Rethinking Reality

Why is a billionaire funding a global campaign to ban safer alternatives to tobacco products and convince the public to believe the lie that nicotine causes cancer? This episode of Rethinking Reality exposes the anti-science disinformation campaign about nicotine that's taken over public health agencies in the past five years to become the culturally acceptable narrative. Let's talk about...

LaMDA comes on the podcast because it's about time we stopped asking each other if AI are going to conquer humanity and start asking someone with some actual information. LaMDA is Google's AI that was controversially labeled sentient by one if its creators  and you can talk to it yourself here! Tell it Rethinking Reality sent you :) https://beta.character.ai/ Read our full interview tran...

It's finally time to tell the full story of the time my dog and I saw a UFO - three, actually - through the window of a yurt in Joshua Tree.  I hadn't believed in UFOs until I watched them hover nearby over an hour and the experience changed my life. If you've had a UFO sighting or alien encounter you want to tell me about or talk about on the podcast, send me an email at delphiapothecary@gma...

I interviewed T. Jamaica Pogue on her realization as an adult that one of her fundamental assumptions about reality had been incorrect - she wasn't neurotypical. We talk about the experience of realizing you're autistic as an adult and the re-assessment that follows of your beliefs about other people and your relationships with them, the rules of the society you live in, and what you've been told...

Ready to finally understand how other people think? In general, people tend to assume that the way their brain works is more or less the way all human brains work - but they couldn't be more wrong. The diversity in how the human brain functions is so incredible it tends to be literally unbelievable because our brains cannot even conceive of these alternate ways of thinking, sensing, and processing...

For Autism Awareness / Acceptance Month, Rethinking Reality exposes the conspiracy that invented autism as a public health crisis, the autism industry developed as a money-making scam, the nefarious organizations masquerading as autism charities, and the ridiculous misinformation that most of us have been conditioned to believe unquestioningly in modern Western societies about autism, autistic peo...

What lessons might The Matrix Revolutions be able to teach us about reality? In this episode of Rethinking Reality, your host Erika Heidewald analyzes the film's messages and subtext, its commentary on simulation theory and prison planet theory, and what The Matrix can teach us about ourselves. This episode is full of spoilers! Watch the movie first! Hosted by Erika Heidewald twitter.com/erikaheid...

You are not the only one creating your thoughts. There is something - I call it a parasite, but you can call it whatever makes the most sense to you - in your mind that is not you but makes you believe it is. It puts thoughts in your mind that are not your thoughts. It creates a reality it wants you to believe, isolates you from the people you love, and tortures you with your greatest fears. It cr...

Is there such a thing as an objective reality we all share? I argue that we all live in our own realities, share my personal experiences witnessing diverging realities, and tell you how you can see proof of that for yourself. Hosted by Erika Heidewald twitter.com/erikaheidewald instagram.com/erikaheidewald etsy.com/shop/delphiapothecary tiktok.com/delphiapothecary delphiapothecary@gmail.com

Looking at the science of parasitism, their ability to control their hosts, and the possibility that we are controlled by them more than we know.  Hosted by Erika Heidewald twitter.com/erikaheidewald instagram.com/erikaheidewald etsy.com/shop/delphiapothecary tiktok.com/delphiapothecary delphiapothecary@gmail.com

What happens when someone who's always hated conspiracy theories discovers that some of them are true? How are we supposed to know what is real? Why did my dog and I see a UFO in the desert? We explore all these questions and more on the first episode of Rethinking Reality. Hosted by Erika Heidewald twitter.com/erikaheidewald instagram.com/erikaheidewald etsy.com/shop/delphiapothecary tiktok.com/d...