Groundbreaking research which proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable connections across brain function, myth, and anthropology,  Dr. Shain shows why pre-literate cultures were principally informed by holistic, right-brain modes that venerated the Goddess, images, and feminine values. Writing drove cultures toward linear left-brain thinking and this shift upset the balance between men and women, initiating the decline of the feminine and ushering in patriarchal rule. 

Leonard Shlain (1939 - 2009) was the author of Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space Time & Light and The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image. Dr. Shlain was an American surgeon, author, and inventor. He was chairperson of laparoscopic surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, and was an associate professor of surgery at University of California, San Francisco.

From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on January 16, 1999 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee . See more at www.lauralee.com

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An exploration of the how and why altered states can come about and their possibilities. Here we look to what science can tell us and dispels the metaphysical haze that all too often surrounds the subject of altered states of consciousness. We discuss the research of parapsychology; the study psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, and psychometry) and other expereinces related to near-death experience and synchronicity.

Dr. Charles T. Tart is known for work on the nature of consciousness & altered states, as a founder of transpersonal psychology & for research in scientific parapsychology. He has had more than 250 articles published in professional journals and books, including lead articles in such prestigious scientific journals as Science and Nature. His two classic books, Altered States of Consciousness (1969) and Transpersonal Psychologies (1975), were widely used texts that were instrumental in allowing these areas to become part of modern psychology.

From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on March 19, 2001 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee . See more at www.lauralee.com

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Looking to wisdom of the past provides a full spectrum of thought, philosophy and inspiration. Dr. Wayne Dyer has a gift to share everyday wisdom with simple analysis and hints for practical applications. Here we cut across a wide range of historical eras and cultures, yet look for universal truths about the human experience. We explore topics including spirituality, the afterlife, alternative health, happiness and personal fulfillment.

Wayne W. Dyer offered a transformative message as a motivational speaker and author of almost 40 self-help books. He had a doctorate in counseling psychology and lectured across the country to groups numbering in the thousands and appeared regularly on radio and television. He passed away in August of 2015.

From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on December 13, 2000 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee . See more at www.lauralee.com

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Sacred sites in the western half of the U.S. and Mexico include goddess sites and warrior sites, centers of emergence, balance and harmony, petroglyphs, and springs and mountains that have powerful spirits of place.  Bernyce Barlow, a Californian and retired educator and abuse therapist, describes natural energy centers throughout the American West, Hawaii, and Mexico. Biofields, the physics of matter, and energy anomalies have created natural phenomena that have the ability to influence us spiritually, mentally, and physically, she notes.

From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on May 16, 1998 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee . See more at www.lauralee.com

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Why do we believe in the soul? Does it actually exist? If so, what is it? Does it differ from the self? Is it part of the material world? Fred Alan Wolf brings the most modern perspective of quantum physics to the most ancient questions of religion and philosophy. Together we explores the possible spiritual aspects in relation to quantum physics. Life, death, soul, and immortality issues.

Fred Alan Wolf is a physicist, writer, and lecturer who earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at UCLA in 1963. He continues to write, lecture throughout the world, and conduct research on the relationship of quantum physics to consciousness. He is the National Book Award Winning author of Taking the Quantum Leap. He is a member of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collegium of Scholars.  Dr. Wolf has taught at the University of London, the University of Paris, the Hahn-Meitner Institute for Nuclear Physics in Berlin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and San Diego State University in the United States. His work in quantum physics and consciousness is well known through his popular and scientific writing. He is the author of eleven books.

From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on June 6, 1997 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee . See more at www.lauralee.com

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When it comes to longevity let's look to the ancient traditions of the East for some answers. A large and growing body of evidence shows that embracing Eastern strategies that have long emphasized lifestyle, diet, exercise and a core focus on consciousness as critical to health. And specifically we look at the origin and evolution of consciousness and it's age old role in the ancient practice of rejuvenation and longevity.

Aadil Palkhivala was born in India holds degrees in law physics and mathematics. Aadil is a teacher of Purna Yoga for over 35 years a holistic synthesis of yogic traditions. Aadil is the author of Fire of Love a book that seeks to restore the rapidly fading essence of yoga. Aadil has written and filmed extensively for Yoga International and Yoga Journal as the “Asana Expert” for both the magazine and the website. He has served as advisor and board member to Prevention Magazine Yoga Alliance Yoga Journal and The Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States.

From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on June 10, 1995 on the nationally syndicated radio program The Laura Lee Show. See more at www.lauralee.com

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There is growing evidence of possible visits to the Americas made by people from Asia, Europe and Oceania prior to Christopher Columbus in 1492.  Pretty much accepted by mainstream scientists and scholars are Maritime explorations by Norse peoples from Scandinavia during the late 10th century led to the Norse colonization of Greenland and Newfoundland[3] which preceded Columbus' arrival in the Americas by some 500 years. Recent genetic studies have also suggested that some eastern Polynesian populations have admixture from coastal northern South American peoples with an estimated date of contact around 1200 CE.

