Techniques of Discovery Conference
1 Season . 11 Episodes TV-PG

Techniques of Discovery Conference: can science and spirit unite to map reality? Visionary thinkers reveal radical insights into expanded human awareness.

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Ram Dass: Changes in Perception – Shifting the Perspective of Our Awareness (Preview)

Techniques of Discovery Conference brings together pioneering thinkers to challenge conventional boundaries of consciousness, reality, and human potential before a live audience at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. What happens when world-renowned theoretical physicists, Harvard psychiatrists, and spiritual visionaries unite to question orthodox assumptions about the mind and cosmos?

Recorded live at an extraordinary consciousness research conference in New York City, this investigative docuseries captures historic dialogues between leading luminaries of science, philosophy, and transpersonal psychology. Rather than dismissing anomalous phenomena or metaphysical questions as fringe curiosities, these landmark lectures and panel discussions build rigorous bridges between ancient wisdom traditions and cutting-edge scientific paradigms. Throughout these expansive presentations, featured speakers articulate practical techniques of discovery that integrate quantum mechanics, holotropic states of awareness, universal archetypes, and direct spiritual experience to help viewers reconsider the nature of human reality.

The archive unfolds through landmark presentations and candid roundtable exchanges:

Explorations in Science, Myth, and Human Perception

  • Bridging Quantum Physics and Non-Local Mind: Dr. Michio Kaku explores hyperspace geometry and theoretical quests to read the mind of God, while physicist Russell Targ presents groundbreaking laboratory research examining remote viewing and the spiritual implications of psychic abilities.
  • Transpersonal Psychiatry and Anomalous Encounters: Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John Mack investigates the profound psychological and ecological transformations reported by alien encounter experiencers, while Dr. Stanislav Grof shares clinical lessons from modern consciousness research and non-ordinary healing states.
  • Cultural Transformation, Ancient Archetypes, and Wisdom: Social theorist Riane Eisler outlines her partnership model to transcend dominator hierarchies, philosopher Huston Smith examines the third eye as an organ of wisdom, and author Robert Anton Wilson introduces neuro-linguistic tools to dismantle cognitive conditioning.

Each installment in this esoteric knowledge conference provides illuminating methods of personal discovery designed to broaden how you perceive awareness, consciousness, and personal sovereignty. By examining the frontiers of expanded consciousness research alongside legendary pioneers such as Ram Dass, Ralph Metzner, and Gregg Braden, the series invites viewers to re-evaluate the deep relationship between human perception and universal order. These spiritual investigation presentations document a pivotal moment where empirical inquiry and mystical insight converge.

Explore the complete Techniques of Discovery Conference series to engage with foundational perspectives that continue to inspire contemporary metaphysical thought and scientific exploration.

Featuring: Ram Dass, Robert Anton Wilson, Ralph Metzner, Michio Kaku, Huston Smith, Russell Targ, Stanislav Grof, John Mack, Riane Eisler, Gregg Braden
Audio Languages: English
Subtitles: Spanish, English
1 hr 30 mins TV-PG
Featuring: Ram Dass
"In response to the stroke, I chose not to identify with my ego. I chose to change my identification to my soul. It was clear to me that the soul didn't have a stroke, just like the soul does not die.”
56 mins TV-PG
Featuring: Robert Anton Wilson
"I do believe we live mostly . . . in the web of words. And learning which words control us and how to take control over the words. The whole area of neuro-semantics and neuro-linguistics, these seem to me the most vital things to study.”
1 hr 22 mins TV-PG
Featuring: Ralph Metzner
"Leary said that in order to give this experience to people you have to have had it first. So we tried it out. From that point I realized that my mind was completely conditioned; it was completely automatic. And that I could change that.”
1 hr 4 mins TV-PG
Featuring: Michio Kaku
“Nicola Tesla talked about vacuum energy, zero point energy, the energy of nothing. People laughed at Tesla; now we think the universe is driven by dark energy."
1 hr 13 mins TV-PG
Featuring: Huston Smith
“The term, the third eye, comes from the Tibetan, but it has its counterpart, all of which target an organ of perception capable of seeing things which our ocular eyes cannot take in.”
1 hr 20 mins TV-PG
Featuring: Russell Targ
"Separation is an illusion. Our consciousness transcends space and time. Our awareness is able to experience what is in the region where we are, what is in the region beyond where we are physically, and indeed into the future and the past.”
1 hr 14 mins TV-PG
Featuring: Stanislav Grof
"The kinds of things that happen in shamanic trance, rites of passage or healing rituals of various native cultures; the kinds of experiences that the initiates experienced in the mysteries of death and rebirth, that the yogi's are experiencing, or through Taoist meditation... I call these states Holotropic states, moving toward wholeness.”
57 mins TV-PG
Featuring: John Mack
"I began to work with people who had these so-called abduction experiences, encounters with strange beings, and I was at first incredulous, and then astounded, and then excited about what I was finding. I figured if I went out there and wrote about that, everybody would find it equally exciting.”
55 mins TV-PG
Featuring: Riane Eisler
"And a lot of what you are here doing in many ways relates to what I call partnership spirituality – the search for a spirituality that is both immanent and transcendent, a spirituality that is not just off in some other worldly realm but that can inform our lives here on earth with love and with purpose and with meaning.”
55 mins TV-PG
Featuring: John Mack, Stanislav Grof, Michio Kaku, Riane Eisler, Gregg Braden, Russell Targ
A panel discussion featuring six of the featured presenters – John Mack, Stanislav Grof, Michio Kaku, Riane Eisler, Gregg Braden, Russell Targ – was recorded at the Prophets Conference at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City in 2001.
56 mins TV-PG
Featuring: John Mack, Stanislav Grof, Michio Kaku, Riane Eisler, Gregg Braden, Russell Targ
A panel discussion featuring six of the featured presenters – John Mack, Stanislav Grof, Michio Kaku, Riane Eisler, Gregg Braden, Russell Targ – was recorded at the Prophets Conference at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City in 2001.
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