Best Science And Nonduality Podcasts (2024)

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#82 From Wounds to Wholeness: Peter A. Levine 59:20

1d ago59:20

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A recording of excerpts from a SAND Community Gathering hosted by Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo. Trauma has a severe impact that extends far beyond the individual survivor. It ripples through families, communities, and generations in ways both seen and unseen. Yet there is a path forward — through courageously sharing our stories and tapping into the b…

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Episode 286: Psychedelic Sacred Sexuality with Astraeus Amori 1:25:46

4d ago1:25:46

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This week I'm joined by author, Astraeus Amori, to discuss his new book, Psychedelic Sacred Sexuality. We discuss the role of various psychedelics in sexual experiences and how to work with your consenting partner. You can find out more about him and his book at his website.

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#81 Ecology of Care: DRĖĖĖMY 1:05:44

8d ago1:05:44

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Reem (DRĖĖĖMY) Abdou is a native Egyptian international interdisciplinary sound artist, embodiment and meditation guide, curator, cultural worker, and community building founder of the inclusive global impact agency for women+ & BIPOC holistic artists: The Collective BAE. As an intentional DJ and spoken word poet, her work harnesses music, movement…

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The Life Changing Magic of The Experimental Mindset - AJ Jacobs 1:00:22

8d ago1:00:22

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AJ Jacobs is a New York Times bestselling author, journalist, editor at Esquire Magazine, and maybe one of the most interesting people on the planet today. His books include: “A Year of Living Biblically”' which documents his attempt to follow every single rule from the Bible as literally as possible, including stoning adulterers, not shaving his b…

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Episode 285: The Solandarian Game, Chapters 3 and 4 51:26

11d ago51:26

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This week we're shifting gears into sharing selections from the audiobook of my novel, The Solandarian Game, which is now also available as an AI-Imagined Art Illustrated Version in ebook and PDF format. Every-other-week, between interviews, I'll be sharing a couple of chapters here on the podcast, and also posting some of the images from the chapt…

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🙏🏽⛩🤖 219 - Joshua Schrei on Embodied Ethics in The Age of A.I. 1:29:37

11d ago1:29:37

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This week marks the beginning of Embodied Ethics in The Age of A.I., a six-week online course led by writer and teacher Joshua Schrei, host of The Emerald Podcast. This course is, in large part, inspired by an episode he wrote last year called “So You Want To Be A Sorcerer in The Age of Mythic Powers” — exploring the mythic dimensions of tech innov…

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#80 Awaking Hope: Rev. Deborah L. Johnson 59:50

15d ago59:50

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Rev Deborah L Johnson (Rev D) is a dynamic organizer, strategist, facilitator, public speaker, and spoken word artist, known for her ability to bring clarity to complex and emotionally charged issues with humor and compassion. As an organizational consultant specializing in cultural diversity, she serves the public, private, non-profit, and militar…

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Epigenetics, Consciousness, & Reprogramming the Mind - Dr Bruce Lipton 1:07:55

15d ago1:07:55

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Dr Bruce Lipton is an internationally recognised biologist, author, and pioneer in the new science of epigenetics. He is most well known for the idea that beliefs influence gene expression and that biology is not determined by DNA. Dr Lipton is the author of three books, including: The Honeymoon Effect, The Biology of Belief, and Spontaneous Evolut…

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Episode 284: Pablo Lopez on 5-MeO-DMT, Human Development and Sexuality 1:37:15

18d ago1:37:15

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My guest this week is Pablo Lopez, a psychotherapist in Spain, who is interested in how the nonduality and energetics of the 5-MeO-DMT experience relate to human development, egoic blocks, sexuality, and more. We have a wide-ranging conversation on these and other topics in this interview. Due to its length, the last 3rd of the conversation has bee…

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#79 Restoring Wholeness: Richard Schwartz 49:16

22d ago49:16

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A recording of excerpts from a SAND Community Gathering hosted by Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo. Trauma has a way of separating us from parts of ourselves. Painful experiences cause protective parts to take over, isolating our inner wounds in an effort to help us survive. Yet, avoiding our emotional injuries rarely leads to true healing. In this conver…

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Get Fierce with Reality - Dr. Parker Palmer, PhD 1:09:11

22d ago1:09:11

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Dr. Parker Palmer is an American writer, educator, and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change. He is the Founder of the nonprofit: The Centre for Courage and Renewal and the author of 10 popular books, including: A Hidden Wholeness, The Courage to Teach, an Undivided Life, and Let Your Lif…

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🎋🔬🕸️ 218 - Neil Theise on Complexity & Nonduality 1:26:55

24d ago1:26:55

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I’m honored to share a profound and soulful conversation on science and spirituality with Neil Theise, professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, discoverer of a new human organ (the interstitium), lifelong Zen meditator, and author of the superb book, Notes on Complexity. ✨ Mentioned & Related Links: Embodied Ethics in The Age …

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#78 The Crisis in Gaza: Gabor & Daniel Maté 1:24:58

