#376 - Exiled Neuroscientist: “The Vatican Tried to Recruit Me” | Mario Beauregard

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🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 161 minutes

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Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Mario Beauregard, PhD, is a cognitive neuroscientist who studies the neuroscience of consciousness and mystical experience, including a study investigating the brain activity of Carmelite nuns. He is co-author of the book 'The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul'. SPONSORS http://amentara.com/go/dj - Use code DJ22 for 22% off. https://rag-bone.com - Use code DANNY & get 20% off sitewide. https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/zralgyl0 - Download CashApp today! https://chubbiesshorts.com/danny - Use code DANNY for 20% off. https://whiterabbitenergy.com/?ref=DJP - Use code DJP for 20% off EPISODE LINKS The Spiritual Brain - https://a.co/d/0cZDv6gn https://www.drmariobeauregard.com FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 00:00 - Dr. Beureguard's childhood mystical experience 03:52 - Discovering everything is connected as one 07:08 - Mario "downloaded" his life's mission 09:54 - Mario's failed journey to become a priest 15:44 - Mario's second mystical experience 21:08 - What Mario saw in Heaven 23:30 - Mario's biological markers say he's 20 years younger 29:19 - How Mario became a neuroscientist 30:07 - The roots of modern science 31:02 - When science lost its spiritual connection 34:27 - Testing memory molecules for Pfizer 36:00 - Pfizer pushed ineffective Alzheimer's drug in 1994 41:12 - Why Mario fled Canada during the pandemic 43:00 - Justin Trudeau paid off court judges during the pandemic 46:31 - The Catholic Church tried to bribe Mario 53:38 - Why the church is pushing new science 01:01:10 - Carmelite nuns study 01:07:00 - 1% of seizures trigger mystical experiences 01:09:57 - Johns Hopkins psychedelics + religion study 01:13:07 - Mario tested all drugs before experimenting 01:14:44 - Human psyche vs. consciousness 01:16:55 - "Consciousness" is the scientific God 01:21:56 - Non-physical information 01:25:17 - Where thoughts come from 01:30:14 - Holotropic breathwork to expand consciousness 01:34:58 - New consciousness research 01:38:02 - Who's funding consciousness research 01:40:11 - Studies on people who survived death 01:44:58 - Holosynthesis 01:49:33 - What happens when you "overdose" psychedelics 01:52:20 - Church-sanctioned psychedelic use 01:55:57 - Humans are behaving like robots 02:02:54 - Joan Jett's spiritual transformation 02:05:37 - NDEs vs. life reviews 02:07:21 - Memories of past lives 02:15:35 - How to expand consciousness using sound 02:21:30 - Bufo: DMT times 1,000 02:24:39 - Mapping neurological effects across religions 02:26:25 - The Dalai Lama's lesson on attention 02:32:04 - What the brains of uncontacted tribes might look like 02:37:55 - Explanation of the universe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.5	nicotine and nicotine is an addictive chemical dr. Mario Buret chemical.
1:16.6	Dr. Mario, how do you spell the pronouncing? It's French, French Canadian.
1:18.6	Buregard.
1:19.6	Boregard.
1:20.6	Nice look.
1:21.6	This is the translation.
1:22.6	Nice look.
1:23.6	I'll let you do the pronunciation, then.
1:25.6	Nice to meet you. Nice to be.
1:28.3	Thank you for coming.
1:29.3	I'm excited to talk to you today.
1:30.3	Before we start, can you please lay out your academic background and everything that you study for folks are listening?
1:38.3	Okay.
1:39.3	But before telling you that, I need to tell you a bit about my own story, where I was born,
1:46.8	a mystical experience that happened to me very young, because that explains what I did later on.
1:52.2	Sure.
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