For Rudy, part 1 to part 5 please visit episodes #179, #186, #192 , 195 and 196.

Thanks for joining us again at Behind Greatness. We are back again with Rudy. Rudy is a pre-eminent expert on black holes and a world-renowned Astrophysicist from Harvard, practising in the field since the mid-1960s. He is also the co-Founder of FREE / CCRI (see co-Founder past guests Rey Hernandez & Mary Rodwell) and also the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Cosmology.

With Rudy we explore and re-explore: the important research work of the FREE foundation, breeding programs and John Mack's work, fossilized critters in meteorites, his take on the "alien agenda", evidence of life in space, astrotheology, the purpose of the universe and his beloved car collection .

"It's shocking, but you better get over it."

Previous episodes/discussions referenced in this episode with Rudy:

• Dr. Kevin Knuth (ep 216, 226)
• Matthew Roberts (ep 188)
• Danny Sheehan (ep 169)
• Rey Hernandez (ep 153, 154)
• Dr. Robert Davis (ep 151)
• Mary Rodwell (ep 149)

Rudy,

• Center for Astrophysics – https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/
• Journal of Cosmology - https://thejournalofcosmology.com/About.html
• Personal website - http://www.rudyschild.com/
• List of Published papers - https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/p_=0&q=author%3A(%22schild%2Cr%22)&sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc
• CCRI (Consciousness & Contact Research Institute) - https://agreaterreality.com/
• Book (co-Author with Suzy Hansen) – Dual Soul Connection: The Alien Agenda for Human Advancement: https://www.amazon.com/Dual-Soul-Connection-Agenda-Advancement/dp/0473295644/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3J7YBLDXEL5H8&keywords=Dual+Soul+Connection%3A+The+Alien+Agenda+for+Human+Advancement&qid=1706573177&sprefix=dual+soul+connection+the+alien+agenda+for+human+advancement%2Caps%2C214&sr=8-1
• Book: Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness & Contact with Non Human Intelligence - https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-UFOs-Science-Consciousness-Intelligence/dp/1721088652/ctoc
• Edgar Mitchell Book: The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds - https://www.amazon.com/Way-Explorer-Astronauts-Material-Mystical/dp/0399141618
• NASA – Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy "SOFIA" - https://science.nasa.gov/mission/sofia/

John is a Depth Psychotherapist, Jungian scholar, musician, podcast host (The Sacred Speaks) and the co-founder of The Center for the Healing Arts and Sciences. John sees the sacred in most things. We talk death, aging, decay … "human-ing", questioning our myths, nourishing the mundane, music, the multiplicity of the masculine, blood rites of passage, disrupting our filters and navigating the mush. A fun episode all the way through.

"Give me the weird".

Smoking in the Boys Room, https://youtu.be/PMXg_KAe5yc?si=xgGd2u62aWh1zX7r

John,

• Website: https://www.drjohnwprice.com/
• The Sacred Speaks Podcast YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thesacredspeaks
• IG: @thesacredspeaks
• Centre for the Healing Arts and Science: https://www.thecenterforhas.com/
• Album, Questionably Red: https://open.spotify.com/album/0bDYLBuKJ3PFBCh5rlUhdT?si=U3NoHo1iSg6wQo9_7HXOrw

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Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Joan (a Catalan name, pronounced "shwan") is an Anthropologist currently living in San Sebastian, Spain. He also owns a travel company called Last Places. This endeavour was born from his love of exploring the last places on Earth and living with its inhabitants – places where no tourists exist. He adopted his grandmother's gaze on the world, living in life's mystical rhythms – following by what you feel rather than by just what you see. In service to this gaze, Joan has focused his life's energy to investigating and researching decaying traditions around the world. We talk about the Amazon, Cameroon, startlink-ification effects on tribal culture, fruit-cracking fish, thinking less v feeling more, dancing with wolves and churches, supermarkets and tracksuits.

We may have also discovered a new emotion.

Joan,

• Website & Travel company: https://lastplaces.com/en/autor/joan-riera-travel-guide/
• IG: @lastplacetravel
• YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4kN2qmf-Bh5BhUuT8rsOMw/featured
• Goonies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ2j4oWdQtU
• Dances with Wolves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc8NMbrW7mI

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Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We had loads of fun in this conversation. Robert Wagonner joins us from his home in the Midwest. He is a veteran lucid dreamer, having taught himself how to do it in the '70s and never looked back. Robert elaborates on the lucid state as being an educational system. He discussed "buzzing" while having an out of body experience as a young boy, his brother's book and the Monroe Institute, flying through his neighborhood, house cats and mountain lions. We hear about the mysterious "N4" (144), the mentally mediated realm, following the creativity and the blue light. We explore the magic of goofiness, fear, becoming an electron, the search for inherent evil, Daoist societies, "going the distance" and the voluntary death experience. What a trip.

"Doubt is gravity".

