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The Observable Unknown

Dr. Juan Carlos Rey

The Observable Unknown is a scientific and psychological podcast exploring consciousness, perception, behavior, identity, altered states, symbolism, neuroscience, and the hidden structures shaping human life. Through disciplined analysis rather than performance spirituality, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey examines how people orient to reality, endure pressure, construct meaning, and lose coherence in the modern world.

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185 episódios

  1. The Written Unknown X: The Cast of Ages | Dice, Divination, Destiny, Chance & the Ancient Human Search for Meaning 7:37
  2. Mailbag XLIV: The Kit Is for the Gap | Why Governments Want 3, 7, or 10 Days of Emergency Supplies 8:21
  3. Interlude XCIII: Delay | Why Tomorrow’s Wisdom Loses to Tonight | Hyperbolic Discounting, Procrastination & the Future Self 6:33
  4. The Written Unknown IX: Silence After the Feast | Petronius, the Satyricon, Literary Refusal, Fragmentation & the Failure of Meaning 5:45
  5. Mailbag XLIII: Are We Building New Temples Online? | Digital Mythology, Memes, Fandoms, Conspiracy Culture & the Architecture of Meaning 7:01
  6. Interlude XCII: Impulse | Why Wanting, Liking, and Choosing Are Not the Same Thing 7:22
  7. The Written Unknown VIII: A Simplified Neuroscience of Intuition | How the Brain Knows Before the Mind Can Explain 6:15
  8. Mailbag XLII: How Do I Stay Myself When the Country Changes Around Me? | Agency, Political Polarization, Authenticity & Moral Courage 7:45
  9. Interlude XCI: Habit | Wendy Wood, Ann Graybiel, Basal Ganglia, Automatic Behavior, Context Cues & Behavior Change 6:59
  10. Interlude XC: Friction | Kurt Lewin, Richard Thaler, Behavioral Economics, Choice Architecture, Habits, Willpower & Behavior Change 8:43
  11. The Written Unknown VII: Chance as a Cultural Language | Fate, Randomness, Divination, Gero, Play & the Psychology of Meaning 6:53
  12. Yegor Mostovshikov: Cognitive Warfare, AI Psychosis, Narrative Identity, Memory Politics & Who Gets to Write Your Story? 50:51
  13. Interlude LXXXIX: Salience | Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, Availability Heuristic, Cognitive Bias, Vividness, and Decision-Making 8:18
  14. The Written Unknown VI: The Rey Chronicle, Volume I | A Global History of the Occult, Magic, Mysticism, Esotericism, Divination, and the Invisible World 10:08
  15. Mailbag XLI: Is AI Going to Wipe Us Out? | AI Extinction Risk, Doomscrolling, Climate Anxiety, Economic Fear, and the Future of Humanity 8:37
  16. Interlude LXXXVIII: Attention | William James, Michael Posner, Selective Attention, Perception, Focus, and Decision-Making 6:45
  17. The Written Unknown V: Other People’s Weather | Emotional Boundaries, Nervous System Regulation, People-Pleasing, Guilt, Family Roles, and Emotional Sovereignty 8:20
  18. Mailbag XL: Is Fear a Neurotransmitter? | Fear, Brain Chemistry, Neurotransmitters, Amygdala, Dopamine, and the Neuroscience of Emotion 6:21
  19. Interlude LXXXVII: Agency | Free Will, Albert Bandura, Harry Frankfurt, Choice, Responsibility, Habit, and Human Agency 7:42
  20. The Written Unknown IV: The Secret Scaffolding of Story | Narrative Architecture, Story Structure, Character, Plot, Writing, and Why Stories Matter 9:37
  21. Mailbag XXXIX: When Everything Starts Looking Like a Conspiracy | Misinformation, UAPs, COVID, Neuralink, Human Trafficking, and Critical Thinking 8:33
  22. Interlude LXXXVI: Becoming | Martin Buber, Charles Taylor, Identity, Belonging, Meaning, and the Relational Self 6:50
