Be Here Now: Susan Blackmore and the Possibility of Intergelactic Memes

We Can Be Weirdos

Global

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Susan Blackmore is a renowned British psychologist, writer, and visiting professor at the University of Plymouth, specialising in the study of consciousness, memes, and anomalous experiences. With a background in psychology and physiology from the University of Oxford and a PhD in parapsychology from the University of Surrey, she gained prominence for her critical yet open-minded approach to topics like near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, and paranormal claims. Blackmore is also the author of several influential works, including The Meme Machine, where she explores the concept of memes in cultural evolution, and Consciousness: An Introduction, a widely used textbook in the field. Known for her engaging public speaking and thought-provoking ideas, Blackmore continues to challenge conventional thinking about the mind and human experience.

Find out more about Susan through her website: https://www.susanblackmore.uk/

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0:32.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast. Warning!
0:40.7	The following podcast contains strong language, bizarre theories,
0:42.1	unexplainable experiences,
0:45.5	and a two and a half hour long out-of-body experience.
0:48.4	It may not be suitable for younger weirdos.
0:51.7	I had a very dramatic out-of-body experience,
1:30.3	and that's when I became totally convinced of all sorts of stuff. Hey everyone. Welcome to another episode of We Can Be Weirdos. My name is Dan Shriver. I am coming to you today from my home at Roughway by C. And, oh man, feeling a bit upset. I just read that we lost one of the great weirdos of our time. Filmmaker David Lynch is gone,
1:37.9	which is very upsetting. I was only just talking about Lynch on last week's episode with
1:42.5	Dan Smith from Bastille, who's a massive, massive fan of
1:45.9	his, so he's going to be horribly upset. So go and have a quick listen if you want to find out a
1:50.7	really interesting fact about the theme tune of Twin Peaks. It's right at the beginning of the episode,
1:56.1	really spookily coincidental. By the way, if you are a big Lynch fan, here's something you might
2:02.2	not have spotted, and I highly recommend checking it out if you can. There's a concert that I
2:07.1	randomly stumbled onto when I was on Amazon Prime one day, which is called Change Begins Within.
2:12.4	And it was a benefit concert that was thrown to launch the David Lynch Foundation. And so this was at Radio
2:19.4	City Music Hall in New York. And it was largely about transcendental meditation and how that should
2:26.6	be taught. That's my memory of it. But it's unbelievably star-studded. And I was just really surprised.
2:32.7	This was one of those moments. and I saw this when I was
2:35.0	writing the theory of everything else book. It's where I realized people were into things like
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