EBTV with host Evita Ochel and returning guest Anthony Peake who presents information from his newly released book: Opening the Doors of Perception: The Key to Cosmic Awareness.

Topics covered in the video include:

  1. A summary and overview of “Opening the Doors of Perception” book. (1:31)

    • Anthony’s inspiration and intention for the book
  2. The brain-consciousness connection. (4:15)

    • “Henri Bergson, brain acts as a limiting device, taking out much of the info available to consciousness.”
    • the easy and hard problems of consciousness (research by David Chalmers: http://consc.net/papers/facing.html)
    • what creates consciousness
    • the nature of hallucinations (11:25)
    • the binding problem (13:37)
    • how brain creates vision (14:50)
    • the condition of synesthesia (20:40)
    • dream and hallucination connection (21:27)
    • we live in a wider perceptual universe than we realize
  3. How hallucinogenic substances can open the doors of perception. (25:38)

    • the mechanism and mystery of pain killers
    • the mechanism and mystery of anesthetics
    • the properties and mechanism of DMT and Ayahuasca
    • our primitive, survival-based brain (35:00)
  4. The continuum of perception and how different mental conditions impact our perception of reality. (38:34)

    • how migraines influences the doors of perception
    • how Temporal Lobe Epilepsy influences the doors of perception (44:52)
    • how Schizophrenia influences the doors of perception
    • the Schizophrenia and hallucinogen connection
    • Anthony’s incident with his mother’s mental health (54:00)
    • encounters with other beings
    • how Alzheimer’s influences the doors of perception
    • how Autism influences the doors of perception (1:05:35)
    • how Savant syndrome influences the doors of perception (1:07:30)
    • the Alzheimer’s-consciousness connection (1:13:37)
  5. How to open the doors of perception without hallucinogens or conditions that affect our mental capacity. (1:21:21)

    • the role of dreaming, lucid dreaming and out-of-body experiences
  6. Reality as a simulation. (1:25:33)

    • digital information as the baseline of everything
    • is it possible to know with certainty that we are in a simulation (1:30:55)
    • dimensions of space-time

    “The next great scientific frontier will not be outer space, but inner space.”

    Anthony Peake, Opening the Doors of Perception

  7. Information about Anthony’s sequel to the book “Opening the Doors of Perception”. (1:36:36)

  8. Anthony’s website and social media info. (1:38:38)

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