#136 My amazing guest this week is Mark Gober with a conversation around consciousness and spiritually that will make you question the world we live in. Mark is an award-winning author as well as a podcast host and international speaker. Mark's background is in business as a Partner at Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley and previously as an investment banking analyst in New York. But despite being a left-brainer, the universe had different plans for him and guided him towards questioning and researching consciousness and how we understand it. Does our brain create consciousness or is it the other way around? What have near-death experiences taught us? How much do our intentions for our lives actually affects them? Have your ever wondered if there is a purpose to our lives? Does anything we do matter? These are only some of the mind-blowing and deep questions that we answer on this episode, with the help of Mark. This episode really made me think, and I hope it will spark something for you guys as well. About Mark: Mark Gober is the author of the award-winning book An End to Upside Down Thinking (2018) and the sequel An End to Upside Down Living (2020). He is also the host of Where Is My Mind? podcast (2019), featuring his interviews with world-leading consciousness researchers Eben Alexander, Dean Radin, Rupert Sheldrake, Russell Targ, Raymond Moody, Jim Tucker, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Brian Josephson, and many others. Mark serves on the Board of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and the School of Wholeness and Enlightenment (SoWE), and he is an international speaker. Mark's background is in business as a Partner at Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley and previously as an investment banking analyst in New York. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, where he wrote his award-winning thesis on Daniel Kahneman's Nobel Prize-winning "Prospect Theory" and was elected a captain of Princeton's Division I Tennis Team. www.markgober.com www.markgober.com/podcast Key points with time stamp:

• Mark's work in his own words (3:28)
• How did Mark go from Investment banking to researching consciousness? (3:53)
• Mark's journey to writing his book (13:14)
• Why An End to Upside Down Thinking? Case (15:26)
• The effects of consciousness research on Mark's life (17:55)
• To the sceptical: (20:56)
• How accessible and available is the abilities of the consciousness (24:12)
• What surprised Mark about the abilities of our consciousness (26:20)
• Tangible changes in Mark's life since he began his journey (27:04)
• How powerful are our intentions? (30:31)
• Mark's hope for his book (37:06)
• Mark's daily practices (38:25)
• How can we be more comfortable about talking about our spiritual experiences? (41:27)
• The low point in Mark's life which turned into a blessing (43:37)
• Mark's morning routine (44:39)
• Mark's choice of a dinner guest, dead or alive (45:45)
• What Mark leaves us with (46:45)

Mentioned in this episode:

• An End to Upside Down Thinking (2018), Mark Gober's book
• Laura Powers
• Bernardo Castro
• Professor Donald Hoffman
• The Case Against Reality (2019), Donald Hoffman's book
• Erwin Schrödinger
• American Psychologist Journal
• Etzel Cardena
• Jessica Utts
• American Statistical Association
• Jimmy Carter
• Where is My Mind? Mark's podcast
• Russel Targ
• Michael Jordan
• Lebron James
• An End to Upside Down Living (2020) Mark's second book
• Hans-Peter Durr
• Roger Nelson
• 9/11
• Princess Diana
• Heartmath Institute
• Thomas Campbell
• NASA
• Germ Theory
• Copernican Revolution
• Galileo
• David Hawkins
• Bruce Grayson
• Dannion Brinkley
• Chaos Theory
• Butterfly Effect
• Peter Panagore

About me:

My Instagram: www.instagram.com/guyhlawrence/?hl=en My website: www.guylawrence.com.au www.liveinflow.co