Michael Grosso, PhD, is author of The Man Who Could Fly: St. Joseph of Copertino and the Mystery of Levitation. He also edited and wrote commentary for Wings of Ecstasy: Dominico Bernini’s Vita of St. Joseph of Copertino (1772). His other books include The Millennium Myth: Love and Death and the End of Time, Final Choice: Death or Transcendence?, Soulmaking: Uncommon Paths to Self Understanding and Smile of the Universe: Miracles in an Age of Disbelief. Here he acknowledges that the term “Mind A...
Oct 18, 2020•43 min
Jeffrey Mishlove shares many colorful illustrations of spiritual entities from Geoffrey Hodson’s book, The Kingdom of the Gods. Hodson (1886-1983) was a well-known author and lecturer on Theosophical topics. He seemed to have pronounced synesthesia talent and considered himself to be clairvoyant. He worked with scientists to investigate his clairvoyance, although the results are sketchy. He was called in by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, famous author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories (and also a ...
Oct 15, 2020•16 min
Randy Kritkausky is an enrolled tribal member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. He is a founder of ECOLOGIA, an international environmental organization that works on the planet’s more extreme challenges, and formerly professor at Keystone College, research scholar at Middlebury College, and Erasmus Mundus Scholar at the Central European University in Budapest and Lund University in Sweden. He is author of Without Reservation: Awakening to Native American Spirituality and the Ways of Our Ancesto...
Oct 14, 2020•56 min
Jeffrey Mishlove explains his top priority for parapsychological research. He argues that the Mobius consensus methodology developed by Stephan A. Schwartz could be applied to different groups of “psychenauts” employing such diverse approaches as mediumship, remote viewing, lucid dreaming, advanced meditation. The goal of this project would be to create a new, more accurate mapping of the interior realms of consciousness responsible for the empirical data associated with reincarnation, mystical ...
Oct 13, 2020•13 min
Marla Frees has spent 25 years as a successful television and stage actress. For the past 18 years, she has been working as a professional psychic. She is author of American Psychic: A Spiritual Journey from the Heartland to Hollywood, Heaven, and Beyond. Her website is https://www.americanpsychicbook.com/. Here she describes her challenges as the child of an alcoholic father and an abusive mother as well as the challenges of working as a psychic professional. She enumerates the various individu...
Oct 13, 2020•52 min
Serena Roney-Dougal, PhD, received a doctoral degree the University of Surrey, in the United Kingdom, for a parapsychological dissertation. She is author of Where Science and Magic Meet and The Faery Faith: An Integration of Science and Spirit. She resides in Glastonbury, England, where she serves on the Town Council. Her website is https://www.psi-researchcentre.co.uk/. Here she recounts her years of experience in India and Ladakh working with both advanced yoga practitioners and advanced Tibet...
Oct 09, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Jack Hunter, PhD, is author of Spirits, Gods, and Magic: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the Supernatural; Engaging the Anomalous; and is editor of an anthology titled Greening the Paranormal: Exploring the Ecology of Extraordinary Experience. He is also coeditor, with David Luke, of Talking With The Spirits: Ethnographies From Between The Worlds. He is also founder of the journal, Paranthropology. Here he describes different approaches taken to the realm of spirits by scholars in anthrop...
Oct 08, 2020•52 min
Jeffrey Mishlove distinguishes between spiritual entities and a spiritual realm. He suggests that the reality of spirits is dependent upon the level of reality being discussed. Spirits may possess a dream body or an astral body; however, at a deeper level of reality, individual “selves” are something of an illusion created, according to Buddhist thought, by codependent origination. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems,...
Oct 08, 2020•14 min
Jeffrey Mishlove describes and life and career of the pioneering founder of the discipline of psychophysics who combined rigorous empirical science with a mystical outlook. His metaphysical writings focused on such matters as the soul life of plants as well as the soul of the living universe. He was an inspiration to William James. Both individuals argued against materialist metaphysics. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Sy...
Oct 08, 2020•15 min
Jason Reza Jorjani, PhD, is a philosopher and author of Prometheus and Atlas, World State of Emergency, Lovers of Sophia, Novel Folklore: The Blind Owl of Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian Leviathan: A Monumental History of Mithra’s Abode, and Prometheism. Here he describes many facets associated with the archetype of Prometheus: the creator of humanity, the rebel, the trickster, the martyr, the wise titan, the visionary, and the daemonic force behind science and technology. He argues that if humanity doe...
