New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Apr 3, 2026 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. It will remain public for only one week.  Archetypal energies beckon us to live a larger life. We are all healers, warriors, visionaries and teachers—but often these potentials remain in latent form. Through song, dance, storytelling and meditation we can activate these archetypes. The late Angeles Arrien, PhD, a cross-cultural anthropologist, was on the faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She is author of The Tarot Handbook, The Four-Fold Way and Signs of Life. 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.

“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Philosopher

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“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”

–Hamlet to Ophelia in Act 3, Scene 1 in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Hamlet

Play by William Shakespeare

Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, is a tragedy about the Prince of Denmark seeking revenge for his father’s murder by his uncle, Claudius, who has usurped the throne and married Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude. The play follows Hamlet as he feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and stages a play to confirm Claudius’s guilt, leading to a tragic finale with multiple deaths, including his own. It explores themes of revenge, madness, morality, and corruption, and is considered one of Shakespeare’s most powerful and influential works. 

Plot summary

• The Ghost: The ghost of Hamlet’s father appears, revealing he was murdered by his brother, Claudius, and commands Hamlet to seek revenge. 
• Feigned Madness: Hamlet pretends to be insane to investigate the ghost’s claims, confusing the court and his love interest, Ophelia. 
• “The Mousetrap”: Hamlet uses a troupe of actors to perform a play that mirrors his father’s murder, and Claudius’s guilty reaction confirms his crime. 
• Polonius’s Death: Hamlet mistakenly kills Polonius (Ophelia’s father) while confronting his mother, believing him to be Claudius hiding behind a curtain. 
• Ophelia’s Tragedy: Grief-stricken by her father’s death and Hamlet’s rejection, Ophelia goes mad and drowns. 
• The Duel: Claudius arranges a duel between Hamlet and Laertes (Ophelia’s brother), using a poisoned sword and a poisoned drink to ensure Hamlet’s death. 
• The Finale: Gertrude drinks the poison, Laertes wounds Hamlet with the poisoned sword, Hamlet wounds Laertes, and Hamlet kills Claudius before dying himself. He asks his friend Horatio to tell the story. 

Key characters

• Hamlet: The Prince of Denmark, driven to avenge his father’s death.
• Claudius: Hamlet’s uncle, the new king, and murderer of his brother.
• Gertrude: Hamlet’s mother, who marries Claudius.
• Ophelia: Polonius’s daughter and Hamlet’s love interest.
• Polonius: The Lord Chamberlain, father of Ophelia and Laertes.
• Laertes: Polonius’s son, who seeks revenge for his father and sister.
• Horatio: Hamlet’s loyal friend. 

Themes

Revenge and justice, Madness (real vs. feigned), Mortality and the meaning of life, and Corruption and betrayal. 

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Published: April 3, 2026 (TheOnion.com)

By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer

Updated April 3, 2026 (SFGate.com)

This image provided by NASA shows a view of Earth taken by NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman from of the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn on April 2, 2026. (NASA via AP)AP

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet’s brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon.

NASA released the crew’s first downlinked images Friday, 1 1/2 days into the first astronaut moonshot in more than half a century.

The first photo taken by commander Reid Wiseman shows a curved slice of Earth in one of the capsule’s windows. The second shows the entire globe with the oceans topped by swirling white tendrils of clouds. A green aurora even glows, according to NASA.

“It’s great to think that with the exception of our four friends, all of us are represented in this image,” said NASA’s Lakiesha Hawkins, an exploration systems leader. She added the mission was going well.

As of late Friday afternoon, Wiseman and his crew were more than 110,000 miles (180,000 kilometers) from Earth and were quickly gaining on the moon with another 150,000 miles (240,000 kilometers) to go. They should reach their destination on Monday.

The three Americans and one Canadian will swing around the moon in their Orion capsule, hang a U-turn and then head straight back home without stopping. They fired Orion’s main engine Thursday night that set them on their course.

