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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)
Timeline:
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.
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.
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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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Anabela Cardoso is a former Portuguese diplomat. She is author of Electronic Voices: Contact with Another Dimension?, Electronic Contact with the Dead: What do the Voices Tell Us?, and Glimpses of Another World: Impressions and Reflections of an EVP Operator.
In this reboot from 2021, Anabela describes pioneering work in establishing ITC by Maggie Harsch-Fischbach, Konstantin Raudive, and others. She explains how her own interest in the field began, and talks about the hundreds of voices she has recorded and interacted with over the last two decades. Cardoso describes a research project that was published in the Journal of NeuroQuantology.
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Darlene Koldenhoven is a Grammy ® Award Winner with three Grammy ® nominations. She is known worldwide as the featured soprano soloist singing “Aria” in the PBS TV Special and Video, Yanni, Live at the Acropolis seen by over 1.5 billion television viewers. Her new memoir is titled, Put Your Dress Down and Sing. She is also a certified Integrated Listening Systems sonic therapist. Her website is https://www.darlenekoldenhoven.com/
Darlene shares how her five-octave range, early life in a strict Calvinist household, and work with her deaf sister led her into Tomatis listening therapy and the transformative power of vibration. She explains how specific frequencies reshape the brain and body, how singing and crystal bowls release trapped emotion and open higher chakras, and how intentional music can shift consciousness. Koldenhoven draws on studio sessions, client work, and personal paranormal encounters with energy orbs. She reveals why sound remains one of the most direct paths to healing and spiritual connection.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:05:00 Early childhood and the dress story
00:11:00 Sister’s hearing journey and Tomatis
00:18:00 Listening tests and frequency maps
00:25:00 Sonic therapy with processed Mozart
00:30:00 Crystal bowls and vibrational healing
00:35:00 High notes, chakras and altered states
00:42:00 Childhood piano mystery and stage orbs
00:49:00 Energy beings and intentional performance
00:53:00 Conclusion
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Bill Plotkin, PhD, is the founder of the Animas Valley Institute in Durango, CO. He is author of Soulcraft: Crossing Into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche, Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World, Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche, and The Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries, and Revolutionaries.
Here he explains his use of the term "soul" as relating to an individual's unique ecological niche in mythopoetic terms. He points out that soul initiation is not the same as a vision quest, a hero's journey, psychotherapy, nor a rite of passage. It can be a very lengthy process involving a dissolution of the ego. He shares many details of the process, relating it to the biological transformation of a caterpillar to butterfly. He also describes Carl Gustav Jung's soul initiation as documented in the Red Book.
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The late Peter Fenwick, PhD, is coauthor with his wife, Elizabeth, of The Truth in the Light, The Art of Dying, The Hidden Door: Understanding and Controlling Your Dreams, and Past-Lives: An Investigation Into Reincarnation Memories. He is also author of Shining Light on Transcendence: The Unconventional Journey of a Neuroscientist. He is President Emeritus of the Scientific and Medical Network.
In this video, rebooted from 2021, he describes his research in a variety of areas including epilepsy, near-death experience, deathbed experiences, and the dying process itself. He also describes unusual research on the process of "giving light" associated with a spiritual teacher named Alain Forget. EEG measurements during this process were suggestive of brain to brain communication.
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Mark Booth is the author of several comprehensive books including The Sacred History: How Angels, Mystics, and Higher Intelligence Made Our World, The Secret History of the World, The Secret History of the Universe: How Ancient Wisdom Made the Modern World, and The Secret History of Dante: Unearthing the Mysteries of the Inferno.
Mark explores the esoteric and initiatory dimensions of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, linking the poet’s vivid journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven to the ancient mystery-school traditions that survived in the Knights Templar.
He examines Dante’s close connection to Brunetto Latini, the Templars’ influence on the poem’s cosmology and imagery, and the ways Dante’s unconsummated love for Beatrice elevates romantic love into a cosmic, spiritual force. Booth also discusses how Dante’s experience of initiation beneath the streets of Florence, his portrayal of contemporary figures in Hell, and his vision of a universe moved entirely by love reveal a hidden mystical current running through medieval Catholicism and Western culture.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:09 Dante and Beatrice
00:12:51 Knights Templar origins
00:21:08 Templars and Dante
00:27:41 Virgil as guide
00:32:37 Templar persecution
00:37:14 Church and occult
00:42:13 Popes in hell
00:44:50 Conclusion
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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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.
