Behind Greatness by Inspire North: Recent Episodes
Behind Greatness
Behind Greatness is a series exploring the journeys, personal insights and philosophies of successful leaders - with a focus on impact and introspection. This is how we aim to empower and inspire our listeners.
Our chat today is with Dr. Kevin Knuth, who joins us from Albany. He is a Professor of Physics at the University at Albany (SUNY). He is a former NASA research scientist designing artificial intelligence algorithms for astrophysical data analysis. His current research interests include the foundations of physics, quantum information, autonomous robotics, the search for and characterization of extrasolar planets, and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).
Like any good scientist, Kevin is truly interested in the weird. He is inspired by space and by gravity. We learn on what is intimidating vs what is scary, what is perceived as magic, telepathy and intuition, “contriving coincidences”, the importance of the subjective experience, investigating UAPs, a story about the Matrix and a hairy raising story about a personal experience that became a catalyst for his sleeplessness and his deep curiosity about the weird.
What is going on? Why is there not nothing?
Referenced episodes:
- Kid Koala (ep 28)
- Russell Targ (ep 80)
- Jeffrey Kripal (ep 118, 189)
- Jeremy Taggart (ep 136)
- Ryan Graves (ep 141)
- Kevin Day (ep 171)
- Rudy Schild & Garry Nolan (ep 204)
Kevin's Website: https://www.knuthlab.org/
Kevin's Sol Foundation Work: https://thesolfoundation.org/people/kevin-knuth/
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Joe McMoneagle was a US Army intelligence veteran already before he was chosen to be a part of the psychic intelligence unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1978. He became known as “Remote Viewer No. 1″ within Project Stargate. Project Stargate was the United States’ first organized research into psychic phenomena via the Defense Intelligence Agency and contractor SRI International. He is an author and also founder of Intuitive Intelligence Applications Inc. Today, he also teaches Remote Viewing at The Monroe Institute, a leading center in exploring human consciousness.
We’re back into the jungle of Joe’s experiences. We discuss how Joe actually never wanted to work in the military psychic spy program, begging his superior not to assign him to that desk. We hear about double blinded RV exercises on live Japanese TV and saving/finding missing people – live. We learn about the incredible stresses in the program and the early deaths of his comrades succumbing to those stresses. We hear about the several years that Joe spends with congress and senators demonstrating the success of the program and securing funding for 20+ years through his efforts. We talk beliefs, violating time, building a house after a triple by-pass, ingesting agent orange, growing back his liver, another angle to the grey ghost story and being knighted. Oh, and Joe explains to us what God is.
“Time is not what we believe it is.”
Previous episodes/discussions on Behind Greatness with Remote Viewers:
· Russell Targ (ep 80) – Co-Founder, SRI Institute
· Courtney Brown (ep 131)
· Stephan A. Schwartz (ep 155, 156)
· Lyn Buchanan (ep 163)
· Nancy DuTertre (ep 167)
· Paul H. Smith (ep 180)
Joe,
· Books: (via Amazon)
· Parapsychological Association: https://www.parapsych.org/users/jmcmoneagle/profile.aspx
· Monroe Institute: https://www.monroeinstitute.org/pages/trainer-joe-mcmoneagle
· IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2140996/
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Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We chat with Fr. Sean O’Laoire, joining us from his mountain side home in California. We delight in the dance with this conversation. Sean has a background in math, a PhD in transpersonal psychology, he speaks multiple languages and is an ordained catholic priest. We learn about his experience living in Africa, cataloging hundreds of Gaelic proverbs, dealing with death threats from politicians, receiving that letter from the Vatican and everything in between. We talk STATE vs STAGE of consciousness, churches and graveyards, “Irishing” Christianity, his druid grandfather, reincarnation and the early Church, the banning of Irish funerals, telepathy, stories and culture, language as a blessing and a curse, the masculine and the feminine, imagination, dancing with the dead and the Lioness …. What a dance.
“Remembering who we are.”
Sean:
· Website: https://spiritsinspacesuits.com/
· IG: @spiritsinspacesuits
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Dave Salmoni has been a television host, producer, zoologist, animal and animal/adventure expert. His work has ranged from wildlife and adventure, to competition reality, talk show expert and a regular on news outlets for everything and anything animal. Dave is forever that boy with a fascination for large predator cats and he easily enchants your host with his big cat stories. In his early 20s Dave picked up and left for South Africa to work on re-wilding tigers. There, his life changed forever. We talk about communication with animals, sharing a kill with a lion on his birthday, tigers vs lions and hanging with rhinos. We learn his thoughts on tenacity, self-confidence and the significance of wondering harder than being scared.
Trying a lot of what-ifs, indeed.
David,
- IG - @realdavesalmoni
- X - @davesalmoni
- Animal Instincts, Animal Planet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGj0D83KEto&list=PLMilupvERrnDAgX6Tx-ooShYnDOIlAs9P
- YT – Living with Lions: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rdAcrP6NcG8&si=9W0OubR4muSDD1FA
- YT – On Conan O’Brien: https://youtube.com/watch?v=D3mX34qNAHQ&si=bc6xMDzXtSdyF4Th
- YT – On Jimmy Kimmel: https://youtube.com/watch?v=g04ipP_RqBE&si=DTrSSkXDpCgTo46A
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We are speaking with Paco Calvo, who joins us from Southern Spain. Paco Calvo is a renowned cognitive scientist and a philosopher of biology, known for his groundbreaking research in the field of plant cognition and intelligence. At the University of Murcia he leads the Minimal Intelligence Lab (MINT Lab), focusing on the study of minimal cognition in plants. He is the author of Planta Sapiens. At his lab he studies the ecological basis of plant intelligence by conducting experimental studies at the intersection of the areas of plant neurobiology and ecological psychology. His interdisciplinary work combines insights from biology, philosophy, and cognitive science to explore the fascinating world of plant behavior, decision-making, and problem-solving.
This is the backdrop to our conversation.
Paco is a philosopher and scientist who actively wonders and asks questions about plants – and tests for them. Do plants think? Do plants feel? How do plants make decisions. We discuss how these questions bother the current heterodoxy … and the current calls for the defunding of his scientific work. We learn about “fast science”, the dangers of working for a membership, the importance of considering all hypotheses ... and we are reminded about Einstein and his take on ideas vs testing. We hear from him his ultimate obsession and as a treat, his take on language.
The history of science is the history of the blow to human ego.
See also the episode with Dr. Vera Tiesler (ep 81).
Paco:
- Minimal Intelligence Lab— http://www.um.es/web/minimal-intelligence-lab
- Planta Sapiens: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881080 or https://www.amazon.com/Planta-Sapiens-Science-Plant-Intelligence/dp/0393881083/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1PSGAKM3N72FP&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8eFGG0mC1oCLiJNQtHOD-M86tJXe8BES42Z7OqCSjGBZtZBDaqR-Kt2FvX7QWqzVXgpRtyD0MHiT8AeMAps2yEeaa708j8ijG5LtQD04SXRCVwgcvp-aIazdPNHahF18.YpvTll09DBmbFyClrpNFiKN7L8LvzAR0YAR2_29qnjI&dib_tag=se&keywords=planta+sapiens&qid=1743352157&sprefix=planta+sapien%2Caps%2C213&sr=8-1
Laurie Anderson: Language is a Virus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eTSL2kopP4
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For earlier one-on-one episodes with Nick see ep 207. With Rudy, see ep 179 , 186, 192, 195, 196, 204.
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. This is the second of a series of talks where we host two luminaries in one conversation. Nick - a prolific journalist and author - joins us from his home in the UK. Rudy - a preeminent astrophysicist – joins us from his place in Massachusetts. This is the first meeting between the two and as expected, it was a fun one.
Rudy unpacks his groundbreaking work on black holes as finite, magnetic objects and the universe’s outer edge, while Nick ties it to his consciousness research sparked by a shared death experience. Together, they explore: Is the universe a self-learning AI? Do UFOs shift our perception – or maybe have us remember? And is love the substrate of it all? How does reincarnation fit into all of this? Is there a feedback loop? From helical waves to quantum holograms, to plasmas and orbs, this mind-bending talk asks the big “why nots” and “what ifs.”
Nick, Website: https://www.nickcook.works/about-nick... Books: https://www.nickcook.works/books/ Rudy: Center for Astrophysics – https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/ Journal of Cosmology – https://thejournalofcosmology.com/Abo... Personal website – http://www.rudyschild.com/ List of Published papers – (via The SAO Astrophysics Data System) CCRI (Consciousness & Contact Research Institute) – https://agreaterreality.com/ NASA – Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy “SOFIA” – https://science.nasa.gov/mission/sofia/
This episode is part 4 in our series with Joe McMoneagle. Joe was a US Army intelligence veteran already before he was chosen to be a part of the psychic intelligence unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1978. He became known as “Remote Viewer No. 1″ within Project Stargate. Project Stargate was the United States’ first organized research into psychic phenomena via the Defense Intelligence Agency and contractor SRI International. He is an author and also founder of Intuitive Intelligence Applications Inc. Today, he also teaches Remote Viewing at The Monroe Institute, a leading center in exploring human consciousness.
We continue to follow Joe in the deep-end of his experiences. We start with telepathy and lying, language as an inhibitor and a protector, an incredible near death experience in East Germany, love v empathy, a life review and remembering, heaven and hell, being shards of a whole, more out of body experiences, losing the fear of death and dying, and reaching more people who are suffering.
“As living entities what we are is perhaps the grand engineer or the architect of reality trying to understand what it is.”
00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:19 Telepathy Before Language 00:03:55 Telepathy Tapes 00:10:38 The Link Between Autism and Telepathy 00:12:50 Joe's Near Death Experience - "Which One?" 00:31:55 The Cause of Death in the Near Death Experience 00:40:09 What Exists After Death 00:48:12 Could Humans Just Be Shards of a Larger Being? 00:53:07 What Deja Vu Is 00:58:38 Continuous Learning 01:06:40 Fixing Anaesthesia Complications with Coca-Cola?
See here other previous guests mentioned: - Dr. Diane Hennacy re telepathy (ep 113) https://behindgreatness.org/episode/dr-diane-hennacy/ - Natalie Sudman re NDE (ep 97) https://behindgreatness.org/episode/breaking-down-our-beliefs/
Previous episodes/discussions on Behind Greatness with Remote Viewers:
Russell Targ (ep 80) – Co-Founder, SRI Institute https://youtu.be/7Gw3fIFI73k
Courtney Brown (ep 131) https://youtu.be/_jCZzPgdzcM
Stephan A. Schwartz (ep 155) https://youtu.be/0E6jhiMd7Dk
Stephan A. Schwartz (ep 156) https://youtu.be/VATz-Y59UiY
Lyn Buchanan (ep 163) https://youtu.be/K2Ig3C88BxQ
Nancy DuTertre (ep 167) https://behindgreatness.org/episode/nancy-du-tertre/
Paul H. Smith (ep 180) https://behindgreatness.org/episode/dr-paul-h-smith/
Joe McMoneagle:
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Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Joseph-McMoneagle/author/B00MD24CZW?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_5&qid=1728261714&sr=1-5&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
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Parapsychological Association: https://www.parapsych.org/users/jmcmoneagle/profile.aspx
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Monroe Institute: https://www.monroeinstitute.org/pages/trainer-joe-mcmoneagle
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IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2140996/
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We speak with Dr. Kim Penberthy today who joined us from the University of Virginia. Kim wears many hats. She is a professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She is also a board certified clinical psychologist and conducts research, teaches, and provides clinical care at UVA in psychiatry and the cancer center. She also studies and researches after death communication. She lived on a farm in a house that witnessed Civil War strife, with her mother a nurse and her father a would-be farmer surgeon. Exposed to life and death on a farm, she began at an early age asking herself and her parents metaphysical questions – long before she became a clinician and research scientist. We hear about her life changing story at the beach and fascinating surgical table stories heard from her aging father. We learn about her pursuit in researching after death communications from those who lose loved ones and how this research may help develop more wholistic therapeutic approaches to grieving.
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Coming Up
00:01:21 Introduction
00:03:50 The Division of Perceptual Studies
00:07:45 Does Your "Soul" Exist After Death?
00:13:58 Asking "What is the purpose of life?" and "What happens after death?"
00:20:26 Seeing a Person that is Dead
00:26:01 Divine Interventions
00:32:11 After Death Communication
00:42:34 Living Mindfully Across the Lifespan
00:46:26 Government Funding for Near Death Experiences
00:57:12 Aftermath of NDE's and OBE's
Episodes to check out: Dr. Bruce Greyson (ep 69), Dr. Antonia Mills (ep 88) and Dr. Iya Whiteley (ep 185)
Kim,
- https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/dops-staff/kim-penberthy/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-kim-penberthy-79017824/
- Book w Morgan: https://www.amazon.com/Living-Mindfully-Across-Lifespan-Intergenerational-ebook/dp/B08LXJFNST/ref=sr_1_1?crid=4A42NNAPUGA&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3NWBIzpE1SZHjenYF1AtZg.fOCzcGTIApPhdVhuHyTPrOIvW9O8at0lMhi9-7Gch_o&dib_tag=se&keywords=kim+penberthy+Living+Mindfully+Across+the+Lifespan%3A+An+Intergenerational+Guide&qid=1740933711&sprefix=kim+penberthy+living+mindfully+across+the+lifespan+an+intergenerational+guide%2Caps%2C135&sr=8-1
For fun, story about Meat from the Sky: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_meat_shower
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We are sitting down with Antonio Cupo at his home in Vancouver. Antonio grew up in Vancouver and early in his career he spent many years in Italy as a lead actor in one of the most popular TV drama shows in Italian TV history – Elisa di Rivombrosa. But, that was just a start. We explore some great human themes in our conversation – the meaning of “immedesimarsi”, using “as ifs” to explore, performing the experience while reliving it, acting from pictures in your head, the power in losing the need to make money, grandmothers being shot at and a beautiful story about a guy in the rain looking for a coffee.
With art comes a lot of pain.
Antonio,
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1182955/bio/
IG: @antoniocupo
X: @antoniocupo
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Nick Cook is the best-selling author of The Hunt For Zero Point and has been a writer for almost 4 decades, with 25 books to his name. Nick started his career as a journalist – where he first learned to ask the question: what am I now being shown? In this conversation, we dive head first -- into what we are, living in a simulation, sea monsters, a profound shared death experience, Edgar Mitchell’s telepathy experiment while on the moon, Nick’s relationship with Ingo Swann. We also discuss imagination, intuition and hunches, running free unfettered, thinking on a ladder and discovery through boredom.
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For others:
· Rudy Schild pt 2 (ep186) re Edgar Mitchell
· Russell Targ (ep 80)
· Scarlett Heinbuch (ep164) re shared death experience
Nick,
· Website: https://www.nickcook.works/about-nick-cook/
· Books: https://www.nickcook.works/books/
Ingo Swann:
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUlG_5G7oLU
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SGZ2BAlWTg
Dr. Salima Ikram is an Egyptologist and Archeologist.
Thanks for joining Behind Greatness. We recorded this chat “coincidentally” on the opening day of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), October 16 2024. Salima graciously joined us from Cairo to have this conversation that day. Salima decided on Egyptology at age 8 and “hasn’t grown up since”. We learn about experimental archeology, puppy farms, slavery, cattle vs elephants and Egyptian cocktails. Salima brings us through her fascination with mummification, felines and their majesty, “chatting with the dead” and how death is viewed in the East. And more…
A fun, magical cat … uhm, we mean chat. Or do we? .
See previous episodes referenced: Allan Savory (ep 138) , Jack Horner (ep 159), Andrea Lani (ep 205 re the feline)
Salima,
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Website: https://www.salimaikram.com/
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University: https://www.aucegypt.edu/fac/salima-ikram
FB: @slIkram
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Andrea Lani is an aerospace scientist and engineer. Andrea has had experience working with NASA, NATO and the von Karmen Institute and he is now working on an EU project to develop a leading-edge shielding prototype for space vehicles. Andrea had an experience as a young boy viewing an object in space that he could not explain. He decided to dedicate his adult life to academic and practical scientific exploration to help inform him on the technology that he witnessed as that little boy. As a lifelong scientific explorer, he elaborates on how his undying curiosity also eventually led him to a spiritual awakening. We hear about losing time, the peculiar properties of the feline, the power of meditative states, the triangular prism inside a cube inside a sphere, Metatronic visions, Dr. Edgar Mitchell’s IONS and having an Eagle Eye view on things.
See also Garry Nolan/Rudy Schild (ep 204), Ryan Graves (ep 141), Helane Wahbeh (ep134), Rey Hernandez (ep 153,154).
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This is the first of a series of talks where we host two luminaries in one conversation. Garry from the West Coast and Rudy from the East Coast and both preeminent scientists and explorers in their field. This is the first meeting between the two and as expected, they go big. Fast. We talk the purpose of the universe, non human intelligence, the question of God, speciation, artificial intelligence, “extranormal”, the re-wiring of the brain, horse whispering, spiralling brain waves, orbs, inside out black hole, electric bath. And, we end this bounty of plenty with a definition from each about the secret of living an interesting life.
Strap yourselves in.
Timestamps: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:09 Explaining the Unexplained 00:06:22 What is "God" and the Universe? 00:11:31 Non-Human Intelligence 00:15:07 Explaining UAP and NHI Sightings 00:25:49 The Future of Human Evolution 00:29:26 The Deep State and Being Bullied Into Silence 00:35:55 "Not Are They Here, But Could They Get Here?" 00:38:44 What the Government is Hiding 00:52:13 How Was the First Universe Created 01:00:37 Garry's Out Of Body Experience
For earlier one-on-one episodes with Garry and with Rudy, see ep 179 , 186, 187, 192, 195, 196.
See also Russell Targ (ep 80), Avi Loeb (ep 105), Diana Pasulka (ep142), Mary Rodwell (ep149), Rey Hernandez (ep 153,154).
Garry:
- Bio: https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/garry-nolan
- SOL Foundation: https://thesolfoundation.org/
- YouTube:
- SOL Foundation Talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UW1jyN2o8A
- Interview with Ross Coulthart: https://youtu.be/XR0JtbuLhPo?si=OHvvhH4PoJcK1OUT
- SALT Talk: https://youtu.be/e2DqdOw6Uy4?si=TgmtKiYBNRoW96pd
- X: @garrynolan
Rudy:
- Center for Astrophysics – https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/
- Journal of Cosmology – https://thejournalofcosmology.com/About.html
- Personal website – http://www.rudyschild.com/
- List of Published papers – (via The SAO Astrophysics Data System)
- CCRI (Consciousness & Contact Research Institute) – https://agreaterreality.com/
- Book (co-Author with Suzy Hansen) – Dual Soul Connection: The Alien Agenda for Human Advancement: (via Amazon)
- Book: Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness & Contact with Non Human Intelligence – (via Amazon)
- Edgar Mitchell Book: The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut’s Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds – (via Amazon)
- NASA – Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy “SOFIA” – https://science.nasa.gov/mission/sofia/
Today we chat with Marco Vigato from his home in Mexico City. Marco works as a business executive, born and bred in Italy, educated also at Harvard and now working in Mexico City. He was also featured in Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse. Why? He has dedicated his time over the last 15+ years exploring archeological sites all over the world, charting uncharted ruins and documenting evidence of ancient advanced civilizations – in the ultimate search for our origins. Part of his current work is the excavating and exploring of an ancient subterranean labyrinth in Mexico, a project started in 2022. Follow along as we follow Marco’s curious question-making.
History is a cemetery of civilizations.
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Marco,
- Website: https://www.marcovigato.com/
- ARX Project: https://www.arxproject.org/
- Blog: https://unchartedruins.blogspot.com/
- FB: https://www.facebook.com/Unchartedruins
- Book: The Empires of Atlantis - https://www.marcovigato.com/empiresofatlantis
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Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We reconnect with Matt, who last was on the podcast in February 2021 (episode 43). Matt brings us up to speed on his developing creation – building an ecosystem of football (soccer) clubs from Europe and the USA, under his new subsidiary Club Underdog. Matt is now an owner of European football clubs Campobasso FC and Dagenham & Redbridge and last year acquired Brooklyn FC, the first professional expansion soccer franchise in the history of Brooklyn. We explore his pivot from the business he founded and grew many years ago. We talk the drive of passion, the allure of the unpredictable, the magic of under-dogging, treating “no” as a driver, self-belief and the most valuable currency you can collect. A painter of canvases …
Matt,
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-rizzetta-b878803/
North 6 Group: https://northsixthgroup.com/
https://frontofficesports.com/new-ownership-group-soccer-lowest-tiers-club-underdog/
Today, we talk to the world’s only well-known “tattoo hunter”. Lars is an Anthropologist and has been always uniquely curious about the stories of and behind the ancient ways of tattooing around the world in indigenous tradition. Lars brings us through his fascination with tattoo culture he’s researched over the last 20 years with his extensive travels to remote communities in South East Asia, India, Africa and South America. We talk about the world famous centenarian tattoo artist Whang Od in the Philippines, meeting head hunting warriors, his “cabinet of curiosities” and the power of uncovering ancient truth through face to face human contact.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:45 Lars Krutak - The Tattoo Hunter 00:04:58 What is a Tattoo Hunter? 00:07:46 Why Tribes Are Losing the Ability to Tattoo 00:11:55 The Brutality of Tribal Tattoos and VIsiting Ultra Remote Locations 00:24:10 How Lars Became the Tattoo Hunter 00:30:12 How Tribal Tattoos Became a Tourist Destination 00:38:41 Being Alone in Remote Places 00:44:43 Why Tribal Tattooists Are Majority Female 00:51:43 How Lars Finances this "Hobby" 00:59:11 Where the Mind Goes Being Solo In Remote Locations 01:02:45 Where Lars Wants to Go But Can't
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Lars,
- Website: https://www.larskrutak.com/ - for Books, Video, Other Media
- New book, October 2024 - Tattoo Traditions of Asia: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity - https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/tattoo-traditions-of-asia-ancient-and-contemporary-expressions-of-identity/
- New Book, coming May 2025: Indigenous Tattoo Traditions: Humanity through Skin and Ink : https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691255392/indigenous-tattoo-traditions?srsltid=AfmBOorMRek_H5l6zqHLOCp_rjWFm_okfYcXJd8Sx-opEfiFvfPGPXRi
- YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeUYLhlV7WpVdK4_Rg92tfQ
- IG: @larskrutak/
- FB: @larskrutak
- Daniele Agostino Derossi Foundation: https://dadfound.org/
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Thanks again for joining us at Behind Greatness. This episode is part 3 of a developing series with Joe.
Joe was a US Army intelligence veteran already before he was chosen to be a part of the psychic intelligence unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1978. He became known as “Remote Viewer No. 1" within Project Stargate. Project Stargate was the United States' first organized research into psychic phenomena via the Defense Intelligence Agency and contractor SRI International. He is an author and also founder of Intuitive Intelligence Applications Inc. Today, he also teaches Remote Viewing at The Monroe Institute, a leading center in exploring human consciousness.
We picked up where we left off from our part 2 chat. We hear about intelligence “collections” in the psychic program, a peculiar collaboration with a high profile Russian remote viewer, remote viewing Mars at the request of the DoD, coffee with a former director of the KGB, a wonderful story about the grey ghost, dinners at the Mermaid Inn, the importance of burping and farting in intelligence work, travelling the cosmos - and dying.
… to be continued?…
Ingo Swann talk:
- Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SGZ2BAlWTg
- Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_KWV40aZLc
Previous episodes/discussions with Remote Viewers:
- Russell Targ (ep 80) - Co-Founder, SRI Institute
- Courtney Brown (ep 131)
- Stephan A. Schwartz (ep 155, 156)
- Lyn Buchanan (ep 163)
- Nancy DuTertre (ep 167)
- Paul H. Smtih (ep 180)
Joe,
- Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Joseph-McMoneagle/author/B00MD24CZW?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_5&qid=1728261714&sr=1-5&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
- Parapsychological Association: https://www.parapsych.org/users/jmcmoneagle/profile.aspx
- Monroe Institute: https://www.monroeinstitute.org/pages/trainer-joe-mcmoneagle
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2140996/
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors
Thanks again for joining us at Behind Greatness. This episode is part 2 of a developing series with Joe.
Joe was a US Army intelligence veteran already before he was chosen to be a part of the psychic intelligence unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1978. He became known as “Remote Viewer No. 1" within Project Stargate. Project Stargate was the United States' first organized research into psychic phenomena via the Defense Intelligence Agency and contractor SRI International. He is an author and also founder of Intuitive Intelligence Applications Inc. Today, he also teaches Remote Viewing at The Monroe Institute, a leading center in exploring human consciousness.
We plunge into the deep end again - and immediately into Joe’s experience and partnership with the Monroe Institute, out of body experiences, lucid dreaming training, travelling the cosmos, the magic of being human, bubbles, artists and their contribution to humanity, how to live a good life – and waiting in the essence.
… to be continued…
Previous episodes/discussions with Remote Viewers:
- Russell Targ (ep 80) - Co-Founder, SRI Institute
- Courtney Brown (ep 131)
- Stephan A. Schwartz (ep 155, 156)
- Lyn Buchanan (ep 163)
- Nancy DuTertre (ep 167)
- Paul H. Smtih (ep 180)
Joe,
- Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Joseph-McMoneagle/author/B00MD24CZW?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_5&qid=1728261714&sr=1-5&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
- Parapsychological Association: https://www.parapsych.org/users/jmcmoneagle/profile.aspx
- Monroe Institute: https://www.monroeinstitute.org/pages/trainer-joe-mcmoneagle
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2140996/
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Thanks again for joining us at Behind Greatness. This episode was recorded with Joe in June 2024 and is part 1 of a developing series with Joe.
Joe was a US Army intelligence veteran already before he was chosen to be a part of the psychic intelligence unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1978. He became known as “Remote Viewer #001" within Project Stargate. Project Stargate was the United States' first organized research into psychic phenomena via the Defense Intelligence Agency and contractor SRI International. He is an author and also founder of Intuitive Intelligence Applications Inc. Today, he also teaches Remote Viewing at The Monroe Institute, a leading center in exploring human consciousness.
During this introductory episode, we get exposed to some of Joe’s military adventures from the Vietnam war – falling out of a helicopter, breaking his nose multiple times while under enemy fire and taping himself to the top of a tree for 14 hours. We learn about his recruitment into the then classified remote viewing intelligence program and the ensuing 40+ years as one of the worlds most accomplished remote viewers. Joe helps us understand what remote viewing is and what it isn’t, the operationalization of the practice, using the skills to help police department and detectives across the US in missing children cases, the need to “unlearn your habits” and the uphill battle he’s been fighting for a long time. And, so much, much more.
… to be continued…
Previous episodes/discussions with Remote Viewers:
- Russell Targ (ep 80) - Co-Founder, SRI Institute
- Courtney Brown (ep 131)
- Stephan A. Schwartz (ep 155, 156)
- Lyn Buchanan (ep 163)
- Nancy DuTertre (ep 167)
- Paul H. Smtih (ep 180)
Joe,
- Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Joseph-McMoneagle/author/B00MD24CZW?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_5&qid=1728261714&sr=1-5&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
- Parapsychological Association: https://www.parapsych.org/users/jmcmoneagle/profile.aspx
- Monroe Institute: https://www.monroeinstitute.org/pages/trainer-joe-mcmoneagle
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2140996/
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors
Thank you for listening to Behind Greatness . We talk today with Michael Cremo from his home in LA. Michael is best known for his research and work in authoring a global best-seller in the 1990s: Forbidden Archeology. He brings us through his journey of an exploratory life starting with his youth spent as the son of an air-force intelligence officer. We talk about his seminal research work. Here, he first discovered that something was amiss as he researched what narrative the world’s prominent academic archeologists were fashioning in the late 1800s. Do we talk about a shoe print dating back millions of years? Do we talk about confronting an agenda of opinions forced through the educational system? Do we talk about paradigm-shifting discoveries made in near the Sierra Nevada? Do we talk remote viewing with Stephan Schwartz? Do we talk about physical reality vs consciousness? Do we talk hidden knowledge? Do we talk challenging Darwinism? Yes, ma’am. We do.
See episodes with Stephane Schwartz (ep 155, 156).
Michael,
- Website: https://www.mcremo.com/
- The Hidden Origins of the Human Race – Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-TKhEYe03M
- Forbidden Archeology & Evidence of Extreme Human Antiquity @ Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6UdLVXiYyI
- Book: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Michael-A.-Cremo/author/B000APJC1I?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1726534685&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
For Rudy, part 1 to part 4 please visit episodes #179, #186, #192 and 195.
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are back again with Rudy. Rudy is a pre-eminent expert on black holes and a world-renowned Astrophysicist from Harvard, practising in the field since the mid-1960s. He is also the co-Founder of FREE / CCRI (see co-Founder past guests Rey Hernandez & Mary Rodwell) and also the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Cosmology.
Rudy immediately brings us to his thoughts on the big bang theory, the mother-daughter relationship of spawning universes and the blunder of the current dark matter theory. He lauds the work of his colleague Carl Gibson, an expert in fluid mechanics, on helping to unlock secrets of the universe. We hear about orbs, the spirality of consciousness and being forever marked by expanded possibilities after being in touch with a ufo (“miracles”?) and Rey Hernandez’s contact modalities.
