Episode 30 - An Exceptional Case of Reincarnation with Dr James Matlock

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Dr. Jim Matlock, author of “Signs of Reincarnation” (2019), has worked at the American Society for Psychical Research in New York City and at the Rhine Research Center in Durham, North Carolina. He is presently a Research Fellow at the Parapsychology Foundation. His chief research interests are the history of parapsychology, anthropology of religion, and reincarnation. He follows on from the famous research of Dr Ian Stevenson, founder of the Division of Perceptual Studies in the University of Virginia.

In this first part, we look at the phenomena of reported cases of Reincarnation, and dissect an exceptional case which involves an individual who remembers her previous death as a small girl who, killed after an airplane crashed into her house and gave some very specific details which were 100% verifiable and accurate.

Episode 29 - The Philosophy of Idealism with Dr Bernardo Kastrup

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Dr Bernardo Kastrup is a prominent philosopher of mind who advocates the metaphysical position of Idealism. This is essentially the position that mind is the fundamental nature of reality within which matter and experience are displayed in a form of illusory separation. As a whirlpool can be shown and defined as an individual entity, and yet consists of nothing but the water which surrounds and encompasses it, so our individuality and all matter around us seem separated from us, and are yet expressions or "dissociations" of one consciousness or mind.

Dr Kastrup holds 2 PhD's. One in computer science and the other in philosophy. Using his knowledge at both subjects, we look at the comparisons often drawn to computer systems and the interaction between hardware and software as a common analogy to the brain and consciousness, before moving on to the tenants of his philosophy, and the implications it has on anomalous experience, and the science of consciousness.

Episode 28 - Memory, Psi and More with Skeptic G.M Woerlee

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Dr Gerald Woerlee (G.M Woerlee) is a prominent skeptic of the Near Death Experience phenomena and other apparently paranormal experiences recorded both inside and outside of medical literature. He is perhaps the world's most well known critic to the famous Pam Reynolds Near Death Experience, the Denture's Man Case and others, about which he has studied and written on extensively at his website NearDth.com.

He has also written several books including his most recent 'Anesthesia and the Soul' which can be found at Anesthesiasoul.com.

A professional anesthesiologist for many years, Dr Woerlee certainly is very well versed in the physiology of the human brain and body in general, and strongly believes that most if not all NDEs and other apparently paranormal phenomena can be explained satisfactorily by physical means.

In this second part, we start by finishing off the Near Death Experience and the case of Pam Reynolds before moving on to look at why various experiences of memory in procedures and sedation which may cause a problem to the idea that brain and mind are separate. We continue to talk about  terminal lucidity for which Dr Woerlee believes a physical cause is the simpler explanation, and research into Psi phenomena.