​In this conversation I talk with Nelson Abreu about beneficial and limiting aspects of our cultural conditioning to applied consciousness research, the benefits of a scientific mindset, the nature of consciousness as part of the cosmic ecology, how technology can be used to develop greater self-awareness, and much more. Along the way we touch on a phenomena documented in Nelson’s latest edited book, where a person claims to have received a song from the extra physical John Lennon. Nelson kindly provided me with a copy of the song and I include it at the end of the conversation. So if you want to hear the song - performed by the man who received it - and make up your own mind if John Lennon is still writing music on the other side, stay tuned to the very end of this rich conversation.

I really resonated with this statement Nelson made during the conversation:
“The only thing I fear is to live a life, to look back and think, I didn’t do as much as I could.”

​You can listen to this episode through the link below or on any of the major podcast platforms (iTunes, Spotify etc.):
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https://anchor.fm/kim-mccaul/episodes/009---Innovations-in-consciousness-research-with-Nelson-Abreu-e95dik

In this conversation Viktória Duda shares how she went from being a successful lawyer, to finding her calling in exploring past lives through hypnotherapy. Among other things we talk about the complexity of memory when considering past lives, the way trauma and guilt from past lives carry on in the present and hold us back from living our lives fully, the potential value of past life work to conditions of body integrity and gender dysphoria, and much more. If you are interested in researching your own multi-existential history, I encourage you to stay tuned until the end when Viktoria makes a very generous offer for people open to conducting research with her. If you want to understand the nitty gritty side of past lives you will get a lot of great information in this episode.

You can listen to this episode through the link below or on any of the major podcast platforms (iTunes, Spotify etc.):
https://anchor.fm/kim-mccaul/episodes/008---The-significance-of-our-past-lives-with-Viktoria-Duda-e8v18c

Viktória is a spiritual anthropologist, hypnotherapist and writer.
 
A series of spiritually transformative experiences prompted her to leave a legal-academic career and pursue independent research into the nature of consciousness.
 
She conducts past life sessions internationally – mainly via skype – and likes to give talks, workshops and participate in conferences world-wide, where ever people are open to the multidimensional aspects of our existence. Her working languages are English, German and her native Hungarian.
 
She has a Ph. D. in social anthropology from the University of Vienna and is a member of the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis.
 
If you are interested in getting in touch with her, explore the possibilities of past life sessions, please visit her website at

http://www.viktoriaduda.com/
 
or have a look at her current research project which invites participants at
 
http://www.viktoriaduda.com/past-lives1.html 

In this episode I am talking with Ulisses Schlosser. Ulisses is a Brazilian psychologist who has been exploring consciousness through the Brazilian framework of conscientiology for more than 30 years.  He spoke with me from his home in Foz do Iguaçu or Iguaçu Falls. We had a few audio issues, including a neighbourhood dog who wanted to get in on the act, but if consciousness research is your thing I encourage you to listen to the end. Ulissess shares two of his research passions: paraphenomenology, ie the scientific study of phenomena related to psychic experieneces, and cosmoconsciousness, ie the experience of clear perception of our connectedness with the cosmos. Along the way we explore what science needs to  look like to account for non-physical experiences, the nature of perception and reality and much more. 

If you want to connect with Ulisses you can email him: [email protected]

Below you can download articles by Ulisses on cosmo-consciousness and para-phenomenology 

In this episode I am talking with Peta Morton, author of Ancient Wisdom for Modern times, Reiki practitioner and explorer of energy healing about how she went from someone with a very materialistic and discontented experience of life to someone who dedicates her time to energy healing and enthusiastic exploration of all elements of the spiritual nature of life. Peta explains reiki, describes some of the visionary experiences that have come to guide her life, the study of cymatics in which energy frequencies are made visible, and much more. 
I encourage you stay on after what seems to be the end, because we actually come back to demonstrate one of the phenomena discussed, which is sound effects captured by computers during distant healing via Skype. A couple of days after our chat, we connected again and Peta spent about 5 minutes sending reiki to me and anybody else who might be listening to this. While this is happening you can hear some enigmatic chirping sounds. So make sure you stay tuned till the very end.

Find out more about Peta here: www.petamorton.com

Originally from England, Linda Allen lives a quiet life in rural France with her family and numerous animals. Linda experienced a dramatic spiritual awakening in her 20s and eventually remembered that one of her tasks in this life was to leave her physical body prematurely to make it available for another consciousness - a "walk-in". This happened in 1992 and the other consciousness, known as Leia, occupied the body for 20 years until Linda was unexpectedly asked to return. Linda herself says that this is her final physical life. In this episode we explore this incredible story and how it relates to the evolution of consciousness.