After Mission Control shifted the position of their capsule, the entire Earth complete with northern lights filled their windows.

“It was the most spectacular moment, and it paused all four of us in our tracks,” Wiseman said in a TV interview.

They’re the first lunar travelers since Apollo 17 in 1972.

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April 3, 2026|Updated April 3, 2026 3:26 p.m.

Arthur Versluis explores how spiritual alchemy and the symbolism of light can be used to foster inner transformation and cultural renewal in an age shaped by materialism and technology. Drawing on Western mysticism, Tibetan Buddhism, and esoteric traditions, he presents lightwork as a path toward awakening and reconnection with deeper realities. The work encourages readers to see beyond illusion, cultivate spiritual insight, and participate in the creation of more conscious and life-affirming cultures.

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Matthew Ingram traces how the counterculture movements of the 1960s and 1970s helped shape modern ideas about health, wellbeing, and holistic living. He connects influences such as yoga, meditation, psychedelics, and Eastern philosophy to broader cultural shifts in medicine and self-care. The work highlights how these alternative approaches continue to inform contemporary wellness practices and perspectives.

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Vladimir Miskovic and Steven Jay Lynn examine consciousness by bridging neuroscience with insights from mystical and altered states of experience. They explore how dreams, meditation, psychedelics, and visionary phenomena reveal aspects of the mind that conventional science often overlooks. The work encourages readers to expand their understanding of selfhood, perception, and the deeper layers of human awareness.

“…a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.”

― Socrates, Apology

Socrates, a prominent figure in ancient Greek philosophy, was known for his unique questioning style and moral inquiries. He was a major inspiration for his student Plato, who is often credited with founding Western philosophy. Socrates didn’t write any texts himself, but his ideas are known through Plato’s dialogues. Socrates’ teachings, known as the “Socratic method”, involved asking probing questions to help students arrive at their own understanding. 

Born Alopece

Died 399 BC, Classical Athens

New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Apr 2, 2026 Charles Upton’s first books of poetry were published in 1968 and 1969 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Light Books in San Francisco. He was then considered the youngest member of the “beat generation” as he was still in high school. He has subsequently written many books associated with the traditionalist school of spirituality including What Poets Used to Know, The Science of the Greater Jihad, Folk Metaphysics, Alien Disclosure Deception: The Metaphysics of Social Engineering, Day and Night on the Sufi Path, Dugin Against Dugin: A Traditionalist Critique of the Fourth Political Theory, The System of the Antichrist, and Vectors of the Counter-Initiation. His most recent book of poetry is The Wars of Love and Other Poems. His website is https://charles-upton.com/ Note: There is a GoFundMe page for Charles Upton who is dealing with colon cancer. See https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-charl… Charles reflects on war not only as a historical and political reality, but as an inner spiritual crisis in which the human soul is tested by suffering, choice, and the apparent absence of peace. Drawing from Sufi metaphysics, revealed religion, and his own poetry, he explores how darkness, apocalypse, and conflict can become occasions for remembrance of God, radical purification, and fidelity to the human form. Upton offers a deeply contemplative meditation on obedience, truth, love, and what it means to stay human in a time of war. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:35 The inner war 00:08:48 The purpose of war 00:18:40 The greater jihad 00:29:30 Apocalypse and judgment 00:37:45 Defending the human form 00:46:41 Stay human 00:48:02 Revelation and purification 00:53:48 The wars of love 01:02:29 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 Thursday, March 12, 2026)

Persian miniature of Shams Tabrizi by Hossein Behzad, dated 1963

“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.”

~ Shams-i Tabrizi

Shams Tabrīzī was a Persian dervish and poet, best known for his companionship with Rumi. He is referenced with great reverence and grief in Rumi’s poetic collection, in particular Divan-i Shams-i Tabrīzī. Wikipedia

Born 1185, Tabriz, Iran

Died 1248 (age 63 years), Khoy, Iran