In this episode, we sit down with Robert Waggoner for a grounded and wide-ranging conversation that explores consciousness, perception, and the deeper mechanics of inner experience. Drawing from decades of firsthand exploration and study, Robert shares insights on lucid awareness, navigating non-ordinary states, and what sustained curiosity can reveal about the nature of mind and reality. A thoughtful dialogue that invites reflection, discernment, and a calmer way of seeing what’s always been there.

We welcome back our friend Kevin Knuth, founder of Viking Extraction, Professor of Physics at University at Albany, and former NASA research scientist who built AI systems for astrophysical data analysis. Buckle up as the conversation ranges from angel hair, engineer-animals and chemist-plants, curiosity bandwidth, extraterrestrial gardeners, lizards and spoons, and the 1954 Florence soccer-field incident, to refractory time, family remote viewing, levitation, caterpillar silk linked to barbell-shaped UFOs, and the difference between believing and seeing. Kevin also shares insights from his work with UAPx, the physics we haven’t studied yet, what finally clicked for him, and why supporting serious research through a university endowment matters.

Welcome back to Behind Greatness. In this episode, we speak with Lisa, author of Words at the Threshold, joining us from her new home in Emerald Isle. Her book is a compelling compendium of seven years of research and collected last words. With a calm, playful presence, Lisa shares insights from her work, personal experiences with dying loved ones, and the quiet wisdom of a fireman who helped preserve a meaningful moment. Our conversation explores the consensual nature of language, humour in dying, and the openness and curiosity we carry from childhood into life’s final moments. We also touch on darker territory and what Lisa has discovered through the unravelling of speech at the edge of life.

Welcome back. Today we sit down with Alex — a physicist, neuroscientist, intellectual activist, and author who spends his life studying the unseen but deeply real. Our conversation moves quickly into a “no time to lose” pace as Alex digs into the impossible, questions rigid materialism, and challenges the limits of academia. We explore the space between skepticism and curiosity, the pursuit of rigorous inquiry, consciousness, evil, ideas as tools, and the quiet significance of smallness.

In this episode of Behind Greatness, host Luciano Volpe speaks with Philip Carr-Gomm, a psychologist, psychotherapist, and prominent modern Druid from Sussex, England. They explore the intersection of psychology and spirituality, discussing trees as spiritual companions, the practice of surrender, lucid dreaming and the “big self,” and the surprising Druid connection to Winston Churchill. Philip shares his ongoing journey of personal growth at the crossroads of ancient spiritual wisdom and modern psychological practice.