Platonic Surrealism, Part Two: Psychic Symbiosis with Kevin Cann Kevin Cann is a contributor to Jeffrey Kripal’s book, How to Think Impossibly. He is a high-functioning, autistic individual. His website is https://platonicsurrealism.com/ Here he builds on our previous conversation about Platonic Surrealism and this time explores the question of our ecological relationship with the world of nonhuman entities. He provides examples of how consciousness extends beyond the animal kingdom. New Thinkin...
Feb 10, 2025•42 min
InPresence 0260: Retrocognitive Psychokinesis Here Jeffrey Mishlove takes up one of the most controversial and significant topics to have emerged within parapsychology – the possibility that human intention can exert an influence on past events. There is an important catch, however: psychokinesis can only influence past events that have never before been observed. Experiments have shown this to work! New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi D...
Feb 08, 2025•21 min
Spontaneous After-Death Communication with Janice Miner Holden Janice Miner Holden, EdD, is president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, a near-death experience & transpersonal researcher, and is the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies. She has a doctorate in education and is professor emerita of Counseling at the University of North Texas. Her primary research focus has been counseling implications of near-death experiences, after-death communication, and other...
Feb 07, 2025•1 hr 15 min
InPresence 0259: A New Science of Heaven Here Jeffrey Mishlove outlines features of Robert Temple’s 2022 book, A New Science of Heaven – a exploration of the role of plasma in the consciousness of the universe. He discusses Robert Temple’s background as well as their mutual association, although Robert and Jeffrey have never met, with the cosmologist and inventor, Arthur M. Young. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, ...
Feb 06, 2025•30 min
Bashar & First Contact: Darryl Anka How close are we to First Contact? In this conversation Darryl Anka, the channel for Bashar, shares his journey from witnessing UFO sightings to becoming a prominent figure in the field of channeling. He discusses the nature of Bashar as an extraterrestrial consciousness and the connection between spirituality and the UFO phenomena. Darryl emphasizes the importance of collective choice in navigating the current polarization in society and outlines Bashar’s...
Feb 06, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Principles of Remote Viewing with Paul H. Smith Paul H. Smith, PhD, served as president of the International Remote Viewing Association an organization of which he is a founder. A former Army intelligence officer, he served for seven years as part of the military’s top-secret remote viewing program. He is author of Reading the Enemy’s Mind and The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing. He currently serves as president and chief trainer for Remote Viewing Instructional Services. His website is https:...
Jan 26, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Evidential Near-Death Experiences with Janice Miner Holden Janice Miner Holden, EdD, is president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, a near-death experience & transpersonal researcher, and is the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies. She has a doctorate in education and is professor emerita of Counseling at the University of North Texas. Her primary research focus has been counseling implications of near-death experiences, after-death communication, and other tra...
Jan 25, 2025•1 hr 30 min
The Unobstructed Way with Ronnie Pontiac Ronnie Pontiac was the personal research assistant for Manly P. Hall at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles. He is author of American Metaphysical Religion: Esoteric and Mystical Traditions of the New World. He is coauthor with Tamra Lucid of The Magic of the Orphic Hymns: A New Translation for the Modern Mystic. Early in the twentieth century, Stewart Edward White was one of the most popular writers on spiritualist and metaphysical matters....
Jan 23, 2025•1 hr 27 min
A Photojournalist Explores Protests with Amy Beth Katz Photojournalist Amy Katz, MA, (twin sister of NTA guest host, Debra Lynne Katz) discusses her experiences documenting protests, starting with Occupy Wall Street in 2011. She has published photos and videos in various renowned publications and has attended protests such as the Women’s March, environmental demonstrations, and the George Floyd protests. Amy Beth’s photos & stories have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, N...
Jan 22, 2025•1 hr 29 min
Investigating Altered States of Consciousness with Rick Strassman Rick Strassman, MD, is an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico. He is author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule — A Doctor’s Revolutionary Research Into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds Through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies, and DMT and the Soul of Prophecy: a New Science of Spiritual Revelation in the Hebrew Bible. He has...
