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

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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