S1E30: Talk Tracks Ep. 18: Transcendental Meditation and Consciousness
The Telepathy Tapes
Ky Dickens
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Talk Tracks, neuroscientist and global leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement Dr. Tony Nader turns the question of consciousness upside down. Trained at Harvard and MIT, Dr. Nader once studied the brain as the source of awareness—until his research led him to a radical conclusion: it’s not the brain that creates consciousness, but consciousness that creates everything. He explains why he sees consciousness as the fundamental field of reality, how ancient traditions align with modern science, and why practices like Transcendental Meditation offer a direct path to experiencing our deeper, unified self. Along the way, he connects this idea to telepathy, intuition, and even the extraordinary abilities of nonspeaking individuals, inviting us to reconsider what it really means to be human.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you have a story, insight, or research that belongs on the telepathy tapes or talk tracks? |
| 0:06.8 | Email Stories at the telepathy tapes.com. |
| 0:09.7 | And if you want to go deeper, ask me anything, or get ad-free episodes, subscribe at |
| 0:14.3 | the telepathytapes.com or tap the supercast link in the show notes. |
| 0:21.2 | Before we dive in today, I want to announce that the second season of the telepathy tapes will be dropping on October 15th. |
| 0:27.6 | So mark your calendars and get ready because season two, the Consciousness Channel, is a month away. |
| 0:43.6 | Hi, everyone. I'm Kai Dickens, and I'm thrilled to welcome you to the talk tracks. In this series, |
| 0:49.1 | we dive deeper into the revelations, challenges, and unexpected truths from the telepathy tapes. |
| 0:54.9 | The goal is to explore all the threads that weave together our understanding of reality, science, |
| 0:59.5 | spirituality, and yes, even unexplained things like sci abilities. |
| 1:04.5 | If you haven't yet listened to Season 1 of the telepathy tapes, I encourage you to start there. |
| 1:08.0 | It lays the foundation for everything we'll be exploring in this journey. |
| 1:11.1 | We'll feature conversations with groundbreaking researchers, |
| 1:16.3 | thinkers, non-speakers, and experiencers who illuminate the extraordinary connections that may defy explanation today, but won't for long. |
| 1:22.3 | Today on the talk tracks, we're joined by Dr. Tony Nader, neuroscientist, author, and global leader of the |
| 1:28.9 | Transcendental Meditation Movement. With an MD from Harvard and a PhD in brain and cognitive |
| 1:34.6 | science from MIT, Dr. Nader spent years studying the nervous system only to arrive at a radically |
| 1:40.5 | different conclusion. The brain does not create consciousness. Instead, consciousness |
| 1:46.8 | creates everything. In this episode, we'll dive deep into what consciousness actually is, |
| 1:53.0 | why Dr. Nader believes it's the true foundation of reality, and how transcendental meditation |
| 1:58.0 | can give us direct access to a universal field of intelligence, something |
| 2:02.9 | ancient traditions have claimed for thousands of years, and modern science is only beginning to explore. |
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