Best A Spoonful Of Data Podcast Podcasts (2025)

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Understanding the Masks we Wear (Satya Doyle Byock) 52:28

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“We’re in a time of masking and masks, whether we know it or not,” says psychotherapist Satya Doyle Byock. “And my hope is that us talking about it draws that into greater consciousness for people to make decisions about when to put them on and when to take them off.” Today, we’re talking about persona, in the sense of the masks we wear for various…

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Lucifer: Praxis | Peter Grey 1:08:07

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Lucifer: Praxis! Peter Grey joins the show once again to talk about his explosive new book. We explore who the being of Lucifer is, his relationship to western magic, western magicians' relationships to him and how the current of liberty, individualism and legitimate rebellion have shaped centuries of culture. An excellent discussion about a milest…

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Psychic Espionage, Bending Spoons, and Going Back in Time (Dean Radin, PhD) 53:40

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“I believe basically what I’ve seen in the laboratory,” says scientist Dean Radin, PhD. “I'm driven by experience just like anybody else, except my experience is experiment.” Radin studies things like telepathy, consciousness, quantum physics, and more parapsychology. He shares some of the most fascinating discoveries from his lab, broader research…

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What I Realized While Doing a Manifestation Program (Monthly Solo) 37:16

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In my one episode sans guest this month, I’m reflecting on: how we might enjoy solitude more (and fear loneliness less), the manifestation program I just finished (called the Money Challenge), how I’m feeling about attention and power these days, and a couple of other micro and macro realizations that are surfacing right now. For the show notes, he…

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A Deeper, Simpler Manifestation Process (Jessica Gill) 48:41

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“There are so many blessings in the in-between,” says Jessica Gill, chief content officer at To Be Magnetic and cohost of the Expanded podcast with Lacy Phillips. “You can manifest amazing mini manifestations or just kismet opportunities or these things that you wouldn't even believe would transpire in the midst of doing this work.” Today, Gill bre…

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Getting Out of the Self-Justification Trap (Carol Tavris, PhD) 52:33

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Social psychologist Carol Tavris, PhD, breaks down cognitive dissonance, why it’s so hard for us to see our own blind spots, the power and danger of self-justification, and the pyramid of choice that can lead us to some unexpected places. She also shares some fascinating findings about anger and catharsis that turn a few assumptions on their head. …

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Do We Misunderstand the Point of Monogamy? (Dan Savage) 1:01:58

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Longtime sex-advice columnist and author Dan Savage shares how he thinks about monogamy, marriage, infidelity, and repair. We explore how sex and relationships get conflated. We get into identities, orientations, preferences, language, and how we’re raising kids today. Also, Savage’s take on heteropessimism, what makes a man an attractive partner, …

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Discovering the Sacred Through The X-Files | Christopher Knowles 2:18:03

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Synchromystic raconteur, author, and pattern seeker Christopher Knowles returns to the show, as well as the wheelhouse, for this one. Not that we would ever need one, but the flimsy excuse for Chris coming back this time is so that we can discuss his amazing new book, XF-ULTRA: The X-Files, Conspiracy Culture, and the National Security State. Can a…

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The Intrinsic Order that Emerges from Within Chaos (Elinor Dickson, PhD) 52:50

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“We have to let go of our own patriarchy,” says Elinor Dickson. “And we’re afraid to because it represents control for us.” Dickson spent more than 35 years as a Jungian therapist, and she cowrote the seminal Dancing in the Flames with her good friend Marion Woodman. She’s one of the wise elders of our time. We explore the new universal mythos our …

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Using Triangulation to Better Understand Yourself (Monthly Solo) 44:04

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In this month’s solo episode, I’m exploring the parts of our culture and our collective that we can own—and impact. And I’m sharing more on the power of triangulation, and how you can use certain systems and tools to better understand yourself, your roles, and what you might be trying to do in work and in life. For ALL the show notes, head over to …

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Rebuilding a Life (Jen Hatmaker) 47:52

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The hilarious Jen Hatmaker (New York Times–bestselling author and host of the podcast For the Love) joins me to chat, in part, about her new memoir Awake. We talk about the moment in her life when everything seemingly dissolved (including her marriage of 26 years and her relationship to the church) and the much deeper awakening that she entered fro…

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Travelling Ghosts Bent Spoons and the Science of Magic | Dean Radin 1:25:25

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In this episode, Dr Radin returns to the show to talk to us about his amazing new book, The Science of Magic. We look at Meta-analyses with trillion-to-one odds. Hotel poltergeists that target specific researchers. Spoons that bend without force. Sigils. Always, always sigils. Radin explains why materialist skeptics have run out of arguments, how b…

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What’s Your Zone of Genius? (Katie Hendricks, PhD) 51:32

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Katie Hendricks, PhD, is known for helping people use their body’s innate intelligence. She shares some of her most powerful tools and teachings, including: Her fear-melters for when we get caught in fight, flee, freeze, or faint mode. How to play with your pace so that you’re able to get present, instead of just feeling at the effect of everything…

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Otto Rahn, Nazi Grail Hunter | Richard Stanley 1:29:51

