Behind Greatness by Inspire North

225. Lisa Smartt – Literary Specialist / Author / Researcher of the Unravelling - Being of Service

Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We speak with Lisa who joins us from her new abode in Emerald Isle. Lisa is the author of Words at the Threshold. Her book is a fascinating compendium of 7 years' research on (and collection of) people's last words. We are charmed by Lisa's casual and playful demeanour from the get-go. We learn about her research, her own deeply personal experiences with dying loved ones and the emotional wisdom of a particular fireman who helped save a moment. Lisa shared with us her ideas about the consensuality of language, humour in dying, the openness and curiosity of our former childhoods that help to book-end – and Herb. The conversation reaches new depths, touching upon Lisa's personal experience with a certain kind of evil that we started to cover in the previous episode with Alex … and what Lisa has found with the unravelling of speech. My modality is broken. Wow. Episodes mentioned: Dr. Bruce Greysen (ep 69) re NDE research, Rey Hernandez (ep 153, 154) re modalities, Alex Gomez-Marin (ep 224), Emmeline Villar (ep 173). Lisa, · Website: https://www.finalwordsproject.org/ [https://www.finalwordsproject.org/] · Book: Words at the Threshold: What We Say as We're Nearing Death - https://www.amazon.com/Words-Threshold-What-Nearing-Death/dp/1608684601/ref=sr_1_1?crid=NE8R7WK669EI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SxBuIw0YM55aV-Q6BRZ-wj2FO3qssGQ1A1Yvl6UOatrvjCLHQpYkH7DfMOBs5dPE-84vsFaW-S_NcOirrDCH-FgKwjipxojuqQqCy5nRMHs0IZ4IxCFKPqLkJXA4i_iJwpANASfHo13qLJajDT6rnXGFrEY0ROAkDxQNKpFOFn9AaAi9uIIZpkVesPn7D2qT.H1Js2OEmpHy7WdRBXncQaVY2u5vu9a8nDIagB6C4qWE&dib_tag=se&keywords=lisa+smartt&qid=1765497528&sprefix=lisa+smart%2Caps%2C172&sr=8-1 [https://www.amazon.com/Words-Threshold-What-Nearing-Death/dp/1608684601/ref=sr_1_1?crid=NE8R7WK669EI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SxBuIw0YM55aV-Q6BRZ-wj2FO3qssGQ1A1Yvl6UOatrvjCLHQpYkH7DfMOBs5dPE-84vsFaW-S_NcOirrDCH-FgKwjipxojuqQqCy5nRMHs0IZ4IxCFKPqLkJXA4i_iJwpANASfHo13qLJajDT6rnXGFrEY0ROAkDxQNKpFOFn9AaAi9uIIZpkVesPn7D2qT.H1Js2OEmpHy7WdRBXncQaVY2u5vu9a8nDIagB6C4qWE&dib_tag=se&keywords=lisa+smartt&qid=1765497528&sprefix=lisa+smart%2Caps%2C172&sr=8-1] Book mentioned: · Final Gifts: Understanding and Helping the Dying - Callaghan, Maggie; Kelley, Patricia: https://www.amazon.com/Final-Gifts-Understanding-Special-Awareness-ebook/dp/B005UDIC3E/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3TS5F8EG1IJ7E&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dDmAgW1pouc6U81D-LheBQ.h_lFExdSCcnEuB631eybIfS44fI2ZHc8l8LOzLUwgHU&dib_tag=se&keywords=Final+Gifts%3A+Understanding+and+Helping+the+Dying+-+Callaghan%2C+Maggie%3B+Kelley%2C+Patricia&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1765497462&sprefix=final+gifts+understanding+and+helping+the+dying+-+callaghan%2C+maggie+kelley%2C+patricia%2Caps%2C109&sr=8-1 [https://www.amazon.com/Final-Gifts-Understanding-Special-Awareness-ebook/dp/B005UDIC3E/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3TS5F8EG1IJ7E&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dDmAgW1pouc6U81D-LheBQ.h_lFExdSCcnEuB631eybIfS44fI2ZHc8l8LOzLUwgHU&dib_tag=se&keywords=Final+Gifts%3A+Understanding+and+Helping+the+Dying+-+Callaghan%2C+Maggie%3B+Kelley%2C+Patricia&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1765497462&sprefix=final+gifts+understanding+and+helping+the+dying+-+callaghan%2C+maggie+kelley%2C+patricia%2Caps%2C109&sr=8-1] To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org [https://behindgreatness.org/]. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors

224. Dr. Alex Gomez-Marin – Physicist / Neuroscientist / Philosopher / Author – Always Seeking

Welcome back! Today, we sit down for a great talk with Alex. He works as a physicist, a neuroscientist, an intellectual activist and an author – and he experiments, researches and explores the invisible things that are very real. We quickly slide into a "no time to lose" rhythm with Alex. For just reason. Alex is consumed with investigating impossible things that happen. As a scientist and a seeker he worries about the obstinacy of materialism and "isms" in general and the rigidity of academia as he sees it. We discuss navigating the two worlds of poo-poo and woo-woo, rigorous inquiry, consciousness, evil, ideas as an instrument and the significance of "smallness". Love. Electrons. Ghosts. Amy Adams (Arrival): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwPpwLy4UIU [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwPpwLy4UIU] Episodes/Guests mentioned in this episode: * Jeffrey Kripal, Ep 188, 189 * Stephan Schwartz, ep 155, 156 * Antonia mills, ep 88 * Kevin Knuth, ep 216 * Rey Hernandez, ep 153, 154 * Paco Calvo, ep 212 * Rudy Schild, ep 179 186, 192, 195, 196 * Emmeline Villar, 173 Alex: * Book: "La Ciencia Del Ultimo Umbral" - https://www.amazon.ca/ciencia-del-%C3%BAltimo-umbral-consciencia/dp/B0FGDJX4CZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=KN9AQX9L9L18&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.o_AgO-3ny91DJ68bQnX2ro-uxGTYi3IWSCx-0eYIm6rGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.yW_z89jp4agttw0XUUqGnrj8DTKwwH8sa3ne8hKE1AU&dib_tag=se&keywords=alex+gomez+marin&qid=1764422705&sprefix=alex+gomez+marin%2Caps%2C92&sr=8-1 [https://www.amazon.ca/ciencia-del-%C3%BAltimo-umbral-consciencia/dp/B0FGDJX4CZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=KN9AQX9L9L18&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.o_AgO-3ny91DJ68bQnX2ro-uxGTYi3IWSCx-0eYIm6rGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.yW_z89jp4agttw0XUUqGnrj8DTKwwH8sa3ne8hKE1AU&dib_tag=se&keywords=alex+gomez+marin&qid=1764422705&sprefix=alex+gomez+marin%2Caps%2C92&sr=8-1] * Hidden war on Consciousness: https://www.essentiafoundation.org/neuroscientist-speaks-out-on-the-hidden-war-on-consciousness/seeing/ [https://www.essentiafoundation.org/neuroscientist-speaks-out-on-the-hidden-war-on-consciousness/seeing/] https://www.essentiafoundation.org/neuroscientist-speaks-out-on-the-hidden-war-on-consciousness/seeing/ [https://www.essentiafoundation.org/neuroscientist-speaks-out-on-the-hidden-war-on-consciousness/seeing/] * With Rupert Sheldrake: https://www.sheldrake.org/videos/alex-gomez-marin [https://www.sheldrake.org/videos/alex-gomez-marin]' To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org [https://behindgreatness.org/]. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors

223. Philip Carr-Gomm – Druid / Psychologist / Author – Letting the Big Self In

Thanks for joining us at Behind Greatness. We sit down with Philip Carr-Gomm, who joins us from his home in the country in Sussex, England. Philip works, thinks and plays at the cross-section of psychology and spiritualism. He is an author and lecturer and works as a psychologist and psychotherapist. For decades he has rooted his spiritualism in Druidry and he is one of today's most public Druids. We discuss a ton: trees as our spiritual companions, "surrendering", dropping down a hole in New Zealand, lucid dreaming and the big self, pushing the gorilla down into the basement and another Druid - Winston Churchill. Never quite finished with his exploration, Philip is always making progress. Philip, * Website: https://philipcarr-gomm.com/ [https://philipcarr-gomm.com/] * "Know Thyself": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself] To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org [https://behindgreatness.org/]. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors

222. Cameron Scott – Founder, Royal Ngala Safaris / Professional Photographer / Wild Life Guide - Awakening Your Senses

Thanks again for joining us. Today we chat with Cameron Scott who joins us from his native city of Johannesburg. Cameron is a professional photographer, a life-long wildlife lover and owner of Royal Ngala Safaris in South Africa. He charms us off the bat with his straight-talking recount of his first love: Africa's nature. We learn about the Big 5, running with gorillas, travelling hundreds of miles for a shrew, a camp-site scare with a lion, sleeping in trees and walking with bull elephants. We are treated to a story about Cam's life-altering moment with a lion hunting episode, the importance of not sweating the small stuff and the magic of watching people experience facing the majesty of wild animals for the first time. All of this from the home of human kind. Episodes mentioned: Ep: Bruno D'Amicis (ep63) , Julie Church (ep94), Elisabetta Tosoni (ep96), Julie church, David Salmoni (ep213), Dr. Rudy Schild and the Astronaut-Elephant Story (ep 186 & 217) Cameron, · Royal Ngala website: https://www.royalngala.com/ [https://www.royalngala.com/], IG: @royalngala, FB:RoyalNgalaSafaris · IG: @camscott_wild · FB: @CamScottWild To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org [https://behindgreatness.org/]. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors

221. Abby Lutz – Death Doula / Registered Nurse - Passing It On

Today we chat with Abby Lutz who joins us from her backyard in Colorado. Abby is a nurse, a death doula and a consciousness explorer. Abby is building her Death Dojo, a place where she explores death as a practice, a portal and a source of limitless possibility. We talk about fear and its enemy: exploration with wonder. Abby brings us through some experiences with patients crossing over, her own similar personal experience, carrying empathy in your toolbox, seeing death versus watching death, trees, the "loss-iness" of words, oppositional defiance disorder, space/seas/deserts, the Octopus and "preparing the others". A perfect chat amongst the trees. Desserts and Death. Episodes mentioned: Max Catricala (ep 6, Antarctica), Meganne Christiane (ep 10, Antarctica), Natalie Sudman (ep 97, Antarctica), Dr. Jay Dahman MD (ep 62, trees), Paco Calvo (ep 212, plants), Jennifer Mather (ep139, the Octopus) "A Horse with No Name": - Dirtwire (Remake) - https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=P2VaXOZdsTo&si=Z73og0tZgCERJKw9 [https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=P2VaXOZdsTo&si=Z73og0tZgCERJKw9] - America (Original): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxh9Da_EJB4&list=RDXxh9Da_EJB4&start_radio=1 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxh9Da_EJB4&list=RDXxh9Da_EJB4&start_radio=1] - History - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Horse_with_No_Name [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Horse_with_No_Name] To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org [https://behindgreatness.org/]. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors