New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Feb 11, 2026 Angela Puca, MA, PhD, is a Lecturer at Leeds Trinity University and a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Religious Studies at University of Leeds/Leeds Trinity University. Her doctoral research is on “Autochthonous and Trans-cultural Shamanism in Italy”. She hosts “Angela’s Symposium” channel on YouTube. The link is https://bit.ly/32Bz3KC. Here she explains that there is a small, but growing, interest in academic research on western esoteric traditions. Such research actually has a discernible influence upon those traditions, as practitioners often seek validity from those they perceive as experts. Paradoxically, there is also a strong “post-truth” inclination among such practitioners in which factual observation and expert authority is ignored in favor of compelling narratives. 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 August 22, 2020)