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Deadly DepartedWhat Lies Beyond: Paranormal Phenomena, Mystical Experience - Part 1Welcome to a new episode of the Deadly Departed podcast, where we explore the mysteries that linger at the edge of our reality. In this episode, “What Lies Beyond,” host Jock Brocas sits down with author, academic, and long-time Society for Psychical Research member Matt Colborn. Together, they dive deep into the world of paranormal and mystical experiences, challenging the boundaries between hard science, exceptional human encounters, and the unexplained phenomena that weave through our culture.Matt shares his personal journey—from haunted childhood homes and dream precognition to academic studies in neuroscience and bee memory. He explor...2025-06-211h 08
What Lies Beyond PodcastFree Will in Nature | Jem BendellShow NotesSeason 2 Episode 11 ‘Free Will in Nature’Today my guest is Jem Bendell. Before the summer of 2023, Jem was a full Professor of Sustainability Leadership and Founder of the Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria. He was also the founder of the Deep Adaptation Forum and the co-founder of the International Scholars’ Warning on Societal Disruption and Collapse. A major transformation in his career began in 2017 as he took a year out to study the latest climate science and released the Deep Adaptation paper which went viral.A...2025-06-051h 33
What Lies Beyond PodcastTranspersonal Psychology for Global Flourishing | Jessica BocklerShow NotesSeason 2 Episode 10 ‘Transpersonal Psychology for Global Flourishing’Today my guest is Jessica Bockler, PhD. Jessica is an applied artist, transpersonal psychologist and Co-founding Director of the Alef Trust. She serves as Deputy CEO and works across Alef Trust’s academic and applied portfolios. Trained in applied and physical theatre, Jessica has extensive experience of expressive arts facilitation, as well as experimental movement and voice work. She specializes in embodied approaches to accessing creativity and imagination, and she is the founder of Creative Alternatives, an arts-based mental wellbeing service in the UK, which...2025-05-291h 05
What Lies Beyond PodcastFree What Lies Beyond Chapter One Audio ReadingThis a free audio recording of Chapter 1 of What Lies Beyond: Consciousness, Science, the Paranormal and the Post-Materialist Future. Read by the author, Matt Colborn. What Lies Beyond will be available for purchase at Amazon and other retail outlets from Tuesday May 27th. (From June 1st in the US).Amazon UKAmazon USTitle Music: ‘Stranger things’ by Music Unlimited on Pixabey.Thanks for reading WHAT LIES BEYOND! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a publ...2025-05-2248 min
What Lies Beyond PodcastMiracles of Our Own Making | Liz WilliamsShow NotesSeason 2 Episode 9 ‘Miracles of Our Own Making ’Today my guest is Liz Williams. Liz holds a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge. She is a science fiction and fantasy writer living in Glastonbury, England. She has been published by Bantam Spectra (US) and Tor Macmillan (UK) and is currently published by New Con Press, Reaktion Books, Llewellyn Books, Open Road and Thames and Hudson.Liz is also an occultist and a pagan and has published several non-fiction books on that topic. One is the 2020 book...2025-05-1554 min
What Lies Beyond PodcastThe Ghost Experience | Ciaran O'KeeffeShow NotesSeason 2 Episode 8 ‘The Ghost Experience’Today my guest is Ciaran O’Keeffe. Ciaran is an Associate Professor of Education and Head of the School of Human & Social Sciences at Bucks New University. He is a popular sceptical voice on various paranormal shows and podcasts. Ciaran has become best known for his regular appearances on Living TV’s Most Haunted and later for featuring on the popular BBC podcast and TV show Uncanny, which is now in its second series on BBC 2.Ciaran’s paranormal research has focussed on testing mediums...2025-05-081h 21
What Lies Beyond PodcastThe Transliminal Mind | Christine Simmonds-MooreShow Notes‘Season 2 Episode 7 The Transliminal Mind’Today my guest is Professor Christine Simmonds-Moore. Christine earned her Ph.D in psychology from the University of Northampton in the UK. In 2010, she left her native UK for the USA. Christine worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Rhine Research Center in Durham North Carolina until she moved to Carrollton in 2011 to join the psychology department at the University of West Georgia. Her research interests include the study of personality types who are prone to subjective anomalous and paranormal experiences and beliefs, synesthesia, anomalous experiences and slee...2025-05-011h 17
