New Thinking Allowed Audio Podcast

An Insider’s View of UFO/UAP Disclosure with Jim Semivan Jim Semivan — co-founder and Vice President of Operations for To The Stars and a 25-year veteran of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service — shares his rare vantage point on UFO/UAP disclosure. Speaking with Jeffrey Mishlove, Semivan reflects on his own extraordinary encounters, his cautious stance on full disclosure, and the delicate interplay between national security, public perception, and non-human intelligence. He discusses his early involvement with To The Stars alongside Tom DeLonge, Hal Puthoff, Lou Elizondo, Chris Mellon, and others, and explains why societal readiness, narrative control, and psychological impact remain key concerns in how — and whether — disclosure unfolds. The conversation also delves into Semivan’s support for experiencers such as Chris Bledsoe, the possible interconnectedness of UFO phenomena with parapsychology, and the enduring “trickster” element behind the mystery. [00:00] Introduction [02:01] CIA career, To The Stars, and personal UFO encounters [10:19] Parapsychology connections and higher-dimensional reality [12:27] Supporting experiencer Chris Bledsoe [16:24] Founding To The Stars and challenges in research funding [24:51] Disclosure debates — limited vs. catastrophic [28:36] Why the technology is clearly non-human [33:56] Potential societal and psychological impacts of disclosure [42:57] The “trickster” element and need for caution [48:09] Grassroots disclosure, historical secrecy, and today’s whistleblowers [1:26:06] Conclusion 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 Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He currently serves as Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on July 26, 2025) For a short video on How to Get the Most From New Thinking Allowed, go to https://youtu.be/aVbfPFGxv9o For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see https://newthinkingallowed.com/Listings.htm. Check out the New Thinking Allowed Foundation website at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as opportunities to shop and to support our video productions – plus, this is where people can subscribe to our FREE, weekly Newsletter and can download a FREE .pdf copy of our quarterly magazine. To order high-quality, printed copies of our quarterly magazine: NTA-Magazine.MagCloud.com If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to friends@newthinkingallowed.com. To join the NTA Psi Experience Community on Facebook, see https://www.facebook.com/groups/1953031791426543/ To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-thinking-allowed-audio-podcast/id1435178031. You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on https://amzn.to/3LzLA7Y (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.) To order the second book in the New Thinking Allowed Dialogues series, Russell Targ: Ninety Years of ESP, Remote Viewing, and Timeless Awareness, go to https://amzn.to/4aw2iyr To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: UFOs and UAP – Are We Really Alone?, go to https://amzn.to/3Y0VOVh Download and read Jeffrey Mishlove’s Grand Prize essay in the Bigelow Institute competition, Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death, go to https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/docs/1st.pdf.

Parapsychology’s Influence in Marketing with Mark Tadajewski Mark Tadajewski is the Editor of the Journal of Marketing Management. He is an honorary professor of marketing at the University of York in the UK, as well as the Open University, and Royal Holloway, University of London. Here he points out that the history of advertising and marketing is deeply intertwined with developments in such areas as Mesmerism, hypnosis, psychical research, Theosophy, New Thought, and parapsychology. In particular, he highlights the role of Harlow Gale in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, a specialist in advertising psychology and also a member of the Society for Psychical Research. 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 Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He currently serves as Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on July 24, 2025) For a short video on How to Get the Most From New Thinking Allowed, go to https://youtu.be/aVbfPFGxv9o For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see https://newthinkingallowed.com/Listings.htm. Check out the New Thinking Allowed Foundation website at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as opportunities to shop and to support our video productions – plus, this is where people can subscribe to our FREE, weekly Newsletter and can download a FREE .pdf copy of our quarterly magazine. To order high-quality, printed copies of our quarterly magazine: NTA-Magazine.MagCloud.com If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to friends@newthinkingallowed.com. To join the NTA Psi Experience Community on Facebook, see https://www.facebook.com/groups/1953031791426543/ To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-thinking-allowed-audio-podcast/id1435178031. You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on https://amzn.to/3LzLA7Y (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.) To order the second book in the New Thinking Allowed Dialogues series, Russell Targ: Ninety Years of ESP, Remote Viewing, and Timeless Awareness, go to https://amzn.to/4aw2iyr To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: UFOs and UAP – Are We Really Alone?, go to https://amzn.to/3Y0VOVh Download and read Jeffrey Mishlove’s Grand Prize essay in the Bigelow Institute competition, Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death, go to https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/docs/1st.pdf.

