Shelly Tygielski is author of Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World. She is the founder of Pandemic of Love, an organization responsible for raising over $60 million to help individuals since the COVID pandemic began.

Here she describes her journey starting at a low point in her life, as a divorced, single mother, suffering from a medical condition that resulted in blindness. Through insight meditation she gradually learned how to address the chaotic sources of low self-esteem in her life and assume responsibility, not only for herself, but for a much larger community. Her fundamental values include the need to show up with love and compassion – even for those whose politics, religion, or sexual orientation may be different from hers.

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). He is also the 1st Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death.

(Recorded on November 22, 2021)

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