Robert,

• Website + Books: https://www.lucidadvice.com/
• Other: https://www.lucid-dreaming-advice.com/about-robert
• Lucid Dreaming Foundation: https://www.luciddreamingfoundation.org/#1

[CORRECTION – The Monroe Institute initially helped Joe McMoneagle to control his OBEs]

Episodes mentioned:

• Joe McMoneagle, ep 198, 199, 200, 210, 215, 218 and Athena Laz, ep 100

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We welcome back to the podcast our friend Kevin Knuth - of viking extraction ("Knud") … . Kevin is a Professor of Physics at the University at Albany. He is a former NASA research scientist designing artificial intelligence algorithms for astrophysical data analysis. His current research interests include the foundations of physics, quantum information, autonomous robotics, the search for and characterization of extrasolar planets, and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).

Put on your seatbelts: angel hair, engineer-animals and chemist-plants, "curiosity band-width", extra terrestrial gardeners, lizards and spoons, 1954 incident above a soccer field in Florence, studying refractory time, remote viewing in the family, UAPx, levitation, caterpillar silk from barbell-shaped ufos, believing and seeing, physics we haven't studied yet, what Kevin figured out finally and a donation to Kevin's university and endowment to help him and his team study it all.

Stickshifts and Safetybelts. https://youtu.be/qW9mZLnQ7Yc?si=-0od8M2LGZOLoLX3

Episodes mentioned: Kevin Day (ep 171), Stephan Schwartz (ep 155,156), Diana Pasulka (ep 142), Jeffrey Krypal (ep 118, 189)

Kevin,

UAP paper:

· The new science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (UAP): http://knuthlab.org/papers/knuth+etal---2025--new-science-UAP.pdf

· arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06794

New Endowment Fund at University of Albany: https://www.albany.edu/news-center/news/2025-ualbany-receives-major-gift-advance-scientific-research-unidentified-aerial

A Tear in the Sky: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15120486/

UAPx: https://www.uapexpedition.org/about

1954 incident in Florence: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29342407

Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We speak with Lisa who joins us from her new abode in Emerald Isle. Lisa is the author of Words at the Threshold. Her book is a fascinating compendium of 7 years' research on (and collection of) people's last words. We are charmed by Lisa's casual and playful demeanour from the get-go. We learn about her research, her own deeply personal experiences with dying loved ones and the emotional wisdom of a particular fireman who helped save a moment. Lisa shared with us her ideas about the consensuality of language, humour in dying, the openness and curiosity of our former childhoods that help to book-end – and Herb. The conversation reaches new depths, touching upon Lisa's personal experience with a certain kind of evil that we started to cover in the previous episode with Alex … and what Lisa has found with the unravelling of speech.

My modality is broken. Wow.

Episodes mentioned: Dr. Bruce Greysen (ep 69) re NDE research, Rey Hernandez (ep 153, 154) re modalities, Alex Gomez-Marin (ep 224), Emmeline Villar (ep 173).

Lisa,

· Website: https://www.finalwordsproject.org/

· Book: Words at the Threshold: What We Say as We're Nearing Death - https://www.amazon.com/Words-Threshold-What-Nearing-Death/dp/1608684601/ref=sr_1_1?crid=NE8R7WK669EI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SxBuIw0YM55aV-Q6BRZ-wj2FO3qssGQ1A1Yvl6UOatrvjCLHQpYkH7DfMOBs5dPE-84vsFaW-S_NcOirrDCH-FgKwjipxojuqQqCy5nRMHs0IZ4IxCFKPqLkJXA4i_iJwpANASfHo13qLJajDT6rnXGFrEY0ROAkDxQNKpFOFn9AaAi9uIIZpkVesPn7D2qT.H1Js2OEmpHy7WdRBXncQaVY2u5vu9a8nDIagB6C4qWE&dib_tag=se&keywords=lisa+smartt&qid=1765497528&sprefix=lisa+smart%2Caps%2C172&sr=8-1

Book mentioned:

· Final Gifts: Understanding and Helping the Dying - Callaghan, Maggie; Kelley, Patricia: https://www.amazon.com/Final-Gifts-Understanding-Special-Awareness-ebook/dp/B005UDIC3E/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3TS5F8EG1IJ7E&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dDmAgW1pouc6U81D-LheBQ.h_lFExdSCcnEuB631eybIfS44fI2ZHc8l8LOzLUwgHU&dib_tag=se&keywords=Final+Gifts%3A+Understanding+and+Helping+the+Dying+-+Callaghan%2C+Maggie%3B+Kelley%2C+Patricia&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1765497462&sprefix=final+gifts+understanding+and+helping+the+dying+-+callaghan%2C+maggie+kelley%2C+patricia%2Caps%2C109&sr=8-1

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Welcome back! Today, we sit down for a great talk with Alex. He works as a physicist, a neuroscientist, an intellectual activist and an author – and he experiments, researches and explores the invisible things that are very real. We quickly slide into a "no time to lose" rhythm with Alex. For just reason. Alex is consumed with investigating impossible things that happen. As a scientist and a seeker he worries about the obstinacy of materialism and "isms" in general and the rigidity of academia as he sees it. We discuss navigating the two worlds of poo-poo and woo-woo, rigorous inquiry, consciousness, evil, ideas as an instrument and the significance of "smallness".

