Paul Levy is author of The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis, Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil, Awakened By Darkness: When Evil Becomes Your Father, and The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality. He has been a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for the past three decades. His website is https://www.awakeninthedream.com/

Here he describes the ordeal he experienced as a young man, suffering from the psychopathic rages of his father, being diagnosed and treated as mentally ill, falling into the hands of the criminal justice system, and being raped in jail. So much suffering could have been avoided had it been understood by the professionals who were supposedly helping him that he was experiencing an acute spiritual awakening. Nevertheless, over many decades and with the help of many guides and teachers, he eventually learned to derive creative and therapeutic insights from this traumatic period.

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 past-vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology and is the recipient of the Pathfinder Award from that association for his contributions to the field of human consciousness.

(Recorded on May 7, 2020)

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Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts – https://amzn.to/2AnUi71

R. E. Laing, Mad to Normal: Conversations with R. D. Laing – https://amzn.to/2SYTHzf

American Psychiatric Association, DSM-III – https://amzn.to/3bxzWVX

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