Julia Mossbridge: Cognitive neuroscientist and AI/computer scientist (PhD Northwestern) who studies precognition, presentiment, and telepathy. Founder of nonprofit Applied Love Labs and author of 'Have a Nice Disclosure.'
What this episode covers
Mossbridge explains how she hid her interest in psychic phenomena to get through mainstream academia, then returned to rigorously studying precognition, presentiment, and remote viewing. A large chunk of the conversation covers her work with non-speaking autistic kids who appear to demonstrate telepathy, including a 'telepathy train' where students relayed each other's ideas without contact. The two go deep on physics, double-slit experiments, retrocausality, and her claim that photons can interfere with future photons in a way she says points toward a better approach to quantum computing. They also discuss ego, listening, martial arts, flow states, the nature of ideas/the muse, and UFO disclosure. The episode closes with Mossbridge's account of childhood 'gifted program' experiments she believes involved intelligence-agency-linked drug dosing, memory loss, and possible radiation research without parental consent.
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The War of Art
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“But his book, The War of Art, is really like a masterpiece because... it's all talks about the muse.”— Joe Rogan
How the Hippies Saved Physics
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“Did you ever read that book? How the hippies saved physics?... Sweet. Good book about like the 70s and physicists.”— Julia Mossbridge
The guest's own work
Have a Nice Disclosure
Julia Mossbridge
“And the book is called Have a Nice Disclosure, Julia Mossbridge, PhD. Right there. Go get it.”— Joe Rogan
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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American Cosmic
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“reading Diana's book, American Cosmic, she talks about finding these artifacts and how she's like not even sure she believes in them.”— Julia Mossbridge
Big reveals from this episode
- Describes a Zoom telepathy trial where a non-speaking student described a video ('a beautiful sky') the communication partner had never seen the question for.
- 'Telepathy train': two non-speaking kids who never met independently both ask to go on a double date with each other.
- A non-speaker used the word 'afarizes' (only used in the 1400s/1600s) and said he learned it from 'a magistrate from that time period.'
- Claims she replicated an experiment showing photons interfere with photons from the future (retrocausality).
- Teases a new company built around using retrocausal, room-temperature photon behavior for quantum computing.
- Says childhood gifted programs gave students chalky pink drinks and induced memory loss without parental consent.
- Recounts a precognitive dream that gave her a real phone number for a government radiation-monitoring agency.
- Reveals the first 'SOAR' gifted program in the 1970s stood for 'Students On Active Research,' near nuclear facilities.
Worth remembering
- Says some of her peer-reviewed papers won't appear in Google Scholar despite being in indexed journals.
- Studied 'sense of being stared at' and skin-conductance presentiment funded by Portugal's Bial Foundation.
- Found a gender difference: men's physiology spikes before correctly guessing future random events; women's stays flat.
- Pooled 26 studies over ~40 years showing physiology predicting random future events.
- Cites neurologist Morris Freeman: stroke or magnetic suppression of the left orbitofrontal area made people more 'psychic.'
- Hypothesis: language/speech suppresses latent psychic ability, which is why non-speakers may access it.
- New York Times piece on 'singing mice' (Cold Spring Harbor) whose vocal ability differs from lab mice by only a few fiber tracts.
- Marshall McLuhan quote (1960s): 'Human beings are the sex organs of the machine world.'
- Mossbridge runs Applied Love Labs (founded 2019) and built an audio 'time machine' journaling app used at Cook County Jail and with veterans.