Karma and rebirth are central to the Buddhist worldview. In this conversation, I sit down with Roger R. Jackson, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies and Religion at Carleton College and author of Rebirth: A Guide to Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World, to trace these ideas from their roots in Vedic ritual through the Buddha's rework of Indian cosmology, and into the four paradigms Buddhists use to relate to rebirth today: literalism, neo-traditionalism, modernism, and secularism.

Brook Ziporyn, PhD, is the Mircea Eliade Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought at the University of Chicago and a scholar of Chinese religion and philosophy. In this conversation, we explore Tiantai Buddhism, a school of Chinese Buddhist thought that developed a radically inclusive philosophy: the idea that nothing, not even delusion or evil, stands outside enlightenment.

Father Francis Tiso is a Catholic priest who has spent more than three decades studying and practicing within Tibetan Buddhism. His book Rainbow Body and Resurrection examines extraordinary phenomena reported among accomplished Tibetan practitioners and asks what they might illuminate about the resurrection of Christ.

Leslie Ellis, PhD is a psychotherapist, author, and one of the leading voices in embodied dream therapy. In this conversation, we explore why dreams matter, how to work with them experientially rather than just analytically, and what happens when we bring this same approach to nightmares and trauma.

Eric Wargo, PhD joins me to talk about precognitive dreams, time loops, and the case for retrocausation: the idea that the future may be shaping the present in ways we've been culturally trained to ignore. We cover why precognition has been scientifically repressed since the birth of modern science, what a "time loop" actually is (using Carl Jung's scarab synchronicity as a case study), what it means for free will and therapy, and the real psychological risks of having a precognitive experience with no framework to understand it.

In this video I interview Dr. Stanley Krippner, consciousness researcher and humanistic psychologist. Stan discusses his memoir "A Chaotic Life," with me, where he describes how small events in his life led to unexpected and formative outcomes. Stan talks about some of his experiences with the Grateful Dead, how that led to further interest in Shamanism, and what Shamanism can teach us about healing.

Stan is set to receive a Lifetime Achievement award from the Association of Transpersonal Psychology next month, he addresses his work in this field as well as his experimental work with Dream Telepathy and the 50th year anniversary of the book he co-wrote with Montague Ullman and Alan Vaughan.

In this podcast consciousness researcher and author Stephan A. Schwartz discusses his work with remote-viewing (non-local consciousness) and how this research can contribute to social change.