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Marla Frees has spent 25 years as a successful television and stage actress. For the past 18 years, she has been working as a professional psychic. She is author of American Psychic: A Spiritual Journey from the Heartland to Hollywood, Heaven, and Beyond. Her website is americanpsychicbook.com/.
Here she describes her challenges as the child of an alcoholic father and an abusive mother as well as the challenges of working as a psychic professional. She enumerates the various individuals who were of help to her along the way. She notes that her experiences as an actress helped her to explore life from the perspective of other people. She explains how intuitive impressions arise in her awareness.
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 September 6, 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
To order American Psychic by Marla Frees, click here: amzn.to/33QSRZE
LINKS TO OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO INTERVIEW:
Whitley & Ann Strieber, The Communion Letters – amzn.to/3hOpvAd
Tom Campbell, My Big TOE – amzn.to/3hSK1zA
Joe McMoneagle, Memoirs of a Psychic Spy – amzn.to/3cjfNVq
Jean Houston, A Passion for the Possible – amzn.to/33N0cJY
James Von Praagh, Talking to Heaven – amzn.to/2ROYemC
Sonia Choquette, Diary of a Psychic – amzn.to/3hRBVYa
Brian Weiss, Many Lives Many Masters – amzn.to/3mIubLC
Lyn Buchanan, The Seventh Sense – amzn.to/2tViwTc
Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment – amzn.to/3621nbj
Jeffrey Mishlove, The PK Man – amzn.to/2UF9e7c
Marla Frees has spent 25 years as a successful television and stage actress. For the past 18 years, she has been working as a professional psychic. She is author of American Psychic: A Spiritual Journey from the Heartland to Hollywood, Heaven, and Beyond. Her website is americanpsychicbook.com/.
Here she describes her challenges as the child of an alcoholic father and an abusive mother as well as the challenges of working as a psychic professional. She enumerates the various individuals who were of help to her along the way. She notes that her experiences as an actress helped her to explore life from the perspective of other people. She explains how intuitive impressions arise in her awareness.
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 September 6, 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
To order American Psychic by Marla Frees, click here: amzn.to/33QSRZE
LINKS TO OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO INTERVIEW:
Whitley & Ann Strieber, The Communion Letters – amzn.to/3hOpvAd
Tom Campbell, My Big TOE – amzn.to/3hSK1zA
Joe McMoneagle, Memoirs of a Psychic Spy – amzn.to/3cjfNVq
Jean Houston, A Passion for the Possible – amzn.to/33N0cJY
James Von Praagh, Talking to Heaven – amzn.to/2ROYemC
Sonia Choquette, Diary of a Psychic – amzn.to/3hRBVYa
Brian Weiss, Many Lives Many Masters – amzn.to/3mIubLC
Lyn Buchanan, The Seventh Sense – amzn.to/2tViwTc
Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment – amzn.to/3621nbj
Jeffrey Mishlove, The PK Man – amzn.to/2UF9e7c
