Dr. Michael Levin is a developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University where he’s the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor. His groundbreaking research on bioelectricity, morphogenesis, and cognition is reshaping our understanding of how living systems self-organize and regenerate. He explores how cells and tissues communicate through bioelectrical signals…
Read MorePhilosopher, professor, and author, Dr. Gregory Shaw enters the mind meld!
Read MorePhilosopher, Scientist, Author and mystic, Dr. Tom Cheetham enters the mind meld. Like nearly all of my favorite thinkers, Tom holds multiple kinds of wisdom. He has a rigorous academic background in philosophy and science. He even spent years as a biology and environmental studies professor…
Read MoreProfessor, philosopher and best-selling author, Richard Tarnas Ph.D returns mind meld! Richard is the author of Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche. He served as program director at the iconic Esalen Institute for a decade where he rubbed shoulders with great minds like Joesph Campbell, Terence McKenna, Ram Dass, Alan Watts, James Hillman, Stan Grof, and many more. Tarnas has an encyclopedic knowledge of history, philosophy, and spiritual traditions. In this one, we continue our conversation about the crucial role of Platonism, Jung, depth psychology and the romantics in sense-making. Grappling with the modern meaning crisis, developing a felt sense of the sacred, the importance of initiation and altered states, the need for archetypal fluency, synchronicity, and much more.
Read MorePlato’s Allegory of the Cave is a powerful tale. Not only is it one of the oldest versions of what, today, we’d call the “matrix” or “simulation” scenario, it’s the most practical, prescient, and esoteric.
Read MoreAs above, so below — Don’t mistake it for a new age platitude. It’s an adage that has inspired seekers for centuries and is being proven true by cutting-edge science.
Read MoreAuthor, Bob Peck returns to the mind meld to explore the highly suppressed, even persecuted wisdom of the so-called Gnostics. What was their philosophy and metaphysical outlook? Who are the movement’s major figures? Why did religious authorities attempt to destroy any trace of their existence? What wisdom do they still have to offer us today? Why was Carl Jung so fascinated by…
Read MoreLong-time consciousness explorer, podcaster and author, Cory Allen returns to the mind meld!
Read MoreIn this transmission, we revisit Jung’s ever-interesting concept of synchronicity through some exciting new (and old) lenses.
Read MoreBruce J. MacLennan, Ph.D. enters the mind meld!
In this brain-melting transmission, we talk consciousness, the link between Carl Jung and hidden ancient wisdom, platonism, why the platonic realm of forms is logically inescapable, the mysterious esoteric practice known to the ancient Greeks as “theurgy,” why ancient philosophy is more important than ever, and much more.
