#85: Neuromagic & Illusion - Stephen Macknik,...

FitMind founder Liam McClintock returns to the FitMind Podcast after several years of intensive meditation and monastic training to explore how his understanding of mental fitness has evolved, what he learned from life as a Buddhist monk, and the practices he now considers most e ...  عرض المزيد

Clinical neuropsychologist Dr. Aldrich Chan joins the FitMind Podcast to explore the intersection of Taoist philosophy, neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology, and what these fields can teach us about our growing sense of disconnection from nature. Drawing from his book 7 Prin ...  عرض المزيد

Why does magic fool us so easily? Is our perception of reality just an illusion? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Gary O’Reilly explore the neuroscience behind magic with magician Teller (of Penn & Teller) and neuroscientist Susana Martinez-Conde.

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Dr. David Spiegel is a psychiatrist, Stanford professor, and leading authority on hypnosis and stress-related health. What exactly is hypnosis? Most of us picture it as a magician’s trick, when someone dangles a watch, your eyes get heavy, and suddenly you’re suggestible. But tha ...  عرض المزيد

This episode will make you believe in Magic. This week, Ashdin is joined by Illusionist, Mentalist, Magician, Hypnotherapist, and Author Suhani Shah. In this episode, we learn about the mind, body language, how different schools of thought teach similar concepts, lessons learnt f ...  عرض المزيد

The growing understanding of how vision and breathing directly affect the brain—rather than the more generic categories of the mind and emotions is a topic that we find fascinating. And today, in this special encore release from the Collective Insights vault, Dr. Andrew Huberman, ...  عرض المزيد