Pushing Boundaries with Dr. Thomas R Verny

Rabbi Jonathan Duker  grew up near Philadelphia, attended Yehivat Reishit Yerushalayim in the Old City of Jerusalem, earned his BA and MA from Yeshiva University, was ordained as rabbi by Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York. In 2004 he emigrated to Israel and subsequently received a degree in Education from Herzog College. He currently serves as an Israel Studies Educator at the Alexander Muss Hig...

My guest today is Prof Dave Pruett, former NASA researcher; award-winning computational scientist; emeritus professor of applied mathematics at James Madison University (JMU); the originator of "From Black Elk to Black Holes", a Templeton-award-winning Honors seminar at JMU; and the author of Reason and Wonder: A Copernican Revolution in Science and Spirit (Praeger 2012, paperback 2016)....

My guest today is Father Laurence Freeman OSB, a Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Monte Olivetto Maggiore in Italy.  Fr Laurence was educated by the Benedictines and studied English Literature at Oxford University. He is the Director of the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM) an inclusive contemplative  community based in Bonnevaux.  Fr Laurence is a prolific author. His books i...

My guest today is Martha Jo Atkins PhD, end-of-life counselor, counselor supervisor, (LPC-S), coach, speaker and author of Signposts of Dying: What You Need to Know (2015). For almost thirty years, you Martha has worked with grieving and bereaved children and families and people at end-of-life and the ones who love them. I asked what that kind of counselling entails. In the very early 90s, Martha ...

My guest today is Jeffrey Mishlove PhD, clinical psychologist, host of  the podcast, New Thinking Allowed, and author of an encyclopedic volume of consciousness studies, The Roots of Consciousness. Dr. Mishlove is a scientist known worldwide for his serious research on unexplained phenomena. He was recently awarded the Bigelow Institute Competition Grand Prize for his paper Beyond the Brain: The S...

My guest today is Susan Highsmith DD, PhD, counselor and, in addition to have written The Renaissance of Birth and  Babies Know , author of a fabulous series of  fairy tales for unborn, newborn and very young children designed to help parents bond with their children and children attach to their parents. They are called The First Fairy Tales I – IV.. Susan got into this subject in 2001 when she be...

 My guest today is Robbie Davis-Floyd PhD,  Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Rice University, Houston and Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Dr. Davis-Floyd is a medical/reproductive anthropologist, international speaker (over 1000 presentations) and researcher in transformational models in childbirth, midwifery and obstetrics. She is author of over 80 articles, 23 encycloped...

Gerard D. C. Kuiken PhD. False Dualities, Space-time, Life-death We talk about consciousness, thought, time and the relationship between life and death. Max Planck regarded consciousness as a fundamental component of the universe and matter as derived from it.  Dr. Kuiken disagrees. He holds that a chosen distinction, a measurement, collapses the  “wave function”  yielding a triunity, like conscio...

Precognition confounds our sense and understanding of time, something we can generally take for granted. Between case histories and recent experimental work, it is clear that we must take precognition seriously. What does it tell us about the world that individuals can get glimpses of the future (and the past)? Psi puzzles us in many ways, muddling our ordinary notions of individuality, personalit...

My guest today is Andria Spyridou PhD, Dr. Nat. Sc.,  Her Doctorate is in Clinical Psychology from the University of Konstanz, Germany. Dr. Spyridou is presently the regional mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) coordinator for UNICEF’s Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office. Currently, Andria lives in Panama.  She emphasized that the opinions expressed here are her personal views a...

My guest is Joan Koenig, a pioneering music educator, author of  The Musical Child and owner operator of famed Parisian L’Ecole Koenig-The American Conservatory. Joan will tell us how music can supercharge early childhood development—and how parents and educators can harness its power. At her  music schol they have classes for parents and babies. “We have bells, little bells that sit on the floor....

My guest today is Dr. Bruce Lipton, cellular biologist and author of The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles. He also wrote two more books, The Honeymoon Effect: The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth in 2009 and with Steve Bhaerman Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future (and a Way to Get There from Here) Through the research of Dr. Lipton and othe...

