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Join Dr. Dawson Church, a best-selling science writer, to explore the leading edge of health and happiness, along with practical techniques to maximize your wellbeing.
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Thursday Oct 30, 2025
Thursday Oct 30, 2025
Fleet Maull, PhD, is a consultant, motivational speaker, social entrepreneur, and authorized teacher in the Zen and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. He also founded Prison Mindfulness Institute and National Prison Hospice Association, catalyzing two national movements, while serving a 14-year mandatory-minimum federal drug sentence from 1985 to 1999. He is the author of Radical Responsibility: How to Move Beyond Blame, Fearlessly Live Your Highest Purpose, and Become an Unstoppable Force for Good and Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maull.
Fleet founded the Heart Mind Institute, offering online summits, courses, and coaching programs integrating western science with ancestral & contemplative wisdom and addressing themes of trauma healing, resilience building, post-traumatic growth, expanded states of consciousness, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, conscious entrepreneurship, and more.
Here he and Dawson discuss:
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Fleet's background
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The ways each of us has our own hero’s journey
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The truth of "the only way out is through"
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The pain paradox: that joy lies on the other side of pain
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Our own inner channel
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How the suffering of great spiritual masters sensitizes them to the world’s suffering
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A deeply embodied approach to meditation
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The Task Positive Network
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Why when plugging into source our nervous system untangles itself
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Feeling the physicality of the body which will calm your mind
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Spontaneous experiences of Samadhi or awakened states
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Why deeper states of awakening require consistent practice
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When deep states produce the risk of clinging to them
Get a free eBook copy of Fleet's Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness: A Direct Path to Awakening at:
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #consciousness #mindfulness #awakening
Thursday Oct 23, 2025
Thursday Oct 23, 2025
Gurman is a motivational speaker, educator and the author of The Third Testament. He had a 20-year career in law enforcement, where he interacted with every echelon of society, from government leaders to the most under-served communities. He is also an ordained minister and host of the podcast Path of the Audacious Rebel.
Here he and Dawson discuss:
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Gurman's background
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Why 'love your neighbor as yourself' is the foundation of every religion
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The ways we do not see the world as it is, we see it as we are
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Reexamining your beliefs and asking out-of-the-box questions
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The taboo about death, we think about it as the end
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How energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change form
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Evidence from Near Death Experiences and children who remember past lives
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A global awakening of consciousness
You can more about Gurman at: https://iamgurman.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #consciousness #energy #pathoftheaudaciousrebel
Thursday Oct 16, 2025
Thursday Oct 16, 2025
Christy Whitman is a transformational leader and spiritual guide. She is the New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Having It All and The Flow Factor. Christy has appeared on The Today Show, The Morning Show, TedX, and Next Level Soul.
Here she and Dawson discuss:
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How everyone has access to flow
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The importance of being present to find out how you’re feeling
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Why our consciousness lives in words, thoughts, beliefs, emotions, actions
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The bridge where flow starts to happen
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Three ways to cultivate self-compassion
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Being energy receivers and transmitters
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The way energy manages everything in your universe
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Ways to raise your vibration to a high state
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Asking yourself 3 questions:
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What do I want?
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Why do I want it?
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How do I want to feel?
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Find Chirsty at: https://www.christyandthecouncil.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #theflowfactor #vibration #energy
Tuesday Oct 07, 2025
Tuesday Oct 07, 2025
A pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, Paul Levy is a wounded healer in private practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dreamlike nature of reality. He has authored six books, three of which are on the collective but unconscious psychoses in which we live. His newest book is a revised and expanded edition of The Quantum Revelation: Awakening to the Dreamlike Nature of Reality. An artist, he is deeply steeped in the work of C. G. Jung and has been a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for 40 years.
Here he and Dawson discuss:
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Paul's background
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Realizing that our lives are a dream
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How the act of observation creates the universe
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All one interconnected quantum system
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How to get in touch with your own wholeness
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Discovering there is only the eternal now
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How this life is a dream
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Ways our civilization can collectively leap into a new level of consciousness
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Allowing the magic of the universe
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Finding courage, blessing, grace and love hidden in life’s worst events
For more about Paul's work: https://www.awakeninthedream.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #quantumrevelation #dreams #dreamlikenatureofreality
Monday Sep 29, 2025
Monday Sep 29, 2025
Maria Toso is a Danish-born author, spiritual teacher, and somatic healing coach based in Minnesota. Her book, Heal What Hurts: How to Heal Emotional Triggers (Llewellyn Worldwide, September 2025), guides people to release emotional triggers that shape the lens through which we see others and ourselves. Her method helps people become emotionally free, no longer dependent on others to change or on numbing agents to cope. Maria also teaches Yoga Teacher Training at Minneapolis College and leads international retreats and workshops.
