Podcast
The Question, Examined
One question per episode, about half an hour, two voices: mine and a co-host written to push back. Each episode ends by saying what is known, what is uncertain, and what would settle it. Subscribe with the RSS feed in any podcast app.
- Episode 1 · 26 min Psychologically real, metaphysically real, or both? The first episode takes the biggest question head on. Andrey lays out the four claims hiding inside one word; Gladys pushes on whether the psychological version is just goal-setting in a robe, and whether the metaphysical version is even testable.
- Episode 2 · 24 min Can expectation create attraction? Gladys asked to see the one experiment Andrey keeps citing. This episode is that experiment, the interpersonal loop it reveals, the exposure arithmetic underneath most success stories, and the line where persistence stops being attractive.
- Episode 3 · 22 min Do numbers, sigils and talismans do anything? Gladys picks a number and Andrey tells her the answer before she finishes. Then the lucky-charm study and the replication that failed, what a talisman can honestly do, why master numbers are not rare, and whether a frequency can attract anything.
- Episode 4 · 20 min Why does a coincidence feel like a message? Andrey tells a story about a clock and labels it twice. Then Jung’s beetle, the seven hundred and twenty faces of a clock, the ship that sank fourteen years early, a bureau for premonitions, and what the edge of sleep can and cannot tell you.
Who is talking
Andrey Tadevosyan writes this site and every word of every episode. Gladys is the sceptical voice in the room: she asks the researcher's questions and refuses the easy answer, so that the strongest objections get said out loud rather than buried in a footnote. These are authored conversations produced with voice models, including a model trained on Andrey's voice.
How an episode is built
The script comes first, from the essays and the studies behind them, and it is written as a conversation rather than two monologues: questions that are actually answered, disagreements that stay disagreements, and examples that are labelled as examples when they are invented. Every study named in an episode appears in that episode's show notes, and every one of those references is resolved against Crossref before the page publishes; an unresolvable citation fails the build. Each page publishes the script as a full transcript. Chapter timestamps appear only where timing data for the current recording is available; transcripts do not currently follow playback word by word.
What the podcast will not do
It will not invent a guest, a study, a quote, or a story about my own life. It will not tell you that a practice works because it worked for someone. And it will not pretend that the open questions are closed in either direction. Where a claim is faith, the episode says faith. Where the evidence is thin, it says thin. Where something could be tested and has not been, it describes the test, because that is usually the most interesting part.
Also for listening
Three long solo talks, on the four claims, on eleven eleven, and on the placebo effect, and four free binaural tapes with the evidence for them graded on the same page. If you would rather test the claims than listen to them, the free 30-day experiment on this site is the other door.
Put an idea into practice
Choose a concrete action in the free Practice Studio, or keep observations in the Experience notebook. A personal record can guide reflection; it does not by itself establish a cause.