What happens when your scientific training tells you the universe is random and meaningless— but your lived experience says otherwise?

If you’ve ever felt torn between skepticism and spirituality, between logic and intuition, you’re not alone. Many of us were taught that to be intelligent means to dismiss the mystical. So when something unexplainable happens, it can feel disorienting— even destabilizing.

In this episode of Moon Beaming, I sit down with cognitive neuroscientist and author Mona Sobhani, PhD, to explore what unfolds when a rigorously trained skeptic begins questioning the very assumptions she was taught to defend.

After personal experiences she couldn’t ignore— psychic readings that proved accurate, existential crisis, and precognitive dreams— Mona followed her curiosity into research on consciousness, quantum physics, and spiritual phenomena. This conversation offers clarity not by choosing sides, but by widening the lens.

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In this episode, we explore:

• Mona’s journey from skeptic to investigator of spiritual phenomena
• Scientific research on psychic experiences
• Quantum physics, non-locality, and the observer effect
• The brain as receiver vs. creator of consciousness
• Altered states and mystical experience
• Competing models of reality— materialism, panpsychism, and beyond

Reality may be far stranger— and far more alive— than we’ve been taught to believe.

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