Previous episodes/discussions referenced in this episode with Rudy:
- Dr. Tony Cicoria (ep 55)
- Rey Hernandez (ep 153, 154)
- Dr. Garry Nolan (ep 187)
Rudy,
- Center for Astrophysics – https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/
- Journal of Cosmology - https://thejournalofcosmology.com/About.html
- Personal website - http://www.rudyschild.com/
- List of Published papers - https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/p_=0&q=author%3A(%22schild%2Cr%22)&sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc
- CCRI (Consciousness & Contact Research Institute) - https://agreaterreality.com/
- Book (co-Author with Suzy Hansen) – Dual Soul Connection: The Alien Agenda for Human Advancement:https://www.amazon.com/Dual-Soul-Connection-Agenda-Advancement/dp/0473295644/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3J7YBLDXEL5H8&keywords=Dual+Soul+Connection%3A+The+Alien+Agenda+for+Human+Advancement&qid=1706573177&sprefix=dual+soul+connection+the+alien+agenda+for+human+advancement%2Caps%2C214&sr=8-1
- Book: Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness & Contact with Non Human Intelligence - https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-UFOs-Science-Consciousness-Intelligence/dp/1721088652/ctoc
- Edgar Mitchell Book: The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut’s Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds - https://www.amazon.com/Way-Explorer-Astronauts-Material-Mystical/dp/0399141618
- NASA – Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy “SOFIA” - https://science.nasa.gov/mission/sofia/
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors
For Rudy, part 1, part 2 and part 3 please visit episodes #179, #186 and #192.
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are back again with Rudy. Rudy is a pre-eminent expert on black holes and a world-renowned Astrophysicist from Harvard, practising in the field since the mid-1960s. He is also the co-Founder of FREE / CCRI (see co-Founder past guests Rey Hernandez & Mary Rodwell) and also the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Cosmology.
We dive into the burning of libraries and conservatories, the magic of operatic music, composition, intent and emotions - and accessing history and the potential future from the black hole. We talk about the ultimate cosmic intelligence, the purpose of the universe, the “sponsoring” of the “big G” of our universe of universes, the limiting of the size of the black holes by the quantum field, and the limitations of math. And, there’s more (as always) … Rudy goes on to describe the agreement he had with Dr. Edgar Mitchell before he died in 2016, the rewiring of the brain after the exposure of light from UFOs and a device that was developed by colleagues which he helped test “to the limits” to detect consciousness beyond the grave.
… to be continued…
Movie- A Tear In the Sky (Caroline Cory) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15120486/
Previous episodes/discussions referenced in this podcast episode with Rudy:
- Dr. Diane Hennacy (ep 113) – Psychiatrist / Author
- Dr. Dean Radin (122) – Chief Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)
- Kevin Day (ep171) – Ret US Navy
Rudy,
- Center for Astrophysics – https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/
- Journal of Cosmology - https://thejournalofcosmology.com/About.html
- Personal website - http://www.rudyschild.com/
- List of Published papers - https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/p_=0&q=author%3A(%22schild%2Cr%22)&sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc
- CCRI (Consciousness & Contact Research Institute) - https://agreaterreality.com/
- Book (co-Author with Suzy Hansen) – Dual Soul Connection: The Alien Agenda for Human Advancement:https://www.amazon.com/Dual-Soul-Connection-Agenda-Advancement/dp/0473295644/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3J7YBLDXEL5H8&keywords=Dual+Soul+Connection%3A+The+Alien+Agenda+for+Human+Advancement&qid=1706573177&sprefix=dual+soul+connection+the+alien+agenda+for+human+advancement%2Caps%2C214&sr=8-1
- Book: Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness & Contact with Non Human Intelligence - https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-UFOs-Science-Consciousness-Intelligence/dp/1721088652/ctoc
- Edgar Mitchell Book: The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut’s Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds - https://www.amazon.com/Way-Explorer-Astronauts-Material-Mystical/dp/0399141618
- NASA – Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy “SOFIA” - https://science.nasa.gov/mission/sofia/
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today we are speaking with Dimitry from his office in Estonia. In this conversation we are treated to a battle-ridden, caterpillar to butterfly story. Dimitry brings us through his ideas formed through his experience living under a Communist regime to a zealous video gaming obsession to selling books door-to-door to building a truly international bespoke fashion house. Along the way, we learn about the power of “being delusional”, the skills learned to diffuse a bomb and how to make yourself allergic to shrimp. We discuss growing up in a system where lying is the tool of ruling , the predictability of seduction, being more interesting, the right dose of desperation, creativity of the entrepreneurial mind and the power of being at chaos’ edge.
Warning: hard lessons to be learned here.
Have a listen to a bad-ass who lived under incarceration in a communist regime: Luis Zuniga (ep 115).
See here other entrepreneurial luminaries: Alex Rechichi (ep20), Matt Rizzetta (ep43), Anthony DiIorio (45), Ryan Albright (ep50), Mike Fata (ep77), Edoardo Ghignone (ep91), Doug Putnam (ep119), Anthony Scilipoti (128 ), Werner Barkhuizen (ep162)
Dimitry,
- Website: https://lgfgfashionhouse.com/en/our-founder/
- IG: @lgfg_ceo_dimitry
- X: @lgfg_dimitry
Welcome back to Behind Greatness! We’re back with another fun episode with a fun guy – actor, Sergio Di Zio. What don’t we talk about here? Sergio brings us through the moment where the “pope” declared that he become an actor at age 18. We hear about a once painfully shy kid who uses audacity, the monster at the end of the book and letting go of story to carve through the universe and to be delightfully entangled within it. We talk destroying and building lives. We talk piercing words of a loving father raking leaves. We talk Brando and his cat and we talk Jeff Daniels and his empathic laugh. We talk Elisa. And we talk love as home.
Let’s go!!
See episodes with trauma expert Dr Gabor Mate (ep 143) … Exorcist John Szada (ep 174) … Actors: Enrico Colantoni (ep2), Giacomo Gianniotti (ep 29), Ken Choi (ep 66) and Amy Jo Johnson (ep 92)
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors.
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors.
For Rudy, part 1 and part 2, please have a listen to episode #179 and #186.
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are back again with Rudy. Rudy is a pre-eminent expert on black holes and a world-renowned Astrophysicist from Harvard, practising in the field since the mid-1960s. He is also the co-Founder of FREE / CCRI (see co-Founder past guests Rey Hernandez & Mary Rodwell) and also the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Cosmology.
Rudy brings us through a discussion on various cosmic topics: the earth’s giant radio telescope, that we can now see the character of the black hole for the 1st time, and an explanation on why our classical definition of the black hole is now proven to be incorrect (congruent with his theory from decades ago). We hear about the significance of interstellar dust samples, biological material in space and plants spilling out their DNA. Rudy further tickles us with his thoughts on the quantum attribute of space that records what we say and think and his thoughts on the inside-out black hole: the distant horizon. And in case you’re wondering, we get to the “G-word” and the possibility of a supreme being.
Play with this: “The human mind accesses the black hole to get glimpses of the past” - Rudy Schild.
… to be continued…
See earlier episodes with Rudy’s FREE/CCRI co-Founders Rey Hernandez (ep 153, 154) & Mary Rodwell (ep 149).
Rudy,
- Center for Astrophysics – https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/
- Journal of Cosmology - https://thejournalofcosmology.com/About.html
- Personal website - http://www.rudyschild.com/
- List of Published papers - https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/p_=0&q=author%3A(%22schild%2Cr%22)&sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc
- CCRI (Consciousness & Contact Research Institute) - https://agreaterreality.com/
- Book (co-Author with Suzy Hansen) – Dual Soul Connection: The Alien Agenda for Human Advancement:https://www.amazon.com/Dual-Soul-Connection-Agenda-Advancement/dp/0473295644/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3J7YBLDXEL5H8&keywords=Dual+Soul+Connection%3A+The+Alien+Agenda+for+Human+Advancement&qid=1706573177&sprefix=dual+soul+connection+the+alien+agenda+for+human+advancement%2Caps%2C214&sr=8-1
- Book: Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness & Contact with Non Human Intelligence - https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-UFOs-Science-Consciousness-Intelligence/dp/1721088652/ctoc
- Edgar Mitchell Book: The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut’s Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds - https://www.amazon.com/Way-Explorer-Astronauts-Material-Mystical/dp/0399141618
- NASA – Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy “SOFIA” - https://science.nasa.gov/mission/sofia/
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors.
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are joined today by Shehnaz Soni. Shehnaz is an Aerospace engineer for NASA and is currently working on the 1st ever human landing system – slated to be part of the Artemis moon mission in 2026. We are immediately touched by Shehnaz’s sparkle. She has a marvelous story that starts with a closed religious upbringing, to an arranged marriage, to a desperate situation in a new country to an education that led her to reach for the stars - literally. But, that’s just a small slice of this Rocket Scientist. We dive into many a topic: her quantum coaching, NASA’s lunar regulate harvest missions for travel to Mars, non-human intelligence interfering at launches, intuition and light, NPCs, the grocery store as a playground and a boundary-less existence of being.
Shehnaz,
- Website: https://www.shehnazsoni.com/
- IG: @ShehnazSoni
- LI: linkedin.com/in/shehnaz-soni-9b37874
- Book: The Quantum Being: A Self-Sustaining and Magnificent Human Craft - https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Being-Self-Sustaining-Magnificent-Human/dp/B0CZPFWZJY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3V8NDYTEBQD1N&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.v3wElw7fjlGtoavJbnmwDGIYaU4J_nJXHi2Yizdk4lbGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.GCRi-iHSqGyNZGq7Ii4ceyIAim-iBcTfE9OtGgLjbVQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=shehnaz+soni&qid=1718765485&sprefix=shehnaz+soni%2Caps%2C163&sr=8-1
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors.
Thanks for joining us again at Behind Greatness. We’re speaking with Chris Lowe today from his office at California State, Long Beach. Chris is also the Director of The Shark Lab and has been studying shark for over 30 years. We talk about sharks as the new dinosaurs, his life-long fascination with them, the understanding their mysterious lives and the importance of “drilling in and zooming out”. He shares stories about sharks at play, sharks at Thanksgiving and sharks as precise and sentient beings. We talk Great Whites, hammerheads, sleepers and cookie-cutters and having scientists train in translating their work for the public - a reminder of scientists’ important role in serving humanity. A fun talk with a fun guy about a fun topic.
See episode 94 with Julie Church for another pioneer of the sea.
Chris,
Website: Shark Lab | California State University Long Beach (csulb.edu)
FB/X/IG: @csulbsharklab
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For our part one with Jeffrey, visit our discussion in episode 118 (August 2022).
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are back with Jeffrey for a part 2 in our discussion. Jeffrey holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he served as the Associate Dean of the School of Humanities (2019-2023) and chaired the Department of Religion for eight years.
We delve into the Archives of the Impossible – a project that he began in 2014 at Rice University that now holds over 1 million documents. We talk about his very profound out of body experience, the “great big magnet in the sky”, dreams, and our culture both informed and “broken down” by impossible events. We hear about Jeffrey’s thoughts on the trickery of the paranormal and the cultural placebo effect that is religion and our unwillingness to own our divinity. We visit belief v thought and revisit the discussion on the “third space”. The impossibility of translation of one type of consciousness to another … non human intelligence being perhaps us … being the mask … and the superhuman.
We recommend a listen to Diana Pasulka (ep 142), Werner Barkhuizen (ep 162), Scarlett Heinbuch (ep 164) and Mike Clelland (ep 176).
Jeffrey:
Website: http://jeffreyjkripal.com
Archives of the Impossible: https://impossiblearchives.rice.edu/
Books: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=jeffrey+kripal&crid=2IWN90LKNGUV2&sprefix=jeffrey+kripal%2Caps%2C173&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We sat down with Matthew Roberts at his home on the East Coast and we were treated with a thoughtful talk on a fascinating subject. Matthew worked in the US Navy as a Cryptologist for 16 years where he spent many years working on encryption/decryption communication process to catch the bad guys the world round. He is also recognized as being featured in Episode 1 of the 2023 Netflix series Encounters. Starting in 2015 he began to have a series of fascinating profound personal experiences after being on board the USS Roosevelt during the famous Gimbal and the Go Fast events. The Navy later described these events as incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena into military training ranges. These events completely changed the course of Matthew’s life, who had been a life-long atheist up to this point in his life. We learn about his journey of self-discovery, the subsequent opening up of his world view and his exploration of our place in the cosmos. Amongst the several themes in this episode, we discuss his insight on humanity’s lack of insight on evolution beyond us, the dead-end nature of our materialistic western mindset, what he thinks non-human intelligence is trying to communicate and the significance of “picking at the edges of human perception”.
See episodes with Ryan Graves (ep 141) and Kevin Day (ep 171) to hear about more experiences from other former US Navy servicemen. See also the session we had with Dr. Steven J. Dick, Astrobiologist and former Chief Historian at NASA (ep 150).
Matthew,
· Book: Initiated: UAP, Dreams, Depression, Delusions, Shadow People, Psychosis, Sleep Paralysis, and Pandemics - https://www.amazon.com/Initiated-Depression-Delusions-Psychosis-Paralysis/dp/0578796589/ref=sr_1_1?crid=6HWBYQGYM0S1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.lltlR28XYO_x5DRo4HGgSWYxvGaJQg1DK4W3CkWLJgmXL37VrjYt67DMU1tADLt7Jd43Z5PevFzJJL6krv51GiKokBbbNepfDFM8HpDVyYLyxLX_VYz9G3cTAMvAEeB4aSAAAHLnmkgMVa2Bq95T2PXCdnqf67wrFlf3-sLqcqEFV_cBbrBhcEO2y0gvd0rq3deFrF75ZnsmsR1Uc3_cw2S3s5mJ8SvddHgU6-EqAQo.vGhULIFP2DCdSFoiJOtkCo30fP0CRlArozzC7Rmm4D8&dib_tag=se&keywords=matthew+roberts&qid=1715556136&sprefix=matthew+roberts%2Caps%2C118&sr=8-1
Netflix series Encounters (episode 1), featuring Matthew - https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/encounters-trailer-release-date-news
Gimbal event:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/navy-confirms-videos-did-capture-ufo-sightings-it-calls-them-n1056201
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKHg-vnTFsM
Go Fast event:
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxVRg7LLaQA&t=5s
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Thanks for joining us at behind Greatness. We sit down with Dr. Garry Nolan at his home in California. Garry is an Immunologist, an academic, an inventor and patent holder and a business executive. He also holds the Chair in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. We pack this conversation with Garry’s practice on focusing on the data to provide the conversation piece with other scientists and the public. We talk about Garry’s personal experiences when he was younger and how they serve as fuel to his scientific inquiry. He elaborates on the importance for him in hiding his long term intent behind a cloak of real science. We hear about his research in a Harvard lab on the basal ganglia, prompted by earlier work done with Kit Green and high functioning remote viewers and intuition. We learn from him about doing science best with asking the Zen question - so that the answer will always move you forward. And, we hear a refreshing perspective on speculation of the non-human intelligence question and that “something behind the scenes”. As a life-long question-maker, he also shares with us the type of person he honours and why. Why? Because ‘why’ is the answer. That’s why.
Garry,
- Bio: https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/garry-nolan
- SOL Foundation: https://thesolfoundation.org/
- Youtube:
- SOL Foundation Talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UW1jyN2o8A
- Interview with Ross Coulthart: https://youtu.be/XR0JtbuLhPo?si=OHvvhH4PoJcK1OUT
- SALT Talk: https://youtu.be/e2DqdOw6Uy4?si=TgmtKiYBNRoW96pd
- X: @garrynolan
See episode with Diana Pasulka (ep 142). Garry is also “James” in Diana’s book American Cosmic
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors.
For Rudy, part 1, please have a listen to episode #179.
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are back with Rudy. Rudy is a pre-eminent expert on black holes and a world-renowned Astrophysicist from Harvard, practising in the field since the mid-1960s. He is also the co-Founder of FREE / CCRI (see co-Founder past guests Rey Hernandez & Mary Rodwell) and also the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Cosmology.
We begin in the deep end with Rudy on this talk. We discuss his research experience and scientific exploration and the modern realities of getting ahead of the current science. He describes how the current belief in dark matter is incorrect, his discovery of the cluster of planets, the importance of MECOs (magnetospheric eternally collapsing objects) vs the classical definition of black holes. And that’s just the start. We discuss his friend’s (astronaut) Edgar Mitchell’s mystical experience in space in the 1970s, his desire to get NASA explore this with him, the experience of shared animal and human consciousness in space, our thoughts in the quantum field and the importance of empathy as a driver for the universe. We discuss Rudy’s desire for academics to mathematically study the lights emitted by ufos and for establishing intellectual academic research studies in this field, his belief in non-human intelligence and the wish that we open our minds to the wisdom of the universe.
… to be continued…
See earlier episodes with Rudy’s FREE/CCRI co-Founders Rey Hernandez (ep 153, 154) & Mary Rodwell (ep 149). See also Michael Masters (ep. 184) @ Montana Tech University, Diana Pasulka (ep 142) & Dean Radin (ep 122).
Rudy,
- Center for Astrophysics – https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/
- Journal of Cosmology - https://thejournalofcosmology.com/About.html
- Personal website - http://www.rudyschild.com/
- List of Published papers - https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/p_=0&q=author%3A(%22schild%2Cr%22)&sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc
- CCRI (Consciousness & Contact Research Institute) - https://agreaterreality.com/
- Book (co-Author with Suzy Hansen) – Dual Soul Connection: The Alien Agenda for Human Advancement:https://www.amazon.com/Dual-Soul-Connection-Agenda-Advancement/dp/0473295644/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3J7YBLDXEL5H8&keywords=Dual+Soul+Connection%3A+The+Alien+Agenda+for+Human+Advancement&qid=1706573177&sprefix=dual+soul+connection+the+alien+agenda+for+human+advancement%2Caps%2C214&sr=8-1
- Book: Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness & Contact with Non Human Intelligence - https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-UFOs-Science-Consciousness-Intelligence/dp/1721088652/ctoc
- Edgar Mitchell Book: The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut’s Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds - https://www.amazon.com/Way-Explorer-Astronauts-Material-Mystical/dp/0399141618
- NASA – Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy “SOFIA” - https://science.nasa.gov/mission/sofia/
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors.
Thanks for stopping by at Behind Greatness. Today we’re having a chat with Dr Iya Whiteley. She is currently the Director for the Centre for Space Medicine in London. Iya is an Aviation and Space Psychologist a Korean Medicine practitioner, an adventurer and martial artist and also the Founder of the Cosmic Baby Academy. Iya studies what motivates people to go beyond the edge of their capabilities, researching professional intuition. Her work focuses on pilots and astronauts to "hear their thinking”. We learn about childhood innocence and the astronaut, the significance of coincidences, the shattering of beliefs with the experience of space travel, ghosts in the cockpit, plonking to earth and fragility. And, she brings us through the cosmic connection with the baby’s experience and her desire to create a language for babies and parents not bound by linguistic parameters. A Searcher without needing to prove a point.
Proposing a way forward.
Have a listen to Diana Pasulka (ep 142) and former Navy fighter pilot, Ryan Graves (ep 142).
Iya,
- https://linktr.ee/driyawhiteley
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-iya-whiteley
- IG: @driyawhiteley
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Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We have a chat today with Michael from his home in Butte, Montana. Michael is a professor of biological anthropology at Montana Technological University in Butte where he actively researches hominin evolutionary anatomy, human variation, archaeology, biomedicine, and the UFO phenomenon. His research examines the premise that ‘aliens’ may be our human descendants, returning from the future to visit and study their own hominin evolutionary past. He brings us through his early fascination with the unknown as a young boy and his personal follow through on his what ifs straight into a life in anthropology – and back beyond. We learn about his experience holding ancient skulls, non-local consciousness and the question on whether or not rocks and mountains are ‘alive’. We talk manufactured stigma, telepathic downloads and the support of his university in his quest to investigate the ufo question with both a scientific fastidiousness and an open-minded viewpoint of the world informed by his own mystical experiences.
Straight-up, straight-talk.
See our talks with Archeologist Dr. Vera Tiesler (ep 81) and world renowned Paleontologist Jack Horner (p 158) …. And Jeffrey Kripal (ep 118).
Michael,
- Amazon Book Link: https://amzn.to/3cZOY7Z
- Website: michaelpmasters.com
- X: @MorphoTime
- FB: facebook.com/idflyobj
- IG: instagram.com/morphotime
- Podcast discussion with the 2 strangers with whom Mike had the experience: https://youtu.be/PAe0_OOO5h4?si=278Ql0oZdeqye7vK
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Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We sit down with Fr. Francis today who joins us from Molise, Italy. Fr. Francis is an author, a scholar, an expert on Tibetan Buddhism an alchemist and an artist. He lives a life of science and spirituality and we discuss how alchemy plays an important part in his life as a reflection of that balance. We dive into languages and dialects and their interconnectivity to geography and culture, the trek of the snow leopard and a discussion on the most important laboratory on earth. We hear about his mystical experiences as a young man and the wonder that has pushed him since. We learn about his searching for those in Tibet who have experienced the actual dissolution of their physical body and the manifesting of their light body – the so-called rainbow body. And we learn about the wisdom collected along the way.
Fr. Francis,
- Book: https://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Body-Resurrection-Attainment-Dissolution/dp/1583947957/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.utS9jnlRf6IylDKvVUH_5PruYFxZ7U0GqthqTX8z5fLyUCC0ND5gasTGVpRX-jzi.Cygob3LWS2QXMtl63mKtV5_oVXpZrA6lt2y7C4eZgzg&dib_tag=se&keywords=father+francis+tiso&qid=1710065688&sr=8-1
- YT - Rainbow Body in Gebchak Nunnery - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HWLNiqZpEE
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are honoured today to be speaking with Pacho Flores from Valencia, Spain, in his first interview in English. A native of San Cristobal, Venezuela and an early student of El Sistema, Pacho is a globally recognized trumpeter. He is also a leader in the blending of Latin American sounds in his compositions, with composers drafting pieces explicitly for his style. He is also the lead artist in residence with the world's leading brass instrument manufacturer Stomvi. He hear about his thoughts on genius v crazy, investing for quality, the miracle of Jose Antonio Abreu's El Sistema and the joy that the Southern Hemisphere brings to the world (of music). We learn about the trumpet as the big protagonist in music and Latin American sound, the joy and the sorrow it emotes and his personal/professional mission to show Latin culture through his repertoire. We discuss why music is "the queen of the arts", the role of empathy in music and why dreaming for Pacho is pivotal in creating pathways.
Our warmest abrazo to our friend Dr. Vera Tiesler (ep 81) and a tip of the hat to Joan Koenig (ep 79) and Wynton Marsalis (ep126).
Pacho,
Website - www.pachoflores.com
IG: @pachofloresofficial
FB: https://www.facebook.com/pachofloresofficial/?fref=ts
X: @pacho_flores
YT - Concierto de Otoño para trompeta - Arturo Marquez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt06z5ZiysQ
Stomvi,
Website - https://stomvi.com/
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Thanks for joining us again at Behind Greatness. We chat with Eric Wargo today who lives in the Washington DC area. Eric is a science writer with a PhD in Anthropology working for government institutes conducting archaeology, psychology, and neuroscience research. He is a writer and an author and is well known for writing about dreaming, creativity and precognition. We delve immediately into the "long self" and exploring the idea of connecting to our future surviving long self and how dreams are about our future thoughts on experiences. We learn about his early precognitive dream experiences and the personal ufo sighting that fired him up - and his new intellectual and creative path that ensued. We discuss art and literature as prophetic and how artists borrow from other artists precognitively. And for fun, we talk about his developing theory on inspiration actually being precognition.
A thanks to Jeffrey Kripal (ep 118) and Diana Pasulka (ep 142).
Eric,
- Books: Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self and Time Loops
- Blog: www.thenightshirt.com
- X: @thenightshirt
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Thanks for joining us again at Behind greatness. We are tuned in today with Paul Smith. Paul is a retired major in the US Army. He is most known as being a key member in the US government’s secret Psychic Espionage Program, Star Gate, during the 1980s and 90s. He is a leading expert on ESP, Remote Viewing and applied consciousness. He was only part of a handful of people trained by the father of remote viewing: Ingo Swann and he in turn became one of the few trainers in the unit of other remote viewers. Paul brings us through the Men in Black scenario of his recruitment at Fort Meade … to his time in the unit and the stories of his remote viewing exercises … to unofficially using his skills when he served in Desert Storm … and to his wife figuring out about his psychic military duties. We discuss non-local consciousness and the difficulties that main stream scientists still have with non-physical realities. We discuss applied intuition and ESP-informed intuition, bilocation and when Ingo Swann saved the world. We also learn about Pat Price (the country’s most capable remote viewer at the time and Police Commissioner) finding 4 presumed UFO bases on the planet in the 1970s using remote viewing - and Paul’s experience in remote viewing the same and his discussion of the “people” he viewed there.
See other remote viewers: Russell Targ (ep 80) , Dean Radin (ep 122), Stephan Schwartz (154, 155), Lyn Buchanan (ep163), Nancy DuTetre (167).
Paul,
- Website: www.rviewer.com/paul-h-smith/
- Book: Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate: America's Psychic Espionage Program - https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Enemys-Mind-Americas-Espionage-ebook/dp/B00545H3K6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=28LYSLB2FTSZY&keywords=paul+smith+author+reading+the+enemy%27s+mind&qid=1706654910&sprefix=paul+smith+author+reading+the+enemy%27s+mind%2Caps%2C90&sr=8-1
- Book: The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing: The Secret Military Remote Perception Skill Anyone Can Learn - https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Guide-Remote-Viewing-Perception/dp/1938815017/ref=sr_1_2?crid=28LYSLB2FTSZY&keywords=paul+smith+author+reading+the+enemy%27s+mind&qid=1706654987&sprefix=paul+smith+author+reading+the+enemy%27s+mind%2Caps%2C90&sr=8-2
Link to Ingo Swann:
- Ingo Swann Speech, Human Super Sensitivities, 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cOEY-c7_gI
- An Experimental Psychic Probe of the Planet Jupiter: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3.pdf
- Documentary – Ingo Swann: A Life Gone Wild: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fedjP3EJAGQ
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Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We sit down with Rudy, who joins us from his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Rudy is a pre-eminent expert on black holes and a world renowned Astrophysicist from Harvard, practicing in the field since the mid-1960s. He is also the co-Founder of FREE / CCRI (see co-Founder past guests Rey Hernandez & Mary Rodwell) and also the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Cosmology.
Are you ready, listener?
We plunge into the vastness of the universe and swim in the nothingness and fullness of it all. We hear about blackholes as nature’s hard drive, the nature of existence and reality, his friendship with Dr. Edgar Mitchell (storied astronaut) and Dr. John Mack (famed Harvard psychiatrist) and their unique research, the quantum hologram, the alien breeding program, interaction with non-human intelligence post-Hiroshima/Nagasaki, changes in the brain post ufo-contact, and the important work of scientist Wilhelm Reich in quantum medicine and quantum engineering .
And we only got to swim in Rudy’s shallow end on this talk.
To be continued.
See earlier episodes with FREE/CCRI co-Founders Rey Hernandez (ep 153, 154) & Mary Rodwell (ep 149). See also Kevin Day (ep 171). CCRI: https://agreaterreality.com/
Rudy,
- Center for Astrophysics – https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/
- Journal of Cosmology - https://thejournalofcosmology.com/About.html
- Personal website - http://www.rudyschild.com/
- List of Published papers - https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/p_=0&q=author%3A(%22schild%2Cr%22)&sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc
- CCRI (Consciousness & Contact Research Institute) - https://agreaterreality.com/
- Book (co-Author with Suzy Hansen) – Dual Soul Connection: The Alien Agenda for Human Advancement:https://www.amazon.com/Dual-Soul-Connection-Agenda-Advancement/dp/0473295644/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3J7YBLDXEL5H8&keywords=Dual+Soul+Connection%3A+The+Alien+Agenda+for+Human+Advancement&qid=1706573177&sprefix=dual+soul+connection+the+alien+agenda+for+human+advancement%2Caps%2C214&sr=8-1
- Book: Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness & Contact with Non Human Intelligence - https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-UFOs-Science-Consciousness-Intelligence/dp/1721088652/ctoc
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Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are sitting down today with Stephen at his home in Santa Barbara. Among other things, he is the founder of Dream Tending and the Academy of Imagination in California. He’s a depth psychologist and he has been exploring dreams for over 4 decades. He conducts dreamwork and imagination seminars and workshops throughout the world, including presentations to the UN and to legislators in the US. We dive into the language of dreams, hearing the imagery and the intelligence of the planet learned through the dreaming state. He explains the imperialistic impulse in our dreaming and the importance of asking the questions in the dreaming state. We learn about the witnessing presence, treating the dream as the very beginning: the “ongoingness of the conversation” and “the difference that makes all the difference”. And we talk about leaning forward with curiosity in facing malevolent dream characters and “allowing the creativity that is indigenous to come to life”. A trip.
Ask yourself, “who is dreaming the dream?”
