Expanding on Consciousness
by Monroe Institute
The Monroe Institute's Expanding on Consciousness includes conversations with scientists and practitioners about the many perspectives and ideas around consciousness: human, non-human, scientific, spiritual, experiential and more. We invite the curious… to speak, listen, learn and apply new ways of thinking about what it means to be interconnected conscious beings.Our host, Mark Certo, will engage well known experts, trainers and other fascinating guests in insightful and sometimes surprising conversations about the many disciplines and aspects of consciousness—in all its forms.
Episodes
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Episode 38: Morphic Resonance Theory and the Universal Life Force with Rupert Sheldrake, PhD
What is the premise of the Morphic Resonance Theory? The lower laws of nature are more like habits. Meaning, each species has a type of collective memory, the collective unconscious so to speak, not just a memory of behavior like instinct, but also a form. For example, when a cabbage grows, it's...
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Episode 37: Conscious awareness is the most fundamental level of the universe with Dr. Stuart Hameroff
Well known for his controversial work with quantum theorists Roger Penrose, Dr. Hameroff suggests that consciousness originates in quantum states, and then interacts with neural microtubules indicating that the brain actually still has something to do with consciousness while at the same time,...
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Episode 36: Venturing into the Unknown to Create Warm Healing Blankets of Ambient Sound with Robot Koch
Robot Koch is an award winning artist/producer/composer and devoted meditator from Berlin, living in Los Angeles. He has been steadily crafting a mature and original sound that expertly combines a deep and cinematic atmosphere, emotional reflection and forward-thinking production of dialogues...
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Episode 35, Part 2: A New Science of Heaven with Robert Temple
The information Robert Temple reveals in this episode has the potential to kick our beliefs about "the heavens"— the sun, moon, stars, and space itself—into radical revision. Modern physics addresses only the world of matter, excluding the greater reality. The developing science of plasma physics...
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Episode 34, Part 1: Megaliths, Pyramids and Secrets of the Sphinx, with Robert Temple
Prepare to re-evaluate everything you thought you knew about these ancient monuments, and so much more! Author, professor, deep researcher and self-proclaimed "arch skeptic of traditional thinking" Robert Temple shares his provocative reinterpretations of how and why they came to be, and how...
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Episode 33: Part 2 with Dr. Theresa Bullard—Kaballah, Creation, and Taking The Quantum Leap
Why does the Law of Attraction often not "deliver the goods"? Is there a better map for this journey? Continuing from Part 1, Dr. Bullard brings further clarity to the high art and deep science of physical manifestation. Foundations must be built before you add the roof to your Temple of the…
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Episode 32, Part 1: Modern Science and Ancient Wisdom Unite to Unlock the Hidden Mysteries of Reality with Dr. Theresa Bullard
Theresa Bullard, PhD, is an author, world-renown speaker, Mystery School instructor, and host of Mystery Teachings on Gaia TV. How do science and spirituality work together to expand consciousness personally and collectively, leading us to accomplish the Great Work? The power is within, magic is...
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Episode 31: How NDE Research Led to Deconstructing the Link Between the Mind and Brain with Dr. Bruce Greyson
Dr. Bruce Greyson is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia and author of several books on near-death experiences (NDEs).In this podcast, we look into themes commonly present during NDEs, such as: faster and clearer thinking a diminished sense…
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Episode 30: Part 2—Consciousness, Fate and A String of Meaningful Coincidences with Dr. Raymond Moody
Ego trip as a "good tool for self understanding." Consciousness is both knowledge-based and intuitive. These are a few of the topics in episode 30 part 2 with Dr. Raymond Moody. Fate and consciousness—Dr. Moody recalls a string of meaningful coincidences where synchronicity abounds. Next he moves...
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Episode 29: Part 1—The Potential That Exists Beyond the Physical with Dr. Raymond Moody
In part 1 of our conversation with Dr. Raymond Moody, we discuss what potential exists beyond the physical, and is there such a thing as a precise moment of death—or is it more a waning of "residual biological activity in the body on the atomic level?" After years of researching near-death...
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Episode 28: Don Miguel Ruiz Jr. Describes His Own Hero's Journey to Find and Embrace His Personal Truth
Don Miguel Ruiz Jr., author of The 5 Levels of Attachment and The Mastery of Self, followed his Mesoamerican grandmother's passion as a healer. "She passed away in 2008 and is still the spiritual head of this family," he recounts. His journey began as her apprentice, translating her teachings…
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Episode 27: Don Jose Ruiz, Author of the Fifth Agreement and Teacher of Toltec Traditions
Toltec wisdom is about healing with spirit, and Toltec practitioners serve as an extension of the divine Mother Earth. The fire within is there to protect us from ourselves. Follow that fire. The Toltec of today has evolved as the world has evolved—kept alive not with blind faith repeating...
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Episode 26: Season 3 Looks at Interconnectedness & Synchronicity as a Beacon Guidepost
Expanding on Consciousness' guiding principle is integrity—the same guiding principle of the Monroe Institute and our guests. We have an incredible line-up in Season 3 including Rupert Sheldrake, Dr. Raymond Moody, Geneen Haugen, Don Miguel Ruiz Jr., Dr. Bruce Greyson, and many more "truth…
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Eva Rider, Jungian Psychotherapist, Part 2—Sent From This Place of Oneness, We Are Always Making Choices.
The Hero's Journey. The evolution of humanity not just on an individual level yet it is deeply personal. There was a time when we were in our own private Garden of Eden, our Mother's womb. "We have been sent from this place of Oneness and we are always making decisions. Consciousness means we now...
