Richard Silberstein is Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia. He is author of Stranger and Stranger: The Neuroscience of How Mind and Cosmos Communicate.

Richard explores the borderland between psi phenomena and neuroscience, proposing that time itself may be organized as nested hierarchies similar to those found throughout nature, allowing presentiment and precognition to operate at different temporal scales. Drawing on his background in brain science and functional connectivity research, he examines how non-physical consciousness may interact with the brain through filter mechanisms, retrocausal loops, and systems such as the default mode network, while linking laboratory findings on telepathy, psychokinesis, and near-death experiences to broader questions of mind-cosmos communication. Silberstein further considers evidence from past-life memories, bioelectric fields in development, and the possibility that focused intent can influence future events within a conscious, responsive universe.

00:00:00 Introduction

00:06:00 Nested hierarchies of time

00:12:00 Prediction machine and precognition

00:18:00 Anomalous attributes of consciousness

00:24:00 Filter Theory and TMS studies

00:30:00 Brain networks and periaqueductal gray

00:36:00 Default mode network and flow

00:42:00 Retrocausal loops and synchronicity

00:50:00 Past lives and bioelectric fields

00:59:00 Conclusion

(Recorded on Sunday, October 18, 2026)

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Published on November 9, 2026