“Pain is really awareness of opposition, just as pleasure is awareness of collaboration.”
“The result of Pain (which is such a mysterious sacrament that I think it deserves a capital letter) is awareness, reaction, adaptability, modification, originality, genius–Epigenesis.”
“It has to be learnt that physical, chemical, scientific, practical, and spiritual activities and aspects of life are all one and identical with the Divine. Man, through his own mental activity, is to learn to know his God, so he no longer needs to believe in Him.”
“The Wisdom states that the later development of man will be from selfish self-consciousness to co-operative group consciousness, and from nationalism to internationalism. On all sides we see the violent signs of struggle going on as these newer qualities are being brought to birth, in the teeth of tremendous opposition from the older forces.”
“[The Initiate] is asked to learn to grasp how the many can exist as the One without loss of identity. He is instructed to believe in a glorious consummation which awaits all life traveling along the Path of Initiation.”
“[Science] is approaching thrillingly near to a blinding realisation of the great Entity himself. When this happens–and nothing can stop it–man’s little mind will have tuned finally, by his own efforts, up to the tempo of the greater Mind. Like a tiny bubble of quicksilver his understanding will rush to join the greater understanding, and the ultimate fusion will have taken place.” [The real Singularity, I think. –m.z.]
–quotes fromThe Initiation of the World by Vera Stanley Alder (first published in 1968)
10 brilliant essays by a Nobel Prize-winning philosopher challenge romantic mysticism and promote a scientific view of society and nature. Russell explains his theory of logical atomism in these witty, cogent writings, which include popular treatments of religious and educational issues as well as more technical examinations of problems of logic.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, was a Welsh philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, pacifist, and prominent rationalist. Although he was usually regarded as English, as he spent the majority of his life in England, he was born in Wales, where he also died.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 “in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought.”
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove May 31, 2025 Edward R. Close, PhD, is author of Transcendental Physics. He is coauthor (with Vernon Neppe) of Reality Begins with Consciousness: A Paradigm Shift That Works. He is also author of a lengthy chapter titled “The Mathematical Unification of Time, Space, Matter, Energy, and Consciousness” in Is Consciousness Primary? edited by Stephan Schwartz, Gary Schwartz and Marjorie Woollacott. His website is https://www.erclosetphysics.com/ In this video, rebooted from 2019, he claims that all scientists can benefit from a cultivation of their inner experience — as all science is based upon observation. He, personally, has been practicing a form of kriya yoga for almost sixty years. The purpose of spiritual practices is to create an alignment of body, mind, and spirit. He expresses this idea graphically, using the metaphor of the Rubik’s cube. When individuals are so aligned, they become more effective in achieving their goals. He also suggests that the principles of spiritual practice are akin to the laws of science. 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 also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on May 24, 2019)
June 2025 continues the powerful wave of planetary ingresses.
After Neptune entered Aries in March, and Saturn followed in May, Jupiter is the next big player to shift signs – moving into the nurturing sign of Cancer on June 9th, 2025.
One day before the ingress, Mercury and Jupiter meet in the very last degree of Gemini for a final word, insight, or revelation before Jupiter wraps up its time in the sign.
Whatever is revealed, it’s going to be very interesting – and likely not without a BANG, considering the energy of the anaretic (29th) degree. This might be the moment of truth that changes the game.
But let’s take a look at the most important transits of the month:
June 6th, 2025 – Venus Enters Taurus
On June 6th, 2025, Venus enters her home sign, Taurus. This is a great transit for all things Venus – beauty, pleasure, feeling good in our bodies, and harmonious social connections.
However, this is not your usual Venus in Taurus – at least not a few weeks from now. Before leaving the sign, Venus will meet Uranus for a final, surprising revelation.
June 8th, 2025 – Mercury Conjunct Jupiter
On June 8th, 2025, Mercury is conjunct Jupiter at 29° Gemini. This is a powerful culmination point just before both Mercury and Juptiter leave Gemini – a moment of realization, announcement, or decision.
With the conjunction happening at the anaretic degree, the message is loud and clear. Something important is being wrapped up, signed off, or brought into full awareness.
