The Metagame

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Booking Overview

The Metagame is a philosophy-leaning show that blends practical life skills with deep questions about awakening, perception, and how humans construct reality. It’s a strong fit for PR pitches from researchers, meditation teachers, and serious applied practitioners in consciousness and related fields.

Metrics

Episodes: 54

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: Canada

Contact Information

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Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Demonstrated expertise in consciousness/meditation and adjacent disciplines—e.g., published researchers (neuroscience/attention), PhD-level academics or postdocs; experienced meditation teachers; advanced practitioners in somatic healing/bodywork with a distinctive modality; authors/public intellectuals with relevant books or recognized work.
Required Achievements:  
Authored books or Substack writing in related topics, Advanced academic training (PhD/postdoc) in relevant cognitive/neuroscience areas, Leadership roles in research/education organizations (e.g., CSO roles), Developed a distinctive technique/modality in bodywork, Notable media quotations (e.g., major outlets) for neuroscience/meditation guests

Recent Guest Discussions

Guy - Adversarial Epistemology; Finding Truth In Deceptive Environments; Facedoxing; Stream Entry; Avoiding Psyops

Kathryn Devaney - Neuroscience Of Awakening; Cessation; Jhanas; Non-duality; How The Brain Constructs Reality; Restarting A Meditation Practice

Elena Lake - Nondual Bodywork; Fascia And Tactile Anatomy; Somatic Healing; Her Path From Mit/tech Into Touch-based Practice; Regenerative Touch

Recent Topics

Consciousness, Meditation, Philosophy, Nonduality, Cognition

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Metagame
:

#54 - Jessica Vellela | A Gentle Introduction to Ayurveda

June 25, 2026

Jessica is the first American-born woman to graduate as an Ayurvedic Physician and practice independently. She studied for 8 years in India completing Bachelor of Āyurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAMS). She’s also the founder of myayu.com and has been healing many of my friends.In this overview, we discuss what western medicine misses, archetypal ways of knowing, personal empiricism, the doshas and some counter-intuitive Ayurvedic practices. This is a public episode. If you would like to discu...

#53 - Guy (@nosilverv) | Facedoxing, Stream Entry and How to Avoid Psyops

June 03, 2026

Guy is an independent researcher, author, Emergent Ventures Fellow, and hands-down the most prolific/insightful shit-poster I know on twitter. If you’ve been around long enough, you’ll know him as “Rival Voices”.Among many things, he’s an expert on Adversarial Epistemology: finding truth in an environment designed to deceive you. You can learn more from his book Alignment Gone Strange. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus ep...

#52 Kathryn Devaney | The Neuroscience of Awakening

May 20, 2026

Kati Devaney is a neuroscientist and meditation teacher with over 25 years of practice. She earned her PhD in 2018 using fMRI to study attention and prediction updating in experienced Vipassana meditators and completed a postdoc at Harvard Medical School. She’s now the Chief Scientific Officer at the Consciousness Foundation, co-founded the Berkeley Alembic and the SF Dharma Collective, advises Jhourney on the neuroscience of jhana, and has been quoted on the brain and meditation in The Atlan...

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