The Observable Unknown
Episodes
Interlude VIII — Chronicles, Legends, and the Architecture of Belief
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"What is history but a fable agreed upon?” Napoleon once asked. From collective recollection to sacred ritual, from covert interpersonal dramas to t...
Interlude VII — Invisible Structures: Social Norms, Sacred Order, and the Power of Patterns
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this interlude, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey steps into the hidden architectures shaping what we call “personal choice.” Drawing on Durkheim, Halbwachs,...
Davin Stronk
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Davin Stronk is an erotic performance artist working within the adult entertainment industry and the intimacy trade, serving as a professional purveyo...
Interlude VI - Inherited Shadows: Memory, Time, and Biology
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can memory be inherited? Can trauma echo across generations? And do our most private choices carry the weight of ancestral shadows? In this interlude,...
Interlude V — Suggestion, Signal, and the Construction of Choice
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this solo interlude, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey traces how culture, persuasion, ritual, and engineered messaging shape what we take to be “our” decisi...
Interlude IV — The Observable Unknown in Agency and Free Will
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tonight’s Interlude IV of The Observable Unknown traces the living tension between free will, agency, and the brain’s hidden predictive machinery....
Dr. Daniel Jorgensen
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The guest for this episode is Dr. Daniel Jorgensen, a distinguished scholar of Religious Studies whose work has illuminated the esoteric scene, the cu...
Interlude III: The Observable Unknown in Words, Instincts, & Myths
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Interlude, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey traces how three great thinkers sought the Observable Unknown in their own fields. Max Müller uncovered forgot...
Interlude II: The Observable Unknown in Mind & Society
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this interlude, host Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores how the observable unknown reveals itself in the hidden life of the mind and the shared structure...
Interlude I: The Observable Unknown — Ontology & Teleology
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special Interlude of The Observable Unknown, host Dr. Juan Carlos Rey steps away from dialogue to offer a sustained philosophical reflection o...
Dr. Robin Hager
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Robin Hager - a clinician whose path began in the labs and lecture halls of the University of Arizona, and was fo...
Dr. Carla Garapedian
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we welcome a woman whose life’s work has bridged journalism, cinema, and memory. From the anchor desk at BBC World News to the fron...
Fereshteh Forough
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fereshteh Forough, founder of CTI (Code To Inspire), discusses her journey, obstacles, and vision for the future.
Dr. Juan Carlos Rey
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I'll be answering personal questions submitted by listeners and clients through our website, crowscupboard.com
Samuel F. Reynolds
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we meet Samuel F. Reynolds, president of the International Coalition of Astrology Educators, whose contributions have been honored wi...
Margie Dillenburg, Ph.D.
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are people who do not simply work in the world… they bend it, ever so gently, toward growth. They design experiences that don’t just infor...
Todd Bloom
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A person who discovers himself through the process of transformation, not the goal, Todd Bloom broadens our view of what life can be and contrasts tha...
William Love
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
William Love discusses his role as a Motivational Speaker, Coach, and Education Specialist. His own past as an adoptee plays a significant part in how...
Dr. Wesley W. Detwiler
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Wesley W. Detwiler. Based in Palm Springs, California, Dr. Detwiler is a licensed psychologist and counselor who has dedicated his practice to sup...
Alexandra Gersten Vassilaros
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our Pilot Episode, Alexandra Gersten Vassilaros discusses her Make Meaning Workshop and how she was inspired to create it.