New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Mar 16, 2026 Marla Frees has spent 25 years as a successful television and stage actress. For the past 18 years, she has been working as a professional psychic. She is author of American Psychic: A Spiritual Journey from the Heartland to Hollywood, Heaven, and Beyond. Her website is https://www.americanpsychicbook.com/. Here she describes her challenges as the child of an alcoholic father and an abusive mother as well as the challenges of working as a psychic professional. She enumerates the various individuals who were of help to her along the way. She notes that her experiences as an actress helped her to explore life from the perspective of other people. She explains how intuitive impressions arise in her awareness. 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 September 6, 2020)