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MindMatters

Harrison Koehli, Elan Martin, Adam Daniels

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The only podcast to talk about everything from romance novels to totalitarianism. Psychology, philosophy, history, books, film, religion, politics: join hosts Harrison Koehli, Elan Martin, and Adam Daniels for perspectives you won't find anywhere else.
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A podcast by Tom Morgan, Founder of the Leading Edge. https://www.theleading-edge.org/ The Leading Edge is a network for personal evolution. It’s a place for us to find our people, power and purpose.
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Are You In There?

Alex Jurgensen

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Everyone wants to be happy, but very few are those who actually know how to. Join Alex, a qualified psychotherapist, as he shares valuable insights into the question of happiness and inner peace. Stories, words from wise beings, and practical guidance; all merge around the idea that in order to find happiness two things are needed: 1. finding the present moment, and… 2. finding yourself. How do you do this? Press play and find out.
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A Dialogue on the Fourth Way with Luke Behncke and Ted Nottingham. The book "Gurdjieff´s Christianity: The Fourth Way’s Prehistoric Teachings of Christ" by Luke Behncke can be found on Amazon. The book "The Path of Inner Transformation: The Essential Fourth Way Teachings" by Theodore J. Nottingham is on Amazon, Kindle, Audible. The book "Influences…
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Today MindMatters welcomes back John Carter to talk Cixin Liu's Three-Body Problem, science fiction in general, and to compare NHI theories. Do UAP represent extraterrestrials putting on a show to appear more advanced than actually are? Or super-advanced ultraterrestrials who may have their own weaknesses? What is the possible connection between te…
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Joshua Cutchin is one of the most interesting thinkers on the paranormal alive. He is the author of 8 classic books on the subject, including highly focused investigations into the role of food in paranormal encounters, paranormal odors, and child abduction in folklore and contemporary culture. He has also produced wide-ranging analyses on Bigfoot,…
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My conversation last year with founder and coach Brian Whetten was one of the more insightful discussions I've had. This was reflected in both the feedback and the number of listeners we drew. Brian and I sat down for two more in-depth conversations. The first explores how to make money with integrity as a coach. The second is a broader discussion …
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The Greek-Armenian Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff (1866–1949) was an influential mystic, philosopher and spiritual teacher. He spent much of his life traveling the world synthesizing the key teachings of the great mystery schools. A central aspect of Gurdjieff’s teachings are known as “The Fourth Way.” It’s also the handle of the visionary mystical me…
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The Law of One material is a series of 106 conversations between Jim McCarty, Don Elkins, a professor of physics and UFO investigator, and “Ra,” speaking through Carla Rueckert. Ra states that it/they are a “sixth-density social memory complex” that formed on Venus about 2.6 billion years ago. Ra says that they are “humble messengers of the Law of …
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In this episode, Gregg is joined by Dr. Baron Short to talk about Zendo, which is a potentially revolutionary brain stimulation device to help advance meditation and calm self-conscious neurotic tendencies. Dr. Short is an interventional psychiatrist and medical director of the Brain Stimulation Services at the Medical University of South Carolina.…
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Virtually every spiritual or mystical tradition emphasizes that love is the most potent force in the Universe. So it’s curious that any mention of love is noticeably absent from all of our most powerful industries, as well as from science itself. I spoke to Dr. Julia Mossbridge, an expert on the science of love and time, and her collaborator Dr. Er…
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In this episode, Gregg is joined again by Professor John Vervaeke, and the two share both individual updates and upcoming shared projects. John recently published his book, with Christopher Mastropietro, on Awakening From the Meaning Crisis, Part I, and he and Gregg discuss that and new ways to think about meaning in life based on the work they are…
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Philip Shepherd is an author, teacher on the topic of embodiment I’ve been following his work for many years. And have always thought of him as a spiritual successor to Iain McGilchrist. In this conversation he takes us through a powerful short meditation and explains his new project, The Embodied Present Project (TEPP). He’s written one of my favo…
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Dr. Jeff Tarrant is a licensed psychologist and board certified in neurofeedback. He is the Director of the NeuroMeditation Institute and author of the book, Meditation Interventions to Rewire the Brain. Dr. Mona Sobhani is an author, cognitive neuroscientist and an expert in the emerging science of “spiritual” phenomena.In this conversation we dis…
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New Year’s seems like a good time to explore meditation practices in a way that’s accessible to novices and experts alike. Daniel Ingram is a doctor, a meditator, a writer and author of “Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: an Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book” Dave Nadig is a good friend, his professional background is in ETFs and market struc…
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God is playing a game of hide and seek where he is hiding pretending to be you and I. This is an essential story in the Vedanta Philosophy, a central Eastern Spirituality Teaching. Alan Watts was one of the main figures who introduced Eastern spiritual ideas to the West. Join us as we try to decipher how to get out of the state of ‘hallucination’ a…
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Finding one's soul is the essence of all Spirituality. 19th-century spiritual teacher G.I. Gurdjieff designed a training programme whereby he taught his disciples how to find the soul. Published in 1945, 'In Search of The Miraculous' is nowadays one of the most in-depth records of Gurdjieff's spiritual teaching that we have. Join us as we try to de…
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Brian Whetten is an ex-Silicon Valley founder turned coach. What interested me is that he’s dedicated his engineer’s mind to a systematic study of what works in the spiritual and self-help world. Our conversation was highly conceptual, but also unbelievably dense with insights.
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Brian Whetten is an ex-Silicon Valley founder turned coach. What interested me is that he’s dedicated his engineer’s mind to a systematic study of what works in the spiritual and self-help world. Our conversation was highly conceptual, but also unbelievably dense with insights. As a result, we decided to split the conversation up into two parts. Pa…
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The chief miracle of life is for a human to find their soul. This is the message that comes to us from today's book, the great classic, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. In this video, we analyse the existential crisis of Levin, one of the main characters in the novel and a reference to Tolstoy himself. We learn how Levin finally overcomes his existent…
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Brian Whetten is an ex-Silicon Valley founder turned coach. What interested me is that he’s dedicated his engineer’s mind to a systematic study of what works in the spiritual and self-help world. Our conversation was highly conceptual, but also unbelievably dense with insights. As a result, we decided to split the conversation up into two parts. Pa…
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If you want inner peace, do THIS: make time for introspection!... This is the advice that a guy called Thomas from Kempis is giving us. Now long dead, Thomas, was a German monk in the Middle Ages, and he wrote a book that, ever since, has been a fundamental spiritual scripture for many people. What is the advice he gave in his book? It's a really s…
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In this episode, Layman returns to the show for the seventh time to discuss his recently published book, Gurdjieff for a Time Between Worlds. In it, Layman recounts Gurdjieff’s fascinating life and approach to spirituality and why the book was a “hyperpersonal” endeavor that was appropriate for the metamodern age. Layman also clarifies some common …
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Stop taking your thoughts so seriously! This is the lesson that comes to us from the great novel 'Kafka on the Shore,' by Murakami. In this video, we analyse the behaviour of one of the characters in the novel, who is an embodiment of a set of spiritual values, that you too can put into practice. What are these values? It starts with learning to tr…
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If you want happiness, do THIS: learn to reawaken!... What?... Learn to Reawaken. In the spring of 1845, 27-year-old Henry David Thoreau went to the woods at Walden Pond and resided there for the following 2 years, completely excluded from society. He wanted to understand how exclusion from society could help him live the most fully. In the followi…
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In this episode, the cognitive neuroscientist and author of The Romance of Reality (see here for Gregg’s review), Bobby Azarian joins the program to discuss his “unifying theory of reality” and vision for bridging science and religion. Bobby explains how he interprets the universe through a universal learning algorithm and shares what this means fo…
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Dr. Mona Sobhani is an author, cognitive neuroscientist and an expert in the emerging science of “spiritual” phenomena. A core theme of this series is the importance of updating your stale perceptions of the world. Over the last two years, nobody has helped challenge my own preconceptions more than Dr. Mona Sobhani, and her book Proof of Spiritual …
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Today's teaching comes to us all the way from ancient china, form the mouth of one of the greatest philosophers to ever live: Chuang Tzu. This is the advice that comes to us from this Spiritual classic: learn to let go of judgment, comparison and competition. Wisdom comes when you discover that deeper part of yourself that doesn't need protection. …
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Today's book tells us that if we want to make good decisions, we need to start by doing this: learning to be at the front of the train of our awareness... What?!... This is the advice that comes to us from this great 70's classic: learn to be at the front of the train of your awareness. Stop thinking and return to the present moment. Return to the …
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