Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke

By Dr. James Cooke

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Episodes: 200

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Join neuroscientist Dr. James Cooke as he explores consciousness, science and spirituality with scientists, philosophers, spiritual practitioners and key figures in the psychedelic renaissance.

Episode Date
Ecodharma with David Loy | Living Mirrors #146
May 05, 2025
Daniel Ingram & James Cooke discuss No Self and the Role of Interpretations in the Mind | Living Mirrors #145
Apr 23, 2025
AMA: Abiding vs. Non-Abiding Awakening
Apr 02, 2025
When the self comes to an end, with Viivi Jokela | Living Mirrors #144
Mar 19, 2025
Trauma, Tyranny, & the Role of Bystanders in Permitting Injustice - Judith Herman | Living Mirrors #143
Mar 03, 2025
Zen & Awakening with Henry Shukman | Living Mirrors #142
Feb 19, 2025
Karl Friston on Consciousness & The Dawn of Mind | Living Mirrors #141
Feb 03, 2025
James Cooke discusses Nondual Naturalism on the Weekend University podcast with Naill McKeever
Jan 24, 2025
Erik Ireland on awakening and the hero’s journey | Living Mirrors #140
Jan 17, 2025
James Cooke discusses The Dawn of Mind on the Trip Report podcast with Zach Haigney
Jan 10, 2025
AMA: Cosmic creativity, Aubrey Plaza’s Stroke & Different Functions of the Self
Jan 07, 2025
Omid Safi on Radical Love and Sufism | Living Mirrors #139
Jan 02, 2025
The Dawn of Mind audiobook now available!
Dec 27, 2024
Prof. Dan Siegel on Science, Spirituality, & Intraconnection | Living Mirrors #138
Dec 20, 2024
Shamil Chandaria and James Cooke on The Dawn of Mind, Consciousness & Awakening | LivingMirrors #137
Dec 11, 2024
The Dawn of Mind Official Book Launch Livestream!
Dec 04, 2024
Richard Doyle on The Dawn of Mind & the transformation of collective ego | Living Mirrors #136
Nov 27, 2024
Kaira Jewel Lingo on Engaged Buddhism & monastic life at Plum Village | Living Mirrors #135
Nov 20, 2024
James Cooke discusses Psychedelics and The Dawn of Mind on the Psychedelic Conversations podcast with Susan Guner
Nov 12, 2024
James Cooke discusses The Dawn of Mind on Illumine Life's Idea Cast
Nov 05, 2024
Graham Priest on the Philosophy of Nothingness, Everything, and Paradox | Living Mirrors #134
Oct 29, 2024
The Dawn of Mind: How Matter Became Conscious and Alive | Official Book Trailer
Oct 21, 2024
The Computational Architecture of Consciousness with Shamil Chandaria | Living Mirrors #133
Oct 16, 2024
James Cooke interviewed on awakening & The Dawn of Mind on the Mastering Thought podcast
Oct 08, 2024
AMA: Fear of awakening, ego & trauma, + balancing surrender with proactively doing inner work.
Oct 04, 2024
Wystan Bryant-Scott on Awakening, Meditation, and Ending Suffering | Living Mirrors #132
Oct 02, 2024
James Cooke discusses awakening on the Conscious Perspective podcast with Gary Lee Haskins
Sep 17, 2024
Realization Practice 4 - BEATS belief practice | Inner Space Nonduality Essentials
Sep 13, 2024
Realization Practice 3 - Surrendered Inquiry | Inner Space Nonduality Essentials
Sep 12, 2024
Realization Practice 2 - Experiential Opening | Inner Space Nonduality Essentials
Sep 11, 2024
Realization Practice 1 - Recursive Experiential Acceptance | Inner Space Nonduality Essentials
Sep 10, 2024
Clarifying Awakening - Nondual Realization following Awakening | Inner Space Nonduality Essentials
Sep 09, 2024
Awakening Practice 6 - Experiential Opening | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
Sep 08, 2024
Awakening Practice 5 - Self Inquiry | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
Sep 07, 2024
Awakening Practice 4 - Non-Meditation | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
Sep 06, 2024
Awakening Practice 3 - Choiceless Awareness Meditation | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
Sep 05, 2024
Awakening Practice 2 - Subject-Object Inquiry | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
Sep 04, 2024
Awakening Practice 1 - Nondual Awareness Meditation | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
Sep 03, 2024
Mindfulness Practice 4 - Body Scan Meditation | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
Sep 02, 2024
Mindfulness Practice 3 - Mindfulness Without Effort | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
Sep 01, 2024
Mindfulness Practice 2 - Essential Mindfulness | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
Aug 31, 2024
Mindfulness Practice 1 - Anchoring Attention | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
Aug 30, 2024
Introduction to Essential Awakening & Nonduality practices from InnerSpaceInstitute.org
Aug 29, 2024
Inner Space Institute membership and free Essential Awakening & Nonduality course now available!
