Season 1 · Episode 6 — February 8, 2022
Consciousness and the Mind-Brain Relationship
with Dr. Eben Alexander & Karen Newell
Where does consciousness reside? Dr. Eben Alexander and Karen Newell explore the mind-brain relationship and how binaural beats help us access deeper levels of awareness.
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About This Episode
If I asked you, “Where does your consciousness reside?” your first instinct might be to say, “Well, the brain of course,” right?
After all, isn’t that the part of our body that does all the thinking? Where our thoughts are turned to words, where we debate with others and most of the time with ourselves, where we define who we are?
But is that true? What relationship do the brain and consciousness actually have? And what can we do to go beyond the brain and access deeper levels of awareness?
Hear from Dr. Eben Alexander and Karen Newell about the mind-brain relationship and how binaural beats help us go deeper.
About the Guests
Dr. Eben Alexander
Dr. Eben Alexander spent over 25 years as an academic neurosurgeon, including 15 years at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School in Boston. In the predawn hours of November 10, 2008, he was driven into coma by a rare and mysterious bacterial meningo-encephalitis. He spent a week in coma on a ventilator. He awoke with memories of a fantastic odyssey deep into another realm — more real than this earthly one. His experience clearly revealed that we are conscious in spite of our brain — that, in fact, consciousness is at the root of all existence.
ebenalexander.com→Karen Newell
Karen Newell is the co-founder of Sacred Acoustics and co-author (with Eben Alexander) of “Living in a Mindful Universe.” As an innovator in the emerging field of brainwave entrainment audio meditation, Karen empowers others in their journeys of self-discovery.
sacredacoustics.com→Resources & Links
Binaural Beats
A perception of sound created by your brain. If you listen to two tones, each at a different frequency and each in a different ear, your brain creates an additional tone you can hear.
medicalnewstoday.com→Sacred Acoustics — Brainwave Entrainment Technology
Technology discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, became recognized by the wider scientific community in 1973.
sacredacoustics.com→Recommended Books
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