Love. Electrons. Ghosts.

Amy Adams (Arrival): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwPpwLy4UIU

Episodes/Guests mentioned in this episode:

• Jeffrey Kripal, Ep 188, 189
• Stephan Schwartz, ep 155, 156
• Antonia mills, ep 88
• Kevin Knuth, ep 216
• Rey Hernandez, ep 153, 154
• Paco Calvo, ep 212
• Rudy Schild, ep 179 186, 192, 195, 196
• Emmeline Villar, 173

Alex:

• Book: "La Ciencia Del Ultimo Umbral" - https://www.amazon.ca/ciencia-del-%C3%BAltimo-umbral-consciencia/dp/B0FGDJX4CZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=KN9AQX9L9L18&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.o_AgO-3ny91DJ68bQnX2ro-uxGTYi3IWSCx-0eYIm6rGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.yW_z89jp4agttw0XUUqGnrj8DTKwwH8sa3ne8hKE1AU&dib_tag=se&keywords=alex+gomez+marin&qid=1764422705&sprefix=alex+gomez+marin%2Caps%2C92&sr=8-1
• Hidden war on Consciousness:

https://www.essentiafoundation.org/neuroscientist-speaks-out-on-the-hidden-war-on-consciousness/seeing/

https://www.essentiafoundation.org/neuroscientist-speaks-out-on-the-hidden-war-on-consciousness/seeing/

• With Rupert Sheldrake: https://www.sheldrake.org/videos/alex-gomez-marin'

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Thanks for joining us at Behind Greatness. We sit down with Philip Carr-Gomm, who joins us from his home in the country in Sussex, England. Philip works, thinks and plays at the cross-section of psychology and spiritualism. He is an author and lecturer and works as a psychologist and psychotherapist. For decades he has rooted his spiritualism in Druidry and he is one of today's most public Druids. We discuss a ton: trees as our spiritual companions, "surrendering", dropping down a hole in New Zealand, lucid dreaming and the big self, pushing the gorilla down into the basement and another Druid - Winston Churchill.

Never quite finished with his exploration, Philip is always making progress.

Philip,

• Website: https://philipcarr-gomm.com/
• "Know Thyself": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself

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Thanks again for joining us. Today we chat with Cameron Scott who joins us from his native city of Johannesburg. Cameron is a professional photographer, a life-long wildlife lover and owner of Royal Ngala Safaris in South Africa. He charms us off the bat with his straight-talking recount of his first love: Africa's nature. We learn about the Big 5, running with gorillas, travelling hundreds of miles for a shrew, a camp-site scare with a lion, sleeping in trees and walking with bull elephants. We are treated to a story about Cam's life-altering moment with a lion hunting episode, the importance of not sweating the small stuff and the magic of watching people experience facing the majesty of wild animals for the first time.

All of this from the home of human kind.

Episodes mentioned: Ep: Bruno D'Amicis (ep63) , Julie Church (ep94), Elisabetta Tosoni (ep96), Julie church, David Salmoni (ep213), Dr. Rudy Schild and the Astronaut-Elephant Story (ep 186 & 217)

Cameron,

· Royal Ngala website: https://www.royalngala.com/, IG: @royalngala, FB:RoyalNgalaSafaris

· IG: @camscott_wild

· FB: @CamScottWild

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Today we chat with Abby Lutz who joins us from her backyard in Colorado. Abby is a nurse, a death doula and a consciousness explorer. Abby is building her Death Dojo, a place where she explores death as a practice, a portal and a source of limitless possibility. We talk about fear and its enemy: exploration with wonder. Abby brings us through some experiences with patients crossing over, her own similar personal experience, carrying empathy in your toolbox, seeing death versus watching death, trees, the "loss-iness" of words, oppositional defiance disorder, space/seas/deserts, the Octopus and "preparing the others". A perfect chat amongst the trees.

Desserts and Death.

Episodes mentioned:

Max Catricala (ep 6, Antarctica), Meganne Christiane (ep 10, Antarctica), Natalie Sudman (ep 97, Antarctica), Dr. Jay Dahman MD (ep 62, trees), Paco Calvo (ep 212, plants), Jennifer Mather (ep139, the Octopus)

"A Horse with No Name":

- Dirtwire (Remake) - https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=P2VaXOZdsTo&si=Z73og0tZgCERJKw9

- America (Original): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxh9Da_EJB4&list=RDXxh9Da_EJB4&start_radio=1

- History - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Horse_with_No_Name

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