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Oxford-educated philosopher and author Chris Carter joins the Robert Bigelow Podcast to lay out the evidence that consciousness survives death. He starts with the haunting that first drew him to the question. He then walks through the early research of the British and American Societies for Psychical Research, including how several debunkers became believers.
Can We Prove There Is Life After Death? | BY Chris Carter
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This video is a special release from the original Thinking Allowed series that ran on public television from 1986 until 2002. It was recorded in about 1993.
Joseph Rael, whose Picuris Pueblo Indian sacred name translates to Beautiful Painted Arrow, is a visionary, poet, and creator of sacred sounds. He is author of Beautiful Painted Arrow and Being and Vibration. Here Rael presents many Tiwa chants and songs, describing their meaning and use. He elaborates on the deeper meaning of such concepts as work, commitment, choice, clarity, purity, transformation and higher consciousness.
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The late Robin Foy was possibly the most experienced and successful organizer and promoter of physical mediumship circles in the last century. He is the founder of the Noah's Ark Society as well as the Scole Group. He is author of In Pursuit of Physical Mediumship and Witnessing the Impossible.
In this 2021 rebooted video he shares his insider's view of the amazing project that has come to be known as the Scole Experiment, possibly constituting the greatest variety and intensity of unbelievable physical phenomena in the history of parapsychology and psychical research. He describes the cohesion that developed between the living human members of the group, discarnate spirit helpers, and even beings he describes as extra-terrestrials.
Tamlyn Hunt, JD, is an attorney and renewable-energy specialist. He is the co-originator of the General Resonance Theory of Consciousness, developed in affiliation with Jonathan Schooler at UC, Santa Barbara. He is author of Eco, Ego, Eros: Essays in Philosophy, Spirituality, and Science; Mind, World, God: Science and Spirit in the 21st Century; Solar: Why Our Energy Future Is So Bright; and, most recently the topic of this discussion, The Hippies were Right: About Consciousness and Everything Else.
Tamlyn discusses the General Resonance Theory of consciousness, co-developed with Jonathan Schooler, which posits that all things resonate, possess a basic awareness (panpsychism), and form higher-level consciousness through shared resonance of electromagnetic fields.
He explores connections to hippie-era insights on vibrations, RNG experiments at Burning Man linked to collective attention, the hard problem of consciousness, electromuticals as non-chemical therapies, comparisons with other theories, and implications for AI.
Drawing on his personal journey from a hippie upbringing through military service and psychedelic experiences, Hunt reflects on what the hippies got right and wrong, advocating love-based activism for today's challenges.
(Recorded on Thursday, September 17, 2026)
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:05:45 General resonance theory axioms
00:11:20 Burning Man RNG experiments
00:17:10 Electromagnetic fields and consciousness
00:23:15 Faraday cages and psi phenomena
00:28:50 Panpsychism and the hard problem
00:34:40 Electromuticals and theory testing
00:40:25 Comparing theories of consciousness
00:46:10 Hippie background and personal journey
00:53:50 Conclusion
Michael Cremo is coauthor with Richard Thompson of Forbidden Archeology. He is also author of Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory as well as My Science, My Religion – a collection of his scientific papers.
In this 2021 rebooted video he describes the Vedic worldview as one in which consciousness, rather than matter, is considered fundamental. The Vedic universe is populated by a vast array of entities including both extraterrestrial and extra-dimensional.
There are deities and demonic entities covering a wide range of technological and spiritual attainments. Flying vehicles are frequently described. Some are described in mechanical terms others are completely mental, or spiritual, in nature. Cremo points out that there are many similarities between modern UFO reports and ancient Vedic accounts.
Our American Alchemist this week is John S. Herrington, Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Energy, who ran America's nuclear weapons complex at the height of the Cold War.
