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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. The conversation then turns to The Threshold, Sage Talks, cr
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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? Host Xavier Katana and guest Mark Gober ditch the nine-to-five matrix, swap stories of psychic kids and near-death plot twists, and wonder if the universe is less ‘random chaos’ and more ‘divine gr
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. Woolcott shares her journey from a materialist neuroscientist to a pioneer in the exploration of consciousness. They discuss the nature of conscio
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. He writes a blog for Psychology Today on coincidence and is the coauthor of the award-winning book
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. He’s often quoted for his concept of the demonic: "The reason they are playing by different rules is that the
Dr. Bernardo Kastrup is a scientist, philosopher and author who enjoys questioning the elements that make up our reality. He has Ph.Ds in both philosophy and computer engineering, and has worked in such prestigious places as the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories.
Dr. Bruce Lipton is a world famous author, researcher and scientist. His work has been internationally recognized and honored. In 2009 he was rewarded the Goi Peace Award, an award given to individuals felt to have made an outstanding contribution towards realizing a harmonious and peaceful world. In this episode we discuss the power of belief and how what y
Randall Carlson is a master builder and architectural designer, and also has over forty years experience as a researcher of ancient mysteries and a geological explorer of ancient sites around the world.
A profound scientific researcher, Nassim Haramein has spent over 30 years researching the interrelationships between the sciences in an attempt to understand the polyhedral geometry of space. Initially founding the Resonance Science Foundation (when it was called the Resonance Project Foundation), Haramein became the Director of Research. The foundation as i
Avi Loeb is a theoretical physicist He is the Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, and was a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Loeb was the Founding Director of Harvard’s Black Ho
Lucid Dreaming, Gateways to the inner self
Robert Waggoner is one of the foremost lucid dreamers on the planet. He is former President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD). For the past ten years, he has been the co-editor of the online magazine, The Lucid Dreaming Experience, the only ongoing publication devoted specifically to lucid dreaming. A lucid dreamer since 1975, h
Consciousness, Science and Metaphysics
Dr. Rupert Sheldrake is one of the highest regarded scientists of our time. He is a biologist and author of more than 85 scientific papers and 9 books, many of his books have gone bestseller worldwide. He was voted among the top 100 Global Thought Leaders in the world for 2013. It took us 7 years to book him to be on HXP. We hope you enjoy this interview as
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