Richard Silberstein: Stranger & Stranger

Summary

Former Australian neuroscience professor Dr. Richard Silberstein argues that decades of replicated parapsychology research show consciousness is not produced by the brain but is fundamental to reality. Drawing on his new book 'Stranger and Stranger: The Neuroscience of How Mind and Cosmos Communicate,' he discusses precognition, remote viewing, and the claim that focused intention can shape the future. He also suggests the brain acts as a filter on psychic perception, and that weakening this filter may enhance psi abilities.

Key takeaways

• 1Silberstein's book 'Stranger and Stranger: The Neuroscience of How Mind and Cosmos Communicate' has a foreword by parapsychologist Dean Radin.
• 2A 2018 meta-analysis of parapsychology by Tressoldi appeared in a high-impact psychology journal; skeptics Reber and Alcock replied that psi is impossible rather than disputing the data.
• 3Julia Mossbridge's presentiment research suggests the body reacts 2-3 seconds before a randomly chosen stressful image appears, even before a quantum random number generator makes its selection.
• 4Jimmy Carter's 2015 memoir describes a CIA-linked clairvoyant in California who located a downed Soviet plane in Zaire to within about three miles.
• 5A 2024 study in the journal Cortex, led by Friedman in Toronto, reportedly found that inhibiting the left prefrontal cortex with TMS improved people's ability to influence a quantum random number generator.
• 6A Transcendental Meditation group experiment in Washington, D.C. reportedly coincided with lower-than-predicted crime rates; Arthur Koestler's 'library angel' and an Anthony Hopkins coincidence story are offered as examples of intention at work.

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Welcome to Destiny. Now here's your host, Cliff Dunning. I was speaking to Jin Dao, formerly a resident archaeologist, And she's going to join me. We're going to do a dual-hosted podcast next week with an archaeologist who has developed a theory on ancient musical techniques and their effects on consciousness. And from an archaeological point of view, which I thought was kind of cool, I don't think we've ever in the history of Earth ancients or our destiny done a dual presentation where we have two hosts interacting with the guests. So I'm looking forward to that. Be sure to tune in for that program, which will be Saturday, October 24th. We've got the 17th coming up. So that's kind of fun. And I got to mention this to you. I was talking to her about the oral traditions of indigenous people. And she agrees with me as well as Paulette Sties, who we've had on the show a couple of times. that there's ways to validate oral traditions when you get a story of a flood or a pandemic or even star people, which is a topic we've broached before. And what you do to validate it is you get the oral traditions of multiple communities who have the same traditions, who have the same mythology. And after you begin getting the details of it, which takes time because you've got to go in there and interview people, then it's validated. And this is what Dr. Steeves discovered with the age of people living in present-day United States. It was the Clovis people up until 15,000 years ago, and then before that it was. 20,000 years ago. And that's pretty old. That's pretty far along. She has redocumented many of these locations to over 100,000 years ago. ...

Excerpt from Earth Ancients, Oct 14, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.