Mercury is in domicile in Gemini, and Jupiter amplifies the message with confidence and clarity. This is a great day for communication, making decisions, launching content, or receiving meaningful insights.
No more confusion, no more second-guessing – this is a green light moment for whatever you’ve been planning or waiting to put into motion.
June 8th, 2025 – Mercury Enters Cancer
Soon after, Mercury slips into Cancer, beginning its yearly journey through the sign.
In Cancer, Mercury articulates what we feel, not just what we think – helping us express emotions, connect more deeply with others, and communicate from the heart.
June 9th, 2025, Jupiter Enters Cancer
On June 9th, 2025, Jupiter leaves Gemini and enters Cancer. Jupiter only changes signs once a year, so this is a big deal!
Think of Jupiter like a long-term project we dedicate one full year to completing. This might not be as intensive or structured as getting a degree (that’s more of a Saturn-type project), but it’s still significant enough to shape our focus for an entire year.
This means that in your chart, Jupiter moves away from one sector of your life and begins expanding another.
The exciting thing about this ingress is that Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, so it feels very at home, and can easily channel its blessings and abundance in this fertile sign.
In Gemini, Jupiter was in detriment, so it wasn’t able to operate at full capacity. Jupiter in Cancer is a welcome shift for all of us – more supportive, emotionally fulfilling, and aligned with what matters to us.
The not-so-good news is that as soon as it enters Cancer, Jupiter forms a square to Saturn (and shortly after, with Neptune), which both recently moved into Aries.
These squares can bring some growing pains – especially around balancing structure (Saturn), dreams (Neptune), and expansion (Jupiter). But this initial tension sets the stage for deeper growth.
The good news? This is as intense as it will get. Jupiter will pretty much have a blast afterward.
Later this year, it will form a magnificent Grand Trine with Saturn and Neptune (when they both retrograde back into the last degrees of Pisces), and with the planets in Scorpio. But we’ll dive deeper into that beautiful alignment closer to the time.
Until then, pay close attention to whatever shifts, realizations, or opportunities emerge when Jupiter changes signs on this date – and in the days that follow.
June 11th, 2025 – Full Moon In Sagittarius
On June 11th, 2025, we have a Full Moon at 20° Sagittarius. This is a bold and adventurous Full Moon, trine Mars in Leo and Chiron in Aries! We’re looking at a beautiful Grand Trine that inspires us to heal our spirit.
This is the kind of Full Moon that says: be unapologetically yourself. There’s tremendous power in letting go of the pressure to perform, to please, or to fit into roles that were never truly ours.
When we stop trying to be someone else or meet expectations that aren’t aligned with who we are, something shifts.
In this Sagittarius light, the truth will truly set us free. And what a good feeling that is!
June 15ht, 2025 – Jupiter Square Saturn
On June 15th, Jupiter (at 1° Cancer) squares Saturn (at 1° Aries). While this is the first Jupiter-Saturn square in new signs, we’re actually looking at the final square in the current Jupiter-Saturn cycle.
We already had two previous squares while Jupiter was in Pisces and Saturn in Pisces. And while this one might feel a bit different – because it brings new context, and a sense of urgency – but at its core, we’re still working through the same ongoing themes.
Now we move from mutable to cardinal energy. Mutable signs like to explore possibilities, stay open, and adapt – but sometimes that means we float along without making real progress. Cardinal signs, on the other hand, initiate change. They take charge.
This square between Jupiter and Saturn invites us to get serious and start laying foundations for the life we actually want to build.
What do we want? What is our newly clarified goal (Jupiter)? And what kind of effort, discipline, and structure (Saturn) are we truly willing to commit to in order to make it real?
This square demands meaningful adjustments – the kind that move us forward and help us break free from old patterns or inertia.
June 17th, 2025 – Mars Enters Virgo
On June 17th, 2025, Mars enters Virgo, giving us the stamina to focus, organize, and get things done. This is a highly productive, highly efficient transit – think clean systems, sharp thinking, and real results.
Have you ever seen how much Mars in Virgo people get done? That level of productivity is now available to all of us, at least for the next 6 weeks or so.
Virgo is a mental sign, ruled by Mercury. Mars brings the drive to act, helping Virgo put energy where the ideas are. This is THE time to walk the talk and actually follow through.
