Walter Meyer zu Erpen, MAS, is the founder and a director of the Survival Research Institute of Canada ( https://survivalresearch.ca ). He is a professional archivist. Preserving the Historical Collections of Parapsychology website is https://phcp.nl. The Psychic News Digital Archives can be found at https://libguides.lib.umanitoba.ca/psychicnews. This interview was recorded in Las Vegas, NV, where Walter was one of the award recipients of the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies essay co...
Apr 26, 2022•56 min
Jonathan Rose, PhD, is series editor for the New Century Edition of Emanuel Swedenborg’s theological writings. He is author of The Message of Love in the Ten Commandments and Swedenborg’s Garden of Theology. He is also a contributor to A Lexicon to the Latin Text of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. Here he points out that Swedenborg, an eighteenth century scientist, engaged in lengthy excursions into the afterlife throughout the last three decades of his life – as the result of a ...
Apr 14, 2022•57 min
Barbara Ensrud served as president of the board of directors of the Rhine Research Center from 2016 to 2000. She is coeditor, with Sally Rhine Feather of J. B. Rhine, Letters 1923-1939: ESP and the Foundations of Parapsychology. During the 1930s, the Parapsychology research program at Duke University established experimental protocols that were successful in demonstrating the existence of extrasensory perception, precognition, and psychokinesis. The public reaction was enormous and largely posit...
Apr 11, 2022•42 min
James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a scholar, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution; also Empire of Scientism: The Dispiriting Conspiracy and Inevitable Tyranny of Scientocracy, TechBondAge: Slavery of the Human Spirit, and Human Entrance to Transhumanism: Machine Merger and the End o...
Apr 09, 2022•1 hr 25 min
Megan Rose, PhD, is author of Spirit Marriage: Intimate Relationships with Otherworldly Beings. Megan has a doctorate in East-West psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and a master’s degree in religion in society from the Graduate Theological Union. She is an initiated ceremonial magician, a Shakta Tantric practitioner, and a senior seer in the House of Brigh Faery Seership Institute. She serves as an ordained interfaith minister and psycho-spiritual counselor and is the ...
Apr 07, 2022
Jeffrey J. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought and former chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His books include Kali’s Child, Esalen, Authors of the Impossible, The Serpent’s Gift, Mutants and Mystics, The Supernatural (with Whitley Strieber), and Secret Body. He is coauthor, with Elizabeth Krohn, of Changed in a Flash: One Woman’s Near-Death Experience and Why a Scholar Thinks It Empowers Us All. His most re...
Apr 07, 2022•1 hr 7 min
RJ Spina is author of Supercharged Self-Healing: A Revolution Guide to Access High-Frequency States of Consciousness that Rejuvinate and Repair. You can watch his short video documenting how he healed himself after a diagnosis of permanent paraplegia. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crV8Z6eOIdw His website is www.ascendthe frequencies.com. Here he maintains that detachment from body-mind identity is the core principle behind his teachings. When we can let go of who we think we are, we get i...
Apr 02, 2022•49 min
Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, PhD, is Dean of Integral Education at the California Institute for Human Science and Program Director of the MA/PHD program in Integral Noetic Sciences which has an optional concentration in Anomalous Studies. He founded the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. He has also authored or edited eight books including: Integral Ecology (co-authored with Michael E. Zimmerman), Metatheory for the Twenty-first Century (co-edited with Roy Bhaskar et al), and Dancing with Sophia ...
Mar 31, 2022•41 min
Charles Upton’s first books of poetry were published in 1968 and 1969 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Light Books in San Francisco. He was then considered the youngest member of the “beat generation” as he was still in high school. He has subsequently written many books associated with the traditionalist school of spirituality including The Science of the Greater Jihad, System of the Antichrist, Vectors of the Counter-Initiation, Folk Metaphysics, and Alien Disclosure Deception: The Metaphysics...
Mar 28, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Dan Millman is author of the novel, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, that was made into a motion picture. His other books on the spiritual quest include Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior, The Life You Were Born to Live, The Four Purposes of Life, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior, Everyday Enlightenment, Body Mind Mastery, and most recently Peaceful Heart Warrior Spirit: The True Story of My Spiritual Quest. His website is https://www.peacefulwarrior.com/ Here he describes four of the most importa...
