End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)

Michael Kokal
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Immanence = Transcendence. Exploring Consciousness and the capacities of consciousness--the horizons we never touch, because we are already there....with Michael Kokal

  1. 4D AGO

    Episode 338: Constance Brenneman and Susan Brittain: "Afterlife: Beyond the Light"

    Constance Brenneman is an award-winning filmmaker, actor and producer in studio and independent film.  In recent years, she has devoted her work to documentary filmmaking, creating projects that inspire, transform, and uplift.  Her feature documentaries include Finding Inner Hero (2022), Built Different (2024), and Afterlife: Beyond the Light (2026--Vision Films). Afterlife was born from Constance's fascination with the culminating factors of phenomenal end-of-life experiences.  Partnering with friend and producer Susan Brittain, she set out to explore both the science and the deeply human stories behind near-death experiences (NDEs) and shared-death experiences (SDEs). The film features powerful firsthand accounts alongside compellling interviews with two of the worlds leading experts in the field:  Dr. Raymond Moody and William Peters.  Both are internationally recognized pioneers whose decades of research and bestselling books have shaped modern understanding of these experiences.  Additionally, Constance partnered with the Coming Home Channel to incorporate deeply personal testimonies from individuals who have directly encountered these phenomena, expanding the emotional and spiritual depth of the film.  To create a sense of flow and visual poetry, Constance collaborated with a professional modern dance company to develop original movement pieces that align with prose, stories and interviews.  The film further weaves in animation to visually interpret NDEs and SDEs as they have been documented across cultures for centuries. The film is available for download later this week on all platforms such as Itunes, Vimeo, and Amazon.  Social media links: https://www.instagram.com/afterlifebeyondthelight/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61583270437211# This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-338-constance-brenneman-and-susan-brittain-afterlife-beyond-the-light Have a blessed week!

    1h 4m

  2. MAR 20

    Episode 337: Jeremy David Engels, PhD: "On Mindful Democracy: A Declaration of Interdependence to Mend a Fractured World"

    Jeremy David Engels, PhD, is a Liberal Arts Professor of Communications and Ethics at Pennsylvania State University.  He is also a longtime teacher of mindfulness, meditation, and yoga, having studied in both India and the United States, and he is certified to teach mindfulness after completing an intensive two-year training program under the direction of Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield.  Since undertaking a pilgrimage to walk in the footsteps of the Buddha in India and Nepal in 2018, he has been a student of Thich Nhat Hanh.  He is dedicated to bringing the practice of mindfulness to democracy, and the practice of democracy to mindfulness.  He is an award-winning scholar, and has published numerous books and articles about democracy, community building, deliberation, and peace, including On Mindful Democracy:  A Declaration of Interdependence to Mend a Fractured World (Parallax, 2026) (which is the subject of this podcast).  He is also the author of Living Namaste:  A Practical Guide to Mindfulness, Yoga, and Building Community (Living Traditions, 2026); The Ethics of Oneness:  Emerson, Whitman, and the Bhavagad Gita (U Chicago Press, 2021), and The Art of Gratitude (SUNY Press 2018). For more information about Professor Engels, see his website: https://jeremydavidengels.com/ or reach out to him directly at:  jde13@psu.edu. This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-337-jeremy-david-engels-phd-on-mindful-democracy-a-declaration-of-interdependence-to-mend-a-fractured-world Have a blessed weekend!

    1h 7m

  3. MAR 20

    Episode 336: Aaron Breidenbach: Quantum Physics/Animism II

    This is a follow up interview with Dr. Aaron Breidenbach.  In our first episode (EOTR 326), we discussed the crystals of Zn-Barlowite and Herbertsmithite that he grew and studied in his PhD at Stanford.  These crystal have the potential to be used in applications in future quantum computers.  See our first episode here:  https://open.spotify.com/episode/5YlHkGM3p6nfzSGU4yZjAv These crystals also grow naturally in the Atacama Desert in Chile.  Aaron recently returned from an expedition with Chilean Anthopologist Vincente Carrasola Vega.  They were successful in finding natural crystals of Herbertsmithite.  These crystals are likely to be purer than laboratory synthetics, and this could enable new experiments in quantum physics.  Tragically, however, these crystals are currently being destroyed in massive quantities as low-grade copper ore in ecologically damaging mining practices.  We discuss the implications of this discovery, and the irony and tragedy of overextraction. We conclude this episode by talking about the relation of this disovery to Ayni, the local indigenous system of animistic reciprocity with the land.  Aaron proposes a return expedition to Chile to look for one of the country's most famous lost archeological artifacts; a crystal ball found at the summit of the sacred volcano Licanabur.  He believes that the ancient people of the land may have used these spheres to focus sunlight onto mineral samples to learn more about their properties.  He hopes to replicate this experiment with the help of indigenous Aymara and Atacamenian collaborators.  Aaron can be reached at: https://thequantumarcheologist.org/ This podcast is available on your favorite podcast feed, or here:https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-336-aaron-breidenbach-quantum-physicsanimism-ii Have a blessed weekend!

