About this episode
New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, The PK Man, and Psi Development Systems. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "Parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. Website: newthinkingallowed.org YouTube Channel Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group Summary and Transcript of this interview Interview recorded August 6, 2022. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction and Background of Jeffrey Mishlove 00:04:35 - A Dream of Uncle Harry's Death 00:08:58 - The Paranormal Capabilities of the Human Mind 00:12:49 - Followed a Dream to Pursue My Interests 00:17:00 - Consciousness and the Universe 00:20:51 - The Significance of Parapsychology and Consciousness 00:24:42 - Society with Fundamental Consciousness Understanding 00:28:49 - Believing in the Power of Manifestation 00:32:57 - White Crows and Psychical Research 00:37:16 - The criticism of research with Mrs. Piper and the Dark Age of scientism 00:41:31 - The Rise of the Spiritual but Not Religious Movement 00:45:28 - Potential Capabilities of Humans and Moral Development 00:49:28 - The Cosmic Game of Life and Suffering 00:53:38 - Levels of Creation and the Unknown Mysteries of the Universe 00:58:05 - The Reality of Macro Psychokinetic Phenomena 01:02:12 - Interface between Dreams and the Bardo Planes 01:06:22 - Similarities between mystical and near-death experiences 01:10:49 - The Bardo Planes and Higher Dimensions 01:14:28 - Living Agent Psi and the Afterlife 01:18:20 - The Fisher Hoffman Process and the Dictated Therapy 01:22:10 - Pre-birth Communication 01:26:20 - Electronic communication with the deceased 01:30:18 - Difficulty in Identifying Authentic Psychic Occurrences 01:35:03 - A Game of Chess with a Deceased Chess Master 01:39:16 - Physical Mediumship and Materialization 01:43:20 - Houdini's Attempt to Expose Marjorie the Medium 01:47:45 - The Reality of the Witnessed Experience 01:51:38 - Remembering Dean Brown 01:55:45 - The Fate of the Human Species 02:01:46 - The Possibility of Past Lives 02:02:38 - Closing Remarks