Aug 28, 2024
AMA: The Science of Déjà vu, The UK Race Riots and LSD & The Mind of the Universe by Chris Bache
Aug 25, 2024
James Cooke discusses The Dawn of Mind on the Natural Awakening podcast with Wystan Bryant-Scott
Aug 13, 2024
The Dawn of Mind, available for pre-order now! Discover how matter became conscious and alive
Jul 30, 2024
From addiction to awakening with Paul Hedderman | Living Mirrors #131
Jul 23, 2024
AMA: Integrating shame + inner work & parenting
Jul 16, 2024
Complexity, Cognition & AI with Inês Hipólito | Living Mirrors #130
Jul 05, 2024
Brooke Lavelle: Engaged spirituality for transforming self and world | Living Mirrors #129
Jun 21, 2024
AMA: Inner Space Institute & retreat update, living life well, idealism, breathwork
Jun 16, 2024
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos on Christian Anarchism | Living Mirrors #128
Jun 07, 2024
Graham Harvey on Animism | Living Mirrors #127
May 24, 2024
AMA: Thoughts on the future, Mental causes of illness, Body-based psychotherapy, What happens after death?
May 09, 2024
Willoughby Britton on when meditation causes harm | Living Mirrors #126
Mar 02, 2024
Trauma Release Exercises for Awakening and Nondual Realization with Christina Guimond | Living Mirrors #125
Feb 17, 2024
AMA: Fear of Death, Sources of Wisdom, Experiencing Fear in the Body
Feb 02, 2024
Michael Levin on the intelligence of life| Living Mirrors #124
Jan 30, 2024
The Genocide in Gaza & the Psychology of Denial | Living Mirrors #122
Dec 31, 2023
Alicia Juarrero on emergence & causality as constraint | Living Mirrors #121
Dec 15, 2023
Uncompromising Nonduality with Jim Newman | Living Mirrors #120
Dec 01, 2023
AMA: The nature of thought, shadow work, love, & nonduality
Nov 27, 2023
Indy Johar on Technological Animism: Societal infrastructure for living beyond separation | Living Mirrors #119
Nov 18, 2023
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT - The Dawn of Mind: How Matter Became Conscious & Alive | Living mirrors #118
Nov 03, 2023
AMA: Nondual Mindfulness & Body Scan Meditations for Emotion Work and Integration
Oct 27, 2023
A Neuropsychologist’s Exploration of Psychedelics with Andy Mitchell | Living Mirrors #117
Oct 20, 2023
AMA: The nature of the self, Top 3 books, Culture as Software
Sep 08, 2023
Rachel Nuwer on MDMA | Living Mirrors #116
Jul 14, 2023
AMA: Music & psychedelics + Consciousness, evolution, & technology
Jul 07, 2023
Neil Theise on connecting science and spirituality through complexity science | Living Mirrors #115
Jun 30, 2023
Jared Seide on reweaving the social fabric through the practice of Council| Living Mirrors #114
Jun 16, 2023
Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes on integrating philosophy and metaphysics into psychedelic therapy | Living Mirrors #113
Jun 02, 2023
Psilocybin Access Rights campaign's Tara Austin and Timmy Davis | Living mirrors #112
May 19, 2023
AMA: My influences, gender & spirituality
May 16, 2023
Bobby Azarian on the evolution of cosmic complexity | Living Mirrors #111
May 05, 2023
Angelo Dilullo on awakening | Living Mirrors #110
Apr 21, 2023
AMA: My metaphysics, Is the mind naturally enlightened & is reality made of love? + Terrence Deacon
Apr 14, 2023
Daniel Ingram on how mastering meditation changed his brain | Living Mirrors #109
Apr 07, 2023
Malin Vedøy Uthaug on 5-MeO-DMT | Living Mirrors #108
Mar 24, 2023
AMA: The mathematics of separation and unity
Mar 17, 2023
Staci Haines on the politics of trauma | Living Mirrors #107
Mar 10, 2023
Shamil Chandaria on awakening & the Bayesian brain | Living Mirrors #106
Feb 24, 2023
