Jordan answers Z's interview questions about his early days finding interest in science, choosing Physics as his University Major, his undergrad program, Master's in Planetary Physics, and his new jam - a PhD in Medical Physics! Join us as we delve deep into his work with NASA studying data from a Mars rover, how consciousness fits into science, and his current research analyzing dopamine's affect on Parkinson's disease.

00:00 Intro

01:25 What first got Jordan interested in Science?

02:24 Sleep Walking is Channeling

10:00 Marijuana Opening Scientific Perspective

14:55 Does Science Become Repetitive if it's Not Innovative Science?

19:10 Choosing a Post Secondary Path

20:55 Jordan's Fave Aspects of Physics

32:50 Quantum Physics vs Classical Physics

38:57 Science Describes How Reality Behaves, Not What It Is

44:40 Beginning to Read Your Intuition

47:20 How Science Could Study Consciousness Better

50:45 What Is Knowledge? / Jordan Officially Believes In God

59:20 Statistical Mechanics

1:01:57 Jordan's Master's Mars Mission: Working With NASA In Guelph

1:22:35 Why The Change From Planetary Physics To Medical Physics?

1:24:00 Jordan's PhD Project: Studying Dopamine's Relation To Parkinson's Disease

1:26:29 Hanania Bros Interest In Investigating Reality

1:31:05 Biology, Complexity & Biological Information Transfer

1:35:44 Methods Of Expanding Mental Capacity1:41:17 Dopamine's Relation To The Brain & Body

1:48:12 Imaging Dopamine via PET Scans Using Glucose & Raclopride Molecules

1:53:35 Will We Eventually Be Able To Cure Parkinson's Disease?

1:54:44 Epigenetics: How Bad Are Stress Hormones In The Environment Of Our Body?

1:58:59 The Coolest Parts Of Jordan's PhD Program

2:01:09 How Much Appreciation Has Science Added to Jordo's Life?

2:03:50 Purely Human Feelings Add Even More Appreciation to Life

2:07:50 What Jordan Loves Most About Science

02:11:35 Paradigms Evolving

02:14:01 Is Science Jordan's Most Favorite Thing in Life?

02:16:23 What Gives Life The Most Meaning?

While part 1 (Episode 9) of our Integration Series covered why integration is important and why we become fragmented from our true selves, this part 2 (Episode 10) gets into the nitty gritty of what our shadow self is, what shadow work (shadow integration) is, what dark and light polarity are in the universe and within ourselves, how excess hijacks our dopamine systems and creates a feedback loop of a desire for more consumption (leading to addiction), and why having an integrated and healthy balance of our dark and light sides is essential for living a fulfilling life of integrity. It's about accepting and loving all parts of ourselves like they are a family, so they don't feel neglected and act out, and so we can remain in integrity with our values and the people we care about.

(00:00:55) Relationships are Key to Becoming Aware of Ourselves

(00:04:18) Trauma and It's Role in Becoming Aware of Ourselves

(00:08:13) Psychedelics / Plant Medicines and their role in Healing Trauma

(00:14:10) The Shadow Self

(00:20:05) Should We Actively Seek Out Our Shadow Self?

(00:24:49) How the Self Becomes Fragmented: Compartmentalizing, Lying, and People-Pleasing

(00:26:36) Demons and How it Feels like the Shadow is a Demon "Possessing" Us

(00:27:20) Excess, Drugs, Porn, Dopamine, and the Shadow Self that Results from Excess Indulgence

(00:32:04) Shadow Work

(00:33:27) Integration = Befriending Your Shadow

(00:34:10) Awakening, THEN Integrating; Becoming Aware of What's Inside, then Integrating it Into a Cohesive Sense of Self

(00:35:40) Carl Jung's Outlook on The Shadow Self

(00:36:36) Guilt vs. Shame

(00:37:55) Why We Repress and Suppress

(00:40:52) Dark and Light Polarity

(00:48:29) The Power of Intention

(00:50:48) Changing our Brains: Neurogenesis vs. Neuroplasticity

(00:53:15) Jordan's AI Endeavors

(00:58:20) Dark & Light Aspects of Self Need Balance

(01:04:49) Unifying Duality into Oneness, through Integration

(01:07:50) Integration vs. Assimilation

(01:10:30) Integrating All Parts of Yourself like they're One Big Family

#science #spirituality #mentalhealth #health #wellness

Happy 2025! We're kicking off Season 2 of the IOW Podcast with a 3 part series on Integration: Integrating the Dark and Light Aspects of the Self. In part 1, we cover: Why Integration is Important, How Thoughts, Emotions, Desires, Habits, and Addictions are related, How Defense Mechanisms (such as Lying, Coping Mechanisms, and Trying to Fit In) Fragment the Self, The Conscious Evolution of Humanity, How Integration is What is Required to Call in the Fragmented Aspects of Self so we can evolve into people of Integrity, How we're all on our own Hero's Journey, How Repressing and Suppressing Emotions Lead to Emotional Outbursts, Pleasure Seeking, and Mental/Physical Illnesses, and lastly, How Our World is a Reflection of Our Consciousness, and as we Integrate all Parts of the Self and Feel More Inner Peace, Our External World will become a More Peaceful Place. Heal Ourselves, Heal the World! Integrating/unifying all parts of ourselves and all life events (especially traumatic ones) we've experienced is the way! Feel the negative emotions to heal them! LFG!!!