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Robert Simmons is author of Moldavite: Starborn Stone of Transformation, Earthfire: A Tale of Transformation, The Book of Stones, Stones of the New Consciousness, and The Alchemy of Stones.
In this rebooted video, he explains principles of spiritual alchemy, emphasizing the union or intersection of inner and outer realities. He describes alchemical stages and highlights the importance of the union of opposites. He also shares several stories concerning his own awakening and alchemical discoveries related to his work with minerals, stones, and gems. These experiences challenge us to appreciate that the universe is much larger than we usually imagine.
(Recorded on February 9, 2021)
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Jürgen Kremer is author of the textbook Psychology in Diversity, Diversity in Psychology – An Integrative Psychology for the 21st Century. He is coauthor of Ethnoautobiography. He has been an executive editor for ReVision: Journal of Consciousness and Transformation since 1994. He teaches psychology at Santa Rosa Jr. College in California.
In this 2021 rebooted video, he distinguishes between "shamanic practitioners" such as himself and authentic shamans who work within very specific cultural traditions and are acknowledged as such by their community. As a psychologist, he incorporates drumming, chanting, and other trance and animistic practices, from various cultures, into his work and personal life. He points out that we all have shamanistic cultures in our ancestry if we go back far enough. This recognition can help us achieve greater balance in life.
Roy Stemman, former editor of Psychic News, talks with Jeffrey Mishlove about Bishop James Pike, medium Ena Twigg, and the British spiritualist movement.
Stemman is author of Spirits and Spirit Worlds, Reincarnation: True Stories of Past Lives, Spirit Communication, One Soul Many Lives, Mysteries of the Universe, Healers and Healing, Medium Rare: The Psychic Life of Ena Twigg, and (with George Chapman) Surgeon From Another World.
Here he describes the relationship between the British spiritualist movement and the Anglican Church, beginning with a report commissioned by the Church in the 1930s.
In 1967, the Episcopal Bishop of California, James Pike, publicly reported on his communications with his deceased son through the mediumship of Ena Twigg in London. Pike gave up his position as Bishop to pursue other studies, including after-death communication.
Later, in a dramatic event, he became lost in the desert in Israel. After his death, but before his body was discovered, he appeared in spirit to Ena Twigg.
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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New Thinking Allowed CoHost, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, is a licensed occupational therapist, intuitive healer and coach, and spiritual guide based in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Emmy is the founder of the Intuitive Connections and Holistic OT communities.
She is the author of Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. She offers intuitive coaching to help individuals access their inner guidance for clarity, healing, and meaningful decision-making.
Here she offers a number of techniques and strategies for self-healing and distant healing of others. They include breathing exercises and visualization. She focuses on stress management, intuition development, and compassion for oneself and others.
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Tom Campbell, a physicist, is author of the three-volume set, My Big TOE, describing a meta-theory that offers an account of the paranormal, as well as other scientific mysteries. He is also the founder of the Center for Unification of Science and Consciousness.
Tom explains why he now calls his model the reality rather than a reality after 20 years of finding no factual violation of it. He describes consciousness as fundamental — an information system that computes our physical universe as a virtual reality entropy-reduction trainer where we evolve through choices between love and fear. Campbell discusses entropy, synchronicity, alien encounters, dreams, and why living gracefully with uncertainty matters more than asking if an experience was real.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:02 Early paranormal experiences with Bob Monroe
00:17:29 Entropy and consciousness evolution
00:30:53 Virtual reality and the data stream
00:42:11 Love versus fear as ethical choices
00:54:59 Science beyond materialism and mathematics
01:07:56 Synchronicity and non-human intelligence
01:20:00 Fear tests and interactions with beings
01:35:07 Meaning of experiences and growth
01:53:18 Conclusion