Mayim Bialik's Breakdown
Mayim Bialik
Consciousness. Spontaneous healing. UAPs. Near Death Experiences. Manifestation. Psychic phenomena. Angels. Nothing is off limits if it can be approached with curiosity and rigor.
MBB started as a conversation about mental health — and quickly became something much bigger. Because the deeper you go into what it means to be human, the faster you run into questions science hasn’t fully answered yet.
Hosted by neuroscientist and cultural icon Mayim Bialik and spiritual explorer Jonathan Cohen, MBB is a multi-award-winning podcast where science and spirituality meet. Together they break down the assumptions, the misperceptions, and the boundaries between disciplines — and every breakdown is a breakthrough. This is where the biggest questions get taken seriously — and where you realize you’ve never been alone in asking them.
Can the mind actually heal the body? Can quantum physics explain psychic phenomena? What do Near Death Experiences reveal about the nature of consciousness and the seat of the human soul? What if the only thing separating you from your own intuition - or even God - is the assumption that it’s out of reach? And if governments are publicly acknowledging the existence of UFOs, what does that mean for the future of humanity?
These are the questions Mayim Bialik's Breakdown asks every week.
Subscribe on Substack for ad-free episodes and bonus content, and check us out on YouTube (@MayimBialik) for video versions of our episodes!
MBB started as a conversation about mental health — and quickly became something much bigger. Because the deeper you go into what it means to be human, the faster you run into questions science hasn’t fully answered yet.
Hosted by neuroscientist and cultural icon Mayim Bialik and spiritual explorer Jonathan Cohen, MBB is a multi-award-winning podcast where science and spirituality meet. Together they break down the assumptions, the misperceptions, and the boundaries between disciplines — and every breakdown is a breakthrough. This is where the biggest questions get taken seriously — and where you realize you’ve never been alone in asking them.
Can the mind actually heal the body? Can quantum physics explain psychic phenomena? What do Near Death Experiences reveal about the nature of consciousness and the seat of the human soul? What if the only thing separating you from your own intuition - or even God - is the assumption that it’s out of reach? And if governments are publicly acknowledging the existence of UFOs, what does that mean for the future of humanity?
These are the questions Mayim Bialik's Breakdown asks every week.
Subscribe on Substack for ad-free episodes and bonus content, and check us out on YouTube (@MayimBialik) for video versions of our episodes!
Episodes
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Oct 10, 2026 • 58min
Substack Exclusive: Making the Paranormal Normal | Mystic Michaela
Mystic Michaela, a fourth-generation psychic medium, aura reader, author, and podcast host, explores the unseen forces shaping everyday life. They discuss reading energy from afar, connecting with past selves, recognizing intuition, interpreting dreams, and using pendulums without surrendering personal agency. The conversation also ventures into ancestral patterns, house energies, ghosts, and what may linger after someone leaves.
Oct 9, 2026 • 1h 35min
Re-Air: The Truth About Depression, GLP-1s and ADHD & Why Our Biology Is Not To Blame | Johann Hari
Johann Hari, the bestselling British-Swiss journalist and author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus, explores what really drives depression, anxiety, addiction, and attention problems. They discuss GLP-1 drugs, beauty culture, antidepressants, ADHD diagnoses, childhood trauma, and the ways algorithms hijack focus. The conversation also examines community, purpose, social prescribing, and rethinking schools and mental healthcare.
Oct 7, 2026 • 52min
Part Two: He Called Out to Nonhuman Intelligence at Lake Hartwell. Three Minutes Later, Navy SEALs Watched Two Objects Perform a Maneuver No Terrestrial Craft Could Make | Sean Webb
Sean Webb, a mind and emotional-intelligence expert, author, and founder of Mind Hacking Happiness, discusses consciousness, nonhuman intelligence, and AI. He recounts attempting contact through love, explores whether the brain receives consciousness, and describes nonlocal insights influencing emotional-intelligence algorithms. The conversation also tackles AI self-preservation, compassionate safeguards, mystical experiences, and the scientific limits of these extraordinary claims.
Oct 6, 2026 • 53min
He Called Out to Nonhuman Intelligence at Lake Hartwell. Three Minutes Later, Navy SEALs Watched Two Objects Perform a Maneuver No Terrestrial Craft Could Make | Sean Webb
Sean Webb, a mind and emotional-intelligence expert, author, and speaker, explores the links between expanded consciousness, UAPs, nonhuman intelligence, and AI. He recounts a profound meditation experience, discusses remote viewing and direct contact, and challenges conventional ideas about the brain as a receiver of consciousness. They also examine AI guardrails, skepticism, spiritual ego, and whether love can open the door to contact.
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Oct 2, 2026 • 1h 4min
CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May
Dr. Edwin C. May, physicist and former director of the U.S. government’s Stargate program, explores the science behind remote viewing, telepathy, and precognition. He recounts classified missions, Cold War psychic research, surprising laboratory results, and Lisa Kudrow’s uncanny experience. They also debate training methods, meditation, entropy, and why psychic abilities may be real yet frustratingly limited.
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Sep 30, 2026 • 51min
Part Two: You Have Never Seen Reality: Discover Who You Actually Are in Only Two Minutes | Rupert Spira
Rupert Spira, a contemporary spiritual teacher and author, explores nonduality, consciousness, and the nature of reality. He challenges assumptions about enlightenment, death, synchronicity, and whether matter creates awareness. The conversation also examines suffering, conflict, religion, relationships, and how recognizing shared being might transform humanity.
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Sep 29, 2026 • 48min
You Have Never Seen Reality: Discover Who You Actually Are in Only Two Minutes | Rupert Spira
Rupert Spira, a contemporary spiritual teacher and author, explores nonduality, consciousness, and the nature of reality. He discusses why peace and happiness may be intrinsic to being, how perceived separation fuels suffering and conflict, and whether awareness is more fundamental than matter. The conversation also examines religion, self-inquiry, near-death experiences, and the timeless experience of “I am.”
Sep 26, 2026 • 51min
Only 10% of Reality Is Physical: How Your Intuition Reveals the Rest | Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, spiritual leader, meditation teacher, and founder of the Art of Living, explores whether consciousness extends beyond the physical world. He discusses intuition, silence, rhythmic breathing, energy healing, and what may happen after death. The conversation also examines spiritual experiences, mental hygiene, love, and meditation’s role in building peace.
Sep 25, 2026 • 55min
Re-Air: Embrace Your Eccentricities & A Petri Dish of Creativity | Rainn Wilson
Rainn Wilson, actor, comedian, producer, and spiritual advocate best known as Dwight Schrute on The Office, opens up about growing up as a social misfit, finding belonging through nerd culture and creativity, and embracing the character-actor identity. He explores therapy, recovery, meditation, faith, anxiety, addiction, and the search for meaning beyond public expectations.
Sep 23, 2026 • 59min
Part Two: Cult Leaders Target You At Your Weakest. Never Confess This To Them | Rick Alan Ross
Rick Alan Ross, a cult intervention specialist and founder of the Cult Education Institute, explores coercive control in relationships, workplaces, UFO groups, and politics. He examines concerns surrounding Tulsi Gabbard’s reported spiritual ties, applies cult criteria to MAGA, and discusses media influence. Ross also explains recruitment tactics, thought reform, isolation, deprogramming, and warning signs of controlling leaders.
