New Thinking Allowed Audio Podcast

Mark Boccuzzi is the cofounder, with his wife Julie Beischel, of the Windbridge Institute and the Windbridge Research Center. He is author of Visualizing Intention: Art Informed by Science. He is also author or coauthor of many scientific papers on the study of spirit mediumship. Here he describes his research activities with mediums. He notes that most mediums say that they can distinguish betwee...

Jeffrey Mishlove dialogues with himself about reality and illusion as it pertains to life after death. He draws upon the concept of “the plane of illusion” as articulated in the automatic writing ostensibly dictated by the deceased Frederic Myers in Geraldine Cummins’ book, The Road to Immortality. He also draws upon discussions between Sir Oliver Lodge, while alive, and Myers th...

James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a scholar, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution. His website is http://www.jamestunney.com. Here he discusses a variety of plants that are used for b...

Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, is a computer scientist, who has recently completed a second doctoral degree in philosophy. He is author of Rationalist Spirituality, Why Materialism is Baloney, Dreamed Up Reality, Meaning in Absurdity, Brief Peeks Beyond, More Than Allegory, The Idea of the World, and Decoding Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics. His latest book is Decoding Jung’s Metaphysics: The Arche...

Jeffrey Mishlove interviews himself, once again, about some of the deepest problems confronting philosophy, psychology, and parapsychology. He draws upon New Thinking Allowed conversations with Ruth Kastner, Bernardo Kastrup, Stephani Stephens, Stuart Hameroff, and Charles Tart to explain the barely explored continents of consciousness including the collective unconscious, the afterlife, and realm...

Ruth Kastner, PhD, is a member of the Foundations of Physics group at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is author of The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: The Reality of Possibility, Understanding Our Unseen Reality: Solving Quantum Riddles, and Adventures in Quantumland: Exploring Our Unseen Reality. Here she contrasts the “eternalist” view of physics, as...

Peter Fenwick, PhD, is coauthor with his wife, Elizabeth, of The Truth in the Light, The Art of Dying, The Hidden Door: Understanding and Controlling Your Dreams, and Past-Lives: An Investigation Into Reincarnation Memories. He is also author of Shining Light on Transcendence: The Unconventional Journey of a Neuroscientist. He is President Emeritus of the Scientific and Medical Network. Here he de...

Jeffrey interviews himself about the concept of the Akashic Field. He compares it to William James’ notion of a “cosmic reservoir” that contains all the information that ever existed. One might think of it as analogous to the internet in some ways. However, information is not necessarily conscious. Postmortem survival of human consciousness would require more than a field of info...

Betty J. Kovács, PhD, taught symbolic/mythic language for twenty-five years. She has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Jung Society of Claremont, California, and sits on the Academic Advisory Board of Forever Family Foundation. Dr. Kovacs is author of Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World, winner of The Scientific and Medical Network 2019 Book Prize and a...

Bill Plotkin, PhD, is the founder of the Animas Valley Institute in Durango, CO. He is author of Soulcraft: Crossing Into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche, Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World, Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche, and The Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries, and Revolutionaries. Here h...

Jeffrey interviews himself about the story of U Ba Kyar, a Burmese village head man who was kidnapped and murdered by insurgents in 1956. His reincarnation was foretold in a series of announcing dreams. The young child, Aung Than, who then claimed to be the reincarnation of U Ba Kyar was born with birth defects related to his memories (unverified) concerning the death of U Ba Kyar. There are many...

Robert Ginsberg is the cofounder of the Forever Family Foundation. He is author of The Medium Explosion: A Guide to Navigating the World of Those Who Claim to Communicate with the Dead. Here he describes how his journey of exploration began when his late wife, Phran, woke up early one morning in 2002 in a terrified state and pronounced with certainty that something absolutely horrible would happen...

James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a scholar, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution. His website is http://www.jamestunney.com. Here he describes the many threads woven into the intense...

Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, is an occupational therapist and integrative medicine practitioner 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/ Here she offers a number of techniques and strategies for self-healing and distant healing of others. They...

Zack Rogow is the author, editor, or translator of twenty books or plays. His most recent book of poems, Irreverent Litanies, was published by Regal House. Rogow’s other books of poetry include Talking with the Radio: poems inspired by jazz and popular music. His play Colette Uncensored (coauthored with Lorri Holt) had its first public reading at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC; was performed...

Jürgen Kremer is author of the textbook Psychology in Diversity, Diversity in Psychology – An Integrative Psychology for the 21st Century. He is coauthor of Ethnoautobiography. He has been an executive editor for ReVision: Journal of Consciousness and Transformation) since 1994. He teaches psychology at Santa Rose Jr. College in California. His email is jkremer@sonic.net. Here he distinguishes bet...

Don Lattin, a former journalist, is author of Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge; Following Our Bliss: How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today; The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America; Changing Our Minds: Psychedelic Sacraments and the...

Once again, Jeffrey interviews himself – having no advance plan as to where the topic of “spontaneity” would lead. The conversation ranges across various domains from love, politics, Satanism, and to the surprising notion that all sentient beings – even flies and cockroaches – are versions of ourselves. The basic message is one of encouragement to find positive ways to break out of old...

Robert Simmons is author of Moldavite: Starborn Stone of Transformation, Earthfire: A Tale of Transformation, The Book of Stones, Stones of the New Consciousness, and The Alchemy of Stones. Here he explains principles of spiritual alchemy, emphasizing the union or intersection of inner and outer realities. He describes alchemical stages and highlights the importance of the union of opposites. He a...

Matthew Ingram is author of Retreat: How the Counterculture Invented Wellness. He hosts the Woebot blog. This stimulating conversation explores the very nature of music and covers different music genres including blues, rock, gospel, jazz, new age, and even punk. Some of the many musicians discussed include John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Carlos Santana, Paul Horn, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones,...

Jeffrey Mishlove continues the discussion of evidence for postmortem survival of consciousness. Once again, he interviews himself. He delves more deeply into the nineteenth century case of the “Watseka Wonder” and points out that the great psychical researcher, Frederick Myers, interpreted it as a case of pseudo-possession. He describes a stronger case of possession that occurred more...

James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a scholar, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution. His paintings have been shown in galleries in Scandinavia and London. His website is http://www.jame...

Betty J. Kovács, PhD, taught symbolic/mythic language for twenty-five years. She has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Jung Society of Claremont, California, and sits on the Academic Advisory Board of Forever Family Foundation. Dr. Kovacs is author of Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World, winner of The Scientific and Medical Network 2019 Book Prize and a...

Shannon Taggart is an artist and author exploring the mystery of photography and the representation of belief. Her images have been exhibited and featured internationally, including within the publications Time, New York Times Magazine, Discover and Newsweek. Her work has been recognized by Nikon, Magnum Photos, the Inge Morath Foundation, American Photography, and the Alexia Foundation for World...

Jeffrey Mishlove continues to engage himself in a dialogical interview. Here he discusses the question of what would constitute good evidence for the survival of human consciousness after the permanent death of the body. He notes that the alternative hypothesis of Living Agent Psi (LAP) will probably confound every possible interpretation of even the best evidence – if we view the problem strictly...