Jan 21, 2025•39 min
Introducing Our New Studio Sculptures with Joe Cajero Joe Cajero, a member of the Native American, Jemez Pueblo in New Mexico, is a fine artist and award-winning sculptor. His website is https://cajerofineart.com/ Here he explains aspects of the Pueblo Indian heritage, referring to the historical antecedents in Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon. He describes his own creative process and explains the symbolism implicit in two of his sculptures, now residing in the New Thinking Allowed Albuquerque studi...
Jan 20, 2025•48 min
Shamanism: Pathways to Transformation with C. Michael Smith Michael Smith, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and medical anthropologist who studied at the University of Chicago, the Chicago Theological Seminary, and the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Dr. Smith has lectured on Jungian Psychology and Shamanism for the Jungian Society of South Italy, taught in the third-year analyst training program of the C.G. Jung Institute of Bangalore, India, and lectured for the Moscow Society of Jungian Analys...
Jan 18, 2025•1 hr 10 min
How Matter Became Conscious and Alive with James Cooke James Cooke PhD trained as a neuroscientist after an awakening as a teenager that showed him the reality of spiritual states of consciousness. He holds three degrees from Oxford University (a PhD and Masters in Neuroscience & a BA in Experimental Psychology). He has conducted scientific research for over a decade at institutions such as Oxford University, University of California, Berkeley, University College London, Trinity College Dubl...
Dec 30, 2024•55 min
Astrology, History, and the U.S. Election Professional astrologer Nick Dagan Best, author of Uranus USA: Astrology Looks at the First Nation and Planet of the New World, incisively predicted Donald Trump’s re-election in 2024. In this conversation, Best and guest host Christopher Naughton explore the astrological implications of the 2024 election, the significance of Uranus in American history, and how Donald Trump’s chart connects with the United States. He reflects on the upcoming years and ad...
Dec 29, 2024•56 min
What is Time? with Steve Taylor Steve Taylor, PhD, is the author of Time Expansion Experiences: The Psychology of Time Perception and the Illusion of Linear Time. He is the author of 15 other books including The Adventure, The Leap and Spiritual Science, He is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University and a past chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. Steve also writes the popular ‘Out of the Darkness’ blog for Psychology Today. His w...
Dec 27, 2024•45 min
Gaining Power Over Thoughts and Feelings with Jill Bolte Taylor Jill Bolte Taylor, PhD, is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist whose research specialized in understanding how our brain creates our perception of reality. At the age of 37, she experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain. From this rare form of stroke (AVM), she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. It took eight years for her to completely rebuild her brain to recover all ...
Dec 23, 2024•1 hr 19 min
The Superhumanities with Jeffrey Kripal 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), Secret Body, The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge, and Superhumanities. He is coauthor, with Elizabeth Krohn...
Nov 23, 2024•1 hr 1 min
The Marian Apparitions at Zeitoun with Travis Dumsday Travis Dumsday is Chair of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Concordia University of Edmonton, Canada. He is author of several books, including Dispositionalism and the Metaphysics of Science, Alternative Conceptions of the Spiritual: Polytheism, Animism, and More in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion; and The Marian Apparitions at Zeitoun: An Evidential Inquiry. Here he describes a series of intermittent apparitions associated with a Copt...
Nov 22, 2024•1 hr 11 min
Thinking Impossibly with Jeffrey Kripal 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), Secret Body, The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge, and Superhumanities. He is coauthor, with Elizabeth Krohn...
Nov 21, 2024•1 hr
Shame: The Hidden Struggle with Pat DeYoung Patricia A. DeYoung, PhD has a Masters of Social Work and a PhD in Philosophy of Education from the University of Toronto. She is a Registered Clinical Social Worker in Ontario, Canada and has been a practitioner of psychotherapy since 1996. She was a founding faculty member of the Toronto Institute for Relational Psychotherapy, where she taught for 25 years. Dr. DeYoung has written three books: Relational Psychotherapy: A Primer; Understanding and Tre...
