Conversations Beyond Science & Religion

No one really knows what happens when we die. Does the physical body pass away, but the human spirit live on? If so, where and in what form? Or is spirit, like modern science might say, just some type of emergent property of the body, so that it too dissolves into the ground with the body? On this show, Philip Mereton talks with Dr. Rom Weber ( http://www.communicationsinspirit.com/) , who has bee...

Does it sometimes seem that physical objects appear from nowhere? Lost keys are later found in the first place you looked; someone you thought had died is really alive; bumps and bruises disappear overnight. Strange happenings we usually attribute to absent-mindedness or luck. But there might be another explanation for these reality shifts: perhaps they show that the reality we thought was fixed i...

The notion that we are part of one mind stands directly opposed to virtually everything we’ve been taught, which makes it a strange idea. Don’t we all have separate bodies with separate brains, disconnected creatures following our own paths? Isn’t all that matters our own personal success? On this show, Philip Mereton explores the notion of the one mind with, Dr. Larry Dossey ( http://www.dosseydo...

The term brainwashing can be used to describe the process by which we give up control of our minds and thoughts and adopt, without questioning, the ideas impressed upon us by parents, teachers, the media, religious leaders, celebrities and a variety of other sources. These ideas turn negative when they limit our potential, imposing permanent economic or social handicaps that are no more real than...

According to a recent CBS poll, 57% of the American public believes in some form of physic phenomena. But according to modern science, psychic phenomena is unproven, and anyone who believes in these events is in some way deluded. ( http://www.michaelshermer.com/the-believing-brain/) Philip Mereton's guest this week, Dean Radin ( http://deanradin.com/) , perhaps more than any other person, has used...

On this show, Philip Mereton talks with clinical hypnotherapist ( http://www.hypnotherapylosangeles.com )and spiritual teacher, Dr. John McGrail ( http://www.drjohnmcgrail.com ), author of The Synthesis Effect: Your Direct Path to Personal Power and Transformation ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Synthesis-Effect-Personal-Transformation/dp/1601632053 ) about easy methods to unlock our spiritual essence...

Life-after death, near-death, and out-of-body experiences; noisy spirits; haunted houses; and ghosts. Paranormal happenings, however much science tells us they don’t exist, continue to fascinate the intellect, as evidenced by the increasing number of readers, TV viewers, and moviegoers attracted to stories breaking the rules of what we call reality. While the media tends to sensationalize the para...

You may not have noticed, but a vast array of phenomena remain unexplained in our current world model. These mysteries range from cosmic ones like dark matter ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Matter)(the missing mass holding the universe together) and dark energy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy)(the missing energy accelerating the expansion of the universe) to the paranormal, and God...

Modern research -- and ancient tradition -- show that there is more to intelligence than mental power. Balancing the many facets of intelligence -- emotional ( http://psychology.about.com/od/personalitydevelopment/a/emotionalintell.htm) , sensory, and intuitive -- offers the best promise for reaching our potential as human beings. This week's guest, Suzanna Axisa ( http://www.thegapcoach.com/) , j...

All signs point to a revolution. But this revolution will not occur in the streets or on the battlefield, but in the mind. The revolution ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions) will turn us from viewing the world as a random collection of mindless particles to a world of the mind. It will integrate the findings of quantum theory and the truths of Eastern mysticism...

Viewed from the perspective of science, we are random creations doomed to live short, meaningless lives on an average planet in a universe destined to burn out in the distant future. Viewed from the perspective of spirituality, we are ascending the ladder of consciousness toward a world fulfilling the deepest dream of the mind, a heaven on earth. As science has its masters, so does spirituality, r...

No subject so sharply highlights the contrast between science and religion as evolution. Over 150 years ago Darwin ( http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/151902/Charles-Darwin) wrote that all living things descended from one common ancestor through the process of natural selection ( http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Natural_selection) . Later biologists found a mechanism for evolution...

Emotions tend to run faster than thought; we feel before we think. Mastering the emotions is the key to the HeartMath ( http://www.heartmath.org )system, which focuses on putting the emotion of the heart in harmony with the physical body. With this as a starting point, the thinking is that we can improve not only our attitude but our health and well-being by mastering the intelligence of the heart...

