Latest Progressive awareness Podcast Episodes
21-0215-The Warrior's Meditation with Richard L. Haight
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - February 15, 2021 20:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsRichard L. Haight is the founder of the Total Embodiment Method (TEM), which is an awareness training system designed to integrate meditation into one’s daily life. Richard is the author of five bestselling titles, most notably The Warrior’s Meditation, Unshakable Awareness, and The Unbound Soul...
21-0208-How to be a Stoic with Prof. Massimo Pigliucci
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - February 08, 2021 20:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWhenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive. In How to Be a Stoic, philosopher Massimo Pigliucci offers Stoicism, the ancient philosophy that inspired the great emperor Marcus Aurelius, as the...
21-0201-The Superhuman Mind with Berit Brogaard
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - February 01, 2021 20:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsBerit Brogaard, PhD, and Kristian Marlow, MA, study people with astonishing talents—memory champions, human echolocators, musical virtuosos, math geniuses, and synesthetes who taste colors and hear faces. But as amazing as these abilities are, they are not mysterious. Our brains constantly proce...
21-0125-Finding Purpose in a Godless World with Ralph Lewis
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - January 25, 2021 20:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDr. Lewis obtained his medical degree in 1990 at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, where he grew up. He completed specialty training in psychiatry at the University of Toronto in 1996, followed by a two year fellowship in neuroimaging research and a Master of Science in Neurosci...
21-0118-Growing Young with Marta Zaraska
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - January 18, 2021 20:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsA smart, research-driven case for why optimism, kindness, and strong social networks will help us live to 100. From the day her daughter was born, science journalist Marta Zaraska fretted about what she and her family were eating. She fasted, considered adopting the keto diet, and ran a half-ma...
21-0111-Galileo's Error with Prof. Philip Goff
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - January 11, 2021 20:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsFrom a leading philosopher of the mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radically new picture of human consciousness—panpsychism. Understanding how brains produce consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age. Some philosophers argue that consciousness i...
21-0104-It Didn’t Start With You with Mark Wolynn
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - January 04, 2021 20:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsMark Wolynn is a leading expert on inherited family trauma. He is the winner of the 2016 Silver Nautilus Award in Psychology. As the director of The Family Constellation Institute in San Francisco, he has trained thousands of clinicians and treated thousands more patients struggling with depress...
20-1228-MindShift with Professor Barbara Oakley
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - December 28, 2020 20:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsProfessor Oakley’s work focuses on the complex relationship between neuroscience and social behavior. Mindshift reveals how we can overcome stereotypes and preconceived ideas about what is possible for us to learn and become. Dr. Oakley shepherds us past simplistic ideas of “aptitude” and “abilit...
20-1221-The Meaning of Christmas with Professor Amy-Jill Levine
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - December 21, 2020 20:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsProfessor Levine is an internationally recognized expert in Biblical studies, Jewish/Christian relations, and the Bible, gender, and sexuality. She works in biblical studies broadly, with special interest in Jewish-Christian relations, Jesus and the Gospels, the roles of women, gender, and sexual...
20-1214-Scavengers of Beauty with Philippe Sibaud
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - December 14, 2020 20:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWhy was the mission to the Moon named after the God of the Sun, and not after a Moon Goddess or God? In this unconventional work, Philippe Sibaud explores the symbolism behind the 1969 landing on the Moon. More than fifty years after this seminal event, and whilst the Moon is attracting renewed ...
20-1207-A Glimpse Behind the Veil with Richard Rowland
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - December 07, 2020 20:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDid a tiny bird in Texas really communicate with a horse and convince him it was okay to load on a trailer he’d never been on? Did a horse, after a three-year absence, know that its previous owner was present by hearing a harmonica being played? Did a horse, who had never acted up, hurt its owne...
20-1130-The Future of Fusion Energy with Jason Parisi and Justin Ball
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - November 30, 2020 20:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThe gap between the state of fusion energy research and public understanding is vast. In an entertaining and engaging narrative, this popular science book gives readers the basic tools to understand how fusion works, its potential, and contemporary research problems. Written by two young researc...
20-1123-Why We Act with Prof. Catherine Sanderson
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - November 23, 2020 20:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWe are bombarded every day by reports of bad behavior, from sexual harassment to political corruption and bullying belligerence. It’s tempting to blame evil acts on evil people, but that leaves the rest us off the hook. Silence, after all, can perpetuate cruelty. Why We Act draws on the latest d...
20-1116-How I Escaped Political Correctness with Loretta Breuning, Ph.D.
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - November 16, 2020 20:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsYou care about the greater good, but you want to define it for yourself. What if you disagree with the politically correct view? You fear ridicule, shunning and attack, so you tell yourself it’s not worth it and find a way to conform. Until one day you can’t. I was politically correct until the...
20-1109-The Path of Civility with Robert Sachs
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - November 09, 2020 20:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWhat does President George Washington have in common with the Buddha, Sakyamuni? Author and teacher, Robert Sachs, brings together the lessons and teachings of these two great men; one an exemplary political figure, the other, the founder of one of the world’s great wisdom traditions. The result...
20-1102-Practicing Positive Leadership with Prof. Kim Cameron
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - November 02, 2020 20:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsPlenty of research has been done on why companies go terribly wrong, but what makes companies go spectacularly right? That’s the question that Kim Cameron asked over a decade ago. Since then, Cameron and his colleagues have uncovered the principles and practices that set extraordinarily effectiv...
20-1026-Ultimate Price with Prof. Howard Steven Friedman
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - October 26, 2020 19:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsHow much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations that underlie these price tags are often buried in technical language, yet they influence our economy, laws, behaviors, policies, health, and safety. These ...
20-1019-The Meritocracy Trap with Prof. Daniel Markovits
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - October 19, 2020 19:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsIt is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal – that social and economic rewards should follow achievement rather than breeding – reigns supreme. Both Democrats and Republicans...
20-1012-GAIN Without Pain with Greg Hammer, MD
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - October 12, 2020 19:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsBurnout is on the rise. This is a problem we cannot afford to ignore. The rising costs of burnout are staggering. Health care professionals sacrifice their health, happiness, and relationships. Fortunately, there is a solution. Dr. Greg Hammer created GAIN Without Pain so that health care profes...
20-1005-Ways to go Beyond with Rupert Sheldrake
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - October 05, 2020 19:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsTo go beyond is to move into a higher state of consciousness, to a place of bliss, greater understanding, love, and deep connectedness, a realm where we finally find life’s meaning. Scientist and spiritual explorer Rupert Sheldrake looks at seven spiritual practices that are personally transfor...
20-0921-Everybody Lies with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - September 28, 2020 23:25 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsHow much sex are people really having? How many Americans are actually racist? Is America experiencing a hidden back-alley abortion crisis? Can you game the stock market? Does violent entertainment increase the rate of violent crime? Do parents treat sons differently from daughters? How many peo...
20-0928-Never Letting Go with Mark Anthony
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - September 28, 2020 19:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsMark Anthony the Psychic Lawyer®/Psychic Explorer® is the author of the award winning, critically acclaimed best-sellers Never Letting Go and Evidence of Eternity. He is a world-renowned fourth generation psychic medium who communicates with spirits. Mark is an Oxford educated attorney licensed...
20=0921-Everybody Lies with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - September 21, 2020 19:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsHow much sex are people really having? How many Americans are actually racist? Is America experiencing a hidden back-alley abortion crisis? Can you game the stock market? Does violent entertainment increase the rate of violent crime? Do parents treat sons differently from daughters? How many peo...
20-0914-Real Magic with Dr. Dean Radin
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - September 14, 2020 19:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsFilled with fascinating facts and intriguing ideas, Real Magic places the laboratory findings from parapsychology in the broader context of centuries of magic practices. This wholly original work then points toward new understandings of reality that can no longer be ignored. Real Magic will be k...
20-0921-Real Magic with Dr. Dean Radin
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - September 14, 2020 19:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsFilled with fascinating facts and intriguing ideas, Real Magic places the laboratory findings from parapsychology in the broader context of centuries of magic practices. This wholly original work then points toward new understandings of reality that can no longer be ignored. Real Magic will be k...
20-0907-Truth with Hector Macdonald
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - September 07, 2020 19:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWe like to think that there is a clear distinction between true and false. The reality is far murkier. Truth can be spun in the names used, the context applied, the omissions committed, the framing deployed and many other ways. “Truth” can look vey different to different people. Macdonald explai...
20-0831-Intellectual Humility with Dr. Ian Church
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - August 31, 2020 19:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThe first research-cluster focuses on motivating and developing new non-reductive models of knowledge and includes projects on the nature of luck, fallibilism, and the epistemic import of peer disagreement. The second research cluster focuses on the methodologies and implications of psychology a...
20-0824-Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics with Bernardo Kastrup
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - August 24, 2020 19:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsFirst proposed more than 200 years ago, Schopenhauer’s extraordinarily prescient metaphysics – if understood along the lines thoroughly elucidated and substantiated in this volume – offers powerful answers not only to the paradoxes of quantum mechanics, but also to modern philosophical dilemmas ...
20-0817-Shine On with David Ditchfield
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - August 17, 2020 19:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsAcross thousands of years, people have described one of the most astonishing of all human phenomena: the near-death experience (NDE), the subjective experience of an Afterlife, a place where we apparently survive death. The more powerful the NDE, the more profound the after effects. The ambitiou...
20-08010-Self-Compassion with Kristin Neff, Ph.D.
Provocative Enlightenment Radio - August 10, 2020 19:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThe relentless search for high self-esteem has become a virtual religion; and a tyrannical one at that. Our competitive culture tells us we need to be special and above average to feel good about ourselves, but we can’t all be above average at the same time. Fortunately, there is an alternative ...
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