What Lies Beyond PodcastNear Death Experiences: Indigenous Approaches | Natasha Tassell-MatamuaShow Notes‘Season 2 Episode 6 Near Death Experiences: Indigenous Approaches’Associate Professor Natasha Tassell-Matamua is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of the School of Psychology at Massey University in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is also co-Director of the recently established Centre for Indigenous Psychologies. Her research and teaching is in the area of indigenous psychologies, indigenous knowledges and Exceptional Human Experience. This research focusses on the interplay between spirituality, well-being and the wider ecosystem. She has spent the last decade researching the phenomenology, after-effects and cultural specificity of Near Death Experiences, and has published extensively in t...2025-04-241h 07
What Lies Beyond PodcastNear Death Experiences: Cheating the Ferryman? | Anthony PeakeShow NotesSeason 2 Episode 5 ‘Near Death Experiences: Cheating the Ferryman?’Today my guest is Anthony Peake. Anthony is a writer who deals with borderline areas of human consciousness. At university he specialised in the sociology of religion, the theory of language development and the art of the Italian Renaissance. A post-graduate course in management led Anthony away from his calling as a writer and into a career as a manager in various UK businesses.In the year 2000 he was able to take a year’s sabbatical from his business career and he dec...2025-03-271h 39
What Lies Beyond PodcastBeing, Time and Altered States | Marc WittmannShow NotesSeason 2 Episode 4 ‘Being, Time and Altered States’Today’s podcast is the last of a trilogy on consciousness and time. My guest is Marc Wittmann, Ph.D. Marc is a research fellow at the Institute for Frontier Areas in Psychology and Mental Health in Freiburg, Germany. He studied psychology and philosophy at the Universities of Fribourg, Switzerland, and Munich, Germany. He received his Ph.D. at the Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Munich. From 2000 to 2004 he was head of the Generation Research Program, Bad Tölz, University of Munich...2025-03-201h 13
What Lies Beyond PodcastContact with the Future | Jon TaylorShow NotesSeason 2 Episode 3 ‘Contact with the Future’Today’s podcast is the second of a trilogy on consciousness and time. Jon Taylor is an interdisciplinary scientist dedicated to the study of anomalous phenomena related to cognition. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MA in Natural Sciences. A long-time enthusiast of parapsychology, Taylor returned to Spain in 1992 to embark on a 25-year investigation into the physical and biological principles underlying precognition. In August 2024, a revised edition of his book Contact with the Future: The Astonishing Power of Intuition and Precognition, featuring a forewo...2025-03-131h 22
What Lies Beyond PodcastDreaming Ahead of Time | Gary LachmanShow NotesSeason 2 Episode 2 ‘Dreaming Ahead of Time’Today’s podcast is the first of a loose trilogy on consciousness and time. My guest is the writer and musician Gary Lachman. Gary is the author of many books on topics ranging from the evolution of consciousness to literary suicides, popular culture and the history of the occult. He has written a rock and roll memoir of the 1970s, biographies of Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, C. G. Jung, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Emanuel Swedenborg, P. D. Ouspensky, and Colin Wilson. He also written histories of Hermeticism and the We...2025-03-061h 33
What Lies Beyond PodcastThe Case for Skepticism | Chris French & Cal CooperShow NotesSeason 2 Episode 1 ‘The Case for Skepticism’Today’s episode is about skeptical perspectives on the paranormal. My first guest is Professor Chris French. Chris is the Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the Psychology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and also a Patron of the British Humanist Association. His main current area of research is the psychology of paranormal beliefs and anomalous experiences. He frequently appears on radio and television casting a scepti...2025-02-271h 16
What Lies Beyond PodcastWhy I wrote WHAT LIES BEYOND....Welcome to 2025! Here’s a short video on my book What Lies Beyond, which is out in May and now available to preorder on Amazon. In the video, I talk a little about my motivation for writing What Lies Beyond: consciousness science, the paranormal and the post-materialist future. I say a little about my intended readership, which is basically anyone who feels the need to re-think basic assumptions about consciousness, mind and the world. It’s for anyone who’s concerned about our dysfunctional responses to things like climate breakdown. Anyone who’s curious about controversies over psi phenomena and myst...2025-01-0608 min
What Lies Beyond PodcastImportant Announcement!My book What Lies Beyond: Consciousness, Science, the Paranormal, and the Post-Material Future is now available on Amazon to preorder! Available 27th June 2025. Thank you to all my followers, and Merry Christmas.Amazon UKAmazon USPsychedelic muse for the full immersion reading experience:https://www.youtube.com/@ThePsychedelicMuseThanks for reading What Lies Beyond! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public...2024-12-1305 min
