Mind the Shift Anders Bolling

Professor Dean Radin is one of the world’s leading authorities on psychic phenomena. He is the chief scientist at IONS, the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
“I don’t like the word ‘paranormal’ when referring to these experiences”, Dean says.
“Paranormal phenomena cover such a huge range of things that are strange, that it tends to collapse psychic experiences into things like search for Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster. But psychic phenomena, like synchronicities, are extremely common.”
Are psychic phenomena akin to spiritual experiences?
“I would say there is an overlap.”
The overlap, he explains, is when people say they have felt a strange, very intimate sense of connection with other people or with things elsewhere.
“The line between science and spirituality is arbitrary. There is a spectrum.”
A synchronicity can be described as ‘smart luck’, as opposed to ‘dumb luck’.
“In many ways the kind of research that I do attempts to evoke synchronicities in the laboratory. What some would call a coincidence we would call a synchronicity when we study for instance telepathy”, Dean says.
As we record this episode, Dean Radin is conducting an experiment aimed to test the quantum observer effect.
“To test it properly it takes an act of subjective awareness of what is going on. It is correlated to brain activity, but it is not physical. Maybe that’s what will break the chain and cause the measurement to actually occur.”
“If the results are replicated in lots of different laboratories, it directly informs an outstanding and long standing problem in the interpretation of quantum mechanics.”
The ‘Sigil’ experiment, as it is called, is due to be finished by the end of April.
The placebo effect is basically the same phenomenon – mind affecting matter.
“Can we see differences in the behavior of cells, be it plants or the human body, depending on what people are beaming mentally at them? The answer is yes.”
“For everything from photons, to chemical processes, to cells, to small animals, to human physiology and maybe all the way up to the global level, we do see that consciousness seems to be involved at every single stage.”
And yet there are so many skeptics, and so many psi researchers are being mocked.
“In mainstream science, these things are taboo. I know many academics have these experiences themselves, but you can’t talk about it, at the risk of your career”, Dean says.
“Materialism is an extremely powerful worldview. So powerful that it has given rise to the technologies we have today. But it leaves out something.”
However, in the last 30 years, the philosophy of idealism has begun to penetrate within the sciences, according to Dean Radin. Idealism posits that consciousness is fundamental and that matter arises from it.
“You see it in physics, in psychology, in neuroscience and in mathematics.”
There is a materialist ‘police’ that is active on Wikipedia and in public debate. But it is a vociferous minority, Dean thinks.
“They are only maintaining the taboo. But taboos don’t last forever. When you talk to academics privately after a couple of beers, everyone eventually reports they have experiences of this kind, and most are actually interested.”
So, if idealism is penetrating science and things seem to be changing, what will be the final nail in the coffin for the taboo?
Judging from the brief opening in consciousness studies that was seen in the 60s and 70s, Dean thinks the renewed research on psychedelics might be that nail. Another candidate is quantum biology. Scientists now suggest that the brain operates in quantum ways.
“That was a very fringy idea 30 years ago.”

Dean’s personal website
IONS website

Julia Mossbridge is a scientist in the true sense of the word, a curious and open-minded investigator and seeker. She has balanced beautifully on the perceived border between traditional science and the esoteric realms.

She has created two institutes, whereof one bears the intriguing name The Institute for Love and Time (TILT). It is about creating technologies that support wellbeing related to feeling unconditional love.

How can love and time go together?

“Both are powerful and healing to humans”, Julia says.

On a deeper level, she explains, people experience that when the boundaries of time are removed, the conditions of connection are also removed, which opens the door to unconditional love.

The way Julia describes the experience of time is somewhat at odds with the “live in the now” mantra. We can extend the self in time, she says. And by doing that we break down boundaries.

“It gives you a lot more chances to do good for yourself and the world. It doesn’t have to be all at once. We have all this time.”

“Folks say you can’t do anything about the past, and the future is all about potentialities, so you can only do something about it in the now. The reason this is so enticing is that we’re built to experience free will. So that’s how we’re gonna make a lot of money on self-help books”, Julia laughs.