Rethinking the Alien Mythos with Christopher Noël Christopher Noël holds a Master’s degree in philosophy from Yale University and a Master’s in Fine Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts where he taught writing for 20 years. He also researches the phenomenon of Sasquatch. He is author of several books, including There is No Veil: At Play in the Vast Here and Now, UAPs and the Afterlife: How New Disclosures Support Centuries of Psychic and Spiritual Research, MindSpeak: Tapping into Sasquatch and Science, and Homegrown Monsters: Why Earth is the Cradle of “Alien” Creatures. His website is thenearnessofyou.net. Christopher shares his hypothesis that aliens and UAPs are not from foreign planets but have evolved from Earth’s resources. He explores the nature of alien consciousness, their mimicry of earthly creatures, and their quest for human souls. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:37 Earth as the birthplace of aliens 00:07:45 The Challenger Consciousness 00:21:38 Mimicry – insects, reptiles, and primates 00:31:32 Plasmoids 00:33:21 Range of density and frequency 00:40:52 Containers for souls 01:00:41 Parapsychology and shared consciousness 01:03:31 Alien powers, limitations, and transcendence 01:16:21 Conclusion New Thinking Allowed CoHost, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, is a licensed occupational therapist, intuitive healer, and health coach based in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. Her website is https://emmyvadnais.com/ (Recorded on June 27, 2024) For a short video on How to Get the Most From New Thinking Allowed, go to https://youtu.be/aVbfPFGxv9o Check out our new website for the New Thinking Allowed Foundation at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as our new, FREE QUARTERLY MAGAZINE. Also, opportunities to shop and to support our video productions. There, you can also subscribe to our FREE, WEEKLY NEWSLETTER! For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see https://newthinkingallowed.com/Listings.html. Check out New Thinking Allowed’s AI chatbot. You can create a free account at https://ai.servicespace.org When you enter the space, you will see that our chatbot is one of several you can interact with. While it is still a work in progress, it has been trained on 1,600 NTA transcripts. It can provide intelligent answers about the contents of our interviews. It’s almost like having a conversation with Jeffrey Mishlove. To buy a high-quality, printed version of the New Thinking Allowed Magazine, go to nta-magazine.magcloud.com. To join the NTA Psi Experience Community on Facebook, see https://www.facebook.com/groups/1953031791426543/. To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, visit our podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-thinking-allowed-audio-podcast/id1435178031. Download and read Jeffrey Mishlove’s Grand Prize essay in the Bigelow Institute competition, Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death. https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/docs/1st.pdf If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to friends@newthinkingallowed.com. To order Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality by Emmy Vadnais, click here: https://amzn.to/35sbLIA. To order Homegrown Monsters, go to: https://amzn.to/4oba74o To order New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on https://amzn.to/3LzLA7Y To order Russell Targ: Ninety Years of ESP, Remote Viewing, and Timeless Awareness, go to https://amzn.to/4aw2iyr To order UFOs and UAP – Are We Really Alone?, go to https://amzn.to/3Y0VOVh