For other episodes on dream talk, see Antonia Mills (ep88), Athena Laz (ep100), Kenneth Oppel (ep106), Fr. Nathan Castle (ep140)
Stephen,
- Website: https://dreamtending.com/
- Website: www.TheImaginationMatrix.com
- IG: @dreamtending
- Dream Tending book: https://www.amazon.com/DreamTending-audiobook/dp/B00JLTLC44/ref=sr_1_2?crid=BQFCA1AIHPL8&keywords=stephen+aizenstat&qid=1706210379&sprefix=stephen+aizenstat%2Caps%2C156&sr=8-2
- Imagination Matrix book: https://www.amazon.com/Imagination-Matrix-Greatest-Creativity-Connection/dp/B0CKTVBS9K/ref=sr_1_1?crid=BQFCA1AIHPL8&keywords=stephen+aizenstat&qid=1706210357&sprefix=stephen+aizenstat%2Caps%2C156&sr=8-1
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Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We sit down for a one on one chat with Master Shi Heng Yi who is at his temple in Otterberg Germany. Shifu, as we call him, is the founder and headmaster of Europe’s only 24x7 Shaolin Temple for martial arts. He is a martial arts master practising the way of Chan Buddhism. Born and bred in Germany, he is the son of Vietnamese immigrants who left to make a better path for their children. As a young boy he took up martial arts – and the training, discipline and world view it afforded him became a foundation for how he was to live his life as an adult. We dive immediately into a discussion about the attention to thoughts, thoughts being separation and the truth in the non-rational and the non-intellectual. And there’s more: replacing coincidence, not being unaligned, thoughts coming for you and becoming the paradise that you want to achieve. We learn about different types of elevation and the bottom line of what the true type of elevation ultimately creates.
So much goodness here.
Shifu,
- YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ShiHengYiOnline
- Website: https://www.shihengyi.online/
- TEDx Talk – “The 5 Hindrances”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-079YIasck
- FB: https://www.facebook.com/shihengyi.eu/
- IG: @shihengyi.online
- Temple Website: https://www.shaolintemple.eu/index.php?page=english
Welcome to Behind Greatness. We are joined by Mike at his residence in the Pacific Northeast. Mike is an author an illustrator and an expert in ultralight backpacking. He is also a recognized “owl guy”. Mike is one of the only people on planet earth who has been collecting, documenting, researching and archiving owl events (from around the world) in relation to ufo experiences and ufo contact. He shares with us the mystical experience that first brought his attention to owls, his recall of missing time as a boy, his contact experience with extraterrestrials and his gripping story of March 10 2013. We learn from him what he believes owls really do represent and why they are important to understanding our interconnectedness to the non-physical realm. Don’t miss his metaphor of “between the magnets”.
Gufo.
See also conversation with entrepreneur and psychologist Dr. Werner Barkhuizen (ep162 ) for more experiences re owls and orbs.
Mike,
Website & Books: www.mikeclelland.com
X: @clellandmike
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are joined by Jeffrey Mishlove at his home in New Mexico. Jeffrey was the first and still only Parapsychologist who was conferred a PhD (in 1980) in that field of study. He grew up in a religious family – and a family unbeknownst to young Jeffrey at the time – that was also steeped in mystical tradition. We discuss his path to his calling that was kickstarted by a couple of transcendental dreams. He was a man whose interests were transformed from studying the negative forms of human deviance (criminality) to the positive forms of human deviance. We learn about the story of his mentor Arthur M. Young, the inventor of the helicopter and cosmologist and astrologer. We discuss skeptics vs scoffers, ESP, the perpetual game of hide and seek, cosmic choices after death, the artistic endeavour and the importance of investigating areas of high strangeness. The universe reaches out when you are striving to be the best person you can be.
If you enjoyed this one, you may appreciate these conversations with other parapsychologists: Loyd Auerbach (ep. 167) Dianne Hennacy (ep.113), Sharon Rawlette (ep.99)
Jeffrey,
- YT: New Thinking Allowed - https://www.youtube.com/c/NewThinkingAllowed
- X: @jmishlove
- Website: Thinking Allowed - https://thinkingallowed.com/jm.html
- Books: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Jeffrey-Mishlove/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AJeffrey+Mishlove
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Father John joins us from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Father John has been a Roman Catholic priest for several decades, he’s bi-ritual, he has a PhD in Psychology and he can carry the mass in Latin. He’s also practised as an Exorcist since 2011. This conversation goes in several paths. We talk about pride and ego, humility and detachment, fear and insecurity, the slavery of addiction and scientism. We hear about satanism in the Vatican, evil being personal, possession vs attack vs obsession, exorcism gone wrong, and a voodoo-practising priest. We learn about the demonic being real, showing itself in the open in our society, the commitment to the conversion process – and the pivotal wisdom of the matriarchal figure. Oh, the metaphors dance in this conversation.
If you believe, you will be shown.
Father John,
- Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/fr-john-a-szada-jr-011b7873/
- Website - https://lancasterlatinmass.com/our-priests/
- The Sun, 2020 - https://www.the-sun.com/news/403785/exorcist-real-devil-possessed-pennsylvania/
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Emmeline Villar joins us from her office in Metro Manila in the Philippines – a place that has long been the nerve center of all her ongoings. Emmeline descends from a long line of Philippine societal leaders - political, military, law enforcement and religious as well. A busy-body by nature, Emmeline has been a member of the Philippine Congress, has worked in the Department of Justice, pushed through legislation on child trafficking and inclusion education, has been a university lecturer, a graduate of London School of economics and a founder of not for profit organizations. We learn in this conversation about autism and the love for her sister, her near death experiences, her battle with lupus, her education with the Carmelite nuns and the profound experience at 13 that changed her life. We discuss the Filipino spirit, song, music, her daughter’s wisdom and the survivor DNA.
An enchanting discussion across the Pacific.
See also other past guests and friends of Behind Greatness – a starting line-up of attorneys who have stories to tell: Merv Allen (ep25), Robert Antenore (ep 82), Marie Henein (ep 89) and Jason Annibale (ep 107).
Emmeline,
IG: @emaglipayvillar
FB: https://www.facebook.com/em.aglipay/
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are joined today by Bruce Solheim, a Professor of History at Citrus College in Southern California. Bruce is an expert in US foreign Policy, an author of various books and graphic novels, a playwright, and a musician. In 2016, he decided to face the risk of “academic suicide” and came out to his colleagues with what he has lived with all his life. Since he was a little boy Bruce has also lived a paranormal life. We learn about his childhood friends, his psychic abilities, his parents and his non-human intelligence (NHI) contact, Anzar the Progenitor. Bruce takes us through a weaving story about haunted house in northern Norway, Nazi-occupiers, jail-guard experiences, the banality of evil, attention and intention and capturing butterflies. We learn from Bruce about the importance of re-awakening natural abilities long ago driven away by “polite society”, the importance of song and the importance of humility.
“Predictions can be wrong but preparations are never wrong.”
Bruce:
- Website: https://www.bruceolavsolheim.com/
- FB: https://www.facebook.com/bruce.solheim
- Books: https://www.facebook.com/SnarcComic
- Books: https://www.facebook.com/Timelessparanormal
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Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today we sit down with Kevin Day at his home in Oregon. Kevin is retired from the Navy where he held numerous positions over an 18 year span, including Air Intercept
Control Supervisor, Anti-Air Warfare Coordinator and Strike Group Air Defense Subject Matter Expert. Kevin brings us through his first hand emotional account of the tragic day that Iran Air Flight 955 was shot down by missiles fired from his ship, the USS Vincennes in 1988. We learn that while that episode nearly broke him, he resolved to stay in the Navy and become the best he could be in that service. We hear about his extraordinary experience in November of 2004 aboard the US Princeton as Chief Radar Operator on the US West Coast and seeing 100s of “big white candy mints” (as named by his superior) darting through the skies over a span of several days. These are the “Tic Tacs” that are widely known today by the accounts of Commander David Fravor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s45xZAevb-w) – with videos released by the Pentagon. David Fravor was engaged with the Tic Tacs on the same training mission while Kevin was manning the radar system on the ship below. We hear about impossible speeds, a tear in the sky (!), the feeling of benevolence, receiving a cerebral upgrade, the sudden capacity for artistic endeavours. Kevin describes the safety of flight issues he tried to champion, the mockery he endured, the vindication and the sober reflection of a man who knows himself if the shoe were on the other foot. We hear about writing the facts hidden within a book he published, men in black, a strange encounter in the woods, his personal mission today, anger, judgement, time travel and the 5th fundamental force of nature.
We recommend two past interesting episodes with military guests, Franc Milburn (ep160) and Ryan Graves (ep141) on like topics.
Kevin,
- YT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXN7aXvZG44
- Book – Sailor’s Anthology – Library of Congress Control #: 2008903940
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Thanks again for joining us at Behind Greatness. We sit down with Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer Dave Bassett at his studio in California. He is also the songwriter behind hundreds of songs and many global hit songs over the years, including Rachel Platten’s Fight Song, Elle King’s Ex’s & Oh’s and Vance Joy’s Riptide. We have a real talk about his life in, with and around music. A former rock band singer and writer Dave found a sweet spot eventually as a therapist of sorts. Dave began to understand the process of writing was an experience he was addicted to. We learn about listening and investing in the solitude of the present moment and tapping into the ether – and how he brings others with him. We talk about quitting the noise, shedding the ego and embracing the real mystery of music. We also hear about Dave’s experience in the music industry and its changing complexion – for better and for worse. And Dave explains to us how we need to reconnect again with the actual physical investment of the musical experience and with our curiosity of the unknown.
Patience.
Listeners might want to try a few of our other conversations with musical guests, including Kid Koala (ep 28), Troy Johnson (ep 48) and Raine Maida (ep 65).
Dave,
- Website: http://davebassettmusic.com/
- Playlist of songs written: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1EFFNj4npSCgoa?si=3f517166bc39465d
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Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today we are speaking with Danny who joins us from his home in California. Danny is a high profile Federal Civil Rights Attorney, Author, Public Speaker and Law School Professor. He is also the founder of the Romeo Institute (https://romeroinstitute.org/) and the New Paradigm Institute (https://newparadigmproject.org/). Danny has been a very public civil rights attorney for many decades, having worked on high profile cases whose favourable outcomes we take for granted today. And this is only a slice of the story. Danny wanted to be an astronaut – until he saw the political forces working against his hard fought battle to become one. So he studied law in the hopes that he could affect change for others. And along the way, he never lost site of his initial curiosity of the universe. We learn about his work with the Vatican and their discussion of disclosure of Non-Human Intelligence. We learn about his representation of Harvard professor and psychiatrist Dr. John Mack and former US Army counter-intelligence agent Luis Elizondo. We hear from Danny about the need for a great Revision, working against the forces of reaction and the idea behind the disassembling of the structural sources of injustice. Danny brings us his thoughts and beliefs about that extraordinary something that is going on and his efforts in being ahead of the curve and helping to establish a new paradigm shift in our World View.
We recommend Diana Pasulka (ep142), Br Guy Consulmagno (ep133) and Leslie Kean (ep112) as context material to this episode with Danny.
Danny,
Website: www.danielpsheehan.com
New Paradigm Project: https://newparadigmproject.org
Romero Institute: https://romeroinstitute.org/
Lakota Project: https://lakotalaw.org/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-peter-sheehan-6919355b/
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Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We chat with Loyd from his office in the Bay Area. Loyd is many things: a paranormal investigator, a ghost hunter, parapsychologist, educator, mentalist and chocolatier. We are treated immediately with a ghost story from his early work in the 1980s. He was catapulted into the public eye during the release of The Ghost Busters in 1984, being sought after as a real “ghost hunter”. We discuss a ton of fascinating themes, including: pop culture and beliefs, leaving feelings behind in a room, confronting a sith lord, poltergeists, and the body-station vs the spirit-drone. We learn about Loyd’s early bilocating experiences, his thoughts on humans being an interface device and how science fiction has been more courageous at exploring the possibilities – and the importance of the Rhine Research Center and the public’s - and universities’ - growing interest again in parapsychological study.
We recommend a pairing with episode 113 - with Psychiatrist and Parapsychologist, Dr. Diane Hennacy.
Loyd,
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loydauerbach/
The Rhine Research Center: https://www.rhineonline.org/about-us
Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001HCZ2Y4/about
X: @profparanormal
Bio: https://www.parapsych.org/users/profparanormal/profile.aspx
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Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We’re speaking with Nancy duTertre from Connecticut today. Nancy is a corporate attorney, a psychic detective and a remote viewing practitioner. Growing up in an intellectually-focused family environment Nancy exceled in her endeavours, but her curiosities brought her through more than one path. Her world opened up when she started to actively pursue her own questions about intuition. We discover with her some hard-hitting themes: her psychic detective work with police departments, being in service, the languages of different senses, possession, psychokinesis and the bending of rebar :), boomerang-shaped objects, non-human intelligence, protecting human consciousness and losing the fear of accessing knowledge that just a question away. A colourful life lived with left-brain sensibilities and the child-like compunction to explore what she doesn’t know.
“The anomalies are the key to a larger body of knowledge that is as of yet explored.”
Nancy,
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-du-tertre-7107714a
Websites:
- www.theskepticalpsychic.com
- www.talkalien.com
Books:
- Psychic Intuition: Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask but Were Afraid to Know” - https://www.amazon.com/Psychic-Intuition-Everything-Wanted-Afraid-ebook/dp/B07J1P9FC9?ref_=ast_author_mpb
- How to Talk to an Alien - https://www.amazon.com/How-Talk-Alien-Nancy-Tertre/dp/1632650215/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1434723616&sr=8-1&keywords=9781632650214
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Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Roger joins us from Ithaca, NY at his home in an eco-village. Roger was (is) a musician and psychologist when he applied to Princeton as a leading researcher to one of America’s leading consciousness, called PEAR (Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab). Among other things, Roger at PEAR investigated the influence of human thoughts on physical reality. In this conversation he brings us through his research on and belief in the importance of Global Consciousness. His studies have been focused on measuring and registering signs of any kind of coherent global consciousness that would come into being by an event that engaged the attention of a large number of people that would stimulate a synchronized set of emotions. We learn how the founder of PEAR, Robert Jahn (also the Dean of Engineering) spent a great deal of time defending the lab from peers who refused to visit (reminds us of the historical figures who refused to look through Galileo’s telescope because they wished to simply deny his findings). We learn from Roger fascinating topics like the “noosphere”, the relevancy of human rituals, McDonnell Douglas sponsoring of Roger’s studies on “gremlin” activity in the cockpit of military bomber flights, mining the psychic atmosphere and the act of falling in love. We discuss the importance of music, the thrill of artistic creation, “making sounds together” and the difference between skeptics and deniers. Roger also shares with us what he would like to be doing once he transitions to the other side.
100% skeptical and 100% open-minded.
A thank you to our friend Stephan Schwartz (ep 155).
Roger,
Website: https://noosphere.princeton.edu/
Website: https://global-mind.org
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-d-nelson-327a931/
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Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are sitting down today with Stephen Simon who joins us from his home near Portland. Stephen was born into a family already successful in Hollywood. As a young man, he went to law school and practised for a short while, but his heart was married to another mission. Stephen elaborates on this mission through his experience with the films he produced and the people who inspired him along the way. And along that way he produced acclaimed projects such as the Academy Award-winning film What Dreams May Come (starring Robin Williams & Cuba Gooding Jr). We learn about his twin flame and wife Lauren who passed several years ago and with whom he co-wrote a book after she transitioned to the other side. We also discuss his beloved Spiritual Cinema Circle project and we hear about the consensual realities he’s learned about from the other side. We discuss the eternal wisdom of Neale Donald Walsch, Shirley MacLaine – and Wayne Gretzky. An open conversation with a man who’s lived with an open heart.
Have a listen to Stephen Gyllenhaal (ep 127) and Amy Jo Johnson (ep 92) for a couple of past open-heart conversations.
Stephen,
- Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp-0982820135/dp/0982820135/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=
- Website: www.whatdreamshavecome.com
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5816423/
- FB: https://www.facebook.com/stephen.simon.18/
We are joined today by Scarlett Heinbuch from her home in Atlanta, Georgia. Scarlett has been working in finance for 20 years. But that’s merely her career. Scarlett has been an experiencer of multidimensional realms since she was a little girl. We learn about her childhood OBEs, her interactions with relatives – both live and deceased, a near death experience, the details of an incredible and impossible shared death experience with her future husband and his remarkable recovery. We learn about alcoholism and how it cuts openness at the knees, about “joy bullying” and about how to show up in the world. For those who have a soft spot for love stories, this won’t disappoint either. And for those who also have a soft spot for interdimensional surgical teams of blue beings, this story will have that too.
We also recommend episode with Sharon Hewitt-Rawlette (ep 99) for some great parapsychological discussion as background.
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Scarlett,
- Website: https://scarlettheinbuch.com/
- The UnXplained (History Channel): What Happens When We Die? (Season 1) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SSCVV3hXx8&t=127s
- Book: We Met on the Other Side - https://www.amazon.com/We-Met-Other-Side-Story/dp/B0C47YVWDK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=We+Met+on+the+Other+Side.&qid=1692840038&sr=8-1
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scarlett-heinbuch/
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again. Today we are speaking with a very humble, soft spoken human being, Lyn Buchanan. And you’re in for a ride. Lyn served in the US military for 20 years. He served as a minister, a multi-language linguist (the only Mongolian linguist in the US forces) as a database and systems expert and as a controlled Remote Viewer and Remote Viewing trainer in a classified US government espionage program in the 1980s and 1990s. Lyn has been plagued throughout his life with "psychokenetic" events. One fateful day in Augsburg, Germany, such an event (parts of which are still classified) happened and brought about official recognition and record of his ability – having Lyn to eventually admit to having “the best job in the world”. If you are interested in learning about Lyn’s experience and insights on: controlled Remote Viewing to entering the minds of world leaders, bilocation, solving child abduction cases, unofficially remote viewing extra terrestrial beings, experience of being onboard an off-planet vehicle, recalling an abduction by extra terrestrial sentient beings and detailed physical descriptions of these beings and their craft, visitations by men in black, psychic abilities of human beings, current exo-planet work for space agencies etc. – then listen in. If you’re not interested, then move along, there’s nothing to see here.
When providing his service (for free) to Police investigators one the investigator realized the scope of his work/ability, and asked, “Do you mean that you can assign someone to actually witness something that has already happened?” Lyn replied, “That’s what we do.”
Have a listen also to our other episodes with remote viewing experts Russell Targ (ep 80), Courtney Brown (ep 131) and Stephan Schwartz (ep 155,156).
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Lyn,
- Remote View Ranch: https://remoteviewranch.com/
- Books:
- Seventh Sense: The Seventh Sense: The Secrets of Remote Viewing as Told by a "Psychic Spy" for the U.S. Military - https://www.amazon.ca/Seventh-Sense-Secrets-Viewing-Military/dp/0743462688/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1HNNX6681SE0Y&keywords=lyn+buchanan&qid=1690042510&sprefix=lyn+buchanan%2Caps%2C235&sr=8-1
- Gravity is your Friend (It can also get you killed): https://www.amazon.ca/Gravity-Can-Be-Your-Friend/dp/1411677099/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1HNNX6681SE0Y&keywords=lyn+buchanan&qid=1690042592&sprefix=lyn+buchanan%2Caps%2C235&sr=8-2
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynbuchanan
Thanks for tuning in again to Behind Greatness. Werner joins us today from his home in North Carolina. Originally from South Africa, Werner is an accomplished entrepreneur with interests in several industries around the world. He had been practising as clinical psychologist when in 2009 he shifted to a renewed focus: to work himself out of a job. We jump into his lifelong fascination in exploring the truth of human existence and the non physical. We discuss psychokinesis (spoon bending), premonitions and where memories exist. He elaborates on the importance of killing your ego and the practice of extrospection. We hear in detail about his and his family’s frequent experience with floating orbs and his exploration of this phenomenon. And, we hear about a pivotal meeting with Gandhi’s grandson, his encounters with entities and his real, extraordinary exploration of achieving a controlled, measurable and replicable approach in leaving his body to astral travel. We learn that he is a practical man who has doubled down on quenching his thirst for pursuing knowledge, acknowledging that dissolving the ego is the key to accessing what we don’t know.
Ingenium Solutio.
Thanks to John B Alexander (ep147). Feel free to see episodes with Dr Bruce Lipton (ep 111) and Dr Diana Pasulka (ep 142) - both scientist-explorers of the non-physical.
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Werner,
Website: www.drwrnrb.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drwernerbarkhuizen/
Thanks for tuning in again to Behind Greatness. Today’s discussion is with multiple NDEr, physician and author, Dr Yvonne Kason. Yvonne joins us from her home in Toronto – a city where she grew up and practised for many years as a pioneering psychotherapist in Canada. She was also the first to coin the term “Spiritually Transformative Experience (STE) and is the co-Founder of Spiritual Awakenings International. Starting as a small child she has led an incredible life experiencing episodes from “beyond the veil”. We discuss her near fatal train station episode, her near fatal car crash incidence and her incredible story of surviving a spectacular plane crash as a young medical resident. And if that isn’t enough for your ears, we discuss a debilitating injury from a brain injury that forced her to retire from her medical practice in 2003 … that started with profound NDE … and ended with an STE in 2016 that brought her out of her physical disability. Gripping. Her life is a movie and her lessons are profound.
See also NDE experience of Dr. Tony Cicoria (ep 55).
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Yvonne,
- Book: Soul Lessons from the Light: How Spiritually Transformative Experiences Changed My Life (December 2022),
- Book: Touched by the Light: Exploring Spiritually Transformative Experiences(2019)
- Personal Website: www.dryvonnekason.com
- Spiritual Awakenings Website: www.spiritualawakeningsinternational.org
- Toronto Awakenings Website: www.torontoawakenings.org
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today, we are joined by Franc Milburn at his home in the Canary Islands. Franc joined the Army in the 80s and worked in Intelligence, honing his skills and growing his network across the Middle East and North Africa. Today, he runs a private security intelligence business for Fortune 500 companies and is a member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies. In his current work he acts as a “sheepdog” for his clients through skills he’s developed since his days as an intelligence officer -- spending time in war torn countries gathering ground truth from investing time with local communities and their leaders. We connected with Franc through his mentor Col. John Alexander as Franc has also had a long time curiosity in the UAP phenomenon and has a unique lens through which he views it. We discuss his research and interactions with prominent scientists and astrophysicists such as Dr Eric Davis and Dr. Jack Sarfatti – discussions that have revealed the reality of reverse engineering programs of off-world vehicles, physical UAP craft and their connection to our consciousness . We learn from Franc about the deliberate harassment strategies against scientists who work on UAP technology – including a direct energy weapon used against a scientist friend of his who was suicided. And, for good measure, we also threw in lucid dreaming and out of body experiences. A Franc discussion about wanting to know what you don’t know – good or bad.
Don’t hesitate to see our conversations with Col John B. Alexander (ep 147) and Former Navy Fighter Pilot Ryan Graves (ep 141).
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Franc,
- Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies - https://www.explorescu.org/
- Video of Aquadilla sighting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD9r-eZmYWI
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. In this session we are speaking with Jack Horner from his home in California. Jack is a world renowned Paleontologist – of Jurassic Park fame. He was a reference point for the main character of both the original book and the Jurassic Park movie franchise of Steve Spielberg. Coincidentally (even though we don’t believe in coincidences anymore) we are recording this conversation on June 9th, 2023 - the 30 year anniversary of the release of Jurassic Park. Jack had the fortune of growing up in Montana and at an early age fell in love with dinosaurs. He found his first dinosaur bone at 8 years old and 1st skeleton at 13 years old. We follow him as he describes his ground breaking discovery (and his naming) of the Maiasaura, the running of his own museum, cutting through dinosaur bones to disprove and prove hypotheses and a career digging and training other paleontologists all around the globe. We learn about his connection with George Lucas and his fascinating “dino-chicken” project, the fundamental importance of curiosity and why we can’t lose our need to be amazed.
“Go outside and find something.”
See our conversation with Dr. Vera Tiesler (ep 81) if interested in knowing another world-renowned explorer.
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Jack,
Website: www.jackhornersdinosaurs.com
Horner Science Group: www.hornersciencegroup.com
Twitter: @dustydino
TED Talk 2011 - https://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_building_a_dinosaur_from_a_chicken?language=en
TED Talk 2014 - https://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_where_are_the_baby_dinosaurs?language=en
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today we are speaking with Michael Carter who joins us from his home in North Carolina. Many listeners will know him from his frequent appearances over the years on the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and on his appearance in Steven Spielberg’s TV documentary Diaries. Today, Michael is an author and an ordained Interfaith reverend at a Unitarian church. He grew up in Baltimore and worked as an actor in NYC for nearly 30 years. While living in NYC, his life changed in a hurry after a visitation encounter in December of 1989. As he was reeling from an ontological shock trying to make sense of his experience, he met a stranger who recognized that he needed assistance. We talk about his visitation experiences and his openness to the phenomenon. We learn about his fears and how confronting those fears helped him to become more intuitive and compassionate. We discuss how asking questions opens your capacity to bring in knowledge and checks your fears about the things you don’t understand. And as in his own personal case, he urges being emptied of your preconceived notions, before being filled. A fun and easy going conversation with a man unafraid.
A message of thanks to Dr Bob Davis (ep151).
Michael,
- Books, including “Alien Scriptures: Extraterrestrials in the Holy Bible”: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B01M15QA9K/allbooks?ingress=0&visitId=f8258ed7-b394-4d93-98d4-6a3f5381b2a0&store_ref=ap_rdr&ref_=ap_rdr
- Bio: https://uusv.org/minister/
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5117599/
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We are joined by Tat Apab’yan Tew (also: Fabian) at his home in Mexico City. Apab’yan is a K’iche’ Maya spiritual guide, a ceremonial historian, a male midwife a lecturer and an author. He was born of a Mexican mother and a Guatemalan father. He grew up in Mexico City without his father – but with a yearning to know his Mayan heritage. His father was an indigenous man of Mayan descent from the mountains of Nawal Ja and he spent his young adult life as a guerilla fighter with rebel forces against foreign corporate control of his homelands. As a young adult, Apab’yan started on his journey to explore the life and existence of the Guatemalan highlands – and he dove in head-first once he arrived in the highlands. Abab’yan recounts his story of reconnection with the Mayan way – of viewing pregnancy, of recognizing both the feminine and the “complementary” and of understanding the consciousness of the developing baby. We discuss the following of Mayan calendar to understand our behaviour and our character, the idea of God, the reading of the blood flow and the pulses of nature and seeing knowledge as a way of healing.
Thanks again to Dr. Thomas Verny (ep 121 ) …. and a nod to Indigenous Elder Cat Criger (ep 95) for the initial drumming reference.
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Apab’yan:
Website: www.mayascience.com
Book: The Birth of a Universe: The Maya Science of Pregnancy - The Birth of a Universe: The Maya Science of Pregnancy
Consultation and the reading of ones Path, Maya Calendar can be arranged online or in person here - http://www.mayascience.com/offerings/
Thanks for joining us again. We’re back with Stephan, as promised. We highly recommend for you to have a listen to last week’s part 1 before starting this episode. Stephan is not one to disappoint …
Stephan continues with his telling of his triple blind remote viewing tests, and his incredibly scintillating story of the bones of Alexander the Great. Stephan also delves into his thoughts about creativity, the importance of the dream state and meditative state for everyone, in particular with scientists and artists … and how important these states were for scientific discovery (Einstein, DaVinci, Descartes). We discuss the matrix of consciousness, physical materialism and its inadequateness, culture and individual choice, ETs and cultural anthropology and his findings from remote viewing the future – the years 2040, 2050 and 2060.
Surrender all your preconceptions …. Edoardo (ep 91), Natalie Sudman (ep 97) and Leslie Kean (ep 112) do.
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Stephan,
Website: www.stephanaschwartz.com
Schwartz Report: https://www.schwartzreport.net/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephan-a-schwartz-1785044/
Thanks for joining us again at Behind Greatness. We are joined today by Futurist and Scientist, Stephan Schwartz at his home in Washington State. Stephan is not a theorist and he’s not a philosopher. He’s an experimentalist who works with objectively verifiable data. Stephan was a young hot-shot screenwriter attending parties with the who’s who in the culture scene in NYC in the 1960s, until his life took a curious, fantastic turn. He brings us through a story that includes 5 focused years studying and researching Edgar Cayce's work in Virginia, researching for US Chief of Naval operations, speech writing for an American president, running remote viewing experiments with subjects around the world (starting years before the CIA even began its remote viewing program with Russel Targ) and being one of the first to write about UAPs in the 70s. We learn about his uncovering of important ancient wonders of the world in Egypt in the 1970s using remote/distance viewing protocols for archeological discoveries, about documenting a similar “Sea Quest” project with Leonard Nimoy (of Spock fame) as his narrator and about heading his own funded remote viewing lab, Mobius. And, he’s a novelist.
Important to note that Stephan prefers non-local perception to remote viewing. And you’ll understand why. To be cont’d …
For previous guests re Remote Viewing, check out Russell Targ (ep 80), Dean Radin (ep 122) and Courtney Brown (ep 131).
