New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Mar 14, 2026 Psychology and Psychotherapy August Goforth, a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in New York City, is also an intuitive-mental and psychophysical spirit medium. He was given this name as a child by guides, and uses it here for the sake of his personal privacy and that of his therapy patients. With coauthorship from the realm of spirit, he has written The Risen: Dialogues of Love, Grief & Survival; The Risen: A Companion to Grief; Tangible Dreaming; and Grief: Ponderings From The Afterlife. He describes his childhood experiences growing up in a family of mediums. He shares the circumstances of his relationship with Timothy Gray, Tim’s death, and their eventual communication link. He explains many subtleties of mediumistic communication and the role that is played by the emotions of grief and love. 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 October 29, 2020)