Nov 19, 2024•1 hr 12 min
Lenses of Consciousness with Nancy du Tertre Nancy du Tertre, JD, is a corporate lawyer specializing in securities litigation. She is also a psychic detective, spiritual medium, medical intuitive, energy healer, ufologist, and remote viewer. In addition, she is certified in the Intuitive Gestalt Dialogue Method. She is author of the books, Psychic Intuition: Everything You Wanted to Ask But Were Afraid to Know and How to Talk to an Alien, and author of the article, “How Our Thinking Styles Affec...
Nov 18, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Emotions and the Brain with Mark Solms Mark Solms is Director of Neuropsychology at the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town. He is also Honorary Lecturer in Neurosurgery at the St Bartholomew’s & Royal London Hospital School of Medicine and an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists. He is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the American and South African Psychoanalytic Associations and has received numerous honours and awards, including th...
Nov 01, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Understanding Your Karma with Edi Bilimoria Edi Bilimoria, DPhil, FIMechE, CEng, is a Consultant Engineer and has been Project Manager and Head of Design for major projects such as the Channel Tunnel. He is a Trustee of the Scientific and Medical Network, Adviser to the Galileo Commission of the Network, a Trustee and a Council Member of the Francis Bacon Society, and was the Education Manager for the Theosophical Society in Australia. He is author of Mirages in Western Science Resolved by Occul...
Oct 31, 2024•1 hr 30 min
InPresence 0258: Graduate Education in Parapsychology Jeffrey Mishlove shares his dream of establishing such a unique graduate level program in parapsychology. He dialogues with himself and provides details concerning the new offerings he helped to create at the California Institute for Human Science. Those offerings include a masters degree in psychology with a concentration in parapsychology, as well as a doctoral degree with a concentration in integral, transpersonal, and positive psychology ...
Oct 25, 2024•20 min
Magic: Chaos and Transcendental with Ronnie Pontiac Ronnie Pontiac was the personal research assistance for Manly P. Hall at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles. He is author of American Metaphysical Religion: Esoteric and Mystical Traditions of the New World. He is coauthor with Tamra Lucid of The Magic of the Orphic Hymns: A New Translation for the Modern Mystic. Here he shares his personal experiences with the practice of chaos magic. He describes the history of this approach an...
Oct 24, 2024•1 hr 11 min
Spirit Mediumship and Remote Viewing with Lori Williams Lori Williams is author of Monitoring: A Guide for Remote Viewing and Professional Intuitive Teams and also Boundless: Your How-To Guide To Practical Remote Viewing. She is founder and president of Intuitive Specialists. She is very active as a trainer of remote viewers. Her website is https://intuitivespecialists.com/ Here she describes her experiences as a spirit medium, going back to her childhood. She shares how her gift of mediumship h...
Oct 23, 2024•58 min
Platonic Surrealism with Kevin Cann Kevin Cann is a contributor to Jeffrey Kripal’s book, How to Think Impossibly. He is a high-functioning, autistic individual. His website is https://platonicsurrealism.com/kevin/ Here he describes how the painful circumstances of his life have led him to develop a unique philosophical outlook that he refers to as Platonic Surrealism. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK M...
Oct 23, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Remote Viewing, Transdimensional Mapping and the Grey Dude with Prudence Calabrese Prudence Calabrese (AKA Birdie Jaworski), is founder of Transdimensional Systems, which was the name of her successful and well-funded remote viewing business. In the early 1990’s she left remote viewing on a professional level., but continued to practice and think about how to improve it. Now, 20 years later she is back. Pru has been featured in the compelling book, Remote Viewing from the Ground up written by Jo...
Oct 14, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Mystical Luminosity with Jonathan Dinsmore Jonathan Dinsmore, MS, is an instructor in psychology at the University of Arkansas. He is author of Mystical Luminosity: The Initiation of a Construct Grounded in Phenomenology. Here he shares how the science of psychology can cast illumination on a concept that can be found in virtually every religious and mystical tradition. He claims that this is a real experience that can be studied through the lens of phenomenology. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeff...
Oct 13, 2024•59 min
Understanding Alfred North Whitehead with Matthew David Segall Matt Segall, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Department at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and the Chair of the Science Advisory Committee for the Cobb Institute. He is author of Crossing the Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead, and Physics of the World Soul: Whitehead’s Adventure in Cosmology. His websi...
Oct 12, 2024•56 min
