Expanding on Consciousness

What is the premise of the Morphic Resonance Theory? The lower laws of nature are more like habits. Meaning, each species has a type of collective memory, the collective unconscious so to speak, not just a memory of behavior like instinct, but also a form. For example, when a cabbage grows, it's tapping into a collective cabbage memory, a memory of form. This understanding in general isn't a new c...

Well known for his controversial work with quantum theorists Roger Penrose, Dr. Hameroff suggests that consciousness originates in quantum states, and then interacts with neural microtubules indicating that the brain actually still has something to do with consciousness while at the same time, introducing the idea that quantum field theory holds that consciousness is fundamental and exists outside...

Robot Koch is an award winning artist/producer/composer and devoted meditator from Berlin, living in Los Angeles. He has been steadily crafting a mature and original sound that expertly combines a deep and cinematic atmosphere, emotional reflection and forward-thinking production of dialogues between technology and nature. He explores the spaces between ambient sounds, venturing into the unknown—t...

The information Robert Temple reveals in this episode has the potential to kick our beliefs about "the heavens"— the sun, moon, stars, and space itself—into radical revision. Modern physics addresses only the world of matter, excluding the greater reality. The developing science of plasma physics reveals that the heavens are made not of atoms, but of subatomic plasma. Our sun: plasma. The stars: p...

Prepare to re-evaluate everything you thought you knew about these ancient monuments, and so much more! Author, professor, deep researcher and self-proclaimed "arch skeptic of traditional thinking" Robert Temple shares his provocative reinterpretations of how and why they came to be, and how they've been used—and abused—at various times in history. Discrepancies in dating are often ignored, and ma...

Why does the Law of Attraction often not "deliver the goods"? Is there a better map for this journey? Continuing from Part 1, Dr. Bullard brings further clarity to the high art and deep science of physical manifestation. Foundations must be built before you add the roof to your Temple of the Self. Introspection and subconscious cleansing are a good start. Pop culture encourages self-entitlement an...

Theresa Bullard, PhD, is an author, world-renown speaker, Mystery School instructor, and host of Mystery Teachings on Gaia TV.  How do science and spirituality work together to expand consciousness personally and collectively, leading us to accomplish the Great Work? The power is within, magic is real, the tools are available. Our role is to acknowledge the eternal essence that unifies and lifts u...

Dr. Bruce Greyson is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia and author of several books on near-death experiences (NDEs).In this podcast, we look into themes commonly present during NDEs, such as: faster and clearer thinking a diminished sense of time overwhelming feelings of peace, wellbeing and joy awareness of cosmic unity new sounds & colors...

Ego trip as a "good tool for self understanding." Consciousness is both knowledge-based and intuitive. These are a few of the topics in episode 30 part 2 with Dr. Raymond Moody. Fate and consciousness—Dr. Moody recalls a string of meaningful coincidences where synchronicity abounds. Next he moves on to psychomanteums and ancient Greece. Do we live in several planes at once? The common sense theory...

In part 1 of our conversation with Dr. Raymond Moody ,  we discuss what potential exists beyond the physical, and is there such a thing as  a precise  moment of death — or is it   more   a waning of  "residual biological activity in the body on the atomic level?" After years of researching near-death experiences (NDE), Dr. Moody found common patterns existing  among  people who've experienced them...

Don Miguel Ruiz Jr., author of The 5 Levels of Attachment and The Mastery of Self, followed his Mesoamerican grandmother's passion as a healer.  "She passed away in 2008 and is still the spiritual head of this family," he recounts. His journey began as her apprentice, translating her teachings into English. When he reached his mid-20s his father intensified his training and instructed him to find...

Toltec wisdom is about healing with spirit, and Toltec practitioners serve as an extension of the divine Mother Earth. The fire within is there to protect us from ourselves. Follow that fire. The Toltec of today has evolved as the world has evolved—kept alive not with blind faith repeating traditional beliefs, but by how the world is dreaming right now. There are many challenges to unlearn. Toltec...

