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Michael Singer: “I Can Handle This”—A Powerful Mantra for Modern Life, Why We Are Addicted to Our Own Suffering, and How to Release Everything That’s Hurting Us. Jan 06, 2026

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In this mind-expanding conversation of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Michael A. Singer—legendary author of bestsellers The Untethered Soul, Living Untethered, and The Surrender Experiment, and founder of Temple of the Universe—returns to reveal the real truth behind spiritual awakening...and why most people are getting it wrong.

If you’ve ever wondered what a spiritual awakening actually looks like on a practical, everyday level, this is the breakdown you’ve been waiting for. Michael shares a step-by-step framework for building your spiritual identity, and explains why awakenings mean nothing unless you can properly integrate them into your daily life.

You’ll learn why resilience is the #1 key to coping with modern stress, and why every authentic spiritual teacher puts compassion at the forefront of their teachings. Michael reveals how compassion and acceptance are deeply connected—and how this powerful combination leads to cooperation, unity, and humanity’s highest good.

We also dive into the science behind spirituality, exploring the brain states of acceptance vs. resistance, and how eliminating the distractions of early emotions and personal narratives can open the door to higher consciousness. Michael even explains why we don’t matter nearly as much as we think we do—and why that realization is actually the most liberating truth of all.

You’ll hear his bold perspective on why we must fix ourselves before trying to fix the world, his belief that science is finally catching up to spirituality, and why the power of awe might be the missing ingredient in your spiritual evolution. Michael also breaks down the concept of the higher self, how to access it, and what it truly feels like to live untethered and surrender to the universe (spoiler: it DOESN’T mean blindly accepting everything that happens—he explains the difference).

Plus: his surprising proof that rich people are just as unhappy as everyone else, and his heartfelt message for beginners stepping onto the spiritual path for the first time.

And for the first time ever, he shares an exclusive announcement and preview of his upcoming book, along with his mind-bending thoughts on where consciousness really lies… and what happens to consciousness when we die.

If you’re ready to challenge everything you think you know about spirituality, identity, awakening, and the nature of existence itself, this is the episode of MBB you can’t afford to miss.

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Re-Air: Melissa Joan Hart: Teaching Mayim About Clam Breeding & Christmas! Dec 26, 2025

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In honor of the holiday season, we are revisiting our conversation with Melissa Joan Hart!

Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Clarissa Explains It All, What Women Binge podcast) explains how she got her starts on her iconic television series, her Blossom audition, what it’s like to have your mom as your manager, and how her strong sense of responsibility helped her cope with the pressures of being a child actor. She and Mayim bond over starring in female character-driven shows around the same time and Melissa teaches Mayim about "Christmas Culture." Melissa opens up about her journey as a lifelong learner, her foray into directing, and the fascinating story about how her mom inadvertently became her manager.

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He Was Declared Dead, Left His Body, Traveled Across States, and Later Described a Town He’d Never Visited—One of the Most Astonishing Near-Death Experiences Recorded | Doctor Raymond Moody Dec 23, 2025

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Is the veil between life and the afterlife finally breaking down? What could that mean for the way we live our lives?

In this jaw-dropping episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Dr. Raymond A. Moody Jr., MD, PhD—the world’s leading authority on Near Death Experiences and author of the groundbreaking bestseller Life After Life—reveals the most mind-blowing NDE he has ever encountered in his 50 years of pioneering research.

For decades, Dr. Moody watched NDEs go from “fringe pseudoscience” to a serious, respected field of study. In this episode, he explains exactly what changed, why he believes NDEs represent the crumbling veil between our current reality and the afterlife, and why believing these accounts has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with evidence.

Dr. Moody also breaks down:

- His astonishing Psychomanteum Research, reviving the ancient ritual of mirror gazing to communicate with deceased loved ones

- Why he feels “forced” to believe in an afterlife

- His powerful message to hardcore skeptics

- Why NDEs may be humanity’s first measurable bridge to another dimension

- The stunning phenomenon of Shared Death Experiences (including his own personal encounter!)

- Why SDEs may offer irrefutable proof of the validity of NDEs

- The spiritual exercise he uses to help skeptics open to afterlife evidence

- Why we’re on the verge of a breakthrough in the rational investigation of life after death

- How skeptics & parapsychologists may actually be more aligned than they think

Mayim and Jonathan also unpack the different categories of NDEs, why proving the science of the afterlife is so difficult, the eerie phenomenon of multiple people having parallel dreams at the same time, the impact of family constellation work on healing and ancestral patterns, and the profound power of unconscious belief and how it shapes our reality.

If you’ve ever wondered whether consciousness survives death…this episode of MBB will challenge everything you think you know!

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How to Trust What You Feel Dec 19, 2025

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Today we’re sharing something truly special: an intimate conversation Jonathan recorded with end-of-life counselor and death doula, Dr. Martha Jo Atkins. Many of you met her on the show before, but this episode—originally shared only with Jonathan’s Substack community on his practical spirituality page —goes even deeper. Martha Jo, who’s been with thousands of people as they have transitioned, witnessing what most of us never see or never talk about.

