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Marieta Pehlivanova is a research scientist at the University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies, which is better known as DOPS.

DOPS was founded in 1976, and it is a highly unique and rigorous research group that investigates the mind’s relationship to the body, and the possibility of consciousness surviving physical death. They study children with past-life memories, and people who have near-death experiences and who report other extraordinary and unusual phenomena. It’s fascinating stuff! And I think their work has such great potential to change and shape our understanding of…well, why we’re here in the first place, and what the meaning of our lives really is.

Today, Marieta and I talk about all of this.

Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) at University of Virginia

Dean Radin, PhD’s episode on Pulling the Thread:

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