Post Materialism, The Brain, and the Paranormal

In this interview I talk with Mario Beauregard, a neurologist who lost his tenure for researching consciousness in the brain.  He was the first neuroscientist to use neuroimaging to investigate the neural underpinnings of conscious and voluntary emotion regulation. Because of his research into the neuroscience of consciousness, he was selected (2000) by the World Media Net to be one of the “One Hundred Pioneers of the 21st Century.” In addition, his groundbreaking research on the neurobiology of spiritual experiences has received international media coverage, and a documentary film has been produced about his work (The Mystical Brain, 2007). Mario has written Brain Wars, the Spiritual Brain, and Expanding Reality which we discuss. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Mario-beauregard/author/B001IGOE2K?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true Beauregard co-authored The Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science with Rupert Sheldrake and others. https://opensciences.org/files/pdfs/Manifesto-for-a-Post-Materialist-Science.pdf In our interview, we discuss brain plasticity, meditation, psychedelics, spiritual experiences, NDEs, and even a brief mention of entities that Mario has encountered. One of the most revealing interviews I have ever done. I was honored to get to talk to someone who is an expert on the brain and on consciousness.