Mona Sobhani, Ph.D. is a cognitive neuroscientist, researcher, and author. In 2022 she published her first book, Proof of Spiritual Phenomena: A Neuroscientist's Discovery of the Ineffable Mysteries of the Universe, which documents her “transformation from diehard materialist to open-minded spiritual seeker.”
Mona joins the show to discuss blowing open the box of materialism, why anecdotes are scientifically underrated, what she learned from studying decades of research into psi-phenomena, how quantum science is transforming the way we think about consciousness, and MUCH more!
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Show Notes:
- Mona’s Journey Beyond Materialism
- Anecdotes are Scientifically Underrated; Research Into Psi Phenomena
- How Mona Deals With Her Colleagues’ Skepticism
- The Persuasiveness of Personal Experience
- Psychic Phenomena & the Scientific Method
- Blowing Open the Box of Materialism
- How Quantum Science is Transforming How We Think About Consciousness
- Transcendent Technology
- Psychedelics as a Bridge
- What’s Next for Mona
- Bringing Humanity Back Into Science
- Mona as Empress of the World
- MORE!
Books & Articles Mentioned:
- Proof of Spiritual Phenomena: A Neuroscientist's Discovery of the Ineffable Mysteries of the Universe; by Mona Sobhani
- The Radical Ideas of Psychedelic Research 2.0 (Pt.1; Pt.2); by Mona Sobhani
- Many Lives, Many Masters: The true story of a prominent psychiatrist, his young patient and the past-life therapy that changed both their lives; by Dr. Brian Weiss
- The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science; by Robert Anton Wilson
- Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy; by Michael Polanyi
- The Two Cultures; by C. P. Snow
- The Fabric of Reality: Towards a Theory of Everything; by David Deutsch
- The work of Dean Radin
- The Common Basis of Memory and Consciousness: Understanding the Brain as a Write-Read Head Interacting With an Omnipresent Background Field’ by Joachim Keppler
- How To Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence; by Michael Pollan
- What the Tortoise Said to Achilles; by Lewis Carroll
