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An up-close look at the education arms race of after-school learning, academic competitions, and the perceived failure of even our best schools to educate children. Beyond soccer leagues, music camps, and drama lessons, today’s youth are in an education arms race that begins in elementary school. In Hyper Education, Pawan Dhingra uncovers the growing world of high-achievement education and the after-school learning centers, spelling bees, and math competitions that it has spawned. It is a world where immigrant families vie with other Americans to be at the head of the class, putting in hours of studying and testing in order to gain a foothold in the supposed meritocracy of American public education. A world where enrichment centers, like Kumon, have seen 194 percent growth since 2002 and target children as young as three. Even families and teachers who avoid after-school academics are getting swept up.To learn more about Pawan Dhingra and his work, go to www.pawanhdhingra.comTo get your copy of Hyper Educatio

Mark Anthony the Psychic Lawyer®/Psychic Explorer® is the author of the award winning, critically acclaimed best-sellers Never Letting Go and Evidence of Eternity. He is a world-renowned fourth generation psychic medium who communicates with spirits. Mark is an Oxford educated attorney licensed to practice law in Florida, Washington D.C. and before the United States Supreme Court. Mark is featured regularly on Television, major talk radio shows and in print media.Mark Anthony is also known as the Psychic Explorer. The media has referred to him as the “Psychic Indiana Jones” due to his extensive background in science, quantum physics, survival of consciousness and near-death experiences, history, archaeology, philosophy and theology. One day Mark may be lecturing at an Ivy League University about Quantum Physics and the next off to mystical locations in remote corners of the world to explore Ancient Ruins and Supernatural Phenomena.Today’s show is all about live readings!To learn more about Mark Anthony and h

From New York Times business reporter Nelson D. Schwartz comes a gripping investigation of how a virtual velvet rope divides Americans in every arena of life, creating a friction-free existence for those with money on one side and a Darwinian struggle for the middle class on the other side.In nearly every realm of daily life–from health care to education, highways to home security–there is an invisible velvet rope that divides how Americans live. On one side of the rope, for a price, red tape is cut, lines are jumped, appointments are secured, and doors are opened. On the other side, middle- and working-class Americans fight to find an empty seat on the plane, a place in line with their kids at the amusement park, a college acceptance, or a hospital bed.We are all aware of the gap between the rich and everyone else, but when we weren’t looking, business innovators stepped in to exploit it, shifting services away from the masses and finding new ways to profit by serving the privileged. And as decision-makers a

One simply has to look at news headlines, in the workplace, or into a classroom to find evidence of a troubling problem: bullying is affecting the lives of many people, causing severe emotional damage that can stay with them for life. There may never be a world completely free of bullies, but luckily there are ways to deal with this difficult issue: through awareness, understanding, and changing our beliefs about and reactions to bullying. As a long-time educator and parent, Jeanie Cisco-Meth has dealt with bullying situations over and over, and in this easy-to-understand guide, she shares her very best secrets for bully proofing your life. To learn more about Jeanie Cisco-Meth and her work, visit www.jeanieciscometh.com. To get your copy of Bully Proofing You, please visit our Amazon affiliate link here. To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to http://www.provocativeenlightenment.com

Cynthia Sue Larson is the best-selling author of several books including Quantum Jumps, Reality Shifts, and High Energy Money who helps people live more miraculous lives by accessing worlds of possibility. Cynthia has a degree in physics from UC Berkeley, an MBA degree, a Doctor of Divinity. She has been featured in numerous shows including Gaia, the History Channel, Coast to Coast AM, One World with Deepak Chopra, and BBC.To learn more about Cynthia Sue Larson and her work, visit www.RealityShifters.comTo get your copy of Reality Shifts, please visit our Amazon.com affiliate link.To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to http://www.provocativeenlightenment.com

The Unconscious synthesizes the best scientific and clinical thinking about the range of unconscious processes that control our thoughts, feelings, motivation, and behavior. The data shows conclusively that the unconscious is integral to all conscious processes. If understanding yourself is important to you, then you will not want to miss this show!Joel Weinberger, Ph.D., is author of The Unconscious: Theory, Research and Clinical Implications, published by Guilford Press. His blogs on the unconscious appear in Psychology Today. He received the Ulf Kragh Award (University of Lundh, Sweden) for his work on unconscious processes. Dr. Weinberger completed Postdoctoral training in human motivation at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Association for Psychological Science. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. He is Professor, with expertise in clinical, personality and motivation psychology at the Derner Institute, Adel