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Stephan,
Website: www.stephanaschwartz.com
Schwartz Report: https://www.schwartzreport.net/
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We’re back with Rey Hernandez, as promised. If you haven’t, please listen to the 1st part of this conversation from last week before starting this one episode. You will thank us. In this 2nd part of our chat we learn about Rey’s extra-ordinary experience of leaving his body while sitting in traffic in his car on a morning in 2013. In fact, this recording is almost 10 years to the day of this pivotal moment in his life. Here we discuss the instructions he was given in that bizarre experience and the meeting of the one and only Mary Rodwell, the Harvard Astrophysicist Rudy Schild and the Astronaut Edgar Mitchell all within 48 hours of this event. We learn about the organization of FREE and the 1st ever scientific study on paranormal experiences – an exercise that involved dozens of scientists and thousands of surveys collected from all over the world. We discuss the fabric of reality, contact modalities, ontological shock, awakening, the mind of God, our reality as an illusion - and parasitic beings.
See also our episode with Dr. Bruce Greyson (ep69) .
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Rey,
Consciousness and Contact Research Institute – www.agreaterreality.com
Archives of the Impossible (Rice University) - https://impossiblearchives.rice.edu/flash-talk-speakers/rey-hernandez
Books:
- Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness and Contact with Non-Human Intelligence - https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-UFOs-Science-Consciousness-Intelligence/dp/1721088652
- The Mind of GOD: A Spiritual-Virtual Reality Model of Consciousness & The Contact Modalities - https://www.amazon.com/Mind-GOD-Spiritual-Virtual-Consciousness-Modalities/dp/B0BC6QXHX4/ref=pd_bxgy_vft_none_sccl_1/146-7571246-5345134?pd_rd_w=z4gLz&content-id=amzn1.sym.26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&pf_rd_p=26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&pf_rd_r=BGRJGKPEN4G2A1856Z7M&pd_rd_wg=GBkZr&pd_rd_r=66175ea3-aaa7-47ad-8724-3d79b58c93a1&pd_rd_i=B0BC6QXHX4&psc=1
- Vol 1. A Greater Reality: The New Paradigm of Nonlocal Consciousness, the Paranormal & the Contact Modalities - https://www.amazon.com/Vol-Greater-Reality-Consciousness-Paranormal/dp/B0BFDFL5DX/ref=pd_bxgy_vft_none_sccl_2/146-7571246-5345134?pd_rd_w=z4gLz&content-id=amzn1.sym.26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&pf_rd_p=26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&pf_rd_r=BGRJGKPEN4G2A1856Z7M&pd_rd_wg=GBkZr&pd_rd_r=66175ea3-aaa7-47ad-8724-3d79b58c93a1&pd_rd_i=B0BFDFL5DX&psc=1
Thanks for coming back to Behind Greatness. Today, we are joined by Rey Hernandez in Florida. Rey is the co-founder of the Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation, now the Consciousness and Contact Research Institute. Rey was working as an estate tax attorney for the US department of Treasury. He was a self-described high achieving and “over educated materialist atheist” for a long time. And then things changed in 2012 - in a hurry. Rey brings us through 3 of his major supernatural experiences - starting with a joint experience he had with his wife interacting with an energy being in his living room. Rey describes how he called down a UFO (what Rey describes also as a Consciousness Aerial Phenomenon, CAP) that was subsequently witnessed by several others and he provides us a very detailed description of this sighting and experience. His world opened up, his beliefs were shattered and his senses heightened. This brought him to explore and research more phenomena and he consumed material at a high rate of speed over several months, reading 16 hours / day for months on end. We hear about his subsequent connection with a Mary Rodwell in Australia, who helped him connect ultimately with Dr. Edgar Mitchell, a well-known American hero astronaut, the founder of IONS and a leading researcher of consciousness. Rey’s FREE –now the CCRI – is comprised of medical doctors and researchers whose mission is to explore the relationship between consciousness research and the phenomenology of “paranormal experiences”, what CCRI calls The Contact Modalities. Muhammad Ali, John Lennon and David Bowie also get special mention.
And this is only the beginning. We’re not done with Rey. More very soon. We welcome you to listen to Diana Pasulka (ep 142) and Rey’s co-founding partner, Mary Rodwell (ep 149 ) for further background.
Ahhh, 2012 …
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Rey,
Consciousness and Contact Research Institute - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063954405437
Archives of the Impossible (Rice University) - https://impossiblearchives.rice.edu/flash-talk-speakers/rey-hernandez
Books:
- Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness and Contact with Non-Human Intelligence - https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-UFOs-Science-Consciousness-Intelligence/dp/1721088652
- The Mind of GOD: A Spiritual-Virtual Reality Model of Consciousness & The Contact Modalities - https://www.amazon.com/Mind-GOD-Spiritual-Virtual-Consciousness-Modalities/dp/B0BC6QXHX4/ref=pd_bxgy_vft_none_sccl_1/146-7571246-5345134?pd_rd_w=z4gLz&content-id=amzn1.sym.26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&pf_rd_p=26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&pf_rd_r=BGRJGKPEN4G2A1856Z7M&pd_rd_wg=GBkZr&pd_rd_r=66175ea3-aaa7-47ad-8724-3d79b58c93a1&pd_rd_i=B0BC6QXHX4&psc=1
- Vol 1. A Greater Reality: The New Paradigm of Nonlocal Consciousness, the Paranormal & the Contact Modalities - https://www.amazon.com/Vol-Greater-Reality-Consciousness-Paranormal/dp/B0BFDFL5DX/ref=pd_bxgy_vft_none_sccl_2/146-7571246-5345134?pd_rd_w=z4gLz&content-id=amzn1.sym.26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&pf_rd_p=26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&pf_rd_r=BGRJGKPEN4G2A1856Z7M&pd_rd_wg=GBkZr&pd_rd_r=66175ea3-aaa7-47ad-8724-3d79b58c93a1&pd_rd_i=B0BFDFL5DX&psc=1
Thanks for tuning in again to Behind Greatness. We are joined by Fil at his home in Toronto for this chat. Fil is an assaggiatore di olio d’oliva. He is one of 31 accredited Olive Oil Tasters in the world (and only 1 of 3 in North America), having trained 4 years at the oldest and most prestigious olive oil tasting school in the world, ONAOO (https://onaoo.it/en/onaoo/). Fil was born in Tuscany, moved with his parents to Venezuela as a boy and immigrated to Canada to at 16, knowing little English. He soon discovered a world of music which he dove into as a connection with his new world. By the time he was on his pre-med path at university, he left to live a life of rock and roll in a punk band for over a decade – making music and touring around the world. But in 2007, something else moved him. He tasted an olive oil when in Tuscany, changing his life forever. Being Fil, he closed his eyes and dove in. This time, his connection was with his curiosity about the “almost spiritual” properties of olive oil. We hear about his thoughts on his deep experience with music and the “communion”, and the similarities with the mystical olive grove. No left brain activity needed here. We discuss the “gift exchange” phenomenon, changing culture, bringing Yale University on board and the magic of the first kiss of the harvest.
Because of that tree.
For music / bass playing reference, see Gary Lachman (ep 124) and for “communion” reference, see our friend John Couch (ep 32)
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Fil,
Website: https://www.filbucchino.com/
Documentary: https://www.filbucchino.com/obsessed-with-olive-oil
Abandoned Grove: https://www.filbucchino.com/abandoned-grove
Yale Olive Institute: https://oliveoilexhibition.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/20190327-5-YOI.pdf
Fil rocking it out with Flashlight Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ti1TKCK_Pw
FB: @filbucchino
IG: @filbucchino
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Bob joins us from his home in Florida for this chat. Bob grew up in the Bronx across the street from Yankee stadium where he picked up a life long addiction to baseball. For 30 years, he was also addicted to his work: researching and publishing for 30 years on behavioural and neurosensory sciences at State University of New York, bringing him to lecture also in the UK and China. Bob then had three personal extraordinary transformative and mystical experiences and wrote a book on each to help him make sense of what he was experiencing. Today, he’s also working on a documentary (www.consciousnessfilm.info) to help disseminate his message. We had a rich conversation on the most common outcome on people’s lives after having a transformative experience: the dissolution of the ego. We also talk “the God spot” and what God is to him. We talk about confusion. And we talk about his thoughts on the shortcomings of the scientific process to take in the subjective experience and how he’s doing his part with his current work to make this matter again.
Oh, and Mickey Mantle ;)
We recommend ep 135 with Dr. Pim van Lommel, MD re similar discussion on the subjective experience in science – and our recent episode with Mary Rodwell (ep 149).
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Bob,
Recent publication in Edge Science Journal (p15) “Spiritually Transformative Experience Triggers”: https://p9k188.p3cdn2.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/EdgeScience-52.pdf
Documentary Teaser: www.consciousnessfilm.info
Website: www.bobdavisspeaks.com
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. This week, we sit down with Steven at his home in Virginia. Steven was most recently the Chief Historian for NASA before his retirement. As an astronomer and an astrobiologist he has been a prolific thought leader, writer and theorist on cosmology, “cosmotheology” and on the implications of living in a “post biological universe”. We start with learning about the meanings of each and their significance to how we view ourselves in the universe. We discuss his ideas on the supernatural being the natural and his view on how we must stay open to what we think God is. Fascinating. We discuss ETs (a subject that he has been steeped in since his graduate student days) and his view on UFOs and technologically advanced alien civilizations and also his involvement in The Galileo Project with his friend and a former podcast guest and fellow astronomer, Avi Loeb. We also delve a little into the question of whether knowledge is objective, the problem of “stove-piping” in the scientific world and his advice that he gives to his grandchildren about passion. Did we say that he has a planet named after him?
Honourable mentions go out to Avi Loeb (ep105), Br Guy Consolmagno (ep133) and Fr. Nathan Castle (ep140).
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Steve,
- Website: http://stevenjdick.com/index.html
- Galileo Project: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/home
- Cosmotheology: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/61006523.pdf
- Post Biological Universe: https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/hist_culture_cosmos_detail.html
- Book: Space, Time, and Aliens: Collected Works on Cosmos and Culture - https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030416133
- Book: Astrobiology, Discovery, and Societal Impact www.cambridge.org/9781108426763
- Book: Classifying the Cosmos. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-10380-4
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today we are joined by Mary Rodwell, who lives near Brisbane, Australia. We first learned about Mary through Dr. Diana Pasulka’s book (ep 142). Mary is the founder and Principle of ACERN (Australian Close Encounter Resource Network), an internationally recognized researcher in the UFO and Contact phenomenon. She is also a co-founder of FREE (Foundation for Research into Extra-Terrestrial Encounters) along with Rey Hernandez, astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell and astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild. We explore a lot with Mary, and we only just scratch the surface. But in this conversation, we indeed become convinced that she is a “cosmic” Agatha Christie. We discuss intuition, curiosity vs fear and facing phobias. We muse about multi-dimensional information, the humbling fact about information and DNA and listening without judgement. And deliciously enough, we hear about her thoughts on embracing both the guru and the student in each one of us and owning who you really are. And more advice: don’t cast your subjective experience aside to take a back seat in your existence. Own it, explore it.
… to be continued.
Listeners may want to check out adjacent episodes with Leslie Kean (ep 112), Dr. Avi Loeb (ep 105), Dr. Courtney Brown (ep 131), Ryan Graves (ep 141) & Dr. Diana Pasulka (ep 142).
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Mary,
Website: www.acern.com.au
Book: The New Human: Awakening to Our Cosmic Heritage - https://www.amazon.com/New-Human-Awakening-Cosmic-Heritage/dp/0980755514?ref_=ast_author_dp#customerReviews
For Fun: https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/save-it-in-dna/ - It is estimated that 1 gram of DNA can hold up to ~215 petabytes (1 petabyte = 1 million gigabytes) of information, although this number fluctuates as different research teams break new grounds in testing the upper storage limit of DNA.
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We sit down with Angela Maxwell as she prepares her next global walking trip from Tashkent, Uzbekistan. After entering her 30s, Angela started to feel a unique “pull”. So she answered it. She left her business, with zero no-how on pitching a tent or starting a fire, and zero athletic abilities . And, on a day in 2013 she embarked on a global walking journey on her own, leaving her home in central Oregon – to return back home after over 6 years. In answering her pull, she recounts stories about almost dying in the Australian Outback, catching dengue fever in Vietnam, terrifying sandstorms in Mongolia and sheep herding in Sardegna. We explore some of Angela’s insights she absorbed along the way: listening deeply, feeling the world, “crafting out of newness” and weeping on an Italian mountain-side. We discuss her experience with physical and psychological fences, with having a figureoutable-mindset and with absorbing the terror and anger in the present moment to discovering the authentic self.
We’re all Clark Kents – but when you are Superman where do you exist?
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Angela,
Website: https://www.shewalkstheearth.com/
TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al5e-pKlEss
EURONEWS: https://www.euronews.com/travel/2023/03/08/choose-to-be-courageous-meet-the-amazing-woman-who-west-ish-walked-around-the-world
IG: @angelamariemaxwell
FB: https://www.facebook.com/SheWalkstheEarth/
TW: @AngelaMarieMax
Coaching: https://www.shewalkstheearth.com/coaching.html?fbclid=IwAR0Usfr0cjhbywsUuvTJyltnhzwI57jW9nD8tBgHeUE9ldVgU3sESjLBFt0
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today we chat with John B Alexander from his home in Las Vegas. John is a decorated, retired Infantry Officer who started his military career as an 18 year old parachuting out of planes, to active tour in Vietnam as Special Forces Commander to working at the Pentagon and advising the DOD, CIA and the White House. John always had an interest in exploring the non-material and this curiosity brought him through a unique path starting in the early 80s after he wrote an “edgy” article in the Military Review, while working at the Pentagon. The Washington Post picked up the story and wrote about the “Voodoo Warriors of the Pentagon” – and this brought him a lot of public attention. We talk about John’s experience in advocating for non-lethal weapons and researching psychic abilities for military applications. John’s experience is profound and wide-ranging in these fields and as such has been exposed to a lot of things that are “not supposed to happen”. We discuss the fundamentality of consciousness, the limitations of the western world’s view of time and of the spirit world, his research of near death experiences and remote viewing, spoon bending, skeptics vs. debunkers and the reality of UFOs. John is retired from the military, but he’s far from retired from his researching of our connectedness within the universe … he’s a man always striving to peer behind the veil of illusion and taking notes.
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John,
Website: http://www.johnbalexander.com/
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1989655/
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today, we sit down with Sue Ludwig in Cincinnati. We get right into it, talking about babies. Sue is the founder of the National Association of Neonatal Therapists. She is an occupational therapist with an expertise in neo-natal care by vocation. She saw several years ago that there was very little attention paid to any standards and mentoring for the caring and development of new born human beings. So, she went about creating a national body that took this on and all the “soft medicine” around the importance of listening to the baby in its first days/weeks of life. We talk about the direct connection that the newborn has to all things important in our adult lives: community, love and creativity. We discuss the perils of disassociation with patients in the hospital experience, the importance of checking your baggage outside the car, how our little baby bodies take notes that define sensory perception for life AND how being outside has become a lost art. Listen in as well on Sue’s thoughts on why babies teach us that there is no end.
“You can take the eagerness and feelings to create, with you”. Amen.
A warm thank you to Dr. Jill Bolte-Taylor.
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Sue,
NANT Website: https://neonataltherapists.com
BOOK – Tiny Humans, Big Lessons: https://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Humans-Big-Lessons-Intention/dp/1774580977/ref=sr_1_1
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sueludwig/
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We chat today with Jonathan, from his home in the country in Nova Scotia (Atlantic Canada). Jonathan is an accomplished comedic actor, writer, director and producer – having started in the entertainment business while still in highschool. By the time he starting developing his popular character J-Roc on the Trailer Park Boys in the early 2000s, Jonathan had long been diligently building his “Swiss army knife” cache of skills in the business. And it’s from this well that we draw oodles of wisdom, wit and introspection from Jonathan with this conversation. We learn the grounding effects of starting your day with shovelling poop, owning the things you don’t know and taking criticism as teaching moments. We discuss the universal magic of silly and its victimless crimes, the power of “chameleon” as a verb and the tight link between joy and pain. We have a good time discussing funny and where his particular sweet spot of funny is – and why. We also hear about the literal (and metaphorical) choice he made while in Los Angeles between a casino commercial and a dentist visit that brought him back to understanding what he was actually made of … a man living in the quiet, creating, and visiting the noise.
Jonathan: a “thank you”.
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Jonathan,
Production Company: https://www.canadiancontentstudios.com/
Website: www.FilmPrints.ca
Podcast - Taggart & Torrens: https://www.taggartntorrens.ca/
Book – Canadianity: https://www.amazon.ca/Canadianity-Tales-North-Strong-Freezing/dp/B07BQG5BBT/
Imdb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0868474/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today we sit with Alain Menard, who co-founded The Green Beaver Company with his wife Karen Clark, a chemist. The Green Beaver Company is a pioneer in North America in naturally-based personal care products. The company breathes the country air for its creative inspiration, the same air that Alain grew up with in rural Ontario, Canada, close to the Quebec border. Their business was ignited by the desire to start a family and providing the best kind of natural environment for their future child. So Alain and his wife applied their scientific chops to create a new life for themselves. We talk 3-way balance, self-sustained living, the state of creation and where that brings him. We discuss tricking the mind with doing something at the opposite of what your thoughts are bringing you. We learn about Alain’s philosophy about fun and connection, about building a cabin when you are suffering from cabin fever - and carving spoons, just because.
This chat was like a long walk in nature. Breathe in, and create.
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Alain,
Website: https://greenbeaver.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alain-menard-38a8b311/
Fromagerie: https://www.fromageriedestroisrapides.com/
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today we sit down with famed Physician and Best Selling Author, Gabor Maté at his home in Vancouver – on Valentine’s Day no less. Gabor is a globally renowned speaker and writer on trauma, addiction and childhood development. He just released his latest book: The Myth of Normal. We delve right into it with a discussion on love and trauma. We hear about his thoughts on the medical profession and the disconnect in modern medicine’s view on mind and body, its lack of education on trauma and the absence of follow-through on the patient’s emotional life. We learn about Gabor’s early life in Hungary in the 1940s and 50s – a nation first over-run by fascism and then by the ideology of communism – and how that informed him throughout his life. We discuss “Big T” trauma and “Small T” trauma , trauma as the “puppet master” and how connection figures in as an antidote. We learn about his experience as a palliative care doctor and the “holy work” of being with people who are close to death. We weave through an intensely interesting discussion about diseases and their relationship to beliefs and about the sacred pain of being disillusioned. And we end with a beautiful chat about his thoughts on creativity, authenticity and “waking up” … and Vaslav Nijinsky.
A big thank you to a former guest, Dr. Jeffrey Rediger (ep 132) – and a shout-out to another lovely former guest, Dr. Thomas Verny (ep 121) … two Psychiatrists whose work was also featured in Gabor’s latest book.
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Gabor,
Book: The Myth of Normal - https://drgabormate.com/book/
Website: https://drgabormate.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/drgabormate
IG: @gabormatemd
YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsRF06lSFA8zV9L8_x9jzIA
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today we speak with Diana Pasulka, author of American Cosmic: Religion, UFOs and Technology, from her home in North Carolina. Diana’s academic reputation was rooted in the research of miraculous events within Catholic history to new religious movements. In 2012, her world was rocked. At that time, she was researching for entirely different kind of book and started to see patterns in the historical records re aerial phenomena dating back 800-900 years. This piqued her curiosity and kickstarted a whole new adventure. Her thirst for truth brought her into a world of intrigue and of secrets – both open and closed. Her curiosities led her through a 6-year journey as a modern day Indiana Jones - an academic, a researcher of the mystical and mysterious and a danger-defying explorer. We cover together what she spent years facing: the incredibly webbed story of the Pentagon’s long classified study of UFOs, the Invisible College, hunting for objects in New Mexico, researching within secret Vatican archives and personally being surveilled by government agencies. We discuss her work under the cloak of danger – while living through a reality that was getting “weirder and weirder”. As her understanding of the new reality was being readjusted during her exploration, her beliefs too were adjusting alongside. We discuss the importance of art and of changing your conceptions, the suppression of knowledge as power, what Indigenous tribes all over the world already knew, the power of media message, the militarization of the narrative, the attraction of activities centred around the Bay area and the SRI Institute (remember Russell Targ?), the real mystical experience of Astronaut Edgar Mitchell and what he was up to on the moon … (oh, we’re not done yet) … creativity and external agents, human beings as sensors, off planet intelligence, Emergence, UFO Fight Club and technology as a new religion.
“Questioning builds a way”. BAM.
Listeners to this episode should DEFINITELY check out our episodes with Leslie Kean (112), Avi Loeb (105), Jeffrey Krypal (118), Dean Radin (122), Courtney Brown (131) and Br Guy Consolmagno (133).
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Diana,
- Book – American Cosmic: Religion, UFOs and Technology: https://www.amazon.com/American-Cosmic-D-W-Pasulka-audiobook/dp/B07N31G98W/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=american+cosmic+by+diana+pasulka&qid=1676429189&sprefix=american+cosmi%2Caps%2C169&sr=8-1
- Upcoming Book - Encounters: https://www.amazon.com/Encounters-Explorations-Extraterrestrial-Non-Human-Intelligence/dp/1250879566/ref=sr_1_6?crid=S1HKFMRQDLAE&keywords=diana+pasulka&qid=1676429234&sprefix=diana+pasulka%2Caps%2C103&sr=8-6
Ryan joins us from his home in New Hampshire. Growing up as an avid reader and athlete, Ryan developed a passion for wanting to fly jets for the Navy. And that is precisely the world he created for himself. For several years he trained on the US East Cost and served overseas - operating from US aircraft carriers. For several years, he and his pilot colleagues were seeing unidentified objects in the air and on their radars. In this conversation, he also describes to us the shapes of these flying objects and their trajectories and maneuvers through the sky. After wondering why no action was being taken to formally address these phenomenon by his ultimate superiors, Ryan went public. He became the first active duty Navy pilot to speak out on these experiences. Today, he also serves as the first Chair of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Integration and Outreach Committee (UAPIOC), representing more than 30,000 members of the aerospace industry. The goal of UAPIOC is to serve as a neutral, scientifically-focused group enabling safer commercial and military air and space operations. Through his podcast Merged, his mission is to create a platform for other pilots to share their experiences and to explore what may be the truth behind what is sharing the skies with our planes.
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Ryan,
Website: https://www.mergedpoint.com/
Podcast: “Merged” – Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHN8Do9rEyOTVNjL2I38yiA
AIAA: https://www.aiaa.org/
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whygraves/
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are joined by Father Nathan Castle at his residence in Arizona. He is a Friar of Saint Dominic’s Order of Preachers for the Western Dominican Province. Father Nathan has a gift that he has been employing for 27 years – he helps stuck souls adjust to the afterlife. Father Nathan is often approached by souls who experienced a traumatic physical death to help them “get out the door” across the veil. We discuss his extraordinary communication with souls through his dreams and in his sessions: his gift of prophesy. We hear about his cosmic “mic tests” and the matching of waves of consciousness. We learn also about the mystics in his family, his green river of consciousness, the divine importance of creativity and disarming your brother vs vanquishing a foe. Even though he originally became a priest in spite of himself, he is a man of deep faith with an open heart and a no-nonsense sensibility you can only grow in Texas.
“It’s gonna hurt when you pop”
Check out our past episodes with Jill Bolte Taylor (ep 101) and Bruce Greyson (ep 69), as per our chat with Father Nathan.
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Father Nathan,
Podcast – “The Joyful Friar”: https://nathan-castle.com/podcast/
Website: https://nathan-castle.com/
Books, including Afterlife, Interrupted: https://nathan-castle.com/product-category/books/
YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu-9HBILDS_badzxrdk17Eg
IG: @father_nathan_castle
Jennifer joins us from Alberta, Canada. She grew up on the edge of the ocean in Victoria, British Columbia. Since 1985, she has been a faculty member of the Department of Psychology at the University of Lethbridge. And among many things, Jennifer is also one of the world’s leading specialists in cephalopods – including the enigmatic octopus. She was recently a scientific advisor to Netflix’s Oscar-winning documentary My Octopus Teacher in 2020. Jennifer brings us through her background as a little girl interested in sea animals to a journey of “un-meeking” herself as a young scientist pursuing a life of scientific exploration. We discuss curiosity and exploration and the brutal reality of the squashing of both as we leave childhood. We hear about exploring with consequences in academia, the importance of finding knowledge, the blimp, torpedo and the plastic bag, and the importance of always asking new questions. We learn from the Octopus that it’s never happy not knowing … and from Jennifer that the more you know, the more you know that you don't know. Kindred spirits, they are.
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Jennifer,
Bio: https://directory.uleth.ca/users/mather
Consider the Octopus: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-octopus-eating-meat-ethics/
Allan is a native of present day Zimbabwe and joins us from his home in the US. Allan has lived a life of varied and profound experiences – as a farmer, a soldier, a game ranger, a politician, an exiled politician, a biologist and a pioneering independent scientist. Without realizing what he was recognizing as a 20 year old game ranger, Allan began a life of understanding what lay at the core of humanity’s problem: management. Starting from the 1960s he saw how our modern civilization could confront desertification and reverse climate change. We discuss the destruction of past civilizations, the wicked problem of institutions, the feudalism of knowledge and how important our two tools (technology and fire) have been for us. His work promoting large-scale regeneration of the world’s grasslands through holistic management has spread over 29 countries, with more universities eventually coming on board with his decades of scientific investigation and practical implementation of his methods.
Allan’s message: It’s not too late. But we’re running out of time. See his Institute for more on how to make an impact: https://savory.global
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Allan,
TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI - How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7pI7IYaJLI – Running Out Of Time Savory Institute: https://savory.global
Jim joins us from his home in Guelph, a city just west of Toronto. Jim is currently the owner and CEO of Danby Appliances, a leader in their industry in North America with 2 million small large appliances produced each year. Prior to this Jim founded and ran a $2 billion technology company and retired early at age 53 - only to come back to run and then purchase Danby 7 years ago. We learn from Jim about painting houses in order to make ends meet while he worked on his tech start-up, studying engineering while his heart wasn’t in it and having parents who feared for his inclination to run his own business. But, we also learn about his thoughts on the philosophy of failure, employing manners (from his mother) as a comparative advantage, being an active agent through the power of “while”, gratitude journaling – and shovelling driveways while running a billion dollar company. We discuss his lived experience on leveraging a lack of focus, his profound need to help his fellow human beings and the anonymous gift that he wishes to keep giving. Hear also what creativity means to him and what he imagines as his dying words when his time comes.
Salt of the earth. And if this talk floats your boat, have a listen as well to Doug Putman (ep 119), Carol Stewart (ep 86) and Mike Fata (ep 77).
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Jim,
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimestill/?originalSubdomain=ca
TEDx Talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMdTyRms5no
TW: @jimestill
FB: https://www.facebook.com/jimestill/
Blog: http://www.jimestill.com/
Danby: https://www.danby.com/
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are joined today by Jeremy Taggart. Jeremy was the original drummer for Our Lady Peace - a famed Rock band from Toronto. Jeremy grew up as the baby in the family in challenging and turbulent family circumstances. His one constant was baseball, and the dream of a successful pro baseball career – until it changed after he picked up a pair of used sticks as a teenager. He became a legitimate rockstar at the age of 17 in the early 1990s after he beat out 100 other would-be auditioning drummers for the part in the band. Soon after, he was touring the globe with his bandmates as the band tore up the scene and made a mark for themselves album after album. We learn about his dad’s advice, drive, discipline, the magic of live performance and being in union with the crowd. We talk about his experience in being “given gifts” when plugged into the ether – and his curiosity about sound in another dimension. To round it off, Jeremy shares a mind-altering story of time travelling through an OBE (out of body experience) when he was jamming with his band and how that opened up a portal of more of the same. M.i.nd. A.l.t.e.r.i.n.g. A fun, honest and open chat with an explorer.
See similar discussions with two other musician explorers Raine Maida (ep. 65) and Wynton Marsalis (ep 126).
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Jeremy,
Podcast: http://www.taggartntorrens.ca/
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Canadianity-Tales-North-Strong-Freezing/dp/1443449296/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2MWJBV0X6G68I&keywords=jeremy+taggart&qid=1672087118&sprefix=jeremy+taggart%2Caps%2C209&sr=8-1
Stomp the Stigma: https://stompthestigma.org/about-us/
Dr. van Lommel joins us from his home in the Netherlands. Pim is a retired Cardiologist, an Author and a Scientist globally known for his work on the study of Near Death Experiences (NDE) and the examination of consciousness beyond life. He was a young cardiologist starting out his career when a patient of his became irritated with him after he revived him from a cardiac arrest. His patient’s memories of his existence got him curious enough to do his own study in the 80s. His curiosity pushed him to conduct a formal 10 year study of cardiac patients whose consciousness seemed to survive after clinical death of their bodies – during their NDEs. We also cover how and why his best selling book about Consciousness Beyond Life is also part of the highschool curriculum in the Netherlands and why the discussions that it prompts should now also make their way in the curricula everywhere else in the Western world. We hear from Pim about the importance of real scientific curiosity and the need to expand science to include the subjective experience - and how this is has been in struggle with “willful ignorance” in the medical community. We discuss great scientists as mystics and the correlation of dreaming to consciousness unbound by the body – and the large absolute numbers of population in the Western world that actually has experiences NDEs and how we need to break through the current cultural taboos in the West of sharing these human experiences.
This listen should be accompanied by the listen of ep 69 with Dr Bruce Greyson and of the amazing NDE experiences of Dr Tony Cicoria (ep 55) and Natalie Sudman (ep 97).
