Stanley Krippner’s memoir is a riveting masterpiece chronicling the extraordinary journey of a visionary whose life work has been dedicated to weaving cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary perspectives through scholarly research. This personal narrative captures the essence of Krippner’s unparalleled contributions to the field of humanistic psychology, transpersonal psychology, parapsychology, psychedelic research, and anthropology.
Dr. Close goes beyond the question How can we explain consciousness in terms of matter? and asks instead, Can matter be explained in terms of consciousness? The results are astounding. Using unimpeachable scientific evidence and logic, the author provides proof of the absolute necessity of the existence of consciousness prior to the emergence of the first particle of the physical universe.
National government is giving way to emergent global governance without direct democratic control. We are moving from politics to hi-tech physiological command. The transnational corporate biocontrol system will be able to rule us collectively and individually down to our neurons. The human will become something else as technological networks ‘care’ for us totally. The challenge to humanity is based on capturing the concept and practice of care. The brain-cloud interface will work through countless points of contacts, sensors, dots and other small connections. We are on the threshold of dustopia and will encounter a spiritual dustbowl.
The Way of the Mindful Warrior provides a fresh, authentic, and structured path to using mindfulness to embrace living in awareness and reconnecting with our innermost nature of peace, wisdom, and compassion. Mindfulness is a 2,500-year-old Buddhist meditation practice that involves focusing awareness on the present moment, the only place where an individual can truly embrace and experience life. This book integrates the traditional Buddhist teachings on mindfulness with emerging insights from the scientific study of mindfulness, wellbeing and the human mind.
This book is a meditation on the human condition and our relationship to God. Many cannot tell the difference between God and guilt. The simple lines in Is God Confused? help clarify these issues bringing peace and clarity out of the confusion.
Frustratingly elusive, this extraordinary text offers a thrilling glimpse into a struggle to safeguard knowledge amid clashing worldviews and the fervent religio-cultural passions of its time. Echoing the harmonizing tendency of late Neoplatonism, its entangled strands of Greek and Egyptian thought and language do not vie for supremacy, but merge in a battle for interpretation, reinvention, and survival.
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove May 28, 202 5Anna-Lisa Adelberg is the founder of the Luminous Awareness Institute in Santa Cruz, California. She has spent decades studying both psychotherapeutic and spiritual traditions. In this video, rebooted from 2019, she expresses her position that spiritual growth and psychological growth are each incomplete without the other. She points out that meditative approaches can enable individuals to access traumatic memories that exist at an energetic level — and cannot be accessed through conscious recall. She suggests that the accelerated awakening of thousands of people is required in order to address problems facing humanity today. 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 June 21, 2019)
New Thinking May 29, 2025 Tom Campbell, a physicist, is author of the three volume set, My Big TOE, describing a meta-theory that offers an account of the paranormal, as well as other scientific mysteries. He is also the founder of the Center for Unification of Science and Consciousness. His website is https://www.my-big-toe.com/ In this, lengthy discussion Tom Campbell and Jeffrey Mishlove explore a range of paranormal phenomena from scientific, emotional, ethical, and psychological perspectives. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:21:41 Extreme paranormal instances 00:51:37 Modifications of the data stream 01:11:40 Ethics, love, and the paranormal 01:37:35 Ego entrapment 02:07:51 The status of entities 02:30:52 Bodhisatvas 02:55:11 Reincarnation 03:22:14 Letting go of fear 03:40:10 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 April 12, 2025)
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove May 30, 2025 This video is a special release from the original Thinking Allowed series that ran on public television from 1986 until 2002. It was recorded in about 1993. It will remain public for only one week. Can the methods and ideas of native spiritual healers be incorporated into modern psychological and medical practice? Psychologist Stanley Kripper, PhD, tells of his experiences with native shamans and healers in the Americas and Asia. Dr. Krippner, formerly director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the Saybrook Institute, is author of several books including Human Possibilities and Realms of Healing. Now you can watch all of the programs from the original Thinking Allowed Video Collection, hosted by Jeffrey Mishlove. Subscribe to the new Streaming Channel (https://thinkingallowed.vhx.tv/) and watch more than 350 programs now, with more, previously unreleased titles added weekly. Free month of the classic Thinking Allowed streaming channel for New Thinking Allowed subscribers only. Use code THINKFREELY.
WASHINGTON—Causing the White House deputy chief of staff to experience intense psychological distress, a novelty car horn playing “La Cucaracha” reportedly sent Stephen Miller into a dissociative fugue state Friday. “I saw him walking down the street when the horn sounded, and he froze in place for a full minute and then began shaking all over,” said onlooker Leanne Ossing, confirming that as soon as the first few notes of the Spanish folk song’s melody hit Miller’s ears, his eyes rolled back in his head, and he began drooling profusely. “At first I was worried and thought about calling an ambulance. He just stood there with glazed eyes and an odd smile spreading across his face, and after a while he started repeating, ‘Ya no puede caminar, ya no puede caminar,’ over and over again in perfect Spanish. It was eerie.” At press time, sources reported that a disoriented Miller had been found covered in blood outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel May 30, 2025 Chris Hedges and novelist Eiren Caffall discuss the importance of Moby Dick, and American culture’s reluctance to face death and resist greed.
