New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove May 6, 2026 Karen Frances McCarthy, a spiritualist medium and healer, received years of intensive training at the Arthur Findlay College in England. She is author of Till Death Don’t Us Part: A True Story of Awakening to Love After Life. Prior to the awakening of her mediumistic talents she worked as a major media journalist and war correspondent. Her website is   / www   In this 2020 video, she describes the slow and reluctant unfolding of her career as a spiritualist medium, which began with the sudden death of her fiancé. The process started with an assortment of “signs” that are sometimes noticed by bereaved individuals. Then more direct forms of communication began to occur, prompting this atheistic journalist to seek classes, mentors, and eventually serious training. 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 11, 2020)