New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Nov 30, 2025 Psychology and Psychotherapy Arnaud Delorme is a university professor at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the Schwarz Center for Computational Neuroscience at the University of California San Diego and a consulting research scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. His research encompasses pure neuroscience methods as well as the neurology involved in mind wandering. He is the author of Why Our Minds Wander: Understand the Science and Learn How to Focus Your Thoughts. Arnaud explores the neuroscience of mind wandering, explaining how spontaneous thought arises, why it is universal, and how it relates to meditation and brain networks. He discusses the default mode network, metacognition, and how awareness of wandering thoughts reveals the dynamic nature of consciousness. Delorme also shares practical insights into tuning the mind through meditation and understanding the evolutionary, emotional, and creative roles of mind wandering. 00:01 Introduction: mind-wandering begins 01:41 Defining mind-wandering in neuroscience 04:46 Meditation and internal attention 07:19 Evolutionary reasons for wandering 11:02 Voluntary versus involuntary thoughts 14:53 Consciousness as primary experience 19:33 Training attention and tuning thought 20:58 Default mode network explained 31:09 Cycles of focus and wandering 41:09 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 November 7, 2025)