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John Astin is a professor of psychology, author, teacher, and musician. He returns to do a deep dive into appreciating THIS moment as all there is. Originally streamed live with audience Q+A on YouTube. Watch the video here.

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One of our favorite interviews ever (originally posted in 2019): We have NO CLUE how consciousness emerges from 3 pounds of wet goo. Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman takes us deep into his research that makes a bold claim: we’ve been attacking the problem BACKWARDS.
The implications of his theories just may change everything you think you know about reality and our place in it. Take the Red Pill and see how deep the rabbit hole goes…
Here's the original video and transcript of our interview.
We dive into the Interface Theory of Perception (how evolution hides the truth about reality in favor of a dumbed down user interface that only shows us “fitness” payoffs that help us survive), the “Hard Problem of Consciousness” and how we simply have no idea how consciousness could emerge from physical matter, the theory of Conscious Realism (how reality is really a mathematically-definable social network of conscious “agents” and our perceptions are simply the interface by which we exchange experience with other conscious agents), the math behind conscious agent theory, implications for artificial intelligence (AI), what happens when we die, the limitation of resources in the universe, synesthesia, psychedelics, spirituality, medicine, and much much more.
1:22 Are we machines? Don’s motives for studying reality & his background in artificial intelligence & mathematics
6:38 Evolutionary game theory and how organisms are tuned to see fitness payoffs, not objective reality
11:46 The “Grand Theft Auto” analogy of perception as interface/symbolic representation
14:41 Differentiating solipsism & why we don’t just see SOME objective reality, we see NONE of it (YOU are the author of space and time)
21:06 The hard problem of consciousness and WHY it’s hard from a physicalist perspective
28:38 Conscious agent theory: consciousness is fundamental (rather than emerging from matter)
39:36 Challenging perceptual psychology; Piaget and object permanence
7:06 Amplituhedron and projecting quantum mechanics and relativity from conscious agent theory
50:42 Impact this theory can have on modern medicine and our limited understanding of mental health disorders
01:01:44 Deeper down the rabbit hole, and what happens when we die?
01:08:40 Artificial intelligence as a way to open new interfaces into the conscious agent realm
01:27:58 Examining Evolutionary Psychology; its relation to consciousness and resource limitation, logic & reason as tools of social persuasion
01:40:30 Psychedelics and meditation as tools to hack our perceptual interface and experience other conscious agents
01:47:02 Synesthetes as a glimpse into interface theory, evolution, and more
Prof. Donald Hoffman, apart from being a brilliant scientist, is a wonderful and warm human being in person. Check out our first audio-only conversation from 2018 here, and my take on his theory of consciousness here.

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When Doc Vader goes live to YouTube for a q+a, you never know what Dark Side madness might emerge 😂 Watch the video here.

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Streamed LIVE to YouTube with Q+A 3/10/23. We talked about vaccines and the nature of belief, public health messaging challenges, moral foundation theory, dealing with anger and boundary violations, dropping into the body sense and out of the head, emotional repression and the make believe world of thought, kundalini energy, the nature of negativity bias and how we can shift to positive, Trauma Release Exercises (TRE), body as sensor, shame and its roots (particularly in medicine), self inquiry, the nature and trickiness of ego, the nature of mind-identification and the house of mirrors of thought, empaths and sensitivity to others’ emotions, the excess death question, guilt around setting boundaries, letting go, dealing with fear and more. Here's the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df5QkTpx3x8

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In this episode – originally streamed live to Instagram – I take viewer comments on the topics of healthcare transformation, burnout, identity, and more. We talk about left brain vs. right brain thinking, the absolute vs. the relative world as well as practical solutions and insights for personal transformation.
Video here: https://youtu.be/NKH5a-wuJEI

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Originally released in June of 2021, I recently revisited this amazing conversation with Dr. Angelo DiLullo, a physician, author, and teacher of non-dual realization (sometimes called spiritual awakening) and felt compelled to share it again for a newer audience who may be deeply interested in awakening and the end of needless seeking and suffering. The original video and transcript are here. Read Angelo's book on awakening Awake: It's Your Turn here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel here.

0:00 Intro: Eckhart Tolle and “The Three Pillars of Zen”
6:44 Disclaimer/Warning: why you should ONLY watch if you’re deeply interested
10:17 The possibility of transcending the ego and subject-object duality
12:10 The paradox of free will/agency on the path to awakening
16:36 Experiencing the present moment as a kind of flow state
20:59 Understanding what “presence” is and its relationship to thought
27:54 The sneaky ego and how it relates to awakening
34:52 The roots suffering in desire, striving, and egoic constructs
37:48 Unbound consciousness, the dissatisfaction of seeking via a false “self,” the importance of surrendering and emotional integration
50:44 The truth behind paradox
56:31 Awakening is available for anyone, and is not a crazy or paranormal experience
1:00:20 Is mental illness a hindrance to awakening, or a reason not to go down the path
1:05:38 Awakening is beyond the mind’s understanding, so how can you tell you’re awake
1:10:18 Unfiltered reality as the primary truth
1:16:08 Psychedelics vs. other methods of pointing/awakening

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