Innerspace Institute | Living Mirrors #105
Feb 10, 2023
AMA: Somatics & talking publicly about traumatic events
Feb 09, 2023
Paco Calvo on plant intelligence & consciousness | Living Mirrors #104
Jan 27, 2023
Duncan Trussell on DMT, ketamine, and the Bhakti yoga path of love | Living Mirrors #103
Jan 11, 2023
AMA: fatherhood, wu wei, nondual intimacy, conscious subjects, & process philosophy
Jan 06, 2023
AMA: Love, Nonduality, Top-Down Causality, Ideas & Social Change, Podcasting Highlights, Fasting
Nov 25, 2022
Podcast hiatus and schedule update
Aug 29, 2022
Dr. Rosalind Watts on mechanisms of psychedelic therapy: acceptance, connection, and embodiment | Living Mirrors #102
Aug 05, 2022
AMA: Fear of death, wearables, healing in traumatic environments, bitcoin, & procrastination
Aug 04, 2022
Tony Nader on Transcendental Meditation and Vedic philosophy | Living Mirrors #101
Jul 22, 2022
My entire worldview | Living Mirrors #100
Jul 15, 2022
David Nichols - the pharmacologist behind the psychedelic renaissance | Living Mirrors #99
Jul 08, 2022
AMA: Marxism, Ayahuasca & Anxiety around trying psychedelics
Jul 05, 2022
Is Google's LaMDA AI conscious? | Living Mirrors #98
Jul 02, 2022
Suspended engineer on why Google’s LaMDA AI is conscious with Blake Lemoine | Living Mirrors #97
Jun 23, 2022
Integrating nondual insight into one’s life | Living Mirrors #96
Jun 10, 2022
Second dialogue with Richard Doyle on nonduality and personal & societal transformation | Living Mirrors #95
May 28, 2022
AMA: Wonder & Curiosity vs. Guilt & Shame
May 24, 2022
Loch Kelly on Effortless Mindfulness, nonduality & Mahamudra | Living Mirrors #94
May 20, 2022
Evan Thompson on the philosophy of biopsychism | Living Mirrors #93
May 06, 2022
AMA: The neurobiology of trauma & the ethics of obtaining illegal drugs
May 04, 2022
Rick Hanson on meditation and the brain | Living Mirrors #92
Apr 29, 2022
James Maffie on Aztec philosophy & nondual metaphysics | Living Mirrors #91
Apr 21, 2022
David Nutt on the harms and benefits of alcohol, cannabis & psychedelics | Living Mirrors #90
Apr 15, 2022
AMA: Martial arts, boxing & brain injury
Apr 14, 2022
Liz Carlisle on regenerative agriculture | Living Mirrors #89
Apr 07, 2022
Richard Doyle on Ecodelia & the Evolution of the Noösphere | Living Mirrors #88
Apr 01, 2022
Keith Frankish on consciousness as an illusion | Living Mirrors #87
Mar 25, 2022
AMA: The psychology of money
Mar 24, 2022
Mark Vernon on mysticism in Christianity | Living Mirrors #86
Mar 18, 2022
The war in Ukraine and building a global culture of peace | Living Mirrors #85
Mar 11, 2022
AMA: Dealing with anxiety around the news from Ukraine & pivotal mental states induced by DMT
Mar 07, 2022
Richard Lang on having no head | Living Mirrors #84
Mar 04, 2022
Sam Gandy on psychedelics and nature connection | Living Mirrors #83
Feb 25, 2022
Psychological attractors & the future of humanity | Living Mirrors #82
Feb 18, 2022
AMA: The legitimacy of psychoanalysis & neurological risks from psychedelics
Feb 11, 2022
Antonio Damasio on consciousness, feeling & homeostasis | Living Mirrors #81
Feb 04, 2022
Chris Letheby on naturalistic psychedelic philosophy | Living Mirrors #80
Jan 29, 2022
Peter McCoy on Radical Mycology | Living Mirrors #79
Jan 19, 2022
Unaccountability and the Collective Shadow | Living Mirrors #78
Jan 12, 2022
AMA: The ocean of suffering, meditation advice, alcohol, OCD & psychedelic integration
Jan 05, 2022
AMA: the origins of collective trauma, panpsychism, the ayahuasca experience, the therapeutic potential of different psychedelics
Dec 22, 2021
