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Bringing you curious minds and profound ideas. Your weekly dose of real conversations. We chat openly with industry and thought leaders from all walks of life, exploring the "what ifs" and "why nots".

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  • S1 · E239
    August 28 · 50 min

    239. Dr. Jude Currivan – Cosmologist / Futurist / Author – Seeing Death as a Door

    Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We sit with June Currivan today as she joins us from her home, coincidentally near Stonehenge . Jude was a proud daughter of coal miners in England who decided to study science to find a language for what she was experiencing as a child. She eventually had a successful 25 year corporate career that she shed – being aware of something bigger on the move. We discuss intuition as a superpower, being non locally entangled, breaking rules to break through, separation vs wholeness, re-enchanting the universe and her discarnate teachers and the importance of always asking yourself: what if and what then? Others mentioned from the podcast: Dr. Iya Whiteley – ep 185 Cat Criger – ep 95 Super Tramp: The Logical Song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kln_bIndDJg Jude, Bio - https://www.clubofrome.org/member/currivan-jude/ Discussion Paper – The Unitive Science of a Living Universe: https://www.clubofrome.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2603_The-Fifth-Element_Discussion-Paper-2-digital-low-res.pdf Whole World View website - https://www.wholeworld-view.org/ To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donor.

  • S1 · E238
    August 12 · 1 hr 16 min

    238. Italo Castro – Artist / Amazonian - Diving Into Yourself

    To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We come back from our summer break with a conversation with an Amazonian living in the UK. Italo is a multi-disciplinary artist: painter, writer, musician, singer, actor. We go deep into the darkness with Italo … exploring how his best artistic endeavours come when he's at his lowest. We explore how art bridges to the other-worldly and how it teaches how to master the self. We talk Prince, dreaming, The Crossing, when art "fails", unplugging with creativity, the alluring symbolism of the jellyfish and living an analogue life. Others mentioned from the podcast: Dr. Marjorie Wollacott – ep 44 Dr. Vera Tiesler, MD – ep 81 Italo, IG: https://www.instagram.com/italo.castro.art/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/italo.works/

  • S1 · E237
    June 30 · 1 hr 7 min

    237. Thomas Campbell – Physicist / Author of My Big T.O.E. / Speaker - Living Gracefully with Uncertainty

    Thanks again for joining us at Behind Greatness. This episode was recorded Spring of 2026 and is part 1 of a developing series with Thomas Campbell. Thomas is a physicist, lecturer, and author of the My Big T.O.E. (Theory of Everything), a trilogy of books that claims to unify general relativity, quantum mechanics, and metaphysics, as well as the origins of consciousness. He worked as a systems analyst with U.S. Army technical intelligence for a decade before moving into the research and development of technology supporting defensive missile systems. Subsequently, he spent the better part of 30 years working within the U.S. missile defense community as a contractor to the Department of Defense. He most recently worked for NASA on the Ares I program (a follow-on to the Shuttle), assessing and solving problems related to risk and vulnerability to ensure mission and crew survivability and success. Thomas speaks and writes often about the importance of shifting from our current materialistic-focused ethic based on control-power-force to caring-sharing-compassion. A deep-end dive from the get-go. Thomas has a lot to share on consciousness and physics, making decisions on love vs fear, and low vs high entropy choices. We talk about how to avoid making decisions on "mouthing the scripts", on being stuck as a "mimic of yourself" and on living a sterile life. We hear about the partnership between the intellect and intuition, living a life of elegance, the forgotten value of living in a tribe, grace vs anger and developing the ability to seeing the bigger picture. Thomas also gives his view on his own awareness. Another episode mentioned in this episode: Olympian 100m sprinter, Anson Henry (ep 74) Tom, Website: https://www.my-big-toe.com/about/tom-campbell/ YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYwlraEwuFB4ZqASowjoM0g To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donor.