John joined Reagan as a volunteer advance man in the 1960s. He later served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, head of White House personnel, and Secretary of Energy from 1985 to 1989. In this episode, John takes us inside Reagan's cabinet: the stealth fighter he found hidden in his own budget, the Strategic Defense Initiative and Edward Teller's nuclear-powered space laser, Reagan's "throw deep" approval of the Superconducting Super Collider, and the secret Taiwanese nuclear weapons program the U.S. shut down. He also takes on the UFO question. He says the Navy's UAP videos are real, but calls a Reagan-era alien story "total B.S." and challenges David Grusch and others to show hard evidence.
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:28 Brent Friedman's Story
00:04:26 Interview Preview
00:08:14 Meeting Ronald Reagan
00:10:11 Reagan and SDI Opposition
00:11:21 Reagan's Diaries and Speeches
00:13:02 Strategic Defense Initiative Explained
00:15:48 Edward Teller and Excalibur
00:17:33 Green Fireballs Document
00:18:47 UFOs, Navy Videos and Faith
00:21:28 Herrington Denies Brent's Story
00:24:49 The Greenbrier Bunker
00:27:26 Brent Friedman Responds
00:29:43 The 1981 Veranda Conversation
00:33:04 Underground Facilities in West Virginia
00:35:13 Polygraph and Money Questions
00:36:12 Why Brent Went Public
00:39:01 David Grusch
00:41:36 The Politico Journalist
00:44:32 UFOs at Nuclear Sites
00:46:09 Harald Malmgren's UFO Debris
00:49:06 A Secret Budget Item
00:50:59 F-117 and Skunk Works
00:52:30 UFOs as Spy Plane Cover
00:53:15 Oak Ridge Document
00:53:53 Garry Nolan's Ubatuba Sample
00:56:57 Reagan's 1974 UFO Sighting
00:58:26 Otherworldly or Man-Made
01:00:34 AI and Deepfakes
01:01:26 Stratton, Lacatski and Lazar
01:03:31 UFOs at Pantex and Fukushima
01:05:07 Bobby Ray Inman
01:06:06 UFOs and the Ocean Floor
01:07:26 CIA's Hollywood Liaison
01:09:00 Limits on Elected Leaders
01:10:32 Exotic Propulsion and Submarines
01:11:28 Nuclear Airplanes and Project Orion
01:12:43 Nuclear Tests and Roswell
01:13:37 The Question of Evidence
01:15:37 Palomar Observatory Transients
01:17:13 Parapsychology and Precognition
01:18:30 Trump and Disclosure
01:20:25 Cold Fusion
01:21:26 Spies at the Energy Department
01:22:38 PROMIS Software and Bill Richardson
01:24:09 Genesis Mission and Underfunded Programs
01:25:57 Public Fear of Nuclear Power
01:27:10 SAIC and Bobby Ray Inman
01:29:01 High-Energy Physics and UFOs
01:31:01 Marco Rubio on UAP
01:32:54 Atomic Energy Act and Rickover
01:35:13 Seafloor Recovery and Puthoff's Hypothesis
01:37:55 The CIA, Gaffney and Casey
01:40:17 Closing and Reagan Keepsakes
01:42:45 Brent on the Hazing Theory
01:44:18 DOE Roswell UFOs as an Initiation
01:47:43 Consciousness and Initiation
John Michael Greer returns to Legalise Freedom for a conversation sparked by his latest book, The Magical Writings of W.B. Yeats. Topics include what magic actually is, its overlap with New Thought (popularly known as manifesting), advertising and propaganda as mass hypnosis, and how building a psychic firewall can help lead a freer life.
Sally M. Ornstein was married to the late psychologist, Robert E. Ornstein, for more than 35 years. She is coauthor, with him, of God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called "God".
In this reboot from 2021, Sally describes the capacities of the brain's right hemisphere for experiences of transcendence and wholeness. She maintains that higher states of awareness are achieved, naturally, by deactivating certain areas of the brain that keep us focused on egoic concerns – the right parietal lobe and the default mode network. Ornstein describes stages in humanity's religious evolution leading up to the integration of science and spirituality.
