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Hazing

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Children of Las Brisas

Children of Las Brisas

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The Big Payback

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Hidden Letters

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AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness

Season 23 Episode 12

What is the science behind consciousness? Six brilliant researchers from around the world—a brain scientist, a plant behaviorist, a healer, a philosophy professor, a psychedelics scientist, and a Buddhist monk—take you on a mind-blowing quest to investigate this seemingly unsolvable mystery.

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