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Richard Reichbart, JD, PhD, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst. For thirty five years, he has maintained a private practice for the treatment of adults, adolescents and children in Northern New Jersey. In addition, he is a short story writer, a parapsychologist, and a poet. He is author of The Paranormal Surrounds Us: Psychic Phenomena in Literature, Culture, and Psychoanalysis. Prior to his career in psychology, he worked as an attorney focusing on civil rights and native American issues.
In this 2020 video, he discusses the play, Magic, written by G. K. Chesterton that formed the basis for Ingmar Bergman's 1958 film, The Magician. Both of these productions featured individuals with psychic powers who were mercilessly hounded by hostile representatives of society. He points out that these fictional scenarios closely match the actual treatment received by Ted Serios, who produced "thoughtographs" and was studied by the psychoanalyst, Jule Eisenbud.
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 December 12, 2020)
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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.
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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 The Paranormal Surrounds Us: Psychic Phenomena in Literature, Culture, and Psychoanalysis by Richard Reichbart, visit amzn.to/35gKRDs.
LINKS TO OTHER BOOKS AND VIDEOS PRESENTED IN THIS INTERVIEW:
G. K. Chesterton, Magic – amzn.to/2WuEbME
Ingmar Bergman, The Magician (video) – amzn.to/2KlWAZz
Jule Eisenbud, The World of Ted Serios – amzn.to/2KhoC8E
Ingmar Bergman, Wild Strawberries (video) – amzn.to/38cqTKg
Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal (video) – amzn.to/3h4VY6z
Robert Darnton, Mesmerism – amzn.to/3h4ihcO
Jeffrey Mishlove, The PK Man – amzn.to/3pixjyz
James Randi, Flim Flam – amzn.to/38gHMn3
Stephen E. Braude, ESP and Psychokinesis – amzn.to/3p64yVz
Richard Reichbart, JD, PhD, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst. For thirty five years, he has maintained a private practice for the treatment of adults, adolescents and children in Northern New Jersey. In addition, he is a short story writer, a parapsychologist, and a poet. He is author of The Paranormal Surrounds Us: Psychic Phenomena in Literature, Culture, and Psychoanalysis. Prior to his career in psychology, he worked as an attorney focusing on civil rights and native American issues.
In this 2020 video, he discusses the play, Magic, written by G. K. Chesterton that formed the basis for Ingmar Bergman's 1958 film, The Magician. Both of these productions featured individuals with psychic powers who were mercilessly hounded by hostile representatives of society. He points out that these fictional scenarios closely match the actual treatment received by Ted Serios, who produced "thoughtographs" and was studied by the psychoanalyst, Jule Eisenbud.
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 December 12, 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 The Paranormal Surrounds Us: Psychic Phenomena in Literature, Culture, and Psychoanalysis by Richard Reichbart, visit amzn.to/35gKRDs.
LINKS TO OTHER BOOKS AND VIDEOS PRESENTED IN THIS INTERVIEW:
G. K. Chesterton, Magic – amzn.to/2WuEbME
Ingmar Bergman, The Magician (video) – amzn.to/2KlWAZz
Jule Eisenbud, The World of Ted Serios – amzn.to/2KhoC8E
Ingmar Bergman, Wild Strawberries (video) – amzn.to/38cqTKg
Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal (video) – amzn.to/3h4VY6z
Robert Darnton, Mesmerism – amzn.to/3h4ihcO
Jeffrey Mishlove, The PK Man – amzn.to/3pixjyz
James Randi, Flim Flam – amzn.to/38gHMn3
Stephen E. Braude, ESP and Psychokinesis – amzn.to/3p64yVz