Mar 26, 2022•1 hr 17 min
James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a scholar, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution; also Empire of Scientism: The Dispiriting Conspiracy and Inevitable Tyranny of Scientocracy, TechBondAge: Slavery of the Human Spirit, and Human Entrance to Transhumanism: Machine Merger and the End o...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Gail Hayssen hosts the Small Medium At Large podcast. She has worked as a successful subject in parapsychology experiments. She has also explored shamanistic cultures around the world. She is the recipient of an honorary doctoral degree from the Mongolian Academy of Sciences. You can reach her podcast at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCosd9J6MuxBvRP-UskejUgA This is first in a new series of interview with Gail about the cultural practices of the Huichol Indians of Mexico, who are known for the...
Mar 21, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Lauren Robertson is a psychic medium who has conducted 15,000+ sittings and public demonstrations globally. She is author of The Medium in Manolos. Here she explains that the love and relationships we have with our friends and family transcends death and can continue in the afterlife. While mediums can assist with communication with a loved one in spirit, she encourages you to develop your own personal mediumistic abilities for you to verify the bond and continuation of your loved one in sprit. ...
Mar 18, 2022
A. Hameed Ali is founder of the Ridwan School and the Diamond Approach to self-realization. He is author, under the pen name of A. H. Almaas, of about twenty books integrating spiritual consciousness with contemporary psychology. These include Love Unveiled: Discovering the Essence of the Awakened Heart, Runaway Realization: A Life of Ceaseless Discovery, and Facets of Unity: The Enneagram of Holy Ideas. His most recent book is Keys to the Enneagram: How to Unlock the Highest Potential of Every ...
Mar 16, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Gary Lachman is the author The Return of Holy Russia: Apocalyptic History, Mystical Awakening, and the Struggle for the Soul of the World as well as over twenty other books about the influence of esotericism on politics and society. He has written biographies of Carl Jung, Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Emanuel Swedenborg, P. D. Ouspensky, and Colin Wilson. His newest book is Dreaming Ahead of Time: Experiences with Precognitive Dreams, Synchronicities and Coinciden...
Mar 15, 2022•53 min
RJ Spina is author of Supercharged Self-Healing: A Revolution Guide to Access High-Frequency States of Consciousness that Rejuvinate and Repair. You can watch his short video documenting how he healed himself after a diagnosis of permanent paraplegia. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crV8Z6eOIdw His website is www.ascendthe frequencies.com. Here he describes his understanding of “ascended masters” based on his personal experiences – including intuitive and physical encounters and past-life m...
Mar 15, 2022•1 hr
Elly Molina is author of Children Who Know How to Know: A Resource Guide for Helping Children Develop and Utilize Their Powerful Intuitive Abilities as well as Dream Interpretation Guide: How to Access Information From Your Subconscious Mind. Her website is https://ellymolina.com/. Here she explains to Emmy Vadnais how she began working in the classroom to assist children in cultivating and understanding their natural intuitive gifts. She describes a variety of exercises and provides examples sh...
Mar 10, 2022•49 min
Charles Upton’s first books of poetry were published in 1968 and 1969 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Light Books in San Francisco. He was then considered the youngest member of the “beat generation” as he was still in high school. He has subsequently written many books associated with the traditionalist school of spirituality including The Science of the Greater Jihad, System of the Antichrist, Vectors of the Counter-Initiation, Folk Metaphysics, and Alien Disclosure Deception. Here he identif...
Mar 07, 2022•59 min
Sally Rhine Feather, PhD, born in 1930, is on the board or directors of the Rhine Research Center. She is coauthor of The Gift: The Extraordinary Paranormal Experiences of Ordinary People. She is coeditor of J. B. Rhine, Letters 1923-1939. Sally reviews the history of her parents’ remarkable careers. After receiving their doctoral degrees in botany, they determined to enter the controversial field of psychical research. Nevertheless, they became disillusioned with field studies of séances and me...
Mar 04, 2022•46 min
Russell Targ, a laser physicist, cofounded the remote viewing research program at SRI International. He is coauthor of Mind Reach, The Mind Race, Miracles of Mind, The Heart of the Mind, and The End of Suffering. He is author of Limitless Mind and The Reality of ESP: A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities. He is also coeditor of the anthology, Mind At Large. He also co-produced the documentary Third Eye Spies. Russell describes his own remote viewing experiences, starting as early as 1956. Whi...
