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January 15, 2019 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Alice Robb
Culturally Determined
- Alice's new book, Why We Dream
- All the wrong ways we used to think about dreams
- The unusual discovery of REM sleep
- When scientists thought dreams were a paranormal gateway
- Alice describes participating in a "dream group"
- What do events in dreams really mean?
- Why do we have nightmares?
- How to get started with lucid dreaming
April 04, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Evan Thompson
The Wright Show
- Time travel and other features of everyday awareness
- Lucid dreaming is to ordinary dreaming as mindfulness is to waking life
- Meta-awareness and the search for the true self
- Self is a construction, says Evan, but not an illusion
- Near-death and out-of-body experiences
- Ways to approach the problem of consciousness
September 27, 2016 —
Josh Summers & JP Sears
- Meet JP Sears, the New Age Stephen Colbert
- Josh receives ultraspiritual guidance from JP
- Shining a light of satire on the "shadow side" of spiritual practices
- Where JP's comedy comes from
- Stepping out of the comfort zone, and other spiritual disciplines
- Watch Josh transform into an ultra-ultra-post-spiritual guru
February 09, 2018 —
Stephen Asma & Rami Gabriel
Emotions and the Brain
- This week's puppet show: How do emotions help us survive?
- Darwin's attempts to understand the inner lives of animals
- Can we really hide our feelings? Rami doubts it
- The "seeking" drive that keeps us going
- Angst: Fear without an object
- How culture complicates finding a mate
- Is there an adaptive function to recognizing beauty?
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