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Filmmaker Richard Stanley joins us to unpack his incredible book "Otto Rahn: Grail Hunter" - the true story of a gay Jewish medievalist who became the SS's chief grail hunter in Nazi Germany. We explore Stanley's own supernatural experiences on Montségur (getting trapped by lightning), the brutal genocide of the Cathars, and why this whole story fe…

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Chasing Love (Elizabeth Gilbert) 59:45

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“I don't think anybody manages to go through their experience incarnated in human form and not have chapters of your life that are like, what literally just happened?” says Elizabeth Gilbert. “How did I end up here and who am I? And where did the ground go beneath my feet?” Today, Gilbert shares the story behind her new memoir, All the Way to the R…

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How Spirit Entities Shape Human Affairs | Vanese McNeill 1:31:52

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Vanese McNeill, co-producer of the Magical Egypt series, returns to the show. In this episode, we explore the hows and possible whys of spirit involvement in history, from the super-elite level down to the everyday. And also across to some of the sillier claims about AI floating in the air like so many plasma entities. And all of this was inspired …

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Stop Trying to Kill the Ego (Satya Doyle Byock) 52:13

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“This waiting for approval from daddy—all of that is so antithetical to actually living your own existence,” says psychotherapist Satya Doyle Byock. Today, Byock returns for a conversation about the ego, why it gets a bad rap, and why we need a strong sense of self to be in relationship with anyone. Also: our culture’s ascension myth, and why we ha…

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7 Tools for Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness (Courtney Smith) 1:03:54

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“What does it mean to make change in my life—not from a place that there was something wrong with me?” asks my coauthor Courtney Smith. “But I made choices that have gotten me here. I respect and value those choices. I understand I wouldn’t be here without them. And I'm also choosing to do something a little bit different going forward.” Courtney i…

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4 Things I Learned This Summer (Monthly Solo) 36:42

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Today it’s just me, sharing a few revelations I’ve had this summer around: The set ages we seemingly get stuck at. Emotions I’m connecting to for the first time in my life (and how certain codes of anger have helped me). How busyness impacts our physical patterns and the way we hold our bodies, or clench our weight. And practicing rejection and bui…

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There Are Two Moves When Faced with Uncertainty (Francis Weller) 55:27

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“We’re not empty containers just being filled up with fear and terror and trauma,” says psychotherapist Francis Weller. “We’re also medicine carriers.” Many of you will know Weller from his moving conversations about grief with Anderson Cooper, or his beautiful book The Wild of Edge of Sorrow. Weller’s new book, In the Absence of Ordinary, is exact…

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What Would You Do If Certainty Never Returned? 37:34

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Back on the farm, jetlagged and hustling. I've been sitting with this question since I decided not to renew my lease in Asunción. So today, I want to give you my thoughts. There's some frosty farm pics over on my Substack. Enjoy!

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How to Fully Engage with the Rest of Your Life (Sharon Blackie, PhD) 48:44

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“If we stop transforming, and we try to hold ourselves back, we’re effectively stagnating and killing the life that’s ahead,” says psychologist and author Sharon Blackie, PhD. Today, we talk about what Blackie has learned from studying myths and fairy tales, and working to reimagine the stories that currently define women’s lives. She shares a much…

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The 63-Second Chance to Rewire Your Brain (Caroline Leaf, PhD) 38:50

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“We can’t change what’s happened, but we can change what it looks like inside of our mind-brain-body network,” says neuroscientist Caroline Leaf, PhD. Here, Leaf shares what she’s learned about how our minds work, and how we can change a thought, a habit, a pattern. And we get into the compelling 63-second intervention from her new book, Help in a …

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Zombie Co-Creation 23:12

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Or why our horrible internet is good, actually. Sick in an AirBnb in Paraguay, I make the case for co-creation still being the best way to exist with our ever-enhorribling media landscape. Show Notes End The Day With Ceremony, Not Distraction. Two things to watch or listen to with your lunch (of brains)? Gordon on THC. Kelly Brogan on THC.…

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When We’re Committed to the Most Extreme Reaction (Thomas Hübl, PhD) 32:58

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Thomas Hübl (a frequent guest here) is a renowned teacher whose work has focused on resilience and healing trauma. In this conversation, we explore: Some of our biggest fractured interpretations of the world, and how we can gain more clarity and connection. The impulse to become very certain about something very quickly, and our tendency to see oth…

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So You Want to Write a Book? (Monthly Solo) 45:01

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In this month’s solo episode, I’m sharing some thoughts on why everyone seems to want a book under their belt, why that may or may not be the right move for you, as well as concrete tips and takeaways about what to think through before you begin putting words on paper. Most importantly, I share some tips and frameworks for getting you through the c…

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Who Am I If I’m Not Pleasing Anyone? (Meggan Watterson) 58:58

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Today, I’m talking to Meggan Watterson—theologian and author of The Girl Who Baptized Herself—about the importance of being embodied, the search for self, where we derive power, and the way that culture is edited and passed down to us. Watterson tells the incredible stories behind the Gospel of Mary (and what happened to Mary Magdalene), and the Ac…