Mar 03, 2022•58 min
Callum Cooper, PhD, is a lecturer in psychology at the University of Northampton in the United Kingdom. He is author of Telephone Calls From the Dead. He is coeditor, with Steven Parsons, of Paracoustics: Sound and the Paranormal. And, he is coauthor (with Alex Tanous) of Conversations With Ghosts. His website is www.callumecooper.com. This conversation introduces Cal as a new Guest Host for New Thinking Allowed. It focuses on parapsychology. Cal discusses his own work as an educator in the fiel...
Mar 01, 2022•56 min
Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, is a computer scientist, who has also completed a second doctoral degree in philosophy. He is author of Rationalist Spirituality, Why Materialism is Baloney, Dreamed Up Reality, Meaning in Absurdity, Brief Peeks Beyond, More Than Allegory, The Idea of the World, Decoding Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics, and Decoding Jung’s Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe, and most recently Science Ideated: The Fall of Matter and the Countours of the Next Mainst...
Feb 25, 2022•3 hr 19 min
Bernie Taylor, a naturalist and archeoastronomer, is author of Biological Time as well as Before Orion: Finding the Face of the Hero. His website is https://beforeorion.com/. Here he describes the wide range of mythological figures, going back almost 40,000 years ago, that he sees in the walls of the El Castillo Cave in Northern Spain. He discusses the extent to which pareidolia – i.e., projecting meaning on to random patterns – plays a role in the creation of mythology. He notes that the same p...
Feb 23, 2022•57 min
Gail Hayssen hosts the Small Medium At Large podcast. She has worked as a successful subject in parapsychology experiments. She has also explored shamanistic cultures around the world. She is the recipient of an honorary doctoral degree from the Mongolian Academy of Sciences. You can reach her podcast at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCosd9J6MuxBvRP-UskejUgA This is the third interview in a three-part series. Here she describes her initiation into Mongolian shamanism – after many years of stud...
Feb 23, 2022•1 hr 8 min
James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a scholar, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution; also Empire of Scientism: The Dispiriting Conspiracy and Inevitable Tyranny of Scientocracy, TechBondAge: Slavery of the Human Spirit, and Human Entrance to Transhumanism: Machine Merger and the End o...
Feb 18, 2022•55 min
RJ Spina is author of Supercharged Self-Healing: A Revolution Guide to Access High-Frequency States of Consciousness that Rejuvinate and Repair. You can watch his short video documenting how he healed himself after a diagnosis of permanent paraplegia. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crV8Z6eOIdw His website is www.ascendthe frequencies.com. RJ shares his intuitive perceptions regarding the many spaces, realities, dimensions, and frequencies accessible to consciousness. The key is to achieve ...
Feb 17, 2022•54 min
Gary Lachman is the author The Return of Holy Russia: Apocalyptic History, Mystical Awakening, and the Struggle for the Soul of the World as well as over twenty other books about the influence of esotericism on politics and society. He has written biographies of Carl Jung, Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Emanuel Swedenborg, P. D. Ouspensky, and Colin Wilson. His newest book is Dreaming Ahead of Time: Experiences with Precognitive Dreams, Synchronicities and Coinciden...
Feb 15, 2022•36 min
This special program introduces New Thinking Allowed’s first regular Guest Host – Emmy Vadnais. Emmy, a previous guest on this channel, is author of Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. 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 the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the o...
Feb 12, 2022•50 min
Paul Levy is author of The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis, Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil, Awakened By Darkness: When Evil Becomes Your Father, The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality, and Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus that is Plaguing Our World. He has been a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for the past three decades. His website is https://www.awakeninthedream.com/ Here Paul Levy share his four “ignoble blindnes...
Feb 11, 2022•57 min
Debashish Banerji, PhD, is Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures and Chairman of the East West Psychology Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He is author of Seven Quartets of Becoming: A Transformative Yoga Psychology Based on the Diaries of Sri Aurobindo and also The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore, a book about his great grandfather. He edited an anthology about his great uncle, Rabindranath Tagore in the Twenty-First...
Feb 07, 2022•50 min
