Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

A century ago, a Jesuit priest predicted that humanity would evolve into something he called the "ultra-human." Tami Simon speaks with religious studies scholar D.W. Pasulka—author of The Others: UFOs, AI, and the Secret Forces Guiding Human Destiny—about why that prediction looks eerily prescient today, the startling pattern match between angel encounters and UFO reports, and what it means to relate to AI as a tool, not a companion.

This conversation offers genuine transmission, not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together, and originally aired on Sounds True One.

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What is the "energy" in energy healing? Healers channel it. Patients reach for it. Ancient healing traditions built entire systems around it, and modern researchers are working to study it. But what is energy—biologically, physically, measurably…but also spiritually, and how does it move through the body to influence health and healing?

In this special feed takeover, we’re bringing you the season finale of Phenomena: The Science and Stories of Energy Healing, in which host Ivy Ross brings together three renowned scientists whose visions, taken together, begin to answer that question:

• Martin Picard, PhD, of Columbia University, has spent his career studying mitochondria, the body's cellular power sources, and has found them far more connected to our inner experience and consciousness than biomedicine ever assumed, and likely far more central to how we heal.
• Richard Hammerschlag, PhD, co-authored the paper that helped define the modern science of the biofield: the organizing fields of energy and information that operate within the body and extend outward from it, echoing the nested qi fields of older healing traditions.
• Neil Theise, MD, of NYU, helped identify the interstitium, a major recent discovery of a fluid-filled network running throughout the body that may explain how signals fundamental to health and healing actually travel.

Together, these three voices offer a compelling, deeply human vision of the body and mind not as a machine, but as a dynamic energetic ecosystem.

To close out the season, Ivy and researcher Meredith Sprengel also welcome special guest Jonathan Cohen, co-creator and executive producer of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, to help land these big ideas about energy, healing, and life.

This episode marks the finale of Phenomena's first season. To continue the journey, and explore the full docuseries, visit phenomenahealing.com. →

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Osho Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, Zen priest and author of Opening to Darkness, shares the night she nearly died from anaphylactic shock, and survived not by fighting for the light, but by staying with the dark itself. A powerful reframe on fear, surrender, and what it really means to accept the absence of light.

This clip is taken from the full Insights at the Edge conversation with Zenju Earthlyn Manuel: “Open to Darkness.” Listen here: https://bit.ly/earthlyn-manuel

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Few teachers have shaped modern spirituality like Michael A. Singer, author of the beloved classic The Untethered Soul. In this rare, intimate conversation, Tami Simon sits down with Michael to explore his newest book, Wisdom Untethered: The Time for Questions, and the teaching he says explains it all: "It's the pain that ends all pain." A must-listen conversation with a true elder of the field.

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You know that the object of your addiction is bad for you, but how do you stop? According to Dr. Connie Zweig, retired Jungian therapist and author of Romancing the Shadow, you do just that—you romance your shadow, which is a method for turning compulsive behavior into self-knowledge. So this week’s question from Tami is what does that actually look like? From the full episode: "Meeting One of the World's Leading Experts on the Shadow." Listen here: https://bit.ly/connie-zweig

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In this special episode, Tami Simon shares an excerpt from medical intuitive and New York Times bestselling author Caroline Myss's opening presentation for Spiritual Home Base, the new online community where Caroline serves as spiritual director. Caroline explores why fear feels so pervasive right now, how our understanding of God and personal power is shifting, and closes with a live Q&A on grief, faith, and staying spiritually grounded amid rapid change.

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Ever feel like you're built for the wild, but terrified the moment you actually step into it? Filmmaker and My Octopus Teacher naturalist Craig Foster joins Tami Simon to unpack that strange paradox: why our bodies crave wildness even as we recoil from it. His answer might be the gentlest permission slip you'll get to start reconnecting with your own wild side, one backyard animal at a time.

Taken from the full Insights at the Edge conversation with "Craig Foster: Belonging to the Wild." Listen here: https://bit.ly/craig-foster

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What does it take to keep hoping when hope keeps breaking your heart? Tami Simon speaks with Marisa Renée Lee, New York Times bestselling author of Grief Is Love and Waiting for Dawn: Living with Uncertainty, about what she calls a "ruthless, stubborn commitment to hope": the conviction that something better is coming, and the willingness to do whatever is necessary to make it so, even in the darkest seasons.

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We've all been there, wide awake at three in the morning, brain running the instant we wake up and no chance of getting back to sleep. This week we hear from Martha Beck and her answer when Tami asks the question: "What Do I Do At Three In the Morning?" Martha shares her expertise on anxiety, calming our nervous systems, and why beds are just the best.

Excerpted from Insights at the Edge, "Martha Beck, PhD: Beyond Anxiety." Listen here: https://bit.ly/martha-beck

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What if the God you've been taught to believe in is the very thing that’s keeping you from finding God? Tami Simon speaks with Sister Ilia Delio—Franciscan theologian, scientist, and author of The Not Yet God—about the evolutionary vision of Teilhard de Chardin, why monotheism is giving way to a new religious consciousness, and how AI, far from threatening our humanity, might be the unexpected catalyst for a God revolution.

This conversation offers genuine transmission—not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on Sounds True One.

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