The Observable Unknown
By Dr. Juan Carlos Rey
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The Observable Unknown is a scientific and psychological podcast exploring consciousness, perception, behavior, identity, altered states, symbolism, neuroscience, and the hidden structures shaping human life. Through disciplined analysis rather than performance spirituality, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey examines how people orient to reality, endure pressure, construct meaning, and lose coherence in the modern world.
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The Written Unknown V: Other People’s Weather | Emotional Boundaries, Nervous System Regulation, People-Pleasing, Guilt, Family Roles, and Emotional Sovereignty
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Sep 03, 2026 |
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Mailbag XL: Is Fear a Neurotransmitter? | Fear, Brain Chemistry, Neurotransmitters, Amygdala, Dopamine, and the Neuroscience of Emotion
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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Interlude LXXXVII: Agency | Free Will, Albert Bandura, Harry Frankfurt, Choice, Responsibility, Habit, and Human Agency
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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The Written Unknown IV: The Secret Scaffolding of Story | Narrative Architecture, Story Structure, Character, Plot, Writing, and Why Stories Matter
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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Mailbag XXXIX: When Everything Starts Looking Like a Conspiracy | Misinformation, UAPs, COVID, Neuralink, Human Trafficking, and Critical Thinking
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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Interlude LXXXVI: Becoming | Martin Buber, Charles Taylor, Identity, Belonging, Meaning, and the Relational Self
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Aug 25, 2026 |
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The Written Unknown III: Temporal Architecture™ | Burnout, Human Rhythm, Recovery Debt, Decision-Making, Leadership, and Adaptive Performance
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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Mailbag XXXVIII: When the Job You Need Starts Slipping Away | Workplace Performance, Difficult Bosses, Professional Reputation, and Job Anxiety
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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Interlude LXXXV: Legacy | Erik Erikson, Robert Kegan, Generativity, Adult Development, and What Remains After We’re Gone
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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The Written Unknown II: The Architecture of Command | Magic, Consciousness, Ritual, Self-Regulation, and Human Becoming
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Aug 14, 2026 |
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Mailbag XXXVII: When the World Feels Like It’s Ending | Doomscrolling, Anxiety, Information Overload, Insomnia, and Temporal Collapse
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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Interlude LXXXIV: Transmission | Joseph Henrich, Peter Richerson, Cultural Evolution, and How Civilizations Survive
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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THE WRITTEN UNKNOWN I: Between Voice and Presence | Why We Hear the Dead, Sense the Unseen, and Search for Meaning Beyond the Brain
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment XXXVI : Does Evolution Have a Syntax? | Genetic Grammar, Symbiosis, Microbial Communication, and the Conjugation of Life
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Aug 05, 2026 |
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Interlude LXXXIII: Obligation | Marcel Mauss, Alasdair MacIntyre, Inherited Debt, Family Loyalty, and the Responsibilities We Never Chose
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Interlude LXXXII: Memory | Endel Tulving, Frederic Bartlett, Collective Remembrance, and the Reconstruction of Identity
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment XXXV: When Nobody Knows You’re Still Here | Loneliness, Social Isolation, Suicidal Thoughts, Friendship, and the Need to Be Found
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Jul 29, 2026 |
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Interlude LXXXI: Apprenticeship | Michael Polanyi, Hubert Dreyfus, Tacit Knowledge, and How Skill Passes Between Generations
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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Professional Spotlight Series | Business Discovery Interviews on The Observable Unknown
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Jul 24, 2026 |
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Interlude LXXX: Imitation | How Borrowed Desire, Mimetic Theory, and Story Shape Identity
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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Mailbag XXXIV: When Every Conversation Becomes a Trial | Difficult Mothers, Eric Berne, Games People Play, Transactional Analysis, Family Conflict, Boundaries, Widowhood, and The Cost of the Move
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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Interlude LXXIX: Belonging | John Bowlby, Naomi Eisenberger, Attachment Theory, Social Rejection, Loneliness, Neuroscience, and the Biology of Inclusion
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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Dr. Judith A. Swack
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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Interlude LXXVIII: Ritual | Roy Rappaport, Harvey Whitehouse, Cultural Memory, Sacred Action, Grief, Neurosomatic Praxis, and the Psychology of Repetition
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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Barbara Bass
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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Interlude LXXVII: Myth | Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Narrative Architecture, Sacred Time, Consciousness, Identity, and the Stories Beneath Belief
