Living in a Mindful Universe. Science, Spirituality and Consciousness - Eben Alexander and Karen Newell, May 20, 2018

"All of human knowing is
deeply rooted in personal
experience." -
Eben Alexander, M.D.

"In matters of science, the authority of thousands is not worth the humble reasoning of one single person." - Galileo Galilei

His discoveries with the telescope revolutionized astronomy and paved the way for the acceptance of the Copernican heliocentric system, but his advocacy of that system eventually resulted in an Inquisition process against him. Britannica

Oddsnends - 

• Yellowstone Volcano trivia - sleeping giant snooze alarm? Nat Geo
• Golf and UFO? One believer checks in. PGA Tour
• The Man Who Created Bigfoot (long read). “Meeting Bob Gimlin, to a Bigfooter, is like meeting the President of the United States to an American,”  Outside Online
• Synchronicity in the newsfeed - Near Death experience reported May 7. Teen says a visit with God during his experience proved to him that God is real. Huff Post

Interview with Eben Alexander and Karen Newell, Wendy's Coffeehouse

Dr. Eben Alexander's NDE was a game changer, gaining national exposure and attention due to a couple of crucial elements. One: His status as a Neurosurgeon offered credibility. Two: The fact his vital signs were monitored during the process offered new insight into what transpires in the physical body while one who appears to be dead - experiences conscious awareness on another plane.

Proof of Heaven and The Map of Heaven detail and explore that account. A refresher (or an intro if you are unfamiliar with his story), Dr. Alexander also includes the summary of his NDE on his website: "My experience in Coma."

For more in depth information, watch the 2014 presentation provided by the Theosophical Society. The conference theme was "Science and the Experience of Consciousness." Listed among the presenters were physicist Amit Goswami, consciousness researcher and psychologist Dean Radin, physicist and psychic researcher Russell Targ.



Fast forward to Living in a Mindful Universe. Book three is a collaboration with Brainwave entrainment innovator and co-creator of Sacred Accoustics, Karen Newell, seeking to merge Science and Spirituality.

Chapters in the book address moving beyond Materialist Science, trusting personal experience and learning soul lessons.

During our interview I previewed a sample of the Sacred Heart audio from Karen's Sacred Accoustics library. The free 20 minute audio sample Karen mentioned is here. I will be following up in a second interview with Karen to talk more about the specifics of her audio work.

One of the perks with the book is a Free 33-day course. Link to the 33 day Journey into the Heart of Consciousness. You can also join Eben and Karen for a Weekend Retreat - Sept 2018 - Journey into the Heart of Consciousness.

Wendy's Coffeehouse - Previous interview with Eben: Proof of Heaven in the NDE

“To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited by the physical brain and the speed of light) seem like some hopelessly sleepy and plodding event. Our truest, deepest self is completely free." - Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

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12/24/16 - Wendy's Coffeehouse, It's a Wrap! 2016 Highlights

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real? - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Pottermore.com

Bonus - holiday coffee perk! Starbucks is giving away coffee. NY Post  Check the daily pop-up specials. [Available 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. local time in limited locations 12/23/16–1/2/17 (except 12/25).
One free tall handcrafted espresso beverage per customer.for location.] Find Starbucks Cheer

A trio of timely news notes and bites -

• Memory hacking may not be that hard. Motherboard interview with the author of The Memory Illusion/video via Vice. Book and link for Author, Julia Shaw
• The Slinky defense - pretty darn effective against marauding squirrels.  UPI
  
• YouTube solid gold stocking stuffer! This (revived) Christmas Classic: 3M+ views and counting as of 12/24/16. Chewie/wiki sings Silent Night.

FYI Background: Published on Dec 21, 2016

"Merry Wookie Christmas from HISHE and James Covenant! (http://tinyurl.com/jkc9f7l)
The brilliant idea for "Chewbacca Sings Silent Night" was actually created in 1999 by Scott Andersen (story here: http://room34.com/chewbacca/) and since then his audio has been shared many times, often without crediting him. You can download the original at the link above, or better yet support his genius by hiring him for web design...": http://room34.com


Compilation wrap up time for an incredible 2016. For the last show, we sample four shows from the Wendy's Coffeehouse podcast archives. Each offers an example of how, at any given moment, life can deliver an extraordinarily paradigm shift. I had one in 1997.

Amazing things are happening to every day people on our planet. Even a glimpse of those experiences is an opportunity to open a window to a new view and a potential new engagement with reality.

Here's a bit of lengthy, detailed, intense and current science on that. The Unified Field and the Quantum Nature of Consciousness: Ecstadelic.net 

Interested? Further exploration on YouTube/Alex Vikoulov/The Syntellect Emergence



12/24/16 Wendy's Coffeehouse - It's a Wrap! Archives are open 24/7
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I selected topics for this final show that highlight transcendence and personal encounters with the unknown.

Overview: 1/Miracle survival and recovery from a near fatal accident delivers a bonus in the after effect: desire and ability to heal others. 2/Close Encounters with UFOs and Unexplained. 3/Animal Communication ability triggered by falling off a horse. 4/Near Death transformation inspires a doctor to become a concert pianist.

These are powerful stories from people who have experienced, in some form, an amazing life calling or redirect. I am so glad to have had the opportunity to connect and to share them.

Background info on each of the four segments is featured in the contact links and the links are also posted for the entire interview segment highlighted by the original date of broadcast on KCMO. 

• Rosalyn Berne fell off a horse and into her role as an interspecies communicator 8/20/16, When Horses Whisper, You Can Hear them

• Doug Heyes almost died in a ski accident. 8/13/16, Miracle on the Mountain He recovered and discovered he had also acquired the ability to heal others. Through his book, The Touch/Amazon, he shares some of the wisdom he acquired along the way:
  
  
  • "My master Dr. Wu once told me the secret to mastery of qi gong is to keep doing it and doing it and doing it.
  • My Kung Fu Grandmaster Don Baird says it takes ten thousand repetitions of a move to begin to claim mastery of it. Dr. Yuen put it this way: “When we first start doing this work, we do a great deal to achieve minimal results. As we progress, we do less and less to achieve more and more. Finally, as we become masters, we achieve our most dramatic results by doing nothing at all.” Let’s all bow in. It’s time to train." Source: FindhornPressBlog
    

• Dr. Ardy Sixkiller Cark is a Story Collector. 9/20/16, UFOs, Sky People and other encounters with the unexplained are the focus and this segment included a very interesting meeting with a man who claimed to have found a way to travel the planet via portal. Still in her vast collection, a few hundred stories waiting to be shared. However, she says her next project is a children's book. 

• Dr. Tony Cicoria developed an obsession for music after he was 11/19/16, Struck by Lightning. After twelve years of study and practice, he is now a Doctor and a Concert Pianist. When Oliver Sacks wrote about Tony in The New Yorker in 2007, the cat was out of the bag and the world came calling. Link: A Bolt from the Blue

The potential for extraordinary experience is limitless. Limitless, we are here exploring. As such, one might expect that there is always room for improvement! Indeed, it arrives with each and every upgrade in awareness. Refresh, Restore, Renew and Imagine More.

Best wishes for an extraordinary 2017 and beyond. ~ wendy #wendyscoffeehouse


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"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 

*Interested in the content and curious about other issues and topics in this category, follow the link to my shows on Empower Radio. Listen each night at 9pm central time.

There are several hundred in the archives and a new show taped weekly: Conscious Living with Wendy Garrett on Empower Radio