New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Jun 9, 2026 Dr. Murray Stein is a leading Jungian analyst and scholar whose work has shaped contemporary analytical psychology. He holds degrees from Yale University, Yale Divinity School, the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, and the University of Chicago Divinity School. A founding member and first president of the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago, he has also served as president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and currently serves as a training and supervising analyst at ISAP Zurich. He is the author of numerous books, including Jung’s Map of the Soul: An Introduction and its sequel Jung’s Map of the Soul: Deeper Explorations. In this conversation, Murray explores the shadow, complexes, projection, and the levels of consciousness through which we come to know ourselves and one another. Drawing on Jung’s writings, scripture, and decades of clinical experience, Murray shares how shame, resentment, and projection shape both individual lives and collective movements — from Cain and Abel to the rise of authoritarian leaders. We consider the difference between discernment and judgment, the body’s wisdom, and the conditions of safety that make inner work possible. At the heart of our dialogue is the problem of evil and its intimate relationship to shame, and what it means to remain aware of the shadow in ourselves and in our cultures. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:57 What is the shadow? 00:11:39 Working with the shadow 00:17:05 States and stages of consciousness 00:28:41 Shame, humiliation and the roots of evil 00:42:56 Projection and its psychological implications 00:48:50 Discernment vs. judgment: Understanding the difference 00:52:43 Listening to the body’s signals 00:57:40 The individual shadow meets the collective 01:06:30 Safety as the ground of inner life 01:08:36 Jungian psychology: Bridging psychology and spirituality 01:12:20 The shadow of Euro-American culture 01:17:45 The New Jerusalem and the vision of a restored paradise 01:21:22 The numinous, unus mundus, and the interpsychic field 01:23:48 Final thoughts Producer: Elena McNally Editor: John Hartmann (Recorded on May 1, 2026)
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Gandhi on forgiveness
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political thinker who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India’s independence from British rule. He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Wikipedia
Born: October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India
Assassinated: January 30, 1948,
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Surviving the Age of Abundance with Steven Kotler
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove May 31, 2026 Psychology and Psychotherapy Steven Kotler is an author and entrepreneur, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at Florida Atlantic University. He is the Founder and Director of the Flow Research Collective. His non-fiction books include The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer, Mapping Cloud 9, Tomorrowland: Our Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact, and The Rise of Superman. In addition, he has written three novels. He has also coauthored a number of non-fiction books with Peter Diamandis, including The Future is Faster Than You Think, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think, and Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World. He will be discussing his newest book coauthored with Peter Diamandis, We Are As Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance. Steven discusses how humanity is rapidly entering an “Age of Abundance” driven by exponential technologies such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, automation, and advanced communications systems. He explains that while these innovations are creating unprecedented opportunity, they are also overwhelming human biology, contributing to anxiety, burnout, cognitive overload, and social instability because the human brain evolved for scarcity rather than exponential change. Kotler argues that cultivating flow states, adaptive flexibility, curiosity, creativity, and meaningful human engagement may be essential for thriving psychologically, spiritually, and socially in the accelerating world now emerging. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:10 Abundance and scarcity 00:08:07 Godlike technology 00:11:22 Anxiety and overload 00:18:50 Flow as survival 00:25:22 Understanding flow 00:32:31 AI and cognition 00:42:35 Environmental renewal 00:51:48 Adaptive flexibility 01:03:45 Conclusion 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 May 16, 2026)
Featured Books from New Thinking Allowed
Across breakthroughs in AI, robotics, genetics, longevity, and consciousness research, the authors reveal a paradox at the heart of progress: as our external power expands, our inner resilience must evolve to match. Abundance without meaning leads to collapse. Intelligence without wisdom leads to extinction. To thrive in a world of everything, everywhere, all the time, we must learn to wield our godlike powers with humility, creativity, and flow.
Using the techniques of imagery, total body wellness can be achieved without prescriptive medicine. With this comprehensive, user-friendly primer, readers will learn just what guided sensory imagery is and how to create powerful images in the mind that direct the body to heal, both emotionally and physically.