  • S1 · E236
    June 16 · 1 hr 26 min

    236. Joe McMoneagle - Ret. US Army / Remote Viewer #001 / Author – Being in the Moment

    This episode is part 8 in our series with Joe McMoneagle. Joe McMoneagle was a US Army intelligence veteran already before he was chosen to be a part of the psychic intelligence unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1978. He became known as "Remote Viewer No. 1″ within Project Stargate. Project Stargate was the United States' first organized research into psychic phenomena via the Defense Intelligence Agency and contractor SRI International. He is an author and also founder of Intuitive Intelligence Applications Inc. Today, he also teaches Remote Viewing at The Monroe Institute, a leading center in exploring human consciousness. Joe never disappoints. He starts us off with the Bahamas and his 1st tour in the 60s at age 19 in intelligence … caught in a category 5 storm and left for dead, a man-eating grouper, a strange UAP experience with splitting time, a cone of light, radiation burns and a navy medic throwing out his report. We talk the kidnapping and subsequent remote viewing rescue of General Dozier, the strange case of a Tokyo mayor, finding missing people in Japan, lobster-tail currency and a mysterious underwater creature. See here other previous guests mentioned: Dean Radin (ep 122) Previous episodes/discussions on Behind Greatness with Remote Viewers: · Russell Targ (ep 80) – Co-Founder, SRI Institute · Courtney Brown (ep 131) · Stephan A. Schwartz (ep 155, 156) · Lyn Buchanan (ep 163) · Nancy DuTertre (ep 167) · Paul H. Smith (ep 180) Joe, · Books: (via Amazon) · Parapsychological Association: https://www.parapsych.org/users/jmcmoneagle/profile.aspx · Monroe Institute: https://www.monroeinstitute.org/pages/trainer-joe-mcmoneagle · IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2140996/ The Kidnapping of General Dozier: https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/ASPJ/journals/Chronicles/phillips.pdf To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donor.

  • S1 · E235
    June 2 · 1 hr 29 min

    235. Alex Andersen – Animal Whisperer / Owner, Pet Talk – Seeing the Magic in the Middle

    Today we are chatting with Alex Andersen, owner of Pet Talk Communications. Alex has been honing her intuition to communicate with animals and is spending her life helping others to train themselves to do the same. We are charmed by her openness to discuss her life's work. She shows us how working with animals has (re)shaped her worldview, her philosophical stance and her ideas on the metaphysical. We head straight into mystical techniques, the limiting factor of the "should dos", animals as teachers and the staff meeting often going on in her head. We learn about the closing off of empathy, "multiple clairs", negative vs immature entities, fears, finding the magic in the middle and animals holding the line on oneness. Listen in on Alex's explicit breakdown on the difference between wolf-dog and cat communication and her understanding of their cosmic partnership with human beings. Past episodes referenced: Ep 31 - Tyson Yunkaporta Ep 97 – Natalie Sudman Ep 212 - Paco Calvo Ep 213 - Dave Salmoni Ep 222 - Cameron Scott Alex, - Website: https://pettalkwithalex.com/ & https://pettalkcommunications.com/home - IG & TikTok: @pettalkwithalex To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors

  • S1 · E234
    May 19 · 1 hr 23 min

    Dr. Carlos Eire – Yale Professor / Author / Podcast Host, Christian Mysticism – Flying into the Weird

    Carlos Eire is a Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. At 11, during the height of the Cold War, he became one of the 14,000 unaccompanied children airlifted from the Soviet colony of Cuba to the US. He is now a historian of late medieval and early modern Europe who focuses on the Protestant and Catholic Reformations; the history of popular piety; the supernatural, and death. His book, They Flew, was awarded the prize for Best Book in the History of Religion by the American Academy of Religion and has been nominated for the Book Prize in Science and Religion awarded by the International Society for Science and Religion. All of his writings are banned in Cuba, where he has been proclaimed an enemy of the state. Carlos is also the Co-Host of the Christian Mysticism podcast. Lots of scintillating topics in this discussion: his Cuban parents, Santeria and the problem solving religion, "curses and cures", the malocchio (el mal de ojo), bringing your beliefs into the afterlife, exploring "the weird vs the Weird" and his personal Near Death Experience while on an operating table. Carlos, Profile: https://history.yale.edu/people/carlos-eire Book: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001HPHJRE The Christian Mysticism Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@christianmysticismpodcast Dio: The birth of the warding off of the evil eye at rock concerts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PXmSkLYMTI Sebastian Maniscalco: the pepper hanging from rear view mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcSEeDoh-hA Episodes mentioned: Luis Zuniga ep 115 – Cuban political prisoner Rune Rasmussen ep 90 – Nordic Animism Father John Szada ep 174 - Exorcist Bayo Akomolafe ep 102 - Philosopher Dr. Iya Whitley ep 185 – Space Psychologist Dr. Kim Penberthy ep 209 – Clinical Psychologist To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors

  • S1 · E233
    April 14 · 1 hr 27 min

    233. Enrico Colantoni, part 2 - Veteran Hollywood, Broadway, TV Actor/ King Napper – Nothing … and Everything

    Enrico is back! Our "Fairy Godfather", Enrico has been one of the earliest supporters of this podcast and our original format of our not-for-profit (since 2011). He was also our guest on our maiden voyage, in episode 2 - back in May 2020. We get started where we left off in Episode 2, exploring a ton of what-ifs and why-nots. Enrico is a veteran actor – starring in Hollywood films, in Broadway theatre productions and in internationally syndicated, culture-making TV series. And in this chat we sit with Enrico as we know him: a guy from the neighbourhood, always in movement and always in search of bigger answers. We discuss the important hold of belief systems on our actions and the untraining . We learn about an out of body experience on stage, realignment with the what is, embracing the original moment and the danger of tribalism without the actual purity of the tribe. We hear ultimately about his thoughts on his last words on earth --- and about a series of recent books that vaulted him into a different kind of question-making, including the questioning of his own beliefs and has had him crave more about the idea of mission and home. Untraining. Fault (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), Enrico's upcoming theatre production Fault – April & May 2026, directed by Jason Alexander: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/fault/ https://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/Enrico-Colantoni-and-Teri-Hatcher-to-Star-in-FAULT-at-Chicago-Shakespeare-Theater-20260225 Enrico, IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0170186/ IG: @enricocolantoni_really The English teacher: https://tv.apple.com/ca/show/english-teacher/umc.cmc.459knzftbzgdjj4s5gyoxfsmj Working Class roots: https://www.cbc.ca/arts/q/enrico-colantoni-credits-his-working-class-mentality-for-his-success-on-the-screen-1.7467852 To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors

  • S1 · E232
    March 26 · 1 hr 26 min

    232. Joe McMoneagle - Ret. US Army / Remote Viewer #001 / Author – Being Inordinately Curious

    THANK YOU TO THE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY [JPL] & NASA FOR PROVIDING THE NEGATIVES. Thanks again for joining us at Behind Greatness. This episode is part 7 in our series with Joe. Joe was a US Army intelligence veteran already before he was chosen to be a part of the psychic intelligence unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1978. He became known as "Remote Viewer No. 1″ within Project Stargate. Project Stargate was the United States' first organized research into psychic phenomena via the Defense Intelligence Agency and contractor SRI International. He is an author and also founder of Intuitive Intelligence Applications Inc. Today, he also teaches Remote Viewing at The Monroe Institute, a leading center in exploring human consciousness. In this conversation: remote viewing Mars and its civilizations, sharks saving whales, the impossible archived, wearing masks, bombarded by prejudices, doing things because we can, foretelling in shark bites, being watched, weaponizing new inventions, gold prospecting amongst the trees – and lessons learned through donkeys. Honourable mention: Dr. Chris Lowe, ep 190 & Dr. Jeffrey Krypal, ep 118 & 189 Archives of the Impossible: https://impossiblearchives.rice.edu/ Previous episodes/discussions on Behind Greatness with Remote Viewers: · Russell Targ (ep 80) – Co-Founder, SRI Institute · Courtney Brown (ep 131) · Stephan A. Schwartz (ep 155, 156) · Lyn Buchanan (ep 163) · Nancy DuTertre (ep 167) · Paul H. Smith (ep 180) Joe, · Books: (via Amazon) · Parapsychological Association: https://www.parapsych.org/users/jmcmoneagle/profile.aspx · Monroe Institute: https://www.monroeinstitute.org/pages/trainer-joe-mcmoneagle · IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2140996/

  • S1 · E231
    March 17 · 1 hr 1 min

    231. Dr. Susan Plunket – Clinical Psychologist / Author – Uncrushing

    Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today we have a Jungian chat with Susan Plunket. She has her own practise in the city that never sleeps --- fitting for a psychologist who works on dream interpretation . We talk about her dad's profound life changing experience in the Pacific during WWII and his fortifying parenting style, flying with her sister and basketball courts in space. We dive into the discussion of being crushed into 3D reality, death dreams of AIDS patients in NYC in the 80s and 90s, the ego-self and the greater-self, seeing beyond the illusion of separation and the lessons of her discarnate teacher. The psyche prepares you for death via dreaming. Let's go!! Episodes to check out: Dr. Jill Bolte-Taylor (ep 101), Dr. Thomas Verny (ep 121), Dr. Tony Cicora (ep 55) Susan, Website: https://www.susanplunket.com/

  • S1 · E230
    February 24 · 56 min

    230. Dr. Rudolf Schild, continued (part 6) – Getting Over It

    For Rudy, part 1 to part 5 please visit episodes #179, #186, #192 , 195 and 196. Thanks for joining us again at Behind Greatness. We are back again with Rudy. Rudy is a pre-eminent expert on black holes and a world-renowned Astrophysicist from Harvard, practising in the field since the mid-1960s. He is also the co-Founder of FREE / CCRI (see co-Founder past guests Rey Hernandez & Mary Rodwell) and also the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Cosmology. With Rudy we explore and re-explore: the important research work of the FREE foundation, breeding programs and John Mack's work, fossilized critters in meteorites, his take on the "alien agenda", evidence of life in space, astrotheology, the purpose of the universe and his beloved car collection . "It's shocking, but you better get over it." Previous episodes/discussions referenced in this episode with Rudy: Dr. Kevin Knuth (ep 216, 226) Matthew Roberts (ep 188) Danny Sheehan (ep 169) Rey Hernandez (ep 153, 154) Dr. Robert Davis (ep 151) Mary Rodwell (ep 149) Rudy, Center for Astrophysics – https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/ Journal of Cosmology - https://thejournalofcosmology.com/About.html Personal website - http://www.rudyschild.com/ List of Published papers - https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/p_=0&q=author%3A(%22schild%2Cr%22)&sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc CCRI (Consciousness & Contact Research Institute) - https://agreaterreality.com/ Book (co-Author with Suzy Hansen) – Dual Soul Connection: The Alien Agenda for Human Advancement: https://www.amazon.com/Dual-Soul-Connection-Agenda-Advancement/dp/0473295644/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3J7YBLDXEL5H8&keywords=Dual+Soul+Connection%3A+The+Alien+Agenda+for+Human+Advancement&qid=1706573177&sprefix=dual+soul+connection+the+alien+agenda+for+human+advancement%2Caps%2C214&sr=8-1 Book: Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness & Contact with Non Human Intelligence - https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-UFOs-Science-Consciousness-Intelligence/dp/1721088652/ctoc Edgar Mitchell Book: The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds - https://www.amazon.com/Way-Explorer-Astronauts-Material-Mystical/dp/0399141618 NASA – Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy "SOFIA" - https://science.nasa.gov/mission/sofia/

  • S1 · E220
    February 3 · 1 hr 8 min

    229. Dr. John W. Price – Psychotherapist / Musician / Myth-Maker – Navigating the Mush

    John is a Depth Psychotherapist, Jungian scholar, musician, podcast host (The Sacred Speaks) and the co-founder of The Center for the Healing Arts and Sciences. John sees the sacred in most things. We talk death, aging, decay … "human-ing", questioning our myths, nourishing the mundane, music, the multiplicity of the masculine, blood rites of passage, disrupting our filters and navigating the mush. A fun episode all the way through. "Give me the weird". Smoking in the Boys Room, https://youtu.be/PMXg_KAe5yc?si=xgGd2u62aWh1zX7r John, Website: https://www.drjohnwprice.com/ The Sacred Speaks Podcast YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thesacredspeaks IG: @thesacredspeaks Centre for the Healing Arts and Science: https://www.thecenterforhas.com/ Album, Questionably Red: https://open.spotify.com/album/0bDYLBuKJ3PFBCh5rlUhdT?si=U3NoHo1iSg6wQo9_7HXOrw To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors

  • S1 · E228
    January 20 · 1 hr 11 min

    228. Joan Riera – Anthropologist / Africanist - Opening Windows

    Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Joan (a Catalan name, pronounced "shwan") is an Anthropologist currently living in San Sebastian, Spain. He also owns a travel company called Last Places. This endeavour was born from his love of exploring the last places on Earth and living with its inhabitants – places where no tourists exist. He adopted his grandmother's gaze on the world, living in life's mystical rhythms – following by what you feel rather than by just what you see. In service to this gaze, Joan has focused his life's energy to investigating and researching decaying traditions around the world. We talk about the Amazon, Cameroon, startlink-ification effects on tribal culture, fruit-cracking fish, thinking less v feeling more, dancing with wolves and churches, supermarkets and tracksuits. We may have also discovered a new emotion. Joan, Website & Travel company: https://lastplaces.com/en/autor/joan-riera-travel-guide/ IG: @lastplacetravel YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4kN2qmf-Bh5BhUuT8rsOMw/featured Goonies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ2j4oWdQtU Dances with Wolves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc8NMbrW7mI To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors

