Best Mark Baars Podcasts (2024)

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Exploring Pendulum Dowsing with Melissa Reece 23:21

6h ago23:21

23:21

Melissa Reece, a priestess of the Crystal Sunflower, discusses the ancient practice of pendulum dowsing. Melissa describes pendulums as tools for divination, similar to tarot, primarily used for yes or no questions by interpreting its swings. She emphasizes the importance of cleansing and introducing oneself to the pendulum each session, explaining…

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Exploring the Intersection of Law and Psychic Mediumship with Mark Anthony 32:56

8d ago32:56

32:56

Will and Karen engage in a fascinating conversation with Mark Anthony, a fourth-generation psychic medium with a background in law. Mark shares stories from his unique life, including his journey as a psychic medium raised in a family with similar abilities, his decision to practice law, and how he merges these two seemingly disparate worlds.…

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Exploring the Spiritual Benefits of Movement with Nadira Grubbs 28:18

29d ago28:18

28:18

Will and Karen interview Nadira Grubbs, the Creative Movement Coordinator at A.R.E.ʼs movement studio. They discuss the integration of Edgar Cayceʼs teachings with somatic movement and explore how movement is connected to spiritual and mental well-being. Nadira shares her insights on the importance of keeping our bodies healthy in order to foster s…

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Exploring Auras and Spiritual Maturity with Cindy Griffith 28:54

1M ago28:54

28:54

The hosts engage in a fascinating conversation with Cindy Griffith, a psychic, spiritual teacher, public speaker, blogger, and author. Cindy provides insights into auras—how they are interpreted and their connection to our emotional and physical states. Cindy elaborates on her unique approach to reading auras and shares practical advice for empaths…

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Unlocking the Mysteries of Tarot with Rusa Harju 32:08

2M ago32:08

32:08

Dive deep into the fascinating world of tarot with expert Rusa Harju. With over 50 years of experience, Rusa shares insights into the origins and symbolism of tarot cards, discusses common myths, and explains her personal reading rituals. The conversation explores the diverse ways of interpreting tarot cards, including their connection to astrology…

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Exploring Astrology Beyond Sun Signs with Kathy Rose 31:28

2M ago31:28

31:28

With over 40 years of experience as a consulting astrologer and teacher, Kathy discusses the profound aspects of astrology beyond typical horoscopes. She emphasizes the deep, personal impact of birth charts and dispels common myths like the fatalistic views of Mercury retrograde. The conversation highlights the importance of understanding individua…

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Exploring Human Design with Gabrielle Gerard Jenks 38:24

3M ago38:24

38:24

In this episode, the hosts speak with Gabrielle Gerard Jenks, an expert in contemplative practices, yoga therapy, and human design. Gabrielle shares her extensive experience with human design, covering its synthesis of chakra systems, Kabbalah, I Ching, quantum physics, and astrology. She also touches on the importance of understanding one's unique…

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Navigating Menopause with Myriam Llano 34:10

3M ago34:10

34:10

Myriam Llano, a nutritionist and coach, discusses her expertise in helping women over 40 navigate the challenges of perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause through holistic approaches to diet and lifestyle changes. Myriam shares her experiences in creating personalized nutritional plans alongside doctors, the importance of being in tune with on…

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Exploring Metaphysical Journeys and Intuitive Development with Katrina Manikad 24:12

4M ago24:12

24:12

Katrina is a certified metaphysical practitioner and Usui Reiki master teacher. In this episode, she explains her path from becoming a shamanic practitioner through a multicultural medicine wheel to now providing psychic mediumship and healing services. Katrina also discusses her work in helping others develop their intuitive and psychic abilities …

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A Virtual Interview with Bruce Baar, Founder of Baar Products 27:53

4M ago27:53

27:53

Baar Products are the official world supplier of Edgar Cayce products. Bruce tells his origin story beginning from when he was a child with health complications. His mother's influence and the Cayce readings led to many hours in the kitchen trying to recreate Cayce's recipes. Little did he know that this would profoundly impact his life, shaping hi…

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Transform Your Crystal Knowledge with the A.R.E.'s, Christi George 23:35

5M ago23:35

23:35

Christi is an expert in the field of crystals and stones. In this episode, she offers a valuable perspective for practitioners seeking to enhance their practice. Tune in to learn how to program crystals to manifest specific desires, master the art of cleansing and charging crystals, and more.

