Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wackib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.

So Daniel, welcome. Thanks so much for having me. It's so great to have you. I am a big fan of both

of your recent books, Spellbound and Molecule and more. Really enjoyed both. So let's start with

your background. Tell us about what you do and what led you to write both of those incredible

books. I'm a psychiatrist. I'm a clinical professor at George Washington University.

And what led me to write the books was just really interest. I found that there were so many

interesting things related to the unconscious mind and also related to dopamine and I wanted to

share them. I wanted to write something that would resonate with lots and lots of people because

by the time I started writing these books, I had really gone through a lot of my academic career

writing review articles, writing clinical trials. And it's interesting work. It's good work,

but not very many people read these things. Maybe a couple dozen. So after years and years of

writing things that only a tiny sliver of the population would be interested in, I wanted to

write something that would resonate more broadly. Well, when you say broadly, given your credentials,

I'm reading Spellbound and then all of a sudden I stumble upon you talking about practices like

numerology, meditation, tarot cards, alchemy, and the magic, as you said. So again, given your

credentials, I was surprised to find that, but we'll come back to that. At the highest level,

the conscious and unconscious mind, let's start there. Walk us through that relationship.

Most people really don't give very much credit to their unconscious mind. They kind of assume

that they're the one in charge inside of their head and nothing could be farther from the truth.

If you take a moment to think about it, the conscious mind, the part of your brain that you have

control over is only a very tiny part of what goes on inside your head. And in fact, studies have

shown that the unconscious mind engages in half a million times more processing from moment to

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