What Lies Beyond PodcastHuman-Centred Futures | Jennifer GidleyShow notesThis is the final episode of season one. Today’s guest is Dr Jennifer Gidley. Jennifer is an Author, Climate Educator, Psychologist, and International Futurist. She’s a global thought leader and advocate for human-centred futures in an era of hi-tech hype. Jennifer is an Adjunct Professor, Institute for Sustainable Futures (UTS) Sydney, and has held academic posts in four Australian universities. She is a Fellow at the Botin Centre, Santander, Spain, and a non-Resident Fellow of TRENDS Research & Advisory in Abu Dhabi. She’s held a Visiting Professorship at Olo...2024-12-121h 01
What Lies Beyond PodcastThe Long Trip | Paul DevereuxShow NotesToday my guest is Paul Devereux. Paul is an independent scholar, writer, lecturer and researcher. He has authored over 20 published books since 1980, including his latest, The Powers of Ancient and Sacred Places. Paul is a trained artist and photographer and the former editor of a peer-reviewed journal, Time and Mind. He has a long-standing interest in consciousness and prehistory.This show begins with a long description of Paul’s powerful experience on the psychedelic drug LSD in the 1960s. Paul took LSD a number of months before the drug was criminalised in the UK...2024-12-0559 min
What Lies Beyond PodcastConsciousness Unbound? | Ed KellyShow NotesToday my guest is Professor Ed Kelly. Ed has a BA in psychology from Yale and a Phd in psycholinguistics and cognitive science from Harvard. From 2002 to the present he has been a research professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies, which is part of the department of psychiatry and neurobiological sciences at the University of Virginia. His research interests are psychical research and functional neuroimaging.Ed is also a member of the survival seminar or ‘Sursem’ group at Esalen. The Sursem group was formed in 1998 to examine and collate evidence suggestive of the...2024-11-281h 17
What Lies Beyond PodcastPsi Wars | Craig WeilerShow NotesToday’s guest is Craig Weiler. Craig is a San Francisco Bay Area based author. He covers controversies in parapsychology, such as the Wikipedia controversy and the TED controversy of 2013, which we discuss today. He’s an associate member of the Parapsychological Association and author of Psi Wars: TED, Wikipedia and the battle for the Internet. He pays the bills with his small construction business on the peninsula in northern California, where he lives with his wife and just enough cats.Today we discuss some key campaigns of organised skepticism in the last deca...2024-11-211h 03
What Lies Beyond PodcastScience and Magic | Serena Roney-DougalShow NotesToday’s guest is Dr. Serena Roney-Dougal. Serena is one of the few people in Britain to have obtained a PhD for parapsychology, exploring the relationship between subliminal perception and psychic awareness. She has had over 40 years of study and experience in scientific, magical and spiritual explorations of the psyche, has lectured and taught courses, seminars and workshops in America, Britain, Europe, Japan and India; has written numerous articles both technical and popular, and two books; Where Science and Magic Meet and The Faery Faith. She is currently a green councillor in Glastonbury, England....2024-11-1558 min
What Lies Beyond PodcastCal Cooper | Halloween SpecialShow NotesToday’s guest is Cal Cooper. Callum is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS) holding postgraduate degrees in psychology, social science research methods and education. He has a long time association with the University of Northampton, and is based there as a senior lecturer in psychology. He also conducts research on amongst other things Death and Bereavement and Parapsychology.In today’s Halloween special, Cal and I discussed a number of suitably spooky topics. We talked about Cal’s early experiences as a ghost hunter and his move into professional psycho...2024-10-3149 min
What Lies Beyond PodcastHigh Strangeness Anthropology | Jack HunterWelcome to What Lies Beyond with your host Matt Colborn. Conversations on consciousness science, the paranormal and the post-material future. Visit us and subscribe on whatliesbeyond.substack.comToday my guest is Dr. Jack Hunter. Jack is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology and the paranormal. He lives in the hills of Mid-Wales with his family. He is a tutor with the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He is also a tutor with the Alef Trust on their MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal...2024-10-2457 min
