Omid Safi is a professor at Duke university and is an expert in Sufism and Islamic mysticism. He has authored and edited many books, including Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism, and Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition. He also has a podcast called Sufi Heart, which is part of the Be Here Now network. In …

https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Dawn-of-Mind-Audiobook/B0DPXXBSYR https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Mind-Matter-Became-Conscious/dp/B0DPXZ5XRY/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://open.spotify.com/show/2Ym3ZTgeNIIijRW5WztNeh?si=19548ad7d78446f4

On the 14th of January 2025 I’ll be in conversation with Dan at LA’s flagship Barnes & Noble at The Grove at Farmers Market to promote my new book, The Dawn of Mind, tickets are still available, so come along if you’re nearby. https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062180541-0 Dan Siegel is a renowned psychiatrist and internationally acclaimed…

Order from: USA & Canada UK This week on the podcast previous guest Shamil Chandaria is returning to discuss my new book The Dawn of Mind, which is out now. Shamil is a computational neuroscientist and expert in artificial intelligence. He has fellowships at both Oxford and Cambridge and well as at Imperial College London and The School of Advanced…

Order from: https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Mind-Matter-Became-Conscious/dp/1633889920 https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-dawn-of-mind-james-cooke-phd/1144870806 https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Dawn-Mind/James-Cooke/9781633889927?id=9222386801726 https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-dawn-of-mind-how-matter-became-conscious-and-alive-james-cooke/21114038?…

The Dawn of Mind: How Matter Became Conscious and Alive Pre-order from: This week on the podcast previous guest Richard Doyle is returning for a second time, this time to discuss my upcoming book, the Dawn of Mind, which will be released in the US and Canada on December 3rd. Rich is an author and Professor of English and of Information Sciences and…

Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher whose work focuses on the interaction of meditation and social justice. She spent fifteen years living as a nun in a Buddhist monastery in the Plum Village tradition, under the guidance of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. In 2007 she became a Zen teacher after receiving Lamp Transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh, and is…

Find the original conversation here: https://youtu.be/e1f6EH37TKA?si=AcxA9_HWQs3HQekr

My appearance on the Illumine Life's Idea Cast with Justin McSweeney. Link to the original version: https://youtu.be/RIRFmhH29X4?si=rfcBZ5SgFoe7MGlk

Graham Priest is a philosopher and logician and of distinguished professor of philosophy at the City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of many books including Logic: A Very Short Introduction, from Oxford University Press, Everything and Nothing, co-authored with Marcus Gabriel and One: Being an Investigation into the Unity of Reality…

Find the video version at Pre-order from:

This week on the podcast previous guest Shamil Chandaria is returning to discuss his recent paper “A beautiful loop: An active inference theory of consciousness”, co-authored with Ruben Laukkonen. Shamil Chandaria is an expert in artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience. He was a founder of the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imper…

My appearance on the Mastering Thought podcast with Mark Waller and Kristina Black

Ask questions for the next AMA via patreon or the YouTube channel membership community: https://www.patreon.com/DrJamesCooke https://www.youtube.com/DrJamesCooke

Wystan Bryant-Scott is a Buddhist meditation teacher who has spent roughly two and half years of his life practising in an intensive residential monastic setting. He has studied under teachers in multiple Buddhist traditions, including Theravada, Vajrayana, Zen, and Dzogchen, and is a certified teacher of previous podcast guest Shinzen Young’s Unif…

James Cooke discusses awakening on the Conscious Perspective podcast with Gary Lee Haskins

Access the full free course here, along with grounding guidance and a guide on how to use these resources: Disclaimer - Read Before Continuing The practices provided here are intended as guidance for navigating one's experience. They should not be understood as medical advice or as a treatment for specific mental or physical conditions. Dr. James C…

Access the full free course here, along with grounding guidance and a guide on how to use these resources: Disclaimer - Read Before Continuing The practices provided here are intended as guidance for navigating one's experience. They should not be understood as medical advice or as a treatment for specific mental or physical conditions. Dr. James C…

Access the full free course here, along with grounding guidance and a guide on how to use these resources: Disclaimer - Read Before Continuing The practices provided here are intended as guidance for navigating one's experience. They should not be understood as medical advice or as a treatment for specific mental or physical conditions. Dr. James C…

Access the full free course here, along with grounding guidance and a guide on how to use these resources: Disclaimer - Read Before Continuing The practices provided here are intended as guidance for navigating one's experience. They should not be understood as medical advice or as a treatment for specific mental or physical conditions. Dr. James C…

Access the full free course here, along with grounding guidance and a guide on how to use these resources: Disclaimer - Read Before Continuing The practices provided here are intended as guidance for navigating one's experience. They should not be understood as medical advice or as a treatment for specific mental or physical conditions. Dr. James C…

Access the full free course here, along with grounding guidance and a guide on how to use these resources: Disclaimer - Read Before Continuing The practices provided here are intended as guidance for navigating one's experience. They should not be understood as medical advice or as a treatment for specific mental or physical conditions. Dr. James C…

Access the full free course here, along with grounding guidance and a guide on how to use these resources: Disclaimer - Read Before Continuing The practices provided here are intended as guidance for navigating one's experience. They should not be understood as medical advice or as a treatment for specific mental or physical conditions. Dr. James C…

Access the full free course here, along with grounding guidance and a guide on how to use these resources: Disclaimer - Read Before Continuing The practices provided here are intended as guidance for navigating one's experience. They should not be understood as medical advice or as a treatment for specific mental or physical conditions. Dr. James C…

