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Mind the Shift
by Anders Bolling
For the first time in history, all of humanity is interconnected. Imagine the impact of that.This is a podcast for social geeks and seekers who watch the news with a gnawing feeling of emptiness. It is an attempt to find answers to the most ridiculously big questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?Pretentious? You bet.For full experience: youtube.com/c/MindtheShiftSupport:Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=46828009Paypal https://paypal.me/andersbolling?country.x=SE&locale.x=sv_SE
Episodes
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156. Embracing the Space of Uncertainty – Arash Gilan
A synchronistic encounter on a bus guided me to Arash Gilan and his latest book, 404 – Human Not Found (so far only available in Swedish). It is a philosophical, deeply personal, and moving read, sprung out of his tough, yet enlightening personal journey. Arash is an open and curious human with a...
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155. Bridging the Gap to the Afterlife – Dawn Brunke
A winding and lovely conversation with author, animal communicator and dream explorer Dawn Brunke.We focused particularly on Dawn’s latest two-part book “Talks with Bob”, in which she shares how she began communicating with her late husband, describing the process as a telepathic connection...
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154. Hathor's Messages of Hope – Yafi Yair
My conversation with psychologist, healer and consciousness guide Dr Yafi Yair is a wonderful exchange about the human predicament, spiritual growth and what is going on in the world right now, and why. A restructuring is happening before our eyes, says Yafi. It is the very shift that has been...
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153. Wonders Hidden Beneath the Pyramids? – Armando Mei
Independent researcher Armando Mei is part of a team that made waves in the spring of 2025. The results of their scanning beneath the pyramids of Giza – the Khafre pyramid in particular – were sensational. They seemed to reveal gigantic, coherent and seemingly artificial structures down to a…
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152. Gateways to Human Unity – Naina Eira Gupta
“Psychedelics trigger a unitive state, and meditation trains it.” So says Naina Eira Gupta, who researches the therapeutic potential of psychedelics and meditation. Psychedelics work because they disrupt the monkey mind, she asserts. They stop the constant chattering in your head, which is the...
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151. Astrology Is a Science of Consciousness – Dan Waites
Dan Waites displays an impressive depth and insightfulness in the videos on his You Tube channel World Astrology Report, but he actually didn’t start working as a mundane astrologer until 2020 (mundane refers to the use of astrology to understand world events and phases).Dan had studied the…
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150. The Most Romantic Question in Science: 'Are We Alone?' – Avi Loeb
“Science isn't about showing off. It’s about attending to unusual data, unusual evidence”, says astrophysicist Avi Loeb.“We can only learn new things from anomalies, from what doesn't line up.”Paying attention to anomalies is precisely what he does as head of the Galileo Project at Harvard, whose...
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149. The Last Days of UAP Cover-Up – Gary Heseltine
It was a pleasure to have Gary Heseltine back on the program, a former detective turned independent UAP investigator. In 2023, after years of research, he released a book, “Non-Human”, about the 1980 Rendlesham forest incidents (RFI), one of the most spectacular and complex UAP events in…
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148. Science Fanatics Try to Drive Evolution – Harald Walach
Humans have always tried to augment and enhance bodily flaws, from eye glasses to prostheses and pacemakers. But something qualitatively different is happening today. The transhumanist movement basically sees humans as biological algorithms.They want to break into the genetic code and the brain…
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147. We Are the Gods We Are Waiting For – Freddy Silva
Freddy Silva is an author, a speaker and an independent researcher of ancient knowledge and lost civilizations, in particular the temples and other megalithic sites our ancestors built and left behind. The old cultures knew where to build these things to harness the flow of energy. In Freddy...
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146. Following Your Blueprint Is Exerting Free Will – Arabella Thaïs
Arabella Thaïs is a philosopher in the renaissance person style. Her research spans quantum mechanics, cosmology, chaos theory, literature, aesthetics, higher-dimensional mathematics, ontology, and metaphysics. She runs The Temple of Truth, a school of consciousness and self-realization. When we...