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment XXXIII: When Fear Becomes Reality | Paranoia, Fear, Threat States, Family Conflict, Reality Testing, and Professional Help
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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Interlude LXXVI: Language | How Speech Shapes Reality, Lev Vygotsky, George Lakoff, Inner Speech, Metaphor, Framing, Consciousness, and Identity
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment XXXII: The One Who Broke the Pattern | Family Estrangement, Lineage, Epigenetics, Inherited Trauma, Murray Bowen, Monica McGoldrick, and Phylogenetic Inertia
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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Interlude LXXV: Lineage | Family Systems, Generational Trauma, Epigenetics, Phylogenetic Inertia, Murray Bowen, Monica McGoldrick
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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Dr. Troy Hassan Shepherd
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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Interlude LXXIV: Inheritance | Cultural Memory, Consciousness, Identity, Jan Assmann, Merlin Donald, Relational Topology of Consciousness
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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Mailbag installment 31: The Search for a Compass | Purpose, Identity, Belonging, Mentorship, Meaning, Relational Consciousness
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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Interlude LXXIII: Continuity | Cultural Memory, Civilization, Jan Assmann, Joseph Henrich, Tradition, Collective Knowledge
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Interlude LXXII: Custodianship | Stewardship, Elinor Ostrom, Wendell Berry, Preservation, Responsibility, Leadership
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment 30: When the Body Becomes an Adversary | Chronic Pain, Fibromyalgia, Neuroplasticity, Central Sensitization, Nervous System Healing
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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Interlude LXXI – Drift | Slow Collapse, Cultural Decline, Life Direction, Decision Making, Jared Diamond, Zygmunt Bauman
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment 29: How Do I Improve My Intuition? | Intuition, Pattern Recognition, Neuroscience, Predictive Processing, Emotional Intelligence
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Interlude LXX: Sacrifice | Trade-Offs, Decision Making, René Girard, Ernest Becker, Hidden Costs, Deferred Consequences
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Interlude LXIX: Authority | Trust, Leadership, Legitimacy, Power, Social Psychology, Political Philosophy
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment 28: The Fear of Losing Everything | Anxiety, Immigration Stress, Relationship Uncertainty, Emotional Safety, Nervous System Regulation
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Interlude LXVIII: Repair | Attachment Theory, Trust, Emotional Healing, Relationships, Nervous System Recovery
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Interlude LXVII: Regulation | Nervous System Regulation, Emotional Contagion, Polyvagal Theory, Trauma, Social Psychology
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May 29, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment 27: The Uncrossed Threshold | Identity, Transformation, Ambition, Modern Fragmentation, Self-Development, Consciousness
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May 28, 2026 |
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Interlude LXVI – Distortion | Trauma, Perception, Memory, Fear, Nervous System Psychology, Cognitive Bias
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May 26, 2026 |
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Interlude LXV: Containment | Boundaries, Emotional Regulation, Ritual, Nervous System Stability, Psychological Structure
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May 21, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment 26: The Uninherited Mother | Childhood Trauma, Mother-Daughter Relationships, Alcoholism, Parenting, Generational Patterns
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May 20, 2026 |
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Interlude LXIV:Thresholds | Phase Transitions, Tipping Points, Accumulated Change, Nonlinear Systems
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May 19, 2026 |
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Interlude LXIII: Friction | Resistance, Adaptation, Deliberate Practice, Antifragility, Competence
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May 15, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment 25: The Inherited Silence | Family Trauma, Generational Abuse, Denial, Memory, Protection, Family Systems
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May 14, 2026 |
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Interlude LXII: Signal vs Noise | Information Overload, Attention Fragmentation, Cognitive Overload, Meaning Collapse
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May 12, 2026 |
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Interlude LXI: Pressure - Stress, Adaptation, Nervous System Load, Compression, and Resilience
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May 07, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment 24: The Manufactured Self - Compulsive Lying, Identity, Decision Patterns and Relationship Breakdown
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May 07, 2026 |
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Interlude LX: The Trained Perceiver - Perception, Signal, and Noise
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May 05, 2026 |
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Interlude LIX: The Edges of Reality - Dreams, Psychedelics, Meditation, Boundary States, Consciousness
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment 23: The Absence of Center - Identity, Body Image, Panic, Decision Patterns
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Interlude LVIII: Madness and Meaning - Psychosis, Predictive Processing, Prediction Error, and Reality Construction
