How does a traditionally trained neuroscientist and self-described agnostic become interested in spirituality? Fully indoctrinated into the cult of science, today’s guest, neuroscientist Mona Sobhani, Ph.D., aggressively defended the dogma of scientific beliefs -- until a series of life-altering events caused her to reconsider spirituality and psi concepts and launched her into a two-year investigation into the ineffable mysteries of our world. By having unexplained spiritual experiences, she radically changed her life and her beliefs around the mysteries of the universe. Mona addresses the use of psychedelics in research while Lisa recounts her Near-Death Experience and the various states of consciousness which can be achieved. Mona is a former research scientist at the University of Southern California and holds a doctorate in neuroscience from the University of Southern California. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University with the MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Project. She is the author of “Proof of Spiritual Phenomena: A Neuroscientist’s Discovery of the Ineffable Mysteries of the Universe.” Her work has been featured in the New York Times, VOX, and other media outlets. Today is Part 1 of her interview. Info: monasobhaniphd.com