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145. Authenticity Comes Before All – Kirsty Tait
Kirsty Tait describes herself as an entrepreneur turned “soulpreneur”.“You can’t really be an entrepreneur if you’re not connected to your soul”, she says.The last few years she has been following signs in life, which has led her to shuttle back and forth between continents, with a special focus…
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144. Cancer Should Be Starved Away – Thomas Seyfried
“You see bald-headed people who have been treated for cancer. ‘You're trying to kill cancer cells, why the hell are you going bald?’ ”The provocative rhetorical question is asked by professor Thomas Seyfried, whose research at Boston College will revolutionize our understanding of cancer and…
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143. In the Age of Disclosure – Daniel Sheehan
Danny Sheehan is an acclaimed civil rights attorney. He is at the forefront of the movement advocating for UAP disclosure and transparency, but he has a history of being at the center of a number of famous big cases. This episode has two parts. 1 The UFO/UAP part In the 1970s, Danny Sheehan got…
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142. Atlantis in the Caucasus – Ronnie Gallagher
Exploring the idea of Atlantis is irresistible within the sphere of alternative archaeology. Most independent researchers find irrefutable evidence of a civilization-ending cataclysm some millennia before the ‘official’ start of civilization. But what areas were affected? Does ‘Atlantis’ refer to...
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141. Time to Become Lucid in the Dream – Cailín Callaghan
Cailín Callaghan is a writer and a spiritual cognitive coach. She has been a mystic since the age of five. Her childhood was fraught with peril and abuse. But she had the ability to bi-locate, to separate body and soul. And she had her spirit guide, Michael, who she later realized is “the Source...
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140. Forbidden Evidence of a Deep Human History – Michael Cremo
Michael Cremo is a known name in the alternate archaeology community. His and Richard Thompson’s 1993 book “Forbidden Archaeology” has been called anunderground classic. But he is an outlier when it comes to extreme human antiquity. Cremo has come to the conclusion that humans – modern humans –...
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139. Our Everyday Miracles – Ylva Wegler
Hypnosis can be healing and liberating. It isn’t spooky manipulation, like in the movies. No pendulums. No turning into chickens on a stage.“I have a high hit rate with my clients”, says hypnotherapist Ylva Wegler.“I can never guarantee a result, because we all have our unique journeys. But I am...
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138. Our Body Is a Symphony and Light Is the Conductor – Meredith Oke
Meredith Oke's calling is to spread the knowledge of the emerging science of quantum biology and the pivotal role of light to health.This devotion emerged in her late thirties, when she suffered from chronic fatigue. (Or maybe it was actually seeded in her late twenties, when she had a spiritual...
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137. Lured into a Technocratic Future – Jacob Nordangård
Jacob Nordangård used to be an enthusiastic member of the environmentalist movement. Always inquisitive, he began looking into its origins.To his surprise, not to say dismay, he found that much of the green agenda, including the climate change narrative, had been developed by global elites –...
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136. The Earth Wants to Speak with Us – Sten Linnander
In the midst of a spiritual ceremony in the fall of 1996, Sten Linnander had a deeply transforming experience: The Earth made contact with him. As Sten heard a voice, he could see the planet in all her beauty, as if from space.He was instructed to go up on a mountain in Phoenix, Arizona, to...
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135. God's Virtual Reality – Simon Duan
As far as research of the non-physical world is concerned, Simon Duan should have quite a bit of credibility. He began his career in a robustly materialist environment. He has a PhD in materials science from Cambridge university and worked for many years with technology commercialisation. Then he...
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134. It's a Playful Universe – Marjorie Woollacott
Marjorie Woollacott was a scientist with a materialist worldview when she, in her 30s, had a spiritually transformative experience. Her heart opened. There was a feeling of total peace and equanimity. She felt at home.After the experience, Woollacott gradually reoriented her research and teaching...
