John R. Miles

I always say we have the pinball brain.

The brain is like a pinball and it's constantly bouncing off the next distraction that hits us.

Yeah.

And you mentioned, Susan, research, because as I've been doing more research, there's a

growing body of both scientific as well as religious research on mediumship that's being put out into the world and also on past life memories.

Are there certain studies or findings that you think are most compelling?

So if more people truly understood what happens when we die, how do you think it would change how we live?

I sometimes believe our souls choose our life experiences, but then it makes me wonder if that's the case, then why do our souls sometimes choose profound hardship for the life that we're going to experience?

Yeah.

Two of the guests that I've had on this show, Dr. Andy or Andrew Newberg and Dr. David Yadin are

are really involved in trying to understand spiritual experiences.

And Yadin is doing a lot of psychedelic research to understand those spiritual experiences, but also to understand why it's so connected to the feeling of awe.

But there's been a lot of work that shows that psychedelic research and NDE survivors describe remarkably similar encounters.

What do you think that reveals about the nature of consciousness?

One of the things I find, and you have a podcast as well, is that I think a lot of people listen to the podcast, but fewer really apply what they hear on the show into their lives.

And so I personally have been trying to create workbooks and other things, get people to take the next step so that you apply what you hear, but where I'm going with this is.

I think the same thing happens with people who've had powerful experiences.

They have the experience, they get the knowledge, but then they don't know how to integrate them into their life.

What's your guidance for that?

So on the show, I end up doing a lot of work around behavioral science and nudges play an extremely big role in behavior science, but in your book, on your podcast,