The Consciousness Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 42: Psilocybin, Addiction and Consciousness with Dr. Garcia-Romeu
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Albert Garcia-Romeu, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins ...
Episode 41: Consciousness and Psychedelics with Dr. Dennis McKenna
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Dennis McKenna, an ethnopharmacologist, research pharmacognosist, lecturer and author. He’s al...
Episode 40: Consciousness as Fundamental to Reality with Dr. Donald D. Hoffman
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Donald D. Hoffman, who is a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvi...
Episode 39: Ketamine, NDE and Consciousness with Dr. Sam Ko
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Sam Ko, owner of Reset Ketamine. We discussed his insight into consciousness while working with ...
Episode 38: Quantum Physics, Reality, and Consciousness with Dr. James Glattfelder
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the honor of speaking with Dr. James Glattfelder. Dr. Glattfelder is a physicist turned quant, turned complexity scientist, wit...
Episode 37: An Inside View of Consciousness with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the honor of speaking with Dr Jill Bolte Taylor. Dr. Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist who experienced a...
Episode 36: Mind Versus Consciousness & The Split Brain with Dr. Chris Niebauer
30 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Chris Niebauer. Dr. Niebauer the the author of No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology Is Catch...
Episode 35: Past Life Regression, NDEs with Dr. John Webber
02 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the honor of speaking with Dr. John Webber. Dr. Webber is a practicing Psychiatrist whose patients have experienced past-life r...
Episode 34: Alien Information Theory with Dr. Andrew Gallimore
04 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Andrew Gallimore.  Dr. Gallimore is a neurobiologist, chemist, and pharmacologist, with a f...
Episode 33: Subjective versus Objective experiences of Consciousness with Tom Clark
29 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the honor of speaking with Philosopher Tom Clark. Tom hosts Naturalism.Org, one of the Web’s most comprehensive resources on ...
Episode 32: Turning Science On Its Head with Mark Gober
08 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the honor of speaking with Mark Gober, himself the host of a podcast about consciousness. Mark is a Board member at the Institu...
Episode 31: NDEs, Death and Consciousness with Psychic Dr. Debra Diamond
11 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I interviewed Dr. Debra Diamond, a former Wall Street money manager, CNBC commentator and host of a CNN radio program who left a high...
Episode 30: An Exploration of Consciousness with Dr. Riccardo Manzotti and author Tim Parks
15 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I welcome back previous guest, Riccardo Manzotti, along with his friend and co-author, Tim Parks. We discussed their new book, Dialog...
Episode 29: Near-Death Experience (NDE) and Consciousness with Dr. Pim van Lommel
16 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the honor of speaking with cardiologist Dr. Pim van Lommel. For more than twenty years Dr. van Lommel has studied near-death ex...
Episode 28: The Hard Science and Philosophy of Consciousness with Dr. Berit Brogaard
04 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Berit Brogaard. We discussed science and consciousness, brain waves and neural correlates of con...
Episode 27: The Spread Mind with Dr. Riccardo Manzotti
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Riccardo Manzotti. We discussed his explanation of consciousness, which he terms The Spread Mind...
Episode 26: Neuropharmacology of LSD, Psilocybin and Consciousness with Dr. Katrin Preller
07 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Katrin Preller, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale Medical School and a team member at the D...
Episode 25: Artificial Intelligence, Psychology and Consciousness with Dr. Jim Crowder and Dr. Shelli Friess
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I have the honor of speaking with two experts, a father-daughter team working on Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Psychology. D...
Episode 24: Consciousness and Out of Body Experiences with Dr. Susan Blackmore
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I have the honor of speaking with Dr. Susan Blackmore, who is a psychologist, lecturer and writer researching consciousness, memes, a...
Episode 23: The Arizona Psychedelics Conference
22 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a little different from what you’ve come to expect. I recently covered the Arizona Psychedelics Conference here in my home state of ...
Episode 22: Consciousness and the Split Brain with Dr. Elizabeth Schechter
26 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Elizabeth Schechter, who is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy-Neuroscience-...