This conversation is not just about dying—it’s about understanding life. Martha describes the subtle patterns people exhibit when they’re nearing the end: asking the time over and over, feeling restless, talking about needing to “go,” searching for shoes or keys or maps even when they can’t physically walk. These behaviors aren’t random. They’re signals of a transition already underway. And once you hear her describe them, you realize we do the exact same things during major life transitions.

When we’re growing.

When we’re changing.

When something in us is shifting before we’re ready to say it out loud.

We can’t sleep.

We check the clock compulsively.

We feel unsettled in our bodies.

We imagine leaving relationships, jobs, or versions of ourselves without knowing why.

We call it anxiety—but Martha helps reveal it as a natural part of transformation. And that’s what makes this conversation so relatable. Martha and Jonathan talk about why so many of us feel anxious even when something might not be wrong. And how our bodies might send messages before our minds understand what’s happening. Martha and Jonathan explore what it actually means to tune your intuition.

Learning to notice what’s happening inside you.

Clearing the emotional noise that blocks clarity.

Understanding why your system reacts the way it does.

And reconnecting to the inner guidance most of us have spent years overriding or numbing out.

We also get into Martha’s personal journey—how her brother’s death opened her intuitive senses, the non-ordinary experiences she’s had but didn’t have language for at the time, and how she continues to feel connected to loved ones who have passed. And she shares concrete practices anyone can use to settle the nervous system, develop intuition, and navigate uncertainty with more calm and trust.

If you’re going through a transition, feeling overwhelmed, or just sensing that something inside you is shifting, this conversation will give you language, perspective, and support. And if you want more episodes like this—sometimes with surprise guests—you can find them on Jonathan’s Substack where this one originally aired. We hope you enjoy it, and we hope to see you over on Substack!

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Microsoft AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, On the Most Powerful, Exponential Technology in Human History: Can We Harness its Revolutionary Potential for Medicine and Energy Without Triggering Social Upheaval, Job Displacement, and Autonomous Global Control? Dec 16, 2025

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Are we sleepwalking into the biggest technological revolution in human history?

In this explosive episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Mustafa Suleyman — CEO of Microsoft AI & author of The Coming Wave — breaks down what it really means to live in a world undergoing a massive reckoning with Artificial Intelligence. Whether you love it, hate it, or don’t even realize you’re already using it, AI is quietly reshaping everything we know about medicine, government, finance, energy, and even human relationships.

Mustafa pulls back the curtain on the true risks of AI, the benefits that may outweigh them, and the unsettling truth about how fast this technology is evolving...much faster than anyone predicted. He reveals the single most significant global use-case of AI today (and why it’s a direct challenge to human evolution), the surprising reason AI therapy and companionship are exploding worldwide, and what we’re unintentionally outsourcing to machines that may isolate us from real human connection.

We dive into:

- The waves of AI evolution and what comes next

- The coming disruption to the economy and the job market

- How to prepare (and parent) in a world powered by AI

- Why AI’s similarity to the human brain’s neural networks is both fascinating and terrifying

- The urgent need for guardrails and safeguards before bad actors use AI to manipulate individuals and entire societies

- Mind-blowing breakthroughs AI could unlock in human potential

- Why Mustafa believes AI will never develop its own awareness or agenda

- And the controversial question: Will it take a catastrophic AI event to force governments and agencies to finally work together?

This is not just a conversation about technology, it’s a conversation about humanity’s future, the choices we’re making right now, and the consequences of ignoring the wave that’s already here.

If you want to understand where AI is taking us, and how to survive and thrive in the next decade, watch this episode of MBB until the very end!

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Premonitions That Came True! Aberfan, Plane Crashes & Death Foretold | New Yorker Staff Writer Sam Knight on Seemingly Impossible Stories of Dreams and Visions Before Catastrophe Dec 12, 2025

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What if precognitive abilities could actually save lives?

Sam Knight (New Yorker staff writer, author of the widely popular The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold) joins Mayim Bialik's Breakdown to unpack some of the strangest, most unsettling questions in human experience: Can we really be scared to death? Do premonitions give us access to other timelines? Or are they evidence of a hidden, collective consciousness?

Sam takes us inside the real story behind the deadly coal mine collapse that dozens of people eerily reported before it happened: a wave of psychic warnings so compelling it led to the creation of the British Premonitions Bureau, an experimental project designed to collect premonitions and prevent future catastrophes.

We explore why people in the past seemed to understand extrasensory abilities better than we do today, and how head injuries have triggered sudden psi abilities in some truly bizarre cases. Sam also breaks down the most common types of premonitions, what separates accurate warnings from noise, why there aren't premonitions about positive things, the implications of so many different families and cultures sharing these inexplicable accounts, and why it’s actually anti-scientific to dismiss reports of precognition altogether.

Do people who experience premonitions have a moral responsibility to act on them? Could these uncanny glimpses be messages from alternate timelines, or something emerging from the depths of the unconscious mind? And the biggest question of all: Do we all have the ability to receive premonitions but we just don’t know how to listen?

