233. An Emergency Room Physician on Demons, Awakening, and the Science We Ignore
What kind of man gets studied at Yale, Brown, and Harvard, builds a 300 person international research consortium, and still has powerful people working to erase his name? Dr. Daniel Ingram is not a guru. He is a retired level one trauma emergency physician. A published neuroscience researcher. The author of a book that has shaped contemplative practice for tens of thousands of readers. The acting organizer of a global research effort spanning Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cambridge, and Oxford. By every credential medicine respects, he is one of their own.
So why did a senior figure allegedly commission an academic article engineered to surface at the top of every search of his name, with one stated goal? That nobody would ever believe him again. Because Dr. Ingram crossed a line his profession does not permit. He claimed that awakening is real. That it is measurable. That it is observable in the brain. We go into what he has seen at the edges of human perception. What he documented in the lab. What he believes medicine is doing to patients every single day by refusing to look.
Creators and Guests
Host
Dr. Roger McFillin
Dr. Roger McFillin is a Clinical Psychologist, Board Certified in Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology. He is the founder of the Conscious Clinician Collective and Executive Director at the Center for Integrated Behavioral Health.
Guest
Dr. Daniel Ingram
Daniel Ingram Born 1969 or 1970[1] Occupation Author Notable work Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha Daniel M. Ingram is an American author and researcher on Buddhism and meditation.[2] A physician, Ingram worked in emergency medicine before retiring in his late forties.[2] Ingram is the author of the 2008 book Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book, in which he argues that enlightenment is an attainable goal.