June 18th, 2025 – Jupiter Square Netpune
After squaring Saturn, Jupiter now catches up with Neptune, bringing another layer of readjustment.
Now that we’ve addressed the fundamentals with Saturn, it’s time to go a bit deeper – to explore the underlying visions, ideals, and motivations that drive us.
We are living through incredible times with once-in-a-lifetime transits. Neptune and Saturn are both in Aries and will eventually meet in a powerful conjunction in February 2026, opening the door to turn a personal dream into reality.
But before that moment arrives, Jupiter square Neptune asks us to confront our prejudices, biases, or inherited beliefs that no longer keep up with the times.
Maybe we’ve held on to certain ideas just because “that’s how it’s always been done”.
But Neptune will now expose the limitations of always taking the path of least resistance – which, ironically, can become a path of great resistance over time – a stagnant swamp where we stay stuck, simply because we’re afraid to question the deeper why.
This transit invites us to clear the fog, realign with our deeper truth, and choose a path that reflects not who we used to be – but who we’re becoming.
June 20th, 2025 – Sun Enters Cancer
On June 20th, 2025, the Sun enters Cancer. Happy birthday to all Cancers out there!
0° Cancer also marks the Solstice. Solstice means “sun stands still,” signaling a major turning point in the solar cycle – either the beginning of less light in the Northern Hemisphere or more light in the Southern Hemisphere.
This celestial moment reminds us that Cancer is a cardinal sign – an initiator.
While Cancer is associated with emotions, home, and care, Cancer season is actually a powerful time to take action, step forward, and venture into new territory – especially when it comes to things that feel personal and meaningful.
June 24ht, 2025 – Sun Conjunct Jupiter
On June 24th, 2025, the Sun meets with Jupiter for a powerful conjunction at 3° Cancer, inviting us to align our personal goals and desires with the bigger picture (Jupiter).
Some newly awakened project or ideal can light a spark inside of us, activating our latent life force.
And Cancer means we don’t just dream it – we want to go and manifest it.
June 25ht, 2025 – New Moon In Cancer
On June 25th, 2025, we have a New Moon at 4° Cancer conjunct Jupiter! This is a pretty good one, because the Moon is in her home sign, and Jupiter is exalted here. Normally, that’s a recipe for abundance galore.
Of course, we also have the squares to Saturn and Neptune – so that creative vision might need a bit more work and adjustment. But under the fertile, manifesting waters of Cancer – and with a little help from a Mars sextile – anything is possible.
This is a time to make a wish – some dreams are worth all the trials and tribulations it takes to bring them to life.
RESET – Neptune In Aries, Saturn In Aries, Uranus In Gemini, Jupiter In Cancer
Jupiter in Cancer is one of the 4 planetary ingresses we explore in RESET, Astro Butterfly’s 4-week program designed to make sense of these epochal shifts.
In the program, we focus on one ingress (Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter) each week.
We join a live webinar and dive into the themes and archetypes at play. We use guided reflection to explore what each ingress means for us personally and collectively. We ask questions and share insights in dedicated Q&A and Reflection calls.
At the end of the 4 weeks, we meet again for a 5th webinar (on June 30th) to apply everything to your natal chart. Here, we’ll look at the houses and planets activated by these ingresses and what they’re asking from you.
All the RESET educational content, frameworks, and exercises are thoughtfully designed to help you build a clear, grounded understanding of the new era we’re entering – as well as the unique role you’re being invited to play in it.
Stanley Krippner’s memoir is a riveting masterpiece chronicling the extraordinary journey of a visionary whose life work has been dedicated to weaving cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary perspectives through scholarly research. This personal narrative captures the essence of Krippner’s unparalleled contributions to the field of humanistic psychology, transpersonal psychology, parapsychology, psychedelic research, and anthropology.
Dr. Close goes beyond the question How can we explain consciousness in terms of matter? and asks instead, Can matter be explained in terms of consciousness? The results are astounding. Using unimpeachable scientific evidence and logic, the author provides proof of the absolute necessity of the existence of consciousness prior to the emergence of the first particle of the physical universe.
