

Behind Greatness by Inspire North
Behind Greatness
Bringing you curious minds and profound ideas. Your weekly dose of real conversations. We chat openly with industry and thought leaders from all walks of life, exploring the “what ifs” and “why nots”.
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Jul 23, 2023 • 1h 49min
163. Leonard (Lyn) Buchanan - Ex-Military Remote Viewer & “Psychic Spy” / Founder, Remote Viewing Ranch / Artist / Author – Giving Anything Through You
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again. Today we are speaking with a very humble, soft spoken human being, Lyn Buchanan. And you’re in for a ride. Lyn served in the US military for 20 years. He served as a minister, a multi-language linguist (the only Mongolian linguist in the US forces) as a database and systems expert and as a controlled Remote Viewer and Remote Viewing trainer in a classified US government espionage program in the 1980s and 1990s. Lyn has been plagued throughout his life with "psychokenetic" events. One fateful day in Augsburg, Germany, such an event (parts of which are still classified) happened and brought about official recognition and record of his ability – having Lyn to eventually admit to having “the best job in the world”. If you are interested in learning about Lyn’s experience and insights on: controlled Remote Viewing to entering the minds of world leaders, bilocation, solving child abduction cases, unofficially remote viewing extra terrestrial beings, experience of being onboard an off-planet vehicle, recalling an abduction by extra terrestrial sentient beings and detailed physical descriptions of these beings and their craft, visitations by men in black, psychic abilities of human beings, current exo-planet work for space agencies etc. – then listen in. If you’re not interested, then move along, there’s nothing to see here. When providing his service (for free) to Police investigators once the investigator realized the scope of his work/ability, and asked, “Do you mean that you can assign someone to actually witness something that has already happened?” Lyn replied, “That’s what we do.” Have a listen also to our other episodes with remote viewing experts Russell Targ (ep 80), Courtney Brown (ep 131) and Stephan Schwartz (ep 155,156). To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Lyn, Remote View Ranch: https://remoteviewranch.com/ Books: Seventh Sense: The Seventh Sense: The Secrets of Remote Viewing as Told by a "Psychic Spy" for the U.S. Military - https://www.amazon.ca/Seventh-Sense-Secrets-Viewing-Military/dp/0743462688/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1HNNX6681SE0Y&keywords=lyn+buchanan&qid=1690042510&sprefix=lyn+buchanan%2Caps%2C235&sr=8-1 Gravity is your Friend (It can also get you killed): https://www.amazon.ca/Gravity-Can-Be-Your-Friend/dp/1411677099/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1HNNX6681SE0Y&keywords=lyn+buchanan&qid=1690042592&sprefix=lyn+buchanan%2Caps%2C235&sr=8-2 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynbuchanan

Jul 14, 2023 • 1h 28min
162. Dr. Werner Barkhuizen – Psychologist / Entrepreneur / Explorer – Questioning Your Guardrails
Thanks for tuning in again to Behind Greatness. Werner joins us today from his home in North Carolina. Originally from South Africa, Werner is an accomplished entrepreneur with interests in several industries around the world. He had been practising as clinical psychologist when in 2009 he shifted to a renewed focus: to work himself out of a job. We jump into his lifelong fascination in exploring the truth of human existence and the non physical. We discuss psychokinesis (spoon bending), premonitions and where memories exist. He elaborates on the importance of killing your ego and the practice of extrospection. We hear in detail about his and his family’s frequent experience with floating orbs and his exploration of this phenomenon. And, we hear about a pivotal meeting with Gandhi’s grandson, his encounters with entities and his real, extraordinary exploration of achieving a controlled, measurable and replicable approach in leaving his body to astral travel. We learn that he is a practical man who has doubled down on quenching his thirst for pursuing knowledge, acknowledging that dissolving the ego is the key to accessing what we don’t know. Ingenium Solutio. Thanks to John B Alexander (ep147). Feel free to see episodes with Dr Bruce Lipton (ep 111) and Dr Diana Pasulka (ep 142) - both scientist-explorers of the non-physical. To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Werner, Website: www.drwrnrb.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drwernerbarkhuizen/

