Beyond: Hosted by Jean-Claude Bastos
Beyond with Jean-Claude Bastos explores the frontier where technology, nature, and the unknown intersect. Drawing from a background that spans high-level finance, experimental agriculture, and immersive study of indigenous traditions, Jean-Claude approaches each episode with the mindset of a field researcher — curious, open, and willing to test the edges of conventional understanding. The show features conversations with individuals working at the boundaries of science, innovation, and inquiry into the unknown, while also reflecting on Jean-Claude’s own investigations into topics such as techno-agriculture, structured water, and ancient systems of perception. Rather than advocating belief or dismissal, Beyond examines the space between empirical measurement and lived experience — where instruments meet intuition and new patterns of insight begin to form. This is a podcast for those willing to question, explore, and think beyond familiar frameworks.
Episodes
In this second half of Jean-Claude Bastos' conversation with Queen Diambi, the discussion moves from fractals into the deeper architecture of African ancestral knowledge. Queen Diambi explains how centuries of observation, not intuition, produced calendars, village geometries, and communication systems long before Mandelbrot gave the West a name for them.
The conversation turns to why Queen Diambi believes today's AI models carry a ...
What if the most advanced systems of knowledge, leadership, and healing were not ahead of us — but behind us, waiting to be remembered?
In this episode, Jean-Claude Bastos sits down with Queen Diambi — woman king of the Bakualum people of the Congo, high priestess, psychologist, economist, and computer programmer — for a wide-ranging conversation on African spiritual intelligence, the nature of leadership, ancestra...
What if music isn't entertainment, but a technology humanity has been using for hundreds of thousands of years to synchronize minds, regulate bodies, and access states of consciousness beyond ordinary perception?
In this episode, Jean-Claude Bastos speaks with Jurgis Didžiulis, Lithuanian-Colombian troubadour, TED speaker, and creator of the Flux movement, about what happens when human beings truly enter collective creative flow.
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What happens to the human body and mind when you descend 80 meters into the ocean on a single breath? In this episode, Jean-Claude Bastos speaks with Ruth Osborn, British national free immersion depth record holder, about the physical and mental discipline of competitive free diving.
Ruth walks through every phase of a record-breaking dive — from the meditative pre-dive preparation drawn from years of yoga practice, to the sur...
Architect and inventor Chris Moller joins Jean-Claude Bastos for a wide-ranging conversation about architecture — not as the design of buildings, but as the deep underlying structure of everything.
Chris is a New Zealand architect and designer who spent 20 years working across Europe, presented on Grand Designs New Zealand, and invented the Click Raft structural system. His work is driven by a simple principle borrowed from Bu...
In the premiere episode of Beyond, Jean-Claude Bastos explores biofield science — the emerging study of subtle energy fields believed to surround and permeate living organisms.
Often described as a multi-layered, organizing field that interacts with biological systems, the biofield has been discussed in modern research as a potential factor in healing, diagnostics, and preventative health. While not yet fully integrated into c...
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