The Astrology Podcast May 30, 2025 A look ahead at the astrological forecast for June of 2025, with astrologers Chris Brennan and Leisa Schaim! We spend the first hour of the episode talking about the astrology of news and events that have occurred since our last forecast, and then in the second hour we transition into talking about the astrology of June. June opens with Venus and Mars wrapping up their extended retrograde periods by moving into new signs finally, with Venus moving into her home sign of Taurus and Mars moving into Virgo. A major shift this month is Jupiter moving into Cancer, which is the traditional sign of its exaltation, where it will stay for the next year. There are some tense alignments in the middle of the month, with an explosive Mars-Uranus square around June 15, and restrictive Jupiter-Saturn square going exact on the same day. By the end of the month Saturn has moved within 1 degree of a conjunction with Neptune, making that alignment peak in intensity, blurring the lines between what is real and what is not. This is episode 491 of The Astrology Podcast.
Oct 15, 2021 In an attempt to connect with a suspect he served with in Afghanistan, Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer) shows up at a veterans’ support meeting.
A lithograph from the late 19th century, entitled “History repeats itself — the robber barons of the Middle Ages and the robber barons of today.”
Friends,
Cut Medicaid to give billionaires a huge tax cut. But why?
They say they want a smaller government, but that can’t be it.
Most seek a larger national defense and more muscular homeland security. Almost all want to widen the government’s powers of search and surveillance inside the United States — expunging undocumented immigrants, “securing” the nation’s borders. They want stiffer criminal sentences. Many also want government to intrude on the most intimate aspects of private, intimate life.
Many call themselves conservatives, but that’s not it, either.
They don’t want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the country backward — before the Environmental Protection Act, before Medicare and Medicaid, before the New Deal and its provision for Social Security, unemployment insurance, the 40-hour workweek, before official recognition of trade unions, even before the first national income tax, antitrust laws, and Federal Reserve.
Some say they want the American working class to do better. But that can’t be it, either, because they’re cutting Medicaid and other safety nets the working class depends on in order to finance a huge tax cut for the super-rich. And they support tariffs that will drive up the costs of just about everything the working class buys.
The America they actually seek is the one we last had in the Gilded Age of the late 19th century.
“We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That’s when we were a tariff country. And then they went to an income tax concept,” Trump said in January.
Yes, we had tariffs during that Gilded Age. It was also an era when the nation was mesmerized by the doctrine of free enterprise, although few Americans actually enjoyed much freedom.
Robber barons such as financier Jay Gould, railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, and oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller controlled much of American industry.
They corrupted American politics. Their lackeys literally deposited sacks of money on the desks of pliant legislators.
The gap between rich and poor turned into a chasm. Urban slums festered. Women couldn’t vote. Black Americans were subject to Jim Crow.
Most tellingly, it was a time when the ideas of William Graham Sumner, a professor of political and social science at Yale, dominated American social thought.
Sumner brought Charles Darwin to America and twisted him into a theory to fit the times.
Few Americans living today have read any of Sumner’s writings, but they had an electrifying effect on America during the last three decades of the 19th century.
To Sumner and his followers, life was a competitive struggle in which only the fittest could survive — and through this struggle, societies became stronger over time.
A correlate of this principle was that government should do little or nothing to help those in need, because that would interfere with natural selection.
Listen to today’s Republican debates and you hear a continuous regurgitation of Sumner. As Sumner wrote in the 1880s:
“Civilization has a simple choice [of either] liberty, inequality, survival of the fittest [or] not-liberty, equality, survival of the unfittest. The former carries society forward and favors all its best members; the latter carries society downwards and favors all its worst members.”
Sound familiar?
Trump and his Republicans on Capitol Hill not only echo Sumner’s thoughts but mimic Sumner’s reputed arrogance. They say we must reward “entrepreneurs” (by which they mean anyone who has made a pile of money) and warn us not to “coddle” people in need (for example, they want to put work requirements on Medicaid).
They oppose extending unemployment insurance because, they say, we shouldn’t “give people money for doing nothing.”
Sumner, likewise, warned against handouts to people he termed “negligent, shiftless, inefficient, silly, and imprudent.”
Trump and other Republican lawmakers are dead set against raising taxes on billionaires, relying on the standard Republican trickle-down rationale that billionaires create jobs.
Here’s Sumner, more than a century ago:
“Millionaires are the product of natural selection, acting on the whole body of men to pick out those who can meet the requirement of certain work to be done. … It is because they are thus selected that wealth aggregates under their hands – both their own and that intrusted to them … They may fairly be regarded as the naturally selected agents of society.” Although they live in luxury, “the bargain is a good one for society.”
Social Darwinism offered a moral justification for the wild inequities and social cruelties of the late 19th century — the era when, according to Trump, “we were richest.”
Social Darwinism allowed John D. Rockefeller to claim the fortune he accumulated through his giant Standard Oil Trust was “merely a survival of the fittest.” It was, he insisted, “the working out of a law of nature and of God.”
Social Darwinism also undermined all efforts at the time to build a nation of broadly based prosperity and rescue our democracy from the tight grip of a very few at the top. It was used by the privileged and powerful to convince everyone else that government shouldn’t do much of anything.
Not until the 20th century did America reject Social Darwinism. Instead of Social Darwinism, we created an inclusive society. We created the largest middle class in the history of the world — which became the core of our economy and democracy.
We built safety nets to catch Americans who fell downward through no fault of their own. We designed regulations to protect against the inevitable excesses of free-market greed.
We taxed the rich and invested in public goods — public schools, public universities, public transportation, public parks, public health — that made us all better off.
In short, we rejected the notion that each of us is on his or her own in a competitive contest for survival. We depended on one another.
But now America is in its Second Gilded Age, and its new robber barons have found the same rationale as they did in the First.
Under Trump and his lapdogs in the House and Senate, Social Darwinism is back.
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