“I think it’s a racket. I think it makes people look for control rather than take responsibility.”

In reality, we are not in control. Everything we experience has already happened. That has even been measured (the thought of doing something sudden arises after we’ve done it).

“To even come close to being in control, we must extend the definition of ‘I’. To really be in control we must extend it indefinitely to include the whole universe and everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen.”

The Iroquios have a word for this extension: the long body.

Julia Mossbridge has done extensive research on precognition, the intuitive knowledge about a future event. She uses a metaphor: An event that triggers precognition is like a stick in the stream of consciousness. The stick creates a wake, which is the slowly fading memory of the event after it has happened. But on the front end it also creates an area where the “arrow of time” is reversed.

“There's backpressure. The stream of consciousness ‘prepares’ itself to go around the stick.” 

Precognition most commonly appears in dreams.

“The conscious mind is like our story of what is happening, but the unconscious mind really has access to all the incoming data from the universe”, Julia says.

She agrees with psychology pioneer William James that the brain is like a filter.

“When your brain is damaged, you're not changing consciousness, you're changing the capacity to receive it.”

She is also in agreement with the theories of cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman, who describes physical reality as an interface, where living beings are “conscious agents”. If we were to look “under the hood” (which may be what enlightenment entails), we would see a completely different reality that doesn’t make sense in the physical world.

Mossbridge also delves into what AI does to us, and with us, and what we can do with AI.

“Human potential is going to explode with AI if we do it right. It can be a partner in our evolution. We are in this together.”

Julia’s bio:


Affiliate professor in the Dept. of Biophysics and Physics at University of San Diego


Senior consultant with Tangible IQ


Co-founder of TILT: The Institute for Love and Time


Founder of Mossbridge Institute


Author and co-author of multiple books and scientific articles related to time travel, artificial intelligence and unconditional love


PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders (Northwestern University)


MA in Neuroscience (UC San Francisco)


BA in Neuroscience with highest honors (Oberlin College)

Why are we so afraid to die, I ask afterlife expert, researcher, coach and writer Craig Hogan.
“It’s a misunderstanding. People think this life is all there is. But we don’t die. Transition happens seamlessly. There is no pain.”
Craig Hogan and his associates try to teach people about this.
If we knew we were immortal, we would arguably live our lives differently. We wouldn’t pursue things selfishly. We would realize we are on this journey together with the people around us.
There are innumerable reports from people who have been in contact with deceased loved ones.
Craig has himself had many experiences in which he has communicated with the other side.
There are also many widely known accounts of contacts with the afterlife, such as the ones of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, Raymond Moody and J.B. Phillips.
Anybody can get in touch with the deceased, says Craig Hogan. You don’t have to go through a medium. But you need to go into a meditative state and empty your mind. Ask a question or make a statement to the deceased person you want to contact.
“You will get responses immediately, in one chunk, not in words. It’s telepathic”, says Craig.
So what is the afterlife like?
“We need consistency, so it’s very much like our earth life. People have bodies. There are houses and streets and different cultures and nationalities. People first use the language they are used to, but after a while they drop language, because they don't need it. It is like earth but without the problems. There is no old age and no ailments.”
When we pass, we don’t actually go anywhere, Craig explains. It’s already here. It’s all about a change of focus. It's like changing the frequency on the ‘life radio’.
For some there is a ‘second death’. These people don’t understand that they have passed at first. Or they don’t want to leave the earth plane for some reason – they may have unfinished business, or they don’t want to leave the sensual pleasures, or they are afraid they are going to go to hell.
“So they stay earthbound for a while. They walk around, ride buses, and go to church. Some become poltergeists.”
“Then there is another category of almost demonic influences. These are negative thought forms produced by people or groups of people who want to impede other people’s progress because of the anger and violence that exist on earth.”
But eventually, all go to life after this and get to have a respite. There is no hell.
“This earth plane is a school. The purpose is to teach us lessons. We are growing in love and compassion”, says Craig.
Before we are born our souls and guides get together and plan the circumstances and the kinds of struggles we will have in life. Afterwards we can share our learning with others that are within our higher self.
Reincarnation is misunderstood, according to Craig. We stay the individuals we are, but we are part of a higher self which has thousands of people in it.
When a new life is planned, the planning group will take pieces from other lifes, so that the new person will learn lessons that were not previously learned. That is where past life regression comes from, Craig explains. Lives are intertwined. You tap into experiences of another life.
“So, we don’t come back as some other person.”
Humanity once knew about the afterlife but forgot. However, when we regain that knowledge, it will be on a higher level. We have understandings today that humankind has never had, Craig points out.
“We are in the most mature state of understanding the life after this life. We are going far beyond the insights we used to have.”
Within a few centuries, a new kind of earth will arise, he thinks.
“There is no need to feel fear about the end of this life. There is no end.”