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133. The Thirteenth Sign Is a Portal – Isaac Rodriguez
(Note correction at the end) Isaac Rodriguez discovered, to his big surprise, that mainstream astrologers never really look up at the sky.As John Lash explained in an earlier episode, tropical (mainstream) astrology isn’t really about the stars. The signs are merely named after star…
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132. Deep Down We Know What We're Here to Do – Anthony Chene
When French filmmaker Anthony Chene first came across a story about a near death experience it clicked. It immediately made sense to him, even though he didn’t grow up in a spiritual home. He wasn’t even sure what a psychic was. But NDEs seemed right.“Yes, it was this world that didn’t make…
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131. Posthumanism Is the End of Us – James Tunney
Apologies for a technical mishap at the 19:12 mark. I had to switch to a suboptimal camera and mic. But James looks and sounds fine the whole time, which is the most important thing. Writer, artist and thinker James Tunney is in the classical sense erudite. I have had very few guests, if any, who...
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130. Atlantis Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight – Jack Kelley
Like most people, writer and filmmaker Jack Kelley thought Plato’s account of Atlantis was just an allegory when he, during a vacation on the Greek island of Santorini, was drawn into a world of research that takes the Platonic story seriously. Even in that world, however, there are diverging...
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129. Wikipedia Is a Materialist Bastion – Craig Weiler
Everybody who has looked into parapsychology knows that it is a long-standing scientific discipline and that new fascinating findings are published in scientific journals regularly. Yet there are tenacious materialists out there who still believe that this whole field is woo-woo and…
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128. How Astrology Is Misconstrued – John L Lash
At the end of our previous conversation (released April 2023), mythologist, modern shaman and author John Lamb Lash and I had a brief exchange about astrology. It revealed an apparent difference in how we view some aspects of it. Some time later, we decided to have another conversation to sort...
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127. Dare to Choose New Paths – Agneta Sjödin
Agneta Sjödin is a media celebrity in Sweden. She started out her career as a tv entertainer and to some extent she also worked with journalism. But she was always a seeker, and lately, she has focused on her inner journey, which she has also shared with her fans in several books and in a…
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126. Civilization is Insanely Old – Mario Buildreps
For general info about Mario and his work, check out the first episode with him, including show notes: In this second episode we touch on a few novel issues: ✔ Mario and his associates have now found evidence of up to twelve ancient positions of the north pole, including the present one (every...
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125. "Paranormal" is Perfectly Normal – Dean Radin
Professor Dean Radin is one of the world’s leading authorities on psychic phenomena. He is the chief scientist at IONS, the Institute of Noetic Sciences. “I don’t like the word ‘paranormal’ when referring to these experiences”, Dean says. “Paranormal phenomena cover such a huge range of things…
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124. Love and Time – Julia Mossbridge
Julia Mossbridge is a scientist in the true sense of the word, a curious and open-minded investigator and seeker. She has balanced beautifully on the perceived border between traditional science and the esoteric realms. She has created two institutes, whereof one bears the intriguing name The...
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123. There Is No Death – Craig Hogan
Why are we so afraid to die, I ask afterlife expert, researcher, coach and writer Craig Hogan. “It’s a misunderstanding. People think this life is all there is. But we don’t die. Transition happens seamlessly. There is no pain.” Craig Hogan and his associates try to teach people about this. If we...
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122. The Maya Saw this World Coming – Carl Johan Calleman
The ancient Maya taught that consciousness is primary, and that matter is the manifestation of a thought, if you will, that arose in the all-encompassing primordial consciousness. This knowledge is at the core of the work of Carl Johan Calleman. He is originally a trained biologist and chemist…
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121. Alternative Archaeologists are Also Wrong – Robert Schneiker
Geophysicist Bob Schneiker stumbled upon the debate about the age of the Sphinx by chance. He got hooked, and the more he found out, the more convinced he became that Robert Schoch and other maverick researchers are wrong about the dating. “I was surprised to know that Schoch used erosion on the...
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120. The Grip of Climate Culture – Andy West
Climate catastrophism displays all the core features of a cultural entity, says Andy West, author of The Grip of Culture. Other cultural entities are religions, ideologies, sometimes cults and even strong philosophies. The underlying behavior is identical. You can measure it, and that is what…
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119. Are We Re-Living Our Past? – Aleksander Czeszkiewicz
The word prodigy comes to mind when you learn about the young Polish independent researcher and writer Aleksander Czeszkiewicz. Already as a child, he read heaps of books about our distant past and scrolled through ancient texts, and increasingly he also delved into spiritual traditions. “I was...
