Mayim Bialik's Breakdown
Mayim Bialik
Consciousness. Spontaneous healing. UAPs. Near Death Experiences. Manifestation. Psychic phenomena. Angels. Nothing is off limits if it can be approached with curiosity and rigor.
MBB started as a conversation about mental health — and quickly became something much bigger. Because the deeper you go into what it means to be human, the faster you run into questions science hasn’t fully answered yet.
Hosted by neuroscientist and cultural icon Mayim Bialik and spiritual explorer Jonathan Cohen, MBB is a multi-award-winning podcast where science and spirituality meet. Together they break down the assumptions, the misperceptions, and the boundaries between disciplines — and every breakdown is a breakthrough. This is where the biggest questions get taken seriously — and where you realize you’ve never been alone in asking them.
Can the mind actually heal the body? Can quantum physics explain psychic phenomena? What do Near Death Experiences reveal about the nature of consciousness and the seat of the human soul? What if the only thing separating you from your own intuition - or even God - is the assumption that it’s out of reach? And if governments are publicly acknowledging the existence of UFOs, what does that mean for the future of humanity?
These are the questions Mayim Bialik's Breakdown asks every week.
Subscribe on Substack for ad-free episodes and bonus content, and check us out on YouTube (@MayimBialik) for video versions of our episodes!
MBB started as a conversation about mental health — and quickly became something much bigger. Because the deeper you go into what it means to be human, the faster you run into questions science hasn’t fully answered yet.
Hosted by neuroscientist and cultural icon Mayim Bialik and spiritual explorer Jonathan Cohen, MBB is a multi-award-winning podcast where science and spirituality meet. Together they break down the assumptions, the misperceptions, and the boundaries between disciplines — and every breakdown is a breakthrough. This is where the biggest questions get taken seriously — and where you realize you’ve never been alone in asking them.
Can the mind actually heal the body? Can quantum physics explain psychic phenomena? What do Near Death Experiences reveal about the nature of consciousness and the seat of the human soul? What if the only thing separating you from your own intuition - or even God - is the assumption that it’s out of reach? And if governments are publicly acknowledging the existence of UFOs, what does that mean for the future of humanity?
These are the questions Mayim Bialik's Breakdown asks every week.
Subscribe on Substack for ad-free episodes and bonus content, and check us out on YouTube (@MayimBialik) for video versions of our episodes!
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Feb 21, 2026 • 58min
Part Two: Are You Ignoring Your Higher Self? NEUROSCIENTIST on Intuition, Synchronicities & Soul Messages | Dr. Marjorie Woollacott
Dr. Marjorie Woollacott, neuroscientist and consciousness researcher, blends science and spiritual awakening in a candid conversation. She explores near-death experiences, nonlocal consciousness, telekinesis and psi, and how meditation reopens dream and NDE memory. She also discusses synchronicity, remote healing, energetic boundaries, and practical steps for quieting the mind and staying open to hidden signals.
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Feb 20, 2026 • 59min
Are You Ignoring Your Higher Self? NEUROSCIENTIST on Intuition, Synchronicities & Soul Messages | Dr. Marjorie Woollacott
Dr. Marjorie Woollacott, neuroscientist studying consciousness and spiritual experience, recounts a life-changing heart-opening meditation and her bridge between science and mysticism. She explores neural filters, psi and NDEs, why some people are naturally more open, practical ways to deepen meditation, and how beliefs, synchronicities, prayer and collective consciousness shape perception.
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Feb 18, 2026 • 1h 8min
Part Two: The Science of Messages From Your Soul: NASA Scientist on Telepathy, Mind Reading & What Astronauts Can Teach Us About High-Performance Intuition | Dr. Iya Whiteley
Dr. Iya Whiteley, an aviation and space psychologist with a PhD in cognitive engineering and founder of Cosmic Baby Academy, discusses how pilots and astronauts develop unusual perceptual skills. She explores synchronicity, embodied intelligence, synesthesia, pre-birth visions, and why experts often withhold non-rational knowing. The conversation touches on UAP reports, emotional responses in encounters, and methods for studying intuition.
