A Biology & Consciousness podcast chronicling the bio-singularity. 3x times per week I speak with leading scientists at the bleeding edge of Neuroscience, Consciousness and Biology.
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.
#164 - Meet The Scientist Seriously Investigating Alien Time Travellers
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Michael Masters is the biological anthropologist who thinks the grey aliens might be us. A professor at Montana Technological University, he studies how the human skull, face and eyes evolved over six million years, and has excavated at a 3.5-million-year-old hominin site in South Africa. His extratempestrial hypothesis argues that the beings described in UFO encounters are our own descendants, travelling back in time to study their evolutionary past. He says it's falsifiable, just not in his lifetime.
Expect to learn:
- The Brazilian Farmer: the 1950s abduction that ended in sex with a near-human woman
- The Earlier Cases: the abduction reports that predate Betty and Barney Hill
- Brain Up, Face Back: why six million years of skull evolution point towards the greys
- The Gamete Problem: why our descendants might come back for our sperm and eggs
- Falsifiable By Time: why he'll be "long dead" before anyone knows if he's right
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GS EPISODES MENTIONED
Andrew Gallimore - No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDA
Rick Strassman - Meet The Father Of Modern DMT Research: https://youtu.be/KeAZOj7tYsc
GUEST LINKS
Montana Tech Faculty Profile: https://mtech.edu/arts-sciences/faculty/michael-masters/index.html
X: https://x.com/MorphoTime
Website: https://idflyobj.com/
Identified Flying Objects (2019): https://www.leighbureau.com/books/identified-flying-objects
The Extratempestrial Model (2022): https://www.leighbureau.com/books/the-extratempestrial-model
Lomas, Case & Masters (2024), The Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis: https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/33/3
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00:00 Trailer
0:02:26 The Skull Scientist Who Studies UFOs
0:03:46 "They Could Be Us From The Future"
0:07:21 The Book On The Shelf That Started It All
0:09:10 Whitley Strieber And Communion
0:10:49 Abductees Who Never Told Their Own Families
0:17:13 The Archetypal Abduction Story
0:19:38 The Nimitz: 80,000ft In Under Two Seconds
0:20:37 The Farmer Who Had Sex With An Alien
0:22:22 "I Just Floated Right Through The Ceiling"
0:24:06 Did Sci-Fi Invent Alien Abductions?
0:29:15 DMT Entities, Machine Elves And UFOs
0:37:32 The 2017 Story That Broke UFOs Open
0:42:08 "The Disc-Shaped Craft Are The Time Machine"
0:44:39 Why The Greys Are Built Like Hominins
0:47:26 Can You Really Fast-Forward Evolution?
0:49:30 Brain Up, Face Back: 6 Million Years Of Skulls
0:56:04 Are We Just Projecting Human Faces?
1:00:13 How Far In The Future Are They From?
1:03:23 Why Would We Evolve To Look Like That?
1:06:51 Falling Sperm Counts And The Gamete Mystery
1:15:01 How Do You Falsify Time-Travelling Aliens?
1:22:27 Teaching A University Class On UFOs
1:30:13 Is The US Government Hiding Something Huge?
1:32:40 Keeping UFOs Quiet Through Grad School
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12 Oct 2026
#163 - Meet The Greatest Near-Death-Experience Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of
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Janice Holden is a near-death-experience researcher who designed the first hospital experiment to catch consciousness outside the body, edits the Journal of Near-Death Studies and spent 31 years on the University of North Texas faculty. For nearly 40 years she has tested one claim: that patients whose hearts have stopped can see the room from above. Surgeons have corroborated some of those details. No controlled study has caught one yet.