Oct 08, 2020•1 hr 11 min
Jacob W. Glazier, PhD, has a doctorate degree in Psychology: Consciousness and Society from the University of West Georgia. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Positive Human Development and Social Change at Life University and an online Adjunct Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University – Steinhardt. He is author of Arts of Subjectivity: A New Animism for the Post-Media Era. His website is https://jacobglazier.academia.edu/. Here he describes the margin...
Oct 02, 2020•47 min
New Thinking Allowed host Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, shares further reflections concerning the controversial philosopher. In particular, Jeffrey addresses the Jorjani’s assertions concerning the need for total warfare against China and the Islamic world. Many viewers will know that Jason Reza Jorjani has suffered from libel and persecution as a result of his, generally misunderstood, political views. He is a brilliant scholar who has now been unfairly disgraced and is forced to fight a legal battle,...
Oct 01, 2020•15 min
Michael Grosso, PhD, is author of The Man Who Could Fly: St. Joseph of Copertino and the Mystery of Levitation. He also edited and wrote commentary for Wings of Ecstasy: Dominico Bernini’s Vita of St. Joseph of Copertino (1772). His other books include The Millennium Myth: Love and Death and the End of Time, Final Choice: Death or Transcendence?, Soulmaking: Uncommon Paths to Self Understanding and Smile of the Universe: Miracles in an Age of Disbelief. Here he describes a variety of paranormal ...
Oct 01, 2020•50 min
Jeffrey Mishlove explores the complex relationship Rudolf Steiner had with the person and legacy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Steiner maintained that Nietzsche has been a Franciscan ascetic monk in a previous lifetime. He believed himself to be the reincarnated spirit of the medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas. Steiner saw both himself and Nietzsche as wrestling with the darkest of spiritual forces. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Develop...
Sep 29, 2020•16 min
Adam Crabtree, RP, is a trainer of psychotherapists and has a private therapy practice in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, He is author of From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Roots of Psychological Healing, Multiple Man: Explorations in Possession and Multiple Personality, Trance Zero: Breaking the Spell of Conformity, Evolutionary Love and the Ravages of Greed, and The Land of Hypnogogia. He is also coauthor of Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century, and he is coeditor of ...
Sep 29, 2020•47 min
Debbie Joffe Ellis, wife of the late Albert Ellis, founder of REBT, is a licensed Australian psychologist and is licensed in NY as mental health counselor. She has a doctorate in alternative medicine from the Indian Board of Alternative Medicines in affiliation with the World Health Organization, from which she has also received a gold medal (1993) in recognition of her service in the field of alternative medicine. She is coauthor, with her late husband, of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (new...
Sep 28, 2020•1 hr 41 min
Angela Puca, MA, PhD Candidate, is a Lecturer at Leeds Trinity University and a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Religious Studies at University of Leeds/Leeds Trinity University. Her doctoral research is on “Autochthonous and Trans-cultural Shamanism in Italy”. She hosts “Angela’s Symposium” channel on YouTube. The link is https://bit.ly/32Bz3KC. Here she explains that there is a small, but growing, interest in academic research on western esoteric traditions. Such research actually has...
Sep 25, 2020•52 min
Jeffrey Mishlove shares some details regarding the life of his grandfather, a man who grew up in an era where the main mode of transportation was the horse and buggy. He lived to see a man walk on the moon. Abraham Rogow was a carpenter with a visionary outlook on life, who published a pamphlet on world federalism. One of their last, unforgettable conversations was of a mystical nature. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Sys...
Sep 24, 2020•15 min
Jason Reza Jorjani, PhD, is a philosopher and author of Prometheus and Atlas, World State of Emergency, Lovers of Sophia, Novel Folklore: The Blind Owl of Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian Leviathan: A Monumental History of Mithra’s Abode, and Prometheism. Here he suggests that humankind is at a brink of a series of technological breakthroughs so radical as to alter our understanding of reality in ways that are unpredictable. GRIN technologies include genetic engineering, robotics, artificial intelligence...
Sep 23, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Jeffrey Mishlove shares memories of a man who was his mentor and best friend for a decade prior to his death in 2003. H. Dean Brown was a nuclear physicist, Sanskrit scholar, metaphysician, and remote viewer who believed that one could discover god within the many details of the physical world. Dean, and his wife Wendy, participated in a remote viewing experiment with Russell Targ and Jane Katra – organized by Jeffrey. The report can be downloaded at https://bit.ly/3jHtzDA. New Thinking Allowed ...
