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The Observable Unknown

Juan Carlos Rey, Ph.D.

Where science meets spirituality and measurable phenomena dance with mystical wisdom. Join Dr. Juan Carlos Rey as he explores the hidden influences shaping our reality - from quantum mechanics to cosmic consciousness. This isn’t your typical metaphysical podcast. Through analytical discussions and practical applications, discover how the unexplainable impacts your daily life. For curious souls who question everything and spiritual seekers grounded in science. Venture beyond the veil of ordinary

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6:21

Mailbag Installment 9: Language, Gender, and the...

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2026/01/07

In this Mailbag installment of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey responds to a listener question that opens one of the most consequential inquiries in cognitive science and lived experience: how language shapes perception, identity, and inner life. Drawing from neuroscience, linguistics, and psychology, this episode explores what happens in the brain when a person speaks more than one language. Dr. Rey examines bilingual and polyglot cognition through the lens of real research, including

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4:03

Interlude XXXIV - The Social Skin: Touch, Safety, and...

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2026/01/01

Touch is the oldest sense, the first language learned, and the last to fade. Long before speech, before gesture, before conscious memory, the skin was already listening. In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores the neuroscience of touch as a regulator of emotion, trust, and social reality. Drawing on research in affective neuroscience, developmental psychology, and human ethology, this episode examines how the body’s largest organ functions as a social interface,

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Interlude XXXI - The Speaking Body: Gesture Before...

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2025/12/25

Before words shaped meaning, the human body was already speaking. In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey examines the deep neurological and evolutionary roots of non-verbal communication, revealing how gesture, posture, and movement function as primary instruments of thought rather than mere accompaniments to language. Drawing on cognitive psychology research by Susan Goldin-Meadow at the University of Chicago, the episode explores how hand gestures often carry knowledge

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41:49

Brownell Landrum

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2025/12/25

In this episode of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey is joined by author and contemplative thinker Brownell Landrum, whose work explores the subtle intersection between intention, imagination, neuroscience, and the mechanics of desire. At a time when “manifestation” is often reduced to slogans or stripped of rigor, Landrum offers a refreshingly disciplined approach. Drawing on psychology, behavioral science, and lived experience, she examines wishing not as fantasy, but as a structured

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3:53

Interlude XXX – Neural Semantics: How Language...

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2025/12/23

In this concluding interlude of the Language Arc, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey examines how language reshapes the brain itself. Drawing on contemporary neuroscience rather than abstract philosophy, this episode explores how repeated linguistic patterns sculpt neural circuits, alter perceptual thresholds, and reorganize attention, memory, and emotion. The episode traces research on experience-dependent plasticity in language networks, including work on phonemic tuning, semantic framing, and predictive

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Interlude XXV – Grammars of Perception

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2025/12/11

Interlude XXV of The Observable Unknown opens a new arc at the crossroads of linguistics, neuroscience, and consciousness studies. In this episode, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of crowscupboard.com examines how language does far more than label experience. It organizes perception itself. Drawing from the work of linguists such as Leonard Talmy, George Lakoff, Lera Boroditsky, and contemporary neurolinguistic research, this interlude investigates the ways grammar, metaphor, and syntactic structure silently

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44:54

Dr. Robert Atkinson

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2025/12/07

Dr. Robert Atkinson stands at the confluence of myth, developmental psychology, and the perennial human hunger for wholeness. An award-winning author, educator, and architect of what he calls unitive consciousness, Dr. Atkinson writes with the calm authority of one who has spent a lifetime apprenticed to depth, meaning, and the evolutionary arc of the human story. His newest work, The Way of Unity: Essential Principles and Preconditions for Peace, is a sweeping synthesis of sacred cosmologies,

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Interlude XXIV – The Photonic Mind: Light as Language

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2025/12/04

In this episode of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of crowscupboard.com invites you into an exploration of consciousness not only as electrical patterns but as radiance itself. We trace the emergence of biophotons -ultra-weak light emissions from living cells -through the pioneering work of biophysicist Fritz-Albert Popp, whose research at the University of Marburg in the 1970s uncovered coherent photon emissions in DNA and cellular tissue. Next, we consider Roeland van Wijk and his

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4:42

Interlude XXIII - The Harmonics of the Heart:...

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2025/12/04

In this grounded and intimate episode of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of crowscupboard.com explores the silent symphony within the chest - the electromagnetic rhythm that links body, brain, and emotion. Neurophysiologist J. Andrew Armour of McGill University first described the heart’s intrinsic nervous system - tens of thousands of neurons that sense, process, and send information independently of the brain. Psychophysiologist Rollin McCraty at the HeartMath Institute revealed that

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5:03

Interlude XXII - The Cosmic Self: Consciousness...