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Eva Rider, Jungian Psychotherapist, Part 1—Clinical Psychotherapy and the Jungian Approach, a Psycho-Spiritual Process
There is a schism of sorts between the mechanistic clinical psychotherapy and the Jungian approach. Jungian Therapy is a lens through which we look at the world in the search for meaning and wholeness, individuation. Jungian brings in that archetype eye. "CG Jung refers to archetypes as a mode of...
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Dr. Shamini Jain—Author, Scientist and Teacher Discusses the Role Consciousness Plays in Healing
Author and scientist Dr. Shamini Jain discusses her book "Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health" and evidence of energy healing. The power of the Psyche and new discoveries in subtle energy and Biofield healing. "The psyche is a powerful part of Psychoneuroimmunology...
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Episode 22: Monica Gagliano—Part 2, The Conscious Lives of Plants and What They're Telling Us
Self-actualization is a function of consciousness where the inner-self is recognized and expressed in one's life. When conducting a pea plant experiment to test associative learning, Dr. Gagliano used a classical conditioning experiment similar to the "Pavlovian Dog" experiment to reveal the pea...
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Episode 21: Monica Gagliano—The Fascinating Conscious Lives of Plants Goes Well Beyond Our Imagination
We're all part of this greater consciousness. How does that extend to nature? Initially interested in plant communication Dr. Gagliano discovers that plants are aware and behave in ways we never imagined. Plants are capable of memory, stimulus response, learning experience and awareness of...
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Episode 20: Federico Faggin—Part 3, Free will, cause and effect. "Free will is the ultimate cause of reality."
The Universe comes to know itself through our being. "I think the unification of physics and the unification of science and spirituality may both be possible." Consciousness informs the body/mind complex. The physical and non-physical which exist within the same frame work. "Consciousness is…
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Episode 19: Federico Faggin—Part 2, Qualia: Thoughts, Sensations and Feelings; the Messenger of Meaning
Free will is a choice, a direction of conscious decision. "Consciousness has to be from the beginning. It has the exact same properties of experiences, the privacy and the indefiniteness are the exact same properties of the pure quantum state [system]." With an infinity of possibilities. Theories...
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Episode 18: Frederico Faggin—From Computers and Machine Learning to Exploring Consciousness
If you use a computer, a cell phone, a video game or any number of devices with a microprocessor, you owe [our] guest today a debt of gratitude. Federico Faggin is the father of all of these. "How does that transformation occur, to go from electrical signals that are generated by explanation the...
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Episode 17: Fourth and Final Episode with Tom Campbell—Becoming More, Growing and Improving Ourselves
Listen in as Tom answers questions about the out-of-body experience, synchronicities, conscious computers and the larger consciousness system. From thought to physicality. Why synchronicity occurs as opposed to instantaneously truth. "The system can do that sorta nudging as long as there is…
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Part 3 of Our Conversation with Tom Campbell—The Nature of Reality
What is the nature of reality and how is consciousness interacting with it? "Science is not fundamentally mathematical. Science is fundamentally logical." Tom's "evolutionary model" is based on logic. "The MBT (My Big Toe) trilogy, I made specifically as an on ramp for left brained and logical...
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Episode 15: Part 2 of Our Conversation with Tom Campbell - Accessing and Researching the Non-Physical
"Mostly I was trying to understand those questions...of how it all worked [time, consciousness, free will]...trying to understand through experimentation." Exploring the relationship between past lives and current realities, "I'd go into that past life...and I'd not only watch...I'd go in and…
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Episode 14: Season 2 The Primary Functions and Aspects of Consciousness with Your Host, Mark Certo
Mark Certo opens Season 2 reflecting on the amazing guests and conversations in Season 1 of Expanding on Consciousness. His opening dialogue asks the important question, how is consciousness evolving and expanding as a collective [species]. "Are we at the forefront in a shift in consciousness?...
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Remote Viewer 001, Stargate Project: An Archived Conversation with Joseph McMoneagle
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…
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Energy Healing, Consciousness and the Divine Mind with Lisa VanOstrand
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…
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Science and Spirituality: An archived conversation with Dr. Charles Tart, psychologist, parapsychologist and consciousness researcher. (originally recorded in 1993)
"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...
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Healing, Manifestation and Transcendence: A Conversation With with Author, Clinical Psychologist, and Psychokinesis Expert, Dr. Joe Gallenberger
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...
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An Archived Conversation with Astronaut Edgar Mitchell Founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (originally recorded in 1994)
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...
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Research and Out-of-Body Experiences with Robert A. Monroe: A Conversation with Tom Campbell, Physicist and Author
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…
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Lucid Dreaming and Consciousness: A conversation with Luigi Sciambarella, Integrative Hypno-Psychotherapist specializing in sleep and dream disturbance
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…
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Art, Nature and Consciousness: A conversation with Eileen Hall, Founder of Tayos
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...
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The Global Consciousness Project (GCP): A conversation with Roger Nelson, PhD
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.…
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The Science of Channeling a Conversation with Helané Wahbeh, ND, MCR, Author and Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences
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…
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An archived conversation with Robert A. Monroe, author and founder of the Monroe Institute (originally recorded in 1994)
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...
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Parapsychology and consciousness with Dr. Dean Radin, author and Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Science (IONS)
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...
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What does it mean to experience expanded consciousness?
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...
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Introducing: Expanding on Consciousness
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...
About this show
The Monroe Institute's Expanding on Consciousness includes conversations with scientists and practitioners about the many perspectives and ideas around consciousness: human, non-human, scientific, spiritual, experiential and more. We invite the curious… to speak, listen, learn and apply new ways of thinking about what it means to be interconnected conscious beings.Our host, Mark Certo, will engage well known experts, trainers and other fascinating guests in insightful and sometimes surprising conversations about the many disciplines and aspects of consciousness—in all its forms.
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