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In recent years, the advent of MRI technology seems to have unlocked the secrets of the human mind, revealing the sources of our deepest desires, intentions, and fears. As renowned psychiatrist and scholar Sally Satel and psychologist Scott O. Lilienfeld demonstrate in Brainwashed, however, the explanatory power of brain scans in particular and neuroscience more generally has been vastly overestimated.

"Black people are not dark-skinned white people," says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are much more. They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds, constantly making a way out of "No way!" At this...

As an 18-year-old on a gap year in Canberra, Liz Cameron was approached at a shopping centre by a woman who, unbeknownst to her, was a recruiting agent for Providence, a Christian cult that originated in South Korea and currently operates in 72 countries. As a new adult, Cameron was struggling to navigate the world and her identity, and as cults do so skilfully, they took advantage of her vulnerability.

Did you know on average you have over 70,000 random thoughts per day?! Over 80% of these thoughts (roughly 56,000) are perceived to be negative or limiting thoughts with 95% of them to be repetitive thoughts! So on average you may have over 53,000 fleeing negative thoughts throughout the day that come & go as they please & affect your mood in a negative way. Now how is that for self-reflection? Majority of these thoughts happen around topics that give you feelings of anxiety, jealousy, worry, fear, guilt, regret, & any other low vibe emotions. Let's choose our thoughts, mindset, & feelings!

A podcast about meditation for and by people who don’t really meditate that much