What Lies Beyond PodcastReality is Mind | Bernardo KastrupShow NotesTodays’ guest is Bernardo Kastrup. Bernardo is the executive director of the Essentia Foundation and a promoter of a philosophy called metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and another in computer engineering. As a scientist he worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research at CERN and the Philips Research Laboratories. He’s also been active in the high-tech industry for almost 30 years. His ideas have been featured on the Scientific American, the magazine of The Institute of Art and Ideas, the Big Think, and many...2024-10-171h 10
What Lies Beyond PodcastA Consciousness Renaissance? | Brian Les LancasterShow NotesToday’s guest is Professor Brian Les Lancaster. Les has been instrumental in the growth of Transpersonal Psychology in the UK and internationally. He is one of the founding directors of the Alef Trust. He has previously served as Chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, President of the International Transpersonal Association, and a Board member of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology. He is Emeritus Professor of Transpersonal Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), where with colleague Michael Daniels, he initiated postgraduate programmes in Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology.In...2024-10-101h 15
What Lies Beyond PodcastConsciousness and Synchronicity | Bethany ButzerShow NotesWelcome to episode 1 of season 1 of the What Lies Beyond podcast. In this season, which is ten episodes, I’m focussing mainly on what we might call post-materialist perspectives. This is to introduce the broad themes of the show, which concern the nature of consciousness, and how that might impact crises of ecology, health and meaning. It’s an exploration of extraordinary experience — and here my guests do have some fascinating stories to tell. What Lies beyond also explores what kind of a world we might want to live in tomorrow. This is because diverging theori...2024-10-031h 10
What Lies Beyond PodcastExcerpt 2 AI and consciousness | Bernardo KastrupThis is an exclusive interview excerpt from What Lies Beyond with Matt Colborn. Conversations on consciousness science, the paranormal and the post-material future. Visit us and subscribe on whatliesbeyond.substack.comBernardo Kastrup is the executive director of the Essentia Foundation and a promoter of a philosophy called metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and another in computer engineering. As a scientist he worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research at CERN and the Philips Research Laboratories. In this clip extract, Bernardo discusses how his work...2024-09-2013 min
What Lies Beyond PodcastWhat Lies Beyond Podcast Exclusive Preview Excerpt 1: Bethany ButzerThis is an exclusive interview excerpt from What Lies Beyond with Matt Colborn. Conversations on consciousness science, the paranormal and the post-material future. Visit us and subscribe on whatliesbeyond.substack.comMy first guest on What Lies Beyond will be Bethany Butzer, PhD. Bethany writes, teaches, and conducts research in the fields of positive psychology and transpersonal psychology. She is currently the Assistant Director of the Alef Trust PhD program in Applied Transpersonal Psychology. We also both teach on the Trust’s ‘Approaches to Consciousness’ short course, which is part of their Master’s program. In this...2024-09-0512 min
What Lies Beyond PodcastWelcome to What Lies BeyondThis is the welcome video for ‘What Lies Beyond,’ the companion site for my forthcoming book from Collective Ink, What Lies Beyond: Consciousness Science, the Paranormal and the Post-Materialist Future. This site will also host a new podcast, season 1 of which is scheduled for this autumn. In the video, I talk a little about the motivation for writing What Lies Beyond and why I think Exceptional Human Experiences are important. This is the place to come for anyone interested in controversies over consciousness, especially debates over psychic phenomena and mystical experience. It’s also the place to come if you’re...2024-07-0503 min
What Lies Beyond PodcastIntroducing What Lies Beyond (Audio version)This is the audio version of the introductory essay that set out the themes of my forthcoming book What Lies Beyond: Consciousness Science, The Paranormal and the Post-Material Future.Thanks for reading What Lies Beyond! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit whatliesbeyond.substack.com2024-07-0509 min
MOCA LIVECurrent Events: A Refik vs. Jerry Bloodbath, Matt Kane and Operator’s Performative Brilliance, and Destroying Ourselves with SeriousnessThis week, Max and Colborn talk about the seeming blood-feud between artist Refik Anadol and critic Jerry Saltz, how multi-layered performances by Matt Kane and Operator are stretching the crypto art paradigm ever-higher, why crypto art continues to take itself so seriously and how that's hurting us, and more!
