Quantum Conversations: With Karen Curry Parker

“This first voice will be like, what if we left this job right now? And then the second voice will come in and be like, yeah, but if we do, we can't go to The Cheesecake Factory party next Thursday. Then the first voice is like, dude, if you'd learn to listen to me, you’d own all The Cheesecake Factories in a month.” Today’s guest, Kyle Cease, New York Times bestselling author, comedian, renowned public speaker, and the creator of Evolving Out Loud. Our fixation with money often causes us to compromise who we are. We put off our authentic self-expression and the fulfillment of our dreams until after we have the money. When we internalize the message that it's not ok, or profitable, to be who we are and how we are, we stop ourselves short from accessing true freedom, our natural power, our creativity, and even our health and wellbeing. Come along and have your illusions shattered on today’s powerful conversation with Kyle and Karen. Links Kyle Cease: Use code WATER to get a year of the Abso

“There's a place within yourself where you can retreat, where you can revitalize, where you can be fully who you are, where you meet life. And when you find that place within, you expand it, make it bigger, breathe into that, and then bring energy from that space within you into your life, into your relationships, and into everything that you're doing.” – Dr. Anneloes Smitsman Join Karen Curry Parker and Dr. Anneloes Smitsman as they discuss creativity, systems, burn-out, and how we can use the imaginals within ourselves to continue our journey to the next level of evolution for humanity. The conversation cumulates in a beautiful explanation by Dr. Smitsman on her groundbreaking work with EARTHwise Centre to create the EARTHwise Constitution for a Planetary Civilization. Rather than the not-so-exciting constitutions we think about as they relate to the laws of humanity, this constitution is based on the principles of Earth jurisprudence and is intended to be a living document that evolves as our understanding

“The universe was born, not in an implicitly chaotic big bang, but as the first moment of a fine-tuned and ongoing big breath.” Jude Currivan, today’s guest on Quantum Revolution We have been conditioned to believe that the Universe began with a big bang - an explosion that initiated chaos, disruption and, ultimately, lined up a series of random, chaotic events that eventually led to the creation of life on Earth. This assumption forces us to believe that not only is life a serendipitous and random event resulting from the birth of the Universe, we ourselves are simply accidental aspects of this cosmic event. In her new book, The Story of Gaia, Dr. Currivan shares scientific breakthroughs which detail the 13.8-billion-year story of our universe and Gaia, where everything in existence has inherent meaning and evolutionary purpose. Evolution is not driven by random occurrences and mutations, but by profoundly resonant and harmonic interplays of forces and influences, each intelligently informed and guided. Th

Why do people commit crimes?  Are people really bad?  Driven to be bad and consequently unable to be reformed by the prison system?  These are some of the questions we explore today with our guest Toby Dorr, subject of the Lifetime movie Jailbreak Lovers, and author of the number one bestselling memoir, Living with Conviction. Toby made a conscious choice to use her twenty-seven months in prison as a time to heal and make new choices about her life. Her turning point was when she was at her lowest, during her second time in suicide watch. The revelation she found during her time in isolation is what Toby says gave her life purpose and direction. None of us is our worst mistake. Nor are any of us inherently bad or incapable of reform and change. In our past conversations with criminal justice reformer, Justin Brooks, the topic of why people commit crimes has come up over and over again. The answer is simple. Trauma. By teaching that your life and your value are not defined by your worst mistake, Toby pushes p

What is knowledge?  Who decides what is knowledge?  Or, on a more frightening note, what is truth? We see this game being played out on many fronts on the planet at this very moment. During this season of Quantum Revolution, we heard stories from leading-edge scientists who are caught up in the reality of having to work around the system to share their research with the world. In the next few episodes, you’re going to hear information and conversations that might challenge you on many levels.  Today’s guest challenged me to really hear someone else’s truth even though some of it is in direct conflict with mine.  There is a separate set of questions we also have to ask ourselves - especially during this time on the planet. If truth is malleable, who is right?  What are the absolute truths and values that you choose to live by? What if, together, we can find the solutions to the challenges facing humanity today - even if, individually, we are quite different? Richard Jacobs is the co-author of the Finding Geniu

On this podcast we talk a lot about sustainability and reframing the conversation around topics that seem sort of “certain.”  It is said that the only things certain in life are death and taxes.  Death, by definition, is not sustainable - or is it?  In America, the funeral industry is costly and environmentally destructive. This is not the most comfortable conversation for many of us.  We don’t want to think about death.  But, as my guest today, Sandy Gibson, founder of Better Place Forests, shares with us, death is a sacred part of life and when we reframe the conversation about the ritual of funerals in the context of creating a sacred space for remembering, we can explore healthier and more sustainable options for all the phases of life. Sandy Gibson is a man on a mission - a person with a clear Chief Aim and the passion and directive to fulfill it.  I have to say that, while I was curious about having a conversation about the funeral industry and exploring more sustainable ways of honoring our loved ones,

