The Scientist Who Saw the Other Side: Consciousness NDEs & Physics | Dr. Alex Gómez-Marín

THIRD EYE DROPS

Michael Phillip, SpectreVision Radio

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 116 minutes

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🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Dr. Alex Gómez-Marín enters the mind meld! Alex is a neuroscientist and physicist whose work dances at the edge of science and spirit. He’s the director of the Pari Center where he explores the frontiers of consciousness, cognition, and life itself. Alex has also had his own brush with the infinite — a near-death experience that further shattered his assumptions about mind, matter, and reality In this one, we navigate the mysterious terrain where neuroscience and physics meet metaphysics. We explore what his NDE revealed about the nature of consciousness, why materialism may be reaching its limits, and how physics might point toward a universe that is alive, aware, and participatory. Along the way, we dive into ancient and modern models of mind, from platonism to panpsychism. If you’ve ever felt that consciousness is more than neurons firing — that awareness is woven into the very fabric of reality — this one’s for you. Riffs include: -Alex’s near-death experience and how it changed his worldview -Consciousness, neuroscience, and the limits of materialism -Physics, metaphysics, and the living universe -The continuity of mind before and after death -Ancient philosophical echoes in modern science -Why the science of tomorrow must take consciousness seriously Links for Alex: Bio: https://paricenter.com/alex-gomez-marin/ X account: https://x.com/behaviOrganisms Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear our 300-plus other podcasts: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Ryan Sprague. When I was 12 years old, my father and I stared up into the night
0:08.1	skies, and we saw something extraordinary staring back. And whatever it was sent me on a search to
0:15.9	find answers to the UFO phenomenon and beyond. And that search continues somewhere in the skies.
0:23.6	Coming to you from Spector Vision Radio,
0:26.6	the Somewhere in the Sky's podcast features conversations,
0:30.6	interviews, and roundtable discussions with scientists, scholars, historians,
0:35.6	pop culture figures, and prominent UFO researchers.
0:40.3	We also hear directly from you, the listeners, about your personal UFO sightings and encounters.
0:47.3	Lastly, we bring you fascinating and engaging case histories.
0:51.3	Each week is something different and truly unique. Somewhere in the
0:56.2	skies doesn't seek to just entertain. We seek the truth. We bring new questions and theories to the
1:03.3	table. We bring new voices to the discussion. And we attempt to possibly find some answers to those
1:09.6	mysteries that lay somewhere in the skies.
1:12.6	New episodes are every Monday through Spectrevision Radio on Spotify, Apple, no, no, I want to study consciousness, because this is like, it seems like the final frontier.
1:38.3	And when I was doing that, then I had a near-death experience, and then I saw the light at the end of the tunnel and I had kind of a foot
1:44.6	in the in the afterlife you could say I was in a well I was looking upwards that's the difference
1:50.7	not in a tunnel so I was looking upwards there were three figures waiting for me I could see their
1:55.2	their hair and faces against this yellow light they're there they could call them spiritual guides
2:00.6	immediately recognize them.
2:02.7	I was feeling at peace.
2:04.3	And very importantly, I knew exactly what was going on.
2:08.5	And I came back.
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