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Feb 17, 2026 • 1h 10min
The Science of Messages From Your Soul: NASA Scientist on Telepathy, Mind Reading & What Astronauts Can Teach Us About High-Performance Intuition | Dr. Iya Whiteley
Dr. Iya Whiteley, an aviation and space psychologist with a PhD in cognitive engineering who trains pilots and astronauts, discusses perception, intuition, and tacit expertise. She explores extrasensory reports in high-pressure environments. Topics include embodied intelligence, spherical awareness and synesthesia, how experts transfer nonverbal skills, and what astronaut cognition reveals about anticipation and creativity.
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Feb 13, 2026 • 2h 13min
Re-Air: Drs. John & Julia Gottman: This Predicts Divorce!
Dr. Julie Gottman, clinical psychologist co-leading The Gottman Institute, and Dr. John Gottman, relationship researcher from the Love Lab, explain what predicts relationship breakdown. They cover the Four Horsemen, bids for connection and the power of small rituals, how trauma and addiction shape partnerships, affairs and recovery phases, and technology, sex, and health links to relationship quality.
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Feb 11, 2026 • 1h 7min
Part Two: Yale Psychiatrist on the Science of Manifestation, The Truth of Your Intuition, Reconnecting to our Souls and Why Mental Health Needs Spirituality! | Dr. Anna Yusim
Dr. Anna Yusim, Yale psychiatrist and author who integrates spirituality with mental health. She explores scientific spirituality, authentic intuitive experiences, and how manifestation really works. Conversations cover telepathy vs. clinical phenomena, intuition types and development, mediums and grief work, psychedelics and altered states, Kabbalah practices, and practical ways to balance surrender with personal responsibility.
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Feb 10, 2026 • 52min
Yale Psychiatrist on the Science of Manifestation, The Truth of Your Intuition, Reconnecting to our Souls and Why Mental Health Needs Spirituality! | Dr. Anna Yusim
Dr. Anna Yusim, Yale psychiatrist and author who bridges spirituality and mental health, discusses how spiritual practices affect brain and body. She explains two ways to manifest, raising frequency in daily life, unconscious reprogramming and breaking intergenerational patterns. She also explores intuition types, energetic boundaries, and where science and mysticism meet.
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Feb 6, 2026 • 1h 23min
The Science of Mind-Body Unity: Why Your Cells are Always Listening to Your Thoughts & How a Legendary Harvard Psychologist is Redefining the Limits of What is Biologically Possible.
Ellen Langer, Harvard psychologist who pioneered mindfulness and the counterclockwise study, shares surprising research on how attention, expectations, and self-agency shape health and aging. She discusses nursing home experiments, perceived time affecting healing, placebo and sham-surgery effects, reframing habits, vision and chronic illness management, and how simple noticing can change biological outcomes.
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Feb 4, 2026 • 54min
Part Two: Are We Smart Enough to Understand the Universe? Could Humans be Alien Pets? Neil deGrasse Tyson on Simulation Theory, Why Your God is too Small and How Science Will Guide Us into the Future
Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and Hayden Planetarium director, offers big-picture takes on cosmology and our place in it. He tackles the zoo hypothesis of aliens treating us like pets. He explores simulation theory, the multiverse, limits of human intelligence, near-death experiences, and why science must lead our search for truth.
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Feb 3, 2026 • 53min
Are We Smart Enough to Understand the Universe? Could Humans be Alien Pets? Neil deGrasse Tyson on Simulation Theory, Why Your God is too Small and How Science Will Guide Us into the Future
Neil deGrasse Tyson, renowned astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium, gives a lively tour of big cosmic questions. He tackles simulation theory, the idea humans might be an alien “zoo,” the limits of human intelligence, the missing 95% of reality, and why modern spirituality struggles with the scale of the cosmos. Short, provocative, and full of curiosity.
