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Every book Dr. Tara Swart recommended on podcasts
Across 3 podcasts. Every show Dr. Tara Swart appears on, in one place — not just one.
Dr. Tara Swart is a neuroscientist, medical doctor, and senior lecturer known for bridging the gap between brain science, leadership development, and human behavior. Across multiple podcast interviews, she has frequently discussed books that explore trauma, human psychology, and consciousness. Dr. Swart highlighted Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score, referencing it to explain how emotional stress and trauma are physically stored in bodily tissues and tissues beyond conscious awareness, expressing hope that its return to bestseller lists indicates a broader public understanding of post-pandemic trauma. Additionally, she discussed Dr. Eben Alexander's Proof of Heaven when exploring near-death experiences and cited Professor Alexander Batthyány's Threshold to explain the scientific concept of terminal lucidity at the border of life and death. She also discussed her research into the laws of attraction, aiming to ground them in cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience to demonstrate how mental focus and visualization interact with brain function.
Books recommended by Dr. Tara Swart
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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“And that's why um you know most people have heard of the book the body keeps a score which speaks about how trauma is held in the body.”
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Law of Attraction
Law of Attraction by Michael J.
Discussed“I sat down one summer and researched the laws of attraction, looking to see if I could explain them through cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience, and I could. I felt like I was on to something.”
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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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Other mentions (4: passing, ad reads, own books)
“And the new book, which is also going to be available on Audible with my voice, is called The Signs: The New Science of How to Trust Your Instincts.”
“but still at the time that I wrote The Source it was a risk for me as an MIT Professor to start speaking about manifestation and visualization and meditation and things like like that”
“I've been actively doing it myself kind of personally for 15 or 16 years and then in 2019 my book The Source came out where I shared that more professionally and the response to that was actually quite phenomenal in making me believe in it even more”
“So, where I've called my book The Source, I have said your brain is the source of you being able to attract everything that you want into your life.”