Jul 7, 2023 • 1h 32min
161. Dr. Yvonne Kason, MD – Retired Physician, Psychotherapist / Near Death Experiencer / Author – Visiting the Light
Thanks for tuning in again to Behind Greatness. Today’s discussion is with multiple NDEr, physician and author, Dr Yvonne Kason. Yvonne joins us from her home in Toronto – a city where she grew up and practised for many years as a pioneering psychotherapist in Canada. She was also the first to coin the term “Spiritually Transformative Experience (STE) and is the co-Founder of Spiritual Awakenings International. Starting as a small child she has led an incredible life experiencing episodes from “beyond the veil”. We discuss her near fatal train station episode, her near fatal car crash incidence and her incredible story of surviving a spectacular plane crash as a young medical resident. And if that isn’t enough for your ears, we discuss a debilitating injury from a brain injury that forced her to retire from her medical practice in 2003 … that started with a profound NDE … and ended with an STE in 2016 that brought her out of her physical disability. Gripping. Her life is a movie and her lessons are profound. See also NDE experience of Dr. Tony Cicoria (ep 55). To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Yvonne, Book: Soul Lessons from the Light: How Spiritually Transformative Experiences Changed My Life (December 2022), Book: Touched by the Light: Exploring Spiritually Transformative Experiences (2019) Personal Website: www.dryvonnekason.com Spiritual Awakenings Website: www.spiritualawakeningsinternational.org Toronto Awakenings Website: www.torontoawakenings.org

Jun 30, 2023 • 1h 4min
160. Franc Milburn – Former UK Military Intelligence officer, Army Paratrooper / Intelligence Security Specialist - Being Compelled by Curiosity
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today, we are joined by Franc Milburn at his home in the Canary Islands. Franc joined the Army in the 80s and worked in Intelligence, honing his skills and growing his network across the Middle East and North Africa. Today, he runs a private security intelligence business for Fortune 500 companies and is a member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies. In his current work he acts as a “sheepdog” for his clients through skills he’s developed since his days as an intelligence officer -- spending time in war torn countries gathering ground truth from investing time with local communities and their leaders. We connected with Franc through his mentor Col. John Alexander as Franc has also had a long time curiosity in the UAP phenomenon and has a unique lens through which he views it. We discuss his research and interactions with prominent scientists and astrophysicists such as Dr Eric Davis and Dr. Jack Sarfatti – discussions that have revealed the reality of reverse engineering programs of off-world vehicles, physical UAP craft and their connection to our consciousness . We learn from Franc about the deliberate harassment strategies against scientists who work on UAP technology – including a direct energy weapon used against a scientist friend of his who was suicided. And, for good measure, we also threw in lucid dreaming and out of body experiences. A Franc discussion about wanting to know what you don’t know – good or bad. Don’t hesitate to see our conversations with Col John B. Alexander (ep 147) and Former Navy Fighter Pilot Ryan Graves (ep 141). To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Franc, Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies - https://www.explorescu.org/ Video of Aquadilla sighting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD9r-eZmYWI

Jun 23, 2023 • 1h 3min
159. Jack Horner – World-Renowned Paleontologist / Explorer / Professor – Remaining Amazed
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. In this session we are speaking with Jack Horner from his home in California. Jack is a world renowned Paleontologist – of Jurassic Park fame. He was a reference point for the main character of both the original book and the Jurassic Park movie franchise of Steve Spielberg. Coincidentally (even though we don’t believe in coincidences anymore) we are recording this conversation on June 9th, 2023 - the 30 year anniversary of the release of Jurassic Park. Jack had the fortune of growing up in Montana and at an early age fell in love with dinosaurs. He found his first dinosaur bone at 8 years old and 1st skeleton at 13 years old. We follow him as he describes his ground breaking discovery (and his naming) of the Maiasaura, the running of his own museum, cutting through dinosaur bones to disprove and prove hypotheses and a career digging and training other paleontologists all around the globe. We learn about his connection with George Lucas and his fascinating “dino-chicken” project, the fundamental importance of curiosity and why we can’t lose our need to be amazed. “Go outside and find something.” See our conversation with Dr. Vera Tiesler (ep 81) if interested in knowing another world-renowned explorer. To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Jack, Website: www.jackhornersdinosaurs.com Horner Science Group: www.hornersciencegroup.com Twitter: @dustydino TED Talk 2011 - https://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_building_a_dinosaur_from_a_chicken?language=en TED Talk 2014 - https://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_where_are_the_baby_dinosaurs?language=en

