If you use a computer, a cell phone, a video game or any number of devices with a microprocessor, you owe [our] guest today a debt of gratitude. Federico Faggin is the father of all of these. "How does that transformation occur, to go from electrical signals that are generated by explanation the scientists were giving, into sensations and feelings?" With no principle in physics known, Frederico Faggin turned to consciousness. "A computer can eventually be conscious. If the computer can do it, let me try and figure out how." Soon, a personal transcendent experience revealed the light and love of which everything is made. "It would have been all an intellectual process reading books and opinions of others. [Once] you have an experience of transcendence, there is no way back, you know because you became what you knew. This is not the way to know, through reading a book. Consciousness allows to know. A certainty, same as I am certain that I exist."

Listen in as Tom answers questions about the out-of-body experience, synchronicities, conscious computers and the larger consciousness system. From thought to physicality. Why synchronicity occurs as opposed to instantaneously truth. "The system can do that sorta nudging as long as there is always plausible deniability that anything paranormal ever happened.... It verifies to you the realness and the fundamentalness of all of this so a lot of synchronicity are to wake people up...you just need the information." Will technology allow enlightenment to go mainstream? "Consciousness is growing. It is being affected by our choices. We make all these choices and the consciousness evolves...Things we do can indirectly modify consciousness. ...I think we're entering that place where the good things can happen."

What is the nature of reality and how is consciousness interacting with it? "Science is not fundamentally mathematical. Science is fundamentally logical."  Tom's "evolutionary model" is based on logic. "The MBT (My Big Toe) trilogy, I made specifically as an on ramp for left brained and logical thinkers. ...It builds on a logical process....and they [the MBT books] tend to be a little hard to read for the right brainers." "The mystics and right brainers get it. ...They intuit the answer... and get to the end [of the book] and say 'well you needed all that to get there? I got there before you started.'" People who are rational, who like science and who want to have logical process...it [MBT trilogy] will lead them to the mystical result...because that's where logic takes you."

"Mostly I was trying to understand those questions...of how it all worked [time, consciousness, free will]...trying to understand through experimentation." Exploring the relationship between past lives and current realities, "I'd go into that past life...and I'd not only watch...I'd go in and make a change and I'd look and see how that change would change other things. I'd observe...I realized that these were probability distributions of possible things that could happen...this was the type of research I was doing." Experimenting with a lot of different topics, "I'd get to the point that it's all about information." Listen in as Tom explains that reality is information based. Consciousness is awareness and the physical world is a subset of that information.

Mark Certo opens Season 2 reflecting on the amazing guests and conversations in Season 1 of Expanding on Consciousness. His opening dialogue asks the important question, how is consciousness evolving and expanding as a collective [species]. "Are we at the forefront in a shift in consciousness? ...Perhaps the acknowledgement of this interconnectedness of life is part of this evolving consciousness. ...and we're at the forefront of a shift in our understanding of the nature of consciousness and how it effects the reality we experience.  ...Season 2 guest and quantum physicist Frederico Faggin seems to think so."

Joseph McMoneagle, Remote Viewer 001 in the Army’s Stargate Project, recounts his distinguished military career. Referred to as Anomalous Cognition, Remote Viewing proved to be a viable espionage tactic during the Iranian hostage crisis. “Just about every agency in America that had an intelligence agency wound up giving us targets.” How is Remote Viewing different than premonition or bilocation? “Remote Viewing is a specific protocol designed in the early 70’s at Stanford Research Institute International, and is defined as the ability to perceive a person, place, event, or thing that is remote, to which they have access via psychic functioning under strict scientific protocol.” So what is behind the ability to remote view a target or not? “All research implies it is the [level of] intention for the target.” Accessed through deep meditative states, fragments of input are analyzed. Too much analysis forces people to make leaps of logic that in all probability are going to be wrong. Too little analysis means the Remote Viewer will not be able to make sense out of the information they’re receiving. High energy targets and breaching the concepts of linear time, Joe has remote viewed past, present, and future events. Interested in learning to remote view? Be prepared for some pretty dramatic changes in your belief systems!