With Dreams of Light, Andrew Holecek offers us an in-depth, step-by-step guide to the daytime practices of Tibetan dream yoga. Known as the “illusory form” practices, these teachings include insights, meditations, and actions to help us realize the dreamlike nature of our lives. Through an immersive exploration of the tradition, beginners and seasoned practitioners alike will learn everything they need to deeply transform both their sleeping and waking hours.
Book: “Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All”
Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All
Jeremy Lent
“One of the greatest thinkers of our age” (The Guardian) presents a new way of living—one modeled on nature’s design instead of capitalism’s—for fans of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Doughnut Economics
It has often been said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism—and yet that is what the historical moment urgently calls for. Climate change has reached an emergency state, inequality continues to grow, and, for many, the future has never seemed more bleak. Incremental policy improvements are no longer enough—we need a deep transformation of our current civilization to continue to survive.
In Ecocivilization, leading thinker Jeremy Lent reimagines the basis of our civilization, and argues for a new global system of living, one based on life-affirming principles modeled after nature’s own design. What enfolds is a robust framework incorporating Lent’s own expertise, and the lived experiences of those on the ground already putting ecological civilization’s core tenants into practice—justice, mutuality, diversity, and symbiosis.
From the global economy to universal housing and income, from infrastructure to agriculture, every major aspect of our society could be redesigned to work together as a coherent whole, setting the conditions for all people to flourish. Ecocivilization shows how this future on a regenerated Earth is not only desirable, but entirely feasible.
About the author
Jeremy Lent
Jeremy Lent is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future.
His new book, Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All, (Melville House, May 2026), lays out the potential for a fundamentally different world system—an ecocivilization based on life-affirming principles rather than principles of extraction, exploitation, and wealth accumulation. It demonstrates the specifics of an alternative, positive future available for humanity, weaving together the groundbreaking work of visionary leaders, thinkers, and communities around the world.
His award-winning book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, examines the way humans have made meaning from the cosmos from hunter-gatherer times to the present day. His more recent award-winning The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe offers a solid foundation for an integrative worldview that could lead humanity to a sustainable, flourishing future.
Lent has written extensively about the vision and specifics of an ecological civilization, and is a founding member of the Ecocivilization Coalition, a worldwide alliance of changemakers coming together to act as a transformation catalyst in service of this potential future. He is president of the Coalition’s parent, the Institute for Ecological Civilization, and is a board member on the executive committee of the Global Compassion Coalition.
Lent is the founder and host of the Deep Transformation Network, an online global community of over 5,000 members exploring pathways toward a life-affirming future on a regenerated Earth.
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Confucius on being chased up a tree
Depiction of Confucius by Wu Daozi, 8th century CE
“A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.”
~ Confucius
Confucius, born Kong Qiu, was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. Much of the shared cultural heritage of the Sinosphere originates in the philosophy and teachings of Confucius. Wikipedia
Maimonides on speaking gently
Artemis moon base will cover ‘hundreds of square miles’ with hopping drones and new lunar rovers, NASA says
By Mike Wall published 2 days ago (Space.com)
The base’s perimeter may be marked by hopping “MoonFall” drones, and new moon rovers built by AstroLab and Lunar Outpost will carry astronauts around the site.
NASA is definitely thinking big on the moon.
The U.S. space agency plans to build a crewed lunar base over the next decade or so via its Artemis program — and we just got a sense of that project’s impressive scope.
“We envision the moon base to be hundreds of square miles, with different assets all building up to the objective of permanent lunar presence on the moon,” Carlos García-Galán, the manager of NASA’s Moon Base program at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., said during a press conference Tuesday (May 26).You may like
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The base will be constructed over the next decade or so near the lunar south pole, which is thought to harbor large amounts of water ice. This precious resource has been accumulating for billions of years on the permanently shadowed floors of craters in the region, scientists say.
NASA didn’t go into the moon base-planning process with a big footprint as a priority. Rather, it emerged naturally, as all of the envisioned elements started coming together in planners’ heads.
“There’s no one spot that covers all the science, all the technology, all the habitation needs of the surface, and even within the local area, you have to consider the terrain,” NASA’s Nujoud Merancy, chief architect of the Moon Base program, said during today’s briefing.