Expect to learn:
- The Leg In The Yellow Bag: an anaesthetised patient described an amputation in the next operating room
- The Post-it Notes: a heart patient saw a detail only his surgeon would know
- The Hidden-Target Experiment: pictures hidden near hospital ceilings, visible only from above
- The Life Review: reliving every moment of your life as the people you affected
- DMT Vs Near-Death: why the brain may interpret reality rather than create it
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GS EPISODES MENTIONED
Rick Strassman - Meet The Father Of Modern DMT Research: https://youtu.be/KeAZOj7tYsc
Anil Seth - No. 1 Consciousness Expert: Optical Illusions that Prove Reality is a Lie, Emotions, Books and AI!: https://youtu.be/lOSA06K0l1o
Karl Friston - Meet The Neuroscientist Who Created The Best Universal Theory Of Brain Function: https://youtu.be/R-IZOFs4qmY
Marjorie Woollacott - Neuroscientist: "Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness" — NDEs, Telepathy and Terminal Lucidity: https://youtu.be/mDWtmfmIUHA
GUEST LINKS
Website: https://www.janholden.com
The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0313358648
Journal of Near-Death Studies: https://www.janholden.com/jnds
IANDS: https://iands.org
Articles: https://www.janholden.com/copy-of-articles
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00:00 Trailer
0:02:15 From Doctoral Student To 40 Years Of Near-Death Research
0:03:38 How Resuscitation Created The Near-Death Experience
0:09:06 What Actually Happens During A Near-Death Experience
0:11:03 Moving At The Speed Of Thought
0:11:41 The Tunnel And The City Of Light
0:13:18 The Life Review: Feeling What Everyone Else Felt
0:14:55 "It's Not Your Time": Why People Come Back
0:19:27 Why Near-Death Experiences Aren't Just Dreams
0:21:09 The Woman Who Watched Her Own Surgery
0:27:11 The Post-it Notes A Dead Patient Saw
0:32:31 The Doctors Who Corroborated These Cases
0:33:39 The Harvard Neurosurgeon Who Changed His Mind
0:37:38 Why "False Memory" Doesn't Explain It
0:40:08 The Patient Who Floated Into The CPR Training Room
0:45:05 Hiding Pictures On Hospital Ceilings
0:49:35 Seven Studies, No Hits Yet
0:53:32 Is Humanity Ready For Proof?
0:58:08 DMT Vs Near-Death Experiences
1:06:35 Does The Brain Create Reality Or Interpret It?
1:10:27 Consciousness Before Birth And After Death
1:14:47 Why Don't We See This All The Time?
1:17:30 Karma And The Afterlife In Southeast Asia
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8 Oct 2026
#162 - Meet The Scientist Who Says We've Gotten Cancer Completely Wrong
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Carlos Sonnenschein is Professor of Integrative Physiology and Pathobiology at Tufts University School of Medicine. With Ana Soto, he developed the tissue organisation field theory of cancer: the idea that a tumour begins not in a rogue cell, but in the breakdown of the tissue around it. For fifty years he has argued that cancer research has been looking one level too low. Here he explains why the mutations we find in tumours may be the wreckage, not the cause.
Expect to learn:
- The default state: why every cell's natural tendency is to proliferate
- Growth factors: why he argued they don't exist, and why people laughed
- Mutations without cancer: why he says no gene has been shown to cause a cancer
- Targeted therapy: why he believes the target was never really there
- Cellular agency: how life, proliferation and motility fit together
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GS EPISODES MENTIONED
Michael Levin - Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: https://youtu.be/LTBZRVKUwyM
GUEST LINKS
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VmTCfroAAAAJ
IEA Nantes Fellow Profile: https://www.iea-nantes.fr/en/fellows/carlos-sonnenschein
Biological Purpose Project: https://www.biologicalpurpose.org/people/carlos-sonnenschein
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos-Sonnenschein
An Integrative Approach Toward Biology, Organisms, and Cancer (2018): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29119499
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00:00 Trailer
0:02:26 From Paediatrics to Cancer Research
0:05:23 The Oestrogen Paradox
0:08:43 Proliferation Is the Default State of Every Cell
0:12:27 Inhibitors of Inhibitors
0:14:06 "Growth Factors Don't Exist"
0:15:31 The Somatic Mutation Theory
0:17:41 The Society of Cells and the Tissue Theory of Cancer
0:21:44 Stars and Dogs: Funding a Minority View
0:23:49 Teaching Cancer Through Genetics
0:25:01 How Does Tissue Keep Cells in Check?
0:26:04 Metastasis
0:28:34 Prostate Cancer and Spontaneous Regression
0:30:38 The Cost of Cancer Treatment
0:31:49 Melanoma, UV and the Standard Model
0:32:24 Mutations Without Cancer
0:35:17 No Gene Causes Cancer: BRCA1, p53 and RAS
0:37:00 Why Targeted Therapy Isn't Targeted
0:38:03 When Treatment Causes Cancer
0:40:39 What Does Genome Sequencing Tell You?
0:42:24 Why Does Cancer Run in Families?
0:45:41 Trauma, Healing and Tissue Robustness
0:47:59 A Theory of Organisms
0:50:59 What Is Life?
0:52:18 Economics Is a Branch of Biology
0:53:36 Cellular Agency
0:58:36 Defining Life: Proliferation and Motility
1:01:36 When Did Cells Become Agents?
1:04:49 The Future of Cancer Research
1:09:52 Final Thoughts
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