Mark Anthony the Psychic Lawyer®/Psychic Explorer® is the author of the award winning, critically acclaimed best-sellers Never Letting Go and Evidence of Eternity. He is a world-renowned fourth generation psychic medium who communicates with spirits. Mark is an Oxford educated attorney licensed to practice law in Florida, Washington D.C. and before the United States Supreme Court. Mark is featured regularly on Television, major talk radio shows and in print media. Mark Anthony is also known as the Psychic Explorer. The media has referred to him as the “Psychic Indiana Jones” due to his extensive background in science, quantum physics, survival of consciousness and near-death experiences, history, archaeology, philosophy and theology. One day Mark may be lecturing at an Ivy League University about Quantum Physics and the next off to mystical locations in remote corners of the world to explore Ancient Ruins and Supernatural Phenomena. To learn more about Mark Anthony and his work, please visit www.evidenceofe

In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are—intelligent, aware, and empathetic. Studies show that animals are astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities. In Animalkind, Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone present these findings in a concise and awe-inspiring way, detailing a range of surprising discoveries: that geese fall in love and stay with a partner for life, and so much more.Ingrid Newkirk is the founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)—the largest animal rights organization in the world, with more than 6.5 million members and supporters worldwide. She is the author of more than a dozen books that have been translated into several languages, including her latest, Animalkind: Remarkable Discoveries About Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion.Newkirk, a former Washingtonian of the Year, has been featured for her work for animals in The New Yorker, Time ma

Is a Young Earth Possible? argues for a youthful world from history and science. In the 1970’s, Australian doctors Robin Warren and Barry Marshall proposed that the bacteria Helicobacter pylori caused ulcers. It took two decades before their conclusion was justly recognized by the scientific establishment. Has Big Science misdated the earth? Is a Young Earth Possible? relates to a number of key issues in the public square such as climate change, homeschooling, government funding of science, bullying, depression, fake news, net censorship, and free speech.To learn more about Prof. Jay Hall and his work, visit www.YoungEarthScienceBook.comTo get your copy of Is a Young Earth Possible?, please visit our Amazon.com affiliate link.To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to http://www.provocativeenlightenment.com

The Incomplete Universe: The central claim of this powerful philosophical exploration is that within any logic we have, there can be no coherent notion of all truth or of total knowledge. Grim examines a series of logical paradoxes and related formal results to reveal their implications for contemporary epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. He reaches the provocative conclusion that, if the universe is thought of in terms of its truths, it is essentially open and incomplete. The Incomplete Universe includes detailed work on the liar paradox and recent attempts at solution, Kaplan and Montague’s paradox of the knower, the Gödel theorems and related incompleteness phenomena, and new forms of Cantorian argument. The emphasis throughout is philosophical rather than formal, with an eye to connection’s with possible worlds, the notion of omniscience, and the opening lines of the Tractatus: “The world is all that is the case." To learn more about Patrick Grim and his work, visit www.pgrim.org To

William Arntz is a physicist, software entrepreneur, filmmaker and author. He wrote simulators for the early Star Wars program, created software that the Fortune 500 world runs on, created the What the BLEEP Do We Know!? movie and books and co-created the book of visionary prophesies –The (not so) Little Book of Surprises – with Deirdre Hade. To learn more about William Arntz and his work, visit www.HowToSuffer.info To get your copy of How to Suffer … In 10 Easy Steps, please visit our Amazon.com affiliate link. To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to www.provocativeenlightenment.com

Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge takes the reader on tour of the nature, value, and limits of self-knowledge. Mitchell S. Green calls on classical sources like Plato and Descartes, 20th-century thinkers like Freud, recent developments in neuroscience and experimental psychology, and even Buddhist philosophy to explore topics at the heart of who we are. The result is an unvarnished look at both the achievements and drawbacks of the many attempts to better know one’s own self. To learn more about Prof. Mitchell Green and his work, go to www.mitchgreen.academia.edu and www.coursera.org/learn/know-thyself-the-examined-life To get your copy of Know Thyself, visit our Amazon affiliate link. To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to www.provocativeenlightenment.com

In Project Phenomena: Evaluating the Paranormal, researcher Brian Allan presents a fascinating smorgasbord of information relating to paranormal phenomena with the intention of demonstrating once and for all, that a separate reality exists alongside our own and does interact with us, including recent events involving approved séances in the Vatican and a demonic infestation in Seattle.To learn more about Brian Allan and his work, visit www.brianjallan-home.co.ukTo get your copy of Project Phenomena, please visit our Amazon.com affiliate link.To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to www.provocativeenlightenment.com

