The Room of Lives

by Neel

I am Neel (abhranil.net), physics and neuroscience PhD (India/USA). I explore people's life stories and visions across many topics, but frequent interests are science, spirituality, mind and magic.

 
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Podcast episodes

  • 58 · Anthropologist · Science, Religion, Magic

    58 · Anthropologist · Science, Religion, Magic

    'As a teen, I met a friend every year in a park at midnight on Christmas eve. One time as we were walking, there was a flash of light, and I went away somewhere. It felt like outer space, I didn’t have a body and could not move, a...

    01:24:19

  • 57 · Pastor · Haitian Voodoo, Science & Coincidence

    57 · Pastor · Haitian Voodoo, Science & Coincidence

    ‘Here in the US, money can do a lot of things that a relationship with God can, so people rely less on that relationship. In Haiti, there's less ambiguity about the effect of magic and prayer. When I was six, my grandfather brough...

    38:42

  • 56 · Oil & Water

    56 · Oil & Water

    At a recent camping trip to Enchanted Rock with my friend Behnam, I share how I have traversed from the world of scientific reason and objective truths, to spiritual, unprovable, even paranormal truths. I would love to bridge thes...

    47:54

  • 55.3 · Philosopher · Who am I?

    55.3 · Philosopher · Who am I?

    ‘Two clones wake up in identical rooms, and are told that one is near a mountain, the other is near a lake. Either of them can ask, “Am I the one near the mountain, or the lake?”, and there can be an answer. But interestingly, a t...

    47:00

  • 55.2 · Philosopher · Truths Beyond Thought

    55.2 · Philosopher · Truths Beyond Thought

    'I was obsessed with knowing the fundamental truths of the world, and became an analytic philosopher, focused on logic and rational thinking. After the wilderness, I began to feel that there are more, juicier, ways of connecting w...

    44:48