Craig's organization Seek Reality

The ancient Maya taught that consciousness is primary, and that matter is the manifestation of a thought, if you will, that arose in the all-encompassing primordial consciousness.

This knowledge is at the core of the work of Carl Johan Calleman. He is originally a trained biologist and chemist, but he has dedicated most of his career to studying the wisdom of the Maya and has written eight books on the subject.

There is a hidden meaning behind the mythical plumed serpent, theme of the Kukulcan pyramid in Chichen Itzá, Carl Johan explains:

Consciousness has expressed itself gradually in the universe – it has come in nine waves.

The first wave was what modern science calls the Big Bang.

This worldview means that evolution undoubtedly takes place, but it is purposeful, not random.

“Established science has been fighting this idea of a living universe for a long time”, says Carl Johan.

Why do the structures of the universe on all levels hold together? Because there is an underlying purpose, and because the universe is holographic: an atom is subordinate to a molecule, which is subordinate to a cell, which is subordinate to a whole organism, which is subordinate to a planet, a solar system, a galaxy and so on.

“Otherwise everything would be just floating around in a soup of nothingness.”

Evolution is quantized, as Calleman sees it. It takes quantum leaps, namely in the form of the Mayans’ nine waves, which in turn have peaks and valleys.

This entails that technically advanced civilizations could not have existed before the sixth wave, which was activated in 3,115 BCE.

“Yes, this is what you should expect if you adhere to the idea of a quantized evolution. It should not happen gradually.”

With every new wave, a new state of consciousness becomes downloadable. The human mind changes.

The peaks and valleys correspond to creative and destructive periods in humanity. The rise and the collapse of empires, for instance.

The ninth wave is the final one. And it is already here. Forget the trope around 21 December 2012 – the ninth wave was activated in March of 2011. That year was indeed eventful.

All the earlier waves are still running. Not every human and not every other organism will be fully influenced by the most recent wave. Some remain in a lower vibration. Myriad animals and plants that came into creation with earlier waves are still here.

But the ninth wave makes it possible to reach peak consciousness.

“That’s where we’re meant to go. That’s the highest frequency.”

This ascension, as some call it, will be easier for the younger generations, Carl Johan Calleman thinks.

“They will be able to create  peace and unity, a form of heaven on Earth. But the time period until that happens will be very difficult. Maybe we will see a global dictatorship.”

