Center for Contemplative Research

Fathom the Mind

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On Fathom the Mind , we explore what cutting-edge science and rigorous contemplative inquiry can tell us about the nature of consciousness. In this exploration, we hope to empower you to live a life of both intellectual integrity and contemplative depth . Despite the depth to which modern scientists have investigated matter and the physical world, their questions about the nature of consciousness remain unsolved. Scientists still don’t know how physical matter relates to conscious experience, and given the intense debate among the scientific community, there seems to be little hope for consens...

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#003: Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo 20.05.2026 1:05:30

Our guest on this episode is Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo. Jetsunma is a bhikṣuṇī (which is the Sanskrit term for a fully-ordained Buddhist nun) in the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. She is an author and teacher, as well as the founder of the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in Himachal Pradesh, India. She is well known for having spent twelve years living and practicing in a remote ca...

#002: Prof. Michel Bitbol 06.04.2026 1:18:24

Our guest on this episode is Professor Michel Bitbol. Michel is currently Directeur de Recherche Emeritus at the CNRS / École Normale Supérieure, in Paris, based at the Archives Husserl—a center of research in Phenomenology. His career, which spans the fields of medical science, quantum physics, and philosophy of mind, had its origins in a very simple childhood desire to know, in his words, “the s...

#001: Piet Hut 16.10.2025 1:38:21

Our guest on this episode is Professor Emeritus Piet Hut. Piet is renowned in the field of astrophysics, and recently retired as head of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey—which was once home to great scientists like Albert Einstein. But as you’ll find out, Piet’s interests reach far beyond the big bang and computer models of the universe....