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. His website is http://www.jamestunney.com.

Here he focuses on the role of light in mystical traditions, enunciating his own insights regarding five stages of illumination. He distinguishes between authentic illumination and artificial pretensions of scientistic rationality. He emphasizes the role of heart-centered compassion on the mystical path.

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 December 7, 2020)

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

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

J. Tunney, Blue Lies September – https://amzn.to/3ak4NFt

Hafiz, Wine and Prayer – https://amzn.to/3abNadX

E. Underhill, Mysticism – https://amzn.to/2WbMPPX

S. Pinker, Enlightenment Now – https://amzn.to/37d60iT

I. Bergman, Gaslight (video) – https://amzn.to/3abNadX

R. Tallis, Aping Mankind – https://amzn.to/3gEXEUj

Hildegard of Bingen, Book of Divine Works – https://amzn.to/3gFa7HD

Rosemary Ruether, Sexism and God-Talk – https://amzn.to/2KovOzG

R. Valantasis, The Gospel of Thomas – https://amzn.to/3oMSyIw

Prabhuji, Advaita Vedanta – https://amzn.to/37ahZ0z

R. Bucke, Cosmic Consciousness – https://amzn.to/3qQ42wz

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J. Chambers, Victor Hugo’s Conversations with the Spirit World – https://amzn.to/3gFrpnM

A. Chaplin, The Bright Light of Death –

L. Principe, The Aspiring Adept –

M. Curie, Autobiographical Notes & Pierre Curie –

T. Hall, The Spiritualists –

W. Barrett, On the Threshold of the Unseen –

J. Goethe, Theory of Colours –

D. Radin, Real Magic – https://amzn.to/3ngqqNn

A. Young, The Reflexive Universe – https://amzn.to/37d6Pbh

W. Russell, The Secret of Light – https://amzn.to/346Vaca

D. Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order – https://amzn.to/2IGQKRI

H. Wells, The Open Conspiracy –

H. Wells, The New World Order – G. Orwell, 1984 – https://amzn.to/37d1vEZ

Henri Corbin, Suhrawardi – https://amzn.to/3gItuPY

R. Wilhelm (Ed.), The Secret of the Golden Flower – https://amzn.to/3a2GXRm

M. Jawer, Sensitive Soul – https://amzn.to/2J6vipK

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K. Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest –

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P. Mistlberger, The Three Dangerous Magi – https://amzn.to/34asn6G

V. Hugo, Les Miserable –

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