Philip Goff on panpsychism | Living Mirrors #77
Dec 15, 2021
AMA: My psychedelic healing, trip sitting advice, the neuroscience of dreaming & cannabis paranoia
Dec 09, 2021
Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes on the philosophy of the psychedelic experience | Living Mirrors #76
Dec 08, 2021
Order & disorder | Living mirrors #75
Dec 01, 2021
Chris Timmermann on a contemplative & scientific approach to the DMT experience | Living Mirrors #74
Nov 24, 2021
AMA: Depression, ayahuasca, understanding our motivations, self care & helping others
Nov 23, 2021
Sarah Rose Siskind on comedy, psychedelics & science | Living Mirrors #73
Nov 17, 2021
Darren Le Baron on psilocybin mushrooms, horticulture & permaculture | Living Mirrors #72
Nov 10, 2021
Absolute perspectives and the overview effect | Living Mirrors #71
Oct 27, 2021
Ruth Kinna on Anarchism | Living Mirrors #70
Oct 13, 2021
Matt Segall on the pan-experientialist process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead | Living Mirrors #69
Oct 06, 2021
James Hollis on the psychology of men | Living Mirrors #68
Sep 29, 2021
Andy Letcher on Deep ecology, Animism & Dark Green Religion | Living Mirrors #67
Sep 22, 2021
5-MeO-DMT & NN-DMT | Living Mirrors #66
Sep 15, 2021
Mellody Hayes on individual and societal transformation | Living Mirrors #65
Sep 08, 2021
David Berceli on recovering from trauma through tremoring | Living Mirrors #64
Sep 01, 2021
Mike Jay on Mescaline | Living Mirrors #63
Aug 11, 2021
Bia Labate on global psychedelic culture & ayahuasca | Living Mirrors #62
Aug 04, 2021
Anil Seth on the neuroscience of consciousness | Living Mirrors #60
Jul 21, 2021
Gay Hendricks on growing through self love, breathing and conscious loving | Living Mirrors #59
Jul 14, 2021
Karl Friston on the Free Energy Principle, consciousness & psychedelics | Living Mirrors #57
Jul 04, 2021
Mental health and existential stress | Living Mirrors #56
Jun 23, 2021
Jussi Jylkkä on the concrete and ineffable nature of consciousness | Living Mirrors #55
Jun 09, 2021
Amanda Feilding on psychedelic research | Living Mirrors #53
Jun 02, 2021
Graham Pechenik on psychedelic intellectual property & patenting | Living Mirrors #52
May 26, 2021
Why isn't enlightenment easy? | Living Mirrors #51
May 19, 2021
Ari Brouwer on pivotal mental states & the neurobiology of psychological transformation | Living Mirrors #51
May 12, 2021
John Butler on spirituality, nature & Christian mysticism | Living Mirrors #50
May 05, 2021
Christopher Ryan on the price of civilization | Living Mirrors #49
Apr 28, 2021
Sara Reed on ketamine & equity in psychedelic psychotherapy | Living Mirrors #48
Apr 21, 2021
Naturalistic spirituality | Living Mirrors #47
Apr 14, 2021
Michael Pollan on the psychedelic renaissance & our relationship with nature | Living Mirrors #46
Apr 07, 2021
Richard Oerton on the harmful myth of free will | Living Mirrors #45
Mar 31, 2021
James W. Jesso on healing depression with psilocybin mushrooms | Living Mirrors #44
Mar 25, 2021
Sebene Selassie on belonging | Living Mirrors #43
Mar 17, 2021
Is spirituality necessary for the human race? | Living Mirrors #42
Mar 10, 2021
Daniele Bolelli on Taoism | Living Mirrors #41
Mar 03, 2021
Rick Strassman on DMT: the spirit molecule | Living Mirrors #40
Feb 24, 2021
Sasha Sisko on the legal history of psychedelics and religious freedom | Living Mirrors #38
Feb 10, 2021
W. Keith Campbell on narcissism, the ego & the psychology of personality | Living Mirrors #37
Feb 03, 2021
Shinzen Young on connecting Buddhism, shamanism & science | Living Mirrors #36
Jan 27, 2021
