Next Level Soul Podcast with Alex Ferrari

BONUS MONDAYS: Dr. Edwin Barnhart, director of the Maya Exploration Center, has over twenty years of experience in Central and South America as an archaeologist, an explorer and an instructor. He has appeared in over a dozen documentaries and given presentations all over the world.His involvement in Maya studies began in 1990 as an archaeological intern in the ruins of Copan, Honduras. In January of 1996 he was invited to return to Copan and help the University of Pennsylvania excavate the early acropolis and the tomb of the city's lineage founder. From 1992-1995 he had been studying art, iconography and epigraphy (hieroglyphic translation) under the late Dr. Linda Schele at the University of Texas at Austin. During that same time he worked across the state of Texas as a contract archaeologist.

In 1994 he began working as a surveyor and a UT field school instructor in the jungles of Northwestern Belize. After finding numerous small villages, Dr. Barnhart discovered the ancient city of Ma'ax Na (Monkey House), a major center of the Classic Maya Period. He mapped over 600 structures at Ma'ax Na between 1995 and 1997 before moving his research focus to Chiapas, Mexico. Also while in Belize, Dr. Barnhart worked with the Belize Post Classic Project mapping the island of Caye Coco and excavating a series of burials on an island in Laguna de On. Dr. Barnhart received his Masters degree in May of 1996 and began teaching Anthropology classes at Southwest Texas State University the following September. He taught Archaeology and Anthropology classes at SWTS until 1998 when he was invited by the Mexican government to direct the Palenque Mapping Project.
 
The Palenque Mapping Project was a three-year effort to survey and map the unknown sections of Palenque's ruins. Over 1100 new structures were documented, bringing the site total to almost 1500. The resultant map has been celebrated as one of the most detailed and accurate ever made of a Maya ruin. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001 with his dissertation entitled The Palenque Mapping Project: Settlement Patterns and Urbanism in An Ancient Maya City.

Upon graduation, Dr. Barnhart and his colleagues established Maya Exploration Center through which to continue and share their research. As of 2020, he has led over 200 ancient sciences travel courses in 15 different countries. Also through MEC, he is the author of an annual wall calendar and an iPhone app which explains the ancient Maya calendar.In 2012, he produced a 24-lecture video series for the Teaching Company’s Great Courses entitled “Lost Worlds of South America”. His second Great Course entitled “Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed” was released in March of 2015. Then in 2018 his third Great Course was released, entitled “Ancient Civilizations of North America”. His most recent production with Great Courses is a 6-episode travel series called “Exploring the Mayan World”.Over the last two decades, he has appeared multiple times on the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, Discovery Channel 3D, Canada’s Religion Television, Japanese NHK Public Television, and an award-winning documentary entitled “2012: The Beginning”. Dr. Barnhart is a Fellow of the Explorer's Club and leads travel courses for college professors on ancient astronomy, mathematics and sacred geometry. In 2020 he started his podcast – ArchaeoEd, which focuses on ancient cultures of the Americas.

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What if the life you are living is only one version of what is possible—and every moment gives you another opportunity to rewrite it?

After three near-death experiences, Masati returned with an extraordinary perspective on consciousness, identity, death, and what he describes as the hidden mechanics behind the reality we experience. In this conversation, we explore what happens when consciousness leaves the body, why he believes the traditional “life review” is actually a life relive, and how unconscious patterns from family, society, previous experiences, and our own identities may keep recreating the same reality again and again.

Then the conversation takes an unexpected turn. Masati guides me through a live exercise that brings forward multiple versions of myself—the filmmaker, father, entrepreneur, storyteller, and eventually the young kid who first fell in love with movies in a video store. What followed became one of the most personal moments I've experienced on the show. We also explore quantum jumping, fragmented identities, genius and altered states, Tesla and Mozart, the nature of the timeless self, and the possibility that awakening isn't about becoming something new at all. Perhaps it is simply remembering what was there before everything else told us who we were supposed to be.

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FLASHBACK FRIDAYS: Michael Hoffmann is an author and has written The Face of the Iguana; Freedom from Toxic Belief Systems: A Journey in Healing and Transformation. In that publication, he relates his involvement in a doomsday cult and how he escaped and revealed the nefarious tactics of cults. He expertly synthesized various ways to disassemble the negative narratives of fear-based beliefs. He included a summary of 5 years of after-life research and studies.

Michael Hoffmann is a Cognitive Behavioral Counselor, Certified Neurofeedback Provider, and international consultant and trainer. Mr. Hoffmann worked as a clinician, both nationally and internationally, in the administration of EEG Neurotherapy treatment for patients with alcohol and other drug addictions, ADD, PTSD, and other anxiety disorders. He conducted extensive training events regarding Neurofeedback for psychologists, psychiatrists, and other licensed counselors in the U.S. and countries of Latin America and Europe. For ten years, he successfully applied his Cognitive-behavioral knowledge and skills with high-risk offender populations in a criminal justice setting.

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What if everything you believed about Jesus, worthiness, and unconditional love changed in a single moment?

In this profound conversation, Bridget Cook-Burch shares the extraordinary story of her near-death experience after a life-threatening illness in her early twenties. Meeting Yeshua transformed not only her understanding of God but also her understanding of herself. She reveals what she learned about unconditional love, why our deepest wounds often become our greatest purpose, and how the stories we tell ourselves shape every aspect of our lives.

Together, we explore the true nature of Yeshua beyond religious doctrine, how fear and shame keep us disconnected from our divine identity, the power of rewriting our personal story, and why every dark night of the soul is an invitation into greater consciousness. Bridget also shares how her near-death experience awakened extraordinary intuition, allowing her to help others heal by discovering the deeper meaning hidden within their own life stories.

This conversation is an inspiring reminder that no matter how broken we believe ourselves to be, we are never beyond love, redemption, or transformation.

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BONUS MONDAYS: Donald Hoffman received a PhD in Computational Psychology from MIT, and is a Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He is an author of over 100 scientific papers and three books, including The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes (2019), and Visual intelligence: How we create what we see (1998). He received a Distinguished Scientific Award of the American Psychological Association for early career research, the Rustum Roy Award of the Chopra Foundation, and the Troland Research Award of the US National Academy of Sciences.

His writing has appeared in Scientific American, New Scientist, LA Review of Books, and Edge, and his work has been featured in Wired, Quanta, The Atlantic, Ars Technica, National Public Radio, Discover Magazine, and Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. He has published a mathematical theory of consciousness. He has a TED Talk titled “Do we see reality as it is?”. A podcast titled “Reality is an illusion” with Lex Fridman, and a podcast with the philosophers Philip Goff and Keith Frankish titled "What Is Reality?". He has dozens of other podcasts available online.

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