New Thinking Allowed Audio Podcast

InPresence 0259: A New Science of Heaven Here Jeffrey Mishlove outlines features of Robert Temple’s 2022 book, A New Science of Heaven – a exploration of the role of plasma in the consciousness of the universe. He discusses Robert Temple’s background as well as their mutual association, although Robert and Jeffrey have never met, with the cosmologist and inventor, Arthur M. Young. 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 was 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 is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on January 16, 2025) 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 advertise in our magazine, contact Laura@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, 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. 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 To order A New Science of Heaven by Robert Temple, go to https://amzn.to/4fWR1tu

Bashar &  First Contact: Darryl Anka How close are we to First Contact? In this conversation Darryl Anka, the channel for Bashar, shares his journey from witnessing UFO sightings to becoming a prominent figure in the field of channeling. He discusses the nature of Bashar as an extraterrestrial consciousness and the connection between spirituality and the UFO phenomena. Darryl emphasizes the importance of collective choice in navigating the current polarization in society and outlines Bashar’s five principles of success that can empower individuals to create a more positive reality. The conversation culminates in a hopeful message about humanity’s potential for evolution and the possibility of open contact with extraterrestrial beings in the near future. For more information on Darryl Anka and Bashar, go to Bashar.org. New Thinking Allowed Guest Host Christopher Naughton is a former trial attorney and multiple Emmy® Award-winning host of The American Law Journal television program. His website is ChristopherNaughton.com. Naughton is author of “America’s Next Great Awakening: What the Convergence of Mysticism, Religion, Atheism, and Science Means for the Nation. And You.” To order America’s Next Great Awakening by Christopher Naughton, click here: https://amzn.to/3P1ab7x  To learn more about seminars and classes by Christopher Naughton, subscribe to his newsletter here https://www.americasnextgreatawakening.com/subscribe Naughton’s co-producer and editor is Valerie Jones, valerieajones.com. 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 Check out New Thinking Allowed’s AI chatbot. You can create a free account at 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. 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. 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 a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on https://amzn.to/3LzLA7Y 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

Principles of Remote Viewing with Paul H. Smith Paul H. Smith, PhD, served as president of the International Remote Viewing Association an organization of which he is a founder. A former Army intelligence officer, he served for seven years as part of the military’s top-secret remote viewing program. He is author of Reading the Enemy’s Mind and The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing. He currently serves as president and chief trainer for Remote Viewing Instructional Services. His website is https://rviewer.com/ Here he describes the experimental protocols that distinguish remote viewing from other types of psychic tasks. He notes that while there are many approaches to remote viewing, ideally the protocols should remain constant. However, in practice, remote viewers are often experimenting with the protocols and pushing the accepted boundaries. The document containing the remote viewing principles can be found at https://centerlane-rv.org/rv-principles 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 is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on December 20, 2024) 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 Check out New Thinking Allowed’s AI chatbot. You can create a free account at 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. 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. 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.  You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order Paul H. Smith’s book,, Reading the Enemy’s Mind, go to https://amzn.to/3oJh7Gg (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.) To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on https://amzn.to/3LzLA7Y 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 To order The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing, by Paul H. Smith, click here: https://amzn.to/2Sxa7fW.

Janice Miner Holden, President of the International Association for Near-Death Studies and a seasoned researcher, shares her insights on near-death experiences (NDEs). She discusses compelling veridical cases where patients report accurate details during surgeries, raising questions about consciousness. Janice highlights the emotional and transformative impacts of NDEs, emphasizing love and personal growth. She also examines how cultural contexts influence interpretations of these experiences, enriching our understanding of life beyond death.