Dr. Michael Levin is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor, director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University and of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology and co-director of the Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms with Joshua Bongard. He is the founding associate editor of Collective Intelligence and co-editor of the Bioelectricity Journal.  Dr. Levi...

My guest today is Stephen Gyllenhaal, film and television director, writer and producer.  His producing credits include dozens of films and TV shows, amongst them Shattered Mind, about a woman with dissociative identity disorder, the feature documentaries  Exquisite Continent on dream interpretation and In Utero about prenatal psychology. Stephen interviewed me for this movie and that’s how we fir...

There are people who just stumble into a job and suffer through it until they die or retire. Whichever comes first. Others find a vocation that truly expresses and fulfills their inner self early in life. For others it takes longer. Luciano Volpe, my guest today, falls into this latter category. He got his MBA at the University of Toronto and for the next two years he worked as a management consul...

Daviorr Snipes started at the Stratford Festival four months ago as its first Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Before arriving in Stratford, Daviorr served as Director of EDI at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta. In his present position his focus is on devising and implementing strategies to make the theater experience more attractive to racialized communities which in the past hav...

David quit his surgical practice in 2019 to pursue teaching patients and medical providers how to solve chronic pain without surgery or addictive drugs. He has advocated for well-documented  and effective solutions for chronic pain that need to be brought into mainstream medicine. We discuss the many different routes this can take such as journaling, emails, webinars, Q&A sessions, and instruc...

My guest today is Olga Gouni. Olga is a researcher, Psychotherapist/ Educator and author of  Soul Days, Welcome, Once Upon a Time in Embryoland, The History of Prenatal Psychology,  co-editor and chapter contributor of Prenatal Psychology 100 years and  author of 15 papers in various journals. Her main interest is connecting the academic world with the community designing and implementing services...

My guest today is Dr. Paul Valent, psychiatrist, lecturer at Monash University, cofounder and past president of the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and of the Child Survivors of the Holocaust group in Melbourne, Australia.  In the course of his work, he tells me, he  has come to understand the close connections between mind, body, and society, and how trauma disrupts all these as...

I discuss with my guest, Prof. Nicolas Rouleau, Algoma University, Canada his transdisciplinary approach to understand the fundamental nature of cognitive systems. One of his most interesting researches focuses on the structure of the post-mortem human brain. Functions of the human brain are not assumed to be preserved beyond death and subsequent chemical fixation. Prof. Rouleau and his group pres...

My guest today is Scott Tate, consulting personal trainer and coach based out of Toronto and Chatham-Kent, Ontario. He is the owner of  Tate Body Sciences. Scotty works with adults, often dealing with  movement disorders or other chronic concerns, such as Parkinsons or Multiple Sclerosis or other neurodegenerative conditions. He applies Kinesiology and Sports Science principles to develop for each...

Scientific advances in reproductive technology now allow for infertile couples,  LGBTQ+  couples or even single people to have a child in an almost infinite variety of ways in many cases without sexual intercourse. My guest, Klaus Käppeli , MSc, a Swiss psychologist and psychotherapist specializes in treating children born by AI, IVF and other third-party conception techniques who have developed e...

We learn from Prof. Murugan that studies in brainless slime molds reveal that they use physical cues to decide where to grow. The physarum polycephalum i. e. slime mold, demonstrates how brainless organisms process information toward adaptive behavior. According to Prof. Murugan, a slime mold can use mechanical cues in its surrounding to reliably make decisions about distant objects and performs c...

My guest today is Dr. Matthew Regan, assistant professor of animal physiology in the Département de Sciences Biologiques at the Université de Montréal. We discuss how hibernating animals find it hard to get the nitrogen they need to maintain muscles – but ground squirrels have gut microbes that can break down urea to free up the nitrogen it contains. How knowledge gained in these experiments may,...

My guest is Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, Occupational Therapist, Intuitive Healer, Integrative Health Practitioner, Health Coach, teacher, consultant, and author of Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance with Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. We talk about how to learn to trust your own intuition and how this can benefit your life. If you liked this podcast please tell...