Tom Morgan explores fringe ideas about consciousness and the nature of reality while keeping one foot in the practical world. He rates his ideas on a “woo scale” because many of his readers come from finance and will run for the hills if something sounds too mystical. We talk about what he calls the most important idea in the world, non-local consciousness, and what changed for him when he started treating reality as responsive and benevolent rather than harsh and uncaring. Neither of us is trying to convince you of anything, but you’ll get some practical, testable ways to work out where to go next.
My guest is Tom Morgan, a former financial analyst who writes and podcasts at The Leading Edge. He also runs a “wisdom community” of 150 people.
In this episode
- Why Tom gives his articles a woo rating, and why having no fringe views probably means you’re wrong about something big.
- Non-local consciousness explained with a radio analogy: the brain receives consciousness rather than producing it.
- Tim Freke’s “unividual”: being part of the whole while keeping a strong individual self, instead of trying to dissolve the ego.
- Whether believing consciousness survives death undercuts the peace of accepting you get one go, and the research of Ian Stevenson and Bruce Greyson.
- Why paradigms shift under piles of anomalies rather than proof, and how to tell real growth from a lateral move.
- AI as a mirror of how reality remixes the past into something new, and why video games mimic life, not the other way round.
- Reality as relational: a lesson, then a test, with synchronicities as feedback and the signals getting louder when you ignore them.
- How to test it yourself: be an anthropologist of your own life, run tiny experiments, and treat fear as a signal.