Expanding on Consciousness

Joseph McMoneagle, Remote Viewer 001 in the Army's Stargate Project, recounts his distinguished military career. Referred to as Anomalous Cognition, Remote Viewing proved to be a viable espionage tactic during the Iranian hostage crisis. "Just about every agency in America that had an intelligence agency wound up giving us targets." How is Remote Viewing different than premonition or bilocation? "...

In this episode of Expanding on Consciousness, host, Mark Certo, discusses energy healing with Lisa VanOstrand, Dr. Of Medical Qigong, former Dean of Advanced Studies at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, Core Energetics Therapist, and Clairvision Practitioner. Lisa shares her personal path to becoming an energy healer with a particular focus on her working with Barbara Brennan School of Heali...

"There are vital truths there that people need to know about. And if in my role as an educator, I can point people in the direction of finding that stuff out. I'm very pleased." In this archival episode, host, Mark revisits a conversation he had with psychologist, educator, intrepid consciousness explorer and researcher Dr. Charles Tart in 1993. Dr. Tart highlights the differences between science...

In episode 10, Mark speaks with author, clinical psychologist, and international psychokinesis trainer Dr. Joe Gallenberger. Early childhood "Oneness" experiences led to Joe's curiosity and study of Christian mysticism, eastern religions, and meditation. "[Humans] have a tremendous desire for transcendence." Experiencing expanded states of consciousness can be therapeutic and healing. "Exploring a...

Mark revisits an extraordinary interview from 28 years ago with Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, sixth man to walk on the moon, and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. While returning from the moon, Edgar had an epiphany while looking out at the cosmos. "I realized that the Universe was an intelligent process. It was an insight. It was accompanied by a euphoria, an ecstasy if you will...

Physicist, consciousness researcher, author of the "My Big TOE" trilogy and international lecturer Tom Campbell talks about his early out-of-body experience as a child and the role it has played in his life's purpose. He explains what led him to meet and eventually work with Bob Monroe to research and explore expanded states of consciousness. A pioneer in audio-induced expanded states, he, Dennis...

The gate-less gate to expanded states of consciousness — Lucid dreaming, shared dreams and out-of-body states are somewhat similar, with each having its unique characteristics. "I came across a book, 'Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep' by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche ... and my practice [lucid dreaming] took off." Dream yoga is where you wake up inside a dream similar to a lucid dream but rather than si...

This week's guest Eileen Hall is an Ecuadorean/Scottish artist, explorer and the founder of Tayos, an organization supporting the protection of endangered habitats in Ecuador. Inspired and ignited by the work of her late father Stan Hall, Eileen's research into psychology, consciousness and wellbeing is embedded into all her work, particularly in her work as co-director of the Tayos art project wh...

It began with an early interest in not just the science of the mind but, the science of the extent of the mind. "My students were interested in doing experiments in telepathy, psychokinesis and esp ... so I monitored them but of course I was in the process of learning what they were learning. Roger Nelson Director of The Global Consciousness Project discusses is there such a thing as group conscio...

Helané Wahbeh's personal interest in the rare form of trance channeling, "the process of expressing or receiving information and energy from beyond our conventional notion of time and space," began at a very early age. "My mother did it, my grandmother, [I have] multiple people in my family who've experienced trance channeling." Now, as the Director of Research at IONS she's developed the IONS Cha...

Mark Certo originally recorded this casual conversation with Bob Monroe in 1994. Bob talks about his early spontaneous out-of-body experiences and how they spawned a curiosity for the non-physical realm and the study of expanded states of consciousness and ultimately the Monroe Institute. Bob shares his thoughts on why we are here [in this life] and unconditional love "where no reward what so ever...

Always inclined towards science and technology, Dr. Dean Radin was drawn in particular to Psi research. In this episode of Expanding on Consciousness, Dean discusses parapsycology and the scientific rigors of research on the edge of the unknown. "A friend joked that I must have been born with an extra set of Y (why) chromozones. ...I was always asking why." The study of Psi looks at experiences th...

In this opening episode of Expanding on Consciousness, host, Mark Certo invites you to join him and his guests to explore views, understandings and explorations of consciousness. "We're going dive into to some very deep mysteries of consciousness on this podcast, all of this we do to to encourage you, to explore your own sense of consciousness more deeply. Through these conversations, you might be...

Expanding on Consciousness— Insightful and sometimes surprising conversations with scientists and practitioners about the many disciplines and aspects of consciousness—in all its forms. Mark Certo and guests, invite you to listen, learn and apply new ways of thinking about what it means to be interconnected conscious beings.  Brought to you by the Monroe Institute.