Expanding on Consciousness' guiding principle is integrity—the same guiding principle of the Monroe Institute and our guests. We have an incredible line-up in Season 3 including Rupert Sheldrake, Dr. Raymond Moody, Geneen Haugen, Don Miguel Ruiz Jr., Dr. Bruce Greyson, and many more "truth tellers and explorers." We are seeing an emerging pattern in our conversations so far, of interconnectedness...

The Hero's Journey. The evolution of humanity not just on an individual level yet it is deeply personal. There was a time when we were in our own private Garden of Eden, our Mother's womb. "We have been sent from this place of Oneness and we are always making decisions. Consciousness means we now have choice and that's a responsibility." Everything is a subjective experience of an objective realit...

There is a schism of sorts between the mechanistic clinical psychotherapy and the Jungian approach. Jungian Therapy is a lens through which we look at the world in the search for meaning and wholeness, individuation. Jungian brings in that archetype eye. "CG Jung refers to archetypes as a mode of thought present in the unconscious. A universal pattern of energy and how it manifests." Archetypes ar...

Author and scientist Dr. Shamini Jain discusses her book "Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health" and evidence of energy healing. The power of the Psyche and new discoveries in subtle energy and Biofield healing. "The psyche is a powerful part of Psychoneuroimmunology research." Exploring the realm of emotion and its relationship with health. Gratitude, Nondual Awareness from...

Self-actualization is a function of consciousness where the inner-self is recognized and expressed in one's life. When conducting a pea plant experiment to test associative learning, Dr. Gagliano used a classical conditioning experiment similar to the "Pavlovian Dog" experiment to reveal the pea plant was capable of projecting into the future, imagining dinner. "I was doing a process called the De...

We're all part of this greater consciousness. How does that extend to nature? Initially interested in plant communication Dr. Gagliano discovers that plants are aware and behave in ways we never imagined. Plants are capable of memory, stimulus response, learning experience and awareness of environment. "I can certainly tell you that Mimosa Pudica can remember for at least a month." Is a brain crit...

The Universe comes to know itself through our being. "I think the unification of physics and the unification of science and spirituality may both be possible." Consciousness informs the body/mind complex. The physical and non-physical which exist within the same frame work. "Consciousness is beyond classical physics it exists in a reality which is purely quantum. …A quantum system that is in a pur...

Free will is a choice, a direction of conscious decision. "Consciousness has to be from the beginning. It has the exact same properties of experiences, the privacy and the indefiniteness are the exact same properties of the pure quantum state [system]." With an infinity of possibilities. Theories are using math to make predictions. The math must be deterministic and in deterministic. Quantum Physi...

If you use a computer, a cell phone, a video game or any number of devices with a microprocessor, you owe [our] guest today a debt of gratitude. Federico Faggin is the father of all of these. "How does that transformation occur, to go from electrical signals that are generated by explanation the scientists were giving, into sensations and feelings?" With no principle in physics known, Frederico Fa...

Listen in as Tom answers questions about the out-of-body experience, synchronicities, conscious computers and the larger consciousness system. From thought to physicality. Why synchronicity occurs as opposed to instantaneously truth. "The system can do that sorta nudging as long as there is always plausible deniability that anything paranormal ever happened.... It verifies to you the realness and...

What is the nature of reality and how is consciousness interacting with it? "Science is not fundamentally mathematical. Science is fundamentally logical."  Tom's "evolutionary model" is based on logic. "The MBT (My Big Toe) trilogy, I made specifically as an on ramp for left brained and logical thinkers. ...It builds on a logical process....and they [the MBT books] tend to be a little hard to read...

"Mostly I was trying to understand those questions...of how it all worked [time, consciousness, free will]...trying to understand through experimentation." Exploring the relationship between past lives and current realities, "I'd go into that past life...and I'd not only watch...I'd go in and make a change and I'd look and see how that change would change other things. I'd observe...I realized tha...

Mark Certo opens Season 2 reflecting on the amazing guests and conversations in Season 1 of Expanding on Consciousness. His opening dialogue asks the important question, how is consciousness evolving and expanding as a collective [species]. "Are we at the forefront in a shift in consciousness? ...Perhaps the acknowledgement of this interconnectedness of life is part of this evolving consciousness....