{"podcast":{"title":"Giants Shoulder","slug":"the-giants-shoulder-6943930","podcast_index_feed_id":6943930,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f592b1d4/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/evanmcgloughlin","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/41100317/41100317-1740226956129-96396ebc63bd9.jpg","author":"Evan McGloughlin","episode_count":140,"summary":"A Neuroscience podcast. Each week I talk with experts on a range of topics from consciousness and neuroplasticity to evolution and everything in between. I have a particular interest in consciousness and understanding our inner subjective conscious experience. Evan has a Neuroscience degree from Trinity College Dublin and is the co-founder of 2 (failed) edtech startups. He is a professional tennis coach and Triathlete enthusiast.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T04:19:34.566536+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-giants-shoulder-6943930"},"episode":{"title":"#134 - Neuroscientist: \"Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness\" — NDEs, Telepathy and Terminal Lucidity","slug":"134-neuroscientist-your-brain-doesn-t-create-consciousness-ndes-telepathy-and-terminal-lucidity","published_at":"2026-07-02T15:48:54+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-giants-shoulder-6943930/134-neuroscientist-your-brain-doesn-t-create-consciousness-ndes-telepathy-and-terminal-lucidity","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-giants-shoulder-6943930","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/evanmcgloughlin/episodes/134---Neuroscientist-Your-Brain-Doesnt-Create-Consciousness--NDEs--Telepathy-and-Terminal-Lucidity-e3lipp2","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f592b1d4/podcast/play/122299618/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-2%2F427240146-44100-2-9cd896658ed34.mp3","summary":"Get One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool): https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqe Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about Marjorie Woollacott is a neuroscientist who spent three decades as a hard materialist and co-wrote the textbook used to train physiotherapists worldwide. After a meditation experience her own field said was impossible, she hid it from her colleagues for over 25 years before concluding the brain does not produce consciousness — it filters it. Expect to learn why a career materialist neuroscientist hid her own paranormal experience for 25 years, the prospective hospital studies that corroborate what patients report while clinically dead, how a comatose man with zero brain activity accurately described a nurse hiding his dentures, what terminal lucidity is and why dying Alzheimer's patients regain full clarity minutes before death, the ongoing lab research into non-speaking autistic children who appear to communicate telepathically, why Christof Koch said the data would turn his world upside down, how Bernardo Kastrup's analytic idealism compares to Woollacott's own theory of consciousness, and much more… Timestamps 0:00:00 Trailer 0:02:46 Where Her Story Really Begins 0:05:05 The Materialist Neuroscientist She Used To Be 0:06:15 The Meditation Retreat That Broke Her Skepticism 0:14:24 What Actually Caused Her Awakening 0:22:59 How Rigorous Is Near-Death Experience Research, Really 0:24:19 The Prospective Studies Skeptics Ignore 0:25:06 The Coma Patient Who Knew Where His Dentures Were 0:35:48 Bernardo Kastrup's Analytic Idealism Explained 0:43:19 Is Terminal Lucidity Just Wishful Interpretation? 0:46:09 The Three-Year-Old's…","meta_description":"Get One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool): https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqe Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner exper…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5920,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-giants-shoulder-6943930/episodes/134-neuroscientist-your-brain-doesn-t-create-consciousness-ndes-telepathy-and-terminal-lucidity/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-giants-shoulder-6943930/134-neuroscientist-your-brain-doesn-t-create-consciousness-ndes-telepathy-and-terminal-lucidity.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}