Keyword: consciousness

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The Hidden Life of Sleep and Dreams March 19, 2008

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, The Mind & Neuroscience

Nightmares may be the brain’s rehearsal for survival, not signs of disorder. Armand DiMele draws on evolutionary theory, neuroscience, and Greek mythology to argue that dreams, darkness, and REM sleep are biological necessities our modern world systematically undermines. Callers share vivid shared dreams and relationship anxieties.

The Animal Desire to Get High with Ed Elkin September 5, 2007

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Ed Elkin, Roberta Maria Acchi
Category: Addiction & Compulsion, Meaning, Spirituality & Philosophy

Every living creature seeks altered states, from caffeine-loving goats to alcohol-raiding elephants. Armand DiMele and guest Ed Elkin, a longtime humanistic psychology colleague living in a shamanic community in California, trace how psychedelics open perceptual doors that yoga, meditation, and creativity can then walk through without chemicals.

Pi Day and the Mind of Einstein March 14, 2007

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Roberta Maria Atti
Category: Meaning, Spirituality & Philosophy, The Mind & Neuroscience

What does a mathematical constant have to do with the nature of reality? On Pi Day, Armand DiMele and co-host Roberta Maria Atti celebrate Einstein’s birthday by tracing how E=mc² cracked open the mechanistic worldview and planted the idea that matter, energy, and all living things are ultimately one.

The Molecule of Emotion with Candice Pert November 9, 2006

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Candice Pert
Category: Personal Growth & Change, The Mind & Neuroscience

Emotions are molecules, and every cell in the body can respond to them. Dr. Candice Pert, author of ‘Molecule of Emotion’, joins Armand to explain how peptide receptors link drugs, emotions, and memory into a unified psychosomatic network, why music resonates through the whole body, and how integrating our different emotional states leads to genuine healing.

We Are Our Relationships with Christian De Quincey December 21, 2005

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Christian De Quincey, Roberta Maria Atti
Category: Identity & The Self, Meaning, Spirituality & Philosophy

Philosopher and author Dr. Christian De Quincey argues that relationships are not something individuals enter into but the very source from which individuals emerge. Armand DiMele and co-host Roberta Maria Atti explore how the shift from feeling to reason fractured human connectedness, with reference to Jean Liedloff’s continuum concept.

The Addiction to Leaving Yourself November 1, 2005

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Addiction & Compulsion, Identity & The Self

Fugue states are everywhere: in drinking, meditation, marathon running, internet use, even falling in love. Armand DiMele argues that any habitual escape from the present moment is a form of dissociation, explains the neurological cost, and offers practical steps for learning to stay.