If you’ve ever felt a strange sense of déjà vu, had a dream that came true, or wondered whether the future is already whispering to you…this is the episode of MBB you can’t miss.

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Part Two: Quantum Mechanics Breaks Our Idea of Time. Dr. Stephen Wolfram Explains How the Universe Contains Infinite Timelines Unfolding Simultaneously in a Multi-Threaded Structure Dec 10, 2025

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What if everything you know about reality, intelligence, science, aliens, and even your own body…is wrong?

In this mind-expanding conversation of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Dr. Stephen Wolfram — the legendary computer scientist, theoretical physicist, mathematician, founder of Wolfram Research — reveals how the groundbreaking technologies he created are re-shaping our understanding of the universe itself.

We dive into the limits of science, the secrets of biological evolution, and why computational irreducibility may explain why some mysteries of nature can never be predicted, only experienced. Dr. Wolfram breaks down whether his computations suggest humanity is cosmically significant…or completely insignificant in a universe built from the same atoms repeating the same rules everywhere.

Discover why the objective reality you experience as a human might be totally different for other species, and why this could be the key to understanding alien intelligence, extrasensory perception, and why there might be alien minds all around us right now that we simply can’t perceive.

Dr. Stephen Wolfram also breaks down:

- Does the body have its own language? (And, if so, what autoimmune disease might be “saying")

- What can truly be built from random mutation, and why evolution even works at all

- How reductionist science is limiting medicine, and how living matter actually behaves

- Why AI may function as an alien mind, and what that reveals about the shocking simplicity of human language

- What makes the human mind special, how we evolved this way, and why that very fact proves we are not the most advanced species possible

- Do computers use a form of telepathy to communicate with one another?

He even takes us behind the scenes of his work as a consultant on the hit film ARRIVAL, explaining how alien logograms connect to his research on how language shapes human thought, what abstract concepts a bigger brain could comprehend, and what kinds of ideas we might be biologically incapable of imagining.

If you’re fascinated by astrophysics, AI, consciousness, aliens, evolution, mathematics, language, or the limits of human understanding, this episode of MBB will challenge everything you think you know!

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Quantum Mechanics Breaks Our Idea of Time. Dr. Stephen Wolfram Explains How the Universe Contains Infinite Timelines Unfolding Simultaneously in a Multi-Threaded Structure Dec 09, 2025

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What if everything you know about reality, intelligence, science, aliens, and even your own body…is wrong?

Dr. Stephen Wolfram also breaks down:

- Does the body have its own language? (And, if so, what autoimmune disease might be “saying")

- What can truly be built from random mutation, and why evolution even works at all

- How reductionist science is limiting medicine, and how living matter actually behaves

- Why AI may function as an alien mind, and what that reveals about the shocking simplicity of human language

- What makes the human mind special, how we evolved this way, and why that very fact proves we are not the most advanced species possible

- Do computers use a form of telepathy to communicate with one another?

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Part Two: Is Consciousness Outside of The Brain?! Physicist and Inventor of the Microprocessor, Federico Faggin, explains how Science and Spirituality are Merging. His powerful awakened Revealed the Truth About Reality. Dec 07, 2025

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What happens when one of the greatest minds in modern technology has a spiritual awakening that shatters everything he thought he knew about reality?

In this exclusive interview on Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Federico Faggin — legendary physicist-turned-inventor, creator of Silicon Gate Technology, father of the first commercial microprocessor at Intel, and early pioneer of AI — opens up like never before about the transformational experience that changed the entire direction of his life.

Faggin reveals the moment a beam of pure love, peace, and joy radiated through him, showing him that consciousness—not matter—is the true foundation of reality. This awakening didn’t just shift his worldview…it reshaped his life’s work, his understanding of physics, and his mission to bridge science and spirituality.

Federico Faggin breaks down:

- How his spiritual awakening rewired his life & work

- Why Consciousness & Free Will actually explain Quantum Physics (and not the other way around)

- The 3 levels of reality, and why our spiritual reality is inseparable from the material one

- Why humanity faces destructive consequences (like environmental collapse) when we’re out of alignment with true reality

- How gravity itself is “proof of love” at the deepest level

- How ego overidentification blinds us to the true nature of existence

- Why the boundary between science & spirituality has already dissolved

- How the next evolution of medicine will awaken a deeper understanding of oneness, consciousness, and free will

- Why your personal happiness is ultimately up to you and no one else

- His insights on the Afterlife, Collective Consciousness, and whether we’re living in a Simulation

PLUS...Federico shares a special sneak peek at his groundbreaking new book!

If you’ve ever wondered what consciousness really is, whether science can explain spirituality, or what happens after we die, this conversation will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about reality.

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Is Consciousness Outside of The Brain?! Physicist and Inventor of the Microprocessor, Federico Faggin, explains how Science and Spirituality are Merging In His Quantum Field Theory of Consciousness. His powerful awakened Revealed the Truth About Reality. Dec 05, 2025