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2025/11/24

Interlude XXII - The Cosmic Self: Consciousness Beyond the Brain In this enlightening interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of crowscupboard.com traces the frontier where neuroscience meets metaphysics – where consciousness ceases to be a human trait and becomes a cosmic condition. Neuroscientist Giulio Tononi of the University of Wisconsin introduced Integrated Information Theory (IIT), proposing that consciousness emerges from the degree of informational integration within any

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Jordan Feldman

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2025/11/16

Today I’m joined by someone whose work has moved fluidly between stage, screen, and self-examination - actor and producer Jordan Feldman. Jordan’s career has unfolded at the intersection of visibility and vulnerability. He has brought humor and humanity to complex stories, while also speaking candidly about his journey through anxiety, recovery, and rediscovery. In this conversation, we look beneath the spotlight - into the quieter backstage of the mind where creativity, discipline, and mental

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Jack R. Bialik

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2025/11/02

In this illuminating conversation, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of crowscupboard.com explores the paradox of human knowledge: how civilizations accumulate, then discard, their greatest insights. Author Jack R. Bialik examines the patterns of erasure in his new book, "Lost In Time" - from ancient cataract surgery to the fragility of our digital archives - and posits that forgetting may be as essential as remembering. With over 30 years in technology and biblical studies, Bialik bridges the empirical and the

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5:53

Mailbag Episode 8 - The Fasting Instinct: The Ancient...

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2025/11/01

In this Mailbag installment of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of crowscupboard.com responds to listener Priya A. of Seattle, who asks whether ancient fasting rituals were early, intuitive ways of shaping the gut–brain connection. Drawing from modern neurogastroenterology, nutritional neuroscience, and microbiome research, Dr. Rey traces fasting through time - from Upanishadic austerity and monastic silence to the cellular ecologies within us. He revisits the verified work of Mark

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Interlude XXI – The Quantum Synapse: Consciousness at...

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2025/10/31

In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of crowscupboard.com steps into the shimmer between matter and meaning – the quantum frontier of consciousness. Could awareness itself arise from sub-atomic events inside the brain? Mathematician Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff proposed the Orch-OR Theory, suggesting that quantum coherence within neuronal microtubules gives birth to conscious experience. Though Max Tegmark argued that such coherence would vanish in

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Interlude XX – The Whispering Cells: Astrocytes and...

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2025/10/30

In this quietly radical interlude, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of crowscupboard.com invites you into the hidden orchestra of the brain - the immense realm of glial cells: astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microglia. We have long worshipped the bright-firing neurons, but these non-neuronal cells may in fact hold the deeper language of consciousness. Pioneering work by Dr. R. Douglas Fields at the National Institutes of Health revealed that experience-driven myelination - the wrapping and reshaping of axons

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Interlude XIX - Neural Mirroring: The Science of...

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2025/10/29

In this interlude, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of crowscupboard.com examines the hidden choreography of empathy - the mirror mechanism that allows one human brain to echo another’s joy, sorrow, and intent. First identified in the early 1990s by Giacomo Rizzolatti and Vittorio Gallese at the University of Parma, mirror neurons revealed a startling truth: our brains rehearse the actions and emotions we witness in others. To see is to enact; to feel is to participate. Drawing upon research from Tania Singer at

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Mailbag Episode 7 – “The Science of Spirit and the...

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2025/10/27

In this special Mailbag installment, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of crowscupboard.com answers a letter from Clara W of Asheville, North Carolina, who asks about the ancient practice of spirit communication. Drawing on his thirty-year body of research and teaching, Dr. Rey explains how conditioning Broca’s Area and Wernicke’s Area - the brain’s language centers - can strengthen intuitive speech and symbolic translation, while regulation of the limbic system allows practitioners to access altered states of

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Richard M. Anderson

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2025/10/27

In this episode of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of Crowscupboard.com sits down with molecular biologist and award-winning author Richard M. Anderson - a visionary whose work unites hard science, humanism, and speculative imagination. A former clinical laboratory director and bioanalyst, Anderson built a distinguished scientific career before turning to writing. His nonfiction landmark The Evolution of Life: Big Bang to Space Colonies traces existence from cosmic birth to

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Interlude XVIII - Circadian Consciousness: How the...

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2025/10/24

In this episode of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of CrowsCupboard.com uncovers the hidden clockwork of the living body - the molecular rhythms that measure dawn, dusk, and everything between. Drawing on the Nobel-winning research of Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael W. Young, whose fruit-fly experiments at Brandeis University and Rockefeller University revealed the PER gene and its feedback loop, Dr. Rey shows how each of us carries an internal timepiece. From the

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Interlude XVII - Endogenous Opioids & The...

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2025/10/23

Before temples were built of stone, the body already knew how to worship. In this episode, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of CrowsCupboard.com explores how the brain’s own narcotic chemistry - endorphins, enkephalins, and dynorphins - shapes the experience of love, faith, music, and transcendence. Drawing on the work of Candace Pert (1973), who first identified the brain’s opiate receptors, Jaak Panksepp (1998), who revealed the primal circuits of care and play, and Björn Lindström (2015), whose studies of

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