The Unobstructed Way with Ronnie Pontiac Ronnie Pontiac was the personal research assistant for Manly P. Hall at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles. He is author of American Metaphysical Religion: Esoteric and Mystical Traditions of the New World. He is coauthor with Tamra Lucid of The Magic of the Orphic Hymns: A New Translation for the Modern Mystic. Early in the twentieth century, Stewart Edward White was one of the most popular writers on spiritualist and metaphysical matters. Among his many books, The Betty Book and The Unobstructed Universe were best-sellers. These books were based upon metaphysical teaching provided by White’s wife, Betty, both while alive and after her death. 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 is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on December 10, 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. 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. 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 To order American Metaphysical Religion by Ronnie Pontiac, click here: https://amzn.to/3BtjFkd.  To order the Magic of the Orphic Hymns by Tamra Lucid and Ronnie Pontiac, go to https://amzn.to/3sPMg2o

A Photojournalist Explores Protests with Amy Beth Katz Photojournalist Amy Katz, MA, (twin sister of NTA guest host, Debra Lynne Katz) discusses her experiences documenting protests, starting with Occupy Wall Street in 2011. She has published photos and videos in various renowned publications and has attended protests such as the Women’s March, environmental demonstrations, and the George Floyd protests. Amy Beth’s photos & stories have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, New York Daily News, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, the Guardian, China News, Time Magazine, Hello, Yes! The Voice SB, and over thirty other major news networks across the globe. She is also a professional intuitive coach and dream guide. She holds a M.A. in Communications, and has published several books of poetry. Katz shares unique insights and perspectives often absent from mainstream media. She recounts her experience in Seattle’s CHOP Zone and discusses the darker elements of some protests, emphasizing that most were peaceful and focused on raising awareness about police brutality and discrimination. Dr. Debra Lynne Katz holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Social Work. She is the founder and lead instructor of the International School of Clairvoyance, president of the International Remote Viewing Association and starting January 2025, will be teaching a research oriented remote viewing class as part of the California Institute of Human Science’s brand-new Parapsychology Emphasis. She is both a parapsychological research, a professional clairvoyant, remote viewer and energy healer and guest host on New Thinking Allowed and co-host of PsiChicks talk show. She now resides in Oregon. To learn more visit www.debrakatz.com Debra’s literary contributions are widely regarded as essential resources in the fields of clairvoyance, psychic development, and remote viewing. These works include: The Complete Clairvoyant: A Trilogy, You Are Psychic: The Art of Clairvoyant Reading and Healing, Extraordinary Psychic: Proven Techniques to Master Your Natural Abilities, Freeing the Genie Within, Associative Remote Viewing: The Art & Science of Predicting Outcomes for Sports, Financials, Elections, and the Lottery. To learn more visit www.debrakatz.com 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. (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.) To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on https://amzn.to/3LzLA7Y To order New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Russell Targ – Ninety Years of ESP, Remote Viewing, and Timeless Awareness, go to https://amzn.to/4aw2iyr To order New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: UFOs and UAP – Are We Really Alone?, go to https://amzn.to/3xJ6iy0 Amy Beth Katz’s Books: Persephone’s Husband: Love Poems and Other Crimes – https://amzn.to/3BQugcu The Lizard Thieves: Love Poems – https://amzn.to/3VK436s Quoth the Raven, Goblins and Lusty Maidens: Best Loved Classic Narrative Poems – https://amzn.to/4045VcP

Investigating Altered States of Consciousness with Rick Strassman Rick Strassman, MD, is an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico. He is author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule — A Doctor’s Revolutionary Research Into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds Through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies, and DMT and the Soul of Prophecy: a New Science of Spiritual Revelation in the Hebrew Bible. He has also authored a novel titled Joseph Levy Escapes Death. His newest book is My Altered States: A Doctor’s Extraordinary Account of Trauma, Psychedelics, and Spiritual Growth. Here he reviews his life in terms of the many varied altered states of consciousness he experienced, starting with his infancy. His interpretation of these events is colored by his experiences as a psychedelic researcher, a psychoanalytic patient, and as a Buddhist meditator. 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 is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on December 17, 2024) 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 Check out New Thinking Allowed’s AI chatbot. You can create a free account at 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. 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. 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.  You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order My Altered States by Rick Strassman , go to https://amzn.to/3PbEjvW (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.) To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on https://amzn.to/3LzLA7Y 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 To order DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman, go to https://amzn.to/3DJEGew To order Joseph Levy Escapes Death by Rick Strassman, go to https://amzn.to/4gxeceS  To order The Psychedelic Handbook by Rick Strassman, go to https://amzn.to/3VVQhgO To order DMT and the Soul of Prophecy by Rick Strassman, go to https://amzn.to/40anNTc To order Inner Paths to Outer Space by Rick Strassman, et al, go to https://amzn.to/3Dzc87K

