in tomorrow. This is because diverging theories of consciousness imply very different possible futures.
Finally, I’m a big believer in viewpoint diversity and avoiding echo chambers. Voices from mainstream, specifically materialist perspectives and from the skeptical community are on the way, but for mainly logistical reasons these will be in season 2. In the meantime, buckle up for some fascinating and thought-provoking conversations!
In episode 1 I talk with Bethany Butzer, Phd. Bethany writes, teaches, and conducts research in the fields of positive psychology and transpersonal psychology, which emphasize the development of human strength and potential. She received her MA in clinical psychology and her PhD in social psychology from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. From 2013-2015, Bethany was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School, where she studied yoga and mindfulness for youth. From 2016-2022 Bethany was a Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of New York in Prague. Bethany is a Lecturer for the Alef Trust MSc program in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology. Bethany's research focuses on synchronicity, parapsychology, and ecopsychology. We also both teach on the Trust’s ‘Approaches to Consciousness’ short course, which is part of their Master’s program.
On today’s show we talked about the current state of play in consciousness studies. We also talked a little about ma…
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Excerpt 2 AI and consciousness | Bernardo Kastrup
20 september 2024 · 13 min
This is an exclusive interview excerpt from What Lies Beyond with Matt Colborn. Conversations on consciousness science, the paranormal and the post-material future. Visit us and subscribe on whatliesbeyond.substack.com Lees meer
Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of the Essentia Foundation and a promoter of a philosophy called metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and another in computer engineering. As a scientist he worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research at CERN and the Philips Research Laboratories. In this clip extract, Bernardo discusses how his work on Artificial Intelligence led him to doubt materialist ideas about consciousness. The full interview is due for release on the 17th October. Like, subscribe, see you there!
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What Lies Beyond Podcast Exclusive Preview Excerpt 1: Bethany Butzer
5 september 2024 · 13 min
This is an exclusive interview excerpt from What Lies Beyond with Matt Colborn. Conversations on consciousness science, the paranormal and the post-material future. Visit us and subscribe on whatliesbeyond.substack.com Lees meer
My first guest on What Lies Beyond will be Bethany Butzer, PhD. Bethany writes, teaches, and conducts research in the fields of positive psychology and transpersonal psychology. She is currently the Assistant Director of the Alef Trust PhD program in Applied Transpersonal Psychology. We also both teach on the Trust’s ‘Approaches to Consciousness’ short course, which is part of their Master’s program. In this clip extract, Bethany talks about her educational experiences in psychology and consciousness. We also talk about the current state of play in consciousness studies and how we might reconcile materialist with post-materialist approaches. The full interview will be released on the 3rd of October.
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Welcome to What Lies Beyond
5 juli 2024 · 3 min
This is the welcome video for ‘What Lies Beyond,’ the companion site for my forthcoming book from Collective Ink, What Lies Beyond: Consciousness Science, the Paranormal and the Post-Materialist Future. This site will also host a new podcast, season 1 of which is scheduled for this autumn. In the video, I talk a little about the motivation for writing What Lies Beyond and why I think Exceptional Human Experiences are important. This is the place to come for anyone interested in controversies over consciousness, especially debates over psychic phenomena and mystical experience. It’s also the place to come if you’re concerned about the human future. This companion site is about engagement, exploration, dialogue and debate! I’m also simultaneously releasing an introductory essay which includes an audio version. Lees meer
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Introducing What Lies Beyond (Audio version)
5 juli 2024 · 9 min
This is the audio version of the introductory essay that set out the themes of my forthcoming book What Lies Beyond: Consciousness Science, The Paranormal and the Post-Material Future. Lees meer
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