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The Observable Unknown

Dr. Juan Carlos Rey

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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Interlude XXIX - The Social Tongue: Language as...

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2025/12/18

In this interlude, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey continues the Language Arc by examining one of the most consequential ideas in cognitive science, philosophy, and anthropology: language does not merely describe reality. It actively participates in shaping it.Drawing from research in linguistics, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind, this episode explores how grammatical structure, metaphor, and symbolic framing influence perception, memory, emotion, and moral judgment. From the way tense alters our

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4:18

Interlude XXVIII - Metaphor as Neural Bridge: How...

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2025/12/17

In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey continues the Language Arc by examining how language does not merely describe reality, but actively organizes perception, emotion, and possibility.Drawing from linguistics, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind, this episode explores how metaphor, grammar, and semantic framing shape the way consciousness encounters the world. Research in psycholinguistics and neuroscience suggests that the words we habitually use quietly guide

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4:40

Interlude XXVII - Language as World-Maker: How Words...

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2025/12/16

Language does not merely describe reality - it actively constructs it.In Interlude XXVII of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of crowscupboard.com examines how language functions as a cognitive and perceptual architecture, shaping not only communication, but memory, attention, identity, and moral reasoning itself. Drawing from linguistics, neuroscience, anthropology, and philosophy, this episode explores how the words we inherit silently sculpt the world we believe we inhabit. This

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Interlude XXVI - The Echoing Mind: When Thought Speaks

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2025/12/13

When you hear yourself think, who do you believe is speaking?In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores inner speech as a neurological, psychological, and philosophical phenomenon. Drawing on the work of Lev Vygotsky, contemporary neuroimaging research on Broca’s region, Wernicke’s area, the supplementary motor area, and auditory cortex, and the provocative hypothesis of Julian Jaynes, this episode examines how language becomes internalized, how thought acquires a

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Pen Densham

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2025/11/26

There are artists who photograph the world, and then there are rare souls who seem to listen to it. Pen Densham is the latter.He has lived at the intersection of myth, cinema, and the ineffable since childhood - when, at the age of four, he rode a live alligator for one of his parents’ 35mm theatrical shorts. It was perhaps the earliest sign that he would spend a lifetime courting the miraculous. Cameras, he says, “seemed like magician’s instruments,” and his entire artistic journey has been shaped

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52:22

Mary Madeiras

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2025/11/10

Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of Crowscupboard.com sits with three-time Emmy Award winning director and Akashic Records practitioner Mary Madeiras to explore how the soul communicates, remembers, and unfolds through lived experience. This conversation moves through identity, intuition, trauma as material for transformation, and the quiet inner voice that guides the shape of a life.This is not a discussion of belief. It is a listening for recognition.

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7:50

Mailbag Episode 6 - “The Digital Altar: Social Media...

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2025/10/25

In this edition of The Observable Unknown: Mailbag, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of Crowscupboard.com explores how social media operates not merely as communication, but as ritual space. When acts of attention shift online, every repost, “like,” and scroll becomes a litany of belonging, performance, and belief. Drawing on innovative scholarship in digital religion and media anthropology, this episode asks how our feeds mirror ancient altars - and whether attention given or withheld today is the most sacred

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6:28

Mailbag Episode 5: The Memory Machine

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2025/10/25

In this episode, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of Crowscupboard.com invites listeners into a meditation on memory - no longer a candle passed from mind to mind, but a circuitry of data and desire. Drawing on the sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (1877–1945), Dr. Rey examines how collective memory has migrated from the oral to the algorithmic, shaping what humanity remembers - and what it forgets.From the neural encoding of emotion to the digital contagion of belief, this conversation explores why misinformation

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4:46

Interlude XIV - Epigenetic Neuroplasticity: Life...

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2025/10/16

What if memory is not only electrical - but molecular?In this new interlude, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores how experience, stress, and nurture inscribe themselves directly into the genome of the brain. Through the pioneering studies of Michael Meaney and Moshe Szyf, we learn that the nervous system is not a fixed circuit but a living manuscript - continuously edited by love, fear, and time. From the first experiments at McGill University in the early 2000s that revealed maternal care could alter

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7:21

Interlude XIII — Neuroimmunology: When the Brain...

