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Provocative Enlightenment Radio

Eldon Taylor

What does Enlightenment mean? Former criminalist, Eldon Taylor, believes that true enlightenment can only come when you learn to take charge of your own thoughts. Can you state that your bel...

Episodes

20 of 415 episodes

21-0215-The Warrior's Meditation with Richard L. Haight

Richard L. Haight is the founder of the Total Embodiment Method (TEM), which is an awareness training system designed to integrate meditatio...

51:44Feb 15, 2021

21-0208-How to be a Stoic with Prof. Massimo Pigliucci

Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more...

52:14Feb 8, 2021

21-0201-The Superhuman Mind with Berit Brogaard

Berit Brogaard, PhD, and Kristian Marlow, MA, study people with astonishing talents—memory champions, human echolocators, musical virtuosos,...

52:33Feb 1, 2021

21-0125-Finding Purpose in a Godless World with Ralph Lewis

Dr. Lewis obtained his medical degree in 1990 at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, where he grew up. He completed specialty...

52:18Jan 25, 2021

21-0118-Growing Young with Marta Zaraska

A smart, research-driven case for why optimism, kindness, and strong social networks will help us live to 100. From the day her daughter was...

52:32Jan 18, 2021

21-0111-Galileo's Error with Prof. Philip Goff

From a leading philosopher of the mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radically new picture of human consciousness—pan...

52:10Jan 11, 2021

21-0104-It Didn’t Start With You with Mark Wolynn

Mark Wolynn is a leading expert on inherited family trauma. He is the winner of the 2016 Silver Nautilus Award in Psychology. As the directo...

52:21Jan 4, 2021

20-1228-MindShift with Professor Barbara Oakley

Professor Oakley’s work focuses on the complex relationship between neuroscience and social behavior. Mindshift reveals how we can overcome...

52:26Dec 28, 2020

20-1221-The Meaning of Christmas with Professor Amy-Jill Levine

Professor Levine is an internationally recognized expert in Biblical studies, Jewish/Christian relations, and the Bible, gender, and sexuali...

52:00Dec 21, 2020

20-1214-Scavengers of Beauty with Philippe Sibaud

Why was the mission to the Moon named after the God of the Sun, and not after a Moon Goddess or God? In this unconventional work, Philippe S...

51:48Dec 14, 2020

20-1207-A Glimpse Behind the Veil with Richard Rowland

Did a tiny bird in Texas really communicate with a horse and convince him it was okay to load on a trailer he’d never been on? Did a horse,...

51:32Dec 7, 2020

20-1130-The Future of Fusion Energy with Jason Parisi and Justin Ball

The gap between the state of fusion energy research and public understanding is vast. In an entertaining and engaging narrative, this popula...

51:30Nov 30, 2020

20-1123-Why We Act with Prof. Catherine Sanderson

We are bombarded every day by reports of bad behavior, from sexual harassment to political corruption and bullying belligerence. It’s tempti...

51:16Nov 23, 2020

20-1116-How I Escaped Political Correctness with Loretta Breuning, Ph.D.

You care about the greater good, but you want to define it for yourself. What if you disagree with the politically correct view? You fear ri...

51:04Nov 16, 2020

20-1109-The Path of Civility with Robert Sachs

What does President George Washington have in common with the Buddha, Sakyamuni? Author and teacher, Robert Sachs, brings together the lesso...

51:47Nov 9, 2020

20-1102-Practicing Positive Leadership with Prof. Kim Cameron

Plenty of research has been done on why companies go terribly wrong, but what makes companies go spectacularly right? That’s the question th...

51:41Nov 2, 2020

20-1026-Ultimate Price with Prof. Howard Steven Friedman

How much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations th...

51:32Oct 26, 2020

20-1019-The Meritocracy Trap with Prof. Daniel Markovits

It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn...

51:22Oct 19, 2020

20-1012-GAIN Without Pain with Greg Hammer, MD

Burnout is on the rise. This is a problem we cannot afford to ignore. The rising costs of burnout are staggering. Health care professionals...

51:37Oct 12, 2020

20-1005-Ways to go Beyond with Rupert Sheldrake

To go beyond is to move into a higher state of consciousness, to a place of bliss, greater understanding, love, and deep connectedness, a re...

51:19Oct 5, 2020