Keeping Going

Niall Campbell
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keepingGOING is a late-night kitchen-table conversation about the strange business of being human. Join psychotherapist Niall Campbell as he talks with curious, thoughtful people about whatever matters: consciousness, psychedelics, psychology, philosophy, technology, money, meaning, mortality and the things we usually skirt around. The invitation is simple: say the thing you actually think. The hilarious and the sacred, the serious and the absurd, are all welcome at the same table.

Episodes

  1. 6d ago

    Ep # 3 - DMT Entities - are they real? (solo episode)

    In this episode of keepingGOING, I move on from the previous episode’s DMT 101 primer and take a closer look at Traces of the Other: DMT Phenomenology in the Framework of Conscious Realism, a 2026 PsyArXiv preprint by neurobiologist Andrew R. Gallimore, mathematician Niffe Hermansson and cognitive scientist Donald D. Hoffman. The paper starts with one of the most peculiar and recurring features of high-dose DMT experiences: encounters with apparently autonomous, intelligent non-human entities. Rather than simply assuming that these encounters are hallucinations and leaving it there, the authors ask whether there might be another way of interpreting the phenomenology. Their proposal draws on Hoffman’s theory of conscious realism, in which perception is not a transparent window onto an objective world but an evolved interface with reality. The interesting part, for me, is not whether the paper is right. It is that the authors attempt to move the question from metaphysical speculation towards something that might actually be testable. They propose experiments designed to investigate whether DMT experiences might contain information that cannot be explained by the subject’s internally generated experience alone, including possible constraints from external variables and correlations between independent experiences. That makes Traces of the Other a useful case study in a much broader problem: how do we remain intellectually open to extraordinary experiences without abandoning scientific standards? Where does established evidence end, where does interpretation begin, and at what point does an interesting hypothesis become something that can genuinely be tested? This is the territory I want to explore in this series. The previous episode established the basic terrain of DMT and its phenomenology; here we take one particularly strange feature of that terrain and follow it towards neuroscience, consciousness, philosophy and, inevitably, some rather uncomfortable questions about what we think reality actually is.

    Ep # 3 - DMT Entities - are they real? (solo episode)

  2. 6d ago

    Ep #2 - DMT 101 (Solo Episode)

    In this episode of keepingGOING, I look at DMT — something that first came onto my radar through working with highly capable people and the questions that can remain when conventional measures of success have stopped being the problem. We’ll cover the basics of DMT and phenomenology, the extraordinary strangeness of what people report, and why it matters in psychedelic integration. More importantly, I want to ask why an experience this consistently strange has so little place in the wider public conversation. This is the primer for a series of deeper dives into the phenomenology, neuroscience, psychology and philosophy of the DMT experience.

    Ep #2 - DMT 101 (Solo Episode)

  3. Sep 2

    Ep #1 - Niall Campbell

    In this opening episode of keepingGOING, I introduce the people, ideas and questions behind the show. Much of my work is with high-agency men — unusually capable, driven people, many with substantial financial freedom. What happens when money, status and achievement cease to be the main problems, but the fundamental questions remain? At its heart, keepingGOING is about relentlessly humanising the other. Guests will be chosen not simply for brilliance, but for being brilliant and decent. Curiosity, rather than ideology, will determine where the show goes.

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keepingGOING is a late-night kitchen-table conversation about the strange business of being human. Join psychotherapist Niall Campbell as he talks with curious, thoughtful people about whatever matters: consciousness, psychedelics, psychology, philosophy, technology, money, meaning, mortality and the things we usually skirt around. The invitation is simple: say the thing you actually think. The hilarious and the sacred, the serious and the absurd, are all welcome at the same table.

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  • Creator
    Niall Campbell
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Niall Campbell
  • Show Website
    Keeping Going