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Welcome to the MindThatEgo Podcast — hosted by Ricky Derisz. MindThatEgo's ethos is to explore nuances of mind, body and spirit by igniting challenging conversations with insightful thinkers, combined with deep reflection on subjective experience.
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#70: The Convergence of Quantum Physics and Spirituality with Paul Howard (opens the original)
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Paul Howard is an Irish filmmaker, producer and director whose career has spanned more than four decades. Our conversation explores subjects from his documentaries, Infinite Potential and Quantum Convergence, in particular the implications of quantum theory.Paul shares David Bohm’s theories of wholeness and the implicate order, quantum potential, and non-locality. We look at the fundamental nature of consciousness, retrocausality and non-linear time, past-life experiences and reincarnation, and
#69: Non-Dual Wisdom and the Path of Heart with Stephan Bodian (opens the original)
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Stephan Bodian is a psychotherapist, spiritual teacher, and pioneer in the integration of nonduality and Western psychology. He leads an annual spiritual transformation program, the School for Awakening, and is the author of several books, including Meditation for Dummies and Wake Up Now . Following our last interview five years ago, Stephan returns to discuss the themes in his latest book, Infinite Awakening: A Guide to Non-Dual Wisdom and the Pathless Path .We explore the difference between di
#68: Re-Souling Psychology via Art and Sacred Beauty with Nisha Gupta (opens the original)
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Nisha Gupta PhD is a tenured psychology professor at the University of West Georgia, a trauma-informed relationship psychotherapist, phenomenological researcher, and artist. I discovered Nisha through her recent paper: Can Psychology Be An Art? A Journey from theHuman Sciences to the Psychological Humanities .Nisha explores what a more beautiful psychology might offer a wounded world. We discuss psychology’s origin as “the study of the soul”, beauty’s life-saving role in suicide prevention and o
#67: Navigating the Pluripotency of Psychedelic Experiences with Eirini Argyri (opens the original)
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Eirini K. Argyri is a researcher at the University of Exeter's Psychedelic Interdisciplinary Centre (EPIC) and research Associate with the Challenging Psychedelic Experiences Project. Her thesis developed the Ontologically Diversifying Experiences (ODE) framework, which examines pathways towards prosocial and holistic integration. We explore psychedelics’ developmental potential, their disruption to assumptions about selfhood, relationships, and reality, groundlessness and existential distress,
#66: Mythos as the Scaffolding of Mad Worlds with Sabina Wantoch (opens the original)
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Sabina Wantoch PhD is a researcher, facilitator, consultant, artist and animist. They are an Honorary Associate Professor at the Centre for Multidisciplinary & Intercultural Inquiry at University College London, a consultant in peer support for mental health with Imroc, and co-founder of The Mad Psychedelics Collaboratory. Their work centres around madness and its porous intersections with varieties of altered states, as well as entanglements between paradigms and conceptual structures. Our conv
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