    1 hr

  4. MAR 4

    Episode 335: Ronnie Pontiac (& Tamra Lucid): The Unobstructed Way/Death=Life

    Ronnnie Pontiac is an author who worked seven years as Manly P. Hall's research assistant, screener, and designated substitute lecturer.  He is the author of American Metaphysical Religion (EOTR episode 251) and, along with Tamra, Sacred Music/The Magic of the Orphic Mysteries (EOTR episode 270). Tamra Lucid produced documentary films including the Emmy nominated End of the Line:  The Women of Standing Rock, and is the author of Making the Ordinary Extraordinary (EOTR episode 208).  She is the former writer and art editor for Newtopia Magazine and her work has appeared in Reality Sandwich.  She and Ronnnie are also founding members of the experimental (and riotous) rock band Lucid Nation.  More information concerning the book can be found at:  https://whitecrowbooks.com/book/the-unobstructed-way-a-true-account-of-the-exploration-of-life-after-death/ Check out Tamra and Ronnie at: https://linktr.ee/tamralucid https://linktr.ee/ronniepontiac This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-335-ronnie-pontiac-tamra-lucid-the-unobstructed-waydeathlife Link to Tamra's Celebration of Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL2FV4UoxU4 Have a blessed. weekend!

    1h 24m

  5. FEB 20

    Episode 334: Dr. Jennifer Reid: "Guilt Free: Reclaiming Your Life From Unreasonable Expectations"

    Dr. Reid is a clinical assistant professor at University of Pennsylvania and an associate professor at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.  She attended medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed her psychiatry residency at UCLA. This podcast will focus on her new book, Guilt Free:  Reclaiming Your Life from Unreasonable Expectations.  Dr. Reid also writes and podcasts on Substack at A Mind of Her Own focused on helping individuals nurture a deep and lasting self-trust.  She is also a regular contributor to Psychology Today with her blog "Think like a Shrink."  Her writing has also been featured on KevinMD and Doximity.  For more information, please see:  https://www.jenniferreidmd.com/ This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here:https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-334-dr-jennifer-reid-guilt-free-reclaiming-your-life-from-unreasonable-expectations Have a blessed weekend!

    1h 3m

  6. FEB 11

    Episode 333: Lynn Pardie, Ph.D: (mini) "Chop Wood/Carry Water"

    Lynn is a clinical psychologist and professor emerita of psychology at the University of Illinois Springfield.  She has published work on stress-illness relationships, program evaluation, and bias in treatment and research.  Lynn also has a long-standing interest in transpersonal psychology and Buddhist perspectives on personality and human development. Hopefully, Lynn will be gracing future episodes of the podcast as a co-host. This mini episode is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-333-lynn-pardie-phd-mini-chop-woodcarry-water   Have a blessed week! P.S.  Cover art by the fabulous Wendy Allen.

    17 min

  7. JAN 28

    Episode 332: Judith Dillon: Alphabets/Mystery Traditions/"Futhark Rune Mysteries"

    Judith is an author whose research has focused on the history of alphabets, runes, oghams, Hebrew, and ancient Phoenician as well as its relation to number magic.  She is the author of Alphabets and the Mystery Traditions (2024) and Futhark Rune Mysteries: Origins of Magic & Divination in the Primal Alphabet (2026), the latter being the subject of this podcast.  In Rune Mysteries, Judith reveals the spiritual and divinatory attributes of each rune by examing the physical characteristics of the objects chosen to represent them. For more information about Judith's academic work, please see: https://berkeley.academia.edu/JudithDillon.  You will find she has a wealth of knowledge on these subjects and she welcomes you to contact her at:  jdillon022@gmail.com for more information. This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here: Artwork is Grave in the form of an A.  Yugoslavia circa 6000 BCE. From Gimbutas, The Language of the Goddess, 156.

    1h 7m

  8. JAN 12

    Episode 331: David L. Kahn: Lucid Dreams/"The Oneironaut's Odyssey: Discovering Ancient Wisdom through Lucid Dreams""

    David L. Kahn is an author, oneironaut, and has been a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) since 2006.  He is a regular contributor to The Lucid Dreaming Experience magazine and has participated in several lucid dreaming research studies.  Much of his published work and many of his presentations focus on trauma dreams, particularly those of genocide survivors and LGBTQ+ youth.  He also contributed an entry to the Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams on dreams related to the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocides.  His books include The Oneironaut's Odyssey:  Discovering Ancient Wisdom Through Lucid Dreams and Storms and Rainbows:  Trauma Dreams of LGBTQ+ Youth. For more information about Dave and his work, please see Instagram pages: @boundless_dream @thelucidexplorer Or contact him directly at:  boundlessdreaming@gmail.com This podcast is available on your favorite platform, or here:https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-331-david-l-kahn-lucid-dreamsthe-oneironauts-odyssey-discovering-ancient-wisdom-through-lucid-dreams Have a blessed week!

    1h 3m
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