New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, The PK Man, and Psi Development Systems. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "Parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death.
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Summary and Transcript of this interview
Interview recorded August 6, 2022.
YouTube Video Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction and Background of Jeffrey Mishlove
00:04:35 - A Dream of Uncle Harry's Death
00:08:58 - The Paranormal Capabilities of the Human Mind
00:12:49 - Followed a Dream to Pursue My Interests
00:17:00 - Consciousness and the Universe
00:20:51 - The Significance of Parapsychology and Consciousness
00:24:42 - Society with Fundamental Consciousness Understanding
00:28:49 - Believing in the Power of Manifestation
00:32:57 - White Crows and Psychical Research
00:37:16 - The criticism of research with Mrs. Piper and the Dark Age of scientism
00:41:31 - The Rise of the Spiritual but Not Religious Movement
00:45:28 - Potential Capabilities of Humans and Moral Development
00:49:28 - The Cosmic Game of Life and Suffering
00:53:38 - Levels of Creation and the Unknown Mysteries of the Universe
00:58:05 - The Reality of Macro Psychokinetic Phenomena
01:02:12 - Interface between Dreams and the Bardo Planes
01:06:22 - Similarities between mystical and near-death experiences
01:10:49 - The Bardo Planes and Higher Dimensions
01:14:28 - Living Agent Psi and the Afterlife
01:18:20 - The Fisher Hoffman Process and the Dictated Therapy
01:22:10 - Pre-birth Communication
01:26:20 - Electronic communication with the deceased
01:30:18 - Difficulty in Identifying Authentic Psychic Occurrences
01:35:03 - A Game of Chess with a Deceased Chess Master
01:39:16 - Physical Mediumship and Materialization
01:43:20 - Houdini's Attempt to Expose Marjorie the Medium
01:47:45 - The Reality of the Witnessed Experience
01:51:38 - Remembering Dean Brown
01:55:45 - The Fate of the Human Species
02:01:46 - The Possibility of Past Lives
02:02:38 - Closing Remarks