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Frances Vaughan: Spirituality and Psychology (complete) — Thinking Allowed DVD w/ Jeffrey Mishlove
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True psychology is incomplete without an understanding of the spiritual yearnings of human beings. The late Frances Vaughan, Ph.D., was a transpersonal psychotherapist and president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. She was author of Awakening Intuition and The Inward Arc. Dr. Vaughan stresses that all spiritual traditions ultimately offer a means toward transcendence of the limited self.
Zarathustra's Indo-European Legacy
Here he reviews scholarship that places Zarathustra more than eight thousands years ago, at a time when Indo-European culture had not divided into Vedic, Greco-Roman, and European branches. Zarathustra himself was a religious reformer who endeavored to invert the older relationships between the gods and titans. Jorjani suggests that the spread of Indo-European culture was [...]
The Chess Game from Beyond the Grave
Here he provides a detailed analysis of a chess match played between a living grandmaster, Victor Korchnoi and an ostensible deceased grandmaster, Géza Maróczy, whose moves were communicated through the auspices of a spiritualist medium using automatic writing. Neppe argues that this is a strong case supporting the hypothesis of survival of consciousness after death. [...]
Csikszentmihalyi Flow, Creativity and the Evolving Self I
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago. He is author of several books including Flow, The Evolving Self and Creativity. Here he discusses the results of over thirty years researching the lives of highly creative individuals. He points out that creativity involves a lifelong commitment that begins with one's personal [...]
CLASSIC REBOOT: Remote Viewing in Criminology
In this video from 2017, he describes a number of cases in which clairvoyance, or nonlocal perception, has been successfully applied to help law enforcement officials solve cases. He explains why these cases can be particularly difficult — especially from a research perspective. He also notes that particular personality characteristics seem to accompany remote viewers [...]
Invocation for New Thinking Allowed
Healing Our Planet Ourselves
Ask Jeffrey Mishlove Your Toughest Questions
Chetanananda Philosophy of Tantric Yoga I
Swami Chetanananda is author of Dynamic Stillness, and The Breath of God. Here he points out that contemporary westerners often mistakenly believe that tantric yoga is essentially a sexual practice. Actually, tantra need not involve any sexual activities. The essence of tantra is a focus on life energy or "kundalini" associated with the nervous system, [...]
A Medium's Evidence for Postmortem Survival
She will answer viewers questions about the gradual process through which she became aware of communications with the deceased – as well as what she learned learning from James Van Praagh, Lyn Buchanan, Whitley Strieber, Tom Campbell, and others. Viewers can also ask about how her psychic sensitivities were sharpened as the result of traumatic [...]
Callum Cooper Interviews Jeffrey Mishlove About Parapsychology
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 field and questions Jeff about his early work, including his book, Psi Development Systems. The discussion focuses on J. B. Rhine and the origins of modern parapsychology. Other [...]
Emmy Vadnais Interviews Jeffrey Mishlove About the Grand Prize Bigelow Institute Essay
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 only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He [...]
The Grateful Dead Meet Stanley Krippner
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Bigelow Institute Award Speech
In 2021, Robert Bigelow established the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies and sponsored an essay competition on the topic of the best evidence for the survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. Some 1,200 people applied to enter this event. My entry was unanimously selected by a panel of six judges as the grand [...]
Determinism, Free Will, and FatewithArthur M. Young (1905-1995)
Free will and purpose are not inconsistent with a universe subject to law. In fact, says Arthur Young, your free will would be ineffective without a determinate world to act upon. Young, inventor of the Bell helicopter and author of The Reflexive Universe, also discusses the difference between determinism the belief that everything acts according [...]
Alien Human InteractionswithBarry Taff (CORRECTED VERSION)
Barry E. Taff holds a doctorate in psychophysiology with a minor in biomedical engineering. He worked at UCLA's former parapsychology laboratory from 1969 through 1978. He also was investigated as a psychic subject, the results of which were published in Behavioral Neuropsychiatry. He is author of Aliens Above, Ghosts Below: Explorations of the Unknown. His [...]
Ancient Indian Thought Before the Common ErawithKiran Kumar Salagame
Here he describes how Indian thought is a fusion of many influences — primarily Vedantist, Buddhist, and Jain. However, going back to ancient times, there were always materialists in the mix. Additionally, there is the influence of the prehistoric Indus Valley culture — whose language has yet to be deciphered fully. There is also a [...]