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Preserving the Legacy of Edgar Cayce - An Inside Look with Jessica Newell 22:31

6M ago22:31

22:31

Jessica is the Director of Historic Preservation at the Edgar Cayce Foundation. A few themes she discusses are research and accessibility, the library and Gladys Davis Turner's cataloging efforts, and the archival process. Jessica also extends an open invitation for listeners to engage further with Edgar Cayce's work. Listen to this episode to unco…

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Jessenia Nozzolillo on the Akashic Records 30:38

6M ago30:38

30:38

Jessenia Nozzolillo is a multi-dimensional spiritual coach with the ability to see your Akashic Records. The Akashic Records are where all of your past lives are housed. They also contain your life plan before incarnation, past, present, and future of this life. Jessenia uses her knowledge of these records as a healing tool. With guidance from Spir…

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Cacao and Sound Healing 37:01

7M ago37:01

37:01

Brien Egan joins Will and Karen to share his knowledge about sacred cacao medicine. He begins by explaining how cacao has the ability to open us to a higher heart consciousness. Allowing us to connect with love and grace at every opportunity is the power of sacred cacao. What began as a stumbling journey while simultaneously learning and becoming a…

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Judith Stevens Joins the Podcast 27:53

7M ago27:53

27:53

As a student of the Cayce material for over 45 years, Judith is a fountain of wealth when it comes to all things Cayce. Her employment spans multiple decades. She is currently the National Outreach Manager. Judith also founded the Prison Outreach Program. If that wasn’t enough, Judith is a poet, musician, and yoga instructor. She joins the show to …

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The Art of Spirit Connection: Painter Bridges Physical and Metaphysical Worlds 22:36

8M ago22:36

22:36

Unveiling the Unexpected: How a lifelong artist discovers a profound psychic connection through painting. [BIGREVEAL] Dive into this captivating conversation as a renowned artist unveils her surprising journey of channeling souls through breathtaking artwork. Get ready to be amazed by the unexpected link between creativity and spiritual connection.…

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Unlocking the Mind’s Power 29:25

8M ago29:25

29:25

Welcome to New Awakenings with Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E., where we explore the depths of human potential and the power of the mind. In today’s episode, we delve into the transformative world of hypnotherapy and its impact on our physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. Here are the key highlights: The Power of Hypnotherapy: Discover how hypnotherapy …

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Insights of the Sleeping Prophet 30:27

9M ago30:27

30:27

On this episode of New Awakenings with the Edgar Cayce A.R.E., Will and Karen have the great opportunity to meet and chat with John Van Auken. John Van Auken is a prominent figure in the realm of metaphysical studies, renowned for his extensive knowledge of Edgar Cayce's readings, ancient Egyptian mysticism, and world religions. As an international…

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An Introduction to the Edgar Cayce A.R.E. 30:12

9M ago30:12

30:12

In this, the premiere episode, Karen and Will chat with Reverend Dr. Nicole Charles, the CEO of the Edgar Cayce A.R.E. With a solid foundation in new thought theologies and a comprehensive understanding of Edgar Cayce's teachings, Dr. Charles has been instrumental in spearheading the modernization of the organization while upholding its core princi…

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#27 — Is Willpower Like Muscle Power? with Roy F. Baumeister 1:06:21

1+ y ago1:06:21

1:06:21

How do we regulate our impulsive emotions, resist temptation, break bad habits, and come up to our best potential - and why do we sometimes run short? Is willpower anything like muscle power? In this episode, we welcome prominent social psychologist Roy F. Baumeister, who has published some 700 scientific works, including 40 books. A recipient of m…

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#26 — Smell, Taste & Consciousness with Dr. Stuart Firestein 1:31:06

