Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 2025-08-14
Books mentioned on Neuroscience Expert Dr. Tara Swart on Evidence We Can Communicate After Death and Her Experience Speaking to the Dead!
What if your brain filters out true reality? World-leading neuroscientist Dr Tara Swart reveals why we have 34 senses, not 5, how grief cracked open her consciousness, and the shocking science behind signs, intuition, and real communication with the dead.
Dr. Tara Swart discussed Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander, Threshold by Alexander Batthyány, and The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk. Steven Bartlett recommended The Signs by Tara Swart.
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Proof of Heaven
Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander is a memoir detailing a neurosurgeon's profound near-death experience while in a medically induced coma caused by severe bacterial meningitis.
Discussed“Dr. Eben Alexander, who wrote Proof of Heaven. He is a doctor. He was an atheist. He was in a coma with bacterial meningitis and was pronounced clinically dead.”
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Threshold
Discussed“So Professor Alexander Batthyany who wrote Threshold about terminal lucidity put it really nicely when he said, "Maybe at the border of life and death, we see something that is true all along, but we don't, for whatever reason, see it or acknowledge it whilst we're alive and well, which is that the mind and body can operate independently of”
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The Body Keeps the Score
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is an influential exploration of how trauma physically impacts the brain and body, offering pathways to healing through modern science and therapy.
Discussed“So, the serotonin hypothesis is very exciting as a neuroscientist because a lot of people have heard of Bessel van der Kolk's work and the book The Body Keeps the Score. And it makes sense kind of intuitively that the body does keep the score and and like I've said there's no amount of trauma that you can't you can't”
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The Signs
The Signs: The New Science of How to Trust Your Instincts by Tara Swart is a psychological and neuroscience based guide that explores how individuals can better connect with their intuition and inner wisdom.
Recommended“Tara, thank you. Your new book, The Signs, beautiful book, by the way. Thank you. Beautiful book. The new science of how to trust your instincts will be out in September.”
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