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Esp 88: Suggestible to Healing-Placebo Science, guest Erik Vance

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• Each FRIDAY, guests join me in a conversation.
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Today, my guest is Erik Vance a researcher and science water whose work has been published in The New York Times, Scientific American, and National Geographic. He is the author of

Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform and Heal published by National Geographic

SHOW NOTES:

MIN 2:00

When the brain heals or cures the body without medicine and studying the placebo effect.

Being a Christian Scientist as a child and experiencing faith healing.

MIN 4:30

Faith healing and gullibility

Hypocrites

1940s studies determined that the non responders to placebo “pure”, the the response in part of being human.

MIN 7:30

Hypnosis and being “talented” if you are hypnotizable.

[My conversation with Magician Kevin Ferguson about HYPNOSIS and DECEPTION]

MIN 8:30

Expectancy, belief, and placebo effect

MIN 10:30

Priming and doctors using he placebo effect to help people.

Brain is a giant prediction machine.

MIN 12:30

When Erik got electric shocks and his brain filled in the gaps

MIN 15:00

Distraction and pain killing and hypnosis

MIN 18:00

Memories, Suggestibility, and Placebo

Dr Steven Porter – False and Implanted Memories and placebo

[My episode with Dr Porter on implanted and false memories.]

Who we are is so tied up in our memories

MIN 20:30

3 phases of memories

PTSD

memories and expectation for healing

MIN 23:30

Flashbulb memories and how memories changed

MIN 25:00

Eastern vs. Western medicine in terms of healing and placebo

Now used more in certain conditions that track with placebo research and findings.

MIN 28:30

The conditions that respond to placebos

MIN 30:30

Placebo effect that works on top of medicines

MIN 32:30

Marketing medicine in certain ways to increasing effects

MIN 34:30

The rules in play that can cause a 60% response rate to placebos

MIN 36:30

Want Nocebo is (“I shall harm”)

MIN 38:00

Fear is powerful motivator

MIN 38:30

Superstitions, curses (nocebo) and when Erik ask a witch doctor to curse him

MIN 43:00

Proper Hoc Ergo Hoc

(looking for a cause as a reason after something happens)

Creating narratives

MIN 46:00

Cursing other people

Body language and intensions

What doctors can communicate without realizing it

• suggestibleyou.com

• erikvance.com

TWITTER @aterikvance

MIN 50:00
Book tour dates

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Eps 87: An Inefficient Conversation with guest Matt Inman

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Today my guest is podcaster (Inefficiency Podcast) and licensed professional counselor and counselor supervisor, Matt Inman.

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SHOW NOTES:

MIN 1:00
Matt’s backstory of getting into his counseling profession

MIN 8:30

Doing therapy and supervising counseling and what made him want to do the Inefficiency podcast.

Therapy is expensive and inefficient, yet meaningful.

MIN 10:30

Our daily lives don’t often give us space to talk about what matters most or to talk about what we really really want.

Creating inefficient hours

What do people really want?

All people have the same “deathbed desire”

Relationship, convictions, and spirituality are the top things that concern many people.

“Did I live my life or someone else’s?”

“Was it okay to have been me?”

“Did I spend my time well?”

A beautiful burden

MIN 13:30

Being truly present

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We need to play and be late and not take everything so seriously

MIN 18:00

[ictt-tweet-inline hashtags=”” via=””]Inefficiency as a decision filter[/ictt-tweet-inline]

and exploring what it means in real life because it is a good way to be.

MIN 20:00

Repression and how it changes us. (A rock in a pond)

PETER ROLLINS episode:

MIN 22:00

Making good use of what you learn

MIN 24:30

The Hawaii trip and the mind and body connection

Placebo

MIN 28:00

TIM FERRISS show link (Erik Vance and the amazing world of placebo studies)

MIN 30:00

Disease mind/body connected

Reframing our reality

MIN 33:30

Western ways of seeing the world- silos

The spiritual community Matt is involved with now

Vox Veniae (Matt’s community / church)

Home

36:30

The Incarnation is the ultimate act of empathy

MIN 38:30

Enneagram
(Matt is a 9)

Erin Lane (EPISODE LINK)

[ictt-tweet-inline hashtags=”” via=””]“Disillusion” is a removal of your illusion.[/ictt-tweet-inline]

MIN 40:00

Disillusionment or Delusional ?

MIN 43:00

Kester Brewin

My conversation with Kester:

Using Jesus as a drug

MIN 40:30

God escapes any boundary or encapsulation.

The conversations continue about meaning

MIN 49:30

The connection in dialogue and meaningful conversations that feed us.