“So, you’ll have the habitats on the tops of the hills where they get sunlight,” she added. “Power systems — nuclear systems — need to be a kilometer or more away for the radiation protection, so all of these things, when you start putting them together, end up sprawling a little bit more like a city as you start building it out.”
And scientists and mission planners still don’t know a lot about the lunar south pole, which is another reason for a settlement there to cover a lot of ground, according to García-Galán.
“We’re going to want to explore different sites to really maximize the mix of scientific objectives and viability of a permanent presence,” he said.
NASA plans to reduce the uncertainty via the use of MoonFall drones — small, hopping robots that will scout out the south polar region ahead of moon base construction. The first MoonFall batch, a set of three or four spacecraft, will launch to the moon in 2028 aboard a lander built by Firefly Aerospace, NASA announced today. (Firefly nabbed a $75 million contract for the mission, the company said.)What to read next
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Those drones, or others like it, could also help mark the moon base’s borders, said García-Galán.
“We’re going to be able to basically put them at the corners of the areas where we think we have either key scientific objectives or we want to build up the moon base,” he said.
China plans to build a base on the moon in the coming years as well (its first astronaut landing is aimed for 2030), and U.S. officials have repeatedly stressed the importance of getting the American one up and running first. The U.S. wants to be the one establishing norms of responsible behavior on Earth’s nearest neighbor, the argument goes.
So, during today’s press conference, Ars Technica’s Eric Berger asked García-Galán and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, who also participated in the event, if the MoonFall drones could help delineate a keep-out zone of sorts.
“I think it’s important for us to get there first,” Isaacman said. “I think the idea that there are areas of great interest on the lunar surface — we do want to get there and explore them, and we also obviously want to be very mindful of the Outer Space Treaty, so that we are respectful of other nations that are putting assets on the on the lunar surface. We would expect that to be reciprocal.”
The moon base’s envisioned size was just a sidelight of today’s event. The main purpose was to announce contracts that the agency just awarded to get the ball rolling on the outpost’s construction.
Firefly wasn’t the only compay to win a NASA Moon Base program contract. NASA is giving California-based Astrolab $219 million and Colorado’s Lunar Outpost $220 million for production of their lunar terrain vehicles (LTVs).
LTVs are large rovers that Artemis astronauts will use to explore the lunar surface. These vehicles will also be capable of autonomous operation, meaning they can land before crewed missions, be remotely controlled from Earth, and meet up with astronauts at their touchdown sites. And that is indeed the goal: NASA wants to have at least one LTV on the lunar surface before Artemis 4 touches down near the lunar south pole in late 2028.
Both LTVs will be delivered to the lunar surface by Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander, NASA announced today. Those two contracts are worth $234 million apiece, agency officials said during the briefing.
Blue Origin is also building a crewed variant of Blue Moon, which is in the running to fly the Artemis 3 and Artemis 4 astronaut missions, as well as future flights.
Artemis 3 is a docking test in Earth orbit between NASA’s Orion capsule and one or both of the program’s privately developed crewed lunar landers — Blue Moon and SpaceX’s Starship. NASA aims to launch Artemis 3 in mid-2027, Isaacman said today.
NASA plans to build the moon base in three phases. Phase One, which runs from now through 2029, will gather detailed information and “secure reliable access” to the lunar surface, according to the agency.
Phase Two runs from 2029 to 2032 and will set up the base’s “initial operating capability.” Phase Three, which runs from 2032 far into the future, will “achieve semi-permanent crew presence” on the moon.
“The Moon Base will be America’s and humanity’s first outpost on another celestial world,” Isaacman said in a NASA statement today. “Every mission, crewed and uncrewed, will be a learning opportunity as we return to the lunar surface, build the infrastructure to stay, and master the skills required to live and operate in one of the most demanding and dangerous environments imaginable.”
NASA has launched two Artemis missions to date. Artemis 1 sent an uncrewed Orion capsule to lunar orbit and back in late 2022, and Artemis 2 took four astronauts around the moon in Orion last month. Both missions were successful.