The Consciousness Project - Mind Shift – Exploring Human Consciousness
What if the U.S. Army once tried to scientifically explain out-of-body experiences, time travel, and the nature of the soul?
Welcome to Mind Shift, the documentary-style podcast that journeys through the strangest corners of human consciousness research — from Cold-War intelligence experiments to cutting-edge neuroscience and ancient spiritual wisdom.
Kate takes you from the secret 1983 Army report "Analysis of The Gateway Experience," to the modern labs studying Tibetan monks, virtual-reality meditation, and brain-computer interfaces. Along the way, you’ll uncover how sound frequencies, gamma-wave brain states, and centuries-old meditation maps all point to one radical idea: that consciousness may be the next great frontier of human evolution.
Across ten cinematic episodes, Mind Shift connects the dots between:
U.S. military psychic-research programs like Project Stargate and the Monroe Institute’s Hemi-Sync experiments
The holographic-universe theory and the physics of consciousness
Hindu and Buddhist meditation states that mirror Monroe’s “Focus Levels”
Cutting-edge neuroimaging reveals monks generating brain activity “never seen before”
The rise of AI and neurotech that may soon reverse-engineer enlightenment
Whether you’re a skeptic, a scientist, or a seeker, Mind Shift invites you to rethink what you believe about reality itself, and consider how ancient wisdom, modern technology, and military curiosity might be converging to expand what it means to be human.
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The Consciousness Project - Mind Shift – Exploring Human Consciousness
What if the U.S. Army once tried to scientifically explain out-of-body experiences, time travel, and the nature of the soul?
Welcome to Mind Shift, the documentary-style podcast that journeys through the strangest corners of human consciousness research — from Cold-War intelligence experiments to cutting-edge neuroscience and ancient spiritual wisdom.
Kate takes you from the secret 1983 Army report "Analysis of The Gateway Experience," to the modern labs studying Tibetan monks, virtual-reality meditation, and brain-computer interfaces. Along the way, you’ll uncover how sound frequencies, gamma-wave brain states, and centuries-old meditation maps all point to one radical idea: that consciousness may be the next great frontier of human evolution.
Across ten cinematic episodes, Mind Shift connects the dots between:
U.S. military psychic-research programs like Project Stargate and the Monroe Institute’s Hemi-Sync experiments
The holographic-universe theory and the physics of consciousness
Hindu and Buddhist meditation states that mirror Monroe’s “Focus Levels”
Cutting-edge neuroimaging reveals monks generating brain activity “never seen before”
The rise of AI and neurotech that may soon reverse-engineer enlightenment
Whether you’re a skeptic, a scientist, or a seeker, Mind Shift invites you to rethink what you believe about reality itself, and consider how ancient wisdom, modern technology, and military curiosity might be converging to expand what it means to be human.
What is it that makes the taste of coffee so vivid, or the sharp pucker of a lemon so memorable—and why do we experience them at all? In this episode, Kate pulls us deeper into the philosophical mystery at the core of neuroscience: not just how consciousness might arise, but why any physical process can produce subjective experience—the raw "what it's likeness" we call qualia. From the mind-bending concept of philosophical zombies to the foundational riddle posed by David Chalmers, she sets the stage for a journey through cutting-edge theories and ancient mysteries.As Kate explores the divide between computational and quantum views of the mind, listeners will discover why standard neuroscience struggles with the hard problem, what alternatives, such as panpsychism, propose, and how the ORC OR theory stakes out radical new ground. The episode intricately weaves together philosophy, quantum physics, evolutionary biology, and the enigmatic power of microtubules, challenging listeners to rethink their most basic assumptions about the nature of consciousness."Why is there something it feels like to be us?" ~KateToday on Mind Shift:· The concept of qualia and its role in consciousness studies· David Chalmers' formulation of the hard problem and its philosophical implications· Why computational neuroscience can't fully explain subjective experience· Philosophical zombies: what they reveal about consciousness· Panpsychism’s proposition that consciousness is a fundamental feature of all matter· The combination problem and limitations of panpsychism· How ORC OR shifts the paradigm, connecting consciousness to quantum state reduction· The role of microtubules and quantum coherence in the emergence of consciousness· Anesthesia and the disruption of quantum processes in the brain· Whether ORC OR truly solves the hard problem, or reframes it· The idea that consciousness is tied to spacetime geometry at the smallest scales· Speculative connections between quantum consciousness and the experience of timeMentioned Resources:· David Chalmers - Key works on the hard problem of consciousness (https://philpapers.org/rec/CHAFUT)· Roger Penrose & Stuart Hameroff - ORC OR theory and quantum brain research (https://hameroff.arizona.edu/research-overview/orch-or)· Scientific studies on microtubule disruption and quantum resonances in the brain (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12060853/)· Philosophical literature on panpsychism and the combination problem (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-05633-9)· Neurological research on anesthesia and the quantum basis of its effects (https://www.wellesley.edu/news/wellesley-teams-new-research-on-anesthesia-unlocks-important-clues-about-the-nature-of-consciousness)The Consciousness Project - Mind Shift Podcast is brought to you by AuthentaTag™. (http://authentatag.com/)
The Consciousness Project - Mind Shift
The Consciousness Project - Mind Shift – Exploring Human Consciousness
What if the U.S. Army once tried to scientifically explain out-of-body experiences, time travel, and the nature of the soul?
Welcome to Mind Shift, the documentary-style podcast that journeys through the strangest corners of human consciousness research — from Cold-War intelligence experiments to cutting-edge neuroscience and ancient spiritual wisdom.
Kate takes you from the secret 1983 Army report "Analysis of The Gateway Experience," to the modern labs studying Tibetan monks, virtual-reality meditation, and brain-computer interfaces. Along the way, you’ll uncover how sound frequencies, gamma-wave brain states, and centuries-old meditation maps all point to one radical idea: that consciousness may be the next great frontier of human evolution.
Across ten cinematic episodes, Mind Shift connects the dots between:
U.S. military psychic-research programs like Project Stargate and the Monroe Institute’s Hemi-Sync experiments
The holographic-universe theory and the physics of consciousness
Hindu and Buddhist meditation states that mirror Monroe’s “Focus Levels”
Cutting-edge neuroimaging reveals monks generating brain activity “never seen before”
The rise of AI and neurotech that may soon reverse-engineer enlightenment
Whether you’re a skeptic, a scientist, or a seeker, Mind Shift invites you to rethink what you believe about reality itself, and consider how ancient wisdom, modern technology, and military curiosity might be converging to expand what it means to be human.
