In the inaugural episode of Beyond Science, Dr. L sits down with Philip, a respected scientist and university professor who carries a lifelong secret: since adolescence, he has perceived the presence of a woman no one else can see. He does not seek belief, sympathy, or explanation, only understanding.

This episode explores what happens when personal experience collides with scientific skepticism. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, history, and anthropology, we examine why encounters with the “unusual” were once taken seriously by leading scientists and why they later vanished from mainstream research. We ask uncomfortable questions:

What counts as evidence?

When does perception become pathology?

And what is the cost of silence when science refuses to listen?

Blending intimate testimony with rigorous inquiry, this episode challenges the boundary between the real and the unreal, and asks whether science loses something vital when it refuses to look.

Doubt is not the enemy here. It is the method.

Welcome to Beyond Science.

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The opening audio is from the film The Sixth Sense (1999), directed by M. Night Shyamalan.