New Thinking • Oct 8, 2024 Jonathan Dinsmore, MS, is an instructor in psychology at the University of Arkansas. He is author of Mystical Luminosity: The Initiation of a Construct Grounded in Phenomenology. Here he shares how the science of psychology can cast illumination on a concept that can be found in virtually every religious and mystical tradition. He claims that this is a real experience that can be studied through the lens of phenomenology. 00:00 Introduction 03:34 The experiences of Federico Faggin and others 10:28 Religious, Near-death, psychedelic descriptions 21:17 Luminosity experience inventory 24:01 Mystical paradoxes 29:20 Bioluminescence 35:42 Phenomenological interviews 43:46 Parsimonious explanations 51:18 Phenomenology 57:12 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. (Recorded on September 9, 2024)