Welcome to News for the Heart with Laurie Huston. Today, we are joined by Tom Campbell. We are discussing the Miracle Over Myths in personal growth and heart-centered healing.
First, we explore why change feels scary and vulnerable when facing the unknown with a guarded Heart. However, many people fall into the trap of trying to force others to change, which only creates deep resistance and animosity. Therefore, we must focus on looking inward, listening to our heart, and taking personal responsibility. For example, try letting go of ego and creating a safe space for your loved ones.
Next, they discuss how to communicate your feelings honestly without placing blame or judgment. Specifically, they focus on leading with kindness, an open heart, and active listening. Consequently, you can achieve an upward spiral of mutual respect and emotional healing. Furthermore, let’s look at breaking negative cycles so you can level up your relationships.
Finally, we learn about accepting people as they are from the heart and becoming unconditional love. Thus, we can find more peace and experience true transformation. Join us for this powerful NFTH session.
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Christopher Noël holds a Master’s degree in philosophy from Yale University and a Master’s in Fine Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts where he taught writing for 20 years. He also researches the phenomenon of Sasquatch. He is author of several books, including There is No Veil: At Play in the Vast Here and Now, UAPs and the Afterlife: How New Disclosures Support Centuries of Psychic and Spiritual Research, and The Anatomy of Thin Air: Practical Solutions to Paranormal Mysteries.
Christopher proposes a theory of consciousness that may account for the nature of existence and parapsychological phenomena, such as psychokinesis, remote viewing, and mediumship. He suggests it as a nested field that is co-located and moves within quantum fields. Bridging science and spirituality, he includes physical matter within his theory.
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Tyler Engle, creator of @BassForge_us explores the mysteries of ancient civilizations through the lens of engineering, physics, sacred geometry, and consciousness.
From the Great Pyramid and the temples of Egypt to the massive stonework of Peru and ancient sites across Southeast Asia, Tyler shares his theories on megalithic architecture, acoustics, resonance, and whether these structures may have served purposes far beyond what we currently understand.
The conversation also dives into lost civilizations, ancient technology, consciousness, sacred geometry, and the recurring patterns Tyler sees connecting ancient sites around the world.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introductions
00:06:09 Your Worldview
00:09:02 Geometry of the Ancients
00:13:20 Dating of the Pyramid
00:21:28 Peru
00:34:56 Egypt
00:43:45 Consciousness
00:55:59 Ancient Temple Experience
01:03:39 The Osirion
01:10:27 Humans & Consciousness
01:27:40 Bassforge Music
01:29:30 Consciousness Development
01:31:49 What’s Needed?
01:42:44 AI
02:01:01 Not Documented?
02:14:16 Bob Greenyer Interview
02:24:39 Closing
This video is a special release from the original Thinking Allowed series that ran on public television from 1986 until 2002. It was recorded in about 2000.
Ilana Rubenfeld was the founder and director of the Rubenfeld Synergy Center in Manhattan. Originally she was trained as a musical conductor, working with Leopold Stokowski at the Juilliard School of Music. She has practiced the Rubenfeld Synergy Method for over thirty years, and has trained over three hundred practitioners.
Here Ilana demonstrates her unique synergy method. In so doing, she points out that the practitioner must be mindful of their own body while working, so as not to incorporate the tensions and pains of those with whom they work. She discusses the deceptive simplicity of her method and the commitment required for training in Rubenfeld Synergy.
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Spiritual practices work, and this is not a matter of opinion. Scientists have been measuring their effects for more than thirty years, and there are now thousands of papers in peer-reviewed journals showing that people with a regular spiritual or religious practice tend to be healthier, happier and longer-lived than those without one, whatever they happen to believe.
In this talk I look at the practices themselves rather than the arguments around them: gratitude, meditation and prayer, mantras, ritual, holy days and festivals, sport, and pilgrimage. Most of them cost nothing and require no prior belief system.
