Expanding on Consciousness

Jul 27 2023 39 ep. 62 mins 181

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The Monroe Institute's Expanding on Consciousness includes conversations with scientists and practitioners about the many perspectives and ideas around consciousness: human, non-human, scientific, spiritual, experiential and more. We invite the curious… to speak, listen, learn and apply new ways of thinking about what it means to be interconnected conscious beings. Our host, Mark Certo, will engage well known experts, trainers and other fascinating guests in insightful and sometimes surprising conversations about the many disciplines and aspects of consciousness—in all its forms.

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Episode 38: Morphic Resonance Theory and the Universal Life Force with Rupert Sheldrake, PhD

Jul 27 2023 67 mins

What is the premise of the Morphic Resonance Theory? The lower laws of nature are more like habits. Meaning, each species has a type of collective memory, the collective unconscious so to speak, not just a memory of behavior like instinct, but also a form. For example, when a cabbage grows, it's tapping into a collective cabbage memory, a memory of form. This understanding in gener

Episode 37: Conscious awareness is the most fundamental level of the universe with Dr. Stuart Hameroff

Jul 20 2023 66 mins

Well known for his controversial work with quantum theorists Roger Penrose, Dr. Hameroff suggests that consciousness originates in quantum states, and then interacts with neural microtubules indicating that the brain actually still has something to do with consciousness while at the same time, introducing the idea that quantum field theory holds that consciousness is fundamental an

Episode 36: Venturing into the Unknown to Create Warm Healing Blankets of Ambient Sound with Robot Koch

Jul 11 2023 61 mins

Robot Koch is an award winning artist/producer/composer and devoted meditator from Berlin, living in Los Angeles. He has been steadily crafting a mature and original sound that expertly combines a deep and cinematic atmosphere, emotional reflection and forward-thinking production of dialogues between technology and nature. He explores the spaces between ambient sounds, venturing in

Episode 35, Part 2: A New Science of Heaven with Robert Temple

Jun 27 2023 58 mins

The information Robert Temple reveals in this episode has the potential to kick our beliefs about “the heavens”— the sun, moon, stars, and space itself—into radical revision. Modern physics addresses only the world of matter, excluding the greater reality. The developing science of plasma physics reveals that the heavens are made not of atoms, but of subatomic plasma. Our s

Episode 34, Part 1: Megaliths, Pyramids and Secrets of the Sphinx, with Robert Temple

Jun 20 2023 63 mins

Prepare to re-evaluate everything you thought you knew about these ancient monuments, and so much more! Author, professor, deep researcher and self-proclaimed “arch skeptic of traditional thinking” Robert Temple shares his provocative reinterpretations of how and why they came to be, and how they’ve been used—and abused—at various times in history. Discrepancies in datin

Episode 33: Part 2 with Dr. Theresa Bullard—Kaballah, Creation, and Taking The Quantum Leap

Jun 13 2023 63 mins

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Episode 32, Part 1: Modern Science and Ancient Wisdom Unite to Unlock the Hidden Mysteries of Reality with Dr. Theresa Bullard

Jun 06 2023 61 mins

Theresa Bullard, PhD, is an author, world-renown speaker, Mystery School instructor, and host of Mystery Teachings on Gaia TV. How do science and spirituality work together to expand consciousness personally and collectively, leading us to accomplish the Great Work? The power is within, magic is real, the tools are available. Our role is to acknowledge the eternal essence that unif

Episode 31: How NDE Research Led to Deconstructing the Link Between the Mind and Brain with Dr. Bruce Greyson

May 30 2023 61 mins

Dr. Bruce Greyson is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia and author of several books on near-death experiences (NDEs).In this podcast, we look into themes commonly present during NDEs, such as: faster and clearer thinking a diminished sense of time overwhelming feelings of peace, wellbeing and joy awareness of cosmic unity ne

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Episode 29: Part 1—The Potential That Exists Beyond the Physical with Dr. Raymond Moody

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