Jun 17, 2023 • 1h 4min
158. Rev. Michael JS Carter – Minister/Former Actor/Author/Experiencer – Being Willing to Change
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today we are speaking with Michael Carter who joins us from his home in North Carolina. Many listeners will know him from his frequent appearances over the years on the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and on his appearance in Steven Spielberg’s TV documentary Diaries. Today, Michael is an author and an ordained Interfaith reverend at a Unitarian church. He grew up in Baltimore and worked as an actor in NYC for nearly 30 years. While living in NYC, his life changed in a hurry after a visitation encounter in December of 1989. As he was reeling from an ontological shock trying to make sense of his experience, he met a stranger who recognized that he needed assistance. We talk about his visitation experiences and his openness to the phenomenon. We learn about his fears and how confronting those fears helped him to become more intuitive and compassionate. We discuss how asking questions opens your capacity to bring in knowledge and checks your fears about the things you don’t understand. And as in his own personal case, he urges being emptied of your preconceived notions, before being filled. A fun and easy going conversation with a man unafraid. A message of thanks to Dr Bob Davis (ep151). Michael, Books, including “Alien Scriptures: Extraterrestrials in the Holy Bible”: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B01M15QA9K/allbooks?ingress=0&visitId=f8258ed7-b394-4d93-98d4-6a3f5381b2a0&store_ref=ap_rdr&ref_=ap_rdr Bio: https://uusv.org/minister/ IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5117599/ To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: www.behindgreatness.org. Tax receipt issued to donors. Behind Greatness IG: @behindgreatnesspodcast & @inspire_north

Jun 8, 2023 • 1h 8min
157. Tat Apab’yan Tew - Mayan Spiritual Guide & Midwife / Author - Smuggling Knowledge
We are joined by Tat Apab’yan Tew (also: Fabian) at his home in Mexico City. Apab’yan is a K’iche’ Maya spiritual guide, a ceremonial historian, a male midwife a lecturer and an author. He was born of a Mexican mother and a Guatemalan father. He grew up in Mexico City without his father – but with a yearning to know his Mayan heritage. His father was an indigenous man of Mayan descent from the mountains of Nawal Ja and he spent his young adult life as a guerilla fighter with rebel forces against foreign corporate control of his homelands. As a young adult, Apab’yan started on his journey to explore the life and existence of the Guatemalan highlands – and he dove in head-first once he arrived in the highlands. Abab’yan recounts his story of reconnection with the Mayan way – of viewing pregnancy, of recognizing both the feminine and the “complementary” and of understanding the consciousness of the developing baby. We discuss the following of Mayan calendar to understand our behaviour and our character, the idea of God, the reading of the blood flow and the pulses of nature and seeing knowledge as a way of healing. Thanks again to Dr. Thomas Verny (ep 121 ) …. and a nod to Indigenous Elder Cat Criger (ep 95) for the initial drumming reference. To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Apab’yan: Website: www.mayascience.com Book: The Birth of a Universe: The Maya Science of Pregnancy - The Birth of a Universe: The Maya Science of Pregnancy Consultation and the reading of ones Path, Maya Calendar can be arranged online or in person here - http://www.mayascience.com/offerings/

May 31, 2023 • 1h 21min
156. Stephan A. Schwartz, continued (part 2) - Surrendering all your Preconceptions
Thanks for joining us again. We’re back with Stephan, as promised. We highly recommend for you to have a listen to last week’s part 1 before starting this episode. Stephan is not one to disappoint … Stephan continues with his telling of his triple blind remote viewing tests, and his incredibly scintillating story of the bones of Alexander the Great. Stephan also delves into his thoughts about creativity, the importance of the dream state and meditative state for everyone, in particular with scientists and artists … and how important these states were for scientific discovery (Einstein, DaVinci, Descartes). We discuss the matrix of consciousness, physical materialism and its inadequateness, culture and individual choice, ETs and cultural anthropology and his findings from remote viewing the future – the years 2040, 2050 and 2060. Surrender all your preconceptions …. Edoardo (ep 91), Natalie Sudman (ep 97) and Leslie Kean (ep 112) do. To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Stephan, Website: www.stephanaschwartz.com Schwartz Report: https://www.schwartzreport.net/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephan-a-schwartz-1785044/