2023-11-2745 minMOCA LIVECurrent Events: Is 6529 a Real Person, Will the Bitcoin Spot ETF Change Everything, Opensea’s Terrible Year, and Colborn’s Take on Matt Kane’s Latest PerformanceOn this week's Current Events, Max and Colborn talk 6529's new automated allowlist program —EMMA— and whether 6529 is a person or a conglomerate, the explanations and implications of the possible Bitcoin Spot ETF (coming soon???), Opensea's Downfall, and Matt Kane's Contractual Obligations AI project.
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Navigating Consciousness with Rupert SheldrakeHow Skeptics WorkThe Society for Psychical Research Study Day on Skeptics: London, October 25 2008.Read a review of the day's proceedings by Matt Colborn:https://www.skepticalaboutskeptics.org/examining-skeptics/matt-colborn-sprs-study-day-on-skeptics/ 2022-07-051h 05
NFT Origin StoriesDave Krugman | NFT Origin Stories #41 00:20 Introduction 00:37 Origin Story 9:00 Comparing the iPhone to the printing press 11:10 From Psychology to Photography 16:50 Community - #1 Factor for Growth 24:57 Pivotal Photographs 30:00 NFT Strategy Mode 38:08 Vision for ALLSHIPS 43:15 The Value of Social Media 47:20 Restraint in the NFT space 53:20 Collab with xsullo 1:02:23 The Lightning Round Episode Mentions: Colborn Bell, Museum of Crypto, Annie Leibovitz, Alex Verhave, Silhouette Studio, Metropolitan Museum of Art, BBDO Worldwide, Matt MacDonald, Franklin Fitch, Vlad Ginzburg, Blockparty, J.N. Silva, ThankYouX, ALLSHIPS.CO, SuperRare, 33NFT, Peter Laxalt, @SecretStreet, xsullo, Keyboard Monkey, Discerning Wino 2021-08-101h 25
NFT Origin StoriesDave Krugman | NFT Origin Stories #41 00:20 Introduction 00:37 Origin Story 9:00 Comparing the iPhone to the printing press 11:10 From Psychology to Photography 16:50 Community - #1 Factor for Growth 24:57 Pivotal Photographs 30:00 NFT Strategy Mode 38:08 Vision for ALLSHIPS 43:15 The Value of Social Media 47:20 Restraint in the NFT space 53:20 Collab with xsullo 1:02:23 The Lightning Round Episode Mentions: Colborn Bell, Museum of Crypto, Annie Leibovitz, Alex Verhave, Silhouette Studio, Metropolitan Museum of Art, BBDO Worldwide, Matt MacDonald, Franklin Fitch, Vlad Ginzburg, Blockparty, J.N. Silva, ThankYouX, ALLSHIPS.CO, SuperRare, 33NFT, Peter Laxalt, @SecretStreet, xsullo, Keyboard Monkey, Discerning Wino 2021-08-101h 25
Modern Happiness27 - Coaching The Fittest Athletes in the World w/ Jon ColbornOn this weeks episode of Modern Happiness, Matt and Taylor sit down with Omnia Fitness's head coach Jon Colborn and Omnia Crossfit Athlete Mary Kay Dreisilker to discuss what it's been like getting to and competing in the 2021 Crossfit Games.
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