New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove • Oct 10, 2024 Matt Segall, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Department at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and the Chair of the Science Advisory Committee for the Cobb Institute. He is author of Crossing the Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead, and Physics of the World Soul: Whitehead’s Adventure in Cosmology. His website is https://footnotes2plato.com/about-me/ Here he brings to life the many historical influences, comparisons, and nuances in the life and work of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers. 00:00 Introduction 02:24 Historical context 10:08 Wittgenstein and logical positivism 16:38 British and German idealism 25:45 Romanticism and esoteric thought 35:52 Descendental vs. transcendental 44:44 Science, technology, and philosophy 47:45 Whitehead and the paranormal 49:27 Can science integrate “etheric imagination”? 53:42 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 10, 2024)

Alfred North Whitehead (February 15, 1861 – December 30, 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He created the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which has been applied in a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology. Wikipedia