Beings Beyond the Veil of Ordinary Consciousness | David Brown and Sarah Huntley, EP 408
Connecting with Coincidence 2.0 with Bernard Beitman, MDShow Notes
What if the veil separating our world from the unseen was thinner than we think? In this episode, Dr. Bernard Beitman explores the mysteries of non-ordinary consciousness with David Brown and Sarah Huntley—two researchers delving into encounters with beings that defy conventional reality. Who are the beings that appear at the edge of sleep, death, or deep meditation? Are they parts of ourselves, messengers, or something else entirely? Tune in to rethink the boundaries of consciousness.David Jay Brown is the author of The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities, Dreaming Wide Awake: Lucid Dreaming, Shamanic Healing and Psychedelics, and The New Science of Psychedelics: At the Nexus of Culture, Consciousness, and Spirituality. He is also the coauthor of seven bestselling volumes of interviews with leading-edge thinkers, Mavericks of the Mind, Voices from the Edge, Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse, Mavericks of Medicine, Frontiers of Psychedelic Consciousness, Women of Visionary Art, and Psychedelics and the Coming Singularity. Additionally, Brown is the author of two science fiction novels, Brainchild and Virus, and he is the coauthor of the health science book Detox with Oral Chelation. Brown holds a master’s degree in psychobiology from New York University, and was responsible for the California-based research in two of British biologist Rupert Sheldrake’s books on unexplained phenomena in science: Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home and The Sense of Being Stared At. His work has appeared in numerous magazines, including Wired, Discover, and Scientific American, and he was the Senior Editor of the special edition, themed MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) Bulletins. To find out more about his work see: www.davidjaybrown.com https://www.amazon.com/stores/David-J... https://www.innertraditions.com/autho...Sara Phinn Huntley is an artist, writer, and researcher whose work has explored the intersection of psychedelics, technology, and philosophy for the past two decades, pushing her understanding into pioneering VR mediums for psychedelic exploration. Her work has been published by the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies, featured in Diana Reed Slattery’s Xenolinguistics and most recently “The Illustrated Field to the DMT Entities” with David Jay Brown (Inner Tradition 2024). / @dreamseedvr https://open.substack.com/pub/dreamse... Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD is a Yale and Stanford-educated psychiatrist and the founder of The Coincidence Project. He is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to systematize the study of coincidences. He served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has authored two books: Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Through his Psychology Today blog, podcast, and public appearances, Dr. Beitman brings together science and mystery to deepen our understanding of synchronicity.#coincidence #synchronicity #entities
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