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.
Las Vegas aerospace tycoon Robert Bigelow and Utah real estate magnate Brandon Fugal have not spoken to each other since 2016, which is when they met to transfer ownership of Skinwalker Ranch from Bigelow to Fugal.
Bigelow owned the now famous paranormal hotspot for 20 years, during which his NIDS organization, as well as investigators working for the DIA's classified effort known as AAWSAP, tried to understand the bizarre range of UFO incidents, cryptid creatures, animal mutilations, and other inexplicable phenomena.
Fugal, who described himself as a skeptic, purchased the property in 2016 with the idea of turning it into a campground for Boy Scout gatherings, but has since changed his mind and authorized the production of the popular TV series The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.
For the first time ever, the two businessmen met in Las Vegas to compare notes, discuss the history of the ranch (including aspects that have never been made public), and to evaluate how the investigation of the ranch fits into the larger context of how humanity might learn to understand its relationship with non-human intelligences.
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Eric Davis has spent decades working at the strange intersection of advanced physics, UFOs, intelligence programs, and high strangeness. A physicist and longtime colleague of Hal Puthoff, Davis worked with Robert Bigelow’s NIDS, investigated Skinwalker Ranch, and later became involved with the DIA’s AAWSAP program studying anomalous aerospace phenomena, UFOs and classified reverse engineering efforts.
In this conversation, we get into what Davis says he witnessed at Skinwalker Ranch, the role of consciousness and telepathy in the phenomenon, classified UAP research, alleged crash-retrieval programs, advanced propulsion, non-human intelligence, and what he says the U.S. government may actually know about UFOs.
This is a singular conversation with one of the most fascinating figures at the center of modern UAP disclosure.
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Michael Talbot is author of Mysticism and the New Physics, Beyond the Quantum, Your Past Lives and The Holographic Universe. He has also authored four novels. This program was taped approximately six months before his untimely death in May 1992.
Here Talbot discusses his own unusual experiences with poltergeist phenomena and UFOs. He suggests that the holographic model provides a means for understanding these experiences without falling into the twin traps of skeptical debunking or occult romanticism.
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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
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David Hanscom, M.D. is an orthopedic complex spinal deformity surgeon who quit his surgical practice in 2019 to focus on teaching people how to break loose from the grip of chronic mental and physical pain – with and without surgery.
His insights arose out of escaping from his own 15-year ordeal of suffering with severe chronic pain. As he began to share his approaches with his patients, a predictable sequence of learning evolved. It is reflected in the self-directed action plan that he created, The DOC (Direct your Own Care) Journey.
He is author of Back in Control: A Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain; Do You Really Need Spine Surgery?: Take Control with a Spine Surgeon’s Advice; and Calm Your Body, Heal Your Mind: Transcend Pain, Anxiety, Anger, and Repetitive Unwanted Thoughts.
David explains how the ego is often a fragile story that is created in response to criticism, survival anxiety, and the need to feel safe. Many of these stories are cognitive distortions that can keep people trapped in repetitive unwanted thoughts, pain, and anxiety. He shares ways to soften the ego and move from surviving to thriving with flexibility, awareness, and compassion.
(Recorded on June 1, 2026)
Timeline
00:00 Introduction
02:48 Reasons for the ego
08:32 Defending the identity
14:03 Mental pain and cognitive distortions
25:40 Stress physiology
28:28 Thriving vs. survival
38:52 Awareness and attachments
47:05 Compassion focused therapy
53:33 Safety
56:19 Conclusion
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Betty J. Kovács, PhD, taught symbolic/mythic language for twenty-five years. She has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Jung Society of Claremont, California, and sits on the Academic Advisory Board of Forever Family Foundation.
Dr. Kovács is author of Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World, winner of The Scientific and Medical Network 2019 Book Prize and a Nautilus Silver Award. She has also written The Miracle of Death: There Is Nothing But Life. Her website is www.kamlak.com.
Here she explains that consciousness is infinite and that, ultimately, there is no real separation between our waking consciousness, our subconscious mind, and the afterlife. It is all one. However, that realization is difficult to maintain in the face of daily life's necessities. She describes several powerful examples of both archetypal, visionary experiences and after-death communications. They blend into each other. She closes with a riveting prophetic vision.
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Paul Chek is a holistic health practitioner, wellness coach, corrective exercise specialist and educator. His journey began when he served on the US Army boxing team. He is the author of How to Eat, Move, and Be Healthy. He is the creator of the Spirit Gym and host of the Spirit Gym with Paul Chek podcast.
Paul explores Jesus' teaching to "resist not evil," examining how trauma, consciousness, forgiveness, and spiritual maturity shape our response to conflict rather than retaliation. Drawing on his experience as a therapist, holistic health educator, former Army boxing trainer, and founder of Spirit Gym, Chek argues that true strength comes through healing wounded parts of ourselves instead of becoming what we oppose. Chek touches on psychology, Jung, Rudolf Steiner, nonviolent resistance, forgiveness, mythology, and practical spiritual development as pathways toward greater wisdom.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:13 Paul's background and spiritual journey
00:07:19 Responding to evil without becoming it
00:13:02 Trauma, boxing and healing childhood wounds
00:20:05 Spirit Gym and holistic spiritual development
00:27:51 Can evil serve human growth?
