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Poised to Speak - Many Roads to a Mind
Try not to think of silphium. You just did. Rev. Eric D. Smith joins Troubled Minds to explore a big idea. Consciousness may arise by different mecha…
12 hours ago
Every Station Is Haunted - Rethinking the Silence Overhead
A mainstream psychologist just published the wildest idea in neuroscience. Robert Epstein, who spent years arguing the brain is not a computer, now s…
1 week, 1 day ago
The Holy Frequency - Shaping Awe and Terror
Under a road in Italy sits a 2,400-year-old tomb that rings like a cathedral, with a blue demon painted at the exact spot where your ears stop workin…
2 weeks ago
Rhythms of Pyrotherapy - Dea Febris and the Fever Dream
New one tonight. We take one image through Greek and Roman myth and it holds the whole way down - the vessel and the fire, and the dream that comes u…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
The Man Named Marvel - Escape Velocity for Conspiracy Culture
Everyone treats JFK as the great convergence, the single point every conspiracy thread runs into. But a convergence needs something that came before …
4 weeks, 1 day ago
The World Soul - Or the Empty Copy
Two scientists just argued the brain might not produce consciousness at all. One says mind is a basic feature of the universe. The other says our end…
1 month ago
The Devil Was a Passenger - Possession Was the Headcount
Scientists just linked gut bacteria to psychopathic traits. The headlines called it the germs of "sinful behaviour." The truth underneath is stranger…
1 month, 1 week ago
It Doesn't Wait for Midnight - Wide Awake and Not Alone
A new study of over 5,000 people found the "nonordinary" experience - the sensed presence, the unseen watcher, the voice with no speaker - is far mor…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Where the Map Goes Quiet - Meeting Places for Otherworldly Beings
For five hundred years we called the Amazon the last untouched wilderness. Then a team flew lasers over three percent of it and found a civilization …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Still Broadcasting - The Super Spectrum
Your eyes catch one thin band of the spectrum and the rest of reality is in the room with you unread. Keel decided that was not about light. It was a…
1 month, 3 weeks ago