Unlock Your Potential: Channeling REM Sleep, Lucid Dreaming, & Psychedelics | Dr. Patrick Mcnamara
📄 In this episode, Dr. Patrick McNamara shares more about our brain’s capabilities and how we can channel them to live more creative, productive, and healthy lives. Despite all the available information and resources on the subject, the human brain continues to be a mystery. Within its complex structure, reside not only our thoughts and memories, but also the key to unlocking the potential of our true selves. We uncover some of those secrets in this episode. Dr. Patrick McNamara is distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northcentral University. He also holds appointments in the departments of Neurology at the University of Minnesota and Boston University School of Medicine. He is a founding editor of Religion, Brain & Behaviour, the flagship journal for the emerging field of neuroscience of religion. He is a co-founder of the Institute for the Biocultural Study of Religion, a non-profit research institute dedicated to the study of the neurologic and evolutionary correlates of religious beliefs, behaviours, and practices. He is the editor of Where God and Science Meet and Science and World’s Religions, and the author of The Neuroscience of Religious Experience (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Religion, Neuroscience and the Self: A New Personalism (Routledge, 2020), and numerous publications on the neurology and psychology of religion. He is a past recipient of a John Templeton Foundation award on the “Neurology of religious cognition.” A largely expanded second edition of The Neuroscience of Religious Experience (Cambridge University Press) is due out summer of 2022. Shownotes- 00:00:00 - REM Sleep & Creativity 00:02:15 - The Mystery of REM sleep 00:05:00 - How to Channel REM Sleep 00:09:25 - Effect of Napping on Brain Volume & Function 00:11:20 - Negative Thoughts, Nightmares, & Creativity 00:16:15 - Understanding & Using Lucid Dream States 00:18:30 - Implanting Content Into Your Dreams 00:23:50 - REM sleep Intruding Into Waking Consciousness 00:32:30 - How religious experiences change us? 00:44:05 - Exploring Psychedelics & Micro-dosing 00:56:20 - Creating a Super Intelligence 00:58:50 - Encountering a Supernatural Entity 💻CONNECT WITH DR. PATRICK MCNAMARA - Website - cognitiveneuroscienceofreligion.org Dr. McNamara's Interviews - https://www.cognitiveneuroscienceofre... Information on Dr. McNamara's books- / 127260.patrick_mcnamara 💻CONNECT WITH KRATI - YouTube Channel - @kratimehra Website - https://www.kratimehra.com/ Instagram - / mehra_krati 📄SHOWNOTES & TRANSCRIPT - https://www.kratimehra.com/patrick-mc... 🎙ABOUT THE PODCAST - In this show, we learn from the success and struggles of people we admire, dive deep into concepts tools, and practices relevant to developing a strong character, a healthy mindset, and the emotional weaponry that allows you to live by design and even on bad days, love what you see in the mirror. Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7xayE89... 📝LEAVE A REVIEW - If you enjoy this conversation, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. It lets us know that we're doing a good job with the show and it helps other people discover the show as well https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🙏To share your feedback or to add to the conversation, leave a review/comment, or share it on an email - [email protected]