National government is giving way to emergent global governance without direct democratic control. We are moving from politics to hi-tech physiological command. The transnational corporate biocontrol system will be able to rule us collectively and individually down to our neurons. The human will become something else as technological networks ‘care’ for us totally. The challenge to humanity is based on capturing the concept and practice of care. The brain-cloud interface will work through countless points of contacts, sensors, dots and other small connections. We are on the threshold of dustopia and will encounter a spiritual dustbowl.
The Way of the Mindful Warrior provides a fresh, authentic, and structured path to using mindfulness to embrace living in awareness and reconnecting with our innermost nature of peace, wisdom, and compassion. Mindfulness is a 2,500-year-old Buddhist meditation practice that involves focusing awareness on the present moment, the only place where an individual can truly embrace and experience life. This book integrates the traditional Buddhist teachings on mindfulness with emerging insights from the scientific study of mindfulness, wellbeing and the human mind.
This book is a meditation on the human condition and our relationship to God. Many cannot tell the difference between God and guilt. The simple lines in Is God Confused? help clarify these issues bringing peace and clarity out of the confusion.
Frustratingly elusive, this extraordinary text offers a thrilling glimpse into a struggle to safeguard knowledge amid clashing worldviews and the fervent religio-cultural passions of its time. Echoing the harmonizing tendency of late Neoplatonism, its entangled strands of Greek and Egyptian thought and language do not vie for supremacy, but merge in a battle for interpretation, reinvention, and survival.
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove May 28, 202 5Anna-Lisa Adelberg is the founder of the Luminous Awareness Institute in Santa Cruz, California. She has spent decades studying both psychotherapeutic and spiritual traditions. In this video, rebooted from 2019, she expresses her position that spiritual growth and psychological growth are each incomplete without the other. She points out that meditative approaches can enable individuals to access traumatic memories that exist at an energetic level — and cannot be accessed through conscious recall. She suggests that the accelerated awakening of thousands of people is required in order to address problems facing humanity today. 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 also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on June 21, 2019)
New Thinking May 29, 2025 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. His website is https://www.my-big-toe.com/ In this, lengthy discussion Tom Campbell and Jeffrey Mishlove explore a range of paranormal phenomena from scientific, emotional, ethical, and psychological perspectives. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:21:41 Extreme paranormal instances 00:51:37 Modifications of the data stream 01:11:40 Ethics, love, and the paranormal 01:37:35 Ego entrapment 02:07:51 The status of entities 02:30:52 Bodhisatvas 02:55:11 Reincarnation 03:22:14 Letting go of fear 03:40:10 Conclusion 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 also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on April 12, 2025)
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove May 30, 2025 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. It will remain public for only one week. Can the methods and ideas of native spiritual healers be incorporated into modern psychological and medical practice? Psychologist Stanley Kripper, PhD, tells of his experiences with native shamans and healers in the Americas and Asia. Dr. Krippner, formerly director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the Saybrook Institute, is author of several books including Human Possibilities and Realms of Healing. Now you can watch all of the programs from the original Thinking Allowed Video Collection, hosted by Jeffrey Mishlove. Subscribe to the new Streaming Channel (https://thinkingallowed.vhx.tv/) and watch more than 350 programs now, with more, previously unreleased titles added weekly. Free month of the classic Thinking Allowed streaming channel for New Thinking Allowed subscribers only. Use code THINKFREELY.
WASHINGTON—Causing the White House deputy chief of staff to experience intense psychological distress, a novelty car horn playing “La Cucaracha” reportedly sent Stephen Miller into a dissociative fugue state Friday. “I saw him walking down the street when the horn sounded, and he froze in place for a full minute and then began shaking all over,” said onlooker Leanne Ossing, confirming that as soon as the first few notes of the Spanish folk song’s melody hit Miller’s ears, his eyes rolled back in his head, and he began drooling profusely. “At first I was worried and thought about calling an ambulance. He just stood there with glazed eyes and an odd smile spreading across his face, and after a while he started repeating, ‘Ya no puede caminar, ya no puede caminar,’ over and over again in perfect Spanish. It was eerie.” At press time, sources reported that a disoriented Miller had been found covered in blood outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.
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