Where is My Mind? Podcast

Dr. Eben Alexander spent over 25 years as an academic neurosurgeon, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, the Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Over those years he personally dealt with hundreds of patients suffering from severe alterations in their level of consciousness. Many of those patients were rendered comatose by trauma, brain tumors, ruptured aneurysms, infections, or stroke. He thought he had a very good idea of how the brain generates consciousness, mind, and spirit.

Dean Radin, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Science (IONS) and Associated Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). His original career track as a concert violinist shifted into science after earning a BSEE degree in electrical engineering, magna cum laude and with honors in physics, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Russell Targ is a physicist and author, a pioneer in the development of the laser and laser applications, and a cofounder of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) investigation of psychic abilities in the 1970s and 1980s. SRI is a research and development think tank in Menlo Park, California. Called remote viewing, his work in the psychic area has been published in Nature and other scientific journals.

Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 85 scientific papers and 9 books, and the co-author of 6 books. He was among the top 100 Global Thought Leaders for 2013, as ranked by the Duttweiler Institute, Zurich. On ResearchGate, his RG score puts him among the top 7.5% of researchers.

This distinguished Texas physician, deeply rooted in the scientific world, has become an internationally influential advocate of the role of the mind in health and the role of spirituality in healthcare. Bringing the experience of a practicing internist and the soul of a poet to the discourse, Dr. Larry Dossey offers panoramic insight into the nature and the future of medicine.

Stephan A. Schwartz is a Distinguished Consulting Faculty of Saybrook University, a Fellow of the William James Center for Consciousness Studies, Sofia University, and a Research Associate of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of the Laboratories for Fundamental Research. He is the columnist for the journal Explore and editor of the daily web publication Schwartzreport.net, in both of which he covers trends affecting the future.

Brian Josephson won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 "for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects." He is the director of the Mind-Matter Unification Project of the Theory of Condensed Matter Group at the Cavendish Laboratory.

Rick Strassman was born in Los Angeles, California in 1952. He attended public schools in southern California’s San Fernando Valley and graduated from Ulysses S. Grant High School in Van Nuys in 1969. As an undergraduate, he majored in zoology at Pomona College in Claremont California for two years before transferring to Stanford University, where he graduated with departmental honors in biological sciences in 1973.

JIM B. TUCKER, M.D., is Bonner-Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. He is Director of the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies, where he continues the work of Dr. Ian Stevenson with children who report memories of previous lives.

Uri Geller was born in Israel on December 20, 1946. At the age of four, he had a mysterious encounter with a sphere of light while in a garden near his house. A retired Israeli air force officer, who was an eyewitness to this encounter, validated this mystifying event decades later. He is world-renowned for his psychic abilities.

Award-Winning Author. Dr. Moody received the World Humanitarian Award in Denmark in 1988. He was also honored with a bronze medal in the Human Relations category at the New York Film Festival for the movie version of Life After Life.

Dannion Brinkley's NDE (Near Death Experience) is perhaps the world’s most well-known NDE. Officially dead for over 28 minutes, he has written two bestselling books about his NDE experiences. He has had four NDEs in total. It was Dannion's first NDE that brought the term "NDE" into mainstream consciousness.

Daryl Bem obtained his BA degree in physics from Reed College in 1960, and began graduate work in physics at MIT. The civil rights movement had just begun, and he became intrigued with the changing attitudes toward desegregation in the American South. He decided to switch fields and pursue a career as a social psychologist specializing in attitudes and public opinion.

Dr. Dennis McKenna has conducted research in ethnopharmacology for over 30 years. He has taught in the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota.

In addition to being the founder and research director of Mossbridge Institute, LLC, Dr. Mossbridge is a Visiting Scholar in the Psychology Department at Northwestern University, a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and Science Director at Focus@Will Labs.

Dr. Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist, author, and previously one of the most senior businesswomen in the UK. Having grown up as the daughter of a coal miner in the north of England, she has since traveled to over seventy countries around the world. For the past nearly twenty years, she has lived in the sacred landscape of Avebury.

Roger Nelson, Ph.D., was Coordinator of Research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory at Princeton University from 1980 to 2002, and has directed the Global Consciousness Project (GCP) since its inception in 1997.

Diane Hennacy Powell, M.D., is an author, researcher, public speaker, and practicing psychiatrist who started as a neuroscientist before obtaining her medical degree and training in medicine, neurology, and psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. She became a member of Harvard Medical School’s faculty and later an original member of the La Jolla Group for Understanding the Origin of Humans.

Dr. Alan Hugenot made a life study of the scientific basis for the afterlife. Today, continuing to research consciousness survival, many questions remain. The true nature of consciousness survival may always remain a mystery, but rigorous research shows death, like birth, may be a mere passing from one state of consciousness into another.

Janice Miner Holden, EdD, is a professor of counseling and chair of the Department of Counseling and Higher Education at the University of North Texas. She is the current editor-in-chief of the Journal of Near-Death Studies.

Pim van Lommel (b.1943) worked as a cardiologist at the Rijnstate Hospital, an 800-bed teaching hospital in Arnhem in the Netherlands, from 1977 to 2003. He published several professional papers on cardiology. In 1986, he began studying near-death experiences in patients who survived a cardiac arrest.

Jeffrey Mishlove received an interdisciplinary doctoral degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1980. He has been a registered Commodity Trading Advisor. He has also been a California licensed psychologist.

In a moment of deep spiritual experience, Asil connected to the channeled guides several years ago. At that point, he was not aware these guides were of the angelic realms. The intensity of this experience left him in a state of bliss, deep clarity, and questioning all aspects of life, setting a milestone in his current phase of life.

