Beyond: Hosted by Jean-Claude Bastos

What happens to the human body and mind when you descend 80 meters into the ocean on a single breath? In this episode, Jean-Claude Bastos speaks with Ruth Osborn, British national free immersion depth record holder, about the physical and mental discipline of competitive free diving.Ruth walks through every phase of a record-breaking dive — from the meditative pre-dive preparation drawn from years of yoga practice, to the surreal weightlessness of free fall at 40 meters, to the precise multi-step protocol that must be completed at the surface with critically low oxygen levels. She also challenges the assumption that elite sport belongs to the young, explaining why age and mental maturity can be genuine advantages in free diving.At its core, this conversation is about presence — what it means to be fully in the moment when your life depends on it, and what that quality of focus can teach us far beyond the water.

Architect and inventor Chris Moller joins Jean-Claude Bastos for a wide-ranging conversation about architecture — not as the design of buildings, but as the deep underlying structure of everything.Chris is a New Zealand architect and designer who spent 20 years working across Europe, presented on Grand Designs New Zealand, and invented the Click Raft structural system. His work is driven by a simple principle borrowed from Buckminster Fuller: do more with less.In this episode they explore the genius engineering of the Citroën 2CV, why Southern European hilltowns hold lessons for modern sustainability, how ancient buildings carry memory and intelligence across centuries, the physics of what Chris calls "the bent universe," and why he believes AI is more distraction than breakthrough for architecture.Chris closes with a reminder that the knowledge we need is already in our bodies — and that more of us should go sailing.This is Beyond — where technology, nature, and the unknown meet at the edge of what we know.

In the premiere episode of Beyond, Jean-Claude Bastos explores biofield science — the emerging study of subtle energy fields believed to surround and permeate living organisms.Often described as a multi-layered, organizing field that interacts with biological systems, the biofield has been discussed in modern research as a potential factor in healing, diagnostics, and preventative health. While not yet fully integrated into conventional scientific frameworks, the concept continues to attract interdisciplinary interest.Across cultures and centuries, similar ideas have existed under different names — aura, prana, qi, and ki — suggesting that ancient traditions may have been observing phenomena only now being revisited through contemporary tools and theory.This episode examines the intersection between measurable data and experiential knowledge, asking what happens when long-held wisdom meets emerging research.Between instruments and intuition, something subtle may be at work.This is Beyond.