657. Jeffrey Mishlove

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.

 

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Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded August 6, 2022.

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.


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