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Welcome back to Behind Greatness! We’re back with another fun episode with a fun guy – actor, Sergio Di Zio. What don’t we talk about here? Sergio brings us through the moment where the “pope” declared that he become an actor at age 18. We hear about a once painfully shy kid who uses audacity, the monster at the end of the book and letting go of story to carve through the universe and to be delightfully entangled within it. We talk destroying and building lives. We talk piercing words of a loving father raking leaves. We talk Brando and his cat and we talk Jeff Daniels and his empathic laugh. We talk Elisa. And we talk love as home.
Let’s go!!
See episodes with trauma expert Dr Gabor Mate (ep 143) … Exorcist John Szada (ep 174) … Actors: Enrico Colantoni (ep2), Giacomo Gianniotti (ep 29), Ken Choi (ep 66) and Amy Jo Johnson (ep 92)
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For Rudy, part 1 and part 2, please have a listen to episode #179 and #186.
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are back again with Rudy. Rudy is a pre-eminent expert on black holes and a world-renowned Astrophysicist from Harvard, practising in the field since the mid-1960s. He is also the co-Founder of FREE / CCRI (see co-Founder past guests Rey Hernandez & Mary Rodwell) and also the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Cosmology.
Rudy brings us through a discussion on various cosmic topics: the earth’s giant radio telescope, that we can now see the character of the black hole for the 1st time, and an explanation on why our classical definition of the black hole is now proven to be incorrect (congruent with his theory from decades ago). We hear about the significance of interstellar dust samples, biological material in space and plants spilling out their DNA. Rudy further tickles us with his thoughts on the quantum attribute of space that records what we say and think and his thoughts on the inside-out black hole: the distant horizon. And in case you’re wondering, we get to the “G-word” and the possibility of a supreme being.
Play with this: “The human mind accesses the black hole to get glimpses of the past” - Rudy Schild.
… to be continued…
See earlier episodes with Rudy’s FREE/CCRI co-Founders Rey Hernandez (ep 153, 154) & Mary Rodwell (ep 149).
Rudy,
Center for Astrophysics – https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/ Journal of Cosmology - https://thejournalofcosmology.com/About.html Personal website - http://www.rudyschild.com/ List of Published papers - https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/p_=0&q=author%3A(%22schild%2Cr%22)&sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc CCRI (Consciousness & Contact Research Institute) - https://agreaterreality.com/ Book (co-Author with Suzy Hansen) – Dual Soul Connection: The Alien Agenda for Human Advancement: https://www.amazon.com/Dual-Soul-Connection-Agenda-Advancement/dp/0473295644/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3J7YBLDXEL5H8&keywords=Dual+Soul+Connection%3A+The+Alien+Agenda+for+Human+Advancement&qid=1706573177&sprefix=dual+soul+connection+the+alien+agenda+for+human+advancement%2Caps%2C214&sr=8-1 Book: Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness & Contact with Non Human Intelligence - https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-UFOs-Science-Consciousness-Intelligence/dp/1721088652/ctoc Edgar Mitchell Book: The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut’s Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds - https://www.amazon.com/Way-Explorer-Astronauts-Material-Mystical/dp/0399141618 NASA – Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy “SOFIA” - https://science.nasa.gov/mission/sofia/

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Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are joined today by Shehnaz Soni. Shehnaz is an Aerospace engineer for NASA and is currently working on the 1st ever human landing system – slated to be part of the Artemis moon mission in 2026. We are immediately touched by Shehnaz’s sparkle. She has a marvelous story that starts with a closed religious upbringing, to an arranged marriage, to a desperate situation in a new country to an education that led her to reach for the stars - literally. But, that’s just a small slice of this Rocket Scientist. We dive into many a topic: her quantum coaching, NASA’s lunar regulate harvest missions for travel to Mars, non-human intelligence interfering at launches, intuition and light, NPCs, the grocery store as a playground and a boundary-less existence of being.
Shehnaz,
Website: https://www.shehnazsoni.com/ IG: @ShehnazSoni LI: linkedin.com/in/shehnaz-soni-9b37874 Book: The Quantum Being: A Self-Sustaining and Magnificent Human Craft - https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Being-Self-Sustaining-Magnificent-Human/dp/B0CZPFWZJY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3V8NDYTEBQD1N&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.v3wElw7fjlGtoavJbnmwDGIYaU4J_nJXHi2Yizdk4lbGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.GCRi-iHSqGyNZGq7Ii4ceyIAim-iBcTfE9OtGgLjbVQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=shehnaz+soni&qid=1718765485&sprefix=shehnaz+soni%2Caps%2C163&sr=8-1

