New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove May 20, 2026 Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, is a computer scientist, who has recently completed a second doctoral degree in philosophy. He is author of Rationalist Spirituality, Why Materialism is Baloney, Dreamed Up Reality, Meaning in Absurdity, Brief Peeks Beyond, More Than Allegory, The Idea of the World, and Decoding Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics. He has published several papers on Scientific American’s website arguing for metaphysical idealism. His website is https://www.bernardokastrup.com/. Bernardo is launching a new organization, #EssentiaFoundation, and has produced some wonderful short videos that can be viewed at    • New Science About the Nature of Consciousness   and    • Why Our Reality Is Not What It Seems…  . This 2020 conversation covers many topics: varieties of philosophical #idealism, the meanings embodied in Bernardo’s coat of arms, the strengths and weaknesses of anti-establishment feeling, the pressing need for safe nuclear power, projections of the #shadow, is the universe friendly?, and discovering #evil within ourselves. 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 December 14, 2020)