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Serena Roney-Dougal, PhD, received a doctoral degree from the University of Surrey, in the United Kingdom, for a parapsychological dissertation. She is author of Where Science and Magic Meet and The Faery Faith: An Integration of Science and Spirit. She resides in Glastonbury, England, where she serves on the Town Council. Her website is psi-researchcentre.co.uk/.
Here she recounts her years of experience in India and Ladakh working with both advanced yoga practitioners and advanced Tibetan Buddhist meditators. She was interested in exploring the relationship between meditation experience and psychic ability. She also describes her encounters with Tibetan oracles.
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 currently serves as Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science.
(Recorded on September 4, 2020)
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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 Faery Faith: An Integration of Science With Spirit by Serena Roney-Dougal, click here: amzn.to/34y9CL8
LINKS TO OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO INTERVIEW:
Serena Roney-Dougal, Where Science and Magic Meet – amzn.to/2EyAz6s
Georg Feuerstein (Trans.), The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali – amzn.to/32J4iDE
Dalai Lama, Freedom in Exile – amzn.to/3mzFbuN
Stanley Krippner, Dream Telepathy – amzn.to/2HibjD5
Swami Satchidananda, A Yoga Master's Early Days in India and Sri Lanka – amzn.to/3mzfhqZ
Swami Sivananda, Thought Power – amzn.to/3cetqFn
Erlendur Haraldsson, Modern Miracles – amzn.to/2RK44Wl
Alexandra David-Neel, Magic and Mystery in Tibet – amzn.to/2B2F3Bb
John Baldock (Ed.), The Tibetan Book of the Dead – amzn.to/3iO03fs
Serena Roney-Dougal, PhD, received a doctoral degree from the University of Surrey, in the United Kingdom, for a parapsychological dissertation. She is author of Where Science and Magic Meet and The Faery Faith: An Integration of Science and Spirit. She resides in Glastonbury, England, where she serves on the Town Council. Her website is psi-researchcentre.co.uk/.
Here she recounts her years of experience in India and Ladakh working with both advanced yoga practitioners and advanced Tibetan Buddhist meditators. She was interested in exploring the relationship between meditation experience and psychic ability. She also describes her encounters with Tibetan oracles.
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 currently serves as Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science.
(Recorded on September 4, 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.
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 Faery Faith: An Integration of Science With Spirit by Serena Roney-Dougal, click here: amzn.to/34y9CL8
LINKS TO OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO INTERVIEW:
Serena Roney-Dougal, Where Science and Magic Meet – amzn.to/2EyAz6s
Georg Feuerstein (Trans.), The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali – amzn.to/32J4iDE
Dalai Lama, Freedom in Exile – amzn.to/3mzFbuN
Stanley Krippner, Dream Telepathy – amzn.to/2HibjD5
Swami Satchidananda, A Yoga Master's Early Days in India and Sri Lanka – amzn.to/3mzfhqZ
Swami Sivananda, Thought Power – amzn.to/3cetqFn
Erlendur Haraldsson, Modern Miracles – amzn.to/2RK44Wl
Alexandra David-Neel, Magic and Mystery in Tibet – amzn.to/2B2F3Bb
John Baldock (Ed.), The Tibetan Book of the Dead – amzn.to/3iO03fs