In this episode of Expanding on Consciousness, host, Mark Certo, discusses energy healing with Lisa VanOstrand, Dr. Of Medical Qigong, former Dean of Advanced Studies at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, Core Energetics Therapist, and Clairvision Practitioner. Lisa shares her personal path to becoming an energy healer with a particular focus on her working with Barbara Brennan School of Healing techniques. In her presentation on how energy healing works, Lisa shares that “it's not about me healing your condition, it's about you healing your condition, this is your path. This is your journey, I'm your witness and your ally and your support, but it's really all about you”. Along with the aspects of healing that Lisa shares an understanding of she also suggests that “we could never really, totally understand why something is happening. There is our ordinary mind that wants to plan, that wants to understand. Then there is the divine mind that is operating at a higher level that we could not possibly understand.” Expanding beyond personal healing, Lisa elaborates on how we can heal society and larger planetary systems. “What are we doing for the ancestry, not just the past, but also for the future? And, how can we just stop and consider how we can leave the world in a better place for our ancestry.”

“There are vital truths there that people need to know about. And if in my role as an educator, I can point people in the direction of finding that stuff out. I'm very pleased.” In this archival episode, host, Mark revisits a conversation he had with psychologist, educator, intrepid consciousness explorer and researcher Dr. Charles Tart in 1993. Dr. Tart highlights the differences between science and scientism, expressing how you can test your beliefs and understand how the world works. “I'm proud to consider myself both a very tough-minded scientist and a spiritual seeker." Dr. Tart presents that while we may not find a single unifying Truth, “we can have fewer falsehoods, we can have fewer delusions… we can learn about the ways in which we fool ourselves... [for] a greater opportunity to learn what's really going on with ourselves, with our spirits, with our minds, with our worlds, that is something we can definitely make progress along. …I'm a long, long way from being enlightened, whatever that means. But I'm not as badly deluded as I used to be 20 years ago”. As Mark shares “If this is the first time you've ever heard of Dr. Charles Tart, I hope this interview inspires you to learn a lot more because there's a lot more to learn”.

In episode 10, Mark speaks with author, clinical psychologist, and international psychokinesis trainer Dr. Joe Gallenberger. Early childhood “Oneness" experiences led to Joe's curiosity and study of Christian mysticism, eastern religions, and meditation. “[Humans] have a tremendous desire for transcendence.” Experiencing expanded states of consciousness can be therapeutic and healing. “Exploring altered states without drugs or alcohol is a good way to get a [life] overview beyond the daily grind, for self-empowerment.”  After finding the Monroe Institute and completing Gateway Voyage, Joe became curious about belief systems and the power of manifestation. “It put me on a path for manifestation,” which led to his first two books and a workshop. After participating in the first Lifeline program at Monroe—which assists those needing guidance for their transition to the afterlife—he was faced with his beloved brother’s suicide. Using tools learned in Lifeline, Joe reconnected with his brother beyond the veil, and penned these experiences in the books “Brothers Forever” and “Heaven is For Healing.”

Mark revisits an extraordinary interview from 28 years ago with Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, sixth man to walk on the moon, and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. While returning from the moon, Edgar had an epiphany while looking out at the cosmos. “I realized that the Universe was an intelligent process. It was an insight. It was accompanied by a euphoria, an ecstasy if you will, and I realized that our science was incomplete in its cosmology.” After his return to Earth, Edgar founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences to investigate his new understanding of the universe. Mark and Ed discuss 25 years of IONS research and understanding, and cover a range of topics including quantum physics, space-time, nonlocality, Akashic records, precognition, determinism, resonance, intention-setting and creating your own reality, shifting belief systems, ego structures, DNA coding and evolutionary process, environmental sustainability and nurturing one’s self. “Increasing knowledge is one thing and increasing self-awareness is another. Start to explore individual potential. Recognize that the ego structure that we consider ourselves is not the highest form of knowing and understanding—that we can transcend far beyond that. And, when we do transcend beyond that, we start to see all the right answers. We start to see what we each need to do, personally, in order to contribute more fully to the stewardship of the Earth and to contribute more fully to the whole.”