535. Diane Hennacy Powell Buddha at the Gas Pump

Diane Hennacy Powell, M.D. is a Johns Hopkins-trained psychiatrist, therapist, neuroscientist, and public speaker. She develops multidisciplinary theories towards understanding psychological anomalies, such as savant skills and verified accounts of spacetime navigation. Her current research focuses on controlled testing of autistic savants and children reported to be telepathic and/or precognitive by their caregivers.

Dr. Powell has been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, a member of a think tank on human consciousness at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, and Director of Research for the John E. Mack Institute. Her investigation into the neurocorrelates of ESP is discussed in her 2008 book The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena, and in Seriously Strange: Thinking Anew about Psychical Experiences.

Dr. Powell is also an expert on PTSD and created the psychiatry program for Survivors of Torture, International in San Diego, California. She was the principal author of IONS The 2007 Shift Report: Evidence of a World Transforming and a contributing author to Beyond Forgiveness: Reflections on Atonement, the 2014 Campus Book of the Year at Indiana University. She is also a participant in the #NeverAlone movement for suicide prevention launched by Deepak Chopra.

Website: drdianehennacy.com

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Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded February 1, 2020

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.


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00:00:00 - Introduction to Diane Hennacy Powell Interview
00:03:48 - Autistic Savants: Extraordinary Abilities
00:07:14 - The Brain's Processing Unit
00:11:07 - Acquired Savant Syndrome and Twin Intuition
00:14:54 - Extraordinary Mental Calculation Abilities
00:18:05 - Extraordinary Abilities and Experiments
00:21:43 - Accessing Universal Knowledge
00:25:25 - Contributions to the Universal Field of Intelligence
00:29:21 - Haley's Remarkable Abilities
00:33:04 - The Blind Savant Syndrome and Blind Seers
00:36:43 - Phenomenal Stories of Twins Raised Apart
00:40:28 - The Academy for the Advancement of Post-Materialist Sciences
00:44:31 - A New Paradigm: Consciousness as Fundamental
00:48:19 - The Three Theories of Post-Materialism
00:52:37 - The Role of Junk DNA and Glial Cells
00:57:02 - The Beauty of Specialization and Connection
01:00:52 - The Manifestation of Human Consciousness
01:04:09 - Challenging the Scientific Paradigm
01:07:51 - Challenges in Biological Sciences Research
01:11:27 - Embracing the Evolution of Human Beings and Unusual Perceptions
01:15:28 - Knowledge Beyond Experience
01:19:30 - Reincarnation and Desire
01:23:09 - Technologically Assisted Telepathy
01:27:20 - The Subtler Aspects of the Senses and Emotions
01:31:53 - The Relationship Between Physiology and Emotions
01:35:58 - The Evolution of Consciousness and Free Will
01:40:04 - The Illusion of Free Will and Conscious Decision-Making
01:44:12 - The Tragedy of Suicide
01:48:12 - The Importance of Preserving Human Consciousness
01:51:39 - Rational Vaccination and the Pharmaceutical Industry
01:55:07 - The Great Awakening and the Next 20 Years