Sep 22, 2020•14 min
Bernard Carr, PhD, is emeritus professor of mathematics and astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. He is coauthor of the book Quantum Black Holes and he is also editor of the anthology Universe or Multiverse? He is a past-president of the Society for Psychical Research and is also currently president of the Scientific and Medical Network. Here he maintains that science is continually evolving. He draws upon examples from cosmology and black holes to make this point. He also reflects on hi...
Sep 22, 2020•1 hr 25 min
Serena Roney-Dougal, PhD, received a doctoral degree the University of Surrey, in the United Kingdom, for a parapsychological dissertation. She is author of Where Science and Magic Meet and The Faery Faith: An Integration of Science and Spirit. She resides in Glastonbury, England, where she serves on the Town Council. Here she describes magical practices dating back to neolithic times in Britain. She explains that certain sites were used for burials, initiations, and ritual activities. These wer...
Sep 19, 2020•48 min
Jeffrey Mishlove reflects upon the meanings implicit in modernist and post-modernist movements of the past 130 years or so. He describes the influence of psychoanalysis, depth psychology, and quantum physics upon art, literature, and culture. Citing the poet, T. S. Eliot, he proposes that we are engaged in a journey that will take us back to the earliest origins of human thought – only to recognize it for the first time. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of...
Sep 17, 2020•14 min
Marjorie Woollacott, PhD, is emeritus professor of Neuroscience and Human Physiology at the University of Oregon. She is coauthor of the textbook, Motor Control: Translating Research Into Clinical Practice. She is author of Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind. Here she describes the results of a survey in which over 300 respondents reported details of experiences that fit the pattern of a Kundalini awakening. One surprising finding was that the reports matched those found in t...
Sep 17, 2020•43 min
Jeffrey Mishlove shares a memory of the time when his mentor, Arthur M. Young (inventor of the Bell Helicopter), told him that, if he could live his life over again, he would like to build a UFO. Today such a prospect does not seem entirely far-fetched. Jeffrey shares details regarding “meta-material” that ostensibly came from a UFO crash site. He also points to a theoretical explanation offered by physicist Jack Sarfatti as to how UFOs might operate. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove,...
Sep 16, 2020•18 min
Leslie Kean is an independent investigative journalist and author of Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife. In 2010, her book UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record was a New York Times bestseller. She is also coauthor of Burma’s Revolution of the Spirit: The Struggle for Democratic Freedom and Dignity as well as Henry Hyde’s Moral Universe. Her website is http://www.survivingdeathkean.com/. Here she discusses recent articles she has coau...
Sep 16, 2020•56 min
Jason Reza Jorjani, PhD, is a philosopher and author of Prometheus and Atlas, World State of Emergency, Lovers of Sophia, Novel Folklore: The Blind Owl of Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian Leviathan: A Monumental History of Mithra’s Abode, and Prometheism. Here he highlights the fact that Heidegger maintains that technology is prior to science, and is a necessary condition for science. In fact, human beings are uniquely defined by their use of technology. Paradoxically, technology is also potentially a de...
Sep 12, 2020•1 hr 12 min
Jeffrey Mishlove reviews the Global Consciousness Project, founded by Roger Nelson, and cites new research showing that time-series data can be derived from this Project that correlates positively and significantly with future stock market activity. This finding, if it can be sustained and applied, suggests that parapsychological research may become self-supporting. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man....
Sep 11, 2020•15 min
Mervat Nasser, MD, MPhil, FRCPsych, is a graduate of Cairo Medical School and fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, London. She holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy and a doctorate in psychiatry from London University. She took an early retirement from her job as a consultant psychiatrist and senior lecturer at Kings College London in 2007 and returned to Egypt to pursue her dream of establishing the project of New Hermopolis. She is author of The Path to the New Hermopolis: The History...
Sep 09, 2020•51 min
Jeffrey Mishlove shares his experiences, as a parapsychologist, concerning the concept of respect. He points out that disrespect is widespread in our current cultural environment, especially on the internet. He maintains that when people disrespect each other they are actually projecting how they feel about themselves. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced...
Sep 08, 2020•13 min