Holograms form when a laser beam splits and then re-unites after one beam reflects off an object and the other split beam reflects off a mirror. The three-dimensional hologram duplicates the real object and occupies space, but is an illusion. Some scientific theorists have even speculated that the universe is a 3-D reflection of information stored in a quantum field. This week’s guest, Robin Kelly...

One world, two different creation stories. The Book of Genesis ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Genesis)suggests God created heaven and earth from the void. The Big Bang theory ( http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-powered-the-big-bang/)says the universe created itself from nothing. But if so, then what caused the initial explosion? Could Genesis and the Big Bang be talking...

Over the past 40 years, the National Cancer Institute has spent over 90 billion dollars fighting the war on cancer ( http://www.cancer.org/research/cancerfactsfigures/cancerfactsfigures/cancer-facts-figures-2013) , but the weapons we use remain primitive: toxic drugs (chemotherapy) and radiation are still the go-to fight methods to fight the spread of cancer. Both methods ravage the body as they s...

Most people don’t go to Las Vegas for a spiritual experience; they go there to strike it rich. But how many people have rolled the dice while quietly trying to access some higher power to make the dice come up the winning number? Philip Mereton’s guest this week is Dr. Joseph Gallenberger, author of Inner Vegas: Creating Miracles, Abundance and Health ( http://www.amazon.com/INNER-VEGAS-Creating-A...

Seeking the Fountain of Youth is as old as time itself. Despite evidence all around us, many people do not want to give up on the dream becoming “forever young.” Age-fighting cremes fill cosmetic counters, plastic surgery is booming, and scientists are searching for the aging gene and the youth pill. Others, such as this week’s guest, Jackie Silver, founder of Aging Backwards ( http://www.agingbac...

People have been channeling spirits since the dawn of time. Channeling apparently contributed to the writing of the Bible and the Koran. Some follow hidden voices or a guardian angel; artists wait for inspiration; scientists for a Eureka! moment; we rely on intuition; go with our gut instinct, and follow our hearts. But some people, such as this week’s guest, Shepherd Hoodwin ( http://www.summerjo...

What happens after death? Does the dust of our bodies join again with the dust of the earth in a final ending? Or does some spiritual part of us carry on in another realm? While science continues to doubt the notion of an after-life, the evidence is building that something either lives beyond bodily death, or perhaps we have misconceived the nature of what we are in the first place. Despite doubts...

Time is the 4th dimension. A movement, flow, change, that we all know, but cannot put into words. In physics, the laws of nature are commonly considered to be timeless; unchanging. But if they are changeless, then where did they come from? On this week’s show, Philip Mereton talks about time and the evolving laws of nature with one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists, Lee Smolin, ( http:...

Greek mathematician Archimedes ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes)jumped from this bath and ran naked down the streets of Syracuse shouting Eureka! when he discovered how to prove the king's gold crown was fake without destroying it. Since then, we all treasure these Eureka! or "I get it!" moments when the solution to a thorny problem suddenly appears in front of us. Join Philip Mereton as...

World-renown physicist Stephen Hawking ( http://www.space.com/20710-stephen-hawking-god-big-bang.html) is an atheist because he does not believe science needs a God to answer the mysteries of existence. Others arrive at atheism because a traumatic experience destroyed a belief in God. This week’s guest, Dr. Robert Rose, ( http://www.imaginativecurriculum.com/) author of Godless and the Good Life a...

Atheists don't believe in God. This week's guest, Sondra Sneed, was a devout atheist until something strange happened: God began writing in her notebook, answering her deepest questions, and simply talking with her. Sondra Sneed ( http://www.sondrasneed.com )is no longer an atheist. She recounts her interview with the Creator of the Universe in her new book, What to do When You're Dead ( http://ww...

The faint young sun paradox continues to befuddle scientists. Theory predicts that the early sun should have given off much less heat than it does now, meaning that the young Earth should have been a frozen place, inhospitable place for life. But that’s not what the geological evidence reveals. Fossils of life forms date back to the early days of the Earth, showing that our planet, and hence the s...