  • S1 · E227
    January 6 · 1 hr

    227. Robert Waggoner – Author / Speaker / Lucid Dreaming Expert - Following the Creativity

    Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We had loads of fun in this conversation. Robert Wagonner joins us from his home in the Midwest. He is a veteran lucid dreamer, having taught himself how to do it in the '70s and never looked back. Robert elaborates on the lucid state as being an educational system. He discussed "buzzing" while having an out of body experience as a young boy, his brother's book and the Monroe Institute, flying through his neighborhood, house cats and mountain lions. We hear about the mysterious "N4" (144), the mentally mediated realm, following the creativity and the blue light. We explore the magic of goofiness, fear, becoming an electron, the search for inherent evil, Daoist societies, "going the distance" and the voluntary death experience. What a trip. "Doubt is gravity". Robert, Website + Books: https://www.lucidadvice.com/ Other: https://www.lucid-dreaming-advice.com/about-robert Lucid Dreaming Foundation: https://www.luciddreamingfoundation.org/#1 [CORRECTION – The Monroe Institute initially helped Joe McMoneagle to control his OBEs] Episodes mentioned: Joe McMoneagle, ep 198, 199, 200, 210, 215, 218 and Athena Laz, ep 100 To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors

  • S1 · E226
    Dec 24, 2025 · 1 hr 16 min

    226. Dr. Kevin Knuth (part 2) – Physicist / Former NASA scientist – Widening the Scope (for the Bigger Picture)

    We welcome back to the podcast our friend Kevin Knuth - of viking extraction ("Knud") … . Kevin is a Professor of Physics at the University at Albany. He is a former NASA research scientist designing artificial intelligence algorithms for astrophysical data analysis. His current research interests include the foundations of physics, quantum information, autonomous robotics, the search for and characterization of extrasolar planets, and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). Put on your seatbelts: angel hair, engineer-animals and chemist-plants, "curiosity band-width", extra terrestrial gardeners, lizards and spoons, 1954 incident above a soccer field in Florence, studying refractory time, remote viewing in the family, UAPx, levitation, caterpillar silk from barbell-shaped ufos, believing and seeing, physics we haven't studied yet, what Kevin figured out finally and a donation to Kevin's university and endowment to help him and his team study it all. Stickshifts and Safetybelts. https://youtu.be/qW9mZLnQ7Yc?si=-0od8M2LGZOLoLX3 Episodes mentioned: Kevin Day (ep 171), Stephan Schwartz (ep 155,156), Diana Pasulka (ep 142), Jeffrey Krypal (ep 118, 189) Kevin, UAP paper: · The new science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (UAP): http://knuthlab.org/papers/knuth+etal---2025--new-science-UAP.pdf · arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06794 New Endowment Fund at University of Albany: https://www.albany.edu/news-center/news/2025-ualbany-receives-major-gift-advance-scientific-research-unidentified-aerial A Tear in the Sky: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15120486/ UAPx: https://www.uapexpedition.org/about 1954 incident in Florence: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29342407