May 25, 2023 • 1h 18min
155. Stephan A. Schwartz – Futurist / Scientist / Remote Viewing Experimentalist / Author / Documentarian – Being Tuned In
Thanks for joining us again at Behind Greatness. We are joined today by Futurist and Scientist, Stephan Schwartz at his home in Washington State. Stephan is not a theorist and he’s not a philosopher. He’s an experimentalist who works with objectively verifiable data. Stephan was a young hot-shot screenwriter attending parties with the who’s who in the culture scene in NYC in the 1960s, until his life took a curious, fantastic turn. He brings us through a story that includes 5 focused years studying and researching Edgar Cayce's work in Virginia, researching for US Chief of Naval operations, speech writing for an American president, running remote viewing experiments with subjects around the world (starting years before the CIA even began its remote viewing program with Russel Targ) and being one of the first to write about UAPs in the 70s. We learn about his uncovering of important ancient wonders of the world in Egypt in the 1970s using remote/distance viewing protocols for archeological discoveries, about documenting a similar “Sea Quest” project with Leonard Nimoy (of Spock fame) as his narrator and about heading his own funded remote viewing lab, Mobius. And, he’s a novelist. Important to note that Stephan prefers non-local perception to remote viewing. And you’ll understand why. To be cont’d … For previous guests re Remote Viewing, check out Russell Targ (ep 80), Dean Radin (ep 122) and Courtney Brown (ep 131). To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Stephan, Website: www.stephanaschwartz.com Schwartz Report: https://www.schwartzreport.net/

May 18, 2023 • 1h 23min
154. Reinerio Hernandez, continued (part 2) – Shattering Beliefs
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We’re back with Rey Hernandez, as promised. If you haven’t, please listen to the 1st part of this conversation from last week before starting this one episode. You will thank us. In this 2nd part of our chat we learn about Rey’s extra-ordinary experience of leaving his body while sitting in traffic in his car on a morning in 2013. In fact, this recording is almost 10 years to the day of this pivotal moment in his life. Here we discuss the instructions he was given in that bizarre experience and the meeting of the one and only Mary Rodwell, the Harvard Astrophysicist Rudy Schild and the Astronaut Edgar Mitchell all within 48 hours of this event. We learn about the organization of FREE and the 1st ever scientific study on paranormal experiences – an exercise that involved dozens of scientists and thousands of surveys collected from all over the world. We discuss the fabric of reality, contact modalities, ontological shock, awakening, the mind of God, our reality as an illusion - and parasitic beings. See also our episode with Dr. Bruce Greyson (ep69) . To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Rey, Consciousness and Contact Research Institute – www.agreaterreality.com Archives of the Impossible (Rice University) - https://impossiblearchives.rice.edu/flash-talk-speakers/rey-hernandez Books: Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness and Contact with Non-Human Intelligence - https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-UFOs-Science-Consciousness-Intelligence/dp/1721088652 The Mind of GOD: A Spiritual-Virtual Reality Model of Consciousness & The Contact Modalities - https://www.amazon.com/Mind-GOD-Spiritual-Virtual-Consciousness-Modalities/dp/B0BC6QXHX4/ref=pd_bxgy_vft_none_sccl_1/146-7571246-5345134?pd_rd_w=z4gLz&content-id=amzn1.sym.26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&pf_rd_p=26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&pf_rd_r=BGRJGKPEN4G2A1856Z7M&pd_rd_wg=GBkZr&pd_rd_r=66175ea3-aaa7-47ad-8724-3d79b58c93a1&pd_rd_i=B0BC6QXHX4&psc=1 Vol 1. A Greater Reality: The New Paradigm of Nonlocal Consciousness, the Paranormal & the Contact Modalities - https://www.amazon.com/Vol-Greater-Reality-Consciousness-Paranormal/dp/B0BFDFL5DX/ref=pd_bxgy_vft_none_sccl_2/146-7571246-5345134?pd_rd_w=z4gLz&content-id=amzn1.sym.26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&pf_rd_p=26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&pf_rd_r=BGRJGKPEN4G2A1856Z7M&pd_rd_wg=GBkZr&pd_rd_r=66175ea3-aaa7-47ad-8724-3d79b58c93a1&pd_rd_i=B0BFDFL5DX&psc=1


