Dr. Mayim Bialik
Are Aliens Just an Extension of Our Consciousness? Are psychedelics the only way to tap into a higher state of consciousness? Dr. James B. Glattfelder on the Transcendental Multiverse, Psychedelics, and the Fight for Meaning
What if communicating with aliens isn’t “out there”, but deep within? In this mind-expanding episode of Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown, Dr. James B. Glattfelder, complexity scientist, metaphysical idealist, former quant, and author, dives deep into the true nature of consciousness, the limits of traditional physics, and the emergence of meaning in our increasingly fractured world.
From psychedelic dimensions and the “transcendental multiverse” to the hidden role of identity in societal collapse, Dr. Glattfelder explores:
– Why modern physics hits a wall when explaining consciousness, and why the pendulum is swinging back toward spiritual and philosophical truth
– Whether alien contact during DMT trips is actually us tapping into a wider field of consciousness
– Why he believes we live in a transcendental multiverse, and how you can train yourself to explore it
– His personal experiences with psychedelics, and why he thinks they should be a last resort for accessing higher states
– Natural ways to stimulate DMT production without substances
– Potential mental health benefits of THC
– Alternative modalities that lead to non-dual states and expanded awareness
– Dangers of cosmic nihilism in today’s spiritual seeking
– Why identity is at the root of our collective dysfunction
– Whether everyone should have access to higher consciousness, or if it’s best left to the few
– Why exploring your consciousness has the radical power to transform your life
– Delicate balance between intuition, metaphysical signs, and grounded presence
– Neuroscience vs philosophy: Why brain damage sometimes unlocks new genius abilities
– How religion served humanity before it was weaponized, and what’s next
– Why we suffer, even if there’s a loving intelligence behind everything
– The real cure for our crisis of meaning? A return to re-enchantment with reality
– Why so many plants have psychedelic properties, and what that says about consciousness itself
This conversation will shake the foundations of what you believe is real!
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Intro
04:02 – What is Reality?: Understanding Perception
12:38 – What is Consciousness?: Exploring Awareness
19:20 – Paradigm Shift: Idealism vs Materialism
21:08 – What if Synchronicity is True?: Exploring Meaningful Coincidences
27:57 – Societal Challenges Plaguing Us Today
32:34 – Access to Higher Consciousness
39:40 – Default Mode Network & Psychedelics
47:40 – Brain Injuries & Savant Abilities
49:10 – Accessing Information Outside the Brain
54:15 – Philosophical Perspectives on Nature of Reality
57:13 – Finding Purpose
1:05:50 – Practical Implications of Metaphysics
1:13:01 – Complexity and Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
1:13:40 – Dark Energy & Dark Matter
1:14:32 – The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
1:18:40 – DMT & Aliens
1:24:30 – Why Are There So Many Plants that Can Induce Psychedelic States?
1:39:32 – Rediscovering Wonder
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When I'm down, I listen to " we are the world" and I cried then I become better
Like 🐜? Don't have rational mind but can be amazing?
I am really trying to get something out of this, but your ad settings are EXHAUSTING.
I don't know what's going on with me but everyday it gets stronger and stronger and I know if my emotions are agitated happy or whatever the emotion that I am feeling is the entities behaving that manner I feel the Earth
4 years I've been telling people that something is here and the last few days I've learned to control my emotions
The things you guys speak of about the universe being sort of alive or is alive is in my mind or 100% true because I experience entities
100th Monkey Effect 🙉😀
Maybe people that develop a skill after injury it may have been a skill they had in a past life that was stored in the consciousness that got opened.
Re-enchanting is what I discovered is the only way to feel original, ancient, eternal, immanent Joy of the Source discovering its own existance
Werner Heisenberg: A founding father of quantum mechanics, he wrote an entire book titled Physics and Philosophy. He openly admitted that he could not have fully formulated his physics breakthroughs without studying philosophical concepts.
Albert Einstein: Einstein believed the "independence of judgment" given by philosophy is what separates a mere artisan from a real seeker of truth. He was deeply influenced by philosophers like Immanuel Kant and Ernst Mach when developing relativity.
Aristotle: In antiquity, there was no line between the two. Physics was literally known as "natural philosophy". Aristotle practiced both together.
sooo many people talking about that Elara Vance arche type quiz its crazy, lol. Tried it myself and the results are quite promising!
