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Maxine Meilleur, ALM, received a Masters degree in religion from Harvard University as well as a certificate in parapsychology from the Rhine Research Center in Durham, North Carolina. She is author of the two volume set, Great Moments in Modern Mediumship. Her other books include What the Great Mediums Have Taught Us About Spirit Guides, What the Great Mediums Have Taught Us About Healing, What is Spiritualism?, and Grounds in Your Coffee: An Idiot's Guide to Tasseography.
In this video from 2020, the discussion focuses on memorable high points in the history of spiritualism. Personalities discussed included Andrew Jackson Davis, Estelle Roberts, the Fox Sisters, Helen Duncan, Franek Kluski, Lord Hugh Dowding, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The topics include apports, spirit materialization, and direct voice mediumship.
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 30, 2020)
For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see newthinkingallowed.com/Listings.htm.
Check out the New Thinking Allowed Foundation website at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as opportunities to shop and to support our video productions – plus, this is where people can subscribe to our FREE, weekly Newsletter and can download a FREE .pdf copy of our quarterly magazine.
To order high-quality, printed copies of our quarterly magazine: NTA-Magazine.MagCloud.com
Check out New Thinking Allowed's AI chatbot. You can create a free account at awakin.ai/open/jeffreymishlove. When you enter the space, you will see that our chatbot is one of several you can interact with. While it is still a work in progress, it has been trained on 1,600 NTA transcripts. It can provide intelligent answers about the contents of our interviews. It's almost like having a conversation with Jeffrey Mishlove.
If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to friends@newthinkingallowed.com.
To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-thinking-allowed-audio-podcast/id1435178031.
Download and read Jeffrey Mishlove's Grand Prize essay in the Bigelow Institute competition, Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death, go to bigelowinstitute.org/docs/1st.pdf.
You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on amzn.to/3LzLA7Y (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.)
To order the second book in the New Thinking Allowed Dialogues series, Russell Targ: Ninety Years of ESP, Remote Viewing, and Timeless Awareness, go to amzn.to/4aw2iyr
To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: UFOs and UAP – Are We Really Alone?, go to amzn.to/3Y0VOVh
To order a copy of Charles T. Tart: Seventy Years of Exploring Consciousness and Parapsychology, go to amzn.to/4oOUJLn
LINKS TO SOME BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS INTERVIEW:
Maxine Meilleur, Great Moments in Modern Mediumship, Vol. 1 – amzn.to/3oRiseR
Maxine Meilleur, Great Moments in Modern Mediumship, Vol. 2 – amzn.to/3kYvhSq
Maxine Meilleur, What the Great Mediums Have Taught Us About Spirit Guides – amzn.to/2U3H1qZ
Maxine Meilleur, What the Great Mediums Have Taught Us About Spiritual Healing – amzn.to/3kVGB1w
Maxine Meilleur, What is Spiritualism? – amzn.to/2GsZl9G
Maxine Meilleur, Grounds In Your Coffee: An Idiot's Guide to Coffee Tasseography – amzn.to/3jZ8XXb
John DeSalvo, Andrew Jackson Davis – amzn.to/2HYyq5V
Andrew Jackson Davis, The Harmonial Philosophy – amzn.to/32aljG4
Andrew Jackson Davis, Death and the Afterlife – amzn.to/2I5IE4k
Julie Beischel, Investigating Mediums – amzn.to/3epXLlf
Estelle Roberts, Red Cloud Speaks – amzn.to/34UpQ11
Alan Crossley, The Story of Helen Duncan – amzn.to/3l7z9QM
Maxine Meilleur, ALM, received a Masters degree in religion from Harvard University as well as a certificate in parapsychology from the Rhine Research Center in Durham, North Carolina. She is author of the two volume set, Great Moments in Modern Mediumship. Her other books include What the Great Mediums Have Taught Us About Spirit Guides, What the Great Mediums Have Taught Us About Healing, What is Spiritualism?, and Grounds in Your Coffee: An Idiot's Guide to Tasseography.
In this video from 2020, the discussion focuses on memorable high points in the history of spiritualism. Personalities discussed included Andrew Jackson Davis, Estelle Roberts, the Fox Sisters, Helen Duncan, Franek Kluski, Lord Hugh Dowding, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The topics include apports, spirit materialization, and direct voice mediumship.
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 30, 2020)
For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see newthinkingallowed.com/Listings.htm.
Check out the New Thinking Allowed Foundation website at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as opportunities to shop and to support our video productions – plus, this is where people can subscribe to our FREE, weekly Newsletter and can download a FREE .pdf copy of our quarterly magazine.
To order high-quality, printed copies of our quarterly magazine: NTA-Magazine.MagCloud.com
Check out New Thinking Allowed's AI chatbot. You can create a free account at awakin.ai/open/jeffreymishlove. When you enter the space, you will see that our chatbot is one of several you can interact with. While it is still a work in progress, it has been trained on 1,600 NTA transcripts. It can provide intelligent answers about the contents of our interviews. It's almost like having a conversation with Jeffrey Mishlove.
If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to friends@newthinkingallowed.com.
To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-thinking-allowed-audio-podcast/id1435178031.
Download and read Jeffrey Mishlove's Grand Prize essay in the Bigelow Institute competition, Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death, go to bigelowinstitute.org/docs/1st.pdf.
You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on amzn.to/3LzLA7Y (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.)
To order the second book in the New Thinking Allowed Dialogues series, Russell Targ: Ninety Years of ESP, Remote Viewing, and Timeless Awareness, go to amzn.to/4aw2iyr
To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: UFOs and UAP – Are We Really Alone?, go to amzn.to/3Y0VOVh
To order a copy of Charles T. Tart: Seventy Years of Exploring Consciousness and Parapsychology, go to amzn.to/4oOUJLn
LINKS TO SOME BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS INTERVIEW:
Maxine Meilleur, Great Moments in Modern Mediumship, Vol. 1 – amzn.to/3oRiseR
Maxine Meilleur, Great Moments in Modern Mediumship, Vol. 2 – amzn.to/3kYvhSq
Maxine Meilleur, What the Great Mediums Have Taught Us About Spirit Guides – amzn.to/2U3H1qZ
Maxine Meilleur, What the Great Mediums Have Taught Us About Spiritual Healing – amzn.to/3kVGB1w
Maxine Meilleur, What is Spiritualism? – amzn.to/2GsZl9G
Maxine Meilleur, Grounds In Your Coffee: An Idiot's Guide to Coffee Tasseography – amzn.to/3jZ8XXb
John DeSalvo, Andrew Jackson Davis – amzn.to/2HYyq5V
Andrew Jackson Davis, The Harmonial Philosophy – amzn.to/32aljG4
Andrew Jackson Davis, Death and the Afterlife – amzn.to/2I5IE4k
Julie Beischel, Investigating Mediums – amzn.to/3epXLlf
Estelle Roberts, Red Cloud Speaks – amzn.to/34UpQ11
Alan Crossley, The Story of Helen Duncan – amzn.to/3l7z9QM
