New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove • Jul 21, 2024 Gary Gach is an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Francisco. He is author of The Idiot’s Guide to Buddhism as well as Pause, Breathe, Smile – Awakening Mindfulness When Meditation is Not Enough. He is cotranslator of three Korean books of poetry by Ko Un. He is editor of What Book!? Buddha Poems From Beat to Hiphop. He recently served as cotranslator for Hafiz’s Little Book of Life. Here he reviews and presents his take on different movements within Buddhism – including theravada, zen, pure land, and mahayana. 00:00 Introduction 03:59 Original teachings of the Buddha 07:40 Difficulty of comparing and constrasting 13:02 Parapsychology and Buddhism 19:02 Western style Buddhism 25:36 Pure Land Buddhism 34:47 Deities in Buddhism 40:23 Fusions of religious thought 51:36 Conclusion Edited subtitles for this video are available in Russian, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, Swedish, and Spanish. 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. (Recorded on July 5, 2024)