Jason Silva
Described by The Atlantic as “part Timothy Leary, part Ray Kurzweil, and part Neo from the Matrix,” Jason Silva is blazing new trails in the ways that people conceive spirituality, technology, and transcendence. During his youth in Caracas, Venezuela, Silva found art and ideas were the only way to distract himself from death, or the impermanence of the human condition. After studying film and philosophy in the University of Miami, he made “Textures of Selfhood,” a documentary on hedonism and transcendence that garnered him the attention of producers for Al Gore’s cable network Current TV. Silva was a presenter and producer there from 2005 to 2011, but eventually he left television to try his luck with a series of online short films, Philosophical Espresso Shots. These films were a game-changer. Read more.
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Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier declares that “Consciousness is more fundamental than form,” but when Deepak asks Lanier if he perceives himself as a consciousness, his reply is ambiguous. Regardless of how Lanier perceives himself, he has undeniably contributed to the expansion of human consciousness. In this episode of Deepak Chopra’s One World, we are granted an intimate audience with this technological visionary of our time. Jaron Lanier is an internationally best-selling author, an active participant in the world of new classical music, and a pioneer in the field of virtual reality. Jaron Lanier has been listed on Time’s list of the 100 most influential people, cited by Foreign Policy Magazine as one of the top 100 public intellectuals, and identified as one of the top 50 World Thinkers by Prospect Magazine. Read more.
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Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay
Anirban Bandyopadhyay is a young man but you wouldn’t know that just from looking at his resume. A Senior Scientist in the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan and currently a visiting scholar at MIT, he is an expert in mathematics, physics, molecular biology, quantum mechanics and in a variety of other fields. Deepak Chopra recently sat down with Anirban to discuss his work and his passion for solving the riddles of the human mind. Read more.
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Dr. Rudolph Tanzi
One of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential People in 2016, professor of neurology, genetics and aging, Dr. Rudy Tanzi is leading the change in research on modification of genes. In this show, Dr. Chopra and Dr. Tanzi elaborate on how your perceptual experience, your lifestyle, essentially your mind and behavior, influence everything at a cellular level, your gene expression. Your body is so responsive to your experiences, such as exercise and meditation, that we have immediate genetic changes in our brain based on the way we live our lives.
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Max Tegmark
Life, Max Tegmark tells Deepak, is the single most important thing in the universe. Without life, he says, without consciousness, without our ability to be self-aware, the universe would be a waste of space. Humanity ought not to feel insignificant because of our small size, because the notion of the beauty of everything else, only exists as a product of our perceptions. Read more.
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Leonard Mlodinow
As writing partner of Stephen Hawking, and shows including Star Trek and MacGyver, theoretical physicist Dr. Leonard Mlodinow’s multifarious mind has lead him to be the developer of a new type of perturbation theory for eigenvalue problems in quantum mechanics. In this show Dr. Chopra and him discuss topics such as randomness as a concept and how it effects your life, and how we misjudge effects of randomness. They also touch the topics of your unconsciousness mind and how it rules your behavior.
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Prof. Neil Theise
A diagnostic liver pathologist and adult stem academic in New York City, Professor Neil Theise is considered a pioneer of multi-organ adult stem cell research.
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Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay
Recognized for inventing nano brain, Anirban Bandyopadhyay is involved in setting up a global platform for creating a super-intelligent molecular machine “Bramha“.
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Donald DeGracia
Dr. Donald DeGracia’s research area is the mechanisms of cells in the brain and the altered states of consciousness. In this episode Dr. DeGracia and Dr. Chopra’s question the nature of the human experience by examining Eastern and Western medical practices. Understanding the intricacies of for example the yogic traditions, such as pratyahara yoga and yoga nidra, there is potential to scientifically understand the link between the mental and physical worlds.
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Dr. Dacher Keltner
Social scientist and founder of the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California Berkley, Dr. Dacher Keltner focuses on the social functions of emotion that define human social living. Dr. Chopra and Dr. Keltner discuss interpersonal neurobiology in this episode, the pro-social emotions including compassion, touch, gratitude or awe, and their scientific connection to the eco-system of life and our overall evolution. A fascinating conversation around science based practical approaches to finding meaning and happiness.
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Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay
Developing the unique quantum music measurement machine, Anirban Bandyopadhyay developed a new frequency fractal model to establish a world of physical biology squarely parallel to chemical only biology.
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Lisa Miller
Founding the Spirituality and Mind Body Institute at Columbia University, Professor Lisa Miller runs the first Ivy League graduate program to concentrate on spiritual psychology.
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Heather Berlin
Professor at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine, Dr. Heather Berlin’s is a leading voice in the research fields of neural basis of impulsivity, compulsivity, consciousness, and the unconscious processes, basically the relationship between the mind and the brain. She uses neuroimaging and neuropsychological techniques to better understand the complexity of our minds and shares some of these processes and findings in this show with Dr. Chopra.
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Cassandra Vieten
President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Executive Director of Research at IONS, Cassandra Vieten discusses with Dr. Chopra how earth’s despair is created by humanity’s boundaries and the limitations in our human consciousness. The core seed of the world’s religious and spiritual traditions is based on consciousness without boundaries and science is beginning to converge with that wisdom reaching a nexus point. This show details how we will find the next human evolutionary leap at that nexus point.
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Cori Bargmann
Elected to the National Academy Of Sciences, Dr. Cori Bargmann’s overwhelming curiosity has made her one of the top scientists in the neurological field known for her work on the genetic and neural circuit mechanisms of behavior. This show is a discussion of how the brain's biology in relation to genetics, environment and experience, interact to give rise to flexible behaviors; whether a honeybee brain or human brain. A fascinating conversation shedding scientific light on the connectivity of our universe.
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Michio Kaku
Theoretical physicists are not known for their rock star appeal. Scientists are not inherently cool by our modern standards because so often the average person does not understand what it is they do. Michio Kaku is working to change that and in the process, he has become a bit of a superstar in his own right. Michio and Deepak Chopra discuss his illustrious career, his book, and the conscious mind; an interest that they both share. Read more.
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