So here's some exciting news from on being studios. Our podcast, this movie changed me, is back.

Each episode is hosted by our very own movie-obsessed executive producer, Lily Percy,

and is like a love letter to movies and their power to teach, connect, and transform us.

You don't have to have watched the movies in advance, but if you love Groundhog Day or the

Wizard of Oz or Black Panther or Coco or even the exorcist, you're already ahead.

This is also a fabulous audio experience. Great thoughts, laughter, a few tears, and immersive

movie music and moments. This season features conversations with Seth Goden, Naomi Alderman,

and A.O. Scott. New episodes are out every Tuesday. If you haven't listened yet, it's time.

Learn more as always at onbeing.org.

Support for On Being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the

spiritual foundation for a loving world. Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding

principle and animating force for our lives, a powerful love that helps us live in sacred

relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world. Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.

The Science Writer and Reporter Eric Vance thinks that present day brain scientists are like

astronomers of old. They unsettled humanity's sense of itself by redrawing our picture of the

cosmos out there. We're now learning a huge new reality-shifting story about the universe within us.

Eric Vance has investigated what he calls the theater of medicine, which it turns out

is often more closely connected to what we believe and what we fear than to the efficacy of this

treatment or that. In fact, most drugs that go to trial can't beat what we've dismissively called

the placebo effect, but the placebo effect is nothing less than an unleashing of the superpowers

of the brain. There's a whole theory around pain that says, chronic pain isn't really something

wrong with you. It's just the chemicals in your brain haven't been set to the right levels.

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