Geophysicist Bob Schneiker stumbled upon the debate about the age of the Sphinx by chance. He got hooked, and the more he found out, the more convinced he became that Robert Schoch and other maverick researchers are wrong about the dating.
“I was surprised to know that Schoch used erosion on the Sphinx as evidence of an older civilization than the dynastic Egyptians”, Bob says.
The geology and the surface patterns have been interpreted wrongly, according to Schneiker. The geological history of the area reveals that the Sphinx cannot be older than about 5,500 years, he claims.
Schneiker (and others) conclude that the Nile flows during the African humid period 12,000 to 5,500 BCE would have inundated the Sphinx and consequently destroyed its brittle limestone, had it been carved out during that period. (Not all studies conclude that the water table of the Nile actually got that high, however.)
Another site Bob has looked into is Göbekli Tepe. He agrees that this construction has upended much of what archaeologists used to believe about our past. But he points out that it cannot be linked to the Younger Dryas and its purported cataclysm, because it is probably much older than that.
This also goes for the channeled Scablands in the northwestern USA, another place that some alternative researchers tie to the Younger Dryas.
Certain “smoking guns” indicate that something very dramatic happened on the planet during that period, like the ubiquitous “black mat” soil layer and the sudden disappearance of megafauna. One mainstream theory regarding the latter is overhunting by humans. Schneiker concurs with that theory.
He is not as impressed as most other independent researchers by advanced megalithic sites like Giza, Baalbek, Ollantaytambo, Sacsayhuaman, Tiwanaku and Easter island.
“Most of them are not that old”, he says.
Scientists and researchers on all sides have blind spots. Bob is an honest truth seeker, just like the independent researchers he challenges. It’s likely that he sees things they haven’t acknowledged. Which is interesting, because they often point out that because of the fact that academia stonewalls its research, the only ones who can push the boundaries are the mavericks.
“Yes, that happens, but how many mavericks do we not hear about because their ideas are so crazy?”
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✅ Resources
Bob's website
• Alternative researchers that Bob challenges:
Randall Carlson's Youtube channel
Robert Schoch's website

Climate catastrophism displays all the core features of a cultural entity, says Andy West, author of The Grip of Culture.
Other cultural entities are religions, ideologies, sometimes cults and even strong philosophies. The underlying behavior is identical. You can measure it, and that is what Andy has done.
“This comes from a deep behavioral legacy from our evolutionary past. We are very susceptible to groupthink.”
Andy’s most groundbreaking finding is that there is a close connection between religiosity and climate catastrophism. The correlation is almost perfect. But it is perhaps not intuitive:
When unconstrained questions are asked about climate change, a large majority of people in religious countries will answer that it is dangerous, whereas a large majority of people in secular countries will be less worried. When constrained questions are asked, i.e. questions about the need to take action in different ways, the situation is exactly the opposite.
A culture is always based on stories. If it were based on facts and truths, it would not be a culture.
“If you want to glue millions of people together, it’s not good to use rationality, it is actually better to bypass it and use emotion. If you base it on rational arguments, people will have different opinions or different angles on it.”
The further distanced from truth, the better cultures work. Especially if authorities are on their side. If someone questions the culture, “it’s bonkers”. End of argument.
“Climate catastrophism detached from science a long time ago”, Andy says.
Al Gore’s climate film An Inconvenient Truth from 2006 was a turning point.
“It was completely full of classic cultural memes. I started to research what was behind. I quickly realized it had left science already then.”
Are there elitist agendas?
“Yes, but they’re not the prime cause. The prime cause is the culture, and the agendas have effectively taken advantage of the culture.”
Andy points out that cultures are not bad per se. They are inevitable, and they can be either detrimental or beneficial. Civilizations are based on cultures. Without cultures, no team spirit.
Isn’t the climate disaster narrative a useful crisis for leaders who want to exert control?
“It’s not wrong, but it’s not exactly right either. Leaders have taken advantage of it as it has grown.”
Andy has found that the US is a special case. It isn’t possible to just test two cultures, religion and climate catastrophism, in America as in most other countries. What complicates things is the Democrat/Liberal and Republican/Conservative tribalism
“So the US effectively has four cultures. It ends up being a worst case scenario. Everybody is behaving culturally.”
Will this new culture, climate catastrophism, come to an end, and if so, when and how?
“It’s in all our institutions and all our policies. It’s in the heads of millions of people. It’s not going to go away easily or quickly. I think it will evolve and change over time, like it has already.”

Andy's book
Andy's X account
Climate Etc blog