Professor Thomas Plante joins us to share the proven techniques developed for disorders from addictions and anxiety to cancer and chronic pain relief. Thomas G. Plante, Ph.D., is professor of psychology, and by courtesy, religious studies at Santa Clara University and directs the Applied Spirituality Institute there. He is also an adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine.To learn more about Thomas Plante and his work, visit www.scu.edu/tplanteTo get your copy of Healing with Spiritual Practices, please visit our Amazon.com affiliate link.To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to www.provocativeenlightenment.com

Professor William Ferraiolo joins us to flesh out his 10 Practical Steps to Embrace Ancient Stoic Philosophy in Today’s Modern World & Design a Life of Wisdom, Perseverance and Joy! The Practi al Stoicism is your step-by-step essential guide to teach you this ancient yet effective philosophy to help you selectively design your life full of wisdom and joy, while persevering in the face of toughest situations and adversities.William Ferraiolo received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oklahoma in 1997. Since that time, he has been teaching philosophy at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California.To learn more about Prof. William Ferraiolo and his work, visit www.deltacollege.edu/person/william-ferraioloTo get your copy of A Life Worth Living, please visit our Amazon.com affiliate link.To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to www.provocativeenlightenment.com

The first research-cluster focuses on motivating and developing new non-reductive models of The Unconscious synthesizes the best scientific and clinical thinking about the range of unconscious processes that control our thoughts, feelings, motivation, and behavior. The data shows conclusively that the unconscious is integral to all conscious processes. If understanding yourself is important to you, then you will not want to miss this show!Joel Weinberger, Ph.D., is author of The Unconscious: Theory, Research and Clinical Implications, published by Guilford Press. His blogs on the unconscious appear in Psychology Today. He received the Ulf Kragh Award (University of Lundh, Sweden) for his work on unconscious processes. Dr. Weinberger completed Postdoctoral training in human motivation at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Association for Psychological Science. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. He is Professor, wit

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) targets the critical risk mechanism in recurrent depression: the tendency to react to small changes in mood with large amounts of negative self-focused rumination. Mindfulness practice teaches patients to notice this tendency to ruminate earlier so that people can respond more skillfully. Research trials have found that MBCT reduces the risk of recurrence of depression by over 30% overall, with reductions of over 50% in those with the longest and most severe depression.Mark Williams is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. The main focus of his research and clinical work has been to understand how best to prevent serious clinical depression and suicide.With colleagues John Teasdale (Cambridge) and Zindel Segal (Toronto) he developed Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for prevention of relapse and recurrence in depression, and research has now found that MBCT markedl

The police in America belong to the people—not the other way around. Yet millions of Americans experience their cops as racist, brutal, and trigger-happy: an overly aggressive, militarized enemy of the people. For their part, today’s officers feel they are under siege—misunderstood, unfairly criticized, and scapegoated for society’s ills. Is there a fix? Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper believes there is. Be sure to join us for a lively conversation taking on the most controversial of law enforcement issues.Norm Stamper was a police officer for 34 years, the first 28 in San Diego, the last six (1994-2000) as Seattle’s police chief. He has a Ph.D. in Leadership and Human Behavior and is the author of two books, Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Expose of the Dark Side of American Policing and To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America’s Police. He is currently at work on a novel, a trilogy actually. To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to www.provocativeenlightenment.com

Ralph Lewis, MD, joins Eldon for a discussion setting theistic beliefs against the atheistic perspective. In his newest book, Finding Purpose in a Godless World, Lewis argues that religious beliefs are not necessary, indeed often even foolish, to find true meaning and purpose in life. He uses scientific findings to suggest how mind emerges from brain, how religious notions often disappoint believers, how evolution explains life itself, and more. Dr. Lewis obtained his medical degree in 1990 at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, where he grew up. He completed specialty training in psychiatry at the University of Toronto in 1996, followed by a two year fellowship in neuroimaging research and a Master of Science in Neuroscience, both at the University of Toronto. He has held his present staff physician appointment at Sunnybrook since 1998. To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to www.provocativeenlightenment.com

Caroline Sutherland is a medical intuitive, author, radio host, teacher and innovative leader in the fields of nutrition and energy medicine. She’s the popular Hay House author of The Body Knows book series. Caroline has a vast clinical background as an allergy-testing technician in Environmental Medicine where her intuitive gift developed. In the early 1980’s while working as a physician’s assistant she began to receive intuitive impressions about the patients, an experience which groomed her to become one of the most sought-after medical intuitives today. Caroline was raised in a medical family – both her father and grandfather were medical doctors. As a child the “blueprint” of her family lineage created important seeds for her future career as a medical intuitive. For over 35 years, she has lectured internationally on the subject of health education and medical intuition. To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to http://www.provocativeenlightenment.com