New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Feb 7, 2026 Andy Hilton is author of Anthropology and mysticism in the making of initiation: A history of discourse and ideas for today. He is also coeditor of the anthology, Perspectives on Commoning: Autonomist Principles and Practices. He discusses the history of anthropological investigations into tribal processes involving rites of passage, liminality, and rebirth. Andy also discusses his own experience of cosmic consciousness while attending a shamanic workshop. This was part of a larger initiatory process lasting nine months. As a consequence Hilton has spent the past thirty years developing his ideas for a sub-discipline called “initiation studies”. 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 January 26, 2020)