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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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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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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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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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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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Interlude XVI – Neural Oscillations and the...

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2025/10/22

Before language, before heartbeat, there was rhythm - the pulse that shaped both cosmos and consciousness. In this episode of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores the hidden architecture of the mind’s music: the neural oscillations and neurochemical cadences that give rise to awareness itself. Drawing on research by György Buzsáki (New York University), Earl Miller (MIT), Christof Koch (Allen Institute for Brain Science), Laura Colgin (University of Texas at Austin), and Patricia

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Mailbag Episode - “Sharpening the Sixth Sense: The...

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2025/10/21

A listener writes from Toronto: “I’ve always felt intuitive - but I don’t know how to trust or strengthen it. Is intuition a gift or a skill?” In this episode of The Observable Unknown, I respond with both rigour and heart. Drawing on over two decades of research and training - from neuroscience to somatic practice to symbolic language - I share the system I’ve developed to help intuition become usable intelligence. We explore how the body-brain interface holds predictive power, how the nervous

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73:44

Sam Reynolds, Part 2

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2025/10/19

Astrologer Sam Reynolds returns to discuss not only numerous aspects of astrology that were not discussed previously, but also his forthcoming class on a Basic Introduction to Astrology.

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Mailbag Episode 3: Eros and the Sacred Body

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2025/10/19

In this profound installment of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores the ancient and often misunderstood intersection of erotic performance and spirituality. Responding to a listener’s question from San Antonio, Dr. Rey traces how the language of desire has always mirrored the language of the divine. From Plato’s Symposium to modern neuroscience, Eros emerges not as indulgence but as a way of knowing. Drawing on the work of Jaak Panksepp, Helen Fisher, and Andrew Newberg, Dr. Rey

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Mailbag Episode 2 – “The Comparator and the Calling”

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2025/10/17

What if faith were simply the nervous system daring to trust its own prediction? In this Mailbag installment, Dr. Rey responds to listener DeShawn Carter of Atlanta, Georgia, whose question probes the hidden alliance between free will, intuition, and the brain’s comparator model – that quiet circuit which measures intention against outcome, authorship against experience. From Chris Frith’s neuroscience of agency to the ancient mystic’s surrender, this episode explores how faith and intuition emerge

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