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The Giants Shoulder

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A Biology & Consciousness podcast chronically the bio-singularity. Three times per week I speak with leading scientists at the bleeding edge of AI synthetic biology, consciousness & inner experience, genetics, psychedelics and drug science. Giants Shoulder is intended to be accessible & entertaining for all ages. No idea is too strange, tackled with genuine curiosity and technical rigour. Come follow the journey as I have my brain melted and ontology warped on a regular basis. Evan has a Neuroscience degree from Trinity College Dublin and is founder of Giants Shoulder.

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July 2, 2026

#134 - Neuroscientist: "Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness" — NDEs, Telepathy and Terminal Lucidity

Get One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool): https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqeWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutMarjorie Woollacott is a neuroscientist who spent three decades as a hard materialist and co-wrote the textbook used to train physiotherapists worldwide. After a meditation experience her own field said was impossible, she hid it from her colleagues for over 25 years before concluding the brain does not produce consciousness — it filters it.Expect to learn why a career materialist neuroscientist hid her own paranormal experience for 25 years, the prospective hospital studies that corroborate what patients report while clinically dead, how a comatose man with zero brain activity accurately described a nurse hiding his dentures, what terminal lucidity is and why dying Alzheimer's patients regain full clarity minutes before death, the ongoing lab research into non-speaking autistic children who appear to communicate telepathically, why Christof Koch said the data would turn his world upside down, how Bernardo Kastrup's analytic idealism compares to Woollacott's own theory of consciousness, and much more…Timestamps0:00:00 Trailer0:02:46 Where Her Story Really Begins0:05:05 The Materialist Neuroscientist She Used To Be0:06:15 The Meditation Retreat That Broke Her Skepticism0:14:24 What Actually Caused Her Awakening0:22:59 How Rigorous Is Near-Death Experience Research, Really0:24:19 The Prospective Studies Skeptics Ignore0:25:06 The Coma Patient Who Knew Where His Dentures Were0:35:48 Bernardo Kastrup's Analytic Idealism Explained0:43:19 Is Terminal Lucidity Just Wishful Interpretation?0:46:09 The Three-Year-Old's Last Request Before Dying0:53:07 Can Consciousness Move Physical Objects?0:58:20 Why Jung And A Nobel Physicist Believed In Idealism1:02:59 The Telepathy Tapes, Explained1:19:40 The Autism Vulnerability Problem With This Research1:21:21 The 5% Above Chance Telepathy Effect1:35:13 Designing an Experiment Skeptics Can't Dismiss...... Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.comGS Episodes MentionedChristof Koch — The Psychedelic Trip that Convinced Christof Koch Consciousness is Fundamental: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJlV-b2bvaEGuest LinksWebsite: https://marjoriewoollacott.com/University of Oregon Faculty Page: https://ion.uoregon.edu/about/person-page/459Book – Infinite Awareness: https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Awareness-Awakening-Scientific-Mind/dp/144225033XAcademy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences Bio: https://www.aapsglobal.com/marjorie-woollacott/ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marjorie-Woollacott

June 29, 2026

#133 - Meet The Most Important Man Alive In The History of MDMA

Check out Scispace (JNGIANT20: 20% off the monthly plan or JNGIANT40: 40% off the annual plan): https://scispace.com/?via=jun1giantshoulderGet Muse EEG Headband (15% off): https://choosemuse.com/giantsshoulderWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about Rick Doblin is the founder of MAPS and the man who spent 50 years dragging the world's most demonized drug into the doctor's office. He taxed legal ecstasy dealers to fund the first MDMA toxicity studies, sued the DEA with the profits, and got a Harvard PhD in public policy to beat the system from inside — then ran the only completed Phase 3 trials in history showing that two-thirds of severe PTSD patients no longer had the diagnosis after MDMA-assisted therapy.Expect to learn how he taxed ecstasy dealers to sue the DEA, why MDMA was a couples-therapy drug before it was a party drug, the real reason Nixon criminalized psychedelics in 1970, why 88% of severe PTSD patients responded to MDMA therapy while half dropped out of standard VA treatment, why you can't get addicted to MDMA the way you can to cocaine, why you'll do more jail time for MDMA than for the same weight of cocaine, his plan for "net zero trauma by 2070," and much more…Timestamps0:00:00 Trailer0:03:03 Winning the Generational Lottery After the Holocaust0:05:27 Dropping Out of College to Study LSD0:08:15 The Forgotten Golden Era of Psychedelic Research0:09:33 When the CIA Weaponized LSD for Mind Control0:13:10 Half a Pound of Mescaline and Ten Years to Recover0:15:09 The Day a Stranger Said "There's This Drug Called Adam"0:15:56 MDMA Was a Therapy Drug Before It Was Ecstasy0:18:39 Sasha Shulgin, the Man Who Invented 200 Psychedelics0:24:12 How Dealers Tweaked Molecules to Stay Legal0:27:21 Why Nixon Really Criminalized the Hippies0:30:04 Going to War With the DEA — and Winning0:33:56 Founding MAPS and $200 Million Later0:39:09 Taxing the Ecstasy Dealers to Fund the Lawsuit0:41:33 The First MDMA Safety Study, Run on a Beach0:42:43 The 1992 Moment That Reopened Psychedelic Science0:44:31 The First PTSD Study, Shut Down for Politics0:48:08 Cannabis Is Palliative, Psychedelics Are Curative0:50:08 The Veteran Suicide Epidemic Nobody Will Fund0:53:33 Why MAPS Bet Everything on MDMA0:58:35 The Effect Sizes That Should Have Changed Everything1:01:01 Why Half of Veterans Quit Standard PTSD Therapy1:02:13 Why the Data Alone Was Never Going to Win1:04:54 The Absurd Reason the FDA Cited: "Euphoria"1:06:34 Why You Can't Get Hooked on MDMA1:07:26 More Jail for MDMA Than for Cocaine1:08:36 Net Zero Trauma by 20701:10:47 MDMA for Couples, and Bringing It to the World...... Email for sponsorship enquiries:evan@thegiantsshoulder.comGuest LinksRick Doblin — MAPS: https://maps.org/people/rick-doblin/Rick Doblin on X: https://x.com/RickDoblinMAPS: https://maps.org