Gunnar Thompson,  Anthropologist (1946 - 2017) has been a lifelong critic of traditional history. In the third grade, he was asked "Who discovered America." He replied: "The Indians"--thinking they were here before everybody else. The teacher said he was wrong. In grad school at the University of Wisconsin, he was again asked the same question. This time, he added: "the Egyptians, the Chinese, the Romans and the Greeks.”  He has written several watershed books and numerous articles on the subject of early voyages to the New World before Columbus. These include: Nu Sun (1989), American Discovery (1994), The Friar's Map (1996), and Lions In The New Land (1998). His discovery of the Omnibus Power Sign in 1985 offered the first conclusive proof that Asian mariners had made a significant contribution to the origins of New World civilization. In 2005, he was invited to give a presentation on Zeng He and Marco Polo at the Library of Congress. In 2006, he was invited to Beijing, China, to authenticate the 1418 Ming Map of the World. His vital discoveries have received praise from such notable scholars as the Norwegian ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl, author Gavin Menzies, and archeologist Betty Meggers of the Smithsonian Institution. He has appeared internationally on countless television documentaries and is widely acknowledged as a leading world expert on multi-ethnic New World Discovery.

From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on July 15, 1995 on the nationally syndicated radio program The Laura Lee Show. See more at www.lauralee.com

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Throughout recorded history there are references to light emissions observed to come from the human body. For years we have known that life is an electrical fact; that all vital systems operate electrically. Recently we have found that a cell is a bioelectric wonder - with polarities and energy field effects. Relatively inert substances, like membranes, connective tissue, tendons, ligaments, and fascia also participate in chemical interaction. These tissue create and carry electrical impulses. Each living animal or plant cell is endowed with intracellular, cellular, and gross structural polarities that furnish living tissue with electromagnetism. Dr. Hunt was a pioneering scientist who measured the human bioenergy field in a laboratory. Her early research established the validity of bioenergy fields by measuring vibrations of the field with high frequency electronic instruments and capturing these on video and audio recordings. 

Dr. Valerie V. Hunt (1916 - 2014) was a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Physiological Sciences at UCLA, and resident of Malibu, California. Her groundbreaking work was published in Infinite Mind: Science of the Human Vibrations of Consciousness in 1996.  Her visionary approach and high standard of scientific integrity that led her to groundbreaking discoveries in energy fields, won her international acclaim from researchers in the fields of physiology, medicine and bioengineering. Dr. Hunt was consulted in space biology for NASA and was also a field reader for US Department of Health, Education and Welfare research grants. She taught courses at 20 medical colleges and universities both in the United States and abroad. In addition, she traveled the world, and studied ritualistic healings and mysticism in the Orient, South America, Africa and the Pacific Islands.

From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on December 2, 1995 on the nationally syndicated radio program The Laura Lee Show. See more at www.lauralee.com

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“It would be arrogant to think we’re alone in the Universe,” says Harvard Professor Avi Loeb, theoretical astrophysicist. His conjecture on the anomalous, shiny, elongated space object (dubbed “Oumuamua”, Hawaiian for “scout”) that wandered through our inner solar system in 2017 fit the evidence, yet stirred up quite the controversy. It looked and behaved not like an asteroid or cement, but a solar light sail, just as we’d design for a space probe. He details why in his book, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth. “We should not rule out technology from an advanced, extraterrestrial civilization just because the notion is unpopular among the academic community,” he argues. This did lead to private funding for Avi’s “Galileo Project” named for that other daring astronomer. We talk about new strategies to detect life in the Cosmos, the goals and hopes for his project, the role and limits of science, what we know and don’t know, his philosophy of life, tackling the big questions, the impact on society’s advancement, the filmmakers interested in his work, and more. Three astronomers in the audience pose their questions and comments, including one who worked on the Hubble Telescope.

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"The Biblical accounts are full of trance states," says this Georgetown University scholar. When I ask him why our society trusts accounts of ASC from 2,000 years ago, but less so now, he agrees that mystical states are just as available to us now as then.

"Nobody has done more than John Pilch to popularize the use of an ASC model for understanding the visions, sky journeys and other ecstatic experiences reported in biblical texts. He is to be credited for pointing out the ethnocentrism in traditional biblical research that do not take visions, soul journeys and the like seriously as culturally plausible human phenomena. He introduced the notion of alternate states of consciousness (ASCs), a well-known category in anthropological research, to biblical interpretation in an attempt to avoid the ethnocentrism that considers such reports as either nonhistorical or fictional."   Pieter F. Craffert

John Pilch (1937 - 2016) Prof of Religious Studies Georgetown University.  He was known for his breakthrough work in biblical anthropology.  John was a personal friend of Dr. Goodman, the founder of the Cuyamungue Institute.

From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on May 7, 2003 on the nationally syndicated radio program The Laura Lee Show. See more at www.lauralee.com

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