Watching this one for the 1st time & when Mayim referred to Kat Williams, I spoke out loud "or hungry"😂
I love this podcast soooo much! I listen when I'm working or at the house cleaning on my ear buds & they way y'all host makes it feel like I'm sitting there with y'all just absorbing great info & banter. I did just sit with Mary Jane though🤷♀️😝🍀
We exist in an idealistic universe, not a material one. Consciousness created matter, not the other way around.
We are infinite fractals of Universe/Source/Unity Consciousness experiencing itself through different lenses.
This is indeed a stage. We must ascend the duality of Light/Darkness, which is a trap as those two force will be locked in an eternal struggle.
A higher force resides above these.
I was given specific details I could later confirm through 5 months of digging through partially closed archives. These facts were so obscure or uninteresting to others that they don't show up in any history books, documentaries, podcasts or any media. This rules out confirmation-bias, cryptomnesia or some sort of recall-pollution. These facts checked out, not 67% or 80%, but 100%, which is why my jaw hit the table and I'm convinced about the veracity of the first line I wrote.
In 1969 i sought to go elsewhere. Today at 80 i enjoy an expanded reality. Elsewhere and everywhere is anywhere i am. I can be wherever i want. Having a physical body is not limiting; it's a point of focus just as fantastic as any other.
Mayim please accept my deepest appreciation for your informed questioning
❤❤❤
Human perception is not fixed — it is a fragile, dynamic, relational process in a loving limitless universe❤
I now wonder if people diagnosed with schizophrenia are actually experiencing telepathy and the other phenomena. Poor people thinking they are crazy when in fact they are very gifted.
Who is it that is looking out at the physical world in the first place? Consciousness seems like the most fundamental concern . How do scientists not get this?
1:35:18 No biggie.
1:34:03 You got mad fairy energy, yo.
it might be related to him and james dont know who it is deus vult..
Once they grow pot commercially using synthetic fertilizer it becomes toxic and dangerous.
I had what you say is a spiritual awakening, im not religious at all, it wasn't something I was even trying to do. But I somehow bumped into this person and time just stopped. I felt like I was Home, and ever since. Once I realized what happened. I have been able to meditate. I didn't notice till I did research that my mind is so clear and at peace. I just let go and let whatever happened that moment take over. And I don't let every day worries take over any more. I've been the most happiest that I been trying to celebrate life.
Just catching up with this wonderful conversation. I was raised in a multi-generational home with a grandmother who was both clairvoyant and a healer. Because of her metaphysical background, she took for granted that the elemental and "fairy" kingdom, i.e., nature spirits, play a central role in "constructing" and maintaining physical forms. She did an experiment when I was very young where she asked the nature spirits who worked with her rose bushes to only attend to the bushes on the left side of the garden and ignore the ones on the right. She said she would water and feed both sides the same, but she wanted to see what would happen if the nature spirits stopped attending to the right half. Quite soon – I don't remember exactly how long – it became clear that the right side of the garden was beginning to wither. She quickly asked the nature spirits to again attend to the whole garden and it took a number of months for the roses on the right to bounce back to their prior health and beauty. I also have a friend in Iceland, where they call these beings "elves", who has long seen and interacted with them. For me, I have always assumed that this life form, in its stunning variety, works with all of us who are in physical bodies, even though our culture doesn't acknowledge their existence nor does it help us know how to perceive them.
Entanglement Theory must be the link to synchronicity. I just can't prove it.
"pots not addictive but feeling good is"
this is the most backwards thought process I've possibly ever come across in 42 years of being alive. THAT'S THE POINT OF BEING HERE. No one came here to feel the worst life has to offer.
"If you look close enough, right? We are not just people with souls given from God. We are particles, we are things. And, if you look close enough, you can see that we're all made of molecular beauty…" Nope. No, we're not. We aren't our physical bodies any more than we are the clothes we wear or the cars we drive. The physical body is nothing more than a space suit we wear that enables us to be able to navigate and interface with physical reality. That's it. So many NDErs have reported having left their bodies and they look over at it lying limp on the floor and all they see is a pile of dirty laundry. The physical body is nothing. When we're done with it, it's utterly meaningless to us. We are not our physical bodies. We are timeless, immortal beings of pure consciousness.
During the chaos of wartime there are surreptitious deals and extreme power grabbing wealth acquired corruptly. That criminal class does have an imperative to prevent public elucidations, save ultimate social satisfaction. They do this through hallucinatic drug suppression.