What if the most important thing we need to do TO SURVIVE is to be imaginative?  Activate our full creative potential? Your relationship with your creativity is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.  What you believe about creativity reflects what you believe about yourself.  But, somewhere along the way, we traded our natural, immersive creativity for logic, predictability, correctness, and responsibility.  Perhaps someone told you “you’re not that creative” or “your art is no good,” and you believed them. You may also have experienced something traumatic, which understandably shut down your creative self, as you had to prioritize survival over imagination. The single biggest thing we need to heal as we face an era of uncertainty and as we stand on the brink of a creative revolution that promises to hold the solutions to the challenges facing humanity today, is to believe in our own creative capacity.  Our guest today, Jacob Nordby, author of the book The Creative Cure, believes that EVERY HUMAN I

This season our theme has been creativity.  We tend to think of creativity as art, music, dance and often designate being creative as an afterthought - something we allow ourselves to indulge in after we’ve done our real work. And yet, in the interviews we’ve conducted this season, we’ve heard over and over again that some of the world’s most innovative thought-leaders and scientists have a creative practice of some kind that supports them in being creative in their field. My guest today is Flora Bowley.  Flora is an artist, retreat facilitator, creative catalyst, and author of five books: The Art of Aliveness, Brave Intuitive Painting, Creative Revolution, Fresh Paint, and Earth is Holding You. Her colorful and layered paintings are also used to design calendars, cards, planners, journals, fabric, and unique product lines sold around the world. Flora encourages us to look at the art of our life, to explore how we can use creativity to unlock and unbind ourselves from old ways of being and thinking.  I hope t

The wholistic approach to wellness, education, stress-relief, alternative medicine, and more lies in the integration of the mind, body and spirit.  The phrase, mind, body, and spirit - the holy trinity of wholistic well-being - from its inception, gives us a dilemma. There is no separation between the mind, the body, and the spirit.  They are One.  And yet, the nature of the way the brain works and the materialistic interpretation of life, insists that the mind, the body, and the spirit are all separate entities, chugging along independently, hoping to be harnessed in unity somehow as the end-result of “awakened living.” Materialistic thinking wants us to rank mind, body, and spirit in order.  Which comes first?  Which one is the most important?  Which one controls the functioning of the rest? In their new book, The Quantum Brain, physicist Dr. Amit Goswami and physician Dr. Valentina Onisor explore the mind, body, and spirit dilemma by untangling the myths of our understanding of the brain.  By learning how

Todays’ Quantum Revolution podcast is a little different than some of our previous episodes.  We usually focus on the relationship between science and spirituality. This season we have expanded our carefully curated group of guests to include other kinds of Quantum Revolutionaries.  From innovative social activists like Frank Schaeffer, to experts leading the charge on criminal justice reform, like today’s guest, Justin Brooks. In this episode we’re going to look at the judicial system and explore the question, what happens when you’re imprisoned for a crime you didn’t commit - and is the penal system actually fulfilling its purpose of rehabilitation and equitable punishment? When confronting outdated and discriminatory systems, it requires creativity to find the solutions that work within the confines of a dysfunctional system and eventually discovering the solutions to transforming the system into something more equitable and sustainable.  Today’s guest, Justin Brooks, is the embodiment of this kind of disr

This week, as we prepared to finish production on our interview with Dr. Amit Goswami and Dr. Valentina Onisor, we discovered that our online recording platform failed to save a portion of our inspiring conversation. I thought I’d pivot with grace in response to this frustrating twist in the plot outline.  Certainly, if I’ve learned anything these past few years, it’s that change always brings with it an opportunity for something different - often something better.  Resistance only leads to exhaustion.  Being in the flow - and grateful even when it seems difficult in the beginning - creates room for true innovation.  So, in honor of this collective experience of transformation, I thought this week we’d do something a little different. I have decided to present a special release of the latest episode from our companion microcast, Cosmic Revolution. As we begin the New Year, we are sharing with you our vision of the future and how we can unify our minds and build our new world, together. We have to work with

I’m Karen Curry Parker. Bestselling author, transformational teacher, speaker, coach, and creator of Quantum Human Design™ and the Quantum Alignment System™. Come and join my guests and me for powerful conversations with cutting-edge scientists, spiritual leaders, artists, disruptors, and visionaries who are reframing the narrative of our future. Together, we’ll discover how my guests are healing the rift between spirituality and science, building equitable and just communities, teaching sustainability, reclaiming creativity, and laying the foundation for a new world. Join me in each episode as we receive an inside view of what’s really happening in the world and how to unlock the true potential of our future. Find out more about Karen and her guests at https://quantumrevolutionpodcast.com/ Learn more about remembering the truth of you are and get your free Quantum Human Design Chart at https://freehumandesignchart.com/

Thank you for joining us for the first half of Season 5 of Quantum Revolution! Each week, Karen Curry Parker engaged in intimate conversations with cutting-edge scientists, spiritual leaders, artists, disrupters, and visionaries. We can continue to work together in 2022 to reframe the narrative of our future by healing the rift between spirituality and science, reclaiming creativity, and laying the foundation for a new world.  We can't wait to see what the New Year brings, make sure you check out the first release from Quantum Revolution in 2022 featuring Dr. Amit Goswami, and Dr. Valentina Onisor on January 7th. Start your New Year off with a bout of inspiration! To find out more about Karen and her guests and to hear all of our past episodes, please visit and follow us at https://quantumrevolutionpodcast.com/ Learn more about remembering the truth of you are and get your free Quantum Human Design Chart at https://freehumandesignchart.com/ Produced by Number Three Productions, https://numberthreeproduction