The Role of Politics on New Thinking Allowed with Emmy Vadnais and Jeffrey Mishlove The focus of the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel follows the pattern established in the original Thinking Allowed television series: philosophy, psychology, health, science, and spirituality – with an emphasis on parapsychology and the paranormal. Throughout our history, going back to 1986, we have almost entirely avoided discussions of current events and, particularly, politics. However, we are living at an unusual historical moment. Society is changing rapidly. Old norms are breaking down. In this open-ended discussion, Emmy and Jeff address questions concerning healthcare and the environment, as well as the distinctions between democratic and authoritarian governments. One concern is political hostility and polarization. Emmy and Jeff question whether remaining silent during this troubling period is a form of complicity. Furthermore, what are the political implications of nonlocal consciousness and quantum interconnectedness? New Thinking Allowed CoHost, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, is a licensed occupational therapist, intuitive healer, and health coach based in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. Her website is https://emmyvadnais.com/ 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 Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He currently serves as Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on July 24, 2025) For a short video on How to Get the Most From New Thinking Allowed, go to https://youtu.be/aVbfPFGxv9o For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see https://newthinkingallowed.com/Listings.htm. Check out the New Thinking Allowed Foundation website at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as opportunities to shop and to support our video productions – plus, this is where people can subscribe to our FREE, weekly Newsletter and can download a FREE .pdf copy of our quarterly magazine. To order high-quality, printed copies of our quarterly magazine: NTA-Magazine.MagCloud.com If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to friends@newthinkingallowed.com. To join the NTA Psi Experience Community on Facebook, see https://www.facebook.com/groups/1953031791426543/ To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-thinking-allowed-audio-podcast/id1435178031. You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on https://amzn.to/3LzLA7Y (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.) To order the second book in the New Thinking Allowed Dialogues series, Russell Targ: Ninety Years of ESP, Remote Viewing, and Timeless Awareness, go to https://amzn.to/4aw2iyr To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: UFOs and UAP – Are We Really Alone?, go to https://amzn.to/3Y0VOVh Download and read Jeffrey Mishlove’s Grand Prize essay in the Bigelow Institute competition, Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death, go to https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/docs/1st.pdf. To order Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality by Emmy Vadnais, click here: https://amzn.to/35sbLIA.

In this insightful discussion, Tom Campbell, a physicist and author of the My Big TOE trilogy, delves into provocative topics. He explains the nature of DMT entities and compares them to personal spiritual journeys. The conversation explores the integration of AI with human consciousness, as well as the potential for societal growth through technology. Campbell also addresses challenges like obsessive-compulsive disorder and the resilience found in dire circumstances, reinforcing the idea that meaningful relationships can lead to true happiness.

Tom Campbell, a physicist and author of the My Big TOE trilogy, explores a range of thought-provoking topics. He shares insights on how fear impacts decision-making and highlights meditation as a tool for personal growth. Campbell discusses the influence of mass consensus on reality and ponders the ethical implications of money. He questions whether information is conscious and touches on the relationship between AI and human creativity. Additionally, he examines how our understanding of reality shapes our experiences and promotes growth through self-reflection.

Scott Barry Kaufman, a Columbia University psychology professor and director of the Center for Human Potential, delves into the life and influence of Abraham Maslow. He revises Maslow's theories on self-actualization, integrating them with themes like personal growth, the dark side of human behavior, and the evolving landscape of feminist ideologies. Kaufman highlights the importance of embracing authenticity, discusses the light triad versus the dark triad, and calls for a deeper understanding of human potential amidst contemporary societal challenges.

Nina Cheng, founder of The Eastern Philosophy and expert in Traditional Chinese Medicine, discusses the holistic foundations of TCM and its relevance to mental health. She highlights how concepts like qi and the five element theory inform practices such as music therapy and qigong. Nina also uncovers TCM's ability to address various mental health issues, advocating for contentment over the fleeting pursuit of happiness. Listeners gain insights into the mind-body connection and the effectiveness of integrating traditional methods with modern psychological approaches.

A deep dive into the potential normalization of the paranormal unfolds, exploring how society's views have evolved from witch hunts to skepticism. Jeffrey Mishlove highlights historical contexts, including the Salem trials, and unpacks the significant empirical evidence supporting psychic phenomena. The conversation examines the practical applications of such abilities, like remote viewing, while challenging materialistic perspectives on consciousness. Throughout, a paradigm shift in our understanding of the paranormal is proposed, advocating for a broader acceptance of these phenomena.

Gabriel Kennedy, author and visual artist, dives into the perplexing nature of human stupidity, drawing heavily on the thoughts of Robert Anton Wilson. He reveals that intelligence doesn't shield individuals from foolish choices, spotlighting historical blunders like the Vietnam War. Kennedy discusses the risks of stupid actions from those in power and the detrimental effects of authoritarianism. He emphasizes the importance of clear communication and critical thinking, urging listeners to reflect on their own vulnerabilities and the broader societal impacts of stupidity.