Here Maria and Dawson chat about:
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Emotional triggers
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Body scanning
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Breathwork
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Maria's story
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Coping mechanisms
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How and why the body is a perfect expression of your spirit and your programming
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How many breaths we take in a minute
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What to do when you find yourself triggered
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Asking, “How old are you?” and let the place in the body speak
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Avoiding the victim story
Find Maria online at: https://www.mariatoso.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #healing #emotionaltriggers
Thursday Sep 18, 2025
Thursday Sep 18, 2025
Seth Stewart is a longtime performer and creator in the entertainment industry, acting in major roles in some of Broadway’s greatest hits - including “In the Heights” and “Hamilton”- and performing with artists like Madonna, Jay-Z, Jennifer Lopez, and Mariah Carey. Seth followed a deep spiritual calling that led him from the spotlight to the silence of the forest, building an off-grid cabin in the forest where he spent three years immersing himself in and reconnecting with the ancient wisdom of nature. His memoir, Follow Your Vision, Live Your Truth chronicles his journey from Broadway to spiritual guide.
Here Seth and Dawson talk about:
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Seth's background
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Freedom and meditation
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The heart as a compass
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Studying Yogananda and Osho
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Oneness with all things, nature, the universe, each other
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What if we could experience oneness right now?
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Why is it so hard to be happy?
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An energy shield designed to bring positive people and a high energetic state
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Inner awareness creates energetic sovereignty
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Energetic stability independent of what is trying to happen around you
Find Seth and his wonderful memoir at: https://www.iamsethstewart.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #energy #broadway #followyourvision #liveyourtruth
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
Tama Kieves, an honors graduate of Harvard Law School, left her law practice with a prestigious corporate law firm to write and help others unlock the extraordinary faculties within them. She’s the best-selling author of Learning to Trust Yourself and other books. Featured in USA Today, the Huffington Post, Forbes, as well as on ABC News, Oprah Media and other national media, she is a sought-after speaker and visionary career success coach. After discovering the wisdom path of A Course in Miracles, she’s taught it in an interactive and highly experiential way for over 30 years.
Here she and Dawson talk about:
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Tama's background
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Learning to love yourself through the setbacks
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Navigating through your fear to your love
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When you trust yourself, you trust the divine within you
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Mistaking self-doubt for self-inquiry
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How do we stay in our heart and our higher consciousness always
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A Course in Miracles
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Steps to learning to trust ourselves
To learn more about Tama: https://tamakieves.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #trustyourself #feartolove
Friday Sep 05, 2025
Friday Sep 05, 2025
Peter Ralston is one of the founders of the consciousness movement of the 1960s. He is a martial artist and has spent thousands of hours in contemplation which have led to notable enlightenment experiences. He is the author of several books including The Book of Not Knowing and Ending Unnecessary Suffering.
Here Peter and Dawson talk about:
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Why we do things that make us suffer
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Not connecting the action we’re taking with our own suffering
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Recognizing that actual reality is objective and physical
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How does "no self" lead to the cessation of suffering?
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Why an "enlightenment experience" does not end suffering even though you lighten up
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Breakthroughs in consciousness
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Catalyze transcendent experiences by asking yourself: "What would the rabbit do?"
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How to stop doing the dysfunctional stuff that makes you suffer
To learn more about Peter's work and his books: https://chenghsin.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #pastlives #consciousness #endsuffering #enlightenment
Thursday Aug 28, 2025
Thursday Aug 28, 2025
Jenny Johnston is the founder of Quantum EFT for the soul and author of Tapping into Past Lives and Your Past Life Inheritance. Jenny was an Occupational Therapist for 31 years, but after a spinal injury in 2005, began a new career in hypnotherapy and Clinical EFT. She has been a trainer for EFT Universe since 2010. She has worked with many veterans with PTSD which led her to connect with Dawson in 2009 because of his research with veterans. Through Quantum EFT and past life regression, Jenny enables people to see and become the possibilities that are available to them by exploring their soul contracts.
She and Dawson have been close friends for many years, and here talk about:
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Body consciousness and electromagnetic consciousness
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Our past lifetimes stored in our quantum DNA
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The Akashic Records
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Near Death Experiences
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Tapping away trauma with Clinical EFT first
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Quantum EFT looks at what’s happening on the soul level
Learn more about Jenny and her work at: https://quantumeft.com.au/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #pastlives #consciousness #dna #soulcontracts
Wednesday Aug 20, 2025
Wednesday Aug 20, 2025
Rollin McCraty, Ph.D. is Director of Research at the Institute of HeartMath. Research interests include the physiology of emotion, intuition and optimal functioning. His work focuses on the mechanisms by which emotions influence cognitive processes, behavior, and health as well as the global interconnectivity between people and the earth’s energetic systems.
Here he and Dawson discuss:
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Rollin's background and interest in this work
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How the heart’s field is 100 times greater than brain’s field
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Experiments that show heart coherence and meditation could change DNA
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Needing both heart coherence and intention
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What is heart coherence
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How the heart is carrying information about our emotional states
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The Global Coherence Initiative
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The link between earth’s geomagnetic field and human electromagnetic fields
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The Earth’s Field Line Resonances are plucked by the solar wind
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A study where people radiate love and coherence using the heart lock-in
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Why negative emotions like frustration produce 1400 biological changes
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Ways to turn your emotions around at the energetic level with heart focused breathing
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Importance of pausing as often as possible throughout the day
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Asking: “What am I feeding the field?”
To learn more about Dr. Rollin McCraty and the HeartMath Institute: https://www.heartmath.org/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #heartmath #heartcoherence #emotions