Is there life out there? This is the question astronomers and astrophysicists have been exploring for decades.  In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through our inner solar system, moving so quickly that it could only have come from another star. Dr. Avi Loeb, Harvard’s top astronomer, showed it was not an asteroid; it was moving too fast along a strange orbit, and left no trail of gas or debris in its wake. There was only one conceivable explanation: the object was a piece of advanced technology created by a distant alien civilization. In today’s conversation we’re exploring the question, is there life out there? with Dr. Loeb, who is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University, chair of Harvard’s Department of Astronomy, founding director of Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative, and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. In Dr. Loeb’s new book, Extraterrestrial, the First

There are an estimated 18.1 million new cancer cases globally, and cancer remains the second-leading cause of death in the United States, where more than 1.7 million people are diagnosed with cancer every year. What is cancer? According to current medical practices, cancer begins when cells acquire the ability to grow uncontrollably and ultimately invade and damage the body’s normal tissues. Cancer development happens in multiple stages, from precancerous changes to malignant tumors.  Cancer can develop in a variety of different ways, due to a variety of different factors. Some we inherit, and others we are exposed to throughout our lives. It can be categorized into hundreds of different diseases based on the cells in which it arises. The current medical model basically asserts that some force - a toxin in the environment, genetic predisposition or random mutation - cause the body’s cells to go haywire. Yet, only 5-10% of cancer is caused by genetics.  Scientists argue that the number of cancer deaths due to

We are taught that an education is a vital component of success.  We define education as going to school.  Whether through public schooling or the more expensive version of the same concept, private schooling, children are shepherded through a system that makes learning a 12 year long process of mastering how to follow the rules and perform for rewards. On today’s Quantum Revolution episode, we’re talking to Naomi Fisher, a clinical psychologist, about her book, Changing Our Minds: How Children Can Take Control of Their Own Learning (https://www.amazon.com/Changing-Our-Minds-children-learning/dp/1472145518/)  According to Fisher, children today have easy access to an enormous amount of information, from all around the world. The news is not hidden from them and much of the news is not reassuring. In addition, most of them spend their days in an environment which makes very specific competitive requirements of them, and over which they have almost no power. When they refuse to cooperate with this, they are sa

We are so grateful for you. Thank you for being YOU! From our Hearts to Yours, Karen, Kristin, Betsy & Jamila quantumalignmentsystem.com Watch the video here! youtu.be/dx_p86zHzl8 Learn more about remembering the truth of you are and get your free Quantum Human Design Chart at https://freehumandesignchart.com/

The frustrating part of science is that it takes time.  It takes time to validate an experimental process, duplicate the process enough times to verify that the results are relatively predictable, and to calculate and demonstrate the statistical probabilities. When it comes to doing research about health and wellness, it’s hard to wait out the time for scientific validation for compassionate reasons.  The Hippocratic oath starts with the promise to “first do no harm." But the science behind healthcare can sometimes create a dilemma.  In today’s Quantum Revolution episode, we’re going to be talking with Dr. Peta Stapleton who has been building a body of scientific evidence behind the Emotional Freedom Techniques, EFT.  Some of you may know it as “tapping."  While the practice of EFT tapping has not been around as long as acupuncture, one of the main components of EFT is the gentle tapping on those same energy lines, or meridians, used in acupuncture and acupressure. When combined with some current psychotherap

We are living in a paradox.  We are the manifestation of consciousness - pieces of the cosmos - encased within bodies, ruled by a mind that creates the illusion that we are separate from the cosmos - individual events that will never be repeated again in the history of all that is.  It’s easy for us to think we are a dominion unto ourselves.  And yet, this paradox invites us to explore that if we are  holographic pieces of the cosmos, then the rules of the cosmos must apply to the unique and personal manifestation of the story that is our unique life - a theme we’re exploring with many Quantum Revolutionaries this season. Today we are speaking with Dr. Ervin Laszlo, a philosopher and systems scientist who has published more than 101 books and over 400 articles and research papers. The subject of the one-hour PBS special, Life of a Modern-Day Genius, Dr. Laszlo is also the founder and president of the international think tank The Club of Budapest and of the prestigious Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Researc

Even before everything was disrupted by COVID-19 and divisive political tensions, millions of Americans were already questioning capitalism’s “values.” We were already challenging the idea that your job defines you. We already knew something was wrong. Come join us with Karen and Frank as they discuss what has led us to where we are today... and how we can continue to grow and thrive into the future. In Frank's new book, Fall in Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy, Frank offers a passionate political, social, and lifestyle “blueprint” for changes millions of us know are needed to rebalance our work lives with thriving relationships.  Frank’s new book builds a well-researched and entertaining bridge to living happier lives and to a better future. It shows us that based on a better understanding of our evolutionary selves, we can thrive in family life and in our work life, too. But to do both joyfully—and at the same time—depends on rediscovering the priority of relationships, connections,