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Pim,
- Website: https://pimvanlommel.nl/en/
- Film – Consciousness Beyond Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnMrjbXttq0
- Award Winning Paper – Continuity of Consciousness: https://nderf.org/NDERF/Research/ContinuityConsciousness.pdf
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are joined by Helané Wahbeh from her home on the US West Coast. Helané acts as the Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), which was founded by astronaut Edgar Mitchell 50 years ago. Mitchell was an engineer and had a mystical experience while he was in space and decided to found this Institute to spend time exploring and finding evidence of the reality of consciousness. This is her playground. And, she’s also the President of the Parapsychological Association. She talks to us about the importance of the “Noetic handshake” – the marrying of science and of inner knowing, which forms the impetus of her studies and her being. She explains how she was motivated more than ever to “know what she doesn’t know” after she was told not to scientifically explore themes on a research project that she was advancing as a young scientist. We also discuss her upbringing with people who were not afraid to explore the mystical and her personal commitment to meditation and trance-channelling. Helané lets us know that we may all be in the “channelling closet” and that our capacities are more expansive than we think. Bringing your fullness.
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Helané,
Book: The Science of Channelling - https://www.amazon.com/Science-Channeling-Intuition-Embrace-Connects/dp/1684037158/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=helane+wahbeh&qid=1671054712&sprefix=helane+%2Caps%2C331&sr=8-1
Profile: https://noetic.org/profile/helane-wahbeh/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drwahbeh/
Twitter: @drwahbeh
Parapsychological Association: https://parapsych.org/
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are joined by Brother Guy Consolmagno from the Vatican. Br. Guy is a Jesuit and is the Director of the Vatican Observatory and the President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. He is often referred to as the “Pope’s Astronomer” as he reports directly to the Pontiff. We learn about his upbringing in Detroit and his early curiosities, getting into science for the wrong reasons, living in Kenya and then coming back to science and eventually joining the Jesuits later in his life. We discuss the importance of the 3 pillars that he must be devoted to: poverty, chastity and obedience – and which of the pillars he has the most difficulty with. Oh, there’s more. We hear about the marvelous desolation of Antarctica. And we hear answers to questions on the Vatican having an Observatory in the first place, on baptizing Extraterrestrials, on understanding ourselves through the universe and on his childlike approach to exploration. We talk the sparks of joy, the joy of discovery, Bob Dylan, the fun with asking the questions and the fun in spreading the ideas.
Giving a nostalgic thanks to our past guests Denis Molin (ep4), Max Catricala (ep6) and Meganne Christian (ep10). Let’s go!
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Br. Guy,
Books: https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AGuy+Consolmagno&s=relevancerank&text=Guy+Consolmagno&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1
Vatican Observatory: https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/
Dr Jeffrey Rediger is a Psychiatrist and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. Jeffrey grew up in the Midwest in a very conservative Amish tradition and in a violent environment. As the oldest of his siblings he became rebellious and broke away from his environment, always bent on searching for answers of his existential questions. It brought him to study in a seminary (for his Masters of Divinity) and then to Medical School. These two types of training methods, while diametrically opposed - asking and exploring open-ended questions vs. working through the problem sets - brought him to a place of realization that has been informing him all his life. He brings us through a heart-wrenching story of a sudden and tragic death of a loved one, and the lessons it served for opening him up to the “invisible world”. We talk about how that invisible world is real, how the healing of false beliefs is key to a more expansive existence and how the body keeps score of it all. He shares his experience with the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California – the birthplace of the human potential movement. And he elaborates on his dying of the old ways of being that he was wedded to.
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Jeffrey,
Website : https://drjeffreyrediger.com/home/
TED Talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mjVHIB0FhI&t=23s
Book: Cured - https://www.amazon.com/Cured-Life-Changing-Science-Spontaneous-Healing/dp/1250193192?tag=fibcuredlpgb-20
IG: @drjeffreyrediger
FB: drjeffreyrediger
TW: @jeffrey_rediger
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Courtney joins us from us studio in Atlanta, Georgia. Courtney is a mathematician and social scientist, a professor at Emory University in Atlanta. He is also the only professor on the planet who researches and publically discusses both Remote Viewing and Extra Terrestrials. After learning about the CIA’s remote viewing program led by Russell Targ (ep 80), Courtney dove in and became fascinated with the science. He found that the military was not interested in how it works, but only how to make it better. This approach was far too limiting for Courtney. Starting 30 years ago, he and his Farsight Institute developed their own procedures and scientific exploration around Remote Viewing and the active study of non-local consciousness. And man oh man, have they been exploring. He discusses the challenges and limitations of modern classical physics, our physical reality as frequencies and energy, and adjusting our “tuner” to view across time and space. We hear from him the reason why academia and mainstream science resist and how they went from ridicule about this subject to now existing in a state of “waiting to exhale”. We learn from Courtney about the successes of authoritarian control over populations and how the brave (like several messengers who have been past guests on this podcast) are the exception rather than the rule. We learn his take on human beings as “ISBEs” and the urgent need for us to shift our beliefs. He further intrigues us about the dicussion on how death, once viewed as an escape from oppressive regimes is now believed to be a place of traps and recycling back (reincarnation). Courtney’s mission is focused on full disclosure and societal understanding of the reality of our Truman Show-like existence … and the understanding that it is in each and every one of us to have the capacity to see through it, defend against it and move beyond it.
Courtney does not hold back.
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Courtney,
Website: www.courtneybrown.com
Farsight Institute: www.farsight.org
Farsight Prime: https://www.farsightprime.com/
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. This week, we are speaking with a modern day Oracle and Founder of a Mystery School. Marguerite grew up in the suburbs of New York, the daughter and granddaughter of Sicilian immigrants to the US. We discuss her roots to the ancient world where natural and indigenous philosophy of existence ruled for hundreds and thousands of years before the advent of Christianity. She illuminates for us the importance of ancient knowledge traditionally held by “streghe” (healers/witches) in that part of the world. Marguerite dives into the esoteric (and into the galactic) with gusto and brings us with her. We talk about gods in other dimensions, the sacred feminine, myths being histories, experience with the underworld, parthenogenesis and the divine birth and hybridization of humanity. And if that’s not enough, we also discuss the chronic scholarly "clampdown" on the study of sexuality in spiritual practices of the ancient world and how this attitude has had us lose earth’s histories. As an oracle, Marguerite is focused on piecing together a new understanding of our earth histories, in part by understanding that we need to marry the intellect with intuition.
A lovely, expansive conversation with a truth seeker. Like plants on asphalt.
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Marguerite,
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Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today we have a wonderful chat with Robert Doyle. Robert has been a therapist for 25 years, with an expertise in hypnotherapy and brief therapy ACT. He grew up in London – a small city between Toronto and Detroit – and needed to expand his own limits as a young man. He was a highly intuitive and curious young boy who also developed an early affinity to tech. After leaving for the big city, he graduated from university and started on a career in telecommunications where he quickly developed a reputation for being the “fixer”. Named by his colleagues as the "confidence recovery expert " he helped save his employer millions in potential lawsuits over the years by simply giving a tuned ear to customer grievances. This prepared him for a jump to what he really wanted to do: help people discover and explore about their frontier and pushing it to get bigger limits (see also theme with Wynton Marsalis, ep 126). We talk about a heck of alot: the lost relationship with ourselves, our connection with the dream state, the power of words, the 3 minds, command vs control, curiosity deficiency and doubting your doubt. We discuss the importance of giving real space to the voice in your head, and of understanding that your subconscious always gets a vote.
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Robert,
Email: Greatness@BiggerLimits.com
8 Master Keys: www.The8Phrases.com
Website: www.BiggerLimits.com/action for any inquiries re: ACT/generative therapy
Anthony joins us from his office in Toronto. He is a long time friend of our team and Behind Greatness. For over two decades, he and his firm Veritas have been very prominent and public in the world of forensic accounting and investment research in Canada. Anthony is a multi-layered human being with a drive-forward bent – and boy does he bring it in this conversation. We talk about preparation, freeing your mind for new ideas and quick-start vs follow-through – and being open to reciprocal impact. We talk pounding pavement and ideas, shining apples and doctor-visit crying. And, we lean in close as he shares some intimate, emotional, personal stories that instructed him as a young adult with life-long hard lessons in persistence, empathy, love and the importance of abstaining from judgement. We learn that you can tell him anything … just don’t tell him “can’t”. And ask yourself: what is it that you do that you never tire of doing?
Big hugs to Ana.
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Anthony,
Websites: www.vertiascorp.com, www.veritasfunds.com, www.theveritasfoundation.com
Veritas Fact Finding Podcast: https://www.veritascorp.com/events/webinars-fact-finding
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-scilipoti-fcpa-fca-cpa-illinois-97a54913/
Stephen joins us from his home in the Los Angeles area. Stephen is the founder of The Identity Development Institute and an acclaimed Hollywood Director, and a published poet. He is a father of 3 children, two of whom are Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, who are artists in their own right. He grew up with parents (and grandparents) who suffered trauma and addiction. His father, as a young American soldier during World War II, lived the reality of opening and freeing concentration camps in Germany. He also grew up in a Christian cult-like community in Pennsylvania and when he reached college age he saw doors and pathways open ahead of him that he otherwise wouldn’t have seen. And one of those paths was film directing. And he never looked back. Kind of. He also went back to school to do a Masters in Therapy. And boy do we discuss some themes that are important to Stephen. We talk about being “sane” in an insane world, the “engine in me”, lack of connection, the love of art, the curiosity in death – and being drawn to skid row. “Art is there to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfort”. Bam!
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Stephen:
Identity Development Institute: https://www.identitydevelopmentinstitute.com/
Website: https://www.stephengyllenhaal.com/
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0350455/
We sit with Wynton in Toronto for a delightful conversation shortly after a show at Massey Hall. Wynton, a Trumpeter, is originally from New Orleans and is widely regarded as one of Jazz’s all time greats, having also won multiple Grammies for his classical and jazz work. He also co-founded Jazz at the Lincoln Center and acts as the Center’s Managing and Artistic Director. We discuss music as core human expression, the responsibility of teaching music, antagonistic cooperation and modern American culture, the latter of which is also something profoundly important to Wynton. He shares with us his thoughts on some types of modern music and the machine of commercialization that has corrupted the real message of music – and how this imbalance has informed our present society. And that’s just the start. We dive deep and learn about the allegorical qualities of sounds (and stories), music as the art of the invisible and being still enough to understand. He talks to us about the “halls of music” and how the vibration comes at him (and all of us) “whole” and how we are all interconnected on the board. To boot, Wynton has an interesting answer to previous guest John Kapelos’ musing about what’s beyond the river’s edge. A melodic conversation.
“The ability to rise above your limitations”.
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Wynton,
Website: https://wyntonmarsalis.org
TW: @wyntonmarsalis
IG: @wyntonmarsalis
FB: @wyntonmarsalis
Marsiac Jazz Festival (France): https://www.jazzinmarciac.com/en
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. John Kapelos joins us from his home in Hollywood. He is a veteran actor, with over 40 years of acting experience in Film, TV and Theatre. Originally from London, Ontario, John shares with us his life as a child of Greek parents with older siblings who he adored. As a perennial “leaver”, John explored a young adult life as a creative nomad, living in several cities across North America before spending years in Chicago and then finally settling in LA. He’s not afraid to share some episodes of racial prejudice from those who took culture “hostage” in the business back then in his native country of Canada. John also speaks highly of his parents … and we dare the listener not to shed a tear on the story of his father as a little boy. John endears us with his openness in sharing his experiences of despair, of peer ridicule, of exploration, of hoarding – and of flying and dying. He chronicles his life as a “leaver” – but not as a man who leaves a place, but a man who enjoys the thrill of discovering different places…. Beyond the river’s edge.
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John,
IMbD: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438127/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/thejohnkapelos/?hl=en
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1850ydRHRdl0TCRr9xHRPQ
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-kapelos-7158985/
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Our dicussion today is with writer, author, philosopher and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Gary Lachman, who joins us from his home in London. Gary grew up in New Jersey and as a young adult he decided to follow his musical curiosities and move to NYC to play and write Rock & Roll. Living in a store-front at 19 in NYC, he spent years writing songs and playing gigs as Gary Valentine until he lived his dreams: co-founding a successful Rock & Roll band, opening for the Rolling Stones, starting his own group The Know and playing with punk legend Iggy Pop. At 28, he retired. Taking his attitude, energy and drive and devoting it to learning, reading and writing – he started writing histories of Hermeticism and the Western Inner Tradition, existentialism, the paranormal, the Occult and the philosophy of consciousness. We discuss the importance and the significance of the Rose and “The All”, our lack of self-remembering, the robot we all live with and the triviality of “everydayness”. We learn from Gary about the taps on his shoulder and about current reconnection with (musical) exploration and living and creating with the lack of preconceptions.
“The promise without the guarantee”. What a treat.
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Gary,
Website: https://www.gary-lachman.com/
Books: https://www.gary-lachman.com/books-1 & https://www.gary-lachman.com/books-2
TW: https://twitter.com/GaryLachman
FB: https://www.facebook.com/gary.lachman.3/
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today we are speaking with Mark Cecchetto. Mark acts as the President of Nestle Canada’s Confectionary Division and lives in Toronto. Mark grew up in a healthy family environment where he was encouraged to explore and where the expectation for a successful future path was also not negotiable. Originally wanting to have a career in sports management – with the ultimate ideal as the GM of the Blue Jays – Mark saw a different path emerging as he became a young professional. We discuss several “oh crap” moments through his life and his need to look for rougher waters. We discuss at length his passion for mentoring and helping those younger than him and the angst and fear he sees in many as a reflection of his past worries. We learn about what “A” word best defines his expectation for his two children. And what we’re really curious about is what he’s trying to cleanse when we discuss his non-professional life. And staring at water …
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Mark,
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markcecchetto/
We are joined by Dean Radin at his home in Idaho. Dean is the Chief Scientist at the famous IONS in California. IONS was founded by Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell 50 years ago after the Apollo-14 mission. Mitchell had a mystical experience as he found himself in space and walking the moon that he started this Institute when he returned to Earth to study our interconnectedness with the universe. And Dean has certainly taken on those reigns. Contemplating existential questions at a very young age, he was often ribbed for having an extra “why” chromosome when he was merely a boy. Dean became fascinated early about tackling the problem of figuring our how the brain knows it’s aware. We learn about his upbringing both in the South and in the North, playing violin as an aspiring professional musician, the magic of the banjo, a mystical event in Scotland and a Thunderbird experience. We discuss his term “presentiment”, his experience with psychic espionage at the Stargate program, the cracking of belief systems, building evidence of psychic phenomena and using science to study from the INSIDE, and what his scientific research points to about our psychic abilities.
We recommend the listener to reference episode 80 with Russell Targ re his leadership in the CIA’s Remote Viewing program.
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Dean,
Website: www.deanradin.com
TW: https://twitter.com/deanradin
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean-radin-9417877/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/DeanRadinsPage/
Books: https://www.deanradin.com/books
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today we are joined by Thomas Verny at his home in Stratford, Ontario. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the effects of prenatal and postnatal environment on personality. Dr Verny shot to international fame after the publication of his book entitled “The Secret Life of the Unborn Child” in 1982. But fame was never a driver for Thomas. Searching the truth suited him better. We speak to a man today who has had his own private practice for many decades, has published several books, articles, short stories and poems and now who also hosts his own podcast – “Pushing Boundaries with Dr. Thomas R Verny”. But, we also learn about Thomas the Boy who was separated from his parents during the Nazi occupation, who was jailed to be shipped to a concentration camp and who was blessed with people close to him of miraculous love. We learn about the hardships his parents endured also after the War and as new immigrants to North America. And, we learn about the boy who became fascinated with the works of Sigmund Freud at age 13.
With a lifelong interest in memory and mind, Thomas soon went on to help establish the science of Pre & Perinatal Psychology. We discuss his work on cellular intelligence and the central role of the cell membrane vs the nucleus and the importance of the body vs the brain. If that isn’t enough, we also discuss his personal experience with a psychic and an illuminating Out of Body experience that became a very informative episode in his life – and possibly an informative one for our host.
And what matters most to Thomas? The teaser says it all.
His is a life lived. And it seems like he’s only getting started.
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Thomas,
Website: http://www.trvernymd.com
Recent Book (2021): The Embodied Mind https://www.amazon.com/Embodied-Mind-Understanding-Mysteries-Consciousness/dp/1643137999/ref=sr_1_1?crid=D8CV2ZKKT48H&keywords=the+embodied+mind&qid=1662511995&sprefix=the+embodied+mind+%2Caps%2C199&sr=8-1
Podcast: “Pushing Boundaries” - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1628669415
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tverny/
Rick joins us from his home outside of Toronto. He is perennially and lovingly known as “Rick the Temp” in his home country. He is a long time national TV & Radio host and a long time friend to Inspire and Behind Greatness. As a shy kid growing up in Hamilton, Rick knew he had something in him. Armed with the love of music and art, a positive life-energy and a heavy commitment to preparation, Rick created the opportunity for himself to become a national video jockey for Much Music in the 1990s. And he never looked back. We learn about throwing Christmas trees off buildings (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSYvZdqapZw), microphones in microwaves and note-filled footballs. We discuss being cognizant of the nostalgia that he represented for millions of viewers across the country. And we also learn about being ok with facing new experiences with little confidence, high anxiety and lack of polish and how the commitment to learning and pushing has always been the key for Rick. He also stresses the importance of staying approachable and the pact he had with his family members when he first started his journey.
Rick’s positivity is contagious – and real. Listen for yourself.
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Rick,
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-campanelli-05832231/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/rick_campanelli/?hl=en
TW: https://twitter.com/rickacampanelli
Z Mornings: https://z1035.com/z-mornings-rick-campanelli-sandra/
Jeff joins us from Houston. He is the current Associate Dean of the Faculty and Graduate Programs in the School of the Humanities and the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. He is also the Associate Director of the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. In this conversation we explore the “3rd space” that Jeff occupies and a wide array of topics therein and all connected to the esoteric: a term that is important to Jeff. We discuss Jeff’s position on the physical world vs the immaterial world, Belief vs Beliefs, the importance of the Humanities and the porosity of the human being. We delve immediately into the Paranormal and learn how old religious heterodoxy allowed what we could accept and what we should ignore and linked to how many scientists (social and otherwise) are “in the closet” about these experiences. We discuss how our culture is trying to change itself today as we share our experiences without the societal / cultural shackles of our recent ancestors. We learn more about his thoughts on religion as a mechanism to tap into paranormal forces and then attribute to an external deity. We discuss being in your own story, creating your own story versus believe that you are your own story. We talk about religion as an art, the self, reincarnation, the importance of acting, the persona – and the Friendly Neighbourhood Spiderman.
Soo much to talk about and too little time!
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Jeff,
Website: http://jeffreyjkripal.com
Books: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-John-Kripal/e/B001IODIT2%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
John chats with us from his place in Toronto. John comes from a family – like many of us – that left their country in poverty to make a better life in a new place. John tells us about growing up, living and working in a cocoon of a 2km radius … until he began to poke a hole in his bubble. In the 90s, John worked relentlessly for his firm fulfilling his billable hours, but spending 1000 hours / year trying to build a business with future tech-giants like Microsoft and Oracle. But before they were giants John bet his future on this space, perplexing all of his superiors … until the tech space exploded and he became the authority in the country in this industry. We discuss being on top of the world … until his firm became embroiled global scandal and he lost everything. We discuss in detail a horrific accident, near-death, his comatose state … until Pavarotti, a stage, a white light and the perennial chip on his shoulder brought us to this conversation. Talk about piercing holes in the universe….
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John,
Website: https://www.maverixpe.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joruffolo/
TW: https://twitter.com/ruffoloj
Orlando joins us from his home city of Miami. In a followup to last week’s scintillating talk with Luis Zuniga, we continue with Orlando in talking about living under a totalitarian regime and the peoples’ fight against the same. Orlando’s family lineage in Cuba traces back to 1492. Orlando explains how he and his Organization are trying to pierce through the communist armour of Cuba’s regime to get the message of hope, liberty and democracy to the Cuban people on his home island. We discuss infiltration of radio airwaves, the “escape” story of his own family, the grave political dangers of pork, evictions, the sacrifices of his parents and grandparents and the humiliating and punishing treatment of those who simply try to leave and those who rise up against. Orlando also stresses with us how tourism dollars into Cuba are directly deposited into military bank accounts and not necessarily into hospitals and schools and for the general welfare of the people. We learn from Orlando how the ideological cloak of the regime has started to wear and tear in modern times and how a continued push to show those living under crushing communist rule that beliefs are stronger than many think them to be.
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Orlando,
Website: www.directorio.org
Assembly of the Resistance website: www.republicadecuba.org
Personal website: www.gutierrezboronat.com
Luis joins us from Miami, Florida. Luis is a former Plantado. Born and bred in Cuba, Luis was a young teen during Fidel Castro’s revolution against the military dictatorship in Cuba at the time. However, he found out as a young university student just how oppressive Castro’s version of “liberation” was (and is) living under his communist rule starting in the early 1960s. Refusing “political integration” as a university student, Luis brings us through his harrowing story fighting back against Castro’s totalitarian regime. Fighting meant that he was imprisoned for his beliefs for almost 2 decades of his life. He describes the appalling conditions, the tortures, the beatings, the “re-education” programs, the solitary confinement, the maimings, the escapes, the mine fields, and the rescue attempts. And none of this affected his resolve. Today, at 75 years young, he continues the fight against communism through The Assembly of Cuban Resistance. We discuss the current conditions in Cuba and the continued stranglehold that the government has on its people and that the military has on the entire tourist industry. Sensitive ears, beware. Luis brings us hard truth – and enlightening lessons.
A very special thanks to Torchia Communications https://torchiacom.com/.
Luis,
FB - Assembly of Cuban Resistance: https://www.facebook.com/cubaresist
FB- Directorio: https://www.facebook.com/directoriodemocraticocubano
Media Release: https://www.canadiannetworkoncuba.ca/index.php/events/1035-july-10-statement-of-the-canadian-cuban-friendship-association-toronto-
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Santiago joins us from Vienna. He is from Bogota, Colombia and spends his time between Austria and his native land. He is a founder and director of Jaguar Siembra – a not for profit outfit in Colombia dedicated to preserving Indigenous knowledge and sharing indigenous wisdom through film about this supremely unique place on the planet in northern Colombia: “La Linea Negra” in Santa Marta. This conversation is packed with what’s important to our guest – and to our podcast. Santiago warns us about the travails from our disconnection from our food sources, he explains the sacredness of the Jaguar (see episode with Amy Jo Johnson for more) and the community in music. He also educates us on ancient places on earth and their connection to sound and to ancient wisdom. We discuss his mission in communicating through art and why it’s important for him to use the power of film cut through the noise to share the sacred knowledge from a piece of the earth that has been untouched by modernity since forever. And yes, Metallica once again makes a cameo in this discussion.
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Santiago,
Website: www.jaguarsiembra.com
IG: @jaguarsiembra
FB: https://www.facebook.com/jaguarsiembra
We chat with Diane, who is joining us from Oregon. Diane is an artist and dancer … and she is also a practising neuroscientist, psychiatrist, clinician and author. She is a polymath, whose life has been enriched by unique near death experiences - at age 4, age 13 and again in her 20s. We learn about Diane’s challenge of the materialistic model that scientists are trained to follow and why this is important for her – and for science. Diane is also known for her pioneering work in parapsychology, through the study of telepathy and savant skills in autistic children. She discusses with us the primacy of consciousness and consciousness “as a cloud”, the information field vs the sensory field, reincarnation, out-of-body experiences, the dreaming state and the limitations of language on our ability to think. She brings us through a wonderful retelling of her experience with ducks and making sense of chaos through artistic experience. A fascinating discussion, with a fascinating human being.
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Diane,
Website: https://drdianehennacy.com/
Books: https://drdianehennacy.com/?page_id=13
Leslie joins us from NYC. She studied ornithology in her graduate studies in Massachusetts, moved to humanitarian work for Burma to radio show production in California to then freelance investigative journalism.
As a journalist she was able to publish her early work relating to UFOs in the Boston Globe in 2001 – and was struck by the deafening silence of response to her piece. But some did take notice …. She published a best selling book several years later and began to be invited by high level political officials and defence bureaucrats to help them understand what she was investigating and indeed finding. In 2017 she had found out about ATIIP, a secret program within the Pentagon to investigate UFOs. With the help of Luis Elizondo – a recently resigned lead in this program - she was shown documentation and videos on this program. She then worked with 2 journalist colleagues, Ralph Blumenthal and Helene Cooper and revealed these details through the NY Times (including the tic tac video). From there everything changed – the tide changed in Congress and with the general public interest in UFOs in the US, and the world around. We talk about radically changing beliefs by following curiosities. We discuss her work on her last book and the Netflix series that it inspired (and filmed by BreakThru Films) and how/why she was drawn by reincarnation cases and suggestion that we survive death. We discuss her beliefs on after-death, her personal experience with mediums, her experience with her deceased brother and her wish to delve more into the study of consciousness and human super-powers. She explains her gratitude for being able to spend the time and space to pursue truth and to help “shine the light on the irrationality of the skeptical mindset”.
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Leslie,
Website: https://www.lesliekean.com/
TW: https://twitter.com/lesliekean?lang=en
Bruce joins us from his home in California. Bruce was a pioneer cell biologist and one of the few scientists in the world working with cloning stem cells back in the late 1960s. And he dared asking questions. During his early research work at Stanford, he started to realize that what scientists were learning and teaching others about genetics and genetic determinism was faulty. He came to understand that we are in fact the masters, not the victims of our genes. Ostracized by his peers early on for his pioneering work, Bruce was finally vindicated when 23 years later in the early 1990s, his work in Epigenetics became recognized by modern science. Bruce discusses at length with us the importance of understanding the programs that we are inculcated with early on in our lives and how these programs unfortunately run the majority of our lives. We discuss how our consciousness has direct input into the culture of our cells … how our cells are formed based on our environment and what and how we “feed” them. We talk about cells as the “antennas of self” -- how our bodies are receptors of our own broadcasts. We also discuss the importance of creating and of breaking through our old programs and taking on new programs that don’t perpetuate disharmony. And to our giddy pleasure we also touch upon the importance of dreams: disconnecting from the machine and doorways.
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Bruce,
Books: https://www.brucelipton.com/store/?product-category=bruce-lipton-authored
Website: https://www.brucelipton.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/BruceHLiptonPhD/
TW: https://twitter.com/biologyofbelief
IG: https://www.instagram.com/brucelipton/
YT: https://www.youtube.com/user/biologyofbelief
Ramy joins us from his home in Toronto. Ramy has spent a career honing his gifts and capabilities in building a successful career in management consulting and corporate C-level leadership. From the outset of this conversation, Ramy is more than happy to get into what matters to him: investing in others’ lives. We discuss his belief in making impact and making a difference with others, a mindset he imported from his upbringing and early career life in a more ancient part of the world - in North Africa and the Middle East. We discuss the cultural differences between living in the East and the West: the central role that relationships played in his everyday life and how the concept of time is viewed in building those relationships. We chat about his thoughts on the importance of logic, structure, the concept of building a set of skills in our society and discipline … and we see Ramy politely tolerate some of your host’s naïve questions (;)). Ramy stresses his need to be present for others and the continuous struggle between focus on the self vs community engagement. A solid, “structured” conversation, with a healthy sprinkling of right brain musings.
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Ramy,
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramy-dimitry-6260121b/
Tim grew up in London (Ontario), a small city between Detroit and Toronto. He had a happy childhood, but needed to live a closeted existence as his environment was hostile. After moving to the big city as a young adult, he quickly began to flourish. He lived a life surrounded by art and the artistic endeavour and lived within the irreverent energy that it exuded. Not considering himself an ‘artist’, this early adulthood life experience shaped his ambitions to the core nonetheless. He soon began to understand how irreverence in the arts brought people together, created culture and helped changed beliefs. Over his career, he has become a globally recognized social entrepreneur in this space. We discuss how modernism in architecture began to focus away from people and give way to towers, plazas - and the car – and how we lost our way in creating places for people and stories and the emotional connection to both. We chat about the “activation” of a place, multisensorial dimensions and art as urban acupuncture. In line with our discussion with the late Hazel Henderson (ep 61), Tim talks about focusing on a bigger pie – not a bigger slice of what we already have.
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Tim,
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-jones-8ba9b11a0/?originalSubdomain=ca
TW: https://twitter.com/timjones0001
Jack joins us from his home in Atlanta, Georgia. Jack grew up as Albrecht Dittrich in post-WW2 East Germany in “The Valley of the Clueless”. He was a youth leader for the communist party and a promising young academic when he was approached by the KGB and recruited as an espionage agent. Armed with a sharp curiosity, a penchant for learning languages and a strong sense of adventure, Jack’s changed his life forever when he agreed to take on his mission. After several years of training in Europe, he was posted in New York City as a “sleeper agent”. He spent many years working and educating himself as a regular dutiful US citizen would and eventually built a legitimate career and had a (second) family while living his American life. He found himself deciding between choosing to leave his new family and return to the KGB fold in Europe or leave the KBG at great expense and live out his life as an IT executive and father (spoiler alert: the FBI eventually caught up with him). We discuss what belief systems, elitism, “slow decontamination”, fear, narcissism, cowardice and heroism all mean to him. We ruminate about the immense power of (a lack of) a mother’s affection and the moving love of a daughter and how those two forces book-ended his intensely unique human experience.
