Design Your Own 'Mindapps' to Expand Your Smarts & Creativity – Thomas Roberts, Ph.D., with Dave Asprey : 702
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, my guest is Thomas Roberts, Ph.D., who’s devoted a nearly 50-year career to the study of psychedelics. Tom has developed “mind design” technologies and practices he calls mindapps.
Just like writing and installing apps in our electronic devices, we can construct “mindapps” and install them in our brain-mind complex, he says. And just like digital apps add capabilities to our devices, mindapps can expand our intellectual capacity and creative abilities.
Tom’s mindapps also offer benefits for artistic performance, mystical and spiritual experience, and scientific research by improving creativity, open-mindedness, problem solving, and inner-brain connections—the ultimate performance hacking!
“There are things we can install in our brain/mind complex that allow it to do new things and to do things more strongly,” Tom says. “I'm not saying that a mindapp is like artificial intelligence in electronical sense. I'm just taking that idea and transferring it over to things. Now, my favorite, of course, is psychedelics, but it includes brain stimulation, hypnosis, breathing techniques, biofeedback, chanting, yoga, hypnosis, on and on. All of these are mindapps that we can install and use our brain/mind complex in different ways.”
We’re intentionally redesigning our own minds, he explains, and lays it all out in his most recent book: Mindapps: Multistate Theory and Tools for Mind Design. We talk about mindapps and how they connect to consciousness and psychedelic science.
Tom is a professor emeritus of educational psychology at Northern Illinois University and a former visiting scientist at Johns Hopkins, He’s presented around the world on consciousness and psychedelic science. For 32 years, he taught Foundations of Psychedelic Studies, which was the world’s first university-cataloged psychedelic course.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Bold Proof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:11.1 | I decided that this year's Biohacking Conference theme is play. |
| 0:14.7 | Biohacking Tech is cool, but the Biohacking community is so important. |
| 0:19.7 | So we're having two specific sessions dedicated to making authentic connections and lifelong |
| 0:25.2 | friends who care about the things you care about, people like us. |
| 0:29.5 | Last year's dating Dojo sold out so fast that I had a second one for you this year. |
| 0:35.1 | This is a great structured way to connect with others in our community, whether you're |
| 0:39.2 | attending for business, pleasure, or some above. |
| 0:42.2 | The playful portal will be led by none other than Christina Weber of We Deep In. |
| 0:47.2 | And when you go, you can learn how to descend into your body so you can come alive and play. |
| 0:52.7 | Connect with others through the art of presence and humor. |
| 0:56.2 | And how to turn on the experience of love and discover new ways to connect with others |
| 1:02.2 | and yourself from a state of wonder. |
| 1:04.8 | Yes, this is actually biohacking. |
| 1:07.5 | The other experience will be led by Christy Price, the biohacking mastermaker. |
| 1:11.7 | And you'll actually play games and engage in the spirit of conversation and laughter. |
| 1:16.1 | So you actually get to know the people you're there with. |
| 1:19.0 | And you'll learn how to get your energy up so you can make connections in less time and |
| 1:22.6 | meet more amazing people who want to date. |
| 1:26.2 | Go to biohackingconvers.com and gear ticket today. |
| 1:31.6 | Today's guest is Thomas B. Roberts, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology at Northern |
| 1:39.6 | Illinois University. |
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