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Interlude LVII: Awe and the Collapse of the Model - Default Mode Network, Predictive Processing, and GERO
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Mailbag 22: When Guilt Becomes a System - Addiction, Shame, and How to Break a Self-Destructive Cycle
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Interlude LVI: Belief as Perceptual Gravity - Predictive Processing, Priors, and Cognitive Bias in Perception
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment 21: Facing the Edge - Consciousness, Death, and What May Remain
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Interlude LV: Memory Is Not the Past - False Memory, Emotional Bias, and the Reconstruction of Identity
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Jack Bialik: Episode 2
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Interlude LIV.5: The Flood That Teaches You to Stop Resisting - Information Overload, Propaganda Theory, and the Psychology of Demoralization
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Interlude LIV: Attention as Reality Selection - Salience Networks, Attentional Gating, and the Construction of Experience
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Interlude LIII.5: The Things You Do Not See - Inattentional Blindness, Attention, and the Limits of Perception
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Interlude LIII: The Illusion of the Self - Narrative Identity, Default Mode Network, and the Constructed Mind
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment XX: Why Sad Music Feels Addictive - Emotional Loops, Nervous System Regulation, and the Cost of What We Return To
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Interlude LII: The Brain That Guesses - Predictive Processing, Perception, and the Illusion of Reality
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Salima Adelstein
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Stacy James
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Spencer Delisle
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment XIX: Health Anxiety, Hypochondria, and Learning to Trust the Body Again
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Interlude LI: The Integrated Self - Regulation as Freedom
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Interlude L: Ecstasy Without Escape - Flow States, Peak Experience, and the Integrated Brain
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment 18: Decision Paralysis, Anxiety, and the Science of Choice
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Interlude XLIX: The Moral Nervous System: Guilt, Shame, and Repair
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Interlude XLVIII: Why Music Regulates Faster Than Language
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Interlude XLVII: Hypnosis and the Flexible Self
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment XVII: Ghosting, Narcissism, and the Modern Attention Economy
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Interlude XLVI: Altered States, Depression, and the Future of Psychedelic Medicine
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment XVI: Grief, Death, and the Question of Reunion
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Interlude XLV: Prayer and the Regulated Brain
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Moe Choice
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment 15: A Letter on Friendship, Suspicion, and the Price of Authenticity
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Olga Naiman
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Interlude XLIV: Trance as Technology
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Interlude XLIII - Coherence: When the Body Becomes an Instrument
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment 14: From Polarization to Nuance - Safety, Nervous Systems, and the Search for Common Ground
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Interlude XLII - The Quiet Brain: Stillness, Rhythm, and Neural Repair
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Interlude XLI - The Window of Tolerance: When Meaning Becomes Possible
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment XIII: Loneliness, Attachment, and the Fear of Being Left Behind
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Interlude XL: Special Interlude - Orpheus, Fifteen Years On
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment 12: Depression, Space, and the Weight of the Unfinished
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Interlude XXXIX - Attunement: How Nervous Systems Learn One Another
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Dallisa Hocking
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Interlude XXXVIII - Time Inside the Body: Stress, Urgency, and the Warped Clock
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Dr. Matt Welsh
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment 11: When Time Will Not Obey
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment 10: When Myths Collapse Faster Than Meaning
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Interlude XXXVII - The Settled Brain: Safety as a Cognitive Prerequisite
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Paul Samuel Dolman
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Interlude XXXVI: Human Ethology - The Animal That Knows It Is Seen
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Mailbag Installment 9: Language, Gender, and the Plural Brain
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Interlude XXXV - The Invisible Signal: Smell, Chemistry, and the Social Brain
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Interlude XXXIV - The Social Skin: Touch, Safety, and the Nervous System
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Interlude XXXIII - The Geometry of Intimacy: Space, Distance, and the Social Nervous System
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Interlude XXXII - Faces That Speak: Microexpression and the Preconscious Mind
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Interlude XXXI - The Speaking Body: Gesture Before Language
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Brownell Landrum
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Interlude XXX – Neural Semantics: How Language Rewrites the Brain