June 25, 2026

#132 - Meet the Psychedelic Scientist Proving The Fields Largest Theory is WRONG!

Check out Scispace (Use Code JNGIANT20: 20% OFF MONTHLY): https://scispace.com/?via=jun1giantshoulderGet Muse EEG Headband (15% off): https://choosemuse.com/giantsshoulderWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutManoj Doss is a cognitive neuroscientist and one of the only people studying what psychedelics actually do to memory — trained inside the field's most prestigious lab at Johns Hopkins, he's now its most rigorous internal sceptic. His claim is heretical: the profound sense of revelation you get on a trip may be a memory glitch — a familiarity signal firing without the detail that would normally justify it, so the trip feels like downloading the truth while your brain quietly degrades what it's actually recording.Expect to learn why the profound insights you get on psychedelics might be a memory glitch, why the entire default mode network story "needs to go to hell", what a 250-subject mega-analysis revealed that small studies missed, why salvia melts you into the couch while DMT builds whole worlds, whether DMT entities and mantises are real contact or just a brain built to see faces, why blocking a single receptor proves psychedelics aren't "keys to reality", the flaw Doss says sinks the entropic brain and REBUS, how you'd ever tell a true revelation from a beautiful lie, and much more…Timestamps0:00:00 Trailer0:02:24 The One Thing Psychedelic Science Ignores: Memory0:05:38 Why Your Worst Beliefs Feel Like Hard Facts0:07:38 The "Sense of Knowing" That Fools Everyone0:09:00 How Psychedelics Rewire What You Remember0:16:11 Why Yoga Feels Better on Psilocybin0:20:27 "The Default Mode Network Story Needs to Go to Hell"0:27:26 How Neuroscience Invents Stories From Noise0:35:42 Why Psychedelic Studies Are Too Small to Trust0:40:31 Salvia: Becoming a Sentient Piece of Corn0:44:13 The Kappa-Opioid Door Into Another Reality0:48:00 Why Salvia Is Heaven and Ibogaine Is Hell0:53:03 Does the Brain Have Two Reality Generators?0:59:24 Has 20 Years of Psychedelics Taught Us Anything?1:05:18 Are DMT Entities Real? The Mantis Problem1:13:28 Why You See Machine Elves (But His Mum Wouldn't)1:24:29 Tearing REBUS and the Entropic Brain Apart1:36:21 "Do Stuff in the Scanner, Stuff Happens in the Brain"1:44:25 The Debate Robin Was Warned Not to Do...... Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com GS Episodes MentionedKarl Friston — Meet The Neuroscientist Who Created The Best Universal Theory Of Brain Function: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-IZOFs4qmYRobin Carhart-Harris — No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-GkE4YtLRkMichael Levin — Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTBZRVKUwyMChristof Koch — The Psychedelic Trip that Convinced Christof Koch Consciousness is Fundamental: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJlV-b2bvaEDavid Luke — Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLKD1gt1X5oGuest LinksManoj Doss — Dell Medical School: https://dellmed.utexas.edu/directory/manoj-dossX (Twitter): https://x.com/manojdossGoogle Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KFo44R0AAAAJORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2939-2522

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What is The Giants Shoulder?: A Biology & Consciousness podcast chronically the bio-singularity. Three times per week I speak with leading scientists at the bleeding edge of AI synthetic biology, consciousness & inner experience, genetics, psychedelics and drug science.

Giants Shoulder is intended to be accessible & entertaining for all ages. No idea is too strange, tackled with genuine curiosity and technical rigour. Come follow the journey as I have my brain melted and ontology warped on a regular basis.

Evan has a Neuroscience degree from Trinity College Dublin and is founder of Giants Shoulder.
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 6 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: No, this podcast does not typically feature guests.

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