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Podcast Series “The Agent”: https://open.spotify.com/show/5DToOunQsM18OmGD5eVRXR
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackbarsky/
Website: https://jackbarsky.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/spybarsky
Jason is a partner at McMillan LLP and joins us from his office in Toronto. He is a recognized top construction lawyer in the country – with soft hands, no less. But, that’s not where we go with this conversation. We go instead where Jason lives: in the exploration of his essence. We start with family … Modesta and Eugénio, kitchen-Portuguese, the menu-reading child within and his grandfather’s “I get it” moment. We discuss his tendency to throw himself into something fully when he’s impassioned by it, and demanding more of himself with that little bit of a chip on his shoulder. We chat about the importance of thinking about your existence, the Buddhist concept of flow and interconnectivity with others and the illusion of our own perceptions. We discuss the importance of challenging and wrestling with mystery. He also muses about recognizing the bravery of a faith/belief that compels those in it to make sense of it only to risk having those come out the other side shedding those same beliefs. A treat of a conversation.
Bodybuilding, manes, gypsies and golf-commentating all had honourable mentions.
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Jason,
Website: https://mcmillan.ca/people/jason-annibale/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-annibale-26911322/
Kenneth joins us from his home in Toronto. He is an award winning and best selling author of numerous novels for young readers. He is famed for writing Airborn, the Silverwing Trilogy and now his latest novels, Bloom and its sequels, Hatch and Thrive. This was a fun conversation. He grew up on Vancouver Island on the Pacific coast and spent a few uncomplicated, happy pre-teen years in Halifax, on the Atlantic. Kenneth wanted to be a writer from a very young age, being pig-headed about his vocation from the very beginning. We naturally delve into themes that are important to us on Behind Greatness. Kenneth explains how childhood experiences run parallel throughout our lives, informing also our decisions today. He chats with us about taking pleasure in creation and the quiet, solitary, undramatic process that he invests in to find that pleasure. We discuss the power of encouragement as a lifeblood to pursuing creation and the importance of listening to dreams (encouragement: so easy a word and so elusive for many of us). And, we hark back to a reference from episode 24 with Mike Narducci regarding creativity – to Kenneth existing as a simmering well.
“The are fewer things more powerful than an idea.” Indeed.
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Kenneth,
Website: www.kennethoppel.ca
FB: www.facebook.com/kennethoppelfan
YT: www.youtube.com/user/kennethoppel
TW: @kennethoppel
We have an exciting conversation with Avi Loeb. Avi is a philosopher and farm-boy at his core. He has spent the past several decades as a leading Astrophysicist, including a most recent decade-long stint as a department head at Harvard, having published over 700 papers and written 8 books . Avi became wider known outside of scientific circles for his stance on scientific and space exploration after the discovery of the famous interstellar object called “Oumuamua” in 2017. He subsequently also founded The Galileo Project in 2021, which is focused on researching evidence of alien civilizations on earth and beyond. We discuss what is important to Avi in this discussion …. (and take a deep breath before you read): the need for humans to attach themselves to nature, rather than to their egos … searching for the pimples on the face of nature … the danger of echo-chambers and keeping young scientific minds within the herd … the risks of being beholden to awards, honours and prestige … giving power back to young innovating scientists (see: Einstein, Galileo etc.) to encourage exploration rather than putting them in career “house arrest” … project Lyra … the metaphor of jogging with light footwear ... and dark chocolate. We also hear about how viewing the frontier of new knowledge and exploration should inspire the child in us all – a person we all were when ego and self-importance where not a factor in how we pursued truth.
Honourable mentions by the way to one of history’s most courageous philosophers, mathematicians, cosmologists, martyrs and truth seekers: Giordano Bruno. And Brad Pitt. “Aumm Aumm”
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Avi:
The Galileo Project: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/home
Commentaries: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Opinion.html
Video Clip – Miami, Florida: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Bit22.mp4
Harvard Bio: https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/
We have the privilege of sitting down Safiya, who only recently fled from her native Ukraine with her daughter. We are also joined by one of our favourite past guests on the podcast, the marvelous Joan Koenig (ep 79). Joan helps facilitate the conversation. Joan and her friends (Janice Giarracco & Michael Clancey) have been instrumental in helping Safiya find safe haven in France over the last month. A trained psychologist, Safiya ran a special school for children in the Donbas region before the war in 2014 forced her to relocate. After a brief stay in Moscow her vocation had her return to her Ukraine, this time in Kyiv – until she once again lost everything after the start of the war in February 2022. She recounts the experience of living under the real threat of missile attacks and bombing throughout the day and night and her eventual exodus to the Polish border. She describes the emotional episode watching men separated from their families as they left them to cross the border. And we learn so much more from this extraordinary woman. We listen to her recounts of her multiple near death experiences over her lifetime so far and what particular gifts each of those experiences have left her. Spoiler alert: one of them is healing. There are too many take-aways from this discussion: the value of empathy, of teaching through play, of fairy-tale therapy, of learning to see your ancestral program … and the ultimate value of the pursuit to help others.
During our talk, Safiya gave an impromptu numerological reading of your host and his recent ancestral lineage and she was bang-on with her entire diagnosis. We decided to edit most of this out as they are of a personal nature. But, we may very well divulge some details in future episodes…
Kindly see below information on the Foundation set up to help Safiya – so that she can help others who are in the same boat during this time:
· For donations that do not require a fiscal receipt, or a French receipt: https://www.fondation-enfance.org/creer-ma-fondation/fondations-et-fonds-abrites/koenig-foundation-2-2/
· For fiscal receipts in the USA: donors must donate to CafAmerica.org, and indicate they want the funds to go to the above link (in France). Main USA Link: CafAmerica.org & https://www.cafamerica.org/give-now/
· For fiscal receipts in Canada: donors must donate to CafCanada.ca and indicate they want the funds to go to the above link (in France). Main Canada link: CafCanada.ca & https://www.cafcanada.ca/givenow/
We speak with Lisa Good in Toronto. Lisa started out in the mail-room of an ad agency in Toronto to eventually become an Ad Exec and Managing Director of a leading and award-winning ad agency in Canada. We chat with Lisa about losing a parent at a young age, mental health and acting out against suppressed grief as a young adult. We discuss workaholic-ism and the importance of finding the ok in quiet time. More importantly, we chat about her family and lessons we give to our kids about “doing” vs being, boredom and creativity, flying slippers, empathy … but not too much empathy … and the advantages and pitfalls of restlessness. We stretched it, but we found nuggets of truth in tying food preparation and the artform of sculpting.
… and we get to meet “restless” Lisa in action during the recording.
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Lisa:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisaaraujo/
Website: https://www.bensimonbyrne.com/about
Bayo joins us from his home in Chennai India but grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. Losing his father as a young teen had him start a search for knowledge and meaning – a search that has intensified throughout his life. As a teen he hustled to make a living in the street to help support his family and save for university studies. At university, he was destined to be “The Total Man” until he unfurled his mind and his beliefs. The conversation goes to exciting depths and hidden corners … we discuss our Entanglement (oh, our entanglement!), the seditiousness of writing, the “bible and a pencil”, the act of making his father through his daughters, being “dire-whelmed”, seeing death as a soundscape, the act of creation – and shiny dishes. So. Much. Goodness.
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Bayo:
Website: https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bayoakomolafe/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bayoakomolafe
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bayoakomolafeampersand
Jill joins us from her home state of Indiana where she grew up. Jill graduated from Harvard and embarked on a career as a neuroanatomist, motivated in part by her desire to understand her brother’s schizophrenia. She soon became known throughout the world through her widely viewed and viral TED talk back in 2008, entitled “My Stroke of Insight”. And so we giddily sit down together and have fun exploring the depths of her experience. Jill had a stroke and became the patient, the observer and the pilot of her own case study in one fell swoop – which changed her forever. She describes her experience of living through a stroke – the left hemisphere not able to process and the right hemisphere floating its own way – and the ensuing 8 years of recovery. We discuss her experience living in a world free from judgement and intellectual primacy and existing as an entity free from the shackles of a Left Hemisphere dominant life. We delve a bit into her new book Whole Brain Living and the Four Characters of both the left and right hemispheres – and her decision to live a Right Hemisphere dominant life. We talk about make belief, the role of the actor, the Great Gigi, empathy, living with more order, but less order, great whales, timelessness of the artists’ endeavour, our training of children to discount the importance of connection, creativity, earning your mother power, proprioception, the present moment…. and the desire to be awake when consciousness finally shifts and she Glides back into the Sea of Silent Euphoria.
We dare you not to listen.
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Jill:
Website: https://www.drjilltaylor.com/
Book: https://www.drjilltaylor.com/whole-brain-living/
TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU&t=2s
FB: https://www.facebook.com/DrJillBolteTaylor
IG: @drjillboltetaylor
Athena is originally from Johannesburg, South Africa. Athena was a highly intuitive child and learned not to demonstrate this with most, believing that there was little acceptance of these abilities in her circles. As a young adult she was trying to understand her place in the world when she had a dream that had a profound impact on her life’s direction. We move on to discuss the importance of the “divinity within” and how we may have been shut off from our own sacred knowledge. We learn about Athena’s experience in confronting a psychological shadow/demon, and in the middle of discussing the idea of malevolence beings we face a power outage in our conversation (not joking). But this doesn’t thwart our determination. We discuss the dismissive nature of modern Western culture on the exploration of the dream realm and we discuss what might be brewing underneath anyway … a yearning from each of us to be awake.
FYI - the Jaguar made another surprise cameo in this discussion … and we highly recommend our discussion with Amy Jo Johnson in episode 92 as an accompaniment to this episode with Athena.
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Athena:
Website: www.athenalaz.com
Book: The Alchemy of Your Dreams - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593327799/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0593327799&linkCode=as2&tag=alchemy063-20&linkId=f770ebbcffddfeb2d152796a17c048b4
IG: @athena_laz
TW: @athena_laz
Sharon joins us from her home in Virginia. Sharon grew up in a Christian-centric upbringing and was home-schooled at her request. After having gone away for post-secondary to NYC, she found that her new secular environment was not the fit that she expected. However, after having experienced grad school in Paris, the secular view on life became more attractive to her … until it didn’t. She brings us through a couple of personal experiences of “coincidences” and becoming more of herself as she explores the “weirdness” of paranormal. We discussed the importance of paying attention to the paranormal – starting with synchronicities and dreams – to help us to see deeper layers of ourselves. We talk about freedom, the importance of love to learn about interconnectedness, the shedding of beliefs and the importance of being puzzled. For good measure we threw in a chat about the number 33.
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Sharon:
Website: https://sharonrawlette.wordpress.com/about/
Books: https://sharonrawlette.wordpress.com/books/beyond-death/
Psychology Today blog Mysteries of Consciousness
BICS award-winning essay Beyond Death: The Best Evidence for the Survival of Human Consciousness
We are joined by Jade Johnson at her home in London. A native of London, her (large) family moved temporarily to Liverpool when she was 7. She grew up in a mixed race family and never took notice of this - until she and her sister were singled out after her move to her new neighbourhood. She relays a story that obliterated her childhood and changed her life forever. She spent the rest of her youth driven by a deep motivation to disprove her doubters and this carried her all the way to the Olympics - twice. We discuss her high-octane need to challenge herself to “battling the event” rather than battling others. We hear her describe her innate desire to help others, even if it means that they may succeed in beating her as a result. We turn the page and delve into her life as a mother and the profound truths of existence from her precocious young son, Lucas. We discuss the strong evidence of reincarnation in her family and hear a most profound metaphor for empathy. And, there is a poignant and well placed chat about the magic of the octopus.
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Jade:
Unconventional Voice of Track & Field: https://www.instagram.com/voicesoftnf/?hl=en
Twitter: @JadeLJohnson7
Centrepoint Charity: https://centrepoint.org.uk/about-us/
Natalie joins us from her native Minnesota for our talk. After having finished a Masters in Art, Natalie worked as an archaeologist in US deserts to help support her desire to continue her vocation as an artist. We learn that Natalie also had a selfless bent to her, which brought her to explore different parts of her country to help others in need. And through these experiences, she learned of other explorative opportunities. One was a work stint in (the frozen desert of) Antarctica where she found that she could finish her work quickly enough during the day so to “escape” to sketch and write for the rest of the day. But it was in yet another desert setting, in Iraq, where Natalie had her most profound life experience. The truck she was riding in was bombed and Natalie instantly found herself outside of her body and communicating and collaborating with beings in the non-physical dimension. She brings us through her experience with delightful detail – and with the lessons she learned about the wisdom of love and adoration, about creativity as the fundamental force of being and about the sacredness of laughter. We discuss being the agent of our own lives, facing our fears in our dreams, having the openness and courage “to be a beginner” and having the will to examine and break down our beliefs.
An expansive conversation to say the least.
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Natalie:
Book: Application of Impossible Things: A Near Death Experience in Iraq - https://www.amazon.com/Application-Impossible-Things-Death-Experience/dp/188694024X
Website: www.nataliesudman.com
Blog: www.traceofelements.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-sudman-6811158/
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100027975176862&_rdr
We have a delightful conversation with Elisabetta, who joins us from her abode in the Apennine mountains in Abruzzo in central Italy. Elisabetta is the foremost expert on the Marsican Bear in Italy. Originally from Rome, Elisabetta has spent over 20 years living in the mountains observing, researching, writing about, and storytelling on the famous Marsican bear. Elisabetta was an aspiring actress as a teen. As she developed her love for emotional channelling that acting provided, she also began to experience the exact same energy in her nature walks as a biology student. Eventually, she decided to “break up” with acting to pursue a life studying, researching and living with wildlife – but not before learning the lifelong lesson of feeling with her gut. A scientist by trade and a storyteller by heart, Elisabetta brings us through her thoughts on the majesty of wildlife, the importance of empathy, fear and respect and the timelessness of nature and of art. And forest school. And tracking wolves alone in the Arctic. And a playful and frightening close encounter with her beloved bear.
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Elisabetta:
Website: https://www.orsoeformica.it/?lang=en
FB: https://www.facebook.com/elisabetta.tosoni.1
Today we are joined by Cat Criger in Toronto. Cat has had a life so far filled with experiences in following his curiosities. He is an Elder of the Cayuga Nation, Turtle Clan and has German and English ancestry. His father was a “disenfranchised” Indigenous man, which meant that his children were protected from the “scoop” of government authorities that took children away to residential schools. His father decided to pursue his career for the Department of Defence working on military aircraft. This imbued a young Cat with an interest in high tech machinery, which served him well later in his career. And then Cat pivots again in the 1990s after rediscovering the ancient philosophies of his Indigenous roots. Not shy of professing his passion of racing bikes, Cat discusses with us the importance of “always exploring” and living with the “twisty-roads-only” gps setting. We talk about the majesty of felines, the purpose of February, hot-pink deer, portable record players and Mr Baird, dream-catchers, swamps as both transition and as home and the gift of music from our mothers.
A winding discussion filled with metaphors - and lesson sharing.
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Cat:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cat-criger-371a097a/
We are joined this week by Julie Church on her rear porch. Our backdrop is the night sky over her backyard in Nairobi, Kenya. Julie brings us through a magically-weaved story about growing up in Kenya, with secondary and post-secondary schooling in Europe and South Africa and a life-long commitment to the magic and mystery of the sea. While working with the WWF she created an eco-friendly project where she created jobs and skills centres for the community through the collection of ocean refuse (ie. flipflops) and creating art from it. This kick-started her entrepreneurial approach to creating ocean and marine awareness. We also learned about a childhood filled with exploration of the land and the sea, her family’s deep love of cultural and linguistic diversity, a horrific, near fatal and a fatal buffalo attack and the magic of witch-doctor guidance. We discussed her life as one filled with the beauty, the blessings and the danger of deep interconnectedness with nature’s flow. Reminding us that we know more about our solar system that we do our ocean … which is a diverse, rich, mystical and charismatic story that she strives to share with the world. We explore how perhaps our human story is dependent on and rooted in our one ocean …. in fact, in our blue consciousness.
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Julie:
Website: https://www.seas4life.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-church/
IG: @seas4lifesafaris
IG: @jules_church
Video: https://www.grida.no/resources/8456
George joins us from his abode in LA where he hosts his own Music Radio Show on Apple that is broadcast to over 120 countries. Originally from Toronto, George grew up with a no-nonsense single mom who taught him the importance of being of service to others. As a young boy, his backdrop was a life filled with daily library visits, a senior’s home, rough neighbourhood streets, cinema and a growing affection for those anti-establishment music genres: punk and metal. We discuss the flawed artists who George says helped shaped him as he grew into a national media personality – with a unique edge. We go on to discuss the importance of doing “the interior work”, living a life with space, refusing to be limited and clearing a path for others. We learn about a muse of his – Raine Maida – who taught him an important lesson on exploring the “what if” at an important juncture in his life. Throughout the chat, we come to understand the important things that really matter to George … and making your mark is not one of them. Listen in. And rock on.
To learn more about George’s muse, feel free to have a listen to Raine’s talk on Behind Greatness. Episode 65.
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George:
Website: https://www.music.strombo.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/strombo/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/strombo/
TW: https://twitter.com/strombo
House of Strombo (YT): https://www.youtube.com/user/TheStromboShow
Amy Jo is originally from Cape Cod and spent many years as an actor in Hollywood before packing up her bags and leaving for Montreal. After several years, she left for Toronto where she lives currently – devoting herself to film directing, writing and creating music. For 12 years, she, her siblings and her mom lived in a religious cult, with her only outlet for self-expression being gymnastics and story-telling. At age 15, her beliefs suddenly collapsed when her mother took her family out of the cult. From that point Amy Jo set upon a life of continued creative exploration. We discuss escaping rules and judgment, quieting inner voices, investing in story-telling and tapping into the creative flow. But we don’t stop there … We explore some of her more reoccurring and lucid dreams and how they are a connective tissue to her sense of creative expression. We listen to a vivid account of “opening of doors” in her dream state and how this has shown itself through her sense of “seeing” beyond the physical. And it’s the metaphorical doors to rebirth and to the creative realm that are just as relevant to this discussion as are the literal doors to the same.
During our chat, we invoke a past discussion we had with Carl Ruck (ep 73) about dreaming and an elevated state of consciousness.
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Amy Jo:
Website: https://www.amyjojohnson.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/atothedoublej/
TW: https://twitter.com/_amyjojohnson
FB: https://www.facebook.com/atothedoublej/
YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFxfa3EuLCSA7_zUzWtBkOw?view_as=subscriber
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005057/
Today we are joined by Edoardo Ghignone, who lives in The Hague, Netherlands. He is the founder of a consultancy named LTx that works with C-Suite leadership teams of large corporate organizations across Europe. Originally from Milan, Edoardo was brought up in a family that ran a manufacturing business in the city for 75 years. He describes his parental influences: an artisan father and a mother too fast for the world. He lived an early adult life devoted to learning languages, travelling, working in different countries and having fun. He brings us to the point in his life where he decided that he needed to put his “soul on the table”. From there, we explore his thoughts on the beauty of caressing your ideas, trusting your intuition, and the importance of feeling. We also discuss a unique psychic ability that he uncovered later in his life and how he incorporates this into his understanding of inter-relatedness. And we hear about how wasting time is a direct input for learning and the creative process … playing cards, sipping wine and listening to elders through mountain side trips.
This episode is best listened to with a Campari on the rocks.
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Edoardo:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edoardoghignone/
Website: www.LeadershipTeamX.com
We connect with Rune, who lives in Copenhagen. Rune is a leading expert in pre-Christian Nordic Religions & Animism. Born and bred in rural Denmark, Rune explains how hints of Nordic pre-Christian tradition was woven into songs that his grandmother used to sing. This spurred a life-long quest: his need for unearthing and attaining long-lost knowledge of Nordic Indigenous culture. He started with travelling and living as a teen to Norway and learning how the Sami (the last Indigenous peoples of Northern Europe) lived. He soon found that current scholarship in the field was too mundane for him. So, he decided to spend considerable time studying animist religions in West Africa and Brazil and he saw that the peoples from where he was born held similar ancient beliefs, long before the spread of Christianity. Rune brings us through a discussion on relation and connectedness to the “other”: the landscape, the animals, other peoples, cycles of the seasons etc. We discuss how death and the dead were uniquely perceived by his Indigenous ancestors and the “carnivalesque” nature of this perception. Just fascinating. We’re not going to lie: “Valhalla” was uttered at least once.
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Rune:
Website: https://nordicanimism.com/
YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Runehr
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rune-hjarn%C3%B8-rasmussen-4626b010/
Marie joins us from Toronto. Marie is inarguably one of the country’s most public and most sought after criminal defence lawyers. She was born of Middle Eastern parents and grew up in Toronto within a tight knit family. Being a serious and studious girl from the get-go, she decided early in life that fighting for the underdog was what she wanted to do. Her deep affection for her uncle brought her to spend much time in NYC as a young adult. It was a world in full contrast to her own life in Toronto and her own cultural upbringing – but it was a world that felt comfortable for her just the same. Laser-focused and with sharp instincts, she also learned to navigate the world with an open mind through her uncle Sami’s mentorship. We discuss the perennial battle between objectivity and subjectivity in human-made systems. We hear about her thoughts on toughness, boredom, passions, the dangers of compartmentalizing, therapy, winning, losing and a little about artistic endeavours. And, home-made pasta.
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-henein-bb35b936/
Website: https://hhllp.ca/
Book – Nothing But The Truth: https://www.amazon.ca/Nothing-But-Truth-Marie-Henein/dp/0771039344/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=Cj0KCQiA8vSOBhCkARIsAGdp6RTW5lPEHW3gOemFHDKlw1sSVBGifrsNlF7iZZ1w34ZZ1SQZPzc2MFAaAiNSEALw_wcB&hvadid=362236155796&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9000799&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=b&hvrand=12251961253226623843&hvtargid=kwd-297270459522&hydadcr=22426_9261600&keywords=marie+henein&qid=1641930990&sr=8-1
Antonia joins us from Vancouver, Canada. Antonia brings us through her experience in an idyllic US Midwest setting as a little girl, as a curious PhD student at Harvard and as a mother of four moving to Northern British Columbia and living with her adoptive Indigenous family. In the 1980s, Antonia met Dr. Ian Stevenson, an American psychiatrist from the University of Virginia. She became interested in his pioneering work on reincarnation research and the afterlife and she took it on herself. Already having a deep connection to the Beaver, Gitxsan and Witsutit'en peoples in BC she began researching reincarnation within these tribes. This soon had her join Ian Stevenson in becoming a pioneer in her own right in North America on the subject. We discuss the last dreamer/prophet (Charlie Yahey) of the Dane-zaa peoples and her first-hand experience witnessing one of his travels. We chat about the role that the child has in their society as a bridge between the past and the future, the Catholic Church’s changed stance on reincarnation and how the Canadian government currently actively funds studies like hers (!). And we hear about a wonderful early life transcendental experience of her own as a little girl. A purely enchanting discussion.
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Antonia:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonia-mills-0b151222/
Website: https://www2.unbc.ca/first-nations-studies/faculty
Upcoming Book: That’s My Chair: Rebirth Experience of the Gitxsan and Witsutit'en
Other Books: Eagle Down Is Our Law: Witsuwit'en Law, Feasts, and Land Claims
Suzanne joins us from Hilton Head, South Carolina. She grew up admiring her older brother’s career in the Air Force and dreamed of a military career as well. After becoming a Naval Commanding Officer and travelling around the world, she was invited to serve as the aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. For several years she was privy to top secret files, she was meeting kings and presidents and she was sitting in meetings with the President of the United States. During the tragic day of 9/11 she flew over Manhattan on Air Force 2 - which was the last aircraft in US airspace. She tells us of her walk through the wreckage at the Pentagon (her home-base) that same day with her superiors. Soon thereafter, she retired and her life changed forever. And soon after, her young stepdaughter Susan was killed and her life changed forever - again. Suzanne awakened eventually to her abilities to see connection with the unseen. We discuss training yourself in untraining … in getting away from the philosophy of “sucking it up” and “stuffing it down”. Questioning belief systems was/is key to Suzanne for re-awakening to the reality of expansion and inter-connectedness. “Going from an emptiness that can’t be filled to a fullness that can’t be contained”. This is a must listen back to back with episode 67 with Federico Faggin.
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Suzanne:
Website: https://www.suzannegiesemann.com/
Books: https://www.suzannegiesemann.com/books/
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGU9Lw6sITU4kvjqJ2gzaQw
Carol joins us from the Toronto area. We spend some time together discussing what was important for her as she spent decades building a high profile corporate career and being a mother and wife. We learn about her upbringing and frequent moving across the country. She explains how sport and her coaches played a stabilizing role in her youth – and how she parlayed this experience into a foundational belief in building strong teams throughout her professional career. We discuss the stresses, the sacrifices and the compromises as she built her corporate career – and we discussed what wasn’t up for sale. We hear about core lessons she learned from her 5 year old daughter along the way – with driveway stand-offs and Mother’s Day tea.
Some simple and hard-hitting messages about the wisdom of children, the importance of keeping true to your humanity and staying honest with your vulnerabilities. And car-talk.
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Carol:
Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/carol-stewart/
Jonathan, a Toronto boy, joins us from his office in Connecticut where he plays out his days as an endovascular surgeon and a Yale professor. Jonathan lives and breathes his passion for surgery – and from that passion we discover a lot of what makes him really tick. We delve immediately into themes like seeking approval, the real definition of confidence and his view on the life of servitude that he’s chosen. We discuss leadership through humility and hard work and the desire to guide and mentor “Al Lawson-style”. We discuss the “filing cabinet of worry”, the intimacy of his work and the dangers of pedestalization. Being a former varsity baseball player, Jonathan also weaves his thoughts with us through the metaphor of sport and the lessons of some of its heroes.
But, more importantly we explore what Jonathan is realizing has become important to him. He explains what “legacy” really means for him. And we go deeper into discovery with him about the connection to the earth and being connected to his own human existence – through both the seen and the unseen.
A clean up batter of a conversation.
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Dr. Cardella:
Bio: https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/jonathan_cardella/
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aP9Nai1cEg
Marysia joins us from southern California. A “green witch”, she is a sought after herbalist and healer in the US. Her own roots lie with a rabble-rousing family in Poland who were active in the Nazi resistance during WW2. Growing up in a matriarchal family, she learned the importance of the plant world and the abundance of the earth from her grandmother. With the understanding that plants create the ecosystem that we are born into, Marysia’s philosophy is centered on our intimate connection we have with plants’ spiritual essence. We have an engaging chat on plants as elders, teachers, healers and guides. We discuss mountains, the (thin) veil present at both birth and death and wholeness being holiness. Oh, and that’s not the half of it …. We talk at length about modern humans’ linear view on production and consumption, the ancient wisdom of mountains and our connection with the “dreaming” earth. Throw in some musings about envy, the genius of the self and human creativity and we have an upbeat, expansive talk with a woman of the earth.
“Working with wild weeds, a part of us wakes up ….” Let’s go!
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Website: www.schoolofthesacredwild.com
IG: @Marysia_Miernowska
IG: @rituelbeauty
BOOK: “The Witch’s Herbal Apothecary: Rituals & Recipes for a Year of Earth Magick and Sacred Medicine Making” - https://www.amazon.com/Witchs-Herbal-Apothecary-Rituals-Medicine/dp/1592339093/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=%E2%80%9CThe+Witch%E2%80%99s+Herbal+Apothecary%3A+Rituals+%26+Recipes+for+a+Year+of+Earth+Magick+and+Sacred+Medicine+Making%E2%80%9D&qid=1638930449&sr=8-1
Nigel joins us from his abode in the UK. Growing up, he celebrated and channeled the emotionally charged culture of his Scottish and Irish roots, which helped him make music his lifetime muse. A true citizen of the world, Nigel brings us through his journey in life from a wayward youth to internationally renowned composer to musically-focused healer and humanitarian. We walk through his experience as a head-strong youth who turned his back on a rock and roll career with a global music label and decided to live a high energy rock and roll life instead - in Eastern Europe in the early 1970s, no less. Nigel shares with us his run-ins with secret police in communist Poland and his unlikely collaboration with the KGB in the USSR, in the name of shining the light of art to others. Going on to compose for many of the world's greatest music halls and opera houses as an internationally renowned composer, Nigel always kept his eye on helping to heal the world with his creativity as a badass humanitarian - from Bosnia to Uganda to Syria to India and many other places in between.
We talk about the winning nature of art, what the limelight really is to him (as a "refusenik"), the wisdom of music and acoustic ecology of indigenous culture. Nigel also warns us against sentimentalizing "great", imploring us instead to see ourselves as natural creators. Rock and roll, baby.
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Nigel:
Website: https://skoogmusic.com/
Website: https://www.x-system.co.uk/
We are joined by Robert in Toronto. He is currently a partner in one of the country’s oldest and largest law firms. He has Jesus covid hair. And, he’s an Inspire alumn to boot. We immediately dive into the existential, where Rob also feels at home. He shares with us some of his personal experience in childhood where he spent much time in and out of hospitals, leading up to a long, excruciatingly painful battle with cancer in highschool. We have a conversation about Robert’s journey with his unique perspective on hope – and the recognition that bad things happen to good people. Healthy and profound perspective is what Rob helps us explore ... staring at a hospital ceiling ... humanity’s “de-prioritization” of intuition … inability of modern humans to access beyond the veil … and a certain primal truth through speed. A joy.