29d ago1:24:58

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In this episode we bring you excerpts from an online SAND Community Gathering with Gabor and Daniel Maté hosted by Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo from February 2024. Also present in this episode is Betsy Polatin offering guided meditation and grounding exercises as everyone navigates these difficult conversations. Lastly SAND presenter Deran Young ends …

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Becoming the Best Therapist You Can Be - Dr Lou Cozolino 58:39

29d ago58:39

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Dr Louis Cozolino is a clinical psychologist, author, and professor based in Beverly Hills, California. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UCLA and an M.T.S. from Harvard University. He has been a Professor at Pepperdine since 1986 and lectures around the world on psychotherapy, neuroscience, trauma, and attachment. He has authored 1…

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Episode 282: Exploring the Science of Psilomethoxin with Adam McKay and Ian Benouis 1:24:29

1M ago1:24:29

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A few weeks ago, The Church of the Sacred Synthesis released information to the public that their year-long research into the chemistry of their sacrament, the novel compound of Psilomethoxin (4-HO-5-MeO-DMT), had yielded promising results. To help us understand what they've done and what they've found, I've invited their science officer, Adam McKa…

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#77 Regenerative Medicine: Mauro Zappaterra 1:09:42

1M ago1:09:42

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Mauro Zappaterra obtained his MD and PhD degrees from Harvard Medical School. He completed his PhD doing work with neuronal stem cells and the effects of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in brain development and in the adult. He is published in numerous scientific articles on the CSF and his work was chosen as the cover image for the prestigious Neuro…

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The Surprising Science of Sustainable Happiness - Prof. Bruce Hood 1:05:21

1M ago1:05:21

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Professor Bruce Hood is a Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Bristol and has been a research fellow at Cambridge University and UCL, a visiting scientist at MIT, and a faculty professor at Harvard.He is the author of several books, including: Possessed, The Self Illusion, Supersense, and most recently: The Science of Happine…

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#76 Land, Lineage & Resisting Genocide 1:31:40

1M ago1:31:40

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"This is a spiritual test, this is a spiritual war, as much as it is a material one. People say, ‘As above, so below.’ How we are interfacing with the physical realities of this moment, the ways that we are leveraging our daily energy are either making us complicit with life's desecration or helping us to affirm life and the spirit of resistance. T…

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Materialism & Nonduality: Worldview in Addiction & Recovery - Rupert Spira and Bernardo Kastrup 1:15:10

1M ago1:15:10

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Rupert Spira is a non-dual teacher, philosopher, author, and proponent of the Direct Path, based in Oxford, UK. Bernardo Kastrup is an author, philosopher, and the executive director of Essentia Foundation, whose work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has PhDs in phil…

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Episode 280: Detroit Religious Freedom with Greg Lake 1:20:55

2M ago1:20:55

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Entheogenic Religious Rights lawyer, Greg Lake, returns to the Entheogenic Evolution Podcast this week to discuss a pro bono case he's currently litigating in Detroit where a Black-run entheogenic church has been raided and shut down. Greg tells us all about the case and why he feels it's important for broader issues in religious freedom. If you're…

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Reintegrating Your Traumatised Parts - Dr Janina Fisher, PhD 54:11

2M ago54:11

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Dr Janina Fisher is a licensed clinical psychologist and a former instructor at Harvard Medical School. Having trained directly with the likes of Bessel van der Kolk and Pat Ogden, she is now widely recognised as an international expert on the treatment of trauma. Janina is an Advisory Board member of the Trauma Research Foundation and the author o…

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💻💶🌏 217 - Gregory Landua & Speaker John Ash on Regenerative Accelerationism & How To Heal A Broken Internet 1:35:39

2M ago1:35:39

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If you care about this show as a public good, consider signing up on Substack or Patreon today for bonus episodes, live calls, and more — or at least mash “subscribe” on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and leave a five-star review. The unborn future archaeologists who find these episodes inscribed in DNA will thank you! Today I welcome you to join me for…

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Episode 279: Faciliating 5-MeO-DMT, Appendix A: Integration 37:54

2M ago37:54

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We are now into the appendices for the audiobook of Faciliating 5-MeO-DMT. Appendix A is one of my own contributions and is "Integrating 5-MeO-DMT: Embodying Your Relationship to Yourself as the Divine." The sharing of this selection just so happens to coincide with the release of my newest book, 5-MeO-DMT Integration: Embodying Nonduality is Not W…

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Willoughby Britton on when meditation causes harm | Living Mirrors #126 1:03:47

2M ago1:03:47

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Willoughby Britton is a clinical psychologist, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University Medical School, and the director of the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory there. Her lab researches the psychophysiological and neurocognitive effects of meditation and mindfulness-based interventions for mood and anx…

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#75 Love-With-Justice: Omid Safi 1:19:56

2M ago1:19:56

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This SAND Community Gathering was recorded live on February 10, 2024 with Omid Safi and SAND co-founders Zaya and Maurzio Benazzo. For the full video version of this conversation, please visit: https://scienceandnonduality.com/event/love-with-justice/ Omid Safi is a scholar of the Islamic mystical tradition of Radical Love and serves as a professor…

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How Beliefs Create Your Reality - Dr Jer Clifton, PhD 1:08:40