  23. The Written Unknown III: Temporal Architecture™ | Burnout, Human Rhythm, Recovery Debt, Decision-Making, Leadership, and Adaptive Performance 10:58
  24. Mailbag XXXVIII: When the Job You Need Starts Slipping Away | Workplace Performance, Difficult Bosses, Professional Reputation, and Job Anxiety 7:25
  25. Interlude LXXXV: Legacy | Erik Erikson, Robert Kegan, Generativity, Adult Development, and What Remains After We’re Gone 8:08
  26. The Written Unknown II: The Architecture of Command | Magic, Consciousness, Ritual, Self-Regulation, and Human Becoming 8:13
  27. Mailbag XXXVII: When the World Feels Like It’s Ending | Doomscrolling, Anxiety, Information Overload, Insomnia, and Temporal Collapse 7:35
  28. Interlude LXXXIV: Transmission | Joseph Henrich, Peter Richerson, Cultural Evolution, and How Civilizations Survive 7:58
  29. THE WRITTEN UNKNOWN I: Between Voice and Presence | Why We Hear the Dead, Sense the Unseen, and Search for Meaning Beyond the Brain 6:59
  30. Mailbag Installment XXXVI : Does Evolution Have a Syntax? | Genetic Grammar, Symbiosis, Microbial Communication, and the Conjugation of Life 7:41
  31. Interlude LXXXIII: Obligation | Marcel Mauss, Alasdair MacIntyre, Inherited Debt, Family Loyalty, and the Responsibilities We Never Chose 8:36
  32. Interlude LXXXII: Memory | Endel Tulving, Frederic Bartlett, Collective Remembrance, and the Reconstruction of Identity 6:52
  33. Mailbag Installment XXXV: When Nobody Knows You’re Still Here | Loneliness, Social Isolation, Suicidal Thoughts, Friendship, and the Need to Be Found 9:41
  34. Interlude LXXXI: Apprenticeship | Michael Polanyi, Hubert Dreyfus, Tacit Knowledge, and How Skill Passes Between Generations 9:57
  35. Professional Spotlight Series | Business Discovery Interviews on The Observable Unknown 2:44
  36. Interlude LXXX: Imitation | How Borrowed Desire, Mimetic Theory, and Story Shape Identity 10:19
  37. Mailbag XXXIV: When Every Conversation Becomes a Trial | Difficult Mothers, Eric Berne, Games People Play, Transactional Analysis, Family Conflict, Boundaries, Widowhood, and The Cost of the Move 7:26
  38. Interlude LXXIX: Belonging | John Bowlby, Naomi Eisenberger, Attachment Theory, Social Rejection, Loneliness, Neuroscience, and the Biology of Inclusion 7:05
  39. Dr. Judith A. Swack 40:26
  40. Interlude LXXVIII: Ritual | Roy Rappaport, Harvey Whitehouse, Cultural Memory, Sacred Action, Grief, Neurosomatic Praxis, and the Psychology of Repetition 7:04
  41. Barbara Bass 1:05:44
  42. Interlude LXXVII: Myth | Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Narrative Architecture, Sacred Time, Consciousness, Identity, and the Stories Beneath Belief 9:35
  43. Mailbag Installment XXXIII: When Fear Becomes Reality | Paranoia, Fear, Threat States, Family Conflict, Reality Testing, and Professional Help 12:07
  44. Interlude LXXVI: Language | How Speech Shapes Reality, Lev Vygotsky, George Lakoff, Inner Speech, Metaphor, Framing, Consciousness, and Identity 9:58
  45. Mailbag Installment XXXII: The One Who Broke the Pattern | Family Estrangement, Lineage, Epigenetics, Inherited Trauma, Murray Bowen, Monica McGoldrick, and Phylogenetic Inertia 12:53
  46. Interlude LXXV: Lineage | Family Systems, Generational Trauma, Epigenetics, Phylogenetic Inertia, Murray Bowen, Monica McGoldrick 6:16
  47. Dr. Troy Hassan Shepherd 31:00
  48. Interlude LXXIV: Inheritance | Cultural Memory, Consciousness, Identity, Jan Assmann, Merlin Donald, Relational Topology of Consciousness 5:57
  49. Mailbag installment 31: The Search for a Compass | Purpose, Identity, Belonging, Mentorship, Meaning, Relational Consciousness 9:07
  50. Interlude LXXIII: Continuity | Cultural Memory, Civilization, Jan Assmann, Joseph Henrich, Tradition, Collective Knowledge 5:52