Our deathbed desires matter.

MIN 51:00

What’s coming next

To Write Love on her Arms Jamie Tworkowski

Brian McClaren

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Soul School-Lesson 57: The Prisoner Prayer

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Today on Soul School I am sharing a version of a presentation on prayer that I gave to the inmates at Federal Prison FCI Schuylkill who (voluntarily) attend ongoing LIFE Ministry (Christian) classes.

My book on prayer is called LIFE AS PRAYER:

My book was inspired by Brother Lawrence and this book:

The Letters of Brother Lawrence

BIO:
Brother Lawrence was a man of humble beginnings who discovered the greatest secret of living in the kingdom of God while serving as a brother in a monastery near Paris. For Lawrence his life was involved the art of “practicing the presence of God in one single act that does not end.” Lawerence often stated that it is God who paints Himself in the depths of our soul. We must only open our hearts to receive God and God’s loving presence. For nearly 300 years this unparalleled classic (which is mainly a collection of letters from him and remembrances of him) has given both blessing and instruction to those who can be content with nothing less than knowing God presence in all God’s majesty and feeling God’s loving presence throughout each simple day.

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Esp 86: Decay, Death, Renewal, and Healing in DETROIT, guest Jessica Aguilar-Christy

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Today my guest is Jessica Aguilar-Christy. Jessica’s many talents, diverse background and work in the Detroit area got my attention, through our mutual connect Charlie Porter (host of Fable podcast). Our meandering conversation will give you a sense of the rebirth of Detroit as well as some surprising ways spiritual traditions and practices can cohere for a richer and more integrated life and service to others.

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MIN 2:50

Learning yoga, finding healing, wisdom and integrating it with the Christian faith.

Yoga Sutra Patanjali – 5,000 year old text

8 fold path

Mantra Yoga

MIN 5:20 Hotha Yoga

Wisdom commonalities of the wisdom texts of the bible and the Yoga Sutra Patanjali

The bodily senses have been overlooked in modern Christian

MIN 8:20 Vinyasa yoga (linking breath and movement aka “hot yoga”)

MIN 11:30

Moving from cerebral and visual and leaving the body and staying in the head.

MIN 12:00

Apophatic and Katophatic ways of being

MIN 18:00

Jessica’s spiritual and religious background and her recent “trouble-making”

Charlie Porter of Fable podcast

Patty Lynch

Lynch and Sons (Mortician)

Slow Brew Theology and the power of story

22:30 Bible and Brew

Jefferson Ave Presbyterian Church

MIN 26:30

The story of Detroit (and especially recently)

MIN 30:30

90 years of Scottish Presbyterian tradition

NOVEMBER 20th

MIN 33:00

The Detroit Pints and Parables Event

MIN 38:00

Let your symptoms teach you

Peter Rollins on Facebook Live FREE material

Friendly Fire Course

MIN 46:00

Death Salons trend

death class

THE SPARK MY MUSE EPISODE ON DEATH CLASSES & DEATH SALONS:

MIN 49:30

Day of the Dead

Dia del los Muertos (Mexican)

Celebration of depleted loved ones.

All Saints Day in Catholic tradition.

Monarch migration IS A THING THAT IS CONNECTED TO THE DAY OF THE DEAD

Ghosts, people we miss, and grief

MIN 53:30

Book of Life

Death and grieving being a part of our spiritual formation

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• Jesuyogini -Yoga teaching for followers of Christ

Detroit: Slow Brew Theology

• Twitter @slobrwtheology

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Soul School – Lesson 56: The 4 Hidden Factors of an Identity Crisis

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SHOW NOTES:

For the later half of the 20th Century people would refer to a phenomenon of undergoing a “mid-life crisis”. After growing up, getting an education, having a career or family, or both, people would get to about mid-life and not be sure why they were doing what they were doing; or what any of it meant anymore, or who they really were anyway. Some would buy sports cars, or run off with their young secretaries, or quit their jobs, go back to school, start writing poetry, start a new hobby, revive their religion or start into a new one, or go on a motorcycle ride across the country. Many others would trudge, more quietly, through it until it was over and they found their way again.

But, in the last 20 years along came another term “the quarter-life crisis”. This referred to people at the beginning of adulthood–perhaps just out of college or working for a few years, or recently married, or putting off marriage. The angst and the quandaries were similar and these people struggled deeply wondering what they should do and be in the world.

Now, these types of Identity Crises periods seem to happen often to people–even every few years, and this episode of Soul School goes into why and what can be done about it.

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