1+ y ago1:31:06

1:31:06

Neurobiologist Stuart Firestein, one of the world's leading experts on olfaction, joins Bernard Baars to discuss the similarities and surprising differences of smell and taste in relation to vision, hearing and somatosensory systems, like touch. The olfactory system presents us with alternative views of how sensory stimuli are parsed in the brain a…

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#25 — Human Consciousness and AI: What Does the Future Hold? with Susan Schneider and Rachel St. Clair 1:32:21

2y ago1:32:21

1:32:21

In this episode, we examine Human Consciousness and AI, and particularly the popular idea that AI will become conscious at some point. Because conscious brains are the product of enormous periods of evolution and environmental conditions that keep changing in basic ways, the popular idea that machine consciousness is just around the corner is quest…

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#24 — The Conscious Brain Evolved with David Edelman, Jay Giedd & Mark Mitton 43:06

2y ago43:06

43:06

The home of the late Nobel Laureate, Gerald Edelman, is the setting for this elevated discussion on human consciousness. In this episode, Bernie is joined by Gerald's son and neuroscientist David Edelman, developmental neuropsychiatrist Dr. Jay Giedd, and professional magician Mark Mitton. What level of biology is relevant to the study of conscious…

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#23 — Global Workspace Theory (GWT) and Prefrontal Cortex: Recent Developments (Baars et al., 2021) 1:23:34

2y ago1:23:34

1:23:34

We think of the cortex in terms of anatomical regions, but the cortex works as a whole. Static, gross anatomical divisions are superseded by the dynamical connectome of cortex. This holistic viewpoint is detailed in the recent paper in the Journal Frontiers in Psychology: Consciousness Research, titled "Global Workspace Theory & Prefrontal Cortex: …

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#22 — Consciousness Has an Integrative Function with Neuroscientist, David Edelman 26:19

2+ y ago26:19

26:19

“Can consciousness be seen as the key to understanding our surroundings and organizing our actions?” — David Edelman, PhD, Neuroscientist and Visiting Scholar in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College Ep 22: Consciousness Has an Integrative Function with Neuroscientist, David Edelman Episode 22 of our podcast On Con…

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#21 — The Duet of Physics & Psychology with Psychophysicist, Stanley Klein 1:03:19

2+ y ago1:03:19

1:03:19

"Subjectivity and consciousness are the two main mysteries that science is still faced with. I'm an optimist. I believe that in the next half a century we might make progress on understanding consciousness." - Stanley A. Klein, psychophysicist, professor of Vision Science and Optometry at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the B…

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#20 — Neural Traffic Flow in the Conscious Brain with Dr. Jay Giedd 36:04

2+ y ago36:04

36:04

The brain seeks meaning and patterns. It would be very adaptive to do so in nature, because you need to know how to predict danger and to develop social ties. So our brains are very good at recognizing patterns, but also at creating them, even when they're not there. - Dr. Jay Giedd, Chair of Child Psychiatry at Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego…

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#19 — The Sleeping Brain: Better Than a Cup of Coffee 25:41

2+ y ago25:41

25:41

Studies show that, especially for young children, if you prematurely wake them up and deprive them of that much needed sleep, it becomes detrimental to their proper cognitive development further down in life. I just wonder about the amount of damage we're doing to kids with 7:20 AM school start times. - Ilian Daskalov, senior undergraduate student …

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#18 — Global Workspace Functions, the Brain and Consciousness: Connectivity, Waking, & Sleep - Part III 1:43:27

2+ y ago1:43:27

1:43:27

Global Workspace Theory is probably oversimplified, just like the Newtonian theory of the planets and their orbits. And that's what framework theories usually do. You don't want to go to them for the details, you want to go to them for the overview. And Global Workspace is really an overview. – Dr. Bernard Baars, originator of Global Workspace Theo…

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#17 — ”Global Workspace Theory: Exploring Evidence for Widespread Integration & Broadcasting of Conscious Signals - Part Two” 1:50:53

