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EPISODE · Mar 13, 2025 · 1H

WF Dr Siddharth Ramakrishnan - The Neuroscience of Tarot

from Missing Witches · host Risa Dickens, Siddharth Ramakrishnan

Siddharth Ramakrishnan, PhD is a neuroscientist, artist, and educator. He is the Chair of Neuroscience and Professor of Biology at the University of Puget Sound and a recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award. His research spans developmental biology, neuroendocrinology and neuroethics. A Fellow of the UCLA Art|Sci center, his collaborations with artists have led to exhibitions and documentaries that blend the worlds of art and science highlighting topics like Hox genes, animal umwelts and biomimicry. He was also a Fellow at the Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit at Montreal (2019). He has had exhibits at MOCA Taipei (2013), the New School of Design (2012), Microwave New Media Festival (2011) and Symposium on Human-Dog Coevolution (2011). An avid Tarot reader, he has designed and created the NeuroTarot deck based on the major arcana of Tarot and infused with neuroscience. He was the keynote speaker at NWTS 2023 and a panelist at the Masters of Tarot workshop (2023) with Mary K. Greer at Omega, Rhinebeck NY. His book "The Neuroscience of Tarot", is out Fall 2024 with Llewelyn Worldwide. https://www.brainmystic.com/ About The Neuroscience of Tarot: "What happens inside your brain when you look at a tarot card? How do you attribute significance to symbols? In this book, Siddharth Ramakrishnan, PhD, answers these questions and more as he explores the neuroscience behind intuition and proves that tarot readers aren’t just making up their results. Siddharth unveils the fascinating dance between your body and brain that occurs while delivering or receiving a reading. Learn how this unconscious synergy allows you to process tarot imagery, attach personal meaning, and elicit emotional responses, laying the groundwork for prediction. Filled with dozens of journal exercises and full-color images, this book makes it easy to understand what intuition is scientifically and how to enhance it for more accurate readings from both sides of the table." The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.If that sounds like your people, come find out more. https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 

Risa interviews professor of neuroscience and tarot reader, Dr Siddharth Ramakrishnan, about what happens in our brains when we divine, the evidence for collective conscience and neuroforecasting, how different animals move through the world, and what plastic is doing to our experience of time.

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