535. Diane Hennacy Powell

Diane Hennacy Powell, M.D. is a Johns Hopkins-trained psychiatrist, therapist, neuroscientist, and public speaker. She develops multidisciplinary theories towards understanding psychological anomalies, such as savant skills and verified accounts of spacetime navigation. Her current research focuses on controlled testing of autistic savants and children reported to be telepathic and/or precognitive by their caregivers. Dr. Powell has been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, a member of a think tank on human consciousness at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, and Director of Research for the John E. Mack Institute. Her investigation into the neurocorrelates of ESP is discussed in her 2008 book The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena, and in Seriously Strange: Thinking Anew about Psychical Experiences. Dr. Powell is also an expert on PTSD and created the psychiatry program for Survivors of Torture, International in San Diego, California. She was the principal author of IONS The 2007 Shift Report: Evidence of a World Transforming and a contributing author to Beyond Forgiveness: Reflections on Atonement, the 2014 Campus Book of the Year at Indiana University. She is also a participant in the #NeverAlone movement for suicide prevention launched by Deepak Chopra. Website: drdianehennacy.com Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. Summary and transcript of this interview Interview recorded February 1, 2020 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Diane Hennacy Powell Interview 00:03:48 - Autistic Savants: Extraordinary Abilities 00:07:14 - The Brain's Processing Unit 00:11:07 - Acquired Savant Syndrome and Twin Intuition 00:14:54 - Extraordinary Mental Calculation Abilities 00:18:05 - Extraordinary Abilities and Experiments 00:21:43 - Accessing Universal Knowledge 00:25:25 - Contributions to the Universal Field of Intelligence 00:29:21 - Haley's Remarkable Abilities 00:33:04 - The Blind Savant Syndrome and Blind Seers 00:36:43 - Phenomenal Stories of Twins Raised Apart 00:40:28 - The Academy for the Advancement of Post-Materialist Sciences 00:44:31 - A New Paradigm: Consciousness as Fundamental 00:48:19 - The Three Theories of Post-Materialism 00:52:37 - The Role of Junk DNA and Glial Cells 00:57:02 - The Beauty of Specialization and Connection 01:00:52 - The Manifestation of Human Consciousness 01:04:09 - Challenging the Scientific Paradigm 01:07:51 - Challenges in Biological Sciences Research 01:11:27 - Embracing the Evolution of Human Beings and Unusual Perceptions 01:15:28 - Knowledge Beyond Experience 01:19:30 - Reincarnation and Desire 01:23:09 - Technologically Assisted Telepathy 01:27:20 - The Subtler Aspects of the Senses and Emotions 01:31:53 - The Relationship Between Physiology and Emotions 01:35:58 - The Evolution of Consciousness and Free Will 01:40:04 - The Illusion of Free Will and Conscious Decision-Making 01:44:12 - The Tragedy of Suicide 01:48:12 - The Importance of Preserving Human Consciousness 01:51:39 - Rational Vaccination and the Pharmaceutical Industry 01:55:07 - The Great Awakening and the Next 20 Years