Super-consciousness: Thomas Brophy and Dawson Church in Conversation
Mar 5, 2026
44:07
Thomas Brophy is a physicist, consciousness researcher, and President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). He previously served as president of California Institute for Human Science (CIHS), a unique mind, body, spirit integral university, which achieved accreditation during his tenure. Dr. Brophy explored the science of consciousness in his 1998 book The Mechanism Demands a Mysticism: An Exploration of Spirit, Matter, and Physics. His other books explore the astronomy of prehistoric Egypt as well as extraterrestrial intelligence.
Here he and Dawson explore:
- Transcendent experiences
- The philosophy behind quantum mechanics
- The spiritual life of scientists
- Thomas' background
- Why observation collapses the quantum wave into one of the many possibilities
- Why anomalous experiences happen when science says they can’t
- The human cycle headed towards a reconnection with spirituality
- Non human intelligence
- Consciousness based technologies