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Interlude XXIX - The Social Tongue: Language as Alignment and Power
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Interlude XXVIII - Metaphor as Neural Bridge: How Meaning Crosses from Body to Mind
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Interlude XXVII - Language as World-Maker: How Words Shape Reality
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Interlude XXVI - The Echoing Mind: When Thought Speaks
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Dec 13, 2025 |
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Interlude XXV – Grammars of Perception
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Dr. Robert Atkinson
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Interlude XXIV – The Photonic Mind: Light as Language
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Interlude XXIII - The Harmonics of the Heart: Electromagnetic Emotion
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Pen Densham
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Interlude XXII - The Cosmic Self: Consciousness Beyond the Brain
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Jordan Feldman
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Mary Madeiras
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Jack R. Bialik
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Mailbag Installment 8 - The Fasting Instinct: The Ancient Science of Stillness
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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Interlude XXI – The Quantum Synapse: Consciousness at the Edge of Physics
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Interlude XX – The Whispering Cells: Astrocytes and the Secret Mind
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Interlude XIX - Neural Mirroring: The Science of Shared Feeling
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Mailbag Installment 7 – “The Science of Spirit and the Mechanics of Mediumship”
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Richard M. Anderson
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Mailbag Installment 6 - “The Digital Altar: Social Media as Ritual Space”
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Mailbag Installment 5: The Memory Machine
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Interlude XVIII - Circadian Consciousness: How the Body Tells Time
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Interlude XVII - Endogenous Opioids & The Biochemistry of Meaning
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Interlude XVI – Neural Oscillations and the Biochemistry of Rhythm
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Mailbag Installment 4 - “Sharpening the Sixth Sense: The Science and Soul of Intuition”
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Sam Reynolds, Part 2
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Mailbag Installment 3: Eros and the Sacred Body
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Mailbag Installment 2 – “The Comparator and the Calling”
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Interlude XV – Inheritance in Motion: Phylogenetic Inertia, Epigenetic Writing, and the Future of Human Becoming
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Interlude XIV - Epigenetic Neuroplasticity: Life Writing the Brain
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Interlude XIII — Neuroimmunology: When the Brain Meets Immunity
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Mailbag Installment 1: Moral Witness & Collective Obedience
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Dr. Juan Carlos Rey, Part 2
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Interlude XII - The Gut-Brain Axis: Microbiome as Mind
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Interlude XI - The Neurochemical Chorus: Drive, Desire, and the Irrational Animal
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Interlude X: Hormones, Hierarchy, and the Architecture of Desire
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Dr. Shireen Fatemi
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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Interlude IX — The Unconscious Collective: Crowd Mind, Contagion, and Hidden Governance
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Interlude VIII — Chronicles, Legends, and the Architecture of Belief
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Interlude VII — Invisible Structures: Social Norms, Sacred Order, and the Power of Patterns
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Davin Stronk
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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Interlude VI - Inherited Shadows: Memory, Time, and Biology
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Interlude V — Suggestion, Signal, and the Construction of Choice
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Interlude IV — The Observable Unknown in Agency and Free Will
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Dr. Daniel Jorgensen
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Interlude III: The Observable Unknown in Words, Instincts, & Myths
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Interlude II: The Observable Unknown in Mind & Society
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Interlude I: The Observable Unknown — Ontology & Teleology
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Dr. Robin Hager
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Dr. Carla Garapedian
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Fereshteh Forough
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Dr. Juan Carlos Rey
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Samuel F. Reynolds
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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Margie Dillenburg, Ph.D.
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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Todd Bloom
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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William Love
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Dr. Wesley W. Detwiler
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Alexandra Gersten Vassilaros
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Jul 13, 2025 |