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2025/10/14

What if emotion were an immune response?What if the dialogue between inflammation and thought shaped not only how we heal—but how we hope? In this interlude, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores the emerging science of neuroimmunology, where the immune and nervous systems reveal themselves as co-authors of consciousness. Through the work of Ronald Duman (Yale University), Harry Male (University of Illinois), and Jonathan Kipnis (Washington University in St. Louis), we trace how cytokines, microglia, and

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5:54

Mailbag Episode 1: Moral Witness & Collective Obedience

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2025/10/13

In this first listener-driven episode, I turn the conversation inward - answering a question from Tanya W (Portland, OR) about what it means to be a moral witness in a world that often rewards unseeing obedience. We invoke Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil”, explore the tension between witnessing and complicity, and ask: how do we interrupt history’s momentum? Join me as we reflect on conscience, attention, and the subtle art of refusing sleep in the face of cruelty. How to engage & support the

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Dr. Shireen Fatemi

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2025/10/05

In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Shireen Fatemi, a distinguished endocrinologist whose vision of medicine extends far beyond lab values and prescriptions. Raised in a family that blended science with intuition, Dr. Fatemi brings a rare voice to the conversation about the body’s most mysterious messengers: our hormones.Together, we explore how endocrinology illuminates not just physical health, but also mood, memory, and identity. From the impact of cortisol and circadian rhythm, to the cultural

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44:02

Dr. Daniel Jorgensen

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2025/09/21

The guest for this episode is Dr. Daniel Jorgensen, a distinguished scholar of Religious Studies whose work has illuminated the esoteric scene, the cultic milieu, and the occult Tarot. His research has expanded the sociology of religion beyond institutional boundaries, into the rich and often misunderstood margins where seekers continually redefine meaning and identity.Our conversation will explore not only the frameworks he’s developed, but also the questions they raise for the future of religious

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7:54

Interlude III: The Observable Unknown in Words,...

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2025/09/19

In this Interlude, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey traces how three great thinkers sought the Observable Unknown in their own fields. Max Müller uncovered forgotten meanings buried in language, Konrad Lorenz revealed the instinctual patterns beneath human behavior, and Claude Lévi-Strauss exposed the hidden structures shaping myth. Together, their work shows that mystery is not distant - it lives in the words we speak, the instincts we carry, and the stories we inherit.

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Interlude II: The Observable Unknown in Mind & Society

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2025/09/18

In this interlude, host Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores how the observable unknown reveals itself in the hidden life of the mind and the shared structures of society. Drawing on the insights of Freud, Jung, Julian Jaynes, Adler, and Peter Berger, this interlude traces how unconscious drives, archetypes, inner voices, human striving, and cultural meaning-shields shape our lives. What emerges is a portrait of mystery not as something to be feared, but as the ground of our humanity—seen in dreams, myths,

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Interlude I: The Observable Unknown — Ontology &...

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2025/09/17

In this special Interlude of The Observable Unknown, host Dr. Juan Carlos Rey steps away from dialogue to offer a sustained philosophical reflection on the very title of the show. Through the lenses of Kant’s tension between phenomena and noumena, Heidegger’s play of truth as both revealing and concealing, Aristotle’s vision of wonder as the root of philosophy, and the profound wisdom of Taoist, Vedantic, and Buddhist traditions, this interlude explores how the observable unknown is not merely a

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60:28

Dr. Robin Hager

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2025/09/14

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Robin Hager - a clinician whose path began in the labs and lecture halls of the University of Arizona, and was forever changed when she stepped into her first healing-touch class.Her journey is a story of integration: from writing medical protocols that saved lives, to guiding patients and families through plant medicine ceremonies with shamans in Peru. From the halls of hospital administration to the sacred breath of vibrational sound therapy, Robin’s life is

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Dr. Carla Garapedian

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2025/09/07

In this episode, we welcome a woman whose life’s work has bridged journalism, cinema, and memory. From the anchor desk at BBC World News to the frontlines of conflict, from digitizing the testimonies of Armenian genocide survivors to directing films that confront the darkest truths of our history - Dr. Carla Garapedian has carried voices the world tried to silence back into the light. Her new project, Nemesis 1921, revisits a Weimar-era trial that shaped how we think about law, justice, and

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58:40

Fereshteh Forough

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2025/08/31

Fereshteh Forough, founder of CTI (Code To Inspire), discusses her journey, obstacles, and vision for the future.

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52:15

Dr. Juan Carlos Rey

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2025/08/24

In this episode, I'll be answering personal questions submitted by listeners and clients through our website, crowscupboard.compodscan_fSMKWnv2NliWimnIU1cgRHJgf3yf1N9G

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