(00:00) Introduction

(02:14) Defining Integrity & Integration

(07:49) Fragmenting the Self: How Lying, Coping Mechanisms, and Trying to Fit In does this

(11:55) Agenda of this Integration Series

(13:51) Why Integration is Important

(21:05) Conscious Evolution of Humanity

(35:08) Jordan Explains the Veritasium YouTube Video on Game Theory

(42:24) Integrity is a Strategy of Evolution(46:23) The Hero's Journey

(53:42) Why Integration is Important for BOTH Inner and World Peace

Description

Jordan gives a nice scientific explanation of how our sun came to be and the many benefits it gives us. Jordan then does a general science Q&A with Zach on a broad spectrum of sciency things, covering steam, function of DNA and other associated molecules, microscopes, telescopes, calculus, and A.I.

Timestamps

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:01:24) The Science of How We Got Here, on Earth, in the Milky Way Galaxy

(00:06:45) Nuclear Fusion

(00:20:11) Supernovas

(00:26:20) Types of Stars

(00:44:50) How Our Sun Impacts Earth

(00:58:35) Muons

(01:16:36) How Steam Travels

(01:21:35) Functions of the DNA and Associated Molecules in Our Bodies

(1:36:57) CERN Particle Accelerator

(1:42:55) Microscopes and Telescopes Explained!

(1:50:46) Most Beautiful Math Equation

(02:04:28) Jordan's Favorite Type of Equations to Solve

(02:10:10) WTF is Calculus?

(02:18:55) A.I. (artificial intelligence) is the most leading-edge (and bleeding-edge) tech discovery of our time.

(02:24:10) What are the main scientific discoveries we benefit from on a daily basis?

The boys discuss Zach's experience with 5-MeO-DMT and the important lessons he learned from it.

Timestamps

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:04:20) 5MeO-DMT vs NN-DMT

(00:15:08) What was Zach expecting?

(00:19:34) Trip & 5 Lessons

(00:24:20) Lesson 1: Relaxing is the Path to our True Selves

(00:43:00) Lesson 2: Trust is the Fabric of the Universe

(00:44:00) Lesson 3: Nothing Matters, or rather, no-THING matters

(00:50:40) Lesson 4: We are our own Best Homie

(00:57:10) Lesson 5: Trying to report back can diminish the trip

In this episode Jordan gives a solo lecture on atoms and how their little jiggling bodies make up much of the world we observe, followed by a question period with Zach. We also explain the lore behind the "YEOW" sound effect in the intro (skip to question period to hear that)

Timestamps

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:03:10) The Atomic Hypothesis

(00:08:10) How Big is an Atom?

(00:14:00) What is Temperature and Heat? & Phases of Water

(00:21:10) Heat Transfer & why you shouldn’t touch a hot stove

(00:25:00) What is Pressure? & The Ideal Gas Law

(00:33:30) Engines: How to turn Heat into Work/Motion

(00:39:00) Evaporation, Cooling & Why you blow on hot soup

(00:47:00) What is Fire? Combustion: Turning Chemical Bonds into Heat

(00:59:20) Question Period

Today we discuss free will, determinism, ethics, justice, and meaning.

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:03:00) Defining terms

(00:09:15) Free will as related to Individualism

(00:21:20) Determinism and Randomness

(00:35:00) What do we have control over?

(00:39:00) Computational Irreducibility and God

(00:47:20) Free will of the ego vs universal will

(00:49:25) Jung

(00:55:45) Schopenhauer and Kastrup

(01:00:50) Summary so far

(01:06:15) Meaning / we are observers of the universe

(01:11:52) Becoming present in the face of the immensity of reality

(01:21:00) Identifying with nature

(01:30:00) Eckhart Tolle

(01:32:00) Sam Harris, Ethics, Empathy & Justice

(01:41:08) Golems: collective behaviour gone wrong

(01:49:12) Justice

(01:55:13) Neale Donald Walsch

(02:02:00) Zach sums things up

This episode we are summarizing the book "Alien Information Theory" by Andrew R. Gallimore, who is a computational neurobiologist, chemical pharmacologist, and writer.

(00:06:39) Information, Bits, Bytes

(00:20:12) Information Processing

(00:38:04) Rule-based Systems

(00:42:20) Cellular Automata & The Game of Life

(00:57:44) Complexity and Life

(01:09:14) Our Universe as a Rule-based System

(01:20:44) What is Life?

(01:34:36) How Our Brain Creates Reality

(02:06:46) Brain Connectivity: Structural, Functional, & Effective

(02:16:01) How Psychedelics Affect the Brain

(02:41:05) DMT Worlds: Entry, Structure, & Entity Encounters

(02:58:45) Upwards and Downwards Information Flow

(03:02:49) Where Does Consciousness Fit in this Model?

(03:11:05) DMT, Information Flow, Pizza, Shircles

(03:14:40) How to Change the Rules & Interdimensional Communication

(03:23:14) Perturbation Brain Patterns & Becoming an Interdimensional Being

(03:37:56) Summary

(03:49:16) Zach asks a question but Jordan is too tired

Links:

Epic game of life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2vgICfQawE

Life in life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8

Conway himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Plq-D1gEk

Buy the book: https://www.amazon.ca/Alien-Information-Theory-Psychedelic-Technologies/dp/1527234762