Introducing Our New Studio Sculptures with Joe Cajero Joe Cajero, a member of the Native American, Jemez Pueblo in New Mexico, is a fine artist and award-winning sculptor. His website is https://cajerofineart.com/ Here he explains aspects of the Pueblo Indian heritage, referring to the historical antecedents in Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon. He describes his own creative process and explains the symbolism implicit in two of his sculptures, now residing in the New Thinking Allowed Albuquerque studio, “Emergence” and “Oneness.” 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 is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on December 16, 2024) 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 Check out New Thinking Allowed’s AI chatbot. You can create a free account at 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. 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. 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.  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

Shamanism: Pathways to Transformation with C. Michael Smith Michael Smith, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and medical anthropologist who studied at the University of Chicago, the Chicago Theological Seminary, and the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Dr. Smith has lectured on Jungian Psychology and Shamanism for the Jungian Society of South Italy, taught in the third-year analyst training program of the C.G. Jung Institute of Bangalore, India, and lectured for the Moscow Society of Jungian Analysts, and for the Russian Academy of Science. Dr. Smith is founder and director of the Crows Nest Centers for Shamanic Studies in the USA, France, Belgium, and South Africa. Michael is author of Jung and Shamanism In Dialogue and Psychotherapy and the Sacred. In this interview, C. Michael Smith explores the profound connections between Jungian psychology and shamanism, touching on themes of healing, active imagination, the role of self-discovery and the journey to wholeness. Michael shares formative awakening experiences, visitations from the dead, the role of archetypes and guardian spirits, and the interplay of heart and mind in navigating the human experience. This conversation bridges ancient traditions and modern psychology, highlighting the universal call to live authentically and align with deeper truths.  New Thinking Allowed Guest Host Leanne Whitney, PhD, is a depth psychologist and transformational coach based in Los Angeles, CA. She is the author of Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali and currently serves as Executive Director of Center for Transformation and Integration. Her website is https://leannewhitney.com/ To learn about Leanne Whitney’s upcoming Transformational Coaching Certification Course with an emphasis in Somatic Integration Therapy, please visit: https://transformationandintegration.com/courses Producer: John Hartmann Assistant Producer: Elena McNally Editor: John Hartmann (Recorded on October 30, 2024)  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. (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.) To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on https://amzn.to/3LzLA7Y To order New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Russell Targ – Ninety Years of ESP, Remote Viewing, and Timeless Awareness, go to https://amzn.to/4aw2iyr To order New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: UFOs and UAP – Are We Really Alone?, go to https://amzn.to/3xJ6iy0 To order Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali by Leanne Whitney, go to: https://amzn.to/2QY3tS2  To order Jung and Shamanism In Dialogue: Retrieving the Soul/Retrieving the Sacred  by C. Michael Smith, go to https://amzn.to/3CRXN5R

In this engaging discussion, neuroscientist James Cooke shares his journey from a teenage awakening to a career synthesizing science and spirituality. He explores how consciousness is not just a brain product but deeply intertwined with life itself. Cooke advocates for non-dual naturalism, challenging conventional paradigms about existence. The podcast also delves into the complexities of true consciousness versus artificial intelligence, along with the philosophical debates surrounding naturalism and phenomenology. His insights bridge scientific inquiry with spiritual insight.