The Scientist Who Talks to Spirits | Dr. Neil Theise
About this episode
Dr. Neil Theise discusses the intersection of science and spirituality through his experiences with his mother who had dementia.
My guest today is a serious scientist. Dr. Neil Theise is a pathologist and stem cell researcher whose work has been featured in Nature , Science , and Cell . He's also a Zen practitioner. For decades, he kept those worlds separate—until his own body forced them together. But what really got me? His 82-year-old mother. She had dementia, talked to dead people, traveled out of body, and described space and time as "chopped into pieces." Her Parkinson's disappeared. Her blood pressure normalized. She called it the happiest time of her life. Neil wrote Notes on Complexity to lay the groundwork. His next book, Sarah in the In-Between , is the one he really wanted to write. This conversation will change how you see dementia, death, and what it means to be present. 00:00 A Scientist Who Talks to Dead People 03:10 Introducing Dr. Neil Theise 04:30 Two Paths: Science and Mysticism 13:12 The Stem Cell Work That Shaped History 16:02 Complexity Theory: How Life Self-Organizes 22:06 The Moment His Leg Became Cells 28:04 The Zendo: Stick or Smoke, Body or Cells 31:30 Big C Consciousness and the Mind of God 34:48 His Mother Sarah: Dementia, Dead People, and Bliss 43:20 Her Parkinson's…
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