The thread running through all of them is connection. Meditation and prayer are complementary rather than rival, more like breathing in and breathing out. Rituals and festivals connect people to each other and to those who did the same things before them. Even sport, which is usually thought of as a supremely secular activity, brings people into the present more quickly than almost anything else.
This talk was recorded live at Hollyhock on Cortes Island in British Columbia, 2026.
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Christopher Noël holds a Master's degree in Philosophy from Yale University and a Master’s in Fine Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts where he taught writing for 20 years. He also researches the phenomenon of Sasquatch. He is the author of In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing: A Geography of Grief, Sasquatch and Autism: Twelve Parallels, MindSpeak: Tapping into Sasquatch and Science, and There is No Veil: At Play in the Vast Here and Now. His website is thenearnessofyou.net.
In this video, rebooted from 2023, Christopher suggests that invisible dark matter, often considered to be empty space, may be spiritual matter or consciousness that blends with what is perceived as physical or ordinary matter.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:05:09 Spirit Contact
00:11:38 No heaven or earth hierarchy
00:16:53 Spirit world and mediums
00:30:32 Dark matter and ordinary matter
00:39:34 Purpose for the veil
00:52:37 Merging with solid objects
01:01:43 Conclusion
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This video is a special release from the original Thinking Allowed series that ran on public television from 1986 until 2002. It was recorded in about 1995.
The late June Singer, Ph.D., was a Jungian analyst and a founder of the C. G. Jung Institute in Chicago. She was author of The Unholy Bible: A Psychological Interpretation of William Blake, Androgyny, Energies of Love and Boundaries of the Soul: The Practice of Jung's Psychology. Here she explains how Jung developed his notion that sexual imagery represents the creative spiritual force. She also discusses the "collective unconscious" and Jung's theories of individuation and personality types.
Dr. Rick Strassman, pioneer of clinical DMT research, talks with Amrit Sandhu about naturally occurring DMT in the human brain, banned research, biblical prophecy, and the CIA.
He explains how endogenous DMT may mediate near-death experiences and mystical visions, cautions against psychedelic commercialization, and traces a path from Zen Buddhism to ancient Hebrew scholarship — including the pineal gland, fetal development, and divine shefa.
This video is a special release from the original Thinking Allowed series that ran on public television from 1986 until 2002. It was recorded in about 1990.
The late Hal Stone, PhD, is author of Embracing Heaven and Earth and co-author, with his wife Dr. Sidra Winkelman, of Embracing Our Selves and Embracing Each Other. He and Dr. Winkelman are developers of the "Voice Dialogue" psychotherapeutic process.
Here he describes how he discovered the "Voice Dialogue" method of contacting his own sub-personalities. The process, as it has evolved, includes elements of gestalt therapy, psychosynthesis, psychodrama, transactional analysis and Jungian analysis.
Dr. Stone describes various sub-personalities such as the "protector-controller," the "pusher" and the "critic." The Voice Dialogue technique is demonstrated with Jeffrey Mishlove and Dr. Stone each taking a turn as therapeutic subject.
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Jacques Vallée is a French computer scientist, astronomer, author and pioneering researcher of the UFO/UAP phenomenon. He studied mathematics and astrophysics before earning a PhD in computer science and artificial intelligence from Northwestern University, and his early scientific work included helping develop the first computer-based map of Mars and contributing to the development of ARPANET.
Since the 1960s, Vallée has devoted much of his career to investigating unexplained aerial phenomena, working alongside J. Allen Hynek and becoming one of the most influential and unconventional thinkers in the field.
His books, including Passport to Magonia*, *The Invisible College*, *Messengers of Deception and the seven-volume Forbidden Science journals, have challenged both conventional extraterrestrial explanations and simplistic scepticism, while exploring the physical, psychological, cultural and historical dimensions of the phenomenon.
