Category Archives: Chakras

Psychophysiology of the Yoga Chakras with Serena Roney Dougal

New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Jul 1, 2026 Biological Systems, Health and Healing Serena Roney-Dougal, PhD, received a doctoral degree from the University of Surrey, in the United Kingdom, for a parapsychological dissertation. She is author of Where Science and Magic Meet and The Faery Faith: An Integration of Science and Spirit. She resides in Glastonbury, England, where she serves on the Town Council. Her website is https://www.psi-researchcentre.co.uk/ Here she shares her understanding of the endocrine system and how the activity of our hormones correlates to the classical descriptions of yoga chakra influences. She notes that the pineal gland produces psychedelic molecules associated with telepathy by anthropologists studying ayahuasca use among Amazonian natives. 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 9, 2021)