The Leading Edge

A remarkable conversation with "teacher of presence" Roshni Daya

Dr. Mona Sobhani is an author, cognitive neuroscientist and an expert in the emerging science of “spiritual” phenomena. A core theme of this series is the importance of updating your stale perceptions of the world. Over the last two years, nobody has helped challenge my own preconceptions more than Dr. Mona Sobhani, and her book Proof of Spiritual Phenomena .

Dan Larence is an exceptionally experienced consultant psychotherapist and depth psychological researcher. His expertise is in Jungian analysis, syncronicity and dream analysis. Dan isn’t just the most qualified mental health professional I’ve ever met, he’s also facinating because he started life as a currency trader. He now applies those pattern-recognition skills to the analysis of dreams. He r...

Allison Paradise is a neuroscientist and founder of The Epicenter. She is an expert in consciousness and relationships, specifically the role of intuition in raising mentally healthy children.

Dr. Ervin Laszlo is a philosopher and systems scientist. He’s the author, co-author or editor of 106 different books and he’s written over 400 articles and research papers. Among many other awards he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005. Now 92 and stil as passionate as ever, Dr. Laszlo describes how mainstream science is dangerously flawed. Our primary topic of discussion is a...

Psychotherapist, author, mythologist and close associate of the legendary Joseph Campbell, Dr. Stephen Larsen shared his understanding of the secrets revealed by human myth.

Together with Le Ciel Foundation, Lucy Martens co-directed and produced the documentary The Twelve. In November 2017, twelve highly spiritual Elders from wisdom traditions around the globe agreed to gather at the U.N. in New York. The documentary follows their journey as well as articulating the overlaps in their spiritual worldviews. The focus of her new documentary, EarthElders is the prophecy o...

Mindahi Bastida is a spiritual leader and holder of 2 doctorates. He’s a caretaker of the philosophy and traditions of the Otomi-Toltec peoples, as well as a consultant with UNESCO around Sacred Sites and Biocultural issues and for other UN programs. In this podcast he talks about the Eagle and the Condor prophecy as well as the 5 mandates he's working on to urgently restore balance to the wor...

Mindahi Bastida is a caretaker of the philosophy and traditions of the Otomi-Toltec peoples, as well as a consultant with UNESCO around Sacred Sites and Biocultural issues and for other UN programs. In this interview he talks about the Eagle and the Condor prophecy as well as the 5 mandates he's working on to urgently restore balance to the world. Together with Le Ciel Foundation, Lucy Martens...

Based in New York, Devin is one of the world’s best transitional coaches. His expertise is helping high-performing individuals with big decisions and life transitions.

Ulisse Di Corpo, PhD and his wife wife Antonella Vannini have spent years developing the groundbreaking theory of syntropy. It presents a practical and positive theory of attractors that has nonetheless been roundly suppressed and ignored by the Western scientific establishment. Please enjoy this moving interview. http://www.sintropia.it/syntropy.htm

River’s an expert in somatic and embodiment practices. He uses learning from Jungian Psychology, Esoteric Buddhism, and Body-Mind Integration to help people get out of their head and back into their lifes. He’s also one of the freshest voices online right now.

The episode’s expert is neuroscientist and curiosity expert Anne Laure Le Cunff. She has written some great pieces about the specifics of structuring experiments to facilitate curiosity.

Our first episode explores the practical acquisition of expertise. I haven’t encountered anyone better than Cedric Chin on this topic. Both wisdom and expertise mean knowing what’s most important at any single moment in time, even in hyper complex and dynamic environments. In the real world, this looks like "expert intuition." Cedric’s work, especially around Cognitive Flexibility Theory...