Interview with Jeffery Mishlove, Host of New Thinking Allowed

Trailblazer in the extra-ordinary, cartographer of the unknown, Jeffery (Yehuda) Mishlove is a clinical psychologist, host and producer of Thinking Allowed and New Thinking Allowed. Jeffery studied the psychology of religious mysticism, and completed a PhD in Parapsychology, the only ever awarded by an accredited University (Berkley 1980), published later as Psi Development Systems. He is the author of The Roots of Consciousness and The PK Man.   Over the past few decades Jeffery has been a pioneer of innerfaith dialogue and has had the great distinction of interviewing many of characters who have shaped our current world of Mysticism, Religion, Philosophy and Psychology, with the likes of Colin Wilson, David Chalmers, Huston Smith, Irvin Yalom, John Searle, Oliver Sacks, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Jean Houston, Ram Dass, Robert Anton Wilson, Rollo May, Rupert Sheldrake, Stanislav Grof, Steven Pinker, Terence McKenna, U. G. Krishnamurti and Whitley Strieber, just to name a few.  In this lit conversation Jeffrey shares his story with us, tells of his falling in and out of religion, we discuss his most memorable interviews, mystic vs psychic, particularism vs universalism, initiating yourself, being true to ourselves in religion and how to create meaning. We farbreng about the broken tablets and the trees of Eden, we cry, laugh, smile and sing in an adventure of human connection. Join us.  Timestamps: 00:00 Excerpt  01:38 Intro to Jeffrey  04:35 Jeffrey’s Story, in his own words  37:08 Finding/Creating Meaning in a Deconstructed World 39:50 Making Oneness real in our lives | Innerfairth Dialogue 43:59 Do we need to practice one tradition? Particularism vs Universalism   48:43 Did Judaism take a wrong turn with Moses? 50:49 Living between Exile/Samsara and Redemption/Enlightenment: Broken tablets and whole tables, tree of knowledge and tree of life 54:08 Mysticism vs Psychic phenomenon? and What is a Mysticism?  56:18 Jeffrey's favorite interview? 57:56 Conclusion and Upcoming Projects  “We live in an era where the spiritual tradition of the world are everybody inheritance” - Jeffery Mishlove