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Thanks for joining us again at Behind Greatness. We’re speaking with Chris Lowe today from his office at California State, Long Beach. Chris is also the Director of The Shark Lab and has been studying shark for over 30 years. We talk about sharks as the new dinosaurs, his life-long fascination with them, the understanding their mysterious lives and the importance of “drilling in and zooming out”. He shares stories about sharks at play, sharks at Thanksgiving and sharks as precise and sentient beings. We talk Great Whites, hammerheads, sleepers and cookie-cutters and having scientists train in translating their work for the public - a reminder of scientists’ important role in serving humanity. A fun talk with a fun guy about a fun topic.
See episode 94 with Julie Church for another pioneer of the sea.
Chris,
Website: Shark Lab | California State University Long Beach (csulb.edu)
FB/X/IG: @csulbsharklab

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For our part one with Jeffrey, visit our discussion in episode 118 (August 2022).
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are back with Jeffrey for a part 2 in our discussion. Jeffrey holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he served as the Associate Dean of the School of Humanities (2019-2023) and chaired the Department of Religion for eight years.
We delve into the Archives of the Impossible – a project that he began in 2014 at Rice University that now holds over 1 million documents. We talk about his very profound out of body experience, the “great big magnet in the sky”, dreams, and our culture both informed and “broken down” by impossible events. We hear about Jeffrey’s thoughts on the trickery of the paranormal and the cultural placebo effect that is religion and our unwillingness to own our divinity. We visit belief v thought and revisit the discussion on the “third space”. The impossibility of translation of one type of consciousness to another … non human intelligence being perhaps us … being the mask … and the superhuman.
We recommend a listen to Diana Pasulka (ep 142), Werner Barkhuizen (ep 162), Scarlett Heinbuch (ep 164) and Mike Clelland (ep 176).
Jeffrey:
Website: http://jeffreyjkripal.com
Archives of the Impossible: https://impossiblearchives.rice.edu/
Books: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=jeffrey+kripal&crid=2IWN90LKNGUV2&sprefix=jeffrey+kripal%2Caps%2C173&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We sat down with Matthew Roberts at his home on the East Coast and we were treated with a thoughtful talk on a fascinating subject. Matthew worked in the US Navy as a Cryptologist for 16 years where he spent many years working on encryption/decryption communication process to catch the bad guys the world round. He is also recognized as being featured in Episode 1 of the 2023 Netflix series Encounters. Starting in 2015 he began to have a series of fascinating profound personal experiences after being on board the USS Roosevelt during the famous Gimbal and the Go Fast events. The Navy later described these events as incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena into military training ranges. These events completely changed the course of Matthew’s life, who had been a life-long atheist up to this point in his life. We learn about his journey of self-discovery, the subsequent opening up of his world view and his exploration of our place in the cosmos. Amongst the several themes in this episode, we discuss his insight on humanity’s lack of insight on evolution beyond us, the dead-end nature of our materialistic western mindset, what he thinks non-human intelligence is trying to communicate and the significance of “picking at the edges of human perception”.
See episodes with Ryan Graves (ep 141) and Kevin Day (ep 171) to hear about more experiences from other former US Navy servicemen. See also the session we had with Dr. Steven J. Dick, Astrobiologist and former Chief Historian at NASA (ep 150).
Matthew,
·    Book: Initiated: UAP, Dreams, Depression, Delusions, Shadow People, Psychosis, Sleep Paralysis, and Pandemics - https://www.amazon.com/Initiated-Depression-Delusions-Psychosis-Paralysis/dp/0578796589/ref=sr_1_1?crid=6HWBYQGYM0S1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.lltlR28XYO_x5DRo4HGgSWYxvGaJQg1DK4W3CkWLJgmXL37VrjYt67DMU1tADLt7Jd43Z5PevFzJJL6krv51GiKokBbbNepfDFM8HpDVyYLyxLX_VYz9G3cTAMvAEeB4aSAAAHLnmkgMVa2Bq95T2PXCdnqf67wrFlf3-sLqcqEFV_cBbrBhcEO2y0gvd0rq3deFrF75ZnsmsR1Uc3_cw2S3s5mJ8SvddHgU6-EqAQo.vGhULIFP2DCdSFoiJOtkCo30fP0CRlArozzC7Rmm4D8&dib_tag=se&keywords=matthew+roberts&qid=1715556136&sprefix=matthew+roberts%2Caps%2C118&sr=8-1
Netflix series Encounters (episode 1), featuring Matthew - https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/encounters-trailer-release-date-news
Gimbal event:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/navy-confirms-videos-did-capture-ufo-sightings-it-calls-them-n1056201
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKHg-vnTFsM
Go Fast event:
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxVRg7LLaQA&t=5s