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The Kali Yuga, Astrology & The Power Of Long Cycles | Dan Waites 1:08:54

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Dan Waites joins us to discuss the literal long view, which is to say the things we can see and the frameworks we can find when we widen our perspective out to millennia-long cycles and epochal shifts. We explore: The Kali Yuga and why it may have ended THIS year. The Age of Aquarius and how it turns out to be both real and totally fashionable. (Yo…

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The Kali Yuga, Astrology & The Power Of Long Cycles | Dan Waites 1:08:54

4M ago1:08:54

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Dan Waites joins us to discuss the literal long view, which is to say the things we can see and the frameworks we can find when we widen our perspective out to millennia-long cycles and epochal shifts. We explore: The Kali Yuga and why it may have ended THIS year. The Age of Aquarius and how it turns out to be both real and totally fashionable. (Yo…

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How to Be an Effective Idealist (Rutger Bregman) 57:42

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Rutger Bregman is the New York Times–bestselling author of Moral Ambition. Today, he shares his model for living a more meaningful life. It’s not about being an idealist, or following your “passions.” It is, in many ways, about effectively solving the problems in our lives using the talents we already have. For Rutger Bregman’s work (including that…

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Why You Came To Earth | Alberto Villoldo 50:42

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Note: Before we begin, my six-week Shadow Work Intensive, The Shaman's Devil, Is Now Live. There are only a few spaces left, so if you think you might be interested, move quickly. If you know me, you'll know this is a pretty big deal for me. The one and only Dr Alberto Villoldo joins the show this week. We discuss Why you came to earth in the first…

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What Would Happen If We Related to Money Differently? (Elizabeth Ralph) 53:52

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“What matters is: Are you free?” asks Elizabeth Ralph. “Do you feel free?” Ralph is a former finance trader, and the founder of the Spiritual Investor, where she now helps people reach financial freedom in less traditional ways. Together, we explore some of my own (self-limiting) stories around money, and how our ego and identity gets wrapped up in…

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The Gold of Midlife (Chip Conley) 34:44

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“The midlife crisis is not a dark night of the soul,” says Chip Conley, founder of the Modern Elder Academy. “It’s a dark night of the ego.” Conley, who is also the author of Learning to Love Midlife, outlines the main myths that we’re led to believe about midlife—and some optimistic data about what actually happens during this chapter of our lives…

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Understanding the Masks we Wear (Satya Doyle Byock) 52:28

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Lucifer: Praxis | Peter Grey 1:08:07

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Psychic Espionage, Bending Spoons, and Going Back in Time (Dean Radin, PhD) 53:40

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What I Realized While Doing a Manifestation Program (Monthly Solo) 37:16

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A Deeper, Simpler Manifestation Process (Jessica Gill) 48:41

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Getting Out of the Self-Justification Trap (Carol Tavris, PhD) 52:33

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Do We Misunderstand the Point of Monogamy? (Dan Savage) 1:01:58

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Discovering the Sacred Through The X-Files | Christopher Knowles 2:18:03

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The Intrinsic Order that Emerges from Within Chaos (Elinor Dickson, PhD) 52:50

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Using Triangulation to Better Understand Yourself (Monthly Solo) 44:04

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Rebuilding a Life (Jen Hatmaker) 47:52

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Travelling Ghosts Bent Spoons and the Science of Magic | Dean Radin 1:25:25

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What’s Your Zone of Genius? (Katie Hendricks, PhD) 51:32

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Otto Rahn, Nazi Grail Hunter | Richard Stanley 1:29:51

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Chasing Love (Elizabeth Gilbert) 59:45

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How Spirit Entities Shape Human Affairs | Vanese McNeill 1:31:52

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Stop Trying to Kill the Ego (Satya Doyle Byock) 52:13

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7 Tools for Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness (Courtney Smith) 1:03:54

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4 Things I Learned This Summer (Monthly Solo) 36:42

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There Are Two Moves When Faced with Uncertainty (Francis Weller) 55:27

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What Would You Do If Certainty Never Returned? 37:34

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How to Fully Engage with the Rest of Your Life (Sharon Blackie, PhD) 48:44

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The 63-Second Chance to Rewire Your Brain (Caroline Leaf, PhD) 38:50

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Zombie Co-Creation 23:12

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When We’re Committed to the Most Extreme Reaction (Thomas Hübl, PhD) 32:58

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So You Want to Write a Book? (Monthly Solo) 45:01

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Who Am I If I’m Not Pleasing Anyone? (Meggan Watterson) 58:58

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The Kali Yuga, Astrology & The Power Of Long Cycles | Dan Waites 1:08:54

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The Kali Yuga, Astrology & The Power Of Long Cycles | Dan Waites 1:08:54

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How to Be an Effective Idealist (Rutger Bregman) 57:42

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Why You Came To Earth | Alberto Villoldo 50:42

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What Would Happen If We Related to Money Differently? (Elizabeth Ralph) 53:52

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The Gold of Midlife (Chip Conley) 34:44