Sharon Salzberg on the transformative power of love & mindfulness | Living Mirrors #35
Jan 21, 2021
Rob from Adeptus Psychonautica on DMT, Psychedelic education & responsible use |Living Mirrors #34
Jan 13, 2021
Suffering in society, domination & the US Capitol siege | Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke #33
Jan 09, 2021
Marcela Ot’alora on using MDMA to heal trauma | Living Mirrors #32
Jan 06, 2021
End of 2020 reflections | Living Mirrors #31
Dec 31, 2020
Lawrence Millman on Arctic Mushroom Shamanism and Santa Claus | Living Mirrors #30
Dec 23, 2020
Jerry B Brown on psychoactive mushrooms in Christian art | Living Mirrors #29
Dec 16, 2020
Joseph Goldstein on vipassana & the experience of insight into the mind | Living Mirrors #28
Dec 09, 2020
Rabbi Zac Kamenetz on Jewish mysticism & the value of psychedelics | Living Mirrors #27
Dec 02, 2020
Charles Eisenstein on human civilization & the story of separation | Living Mirrors #26
Nov 25, 2020
Rupert Spira on Advaita Vedanta & the non-dual nature of mind and reality | Living Mirrors #25
Nov 18, 2020
Michelle Baker Jones on psychedelic psychotherapy and psilocybin as a treatment for depression | Living Mirrors #24
Nov 11, 2020
Brian Muraresku on whether the ancient Greeks and early Christians consumed a psychedelic sacrament | Living Mirrors #23
Nov 04, 2020
B. Alan Wallace on Dzogchen teachings & the contemplative science of the mind | Living Mirrors #22
Oct 28, 2020
Fritjof Capra on the systems view of physics, life and the mind | Living Mirrors #21
Oct 21, 2020
Dr. James Cooke on the place of consciousness in the natural world | Living Mirrors #19
Oct 07, 2020
Dennis McKenna on the place of psilocybin & DMT in nature | Living Mirrors #18
Sep 30, 2020
Bill Richards on psychedelic research, psilocybin & mystical experiences | Living Mirrors #17
Sep 23, 2020
Gail Bradbrook of Extinction Rebellion on the climate & ecological crisis + psychedelics | Living Mirrors #16
Sep 13, 2020
Erika Dyck on the origins and history of psychedelic psychiatry | Living Mirrors #15
Sep 09, 2020
Robert Wright on understanding buddhist philosophy through evolutionary psychology | Living Mirrors #14
Sep 02, 2020
Ex-police officer on his psychedelic therapy and the psychology of policing | Living Mirrors #13
Aug 26, 2020
Shamash Alidina on mindfulness meditation, enlightenment and self-compassion | Living Mirrors #12
Aug 19, 2020
Dr. James Cooke on interdependence & separation | Living Mirrors #11
Aug 12, 2020
Bernardo Kastrup on a consciousness-only view of reality & psychedelic science | Living Mirrors #10
Aug 05, 2020
Hoffman & Koch’s takes on consciousness, intelligence & shared DMT experiences AMA | Living Mirrors #9
Jul 29, 2020
Christof Koch on the neuroscience of consciousness, Integrated Information Theory & mystical experiences | Living Mirrors #8
Jul 21, 2020
The self, suffering, non-dual awareness, dissociation, tulpas & transpersonal love | Living Mirrors #7
Jul 15, 2020
Donald Hoffman on reality, consciousness, meditation, DMT experiences & free will | Living Mirrors #6
Jul 14, 2020
Nested consciousnesses, proto-consciousness and ketamine induced brain death in sheep AMA | Living mirrors #5
Jul 14, 2020
John Horgan on mind-body problems, the limits of science, rational mysticism & psychedelics | LM#4
Jun 24, 2020
Key points of the Living Mirror Theory of consciousness with Dr. James Cooke | Living Mirrors #3
Jun 21, 2020
The Living Mirror Theory of consciousness with Dr. James Cooke | Living Mirrors #2
Jun 17, 2020
Introducing Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke | Living Mirrors #1
Jun 07, 2020