#134 - Neuroscientist: "Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness" — NDEs, Telepathy and Terminal Lucidity

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Marjorie Woollacott is a neuroscientist who spent three decades
as a hard materialist and co-wrote the textbook used to train
physiotherapists worldwide. After a meditation experience her own
field said was impossible, she hid it from her colleagues for
over 25 years before concluding the brain does not produce
consciousness — it filters it.


Expect to learn why a career materialist neuroscientist hid her
own paranormal experience for 25 years, the prospective hospital
studies that corroborate what patients report while clinically
dead, how a comatose man with zero brain activity accurately
described a nurse hiding his dentures, what terminal lucidity is
and why dying Alzheimer's patients regain full clarity minutes
before death, the ongoing lab research into non-speaking autistic
children who appear to communicate telepathically, why Christof
Koch said the data would turn his world upside down, how Bernardo
Kastrup's analytic idealism compares to Woollacott's own theory
of consciousness, and much more…


Timestamps


0:00:00 Trailer


0:02:46 Where Her Story Really Begins


0:05:05 The Materialist Neuroscientist She Used To Be


0:06:15 The Meditation Retreat That Broke Her Skepticism


0:14:24 What Actually Caused Her Awakening


0:22:59 How Rigorous Is Near-Death Experience Research, Really


0:24:19 The Prospective Studies Skeptics Ignore


0:25:06 The Coma Patient Who Knew Where His Dentures Were


0:35:48 Bernardo Kastrup's Analytic Idealism Explained


0:43:19 Is Terminal Lucidity Just Wishful Interpretation?


0:46:09 The Three-Year-Old's Last Request Before Dying


0:53:07 Can Consciousness Move Physical Objects?


0:58:20 Why Jung And A Nobel Physicist Believed In Idealism


1:02:59 The Telepathy Tapes, Explained


1:19:40 The Autism Vulnerability Problem With This Research


1:21:21 The 5% Above Chance Telepathy Effect


1:35:13 Designing an Experiment Skeptics Can't Dismiss...


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GS Episodes Mentioned


Christof Koch — The Psychedelic Trip that Convinced Christof Koch
Consciousness is Fundamental:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJlV-b2bvaE


Guest Links


Website: https://marjoriewoollacott.com/


University of Oregon Faculty Page:
https://ion.uoregon.edu/about/person-page/459


Book – Infinite Awareness:
https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Awareness-Awakening-Scientific-Mind/dp/144225033X


Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences Bio:
https://www.aapsglobal.com/marjorie-woollacott/


ResearchGate:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marjorie-Woollacott