2M ago1:08:40

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Dr Jer Clifton from the University of Pennsylvania is one of the world’s leading researchers into how our beliefs and worldview shape almost everything about our lives, including our wellbeing, our relationships, our sense of meaning and purpose, and our basic sense of safety in the world. Some of the key things we discuss in this conversation incl…

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Episode 278: 5-MeO-DMT Facilitator Training with Kerby and Martin 1:16:55

2M ago1:16:55

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Starting in late March, TheUnchurch University is offering an 8-month weekly training program for those who are looking to facilitate with 5-MeO-DMT. The course is designed by Stephan Kerby, and I will be serving as a lecturer and adjunct professor with the training program, teaching 1-2 classes each month. In this podcast episode, we have some bac…

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#74 Engaged and Aspirational Bodhicitta: Lama Tsomo 1:02:02

2M ago1:02:02

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Lama Tsomo is a spiritual teacher, author, and co-founder of Namchak Foundation and Namchak Retreat Ranch, which preserves and shares Tibetan Buddhist practice in accessible, contemporary ways. Under the tutelage of Tulku Sangak Rinpoche, international holder of the Namchak lineage, Lama Tsomo has done extensive spiritual retreats in the U.S. and a…

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Donald Hoffman & Anil Seth - New Frontiers in the Science of Consciousness 1:10:36

2M ago1:10:36

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Prof. Donald Hoffman is Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, and the author of over 100 scientific papers and three books, including Visual Intelligence, and The Case Against Reality.Prof. Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he is also Director of…

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🐦‍⬛🦖🕵🏼‍♀️ 216 - Jingmai O'Connor on Dead Birds & Living Paleontologists 1:33:53

2M ago1:33:53

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This week I speak with Jingmai O’Connor (Staff Page | Instagram), Associate Curator of Fossil Reptiles (a.k.a. Priestess of Dead Dino-Birds) at The Field Museum in Chicago, about the magnificent strangeness of Mesozoic flying reptiles, the perverse anthropology of paleontologists, and much else. Contrary to expectations for a show with “fossils” in…

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Trauma Release Exercises for Awakening and Nondual Realization with Christina Guimond | Living Mirrors #125 1:02:07

2M ago1:02:07

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Chris Guimond is an awakening and nondual realization guide who works with the Trauma Release Exercises that I’ve previously spoken about on the podcast. You can listen to my interview with the creator of the TRE approach, David Bercelli (episode 64), if you want more detail on the practices. Chris and I connected over the fact that we’ve found the…

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#73 Bloodlines: Sulaiman Khatib, meital yaniv & Rae Abileah 1:01:28

2M ago1:01:28

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From a SAND Community Gathering in January 2024. You can watch the full video of this Community Gathering here: scienceandnonduality.com/event/bloodlines/ As many of us grapple with feelings of disillusionment, outrage, impotence and grief at the horrendous tragedy unfolding in Gaza, we gathered as a SAND community for an intimate conversation with…

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Becoming a Multidimensional Thinker - Ken Wilber 1:15:19

2M ago1:15:19

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Described as “The Einstein of Consciousness”, Ken Wilber is a fascinating character, who began a zen meditation practice at the age of 11. An intellectual prodigy as a child, Wilber briefly attended Duke University, before dropping out to immerse himself in a rigorous and multidisciplinary self-education. With an IQ of 175, he is the most published…

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Episode 276: Women and Psychedelics with April Pride 1:21:53

2M ago1:21:53

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My guest this week is April Pride, founder of Of Like Minds website and host of The High Guide Podcast. April joins me to discuss the topic of women and psychedelics, touching on issues of women in the psychedelic and cannabis space, how women's shifting hormones impacts their sensitivity to psychedelics, women and microdosing psilocybin, being an …

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Consciousness, Psychedelics, & Psychological Flexibility - Dr Steven Hayes & Dr Matthew Johnson 1:18:05

3M ago1:18:05

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Professor Steven Hayes and Professor Matthew Johnson. Although they work in widely different fields, with Matt being a leading researcher in psychedelics at John Hopkins, and Steve being the co-developer of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, both have reached similar conclusions about the psychological processes underneath mental health and wellbei…

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#72 Ancestral Song: Vuyi Qubeka 1:15:12

3M ago1:15:12

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Vuyi Qubeka is a seer, artist, multidimensional storyteller, & a transformative healing practitioner whose work is anchored by the wisdoms of indigenous knowledge systems and unconditional love. Vuyi considers herself a SoulSongSage and creates a container for individuals to remember the song of their soul through identifying the blockages keeping …

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AMA: Fear of Death, Sources of Wisdom, Experiencing Fear in the Body 10:57

3M ago10:57

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#71 Beyond Algorithms: Edward Frenkel 1:24:08

3M ago1:24:08

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Join us for a conversation with Edward Frenkel, mathematician, Berkeley professor and author of the international bestseller Love and Math, as we explore the nature of reality and the fallacy of the naive ideas of determinism and computationalism. Drawing on the landmark achievements of modern mathematics and quantum physics, Frenkel makes the case…

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