Sasha

Why do we give things meaning?

A cross can be a piece of metal to one person and carry an entire family history to another.

A photograph can be a piece of paper… or something you’d struggle to throw away.

A song can be just sound until, somehow, it becomes part of your life.

For a period after my psychedelic experience, I genuinely wondered whether I’d seen through meaning altogether.

I don’t think that anymore.

And becoming a father has changed this question for me in ways I didn’t expect.

This Sunday, I’m sharing one of the most personal explorations I’ve made about where I think meaning actually comes from, and why something doesn’t necessarily have to exist independently of us to be real.

Why Do We Give Things Meaning?

Sunday at 7pm

4 days ago |[YT] | 8

Sasha

What’s something you believed about life five years ago that you no longer believe today?

It doesn’t have to be profound.

Maybe it was something you believed about yourself, relationships, success, spirituality, happiness, or simply how you thought your life would turn out.

What changed your mind?

I’ll share mine in the comments too.

6 days ago |[YT] | 4

Sasha

This Sunday - the most personal video I’ve ever made.

I almost never made this video.

For years I thought one experience in Amsterdam was the most important thing that had ever happened to me.

Looking back… I think the thirteen years afterwards mattered much more.

This is the most personal episode I’ve shared on Soul Wanderer. It’s about fear, identity, panic attacks, attention, and why ordinary life quietly became extraordinary.

And if I’m honest, I wasn’t even sure people would be ready for what I had to share.

I hope it feels like an exploration rather than an answer.

This Sunday.

1 week ago |[YT] | 17

Sasha

Something I’ve been thinking about lately.

The more conversations I have about consciousness, the less certain I seem to become about what consciousness actually is.

Not because I think we’re learning nothing.

Quite the opposite.

The questions seem to become more interesting the more I look.

We can have an experience.

We can describe it.

We can build a theory around it.

And then, somewhere along the way, the theory can start to feel like the experience itself.

I’ve become increasingly interested in that gap.

What did I actually experience?

And what am I adding to it afterwards?

I don’t think that distinction gives us all the answers.

But I think it’s worth paying attention to.

What’s a question you’ve become less certain about the more you’ve explored it?


— Sasha

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Sasha

This Sunday I sit down with Dr. Eben Alexander.

For decades, he was a Harvard-trained neurosurgeon who believed consciousness was produced entirely by the brain.

Then a rare bacterial meningitis left him in a seven-day coma.

Doctors believed he was unlikely to survive.

When he woke up, he said he remembered an experience that changed everything he thought he knew about consciousness.

In this conversation, we explore what happens when one of the world’s most experienced brain surgeons begins questioning the worldview he spent a lifetime defending.

We talk about near-death experiences, the brain, meditation, psychedelics, artificial intelligence, grief, free will, and whether extraordinary experiences tell us anything about reality at all.

This isn’t a conversation asking you to believe Dr. Alexander.

It’s a conversation about asking better questions.

This Sunday.

2 weeks ago |[YT] | 10

Sasha

Tomorrow - Soul Wanderer Community Conversation LIVE

Tomorrow at 4.30pm BST we’re getting together for another Soul Wanderer conversation.

This time, the theme is identity.

Who are we?

What makes us feel like the same person from one moment to the next?

How much of who we are is memory, story, relationship, habit, thought?

And what happens when the identity we’ve built begins to change?

But I don’t want this to feel like an Identity Q&A.

The theme is simply a place to begin.

You can bring whatever you want to the conversation.

A question you’ve been sitting with.

Something you’ve experienced.

Something you disagree with.

Something you’ve been thinking about.

Or absolutely nothing at all - you can just come along and listen.

And if you have a question, ask it. I’ll happily explore it with you. But I’m much more interested in a genuine back-and-forth than working through a list of questions.

We don’t need to stay on identity either.

If the conversation takes us somewhere completely different, that’s where we’ll go.

That’s the point.

No presentation.

No lesson.

No predetermined conclusion.

Just people exploring something together.

See you tomorrow. ❤️

Sasha

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Sasha

This Sunday I sit down with Ryan Cropper.

Ryan Cropper has spent years exploring experiences that many people dismiss before they’ve even looked at them.

Astral projection. Lucid dreaming. Out-of-body experiences. Near-death experiences.

Some people believe these experiences reveal something fundamental about consciousness.

Others believe they’re entirely created by the brain.

In this conversation, we don’t start with belief.

We start with experience.

We explore Ryan’s own experiences, why they changed the course of his life, what he believes happens during astral projection, why near-death experiences continue to fascinate both skeptics and believers, and where skepticism still has a place.

This isn’t a conversation about asking you to accept extraordinary claims.

It’s a conversation about examining extraordinary experiences.

This Sunday.

3 weeks ago |[YT] | 27

Sasha

Soul Wanderer Community Conversation #004

Theme: Identity

A question I’ve been living with recently:

Who are you when identity isn’t being defended?

Bring stories, questions, disagreements, observations, or moments from everyday life.

We’ll explore it together.

Wednesday 30th September @ 4.30pm BST.

3 weeks ago |[YT] | 5

Sasha

This Sunday I sit down with Professor Marjorie Woollacott.

For over 40 years, Marjorie was a neuroscientist who believed consciousness was produced by the brain.

Then, at the age of 30, she had an experience that changed the questions she was willing to ask.

In this conversation we explore what happens when a scientist’s own experience no longer fits the framework she spent her life working within.

We talk about meditation, identity, near-death experiences, the brain, consciousness, and whether science and lived experience have to be in conflict at all.

This isn’t a conversation about convincing you of anything.

It’s a conversation about curiosity.

This Sunday.

1 month ago |[YT] | 8

Sasha

A small change to our Community Conversations.

Over the past few months I’ve realised something.

The conversations I enjoy most aren’t really Q&As.

They’re the moments where one question opens into an hour of exploration.

So from now on these will be called Soul Wanderer Community Conversations.

Each conversation will have a single theme - something we’ll all sit with together before we meet.

We’ll bring stories, questions, disagreements, uncertainty, and curiosity… but we’ll stay close to direct experience rather than trying to convince each other of beliefs.

I think it’ll make these conversations deeper, calmer, and much more connected.

I’m really excited for where this goes. 🙏

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