Mona Sobhani, Ph.D. is a cognitive neuroscientist, researcher, and author. In 2022 she published her first book, Proof of Spiritual Phenomena: A Neuroscientist's Discovery of the Ineffable Mysteries of the Universe, which documents her “transformation from diehard materialist to open-minded spiritual seeker.”
Mona joins the show to discuss blowing open the box of materialism, why anecdotes are scientifically underrated, what she learned from studying decades of research into psi-phenomena, how quantum science is transforming the way we think about consciousness, and MUCH more!
Important Links:
- Mona’s Twitter - https://x.com/monasobhaniphd
- Proof of Spiritual Phenomena: A Neuroscientist's Discovery of the Ineffable Mysteries of the Universe - https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=proof+of+spiritual+phenomena+mona+sobhani&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8; by Mona Sobhani
- Cosmos, Coffee & Consciousness - https://monasobhaniphd.substack.com (Mona’s Substack)
- Life Will Be the Death of Me Podcast with Chelsea Handler (Ep. 19): People on the Other Side with Laura Lynne Jackson - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/people-on-the-other-side-with-laura-lynne-jackson/id1462096941?i=1000451285048
- Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm - https://www.infinitepotential.com
- Prophetic AI - https://propheticai.co
Show Notes:
0:00:00 Intro
0:00:57 Main podcast
0:01:29 Mona’s Journey From Materialism to Spiritualism
0:13:34 Anecdotes are Scientifically Underrated; Research Into Psychic Phenomena
0:19:25 How Mona Deals With Her Colleagues’ Skepticism
0:26:52 The Persuasiveness of Personal Experience
0:35:19 Psychic Phenomena & the Scientific Method
0:45:27 Blowing Open the Box of Materialism
0:50:08 How Quantum Science is Transforming How We Think About Consciousness
1:00:48 Transcendent Technology
1:05:36 Psychedelics as a Bridge
1:15:23 What’s Next for Mona
1:20:54 Bringing Humanity Back Into Science
1:24:09 Mona as Empress of the World
Books & Articles Mentioned:
- Proof of Spiritual Phenomena: A Neuroscientist's Discovery of the Ineffable Mysteries of the Universe - https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=proof+of+spiritual+phenomena+mona+sobhani&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8; by Mona Sobhani
- The Radical Ideas of Psychedelic Research 2.0 (Pt.1 - https://monasobhaniphd.substack.com/p/the-radical-ideas-of-psychedelic; Pt.2 - https://monasobhaniphd.substack.com/p/the-radical-ideas-of-psychedelic-c49); by Mona Sobhani
- Many Lives, Many Masters: The true story of a prominent psychiatrist, his young patient and the past-life therapy that changed both their lives; by Dr. Brian Weiss
- The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science; by Robert Anton Wilson
- Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy; by Michael Polanyi
- The Two Cultures; by C. P. Snow
- The Fabric of Reality: Towards a Theory of Everything; by David Deutsch
- The work of Dean Radin
- The Common Basis of Memory and Consciousness: Understanding the Brain as a Write-Read Head Interacting With an Omnipresent Background Field’ by Joachim Keppler
- How To Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence; by Michael Pollan
- What the Tortoise Said to Achilles; by Lewis Carroll
