Dr. Gayle Kimball has interviewed leading scientists and thinkers to understand the frontier beyond the mainstream.

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That’s a clip from the movie I, Robot. It covers territory that’s pretty well-worn at this point. Will consciousness rise up in the robots and take over the world? But I think there’s a deeper and more relevant and certainly more immediate question that comes to mind with what it means to being human, and it’s explored quite beautifully by today’s guest, Conner Habib. 

Conner Habib: [00:00:47] I now use the question rather than what is consciousness, that is important to me, but I think what is the human being is my question that I try to unfurl everything from.

I can’t just do this bullshit thing, which people do all the time, which I find completely objectionable, which is, well, you just take the good and you leave the bad, just move on with the good stuff, because that doesn’t address the foundational thing that you bring up all the time. What I need to do is find out how the good and the bad are entangled and liberate that philosophy from itself. 

 

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Alex Tsakiris: Welcome to Skeptiko where we explore controversial science and spirituality with leading researchers, thinkers, and their critics.

I’m your host, Alex Tsakiris. And today we welcome dr. Gayle Kimball to Skeptiko. Gayle is a professor  Emeritus from Cal State Chico and was the first coordinator of their women’s studies program. She’s also a Nautilus award winning author. We’re going to talk about some of her great books today.

And, you know, one of the great things about Gayle is she is familiar with the Skeptiko drill. 

Dr. Gayle Kimball: [00:02:37] You did, you know, do you remember that? I interviewed you last year, so I’m very familiar. 

Alex Tsakiris: [00:02:47] I do, and I really appreciate it. I think we have a chat. And I really look for having that kind of chat again today, because, you know, as I just mentioned, you have these books that are really right up our alley here at Skeptiko and the kind of stuff that you know, we talk about and that you’re passionate about too, 

in terms of materialism reality consciousness and all the rest of that. So let’s start then by at least. Describing these books. Talk about what they’re about mysteries of reality, mysteries of knowledge, beyond our senses and mysteries of healing, the mysteries trilogy, but it’s really quite an accomplishment.

And the list of people that you’ve interviewed for this for these books is super impressive and will be known too. A lot of people who listen to the show will immediately recognize so many of the folks that yeah. Talk to. So tell us about this project, how you got started, we’ve done it. And what people are going to find when they go to these books.

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Dr. Gayle Kimball: [00:03:54] way it started is I do energy work and I was trained to do clairvoyant and healing work techniques from the Berkeley psychic Institute. And it’s all with intention and visualization and it’s not hands on. And so I wanted something as part of my. Personal practice that involve the body in a more specific way....