In today's episode, we spoke with Alan Bottoms, a Volunteer Researcher for the not-for-profit organisation, The Planet Calls. Alan came on to share his opinion about the institutions within our society and daily lives and also spoke about the brain and how it influences our perception of the world. Alan has worked in almost every industry - building cars, buses, and trucks, teaching English, construction work, computer repair, writing music, and research to name a few.

Alan tries to help people see perspectives they may have struggled to see previously on their own. He has spent his life trying to figure out who exactly he is. He has explored spirituality quite deeply but ultimately wonders if he is just a desperate construct created by the brain in a vat experiencing simulation within simulation helping some cosmic entity to work out thei ...