Access the full free course here, along with grounding guidance and a guide on how to use these resources: Disclaimer - Read Before Continuing The practices provided here are intended as guidance for navigating one's experience. They should not be understood as medical advice or as a treatment for specific mental or physical conditions. Dr. James C…

Access the full free course here, along with grounding guidance and a guide on how to use these resources: Disclaimer - Read Before Continuing The practices provided here are intended as guidance for navigating one's experience. They should not be understood as medical advice or as a treatment for specific mental or physical conditions. Dr. James C…

Access the full free course here, along with grounding guidance and a guide on how to use these resources: Disclaimer - Read Before Continuing The practices provided here are intended as guidance for navigating one's experience. They should not be understood as medical advice or as a treatment for specific mental or physical conditions. Dr. James C…

Access the full free course here, along with grounding guidance and a guide on how to use these resources: Disclaimer - Read Before Continuing The practices provided here are intended as guidance for navigating one's experience. They should not be understood as medical advice or as a treatment for specific mental or physical conditions. Dr. James C…

Access the full free course here, along with grounding guidance and a guide on how to use these resources: Disclaimer - Read Before Continuing: The practices provided here are intended as guidance for navigating one's experience. They should not be understood as medical advice or as a treatment for specific mental or physical conditions. Dr. James …

Access the full free course here, along with grounding guidance and a guide on how to use these resources: Disclaimer - Read Before Continuing: The practices provided here are intended as guidance for navigating one's experience. They should not be understood as medical advice or as a treatment for specific mental or physical conditions. Dr. James …

Access the full free course here, along with grounding guidance and a guide on how to use these resources: Disclaimer - Read Before Continuing: The practices provided here are intended as guidance for navigating one's experience. They should not be understood as medical advice or as a treatment for specific mental or physical conditions. Dr. James …

Access the full free course here, along with grounding guidance and a guide on how to use these resources: Disclaimer - Read Before Continuing The practices provided here are intended as guidance for navigating one's experience. They should not be understood as medical advice or as a treatment for specific mental or physical conditions. Dr. James C…

Try membership free for two weeks here: Access the full free Essentials course here, along with grounding guidance and a guide on how to use these resources: Disclaimer - Read Before Continuing The practices provided here are intended as guidance for navigating one's experience. They should not be understood as medical advice or as a treatment for …

Ask questions for the next AMA via patreon or the channel membership community:

My appearance on the Natural Awakening podcast with Wystan Bryant-Scott.

Pre-order from: Sign up for guided practices and more:

Paul Hedderman is a nondual speaker and author of the books On Having Never Left, Escape to Everywhere, and Under A-Rest. Today we speak about nonduality and recovery from addiction.

Ask questions for the next AMA via patreon or the channel membership community (click the "join" button above): https://www.patreon.com/DrJamesCooke

Inês Hipólito is a philosopher and an Assistant Professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, specialising in cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and Artificial Intelligence. She is the Founder and CEO of Mission AI and Lead Ethicist at VERSES AI. Today we discuss cognition, complexity, and Artificial Intelligence.…

Brooke Lavelle is the Co-Founder and President of the Courage of Care Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to facilitating personal and social transformation through relational compassion training, anti-oppressive pedagogies, and systems and community organizing tools. She holds a PhD in Buddhist Studies and Cognitive Science from Emory University, an …

AMA on Inner Space Institute & retreat updates, living life well, idealism, & breathwork.

Alexandre Christoyannopoulos is a political scholar and leading expert on Christian Anarchism, based at Loughborough University. His PhD on this topic was published as the book Christian Anarchism, a leading scholarly text in this area. He is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence. Today we discuss Christian…

Graham Harvey is a professor of religious studies at The Open University in the UK. He is a world-renowned scholar on the topics of animism, modern Paganism, and Indigenous religions. His 2005 book, Animism: Respecting the Living World, is a landmark text in this area and he is the author and editor of many other books on this and related topics. T…

The Mystery of Out of Body, Near Death, and DMT Experiences Differentiating DMT and Near-Death Experiences Dr Gabor Mate - The real reason women smokers are at greater risk

Willoughby Britton is a clinical psychologist, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University Medical School, and the director of the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory there. Her lab researches the psychophysiological and neurocognitive effects of meditation and mindfulness-based interventions for mood and anx…

Chris Guimond is an awakening and nondual realization guide who works with the Trauma Release Exercises that I’ve previously spoken about on the podcast. You can listen to my interview with the creator of the TRE approach, David Bercelli (episode 64), if you want more detail on the practices. Chris and I connected over the fact that we’ve found the…

Ask questions for the next AMA via patreon or the channel membership community (click the "join" button above): https://www.patreon.com/DrJamesCooke

Michael Levin is a developmental and synthetic biologist and a professor at Tufts University. He is known for co-discovering Xenobots which are living robots made from frog skin cells but his research is wide ranging, contributing to fields such as regenerative medicine and the treatment of cancer, as well as to our fundamental understanding of bio…

The Genocide in Gaza & the Psychology of Denial

Alicia Juarrero is President and co-founder of VectorAnalytica, Inc., a data collection and analysis platform. She is also a research associate at the University of Miami and is the author for influential complexity theory text Dynamics in Action. Her new book is called Context Changes Everything and it explores how we can think about causality in …