Curated Shows
Essential Podcasts
These shows consistently produce the highest-quality conversations in the field.
Skeptiko
Alex Tsakiris
700+ episodes and still releasing. The deepest catalog of interviews with frontier consciousness and psi researchers anywhere — nobody digs harder or asks harder questions.
New Thinking Allowed
Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD
The gold standard for long-form conversations with consciousness researchers, parapsychologists, and philosophers. Actively releasing new episodes — unmatched depth and rigor.
The Telepathy Tapes
Ky Dickens
2024's breakout series — documenting non-verbal autistic children who appear to demonstrate telepathy and anomalous communication under controlled conditions. One of the most talked-about consciousness shows of the year.
Insights at the Edge
Tami Simon · Sounds True
Tami Simon's long-running conversations with the world's leading consciousness researchers, NDE experiencers, spiritual teachers, and scientists. One of the most consistently substantive spiritual podcasts publishing today.
Closer to Truth
Robert Lawrence Kuhn
The most academically rigorous long-running series on consciousness, God, cosmology, and the hard problem of mind. Kuhn interviews the world's leading scientists and philosophers — no wishful thinking, no easy answers.
Soul Boom
Rainn Wilson
Rainn Wilson explores the big spiritual questions — meaning, purpose, consciousness, and what it means to be human — in conversation with scientists, philosophers, mystics, and thinkers. Warm, curious, and genuinely searching.
On Being
Krista Tippett
Krista Tippett's celebrated conversations at the intersection of spirituality, science, meaning, and the human condition. Two decades of essential listening — physicists, theologians, poets, and contemplatives in genuine dialogue.
The Creative Process
Spirituality & Mindfulness
In-depth conversations exploring spirituality, mindfulness, and the inner life through the lens of creativity and meaning-making. Thoughtful dialogue with teachers, artists, and thinkers navigating the deepest questions.
Essential Episodes
Must-Listen Conversations
Individually outstanding episodes — the ones researchers keep referencing. Click to listen on the show's platform.
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Documentary · Reincarnation Research
The Reincarnation Experiments by Peter Ramster 1983
Four Australian housewives recalled precise details of past lives in 18th and 19th century Europe under hypnosis — names, villages, and people later verified in historical archives and old maps on location.
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New Thinking Allowed
Dr. Bruce Greyson — Exploring Near-Death Experiences and What They Reveal About Life and Beyond
The world's foremost NDE researcher and UVA professor discusses 50 years of clinical data, what the accounts share across cultures, and why mainstream science keeps looking away.
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New Thinking Allowed
Dr. Jim Tucker — Children Who Remember Previous Lives: Cases of Reincarnation
The successor to Ian Stevenson at UVA presents the most compelling reincarnation cases from decades of research into children who recall specific, verifiable details of previous lives.
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Skeptiko · Alex Tsakiris
Dr. Bernardo Kastrup — Why Materialism Is Baloney: The Philosophical Case for Idealism
Computer scientist turned philosopher Kastrup argues from first principles that consciousness — not matter — is the fundamental nature of reality, and that modern physics points the same way.
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AWARE-II Study · IANDS
Dr. Sam Parnia — Consciousness and Awareness During Cardiac Arrest: AWARE-II Findings
The AWARE II trial's lead investigator presents findings from the largest scientific study of consciousness and out-of-body experiences during cardiac arrest ever conducted.
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Institute of Noetic Sciences · IONS
Dean Radin — Magic, Ancient Wisdom, and Modern Science: The Evidence for Psi
IONS Chief Scientist Dean Radin reviews the meta-analytic evidence for psi phenomena, the replication crisis in parapsychology, and why consciousness may be fundamentally non-local.
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