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118. The Poverty Fix Nobody Talks About – Lant Pritchett
When Lant Pritchett worked as a development economist (many years at the World Bank), he noted the approach was very place centric. It was about how to develop Senegal, India, Nigeria etc. Mobility was not a big deal. “I realized gradually that the mobility of people across places could be at…
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117. Humanity’s Epic Awakening – Mary Reed
Mary Reed was a staunchly agnostic healthcare executive in Washington DC when she began venturing uncontrollably into mystical realms in the company of divine masters. ”I went into the body and the being of Jesus on the cross at the moment of crucifixion. As an agnostic, that was wildly out of…
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116. Visions of Atlantis (part II) – Michael Le Flem
This is part two of my conversation with Michael Le Flem about Atlantis. For basics about Michael and his book Visions of Atlantis, see show notes for part one (episode 114): In this episode, we dive deeper into the details of what has been told and written about Atlantean science, technology and...
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115. Climate Change Has Become a Quasi Religion – Judith Curry
”In the good old days, those of us with solid scientific training understood what we didn't know and we were excited about the knowledge frontiers", says professor Judith Curry. ”Now, ecologists, economists, social scientists and other people who don't really understand climate dynamics are busy...
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114. Reclaiming Our Lost Ancient Legacy – Michael Le Flem
Atlantis is the ultimate myth of humankind – and it has to be pointed out that ”myth” does not equate to ”made up”. Many truths have been conveyed in mythical form. Troy was considered a mythological place created in Homer’s mind until Heinrich Schliemann actually dug up the ancient city in…
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113. What You See When Your Brain Gets Out of the Way – Bruce Greyson
For almost half a century, professor Bruce Greyson has researched the interface between life and death. He was a materialistically trained doctor when he first came across near death experiences. He was intrigued, began researching them and thought he would soon come up with a simple physical...
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112. The War Against Life – Per Shapiro
What if AI is an expression of what could be described, with a Gnostic term, as archontic intelligence? Is it the latest innovation by a force that has been manipulating humanity for millennia? Per Shapiro used to work for Swedish public service as an investigative radio reporter. He grew...
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111. We Have No Idea What Health Is – Anoop Kumar
Anoop Kumar has started a health revolution. Through an enterprise that bears precisely that name, he and his associates want us to understand that healing is possible. In Western culture, we have no idea what health is. Modern medicine is the true complementary medicine. What should be defined…
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110. Living in a Simulated Entropy – Alex Sanfiz
Already as a child, Alex Sanfiz had a sense that there was something off with this reality. He has continued ever since to question how human experiences are described. Many thinkers talk about the concept of us living in a simulation, or a simulacrum. In his challenging book, The Spiderweb, Alex...
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109. The Mind Virus that Led Us Astray – John Lamb Lash
John Lamb Lash is arguably the heaviest authority on the Gnostics, at least the Nag Hammadi Library. The Gnostics were vehemently opposed to the Abrahamic religions. Is that relevant in today’s secular world? Well, yes, because the secular world has inherited more features from traditional...
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108. Removing the Materialist Blinders of Science – Mona Sobhani
Neuroscientist Mona Sobhani made a profound and brave inner journey. It amounts to a transformation, an awakening. She used to be a hardcore physicalist. Around 2018, in the midst of a life crisis, she began questioning the tenets of conventional western science. They didn’t hold when it came to...
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107. What We Owe the Future – William MacAskill
The human species has been around for some 300,000 years. A typical mammal lasts for a million years. We are not typical. ”You might think we are in the middle of history. But given the grand sweep, we are the ancients, we are at the very beginning of time. We live in the distant past compared to...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
For the first time in history, all of humanity is interconnected. Imagine the impact of that.This is a podcast for social geeks and seekers who watch the news with a gnawing feeling of emptiness. It is an attempt to find answers to the most ridiculously big questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?Pretentious? You bet.For full experience: youtube.com/c/MindtheShiftSupport:Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=46828009Paypal https://paypal.me/andersbolling?country.x=SE&locale.x=sv_SE
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