Worrying about the future seems to be part of human nature.  We want certainty about what is going to happen — to our investments, our children’s education, careers, the human race — but get only doubts.  And then doubts become fears, as we prepare for the worst, and hold out a little hope for something better.  Philip Comella’s guest this week, Allison Carmen, has written a new book,The Gift of Maybe: Finding Hope and Possibility in Uncertain Times, that poses a simple and effective solution to a world of uncertainty: life does not follow a linear narrative that we can predict, but rather is filled with a vast array of possibilities that arise one after the other.  In this field of possibilities lies a hope that what happens could be good, or the situation can get better.  Maybe that’s all we need.  Listen in for a straight-ahead conversation about how this simple approach really works.

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All too often we act with an air of certainty over topics that demand humility.  Examples are the theory of evolution, the emergence of consciousness from the gray matter of the brain, and the interpretation of the Bible.  We are taught that confidence is good, conviction better, and being right is all that matters.  But it is hard to see how someone can be certain about any of these subjects: Don’t we need to explain the origin of life and the struggle for existence to get evolution going?  Where in the billions of brain neurons do we find the moving picture of consciousness?  What can make someone certain that any particular reading of the Bible is the right one?  Perhaps it’s better if we find a way to tolerate a little uncertainty and live with it.  This is the topic of the book written by this week’s guest, Dr. John Bancroft, former Clinical Professor of   Psychiatry at the Indiana University School of Medicine, the author of the probing new book, Tolerance of Uncertainty.  Listen in as Philip and Dr. Bancroft give life to a topic that extends to any area and affects all of us.

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Oddly, when we take an expanded view of the findings of modern science we  arrive at the conclusion that consciousness is fundamental; matter, secondary.  If consciousness is fundamental, then that means bodily death is only that: bodily death; consciousness lives on.  Perhaps that is why so many people have reported near-death experiences that speak of the same reality encountered in a different realm, not in another world, but at another level of consciousness. In her book, The Fun of Dying: Find Out What Really Happens Next, this week’s guest, Roberta Grimes provides a straightforward and credible account about how the after life is real and consistent with many of modern science’s findings.  Listen in as Philip and Roberta bring this transcendent topic down-to-earth.

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The wall between spirit and matter, mind and body, is collapsing. This may be the key finding of the new age of thinking that just now is gaining momentum. Perhaps nothing better highlights this development than the “powerful placebo,” fake drugs and medical treatments that nevertheless cause real physical improvements in the body. But how is this possible unless there is a link between mind and body? In his new book, You are the Placebo, this week’s guest, best-selling author and internationally known speaker, Dr. Joe Dispenza, takes the findings of the placebo effect one step farther. The possibilities for human development become endless. when well-intentioned thoughts and emotions, rather than the outside world, control our future.

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In the governing world model, the body is a machine made up of genes.  These genes, like parts to a car, control the performance and destiny of the body.  The so-called central dogma of genetics, authored by Francis Crick, one of the discoverers of the DNA molecule, holds that genes are fixed information-generating particles that tell proteins how to form into bodies.  The information only goes one way: outward toward bodies, not inward.  But the new field of epigenetics is proving the central dogma wrong.  Not only does the environment influence the way genes express themselves, but so do thoughts and beliefs.  In his book, The Genie in Your Genes, this week’s guest, Dawson Church, lays out the case for how the human spirit is more powerful than our genes.  Listen in as Philip and Dawson discuss how epigenetics provides scientific evidence that we have greater control over our well-being that we ever imagined.

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Thomas Kuhn, in his highly influential book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, introduced the world to the concept of paradigms and how they change. A paradigm is a framework for understanding and cataloging worldly events, the ground rules for explaining things; at some point, however, the existing paradigm no longer accounts for worldly events and must be replaced by one that does. By all indications, that is where we are heading: the current scientific paradigm, based on materialism and the notion that everything can be explained by particles in motion, is showing signs of decay. One of the leading writers calling for a paradigm shift is this week’s s guest, Manjir Samanta-Laughton, the author of the radical and thought-provoking book, Punk Science. Listen in as Philip and Manjir talk about the possible shape of the next paradigm.

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