Ever since I was a young girl, I knew I wanted to be a teacher. In 1973, I graduated from the University of Arizona with a B.S. in Education certified to teach high school French and mathematics. My first teaching assignment given to me by my team teacher was to make a seating chart for the eighty-four students enrolled in our Consumer Math class.

Dr. Bruce Greyson is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia and the former director of The Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia. He is also a Professor of Psychiatric Medicine in the Department of Psychiatric Medicine, Division of Outpatient Psychiatry, at the University of Virginia.

Cassandra Vieten, Ph.D., is President and Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, San Diego, and Associated Faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Paul Selig is considered to be one of the foremost spiritual channels working today. In his breakthrough works of channeled literature, I Am the Word, The Book of Love and Creation, The Book of Knowing and Worth, The Book of Mastery, The Book of Truth, and The Book of Freedom.

Etzel Cardeña holds the endowed Thorsen Chair in psychology at Lund University, Sweden, where he directs the Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology. His areas of research include extraordinary/anomalous experiences, dissociation, posttraumatic reactions, and hypnosis.

PAUL DAVIDS is an author, artist, and director, who has produced films that include Marilyn Monroe Declassified (2016), NBCUniversal’s Jesus in India (2007), The Sci-Fi Boys (2006), and Showtime’s Roswell (1994).

Barbara Bartolome had a life-changing near-death experience. She is the head of the Santa Barbara chapter of IANDS (International Association of Near-Death Studies). She has served as area director for the Santa Barbara Region of the AuPairCare host family cultural exchange program and program coordinator for the School of Psychology at Fielding Graduate University.

Laura Powers is a psychic who has been featured by Buzzfeed, NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, Motherboard Magazine by Vice, and many other media outlets. She is currently in pre-production for a new television series about her work. She is a clairvoyant, psychic medium, writer, actress, model, producer, writer, singer, and speaker who helps others receive guidance and communicate with loved ones.

Dr. Penny Sartori worked as a nurse in a British hospital for 21 years, 17 of those being in Intensive Care. She is highly experienced and skilled in her role as an intensive care staff nurse, and she has conducted unique and extensive research into the near-death experiences (NDEs) of her patients.

Dr. Donald Hoffman is a professor of cognitive sciences at the University of California, Irvine in the School of Social Sciences. He is also a professor of philosophy in the School of Humanities at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. He obtained his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983.

Helané Wahbeh is the Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Wahbeh is clinically trained as a naturopathic physician and holds a Master of Clinical Research.

Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he chaired the Department of Religion for eight years. He helped create the GEM Program, a doctoral concentration in the study of Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism, which is the largest program of its kind in the world.

I received my doctorate in Pharmacology and Toxicology with a minor in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Arizona in 2003, where I later served as the William James Post-doctoral Fellow in Mediumship and Survival Research and Co-Director of the VERITAS Research Program until that program closed in 2007.

Rupert Spira first encountered the poetry of Rumi at the age of fifteen in 1975. Shortly afterward, he learned the Mevlevi Turning, a sacred Sufi dance of movement, prayer, and meditation, at Colet House in London.

Arnaud Delorme, PhD, is a CNRS principal investigator in Toulouse, France, a member faculty at the University of California, San Diego, and a research scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He completed his PhD thesis on visual categorization in humans, monkeys, and machines in 2000.

Bernardo Kastrup has a PhD in computer engineering with specializations in artificial intelligence and reconfigurable computing. He has worked as a scientist in some of the world's foremost research laboratories, including the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

In 1997, Jeff experienced a horrific automobile accident that caused multiple life-threatening injuries, including crushing both his legs. He had 18 surgeries and spent six months in the hospital.

Edward F. Kelly, Ph.D., is Research Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia, and lead author of Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century.

Brenda J. Dunne, MS, holds degrees in psychology and the humanities from Mundelein College in Chicago (1976), and a MS in Human Development from the University of Chicago (1979). She was manager of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory since 1979.

Dr. Linda Backman is a licensed psychologist. Since 1993, she has guided innumerable individuals in regression hypnotherapy to access their past and between lives. In 1997, she and her husband, Dr. Earl Backman, began their work in this field.

Through her platform at TheSoulFrequency.com, Shanna Lee teaches women how to live powerfully and authentically, how to feel great in their bodies, confident with who they are, and to connect with their purpose. By locating their deepest truths and raising their energy frequency.

I am a wife, a mother of three, a high school English teacher—and a psychic medium. In my life, I have read for hundreds of people and connected them with loved ones who have crossed to the Other Side.

Eva became a popular talk show hostess on BBS Radio, which gave her the opportunity to engage the minds of today’s top thinkers in the fields of science and consciousness and our human experience.

My journey with Remote Viewing started shortly after it became declassified in 1995. From there I became a professional Remote Viewer, working in a think tank called TDS, and later co-running it while living in a Zen Center.

David Lorimer is a writer, lecturer, editor, and program director of the Scientific and Medical Network. After a career as a merchant banker, Lorimer became a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College.

Jeff O'Driscoll, MD, practiced emergency medicine in a level-one trauma center for twenty-five years and served as department chair for eight. He received his training at the University of Utah School of Medicine and completed his residency in Salt Lake City, Utah.

He studied Philosophy and English at Oberlin College and the University of London, and in 1971 he received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. After publishing articles in philosophy of language, temporal logic, and philosophy of time, he turned his attention to problems in the philosophy of science and mind.