James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish Barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a visual artist, 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. In addition, he has written two dystopian novels — Blue Lies September, and Ireland I Don’t Recognize Who She Is. His website is http://www.jamestunney.com.

Here he focuses on the distinctions between physical light and many forms of spiritual light, including magical light, Egyptian light, and divine light. He reflects on the multiple meanings of the notion of light entrapped within matter or flesh. He argues that scientism, to the extent that it denies the realities of the spirit, is a dark cultural force. He also points out the high value that spiritual traditions place upon darkness.

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).

(Recorded on September 21, 2020)

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James Tunney, The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution – https://amzn.to/2ugamVh

James Tunney, Ireland I Don’t Recognize Who She Is — https://amzn.to/2UZfExY

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Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah – https://amzn.to/33kW6K7

Rabbi Léah Novick, On the Wings of Shekhinah – https://amzn.to/34vWQeT

Matilda Marcolli, Lumen Naturae – https://amzn.to/3nbIxof

Eoghan Mac Aogáin, Eriugena – https://amzn.to/34eCl69

Dionysius the Areopagite, The Celestial Hierarchy – https://amzn.to/3ioYUtM

Goethe, Theory of Colors – https://amzn.to/2Gkppnb

P. K. Dick, Exegesis – https://amzn.to/3ilVCrk

Jacob Boehme, The Signature of All Things – https://amzn.to/3ncqyxE

Gerald & Betty Schueler, Coming Into the Light: Rituals of Egyptian Magic – https://amzn.to/3lcaUAU

Philip T. Nicholson, Meditation & Light Visions: A Neurological Analysis – https://amzn.to/3juoFdI

Peter Fenwick, The Truth in the Light – https://amzn.to/2GgOrUm

Francis Tiso, Rainbow Body and the Resurrection – https://amzn.to/33lyTY1

Andrew Silverman, A Burst of Conscious Light – https://amzn.to/36uJ4M9

Richard Valantasis, The Gospel of Thomas – https://amzn.to/2GkqCLf

Jeffrey Mishlove, The PK Man – https://amzn.to/3dYJ8oe

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