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-antenore/
Vera joins us from the sunny Yucatan. Her focus has been bioarcheology and archaeology of pre-Hispanic and pre-colonial Maya. As a child, she grew up in Germany under a very demanding upbringing. Being an artist at heart, she wanted to explore what was calling her. As a teen, she “fled” to the US to study Art History at Tulane. From there she decided to pursue her studies in Medicine in both Germany and Mexico. But that was merely the beginning. Enchanted by the warmth of Latin American culture, she dove head first in a life of exploration in archaeological and anthropological adventure graduating from Medical School. Now a leading bioarchaeologist in Latin America, she weaves her skills as a trained physician and her sense of wonder as a social scientist and artist to explore human remains and what they tell us about the ideas of our ancient ancestors. We discuss ancient Indigenous Mesoamerican cultures and how their idea of the cosmos was anchored in the divinity of the human body. We discuss some lessons that the ancient Maya teach us about the realities of both the anguish and the intensity of life, including how modern children should live that intensity, instead of being protected from it. Such an intriguing conversation with Vera about veritas.
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Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Tiesler
Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00517-y
Russell joins us from his home in California. Born during the Great Depression, Russell spent his childhood in Chicago and then NYC. A gifted learner, Russell graduated highschool early and decided to study physics in College, setting the groundwork for his career as a scientist. But his real passion already laid elsewhere…. While becoming a pioneer in the 1950s and 1960s in laser development, Russell kept the fire of his passion burning. He was bent on understanding and studying Extrasensory perception (ESP) and built an actual machine for his research “on the side”. His work soon caught the interest of NASA and then of the CIA. In the early 1970s, he co-founded the Stanford Research Institute in San Francisco where the CIA fully funded him and his team to investigate the development of psychic abilities. Here he meticulously researched remote viewing and taught senior government officials and hand-picked US Army personnel how to develop their remote viewing skills. Since his research was finally declassified in the last 5 years, Russell has been free to discuss some of the extraordinary experiences as a Remote Viewer researcher and teacher. We talk non-local consciousness, timeless awareness, the “tugging” of the future, lucid dreaming - and untrammelled Milanese women. He has spent 50 years researching and teaching these abilities – abilities that he says are innate in each and every one of us.
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Website: http://espresearch.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/russell-targ-03478327/
Documentary - Third Eye Spies (2019): https://thirdeyespies.com/. Downloadable on Amazon Prime.
Book – Reality of ESP - A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0835608840/miracleofmindremA/
Autobiography - Do You See What I See?: Lasers and Love, ESP and the CIA, and the Meaning of Life https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1571746307/miracleofmindremA/
Joan Koenig has called Paris her home for the last several decades. She grew up playing the piano and falling in love with the flute. Originally from the US, Joan moved often and lived in many states. But one thing that didn’t change was her desire to play music. She eventually found herself studying at the prestigious Julliard School in NYC and after graduation embarked upon a journey that brought her to her lay roots in France, have a family and build a business structured on her passion: music. She has spent the last several decades at the forefront of educating children where she has built an school / laboratory for innovative learning and creative entrepreneurship - through the magic of music and dance. In our dicussion, she reminds how and why in the West we have largely “forgotten” that we are all musical. We hear her thoughts on the blurring of the self and in the feeling in communion with others during musical connectedness. As the teaser shows, she shares a transcendental experience where she found herself disappearing, while in the middle of her art. And what’s at the centre of it? Listen in….
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- Personal website: https://www.joankoenig.com/
- L'Ecole KoenigWebsite: https://www.ecolekoenig.com/team/joan-koenig
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joan-koenig-7577b3153/
- Book: The Musical Child Using the Power of Music to Raise Children Who Are Happy, Healthy, and Whole https://www.amazon.com/Musical-Child-Using-Children-Healthy/dp/1328612961
Nicholas joins Behind Greatness from his office at Yale in Connecticut. Nicholas grew up with two parents who had originally came to the US from Greece as young scholars. One of Nicholas’ heroes was his mother, who suffered for two decades with a form of fatal cancer. This experience was instrumental in Nicholas’ decision to later become a physician. As a physician, he specialized in palliative care. Having been present at countless amount of deaths, he began to take more interest in what he saw made humanity tick: love and the need for human connection. For the last 20 years, Nicholas has been spearheading a unique scientific adventure with his team at The Human Nature Lab at Yale. For too long scientists have pondered and studied the obvious dark side of human nature, but it is his scientific view that the capacity for love, friendship and teaching are much more powerful than our darkest forces. Armed with the increasing knowledge of how human social networks work, he and his growing inter-disciplinary team of scientists have been on a relentless quest to make it even better. Interestingly, we also discuss the reality of “like at first sight” and Japanese interpretation of neighbourhoods as an analogy for contrast against the Western view of interpersonal relationships. Oh, and Brazilian soccer.
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New BOOK Apollo’s Arrow: https://www.amazon.com/Apollos-Arrow-Profound-Enduring-Coronavirus/dp/0316628204/
BOOK – Blueprint: https://www.amazon.com/Blueprint-Evolutionary-Origins-Good-Society/dp/0316230030
Human Nature Lab: www.humannaturelab.net
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-christakis-07a01ba5/
Twitter: @nachristakis
Website: https://humannaturelab.net/people/nicholas-christakis
Mike joins us from Winnipeg, Manitoba – in Central Canada. He grew up partly in Northern Ontario, Canada in poverty with a single mom. But, at 13 he quit school and started to explore the world. At 21, with 7 years of working experience and survival already under his belt, he founded Manitoba Harvest. Over the course of the subsequent 20 years, he grew his role from start-up entrepreneur to the CEO of a large enterprise – an enterprise which he sold twice for 9-figures. We discuss the societal “trap”, non-traditional pressures, the importance of education through life experiences and the exploration of individual interests. We hear about his musings on the quantum plane, his experiences with psilocybin treatments and his frequent “checks” on his spiritual self. We learn about how Mike’s focus is also on having his “best day ever”.
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manitoba-mikefata/
IG: @themikefata
TW: @themikefata
Clubhouse: @mikefata
Maurizio currently lives in Istanbul where he leads European professional basketball powerhouse Fenerbahce SK as its General Manager. Prior to this he was the first ever non-American VP of an NBA franchise with the Toronto Raptors and one of the most successful GMs ever in Europe. We discuss a journey riddled with serious life-altering, pivotal moments. It all started with a motorcycle dangled in front of him as a “carrot” before he left for the US for a brief stint as a foreign student. After coming back, he soon became GM of the pro basketball team of his home town of Forli, well before the age of 30. This started a decades’ long journey that has brought him to embrace the philosophy of an andrenalinic approach to learning, impacting people around him and networking. Maurizio’s is a life where pivotal moments were faced head on with the blood of his passion.
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maurizio-gherardini-1246754/
Indre joins us today from San Francisco. Growing up in Toronto she moved to California (for good) as a young adult to figure out her path as an Opera singer, while also on scholarship as a budding neuroscientist. We learn about her evolution as an artist and as a sought-after science communicator … she also hosts two podcasts: “Cadence” since 2017 and the widely acclaimed “Inquiring Minds” since 2013. Indre shares her thoughts on the necessity of facing the “stuck” as part of the creative process and on viewing creativity as a behaviour and an act. Indre addresses how we are all knowledgeable in music in a sense – as either listeners or performers. We also explore her how musicians are able to bend time. And, for good measure, we sprinkle in some talk about remote viewing as a phenomenon she investigated as part of her work on the Oprah Winfrey Network. A melodic discussion to say the least.
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Website: https://www.indreviskontas.com
Book - How Music Can Make You Better: https://www.amazon.com/How-Music-Can-Make-Better/dp/1452171920/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16URNUUD8YGY7&dchild=1&keywords=indre+viskontas&qid=1633282750&sprefix=indre+%2Caps%2C167&sr=8-1
Inquiring Minds Podcast: https://inquiring.show/
Cadence Podcast: https://www.indreviskontas.com/potowski-av
TW:@indrevis
IG: @drindredirects
TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/indre_viskontas_how_music_makes_me_a_better_neuroscientist?referrer=playlist-itunes_podcasts_music&language=en
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Anson joins us from London, England. His parents were originally from Jamaica and moved to Canada for a better life. He grew up just outside of Toronto with his sister. He was a natural athlete and in his late teens he found a real passion in sprinting. From there, he took off. Winning most of his competitions in Canada, Anson wanted more. On full scholarship at Washington State in the US, Anson soon became All-American and entered the elite world of top sprinters, keeping that same pace as he went professional. We discuss “elite” and elite “savagery” and the difference between the two. For most of his career, he trained with and raced against the world’s top sprinters. Anson describes how he had a front row seat as an observer while always “having a lane in the race”. We discuss how the importance of telling the story of sport-journey has become Anson’s post-racing calling. We also have fun breaking down the existence of the mind of the sprinter, the altered dimension of emotional existence and the need for athletes to leverage their bodies to attain experiences more other-worldly. Daaamn.
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TW: @ansonhenry
IG: @anson_henry
Podcast: “Unconventional Voices of Track & Field”
Podcast IG: @voicesoftnf
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anson-henry-5403ba59/
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Carl joins us from Boston University. He shares with us how his path changed from pursuing the field of medicine to that of philosophy and the classics. Ever since that pivot in his life, Carl has been dedicating his life to find the truth to our human existence. Over 40 years ago, he pioneered research on the Dionysian mysteries of ancient and classical Greece. He was shunned and ostracized by some of his peers, but pursuing the truth was always more important to Carl than being relevant to current dogmatic beliefs. In this discussion, Carl brings his decades of learning and wisdom from studying the shamanic roots of Western culture – roots that have been unpopular to discuss until very recently. We discuss what our ancient ancestors were discovering about our existence, the prominence of the feminine divine and the Hellenic and pagan roots of modern Christian religious practice …. And there’s more: learning the reality of being what you are and also being what you think you are not and learning about how psychotropic medicines played an important part in the development of ancient Greek Philosophy, Mathematics and Art. In case you were wondering, we also discussed the dream state and the direct correlation to the out of body experiences that our Greek, Samothracian and Persian ancestors were actively pursuing to uncover their understanding to human consciousness.
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So much revealed in this discussion, and so little time …
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-ruck-90504118/
Website: https://www.bu.edu/classics/faculty-profiles/carl-ruck/
Books: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=carl+ruck&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
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Antoni is based in Barcelona. He grew up Lleida, Spain partly under Franco’s totalitarian regime. The harsh political conditions didn’t deter Antoni’s parents, who chose to live lives dedicated to artistic endeavour. Antoni also realized at a young age that he wished to pursue his artistic curiosity and once he left his home town he began to explore his sculpting craft along with exploring the world outside of Lleida. In the early 90s, he left for Banff, Canada for a brief stint. He arrived with measuring tape and materials and left with something called an email address. From that point on, Antoni’s journey took the path of a digital artistic pioneer travelling and showcasing his works all around the globe. Based in Spain, he was also the first to create the world’s first digital “social” network – a network that was predicated on a decentralized-view of communication and a view that paid emphasis on participants, not users. We discuss how building platforms for the marginalized, the displaced, the demobilized - all over the world - has been a calling card for his art. Antoni explains how a “citizen’s network” is more meaningful than a social media network. We also understand that the artist creates the sublime when the artist sees themselves as a true mediator.
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoni-abad-6800bb2b/
Websites: www.blind.wiki, www.megafone.net, www.deaf.city
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Anna joins us from Athens, Georgia. She was born in the Middle East of Indian parents who made sure that her education formally take place in their country of origin. As a student in India, Anna found her comfort zone in sports, non-academic endeavours and in the general exploration of people. She soon became attracted to the social sciences and developed a keen interest in the academic research of a curiosity that always held her: human creativity. Specializing in this ever since, Anna has become a leading researcher in the world in the discussion of the mystery of creativity. We explore exploration, the flow state, the creative impulse, the autotelic experience, human truth and death …. A fun chat discovering discovery.
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Website: http://www.anna-abraham.com/
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Mike joins us from Southern Ontario. He grew up in a small town near Niagara Falls. As a kid he helped his father deliver milk by horse and cart and was paid in dairy. Finding out later that he was lactose intolerant, he knew this might be a sign. Eventually becoming a CPA and partner at a large firm, Mike spent ungodly hours building his career – putting a strain on his family life. Moving on to work as a CFO for a Multinational firm he lived a life of mergers, acquisitions and cultural takeovers. But we talk about his true passion – working with athletes in the Special Olympics. We discuss true focus, living in the present moment, the love of sharing success with others and the specialness of watching those who live closer to a truth … a truth from which we have all long been detached. A true lesson.
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Bruce grew up in the suburbs of NYC, where his upbringing was rooted both in healthy skepticism and in a strong curiosity about the material world. His father, a chemist, always urged young Bruce to blaze a trail. As a green intern in the 1970s, one of Bruce’s first patients revealed to him a peculiar experience that puzzled him. He habitually wrote off this type of experience with other patients as well - for a little while. Soon enough though, he realized that ignoring these phenomena was a simple choice in taking a dogmatic approach rather than a truly scientific one. So he made a switch. And with that switch he started to blaze a trail – a trail now of 50 years as the globe’s prominent scientist in the research and study of the near death experience (NDE). We hear from Bruce his findings about the brain vs the mind and he shares with us his message about making the big advances in science with things that we don’t understand. Bruce also tickles us with two experiences he had in dream state that spoke to perhaps something greater. What a treat.
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To listen to an actual NDE account, we invite you to listen to episode 55 of our podcast with Dr. Tony Cicoria.
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Website: www.brucegreyson.com
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Cheryl was born in a small city near the Rocky Mountains nicknamed “Swan City” and a place originally settled by First Nations tribe the Danezaa. She grew up in a family where everyone pitched in and learned to do everything needed to get things done. With this example – and a little bit of a perennial impatience – Cheryl threw herself into her sports and finished highschool early. With a fierce determination she started a business in her 20s while her friends were travelling and studying. In her 30s she sold her business and focused on her true sport-love. In her 40s, she brought her team to win an Olympic silver in her home country. We learn from Cheryl the importance of playing to win and not playing not to lose and also not fixating on success as the marker of her identity. And, we discover how her real dream is not so far away from the ancient spiritual essence of her home town. A real-people, real salt of the earth discussion.
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cherylbernard/
Website & Book: http://cherylbernard.com/category/between-the-sheets/
Hall of Fame Website: https://www.sportshall.ca
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Originally from Vicenza, Italy, Federico was born during WWII. As a little boy his family moved to a pre-industrial area of his region in order to escape the ravages of war. But there, little Federico soon developed a penchant for creating and building machines. As a young scientist, Federico moved to Silicon Valley where he invented and developed the 1st silicon designed micro-processor that was adopted by Intel to become industry standard. He became an entrepreneur and over the decades he founded widely successful companies where he continued to pioneer and invent, including the technology behind the touch pad and touchscreens for phones and tablets. He recounts an extremely profound out of body moment in his life in 1990 that forever changed the way he viewed the world and how he re-prioritized what was important to him. He has since then dedicated his life to supporting the science of consciousness – the marrying of science with spirituality. Get ready for a talk on the self, the quantum realm, the reality of reality, dreaming and consciousness.
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Foundation: www.fagginfoundation.org
Book: www.siliconthebook.com & https://www.amazon.com/dp/1949003418
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Ken joins us from LA where he lives, works and breathes his life’s passion. Having grown up in a conservative immigrant family environment in Chicago, Ken felt that he wanted to explore more and differently than what was expected of him. Being very shy and emotionally-tuned, young Ken also understood that he needed to break out of his environment. But, as he explains, he spiralled downwards for several years into his early adulthood. It took a certain self-realization to have him turn it around. And boy, did he. We discuss with him many of life’s lessons that he’s learned along the way and how he weaves them into his work: having empathy for others and leading with compassion, the belief in making happen what you want, the confidence in your own creative self, the courage in leaving everything behind to focus on exploration.
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A key for Ken: spend your time imagining it.
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Raine joins us from his studio in LA where he shares with us about growing up in Toronto and how disconnected he felt from artistic purpose – until he wasn’t. As a teenager at his boarding school he spent his nights in solitude, devouring music, learning to play guitar and writing songs. When his head-master asked him to cut his hair and quit his band, he knew what he needed to do. Through sheer passion, years of hard work and dedication to his art he went on to lead his rock band Our Lady Peace to sit as one of the most celebrated bands in North America of his era. But that was merely the start of things. Today, Raine is still that man creating music but he is also a conscientious father, a recognized humanitarian and a tech entrepreneur on fire focused on honouring the intellectual property of the artist. We discuss the natural human need to revere the arts and how we need to reverse the stigma of artistic endeavour in our lives. Raine also explains how many of us have let our “creative muscle” atrophy in our lives. We discuss the importance of “flying”, of exploring and of re-igniting the sparks of creative imagination from our childhood that have been so often (and methodically?) cut off by culture and curriculum.
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“We can’t afford not to be creative.”
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Instagram: @rainemaida
S!NG website: https://sing.link/
Band website: https://www.ourladypeace.com/
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Mike grew up in an idyllic small-town setting near Niagara Falls, enjoying music, frog-hunting, exploring and sports. He decided to pursue his education through sports scholarship in North Carolina and his world opened up forever thereafter. After his India, Thailand and Scotland adventures, he landed back home with no clear path in sight. He decided to move to Toronto, knowing no one and starting from zero. But Mike likes blank canvases. We hear how he learned to listen to his instincts and both plan and “feel” his way through his personal and professional experiences. Today, Mike sees his role as a “path-clearer” for those around him to create and cross the boundaries of the conventional.
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Creating opportunities for others to paint their own work. The Medicis would be proud
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Website: https://www.zulualphakilo.com/
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Bruno grew up in the hustle and bustle, chaotic urban environment of Rome. He recounts with fondness the life-defining experiences as a young boy in his family visits to the dry, hot lands of southern Italy in Puglia and the green abundance of the mountain sides in Abruzzo. Keeping these memories close as he grew older, he moved to Berlin where he launched his career as a conservationist-wilderness-award-winning photographer and author. His accolades with the BBC, National Geographic, UNESCO etc helped propel his work and spread his message to more people than he could imagine as a young boy in Rome dreaming about just this. Spending years studying and observing what the natural world teaches, Bruno shares with us what he has learned from his years in the desert, in the mountains, in the forests and from his beloved wolves. For good measure, we get to discuss a couple of his transcendental experiences and on finding the majesty in the earth’s wisdom. We hear from Bruno how we are so closely linked with the living world and how we need to “re-awaken the grammar” in us to reconnect and find the union that has always existed.
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We strongly recommend that this fine wine of an episode be paired with a previous discussion we had with Tyson Yunkaporta in episode 31.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruno-d-amicis-21584718/
Website: https://www.brunodamicis.com/
IG: @brunodamicisphoto
TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhUZj7tRVzM
Biographic: https://www.biographic.com/contributor/bruno-damicis/
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Born in Toronto of Syrian descent, Jay split his life of education among Canada, Syria and the USA. Coming from a family of medical practitioners, Jay was also able to see his first live surgery at 6 years of age. We hear about his travails in his path to become a doctor in Canada - a story not so uncommon. And we also hear about his dedication to his patients and to his personal mission of helping those less fortunate. Learning an early lesson from his father about helping those in need, Jay recounts his journey in travelling to Guyana and to war-torn Syria to help other doctors with his expertise. We get to know about his numerous missions to war zone field hospitals and averting spies and bombs all the while. His journey we feel is only just beginning, as Jay explains what other humanitarian pursuit he has now set his eyes on. Inspiring. Just inspiring.
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We sit down with Hazel Henderson, a world-renowned Futurist, Activist, Producer, Founder and an economic Iconoclast. We follow Hazel from her upbringing in Bristol, England with a Naturalist mother and a Corporate executive father. She left England as a young woman and soon started her working career in NYC. She found her power in calling for large corporate interests in seeing the value in the other half of the economy: the non-monetized. Since then, over the last 6 + decades Hazel has been a true global leader in helping to shape the idea that the Natural World and the Love Economy constitute at least an equal footing to the Monetized Economy. Insert the Golden Rule and Charles Darwin’s actual theory on the development of our species and we learn what makes Hazel really tick.
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Website: www.ethicalmarkets.com
Website: https://hazelhenderson.com
Website: https://www.ethicmark.org/about/
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Scott is currently leading Uninterrupted Canada, an entrepreneurial adventure in partnership with Lebron James & Maverick Carter. As one of Canada’s top Sports Executives who oversaw billion dollar budgets, Scott spent his time with us discussing the importance of mentorship, networking and collaboration rather than his work. Game on! As a young red-headed Moore, we hear about his exploration with hockey, acting, stock market couriering and stand-up comedy. We also chat about ego, giving back to your world, cursive writing, good manners … and dinosaurs. A good time was had by all.
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Website: https://canada.uninterrupted.com/
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Born in France of Sardinian parents, little Rita emigrated to Toronto where she grew up believing she was American for a while. As a child with a joie de vivre, she found inspiration in others who lived without judgement towards others and who gave for their community. As a young woman starting her career, she found that if she faced barriers head-on and with a smile she could reap great learning. A wildly accomplished media professional, we learn that her success in her profession comes from being awake to what’s around her while she drives at the truth. But we find that the true source of her success comes from her profound passion of what life gives her: people to help, achievements of others to broadcast, dreams to heed and food to share.
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IG: rita.demontis
TW: @ritademontis
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Colleen grew up in Rostock, Ontario (between Toronto & Detroit) where community was everything and farm-work for her was a outlet for fun and creative exploration. Even in this idyllic space Colleen found balance with her desire to “hussle” and grow her natural inclination for business and for working with people. Although strong in the sciences as a high-schooler, she found a path in business that led her to explore the waters of both senior corporate life and an explosive, rip-roaring entrepreneurial adventure as a co-founder of E*Trade in Canada. Shaking the financial world with a new approach to empowering customers via the emerging online world, Colleen saw how important it was – and is – to build community. We discuss how she leverages this not only in her present work, but with future executive leaders in The Judy Project she co-founded. Most importantly, we talk about something that brings Colleen back to her original world of exploration and creative escape in Rostock: the importance of creating those spaces for creative minds to practice, thrive and “feed” the world.
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The Judy Project : https://www.thejudyproject.ca/
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Richard started his journey training as a swimmer in the rainforests of British Columbia isolated from civilization. Having beat out most of his compatriots as a competitive swimmer, he went on to compete at the Olympic, PanAm and Commonwealth games as a young man. Having returned home he put his efforts into his books to gain designation as a CPA and subsequently as a tax lawyer in Montreal. In the meantime, as a retired Olympian, the Young Pound was invited by other Olympic committee elders to join and take notes for their meetings (reference “information is power” message). This was the beginning of a decades-long adventure that took him to being a senior member of the IOC – overseeing a seismic shift in how the Olympics raised funds, how it redistributed the funds and how it developed a global anti-doping strategy. We discuss creative input in fiction writing vs non-fiction writing and both their similarities and differences in the philosophy of telling story. We discuss the wisdom in giving back to those who are looking for the same help that he once received throughout his own life’s journey. And, we discuss the significance in achieving ascended status through the unity of community. A strong “memo to self”-inspired conversation.
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IOC: https://olympics.com/ioc/mr-richard-w-pound-q-c-ad-e
COC: https://olympic.ca/board-members/richard-pound/
Stikeman Elliott: https://www.stikeman.com/en-ca/people/richard-w-pound
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We return with the 2nd part of our discussion with Anthony DiIorio, who was our guest previously on episode 45. Anthony brings us though his journey with the founding of Ethereum – a leading global crypto platform that helped show the world the power of decentralized economic decision making. We discuss creating wins for all stakeholders, the need for collaboration, making impact to change the world and improving life. We also talk about how we could allow ourselves to exploring beyond even this. Anthony is big on inter-connectedness: becoming stronger together by knowing that we are all truly connected. That is how we create movements.
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Website: www.decentral.ca
TW: @diiorioanthony
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Dr. Cicoria grew up in Upstate New York, a rambunctious boy with a streak of independence, enjoying life as a “free range chicken”. At the behest of a coach and of his father, he enrolled in a military college. But from there he decided to pursue a career in science and medicine and a story peppered with a string of “God winks”. At 42, he was hit by lightning. His heart stopped and he left his body. He brings us through exactly what he experienced on the other side, what he saw, what he became and how that changed him forever. He was resuscitated by a stranger (a nurse!) who brought him back to life. Miraculously, Dr. Cicoria was soon able to return to work where he shared his experience with very few people and continued to practice medicine. However, the experience left him with a dogged need to compose the music that was left inside him after his experience. Being consumed by this, a composer was re-born … as was a journey to seek the truth. What. A. Story.
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Youtube: Lightning Sonata - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDtYkxSCV18
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Rob joins us from Toronto where he currently spends his time working as a senior leader in the NHL (National Hockey League). A natural story teller, Rob brings us through his journey as an only child of a Croatian father and Jamaican mother, and growing up playing with the neighbourhood bullies and forming life-long relationships, to playing hockey at competitive levels, to the heart-breaking split of his parents, to coaching the national hockey team in Australia, and to CEOing a Pharmacare company before joining the NHL. We learn his take on not over-indexing energy in your work role vs your personal roles in the empty “race to relevance”. We hear his thoughts on playing the role of actor with the balance of projecting your authentic self. Rob brings us to present day as he reflects on how important it is to have a mindset focused on the “now” versus “what’s next” and how growth and failure need to co-exist. And most importantly, we discuss how suspending judgement opens the door to learning, exploring self-development, and enjoying the human quest for truth. Rob #2 is not short on interesting stories and positive vibes.
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We sit down with Riane Eisler, an accomplished researcher, author, professor and public speaker. Residing in Southern California, Riane briefly describes her experience as a Holocaust survivor as a little girl and her voyage to North America. In this discussion we break away from our tradition approach to conversation as we focus on Riane’s life’s work: ie. on Partnership systems. We discuss domination systems that have both women and men live and operate in a world that deprives them of their full humanity. We touch on consumerism and weapons of mass distraction. And most importantly, we learn about the characteristics of the original partnership societies where the cooperation of the feminine and the masculine produces a society where art and creativity are fundamental by-products.
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Website: www.rianeeisler.com
Website: www.centerforpartnership.org
New Book: Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future
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Tim grew up in rural California where he attended the only non-accredited highschool in the state. But this didn’t dissuade him from pursuing an early goal to work in the Film Industry. Taking advice from a mentor to cut his academic teeth in an unrelated field of study in college before entering film school, Tim unknowingly entered the working world of film production with another acquired skill set. Realizing that he could create his own stories for the industry, he pivoted from the production side after he pounded the pavement for an opportunity to showcase his creative writing abilities. Three decades later, and with a slew of successful TV series under his belt, Tim muses with us about the source of his muse. We discuss tapping into the river realm of creation and the exhilaration of engaging the audience into the story creation process. We also discuss his socially-focused tech entrepreneurial ventures and what they mean for him. We learn about his excitement for the impact that today’s young leaders are poised to make as they become aware that they can create impact for many – and from wherever.
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Tony joins us from Houston, Texas. He shares with us his upbringing in a family with musical pedigree where his parents taught him the value of using his imagination to build and to create. He was tasked to learn the violin as a young boy and he did - but he took exception to practising it. He learned soon thereafter that his curiosities instead lay with actually composing music. We follow Tony on his journey as a young man discovering his talents and passions and how he has applied them to his life’s journey as a composer, an author and a professor. We discuss the animal brain and exploration vs exploitation – and the mystery of the creative source and freewill. We learn about Tony’s take on the “search and rescue” nature of his own creative journeys and the realization of how far we can travel far beyond our immediate sensory world. We discuss how we often defeat ourselves when we are tied up by our veneration of great masters rather than by the encouragement offered by their works. An illuminating chat.
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Website: anthonybrandt.net
Book: www.runawayspecies.com
Facebook: @anthonykbrandt
Chamber Opera: “Kassandra” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2dzyDXgKc8&t=2397s
The Netflix documentary “The Creative Brain”: https://www.netflix.com/title/81090128
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Ryan joins us from rural New Brunswick, in Atlantic Canada. Coming from a line of hard-working potato farmers, a very young Ryan thought about how he could continue the family business, but doing it his own way. Bringing home the point to us that the journey is what matters, we hear about 100lb Christmas tree shearing machines, sleeping in a truck travelling across the US to bring back contracts, exploding chip bags on highways and doctoring conference floor badges to meet key buyers. Not unrelated, we learn how he started his enterprise while hearing “no” all the time, how he built a factory from scratch to help him compete with billion dollar competitors, how he Corolla’d 90,000 miles a year without a paycheck for several years and how he hired people to join him in executing a vision that he so relentlessly pursued. Now 40 years old, we clearly learn that what’s always been important is his devotion to the land he’s from and to the people who have helped him get where he finds himself journeying now.
