The mystery of consciousness has confounded the western scientific paradigm for centuries. Often considered an epiphenomenon of matter, new information has been accumulating that pushes us beyond that paradigm, and suggests that matter is the floor, or basis of all physical phenomena in the universe. These ideas and perspectives echo older, indigenous religious and philosophical ideas.On this episode Dr. Thomas R. Verny is our guest. Dr. Verny is a psychiatrist, writer and academic. He has previously taught at Harvard University, University of Toronto, York University, Toronto, St. Mary’s University, Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.Today he will be discussing his new book, The Embodied Mind: Understanding the Mysteries of Cellular Memory, Consciousness, and Our Bodies. We delve into the mystery of consciousness and the conversation between our hearts and minds, well as the manifold aspects of memory and newer, quantum theories of mind.Thomas R. Verny...