1:12:09 for oiiaiaoiiiai
I value the openness and curiosity you bring to these conversations. One thought I haven’t heard explored in depth on the channel (note I haven’t seen all your videos 😅) is the importance of developing the subtle body, or whatever language different traditions use for cultivating our capacity to hold and integrate subtler levels of consciousness. I first encountered this idea through my preparation for a significant pranayama and meditation practice, but I’ve since recognized versions of it across other spiritual traditions as well (e.g. the 6 Essential Rosicrucian Exercises, etc.).
I know there is already so much on this channel that speaks to preparation, grounding, and integration, so I offer this simply as an opportunity to emphasize something I know you talk about already, that it is important to have a qualified guide who can help us understand our specific situation and readiness to explore higher states of consciousness before we take the trip. I love this channel and the bridge you’re creating between neuroscience, spirituality, and the deeper questions of consciousness. Thank you. ❤️
But I don't want to do drugs. It sounds like he's saying the most effective means to achieve this state is that… .ugh.
Why don't you let me listen to the way it is that you all actually speak? Why do you all rain down a dampening snow every time anyone says anything that really alludes to it? If you want to be understood, don't you think you need to try to teach other people what it is you're all so collectively apt at understanding?
Interestingly I was watching a video on Buddhism recently and it was talking about the Pure Land tradition and how they apparently face east while meditating or at least do so when needing healing. It is associated with the “Medicine Buddha.”
only reason you suffer, is because you give it energy. Simply say „no“ – and say how you want it instead (look up my other comment- law of assumption).
It „turned off“ all my „chronic illnesses“ in a matter of days. Nothing outside of you. you are the only operant power!
It’s so much easier: no meditation, no drugs necessary. Look into the law of assumption- your are rendering 24/7 everything. play with it – try it out with small things (shopping, driving, neighborhood… a neighbor that never talks suddenly is very talkative. Everything you want to buy is 50% off, no cars on the streets…
Pretend, repeat you are having that experience and some will experience it immediately, others need a couple weeks – but everyone can experience this. It’s just programming new beliefs and filters.
there is no objective reality. Thus science is also just „made up“ (subjective. Always)
Again: no brain damage, no drugs, no meditation, no… necessary. Just change and train an new beliefsystem. The „system“ will always render in real time according to your beliefs. (playing piano, new language- all the same. )
1:25:13 reminda me of 2 things, every great counciousness teacher says the point of life is EXPERIENCE. That the univerese is trying to have experiences, we are little nerves sending info back to the source …. what better way to have experiences than to have all these psychoactive natural plants right?
2. This also reminds me of MARIO, feom Nintenso😅 …. power up!!!
49:53 makes sense to me. Our counciosness is infinite, but limited to the senses we have in this reality, almost like a speed governor on a motorbike. So yeah, once that is altered (broken due to head injury) the full speed (information) is unlocked. #KnewKolorz
What I’ve noticed having had vast psychedelic experience is that different substances AND certain dosage thresholds you could equate to a tickets to an alternate environments
And repeating that same substance and dosage barring initial extenuating psychological circumstances will deliver you to a place with those same aspects consistently
As a child of the 60s, we said The Pledge of Allegiance. Hand over heart and that is why we placed it on the left.
15:30 really carried me threw this morning thank you
Love your podcast channel. So…I have often wondered why I don't loose weight when exercise and diet aren't enough, AND, since I was in my 20's, I felt that I could keep my body alive if I could somehow harness the energy all around us, either through meditation or some other process which I may be doing unconsciously. Possibility on the meta-physical (spiritual) level? Just a thought spawned by this conversation. Cheers!
Minute 20:20 to 21:07 – Mayim summarizes things perfectly and with such beautiful sarcasm.
Wowww Thankyou ❤
Having learned some of those skills to tap in, everyone can donut but society and fear based subconscious conditioning has trained us to turn off those abilities. And they are like any natural ability. They still require practice to hone and improve. Think of those abilities like any other. I can go out and learn basketball and with enough practice I could do a decent job playing. However, I will not ever be as good as Jordan or Kobe were. The same way works with tapping into the universal consciousness fields. Anyone can learn to do it but some people have a natural talent for that t that makes it easier for them, and they still have to work to hone their skills and improve their connection