3y ago1:50:53

1:50:53

"I think in terms of consciousness, it seems to me that these Feelings of Knowing are perhaps the conscious tip of the iceberg for this huge amount of unconscious processing that's going on of all this information in our environment, where maybe I couldn't tell you why I know there's danger, but I know." - Alea Skwara, PhD Candidate in the Percepti…

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#16 — ”Global Workspace Theory: Exploring Origins and Evidence - Part One” 1:10:56

3y ago1:10:56

1:10:56

"One of the major features of the Global Workspace hypothesis began with limited capacity, that there has to be a compensatory event in the brain happening, and the most plausible one, for various reasons, including other people's work, of course, was that there's some kind of very wide recruitment of brain resources that happens as a function of b…

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#15 — ”Communicating Science Effectively and The Notion of Free Will” with Dr. Heather Berlin On Consciousness 28:05

3+ y ago28:05

28:05

"The idea is to help people understand how this science is relevant to their daily lives. Our brain likes novelty. It gets this sort of dopamine hit when you give it new information. Capturing attention and getting people excited about the information is really important, especially when dealing with things like public health issues, for example.” …

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#14 — ”Psychedelics, Impulsivity, and Brain Stimulation” with Dr. Heather Berlin On Consciousness 1:08:57

3+ y ago1:08:57

1:08:57

“In many cases you can see an immediate effect, as in chronic depression – suddenly you turn on the electrodes – you don't tell them when it's on or off, right? And their whole face lights up. And you ask, "What do you feel like?" And they say, "Oh, it feels wonderful. It feels like I won the lottery! It's so great!" – Dr. Heather Berlin, Neuropsyc…

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#13 — ”Thinking About Animal Consciousness” w/ David Edelman On Consciousness 44:54

4y ago44:54

44:54

"The only way we get certainty or stability in the world is to start from what we know, and gradually move to what we don't know." - Bernard Baars, PhD, originator of the Global Workspace Theory, a theory of cognitive architecture and consciousness. Episode 13: "Thinking About Animal Consciousness" The question of whether some non-human animals are…

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#12 — ”The Brain is Embodied and the Body is Embedded” w/ Magician Mark Mitton On Consciousness 1:12:20

4y ago1:12:20

1:12:20

"Consciousness can be firmly embedded in biology, based on the fact that all kinds of [demonstrably biological] processes that are not [by themselves] conscious are important for conscious process[ing].” - David Edelman, PhD, A neuroscientist and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College Episode 1…

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#11 — Brain Regions & Neural Functions Critical to Conscious States w/ Dr Jay Giedd On Consciousness 21:24

4+ y ago21:24

21:24

"Episodic memory involves conscious experiences being encoded. Same goes for semantic and autobiographical memories. All varieties of memories come in through conscious moments of recall. So, I think that consciousness is the means by which any kinds of memories are established." - Bernard Baars, PhD, originator of global workspace theory and globa…

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#10 — Global Workspace Theory (GWT) - Brain Aspects and Evidence w/ Dr Jay Giedd | On Consciousness 31:06

4+ y ago31:06

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"All models are wrong, but some are useful." And I think ultimately that's the test of a construct like Global Workspace Theory - does it lead us to greater knowledge? Does it suggest areas of research? Does it make predictions that we can test? And that's why I think Global Workspace Theory has stood the test of time. It has succeeded on all of th…

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#9 — What is the difference that makes a difference? Jay Giedd On Consciousness w/ Bernard Baars 37:34

4+ y ago37:34

37:34

"You highlighted the difference that makes a difference. Тhis is not only a neat catchphrase, but there's also something very deep about it. And sleep, in fact, is a really interesting aspect of behavior, that maybe gives us a window on the difference between conscious and non-conscious processes in the brain, because there is a distinct difference…

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#8 — In context of developing human brains, how can we understand consciousness? Roundtable Pt 1: Neuroanatomy & Neuro-function Approach with Jay Giedd, Chief of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, UCSD 13:11