00:35:21 Humanity as a school for evolving souls
00:43:01 Religion, consciousness and unconditional love
00:52:07 Nonviolent resistance and forgiveness
01:00:45 Conclusion
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Dr. Richard Alan Miller, physicist and former Navy Intel researcher, describes how Navy SEALs were trained to use a “sixth sense” in the field — not as mysticism, but as a practical edge under pressure. He walks through the secret paranormal program he says sat inside military intelligence, and what that training was actually meant to do.
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Christopher explores what it means to "see the unseen," describing how intuitive perception can reveal hidden belief systems, inherited patterns, energetic imprints, and unresolved experiences that quietly shape our lives.
Through vivid personal stories, he explains how learning to recognize and release these unseen influences can awaken our innate gifts and open new possibilities for healing and transformation. Laprath discusses intuition, consciousness, time, mediumship, and the mysteries that lie beyond ordinary perception.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:24 Seeing the unseen
00:09:24 Energetic perception
00:17:59 Knowing beyond time
00:25:48 Releasing old patterns
00:34:07 Letting go
00:42:20 Earthbound spirits
00:50:53 Living with mystery
00:59:08 Opening new possibilities
01:06:09 Conclusion
Bruce Greyson is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. He is author of After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond, co-author of Irreducible Mind and co-editor of The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences.
Here he provides an overview of his half-century of investigation into NDEs. He describes his initial encounter with Raymond Moody as well as the creation of the International Association for Near-Death Studies. He examines the question of the evidentiality of NDEs for postmortem survival. He highlights some of the most interesting cases he has explored.
(Recorded on April 2, 2021)
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rica Lorentz is a Jungian Analyst with over forty years of clinical experience. She is a training analyst at the Jung Institute of New England. She is author of Body As Shadow: Jung’s Method of Embodied Healing.
Erica explores Carl Jung's understanding of the body as an essential pathway to the unconscious rather than a mere physical vessel. She describes how authentic movement, active imagination, and the subtle body can deepen psychological healing, transform trauma, and restore the connection between psyche, soul, and embodiment. Lorentz also examines Jung's relationship to imagination, the feminine, spirituality, and the role of the body as a living expression of the soul.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:17 Body as shadow
00:07:24 Authentic movement
00:13:20 Witnessing the unconscious
00:18:22 Healing through embodiment
00:25:55 The subtle body
00:31:15 Active imagination
00:39:16 Archetypes and soul
00:49:16 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 1989.
Gary Zukav is author of The Dancing Wu-Li Masters, which won the American Book Award for Science in 1979, as well as the national bestseller, The Seat of the Soul. Here he states that we have crossed a major threshold in which we are learning to seek the spiritual empowerment of the soul rather than the superficial rewards of external power.
He discusses the role of spirit guides and teachers, as well as intuition, in facilitating the growth of the soul, and suggests that native American peoples have maintained an appreciation for the soul that has largely been lost in modern society.
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Researcher and consciousness explorer, Danny Goler returns!
We explore the hidden code behind consciousness, and the simulation. More specifically, we discuss his claim that laser light viewed in an altered state reveals a stable, self-executing language-like code, one that behaves more like a persistent structure embedded within reality than a hallucination.
We also explore the possibility that these strange phenomena are intentional breadcrumbs left by a higher intelligence to see whether or not humanity is ready to recognize deeper layers of reality. Along the way, we get into simulation theory, alien intelligence, entities, higher dimensions, consciousness, Plato’s Cave, reality as information, the mysterious “console” Danny has interacted with and whether altered states may provide access to hidden architecture behind the physical world.
Topics include:
laser code, simulation theory, hidden code in reality, nonhuman intelligence, alien communication, four-dimensional objects, consciousness research, altered states, Plato’s Cave, higher dimensions, virtual reality, reality as information, and the future of scientific testing.
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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 1990.
Colin Wilson was one of the most prolific writers in the English language. His novels include The Mind Parasites, The Philosopher's Stone and Sex Diary of a Metaphysician. Other major works include A Criminal History of Mankind, The Occult, Mysteries, Religion and the Rebel, The New Existentialism, New Pathways in Psychology and The Outsider--his first and most famous book.
Here he elaborates on his "Laurel and Hardy" theory of consciousness as a model for attaining optimal mental functioning. Crisis situations often thrust us into higher states of consciousness by forcing us to gain a psychological grip on ourselves.
Imagination, he says, can lead us to states of alienation and depression. He presents his model of seven levels of consciousness ranging from extreme depression to the transcendence of space and time.
Danny Goler shares the research that has made him one of the most controversial voices in the study of consciousness, DMT, and simulation theory. After thousands of reported DMT experiences, Danny argues that recurring geometric symbols and “code-like” structures may point toward a deeper computational reality - and explains why he believes these observations deserve serious scientific investigation.
Matt and Danny discuss simulation theory, consciousness, psychedelics, information physics, UFOs, artificial intelligence, and the challenges of studying extraordinary experiences through the scientific method.
Whether you agree with Danny’s conclusions or remain skeptical, this conversation examines one of the biggest questions imaginable: