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Children, screens, and portion control
Peer pressure makes total abstinence unrealistic, so the discussion turns to proportion, modeling, and boundaries.
Episode 196: Waqas Ahmed — Polymathy, AI & the Future of Human Creativity
Author of The Polymath and founder of The DaVinci Network, Waqas Ahmed returns to The Human Experience to explore a question at the center of the AI era: what remains uniquely human when machines can generate answers across almost every field?
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Episode 195: Dr. Satchin Panda — Circadian Rhythm, Sleep & Meal Timing
Dr. Satchin Panda joins Xavier Katana for a practical conversation about The Circadian Code and the daily rhythms that shape sleep, energy, metabolism, and recovery.
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HXP SHORTS: #001 – Deconstructing Death: What Happens When We Die?
HXP Shorts #001 examines what research can—and cannot—say about consciousness near death. Drawing on cardiac-arrest studies, AWARE-II, survivor reports, and EEG activity during resuscitation, Xavier Katana separates evidence from speculation while asking what remains after the last heartbeat.
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Episode 194 Dr. James Fadiman – You Are Not One Self: Microdosing, Multiplicity and the Mind
What if the voice in your head is not one person? Psychedelic-research pioneer Dr. James Fadiman returns after 11 years to challenge the single-self assumption and connect our many selves with psychedelic experience, microdosing reports, depression, relationships, nature, and the limits of what science can yet claim.
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Kingsley L. Dennis, Ph.D. on AI, The Threshold, and Reclaiming the Human Soul
Ten years after his first HXP appearance, sociologist and author Dr. Kingsley L. Dennis returns to examine humanity’s technological threshold. He and Xavier explore AI dependence and companionship, the attention economy, transhumanism, technological immortality, and the struggle for the human soul.
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Mark Gober – Unveiling the Spiritual and Mystical Universe
Welcome to the Human Experience Podcast, where we ask the big questions: Are we just meat puppets with WiFi, or is consciousness beaming in from the cosmic cloud?
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Marjorie Woollacott – Infinite Awareness – Consciousness Beyond Biology
Join Xavier Katana as he delves into the mysteries of consciousness with Dr. Marjorie Woolcott, a neuroscientist, professor, and author of ‘Infinite Awareness.’ In this episode of the Human Experience Podcast, Dr.
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Dr. John Gray on Relationship Dynamics, Author of “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”
John Gray is the author of the most well-known and trusted relationship book of all time, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. USA Today listed his book as one of the top 10 most influential books of the last quarter century. In hardcover, it was the #1 bestselling book of the 1990s. Dr.
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Dr. Bernard Beitman – The Science of Synchronicity and Meaningful Coincidence
Bernard Beitman, M.D., is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to systematize the study of coincidences. He is a former chair of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia , where he became a world leader in the study of chest pain and panic disorder.
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Chance Gardner – Exiting the Matrix, Finding Solace in Peace, Realizing Our Oneness
Chance Gardner is an award-winning visual artist, 3D animator, composer, and writer/producer of the cult classic documentary series Magical Egypt. After a 25-year career producing 3d animation, graphics, and promotional campaigns for network television, Gardner retired in the late 90s to focus on producing esoteric…
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Nathaniel Gillis – Good Vs. Evil, Demonology, Parapsychology and much much more!
Nathaniel Gillis is a religious demonologist and author. After living in a haunted house, Nathaniel spent 20 years researching what it was he encountered. Nathaniel has sought to redefine the nature of haunting phenomena, ghosts and high strangeness.
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Wim Hof – The Iceman – Ice water for healing, Igniting natural power
Wim Hof is a world-famous extremophile. He is internationally renowned for his countless ice endeavors that range from being up to his neck in a cylinder filled with ice cubes for over 90 minutes, swimming long distances under polar ice, running a marathon barefoot to climbing the Everest in nothing more than a pair…
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