Episode 21: Consciousness, Spirituality and Interconnectedness with Dr. Cassandra Vieten
27 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Cassandra Vieten, who is the President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and a scientist at...
Episode 20: Cennectome Harmonics, LSD and Consciousness with Dr. Selen Atasoy
23 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I discussed Connectome Harmonics and neural correlates of consciousness, specifically under the influence of LSD, mindfulness meditat...
Episode 19: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Attention Schema Theory with Dr. Michael Graziano
29 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this episode is Dr. Michael Graziano, Professor of Psychology at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute where he runs a lab and studies the bra...
Episode 18: Neuroscience and Consciousness in Animals with Dr. Scott Husband
25 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
My guest is Dr. Scott Husband of The University of Tampa. Dr. Husband’s primary field of study is behavioral neuroscience with an emphasis on compar...
Episode 17: Neuroscience, Meditation and Consciousness with Dr. Marjorie Woollacott
28 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this edition, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Marjorie Woollacott, author of the book, Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mi...
Episode 16: Consciousness, Idealism and Baloney with Dr. Bernardo Kastrup
09 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Bernardo Kastrup. Bernardo has a Ph.D. in computer engineering with specializations in artifi...
Episode 15: Illusionism: a Theory of Consciousness with Dr. Keith Frankish
05 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Keith Frankish, a European philosopher and writer. I was first introduced to Dr. Frankish’s theor...
Episode 14: Terminal Lucidity and Consciousness with Dr. Michael Nahm
05 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Michael Nahm, and the topic was Terminal Lucidity, a term he coined. Terminal Lucidity has implicat...
Episode 13: The Scientific Study of the Foundation of Psi Phenomena and Consciousness with Dr. Dean Radin
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Dean Radin, Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), and our conversation, I’d...
Episode 12: The Philosophy of Consciousness, from Emergentism to Connected Minds with Dr. Bernard Kobes
02 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Bernard Kobes from my Alma Mater, Arizona State University. Dr. Kobes has been an Associate Profess...
Episode 11: Immortality of the Soul, Property Dualism and More with Jonathan Simon
23 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Jonathan Simon, who is a a postdoctoral associate in the NYU Department of Philosophy, and research fel...
Episode 10: Anesthetics and Consciousness with Dr. George Mashour
09 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. George Mashour. Dr. Mashour is an anesthesiologist and neuroscientist who is internationally recogn...
Episode 9: Quantum Consciousness with Dr. Amit Goswami
23 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Theoretical Quantum Physicist, and Quantum Activist, Â Dr. Amit Goswami. Dr. Goswami is a retired full ...
Episode 8: Panpsychism and Integrated Information Theory with Dr. Christof Koch
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Christof Koch, and the topic, I would say, was panpsychism, but we covered so much of his work in h...
Episode 7: Survival of Consciousness after Death with Dr. Edward Kelly
03 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Edward Kelly, and our topic was Survival of Consciousness after death. It was a great conversation,...
Episode 6: Psychedelics and Consciousness with Raphaël Millière, Part 2
05 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to Part 1 of this interview. This week, we pick up where we left off with my conversation with Raphaël Millière, and our topic was Psychedeli...
Episode 5: Psychedelics and Consciousness with Raphaël Millière, Part 1
28 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to Part 2 of this interview. This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Raphaël Millière, and our topic was Psychedelics and Consciousnes...
Episode 4: Music and Consciousness with Dr. Elaine Chew
17 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Elaine Chew, who is a Professor of Digital Media at Queen Mary University of London’s School ...
Episode 3: Buddhism and the rebirth of consciousness with Jacob Lucas
07 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Jacob Lucas, and our topic was Buddhism and the rebirth of consciousness. Mr. Lucas is an AHRC-funded P...
Episode 2: Dr. Leonid Perlovsky: Music and Consciousness
31 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Leonid Perlovskly. Dr. Perlovsky is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s School of Engineering and App...
Episode 1: Uriah Kriegel
25 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Uriah Kriegel. Dr. Kriegel is a research director at the Jean Nicod Institute in Paris, where he heads...