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IG: @cb_chips
FB: Covered Bridge Potato Chip Company
TW: CBchips
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Valentino joins us from Manchester, England where he acts as a Curator and Lecturer at of one of Europe’s leading edge Schools of future storytelling: the School of Digital Arts (SODA). Originally from Rome, Valentino lost himself in his formative years after the sudden death of his father, until he started to consume what he left for him: his movie collection. Convinced as a teenager that he wanted to be a cinematographer, he slowing shifted his focus during his studies to art and art-history and its intersection with technology. After completing his PhD and feeling somewhat stuck in academia, Valentino invented and forged his own career projection. He worked his way, entrepreneurially, to become a leader in creating Fairs & Festivals in Europe to facilitate proactive dialogue between Artists/Art and Tech-focused businesses leaders at Google, Sony, etc. We discuss the growing awareness amongst business and science leaders of the importance of art practised without constraints. Valentino explains how the practice of art frees us to inspire ourselves and others – and to literally enable us to see new worlds. Literally. We discuss how our view of art is slowly shifting away from its “zooification” to the understanding that it truly is a seismograph of human culture. So. Much. Fun.
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TW: @valcatric
IG: @valcatri
Website: https://www.schoolofdigitalarts.mmu.ac.uk/
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Born and bred in Southern California, Troy gives us a glimpse of growing up in a musical family. His father and uncle who formed the duo the “Brothers Johnson” had profound influence on music in the 70s and 80s. Born in the 1980s, Troy also took to musical creation immediately, preferring to spend time even as a small child and pre-teen in a music studio above all. His world took a turn while he was still in his teens with his parents’ separation, the death of his best friend and his mother’s illness & eventual passing. But Troy’s undying desire to create music kept him in growth mode. Believing at his core that this is what he was always meant to do, he discusses how being the “oddball ideas” guy in the room is also one of his calling cards. Letting himself go where the fluidity of life’s winding river and where his creations take him, Troy stresses the importance of self-belief and openness to different ideas as his real superpowers. Add in real examples of mind-blowing UFO sightings and a harrowing story around Area-51 and we start to understand that Troy is not afraid to ponder the large questions to better make sense of his role in the creation process. This conversation is definitely to be continued…
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Sue was born and bred in Buffalo, New York. She developed a desire for a career in healthcare and pursued studies in NY and North Carolina and when her life took a turn, so did she. Off to Arizona for no reason at all and very little money to her name, she started a journey with a little bit of Billy Joel and whole lot of hustle. After volunteering quite a bit of time at a clinic, her employer and her patients started to take note of her work ethic and her authentic efforts to help heal others. Fast forward a bit, she was hired as the Head Athletic Trainer for the LA Dodgers. The first woman to hold this position in any of the 4 major professional sports leagues she also credits mentors along the way to helping her learn, develop – and deal with her baby-giraffe. She set a course where today she has worked with all major professional leagues, in addition a stint with the men’s US National Soccer Team. Today, as an entrepreneur and pioneer in her field she is able to reflect with us on what is really important for her in life … including the exploration of Music-Sue.
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Growing up in Ontario, Canada, Kelly attended 10 different schools as a child until settling in Welland (Niagara region) for highschool. She lived in a chaotic household but lived it the best way she could – with a heightened sense of responsibility, “buttoned-downness” and an acute need for high-achievement in school and sports. Breaking out to get an education in another part of the country, she found her freedom to explore. As her professional life took shape, she found a seemingly natural fit with the corporate environment and her innate desire to achieve. After years of successfully transforming businesses and organizations in the not for profit space, Kelly decided to step back – twice. We discuss belief in self, integrity, humility (lessons from her dad that she holds dear) and the need for “authentic passion”. We also discuss the importance of a soul content and her continued exploration of the power of just being.
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As a youngster growing up just outside of Toronto, Anthony lived in an entrepreneurial environment. His father, an inventor, instilled in him the importance of being curious, asking questions and breaking through. With authority never sitting right with him as a boy, he chose to explore his own path as a young man after a brief stint in the family business. His path was not short of probing, stumbling, succeeding, learning, and resetting. And, in 2011/2012, he found that the emerging crypto-space spoke dearly to his natural inclinations and talent. And he dove right in. Being one of the pioneers in the field he learned first hand what the world really needed – and that he could be at the forefront of real change and (compounding) impact. We learn how he is currently forging ahead and we get a small glimpse of how he plans to serve others – something that ultimately matters to him above all else.
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- Website: www.decentral.ca
- TW: @diiorioanthony
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonydiiorio1/
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Marjorie joins us from Sedona, Arizona. She grew up in a family where the wonder of music, art and literature defined much of her existence as a young girl. Armed with a natural intellectual curiosity and a profound admiration of both musical expression and scientific exploration, Marjorie embarked on both early on in her studies. As a young scientist she was inculcated by the materialist dogma of her field, until she became open to a specific experience. From that point on things changed for her – forever. We discuss self-affirming loops, mind-wandering networks and meditation, non-linear perspectives, the mystical realm, the mystery of dreaming and the near death experience. We examine the significance of having the courage to push through and explore what is new or defined as unpopular by conventional standards.
A conversation with an accomplished scientist who also leads a movement in the advancement of post-materialist science … sooo much fun.
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- Website: https://marjoriewoollacott.com
- Website: Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences (www.AAPSglobal.com)
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marjorie-woollacott-a5407a30/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marjorie.woollacott
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Matt grew up in New York in a close-knit family who encouraged him to both dream big and to keep his eye on the pragmatic. We discuss his proactive search for his passion as a young man as he bobbed and weaved through a brief but explosive stint as an aspiring boxer, an early marketing career working in Times Square and with a side-hustle as a sports agent. When the dust settled, he sat down with his pregnant wife and got her blessing to start a PR firm from scratch. Eleven years later he sits with us to share some of the lessons he’s been learning. Still under 40, he is a successful entrepreneur, agency founder and soccer club owner. He continues to commit to his new adventures with the hunger of a creator both humbled and fueled by his anxieties, uncertainties and fears. Matt pays deep tribute to his hardworking immigrant family, with particular attention to all the matriarchs in his life – including the bright light that was his sister.
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Pragmatism has its place in Matt’s world – but dreaming big is where he plays.
- Website: www.northsixthgroup.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-rizzetta-b878803/
- Club Website: www.cbstyle.shop
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We sit with Alison Coville, in Toronto. Alison was born and bred in Ontario, Canada. She found her passion in the retail business as a teenager. Se dove head first into this journey until she reached the pinnacle of her industry. Undeterred by the fact that she was navigating within a professional world that lacked female mentors, she drew from her experience living in a family where gender didn’t play a part in defining her ambitions. Instead, we learn from Alison that the big picture took priority for her and that seeking the perspectives of others, being open to new ideas and asking questions as the perennial “new person” were the actual keys to her success. What else? Vulnerability, authenticity, kindness, humour, reliability … and painting. Ahhh, painting…
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Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris joins us from Honolulu, Hawaii. Elisabet grew up in Athens, New York and as a child was actively encouraged to explore the biological world around her. She went on to attain a Masters in Fine Arts, History & Languages and then a PhD in Evolution Biology. For decades, she has been an internationally known evolution biologist, futurist, professor, author, speaker and consultant. We discuss the living earth and how our sense of economics and capitalism in Western culture veered away and detached itself from the natural rhythms of our biological reality. We learn her thoughts on how we need to remarry philosophy with science and how we need to be more comfortable with not knowing, so that we can maintain a healthy curiosity of the unknown. Both creativity and building community around creative endeavours are key messages from the discussion. And this also provides a good segue to the last part of our discussion - one that brings us to hypotheses about beyond time and space. So much fun.
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Website: www.sahtouris.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sahtouris/
TW: @sahtouris
Book - Gaia’s Dance: The Story of Earth & Us: https://www.amazon.com/Gaias-Dance-Story-Earth-Us-ebook/dp/B00QFK4C1C
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Joshua Cassidy is a 3 x Paralympian and is preparing for his 4th Paralympic games in Tokyo. He is a 31 x racing champion with world record times at the 2012 Boston Marathon. The oldest of 10 children, he spent his first 5 years in hospital fighting a non-congenital cancer – and won. Having a family where affection and love mattered as much as discipline and finding your own way, Josh faced the world with a tenacity unparalleled. Having had mentors who helped him along the way, he found a love and passion for racing, even if he had to bleed internally to prove it. But Josh has another muse and we explore this as well. And we expect that he will be spending the “passion, the dedication and the time” when post-world champion Josh finally retires his racing gear.
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- Website: https://joshcassidy.com/
- IG: @joshcassidy84
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- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-cassidy-3b55b6194/
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Today we chat with Julie Yoo in Toronto. Julie is the owner of I Miss You Vintage and was recently chosen for the front cover of a national business magazine as representative of all small business owners: all dubbed “CEO of the year”. Julie catapulted the scope of her business from local to global as an adaptive response to the pandemic in early 2020. A lover of art and history, she married these passions into an early career working in museums and art galleries. But, she had other passions always close, whispering. We discover a young, keen Julie grow her curiosity about things antique and pre-owned. Turning this curiosity into a side-hustle she reminisced about morphing this into a life of entrepreneurism. Julie discusses her affection for stories and of artistic creation - and the “feelings” side of her work. But listening, as the title suggests, is the source of her greatest strength.
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Website: https://imissyouvintage.com/
IG: imissyouvintage & imissyouman
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We are joined by Rob Zepp. He currently works at the National Hockey League Players Association (NHLPA). Before this, Rob was a professional hockey player in both Europe and in the NHL, taking the crown as the oldest rookie in the NHL since 1927 to win in his debut. Rob brings us through his journey as a young boy with a dream to be a professional athlete and then living this dream on another continent – before he returned to join the NHL back in North America. But, he never let the sport define him. Always with an eye on exploring multiple passions, he worked hard at studying business while grinding away as a professional goaltender, living his boyhood dream. His success, achieved in large part through the support of his spouse and their commitment to the journey together, is a story too good not to be told.
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We sit down with Marc today and talk about his journey from his native of Minneapolis to law school and then to living out a professional coaching career in 14 different cities in the US and Canada. We discuss how he viewed himself and his accomplishments until he hit an inflection point at 50. We discuss his thoughts on the importance of humility and self-awareness. He shares his thoughts on leading by authenticity, consistency, relentlessness – and by love of others. We uncover what humility truly means to him and why we must truly care about and serve those around us. Recalling what he has learned from his dad and from his wife – he reminds us that we never achieve alone.
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We speak this week with Steve Lichtman in California, a veteran TV series writer and producer. A deep thinker and excellent conversationalist, Steve brings us through his journey and his own philosophies on what really matters. He reminisces with us on his Long Island upbringing and his time as a young academic and lawyer grinding in NYC. Then his story takes a turn upon his decision to leave NYC with his wife for LA - the day before 9/11. We then discuss how the following chapter of his life focused on the exploration of the right side of his brain. We talk fiction and reality, creativity and being at the top of the mountain vs stepping down from it. Steve gives us a wonderful insight on real “play” and why we should do it more. He had us at “hello”.
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Today we sit down with Gunnar Peterson in Beverly Hills. Gunnar is one of the most highly respected Personal Training & Fitness entrepreneurs in North America, a former Director of Strength & Endurance for the LA Lakers and a “go-to” personal trainer for Hollywood celebs. We discuss his entrepreneurial path - from selling ice in New Orleans to setting up his nerve center in Beverly Hills. More importantly, we discuss the tenets he lives by as a professional and as a dad. Not someone who minces words, he gives his straight take on personally important themes: fun, levity, communication and connection. And finally we also hear his stance on competition vs collaboration. “… There’s room for everybody.”
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Website: www.gunnarpeterson.com
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Adrian is the CEO and Co-Founder of MOSHN.fit, an on-demand streaming fitness platform that connects trainees with world-class coaches. A long time friend to Inspire, Adrian has worked as a top Digital Marketing and Advertising Exec (and Agency Owner) for the better part of 20 years. We chat about his take on life, the value of his experiences and how they serve him with his new chapter in his life as he moves into new territory in his career. More importantly, we learn about his omni-present passions – sport and “the tactile” - and explore how they serve his being and help define his philosophy on both risk-taking and navigating uncertainty. What he doesn’t consider himself is an artist. But we beg to differ. Listen in and judge for yourself.
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Website: www.moshn.fit
IG: moshn.fit
App store download: Moshn app
Website: www.botl.store
IG: botl.store
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We spent some time with PJ Byrne: a veteran film, TV and voice actor, living in California. In college, he was preparing for a career in high finance. Having already secured a job on Wall St before he graduated, he started to discover (by chance) his thespian talents. With family roots in business and politics, young PJ never imagined acting as a life-long pursuit. But with good mentors early on, he was persuaded to explore this hidden talent. As he pursued this path, PJ explains how “hearing funny” - a key life skill he learned at home - came in handy. And, like his friend John Quinn from Episode 18, we learn that his dedication to preparation is sacred. A critical lesson he imparts on his host: don’t be afraid of an awkward moment if you’re not getting your questions answered.
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In this episode, we spend some time with John S. Couch, who lives and works – and plays – in California. He is also currently VP, Product Design at Hulu. We dive immediately into discussing themes of life, work and the creative process. He brings us briefly through his experience in building teams and what philosophy he employs in building positive culture. He also warns about certain pitfalls in investing too much in “labels”. But, this is not before we discuss the lessons of the samurai and the importance of developing skills and a mindset through the mastery of one thing in order to approach other things. We discuss creating and the state of flow. We hear his views on the connection between experiencing different artforms and the “communion of understanding” with others. And, we also learn his thoughts on how any great art is a (necessary) confrontation. He rounds off the discussion with the two things he deems most important for his success and the ultimate lesson he’s learned in his life.
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Website: https://www.john-couch.com/the-art-of-creative-rebellion
Twitter: @titaniumsky
IG: theartofcreativerebellion
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncouch/
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Today we sit down and have a camp fire chat with Tyson Yunkaporta. With origins from the Apalech tribe in Northern Australia, Tyson is a Best Selling Author, an Artist and a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, living in Melbourne Australia. We have an insightful conversation on First People’s philosophy of thinking, perceiving and exploring the world. We discuss how the world might benefit from the understanding of what our languages teach us and what they may lack, the importance of the communication/sharing of failures in scientific research, the role that psychotropic drugs have had in our modern technology, the difference between “increasing” and “growth”, the unfortunate split between society and nature, the law of the land and our custodial role in all of this. Throw in some Italian bees, sleeping in a hedge and a discussion on the sky camp and we have a great series of yarns … and another series of yarns to be continued.
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Book – Sand Talk How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/sand-talk-tyson-yunkaporta?variant=32122363445282
We sit down with Matt Larochelle, an entrepreneur and co-founder of Matt & Steve’s in Toronto. Matt charms us with his down-to-earth approach to life and how his small town roots have been important to him in his path of self-discovery. He brings us through some of his adventures in starting his business with his partner Steve: from jars exploding in his apartment to trying to make ends meet while servicing a growing demand for their products. We learn about how the passing of his father taught him what it truly meant to jump into his dream with two feet. More importantly, we learn how this has led to the growth of a man who continues to discover the significance in being courageous in his decisions. Even more importantly, we discuss what impact he wants to make on the world and what “fun” means to him.
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Website: https://us.mattandsteve.com/
Giacomo Gianniotti spends some time on Behind Greatness to discuss and explore his thoughts on driving change and making impact. We learn how a young Giacomo felt the need to fit in and blend in as an “outsider” for years after he moved from his native Italy. But when his parents saw that he had to free himself from this debilitation, they took action. And this is when his real growth began to take hold. As he freed himself to explore and celebrate his differences and similarities with the world around him he realized how important storytelling was to him in developing his path. We learn how growing up in the summers in Rome helped him hone his wits and appreciate the importance of humour in communicating truth. Using his love of scuba-diving as a metaphor, he explains how he is driven to push his own boundaries and test himself to expand his own artistic imprint. We also discuss about who he holds in high esteem, and why it has become so important for him to help those less fortunate.
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Twitter: @GiacomoKG
Eric San (aka “Kid Koala”) sits down with us to talk about his take on success. He grew up both in the US and in Canada with hard-skilled, no-nonsense immigrant parents who also had an appreciation for music. They started little Eric training as a classical piano player until his piano teacher became annoyed by his experimentation with notes to spin his own musical experience. And spinning he did. Starting by using hamburger wrappers as slip sheets on his sister’s turntable as a 12 year old, Eric went on to spend his adult years touring 6 continents with big bands as a trail-blazing Scratch DJ. Eric considers himself the “ultimate dabbler”, mixing and weaving other facets of art into his universe of experiences – taking his fun when “right side and left side are wrestling”. Today, he’s also a music producer, theatre producer, film composer, multimedia-performer and visual artist. Exploring, learning and living without judgement: lessons he takes from his kids … thanks to his parents.
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We are joined by Mary Dalimonte, a 40-year veteran of food retailing and distribution and a venerated industry trail-blazer in Canada. Recently stepping down from her SVP role at Sobeys – the country’s 2nd largest retailer – Mary shares with us the pivotal lessons she learned throughout her career. The daughter of immigrant parents, she learned very early the wisdom of working hard and showing up prepared day in and day out for the job at hand. Always committed to self-improvement, growing the business and punching through the glass ceiling, Mary cultivated a highly successful career in the industry. But, she never forgot about the most important ingredient to her success: her team. We hear about her belief in the sacredness of a mentor’s role and we also get to hear about her 3 biggest fears. And yes, one of them is her mother.
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We sit down with Brian, currently a Founder and Managing Director of Play4Tomorrow – a leading design academy and tech accelerator for positive youth development. Brian brings us through his own challenges as a youth growing up fascinated by games and fantastical fictional worlds. He was soon encouraged to take a different, more athletically-centered career as he grew in physical stature and showed athletic promise. Not one for wasting time, Brian leveraged his scholarship status at Stanford in California and graduated with engineering and management science degrees after playing division 1 football. After a brief professional football career, Brian already had his sights set on exploring the worlds he so dearly loved as a young boy. Always wondering if perhaps children are actually born perfect, he has built a laser-focused accelerator in Silicon Valley meant to help under-privileged kids develop skills in design thinking for social impact – and more.
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Website: https://www.play4tomorrow.com/
Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-bulcke-47bb9017/
As a young boy, Merv and his siblings moved from a comfortable life in sunny, tropical Jamaica to Toronto. We learn about the strongest influences in his life: his polymath father and his fiercely dedicated mother. For them, high educational achievement for their kids was a basic expectation. But we also learn about Merv’s persistent pursuit of a career in elite track & field – and his love of languages and literature. As we peel back the “onion” that is Merv we see a man who has achieved great success in his current work on Bay St, but also a man who still heeds a call to make a deeper mark on human history - through art.
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…. We exaggerate. Or do we? Listen in.
Growing up in a loving, hardworking immigrant family in Youngstown, Ohio, Michael was a natural athlete gravitating to competitive team sports at an early age. When an injury put the brakes on a potential career in football he found that one passion never left him: story-telling. Armed with both the love of reading and creating stories and the support of strong mentors, Michael decided to strike out on his own as a writer. Taking lessons from the collaborative nature of the sports he loved to play, Michael now marries those experiences with his need to dip into the “unconscious well of cerebration” for the stories he creates with his team. We learn how important it is for him to write about the things that terrify him in order to strive to be in a position to invent – and make art.
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Mark joins us from Silicon Valley where he served as Partner at his firm until early 2020. A Princeton grad, he worked his way through a career of gruelling and stressful working environments in order to achieve his material goals. Until he didn’t. He brings us through his former life as a high-achieving and high-performing athlete, investment banker and IP strategist. In 2016, Mark decided to research answers to existential questions he had increasingly begun to ask himself, only to find that this brought more questions - and more research. His curiosity and inquisitive nature compelled him to dive deep - really deep - into what may matter most: consciousness and the “oneness” of humanity. Now an author and a respected key note speaker, Mark pairs a scientific and research-based approach with a dogged determination to find answers to what our current science cannot yet explain. Why? Listen in and absorb.
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- Website: https://markgober.com/
- Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/where-is-my-mind/id1470129415
- "An End to Upside Down Thinking": https://www.amazon.com/End-Upside-Down-Thinking-Consciousness/dp/1947637851
- "An End to Upside Down Living": https://www.amazon.com/End-Upside-Down-Living-Consciousness/dp/1949001040
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Today, we spend some time with Chris Duffin, in Portland, Oregon. During our discussion, we learn about a boy who endured extreme hardships growing up in the remote mountains of California. Barely out of his adolescence, he took custody of his younger siblings while working full-time, running a business on the weekends and completing his engineering degree. He is a father and a husband, an entrepreneur, a brand builder, an author, a speaker, a coach, a custom-vehicle builder AND a record-holding power lifter to boot. We learn about Chris’ refusal to define himself by his circumstances and his belief that he can create and form the world around him to dictate his own future and change his reality. Sounds crazy? He’s doing it.
Pay attention to the 3 simple things that were important to him growing up in those harsh conditions and how they were critical in laying down the foundation of the man he is today. “My real job is to be me”.
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We join in conversation this week with one of the most influential women in the world of AI & AI Ethics. Dr. Sateli brings us through her journey as a young girl in Tehran to a high-octane phd student, developer and entrepreneur in Montreal to a renowned globe trotting AI Analytics and Ethics specialist. We discuss her professional quest to view automation as a help to her fellow humans for exploring their creativity and not for suppressing it.
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We sit down with our friend Alex Rechichi, another long time Advisor to Inspire and an accomplished, seasoned entrepreneur - and podcaster too. Listen to his thoughts on the importance of “visible leadership” and working shoulder to shoulder with your team. He has run his own businesses (with his two partners) since graduating from university and has never looked back. Having always been consumed by building and creating, he’s understood that being a leader in business is an acceptance of always “being on the stage”. And, we learn that his intensity finds its strength in his dedication to mindfulness rather than from the sirens of ego.
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Speaking with power couple Jennifer and Sudz, we get a glimpse of two different paths - until they fused into one. Facing naysayers all along from an early age, both learned that defining their capabilities for themselves was key in their own pursuit of purpose. Navigating this way by the time they found each other, their passions wove together and only amplified their intensity in mission to spread their unique messages through film. Listen in on how they both live by the mantra of casting ego aside to let the best idea win, and never accepting “no” as a viable option once the idea takes hold.
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Growing up in the US Midwest in a strong family unit with an eye for business, John felt destined to join his father and older brother when he embarked on his post-secondary years. But his path changed on his 1st day of university. Armed with a passion to pursue his authentic self John provides a glimpse on how he discovered that it was his passion to tell a good story and create a unique experience with his contestants that has enabled him to be great at what he does. Listen to his take on how being “over-prepared” allows him the calm to absorb problems that inevitably surface in life. And what more? That his love for people is indeed the true fuel to his passion.
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Having grown up in a quiet, calm Prairie life with a loving family, Brice decided at an early age to pursue his life path in larger settings with the goal of making a larger impact. With his partner Anthony Lacavera, he spent many long grinding years building Wind Mobile within a fierce, unforgiving and oligopolistic space. After finally selling the company with his partner for well over $1 billion, Brice began to reflect on his experience on the importance of staying resilient: sticking to the mission and simply putting one foot in front of the other. Listen to how he and his partner today are now devoting their professional horsepower to helping new entrepreneurs all over North America to innovate, create and build in the new economy.
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This week we are hosting Daniele Bolelli. Originally from Milan, Italy, Daniele has been calling California home for almost 30 years. A man who strives to be good at many things so that he’s never bored, Daniele also hosts two widely popular podcasts, including History on Fire - one of the most successful history podcasts on Earth. In our discussion, Daniele shares his thoughts on working to find your path and being good at something, on committing to being an independent thinker and on pursuing knowledge while not trapping yourself within it.
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Engrained with the entrepreneurial spirit, Mark Joseph takes us on his journey of family, perseverance and faith. He speaks to the importance of learning from others and finding his leadership style, especially during unprecedented times. A man of honesty, transparency, and integrity, Mark tells us how he manages to keep his team’s spirits’ up when succumbing to fear in challenging times would be much easier.
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We are host this week to a very charismatic guest in Alex King. He’s not an Engineer, nor an Architect, nor a Mechanic - and yet he organizes builds of custom vehicles for many Hollywood blockbuster films. How? Listen to how his fascination and passion (for vehicles) became an inspirational source for a renewed dedication to creative thinking, problem-solving, and learning from his fellow human beings. He describes how avenues and opportunities opened - and continue to open - as a result.
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You can reach and follow Alex on Instagram @alex.king.film
Today we listen to a captivating story about a fiercely independent professional who grew up toughened by circumstances out of his control. Fern discusses how his personal adversity taught him an early perspective on the meaning of sacrifice and the importance of carving out his own path. Once he made the decision to explore his imagination full time, he found himself on a path where learning and playing are actually one and the same.
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Today’s guest is one of North America’s most successful corporate leaders. Growing up in the country, she learned very early the importance of hard work, collaboration, humility and learning from those around her that wished her success. From a modest upbringing in the country-side to head the Canadian HQ of one of the world’s largest food companies, Shelley describes that commitment to learning is important – but learning how to listen is next level.
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Join us in hearing the story of Raj De Datta as he travelled from his upbringings in Manila, Philippines, and India to attending school at Princeton, then helping launch a company in England where he found his true calling as an entrepreneur. He will provide insight into risk taking, whether you are ready to be an entrepreneur or not, and how to accumulate your personal insurance. His message and guidance is truly inspiring and will excite many to take the leap to entrepreneurship - if you are ready!
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Enjoy our discussion with Dr. Meganne Christian. Originally from Australia, Christian works currently in the EU studying the production and microscopical characterisation of graphene-based nanocomposites. But, that’s not all. She lived in Antarctica for a year. She practices martial arts. She has a passion for improv comedy. And, she’s barely over 30. You will be enchanted by her take on problem solving and her own exploration of the unknown.
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Listen in on our talk with Frank Ferragine aka “Frankie Flowers” – North America’s favourite TV gardening specialist. He describes growing up in a “can-do” family atmosphere, with roots in humble beginnings. We learn how this - including a tragedy in the family - helped him explore his own path to personal and professional growth. A savvy media personality and marketer, Frankie charms us with his positive outlook and his passion for what the outdoors has done for him.
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You can reach and follow Frank via Twitter @frankferragine or Instagram @frankferragine. His website is: www.frankieflowers.com/.
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Listen in as we chat with Ashish Shastry, Co-Head of Private Equity for KKR Asia Pacific & Southeast Asia as he describes his journey growing up in Bombay and Indonesia and then traveling to various parts of the world for school and work. He describes the influence his parents had on his decisions and the importance that mentors will have on your journey and career. Being of Indian descent, Ashish shares with us some stories of trying to blend in on Wall Street in the early 90s. Currently situated in Singapore, he discusses the influence of Western culture and business on his current dealings in Asia, and the differences that need to be recognized and respected. Truly a colorful journey that will influence many.
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We sit down with Alexandra Orlando, an Olympian and National Champion in Rhythmic Gymnastics who details a youth-story full of sacrifice and determination. Growing up with understanding parents, Alexandra had the opportunity to explore her passion in motion and pushing herself to her limits - on the world stage. She translates two decades of high performance into her current mission of spreading the message of youth leadership through sport across 41 countries in the Americas - with PanAm Sports.
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You can reach and follow Alexandra on Twitter @FreshFromAlex and Instagram- freshfromalex. Visit her website also at www.alexandraorlando.net
Behind Greatness sits down with tech specialist Max Catricala in Rome, Italy, after returning from a year-long assignment in the middle of the Antarctic (at Concordia Base). Although the details of the ESA project are classified, Max shares his experience living in the coldest and most desolate part of the globe while captaining a select team of European scientists. Armed with his wit, sense of cool and his ability to work and collaborate with others, we learn lessons that we are not often taught in school.
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Listen in on a very intense story of a young man growing up in a troubled environment in Detroit that was out of his control. Being blessed with the support of his mentors – one being his father – Matt embarked on a path of discovery. At 30 years old, he continues on his quest to discover himself while kicking ass and never forgetting where he came from. Knowing what’s most important is what propels him forward. And forward is where he is going.
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You can reach and follow Matt via Twitter @MattMurray28 and Instagram @MattMurray28.
Behind Greatness plays host to Denis Molin, a Paris-based scientific scholar, practitioner, inventor and polymath. Denis describes his early fascination with maths and science and how it has played a part in his path to work with large corporations and AI frameworks. His unique thirst to understand the human condition brings us to an interesting ending to the conversation and Denis’ wish to know more about our how we are who we are.
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Sit back and listen in on our interview with one of Canada’s top interviewers. Melissa explains how a set of loving and driven immigrant parents set the tone for the start of a stable and noble career, until an event in her early adult life sparked something else. Listen in to our conversation with the very determined Melissa. A story of sheer will, excellence and creative exploration.
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You can reach and follow Melissa via Twitter @melissagrelo and Instagram @melissagrelo. You can find her on Facebook as well. Her website is: http://melissagrelo.com/
Explore our conversation with veteran actor Enrico Colantoni as he describes his humble origins and pursuit to achieving what he wanted most despite facing a steep, uphill and unfamiliar path. Spending his time living in LA, New York City and his native city, Toronto, Enrico never lost sight of what mattered to him most: his commitment to the creative.
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You can reach and follow Enrico via Twitter @ricocolantoni or Instagram @enricocolantoni_really
Welcome to our podcast channel! Behind Greatness aims to walk listeners through the journey of some of today’s leaders around the globe and how they are finding success. Gathering firsthand accounts from these leaders, our goal is for this channel to become a source of wisdom and inspiration as you continue to carve and live your own path.
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