Mark Gober’s journey from Wall Street and Silicon Valley to consciousness seeker reveals mounting evidence that the brain does not produce consciousness, but rather receives it - and this shift in understanding has urgent implications for how humanity must evolve spiritually and collectively to make it to the Age of Abundance for All in the coming decade.

What you’ll hear in this episode:

- Discovering Purpose Through a Consciousness Shift

- Decoding Telepathy and Consciousness

- Universal Truths of Soul Evolution

- The Mystical Concept of Reincarnation

- Synchronicities and Spiritual Awakening

About Love Conquers Fear:

In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is where leadership meets love, technology serves humanity, and vision becomes action. Host, Brett Alexander Hurt, tech entrepreneur and investor, sits down with some of the world’s most influential people to ask: Will we unite to create the Age of Abundance for All? These conversations are calls to action, awakening leaders everywhere to rise and help humanity choose the Light.

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About Mark Gober:

Mark Gober is the author of the “Upside Down” series of seven books—spanning the topics of consciousness, politics, economics, UFOs, medicine, cosmology, and more. His first book, “An End to Upside Down Thinking” (2018), won the IPPY award for best science book of the year and was endorsed by researchers with affiliations at Harvard, Princeton, UVA, and UCSF (among others). He then wrote “An End to Upside Down Living” (2020), “An End to Upside Down Liberty” (2021), “An End to Upside Down Contact” (2022), “An End to the Upside Down Reset” (2023), “An End to Upside Down Medicine” (2023); and “An End to the Upside Down Cosmos” (2024). Mark is also the host of the 8-episode podcast series “Where Is My Mind?”, released in 2019, which explores the scientific evidence for telepathy, the afterlife, and more. Additionally, since 2019, he has served on the board of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Previously, Mark was a partner at Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley and worked as an investment banking analyst with UBS in New York. He has been named one of IAM’s Strategy 300: The World’s Leading Intellectual Property Strategists. Mark graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, where he wrote an award-winning thesis on Daniel Kahneman’s Nobel Prize–winning “Prospect Theory” and was elected a captain of Princeton’s Division I tennis team.

Mark Website: https://www.markgober.com

Love Conquers Fear on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LoveConquersFear2025

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Humanity’s final exam

2:05 - Meet Mark Gober: author & skeptic-turned-seeker

5:25 - From Princeton & Wall Street+Silicon Valley to spiritual awakening

10:58 - Launching “Where Is My Mind?” podcast

18:00 - How the brain receives consciousness

23:00 - Spirituality and the unity of religions

25:40 - Evidence of the brain receiving consciousness

26:15 - CIA remote viewing

27:33 - Near-death experiences and life beyond the brain

30:27 - Evidence of telepathy

39:30 - NDEs and the life review

46:30 - Earth as a school for your soul

49:00 - Reincarnation evidence

52:45 - Mark’s mystical experience and channeling from Dr. David Hawkins

55:15 - Reading from “An End to Upside Down Living”

57:25 - The Age of Abundance for All

1:06:15 - What will it take for humanity to change?

1:10:20 - Supernormal abilities

1:15:03 - Transforming yourself to change the world

1:18:00 - Forgiveness and compassion

1:19:30 - Synchronicities

Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Love Conquers Fear podcast, where Brett shares his vision for humanity's future - The Age of Abundance for All.

What you’ll hear in this episode:

- Brett's Entrepreneurial Journey

- Psychedelics, Spirituality, and Healing

- Exploring Consciousness and the Beyond

- Evolutionary Vision of Humanity’s Future

- The Quantum Computing Revolution

- Recommended Books, from Science to Spirituality

- Divine Wisdom and the Nature of our Reality

- Manifesting The Age of Abundance for All

- About the Love Conquers Fear Podcast

About Love Conquers Fear:

In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is where leadership meets love, technology serves humanity, and vision becomes action. Host, Brett Alexander Hurt, tech entrepreneur and investor, sits down with some of the world’s most influential people to ask: Will we unite to create the Age of Abundance for All? These conversations are calls to action, awakening leaders everywhere to rise and help humanity choose the Light.

Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretthurt/

Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on Medium: https://databrett.medium.com

Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on Substack: https://brettahurt.substack.com/

Make sure you’re following Love Conquers Fear on your favorite platforms, Youtube, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Apple Podcasts. Brett Alexander Hurt is bringing you new episodes weekly with the world’s most influential thinkers and change makers to confront the defining choice of our time: Will we unite to create The Age of Abundance for All, or collapse into fear and division? These conversations are calls to action, awakening leaders everywhere to rise and help humanity choose light.

Follow, share, and review Love Conquers Fear on your favorite platforms:

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#TeamHumanity

Timestamps:

0:00 - Welcome to Love Conquers Fear Podcast Introduction

1:30 - The Age of Abundance for All & Team Humanity

1:45 - What to expect on Love Conquers Fear

3:35 - About Brett: early programming and his mom’s unconditional love and support

5:45 - UT Austin → Wharton → first ventures

7:00 - BodyMatrix (early eCommerce) & MBAZoNe (early social media)

8:15 - Brett’s entrepreneurship journey

8:47 - Coremetrics: rise, dot-com crash, rebuild

10:45 - Bazaarvoice begins

12:40 - Vedanta, “retirement”, angel investing

13:25 - Founding data.world (knowledge graph for AI)

15:36 - Mystical experiences growing up and the power of prayer

17:00 - Brett’s views on psychedelics and “How to Change Your Mind” on Netflix

21:00 - Meditation and tapping in

23:13 - Working with former governor Rick Perry on the Americans for Ibogaine initiative

25:00 - Veterans healing, ibogaine, and policy momentum

28:10 - Documentary: “Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds”

29:20 - Consciousness vs. materialism

32:15 - Recommended books, from science to spirituality

38:15 - Mark Gober: our brains receive consciousness

41:00 - Media and Choice: Progress Network, Fix the News

44:00 - Brett’s upcoming book: Love Conquers Fear: Humanity, AI, and The Age of Abundance for All

44:30 - More recommended reading

49:00 - Artificial Super Intelligence and open source

55:25 - Quantum physics

57:00 - More recommended reading

1:08:00 - It’s always darkest before the dawn

1:20:00 - Signs: synchronicity & messages

1:24:00 - Brain-to-computer interface

1:43:25 - Earth School: why we’re here

1:49:00 - Call to action: Team Humanity

1:49:20 - Outro & what’s next

In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is where leadership meets love, technology serves humanity, and vision becomes action. Host, Brett Alexander Hurt, tech entrepreneur and investor, sits down with some of the world’s most influential people to ask: Will we unite to create the Age of Abundance for All? These conversations are calls to action, awakening leaders everywhere to rise and help humanity choose the Light.