How can the brain — a piece of matter — love? Physics and chemistry explain the material world, but they can’t explain why it feels like something to be alive. This is the mystery of consciousness, according to these experts.

"Everything that we care about, everything we experience, everything we know, we know it through our conscious awareness of it."

What is perception, really? Philosopher Alva Noë on why perception is a puzzling phenomenon:

Consciousness isn’t just a problem for philosophers. On this episode of Dispatches, Kmele sat down with scientists, a mathematician, a spiritual leader, and an entrepreneur, all trying to get to the heart of “the feeling of life itself.”

Your "social reality" isn’t an absolute reality. A leading neuroscientist explains why.

Our society is in a mental health crisis. Are psychedelics the way out?

Can psychedelics solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness? A Johns Hopkins professor explains.

A psychiatrist studied 1,000 near-death experiences. Here’s what he discovered.

Is science destined to crack the code of consciousness—and how would we even go about it?

Near death experiences change people’s lives - and not always for the better.

Are dreams, hallucinations, and near death experiences all connected?

This man did over 150 drugs to help teach others how to use them safely.