Episode 104: On this episode, distinguished Princeton Graduate and author Mark Gober of An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness and An End to Upside Down Contact: UFOs, Aliens and Spirits-and Why Their Ongoing Interaction with Human Civilization Matters, joins me on the show. Mark is also the host of the podcast "Where Is My Mind?" (2019). Additionally, he serves on the board of the Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Sciences and the School of Wholeness and Enlightenment.

Previously, Mark was a partner at Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley and worked as an investment banking analyst with UBS in New York. He has been named one of IAM’s Strategy 300: The World’s Leading Intellectual Property Strategists. Gober graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, where he wrote an award-winning thesis on Daniel Kahneman’s Nobel Prize–winning “Prospect Theory” and was elected as captain of Princeton’s Division I Tennis team.

Mark talked about the difference between the materialst view of consciousness versus the much more expansive view of consciousness that says that says that consciousness is fundamental to everything. Mark also talked about how Near Death Experiences, the UFO phemonena and the paranormal relate to this expansive view of consciousness residing outside the brain. To find out more about Mark and his work you can visit his website at, markgober.com.

Music by: Sergey Cheremisinov