An American Buddhist with Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote is an accomplished actor in more than 130 films, an Emmy Award-winning narrator of over 200 documentaries and 17 audiobooks, and author of Sleeping Where I Fall, The Rainman’s Third Cure, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Meet Buddha, and a book of poetry titled Tongue of a Crow.

Here he shares his observations from over 45 years of conducting acting improvisation workships with practitioners of Zen Buddhism. He points out that wearing masks almost inevitably has the temporary effect of liberating individuals from their ego-bound consciousness. He likens this experience, in some ways, to taking psychedelic drugs. He points out that meditation offers a more permanent way of attaining liberated states of awareness. He also observes that psychotherapy can play an important role in freeing one from unhealthy behavior patterns.

New Thinking Allowed host, 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 is also the 1st Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death.

(Recorded on November 15, 2021)

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