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Matthew Ingram is known for throwing raves in West Africa in 1993, writing for Teletubbies, his cult music blog Woebot, writing for the Wire and FACT magazines, setting up the Dissensus forum and putting out a series of LPs. His "Vitamin C" animated documentary was shown at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival. He is author of Retreat: How the Counterculture Invented Wellness. His website is woebot.com/.
In this video from 2020, the discussion focuses on the Esalen Institute, in Big Sur, California, as an important hub of the human potential movement that began in the 1960s and continues to the present day. Topics include gestalt therapy, holotropic breathing, kundalini and the Spiritual Emergence Network, sensory isolation, rebirthing, encounter groups, Rolfing and body work, as well as explorations of physics and consciousness.
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 November 2, 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 – 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.
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 New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-thinking-allowed-audio-podcast/id1435178031.
Download & 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 Retreat: How the Counterculture Invented Wellness by Matthew Ingram, click here: amzn.to/37EZd1N.
LINKS TO SOME BOOKS AND VIDEOS MENTIONED WITHIN THIS VIDEO:
Jeffrey Kripal, Esalen – amzn.to/32tlOLC
Christina & Stanislav Grof, The Stormy Search for Self – amzn.to/2ImjQ8L
Stanislav Grof, Healing Our Deepest Wounds – amzn.to/3lepFna
Stanislav Grof, LSD: Doorway to the Numinous – amzn.to/3n6n3rW
Stanislav Grof, Psychology of the Future – amzn.to/3nc3L4e
Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being – amzn.to/36jnmZM
Frederick Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim – amzn.to/32pQwVO
Theodore Roszak, The Making of a Counter Culture – amzn.to/3mkDcK4
William Schutz, Joy – amzn.to/3pcCRv5
Sam Keen, What To Do When You're Bored and Blue – amzn.to/3kgWezi
John Lilly, The Deep Self – amzn.to/34qAP29
Stanislav Grof, The Way of the Psychonaut – amzn.to/3ksknnC
Michael Murphy, The Future of the Body – amzn.to/3eGw08r
Michael Murphy & Rhea White, The Psychic Side of Sports – amzn.to/36p6H6U
Matthew Ingram is known for throwing raves in West Africa in 1993, writing for Teletubbies, his cult music blog Woebot, writing for the Wire and FACT magazines, setting up the Dissensus forum and putting out a series of LPs. His "Vitamin C" animated documentary was shown at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival. He is author of Retreat: How the Counterculture Invented Wellness. His website is woebot.com/.
In this video from 2020, the discussion focuses on the Esalen Institute, in Big Sur, California, as an important hub of the human potential movement that began in the 1960s and continues to the present day. Topics include gestalt therapy, holotropic breathing, kundalini and the Spiritual Emergence Network, sensory isolation, rebirthing, encounter groups, Rolfing and body work, as well as explorations of physics and consciousness.
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 November 2, 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 – 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.
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 New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-thinking-allowed-audio-podcast/id1435178031.
Download & 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 Retreat: How the Counterculture Invented Wellness by Matthew Ingram, click here: amzn.to/37EZd1N.
LINKS TO SOME BOOKS AND VIDEOS MENTIONED WITHIN THIS VIDEO:
Jeffrey Kripal, Esalen – amzn.to/32tlOLC
Christina & Stanislav Grof, The Stormy Search for Self – amzn.to/2ImjQ8L
Stanislav Grof, Healing Our Deepest Wounds – amzn.to/3lepFna
Stanislav Grof, LSD: Doorway to the Numinous – amzn.to/3n6n3rW
Stanislav Grof, Psychology of the Future – amzn.to/3nc3L4e
Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being – amzn.to/36jnmZM
Frederick Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim – amzn.to/32pQwVO
Theodore Roszak, The Making of a Counter Culture – amzn.to/3mkDcK4
William Schutz, Joy – amzn.to/3pcCRv5
Sam Keen, What To Do When You're Bored and Blue – amzn.to/3kgWezi
John Lilly, The Deep Self – amzn.to/34qAP29
Stanislav Grof, The Way of the Psychonaut – amzn.to/3ksknnC
Michael Murphy, The Future of the Body – amzn.to/3eGw08r
Michael Murphy & Rhea White, The Psychic Side of Sports – amzn.to/36p6H6U