4+ y ago13:11

13:11

"I want to try to understand consciousness from a neuroanatomy and neuro-function standpoint. What would consciousness look like in a brain scanner and other types of imaging? What are we looking for, in a sense, and could I predict from basically the architecture and the anatomy, that this could be conscious, and this would not be able to be consc…

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#7 — On Consciousness & The Brain - An Uplifting Discussion with Bernard Baars & David Edelman at DG Wills Books in La Jolla, CA 1:30:21

4+ y ago1:30:21

1:30:21

In this uplifting episode recorded at La Jolla landmark D.G. Wills Books, neuroscientists Bernie Baars & David Edelman unpack the nature of consciousness — the ineffable sense of ‘aboutness’ each one of us experiences that encompasses features of the outside world, your own thoughts, recollections, and emotions, all of which mysteriously — yet inev…

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#6 — The Potential of Biologically Inspired Neural Modeling with Neurorobotics Expert, Jeffrey Krichmar 44:08

4+ y ago44:08

44:08

In this episode of "On Consciousness," neuroscientists Bernie Baars, Jeff Krichmar, and David Edelman engage in a freewheeling conversation that begins with mulling over the possible development of conscious machines -- or ‘conscious artifact,’ as Gerald Edelman put it -- sometime in the not-so-distant future. We unpack the various ‘bumps in the ro…

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#5 — Pt 4 - Is Cortex the Organ of Mind? GWT originator, Bernard Baars explores conscious and unconscious brain events. 15:59

4+ y ago15:59

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Why are we conscious? Is cortex the organ of mind? Throughout human history, people have perceived the conscious brain as the great nexus of human life, of social relationships, of their personal identities and histories, in encounters with new challenges. In Episode #5 of the podcast On Consciousness, Bernard Baars, originator of GWT, talks with n…

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When are brains capable of this sensation of being self aware? Dr. Jay Giedd On Consciousness with Bernard Baars 0:22

4+ y ago0:22

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“If not in the womb, at what point in life do we first have the sensation of being us? In terms of knowing that we’re an individual person... And where that line is crossed, including octopus or other animals, at what point in terms of our brain development are the brains capable of this sensation of being self aware?” Naturalizing Consciousness: C…

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#4 — Pt 3 - Roundtable on Neural Darwinism and Waking Consciousness. Building a brain that learns, remembers, and experiences. 46:58

4+ y ago46:58

46:58

The engine of evolution is geared to overproduce and selectively eliminate. How do biological systems confront, adapt, and survive an ever-changing world? This is the central question that defined Charles Darwin’s scientific journey. In Episode #4 of NATURALIZING CONSCIOUSNESS - the premiere event for the new podcast "On Consciousness with Bernard …

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#3 — Pt 2 - What is the best scientific evidence about the biology of subjectivity? 13:47

4+ y ago13:47

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What Is Subjectivity? We have a growing understanding of many relationships between the structure and functions of the brain and our own private experiences. What is the best scientific evidence that can tell us about subjectivity and the brain? In Episode #3 of NATURALIZING CONSCIOUSNESS - the premiere event for the new podcast "On Consciousness w…

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#2 — Pt 1 - Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman’s Professional Artistry: A Tribute by his son, neuroscientist David Edelman 19:22

4+ y ago19:22

19:22

In Part One of NATURALIZING CONSCIOUSNESS - the premiere event for the new podcast "On Consciousness with Bernard Baars" - neuroscientist David Edelman discusses his father, Nobel Laureate Gerald M. Edelman's life, reminisces about little known stories and milestones, and the professional artistry of GME's distinguished career and groundbreaking th…

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#1 — Naturalizing Consciousness: Conversations on the biology of subjectivity. Podcast Premiere Event - Full Length 1:31:31

4+ y ago1:31:31

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NATURALIZING CONSCIOUSNESS: A Special Tribute to Nobel Laureate Gerald M. Edelman. Our premiere event "Naturalizing Consciousness" is Episode #1 of The Podcast "On Consciousness with Bernard Baars." This full length event features open-minded conversations on the biology of subjectivity, Neural Darwinism, Global Workspace Theory, plus new ideas abo…

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