  • S1 · E225
    Dec 14, 2025 · 52 min

    225. Lisa Smartt – Literary Specialist / Author / Researcher of the Unravelling - Being of Service

    Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We speak with Lisa who joins us from her new abode in Emerald Isle. Lisa is the author of Words at the Threshold. Her book is a fascinating compendium of 7 years' research on (and collection of) people's last words. We are charmed by Lisa's casual and playful demeanour from the get-go. We learn about her research, her own deeply personal experiences with dying loved ones and the emotional wisdom of a particular fireman who helped save a moment. Lisa shared with us her ideas about the consensuality of language, humour in dying, the openness and curiosity of our former childhoods that help to book-end – and Herb. The conversation reaches new depths, touching upon Lisa's personal experience with a certain kind of evil that we started to cover in the previous episode with Alex … and what Lisa has found with the unravelling of speech. My modality is broken. Wow. Episodes mentioned: Dr. Bruce Greysen (ep 69) re NDE research, Rey Hernandez (ep 153, 154) re modalities, Alex Gomez-Marin (ep 224), Emmeline Villar (ep 173). Lisa, · Website: https://www.finalwordsproject.org/ · Book: Words at the Threshold: What We Say as We're Nearing Death - https://www.amazon.com/Words-Threshold-What-Nearing-Death/dp/1608684601/ref=sr_1_1?crid=NE8R7WK669EI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SxBuIw0YM55aV-Q6BRZ-wj2FO3qssGQ1A1Yvl6UOatrvjCLHQpYkH7DfMOBs5dPE-84vsFaW-S_NcOirrDCH-FgKwjipxojuqQqCy5nRMHs0IZ4IxCFKPqLkJXA4i_iJwpANASfHo13qLJajDT6rnXGFrEY0ROAkDxQNKpFOFn9AaAi9uIIZpkVesPn7D2qT.H1Js2OEmpHy7WdRBXncQaVY2u5vu9a8nDIagB6C4qWE&dib_tag=se&keywords=lisa+smartt&qid=1765497528&sprefix=lisa+smart%2Caps%2C172&sr=8-1 Book mentioned: · Final Gifts: Understanding and Helping the Dying - Callaghan, Maggie; Kelley, Patricia: https://www.amazon.com/Final-Gifts-Understanding-Special-Awareness-ebook/dp/B005UDIC3E/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3TS5F8EG1IJ7E&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dDmAgW1pouc6U81D-LheBQ.h_lFExdSCcnEuB631eybIfS44fI2ZHc8l8LOzLUwgHU&dib_tag=se&keywords=Final+Gifts%3A+Understanding+and+Helping+the+Dying+-+Callaghan%2C+Maggie%3B+Kelley%2C+Patricia&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1765497462&sprefix=final+gifts+understanding+and+helping+the+dying+-+callaghan%2C+maggie+kelley%2C+patricia%2Caps%2C109&sr=8-1 To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors

  • S1 · E224
    Dec 2, 2025 · 1 hr 10 min

    224. Dr. Alex Gomez-Marin – Physicist / Neuroscientist / Philosopher / Author – Always Seeking

    Welcome back! Today, we sit down for a great talk with Alex. He works as a physicist, a neuroscientist, an intellectual activist and an author – and he experiments, researches and explores the invisible things that are very real. We quickly slide into a "no time to lose" rhythm with Alex. For just reason. Alex is consumed with investigating impossible things that happen. As a scientist and a seeker he worries about the obstinacy of materialism and "isms" in general and the rigidity of academia as he sees it. We discuss navigating the two worlds of poo-poo and woo-woo, rigorous inquiry, consciousness, evil, ideas as an instrument and the significance of "smallness". Love. Electrons. Ghosts. Amy Adams (Arrival): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwPpwLy4UIU Episodes/Guests mentioned in this episode: Jeffrey Kripal, Ep 188, 189 Stephan Schwartz, ep 155, 156 Antonia mills, ep 88 Kevin Knuth, ep 216 Rey Hernandez, ep 153, 154 Paco Calvo, ep 212 Rudy Schild, ep 179 186, 192, 195, 196 Emmeline Villar, 173 Alex: Book: "La Ciencia Del Ultimo Umbral" - https://www.amazon.ca/ciencia-del-%C3%BAltimo-umbral-consciencia/dp/B0FGDJX4CZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=KN9AQX9L9L18&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.o_AgO-3ny91DJ68bQnX2ro-uxGTYi3IWSCx-0eYIm6rGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.yW_z89jp4agttw0XUUqGnrj8DTKwwH8sa3ne8hKE1AU&dib_tag=se&keywords=alex+gomez+marin&qid=1764422705&sprefix=alex+gomez+marin%2Caps%2C92&sr=8-1 Hidden war on Consciousness: https://www.essentiafoundation.org/neuroscientist-speaks-out-on-the-hidden-war-on-consciousness/seeing/ https://www.essentiafoundation.org/neuroscientist-speaks-out-on-the-hidden-war-on-consciousness/seeing/ With Rupert Sheldrake: https://www.sheldrake.org/videos/alex-gomez-marin' To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors

  • S1 · E223
    Oct 14, 2025 · 58 min

    223. Philip Carr-Gomm – Druid / Psychologist / Author – Letting the Big Self In

    Thanks for joining us at Behind Greatness. We sit down with Philip Carr-Gomm, who joins us from his home in the country in Sussex, England. Philip works, thinks and plays at the cross-section of psychology and spiritualism. He is an author and lecturer and works as a psychologist and psychotherapist. For decades he has rooted his spiritualism in Druidry and he is one of today's most public Druids. We discuss a ton: trees as our spiritual companions, "surrendering", dropping down a hole in New Zealand, lucid dreaming and the big self, pushing the gorilla down into the basement and another Druid - Winston Churchill. Never quite finished with his exploration, Philip is always making progress. Philip, Website: https://philipcarr-gomm.com/ "Know Thyself": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors

  • S1 · E222
    Oct 3, 2025 · 59 min

    222. Cameron Scott – Founder, Royal Ngala Safaris / Professional Photographer / Wild Life Guide - Awakening Your Senses

    Thanks again for joining us. Today we chat with Cameron Scott who joins us from his native city of Johannesburg. Cameron is a professional photographer, a life-long wildlife lover and owner of Royal Ngala Safaris in South Africa. He charms us off the bat with his straight-talking recount of his first love: Africa's nature. We learn about the Big 5, running with gorillas, travelling hundreds of miles for a shrew, a camp-site scare with a lion, sleeping in trees and walking with bull elephants. We are treated to a story about Cam's life-altering moment with a lion hunting episode, the importance of not sweating the small stuff and the magic of watching people experience facing the majesty of wild animals for the first time. All of this from the home of human kind. Episodes mentioned: Ep: Bruno D'Amicis (ep63) , Julie Church (ep94), Elisabetta Tosoni (ep96), Julie church, David Salmoni (ep213), Dr. Rudy Schild and the Astronaut-Elephant Story (ep 186 & 217) Cameron, · Royal Ngala website: https://www.royalngala.com/, IG: @royalngala, FB:RoyalNgalaSafaris · IG: @camscott_wild · FB: @CamScottWild To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors

  • S1 · E221
    Sep 9, 2025 · 1 hr 4 min

    221. Abby Lutz – Death Doula / Registered Nurse - Passing It On

    Today we chat with Abby Lutz who joins us from her backyard in Colorado. Abby is a nurse, a death doula and a consciousness explorer. Abby is building her Death Dojo, a place where she explores death as a practice, a portal and a source of limitless possibility. We talk about fear and its enemy: exploration with wonder. Abby brings us through some experiences with patients crossing over, her own similar personal experience, carrying empathy in your toolbox, seeing death versus watching death, trees, the "loss-iness" of words, oppositional defiance disorder, space/seas/deserts, the Octopus and "preparing the others". A perfect chat amongst the trees. Desserts and Death. Episodes mentioned: Max Catricala (ep 6, Antarctica), Meganne Christiane (ep 10, Antarctica), Natalie Sudman (ep 97, Antarctica), Dr. Jay Dahman MD (ep 62, trees), Paco Calvo (ep 212, plants), Jennifer Mather (ep139, the Octopus) "A Horse with No Name": - Dirtwire (Remake) - https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=P2VaXOZdsTo&si=Z73og0tZgCERJKw9 - America (Original): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxh9Da_EJB4&list=RDXxh9Da_EJB4&start_radio=1 - History - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Horse_with_No_Name To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors

  • S1 · E220
    Aug 19, 2025 · 1 hr 12 min

    220. Ken Atchity – Film Producer / Author / Story Merchant / Former Uni-Prof – Embracing the Insecurity of Freedom

    Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We sit down with Dr. Ken Atchity at his home in California. Ken started his adult life on an academic stream and he eventually became what he personally dreaded: a tenured professor. But, shortly after his tenure-ship, he decided to breakup with his career and start anew. Already an author, Ken decided to write screenplays and produce films – not ever looking back for over 30 years. as been producing films since 1996. We talk about his thoughts on competition, creativity and what it hinges on, doing great work in isolation and how he turned around his accountant dad to seeing the freedom and beauty in insecurity. We talk staring at fire and mountains, dying by committee, the perfection of Dante's Divine Comedy, chopping wood – and the Rose Café. Seeing the David before carving it. Go back in time to see our early episodes with like-minded luminaries who embrace Ken's philosophy: Kenneth Oppal (ep 106), Mike Narducci (ep 24), Steve Litchman (ep 36), Matt Larochelle (ep 30) and Tim Kring (ep 52). Ken, Websites: https://storymerchant.com/ https://www.atchityproductions.com/about-us IG: @storymerchant To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors

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