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Matthew Ingram is author of Retreat: How the Counterculture Invented Wellness.
In this 2020 video, he describes two major styles of meditation that he, himself, practices – Vipassana or mindfulness meditation, based on pure awareness, and Vedic mantra meditation. The cultural context for meditation practice is crucial. There is a close relationship between Eastern meditative practices and western forms of psychotherapy. Other western disciplines, such as self-hypnosis are akin to meditation. The discussion also focuses on abuses that can occur between teachers of meditation and their students. His website is http://www.woebot.com.
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 19, 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 Retreat: How the Counterculture Invented Wellness by Matthew Ingram, click here: amzn.to/37EZd1N.
LINKS TO SOME BOOKS SHOWN WITHIN THIS VIDEO:
D. T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism – amzn.to/3hgVcnj
Rose Gimian (Ed.), The Essential Chögyam Trungpa – amzn.to/34GtH15
Baktivedanta, The Science of Self-Realization – amzn.to/3mNczgn
Judith Bourque, Robes of Silk Feet of Clay – amzn.to/3pp5x3j
Chögyam Trungpa, Crazy Wisdom – amzn.to/3aIPauj
Swami Satchidananda, A Yoga Master's Early Days – amzn.to/3pou08L
Swami Prakashananda, Baba Muktananda – amzn.to/3hkxI0h
Alan Watts, Psychotherapy East and West – amzn.to/3psO8XB
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living – amzn.to/3ppFqJG
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness for Beginners (audio) – amzn.to/2WO6t4S
Shinzen Young, The Science of Enlightenment – amzn.to/34GeGMU
Ronald Purser, McMindfulness – amzn.to/2M4Kq7X
Wilhelm Reich, The Function of the Orgasm – amzn.to/34nQizT
Sri Ramakrishna, Sayings – amzn.to/3mQjMfU
Lama Govinda, Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism – amzn.to/2WJSpcT
Matthew Ingram is author of Retreat: How the Counterculture Invented Wellness.
In this 2020 video, he describes two major styles of meditation that he, himself, practices – Vipassana or mindfulness meditation, based on pure awareness, and Vedic mantra meditation. The cultural context for meditation practice is crucial. There is a close relationship between Eastern meditative practices and western forms of psychotherapy. Other western disciplines, such as self-hypnosis are akin to meditation. The discussion also focuses on abuses that can occur between teachers of meditation and their students. His website is http://www.woebot.com.
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 19, 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 Retreat: How the Counterculture Invented Wellness by Matthew Ingram, click here: amzn.to/37EZd1N.
LINKS TO SOME BOOKS SHOWN WITHIN THIS VIDEO:
D. T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism – amzn.to/3hgVcnj
Rose Gimian (Ed.), The Essential Chögyam Trungpa – amzn.to/34GtH15
Baktivedanta, The Science of Self-Realization – amzn.to/3mNczgn
Judith Bourque, Robes of Silk Feet of Clay – amzn.to/3pp5x3j
Chögyam Trungpa, Crazy Wisdom – amzn.to/3aIPauj
Swami Satchidananda, A Yoga Master's Early Days – amzn.to/3pou08L
Swami Prakashananda, Baba Muktananda – amzn.to/3hkxI0h
Alan Watts, Psychotherapy East and West – amzn.to/3psO8XB
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living – amzn.to/3ppFqJG
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness for Beginners (audio) – amzn.to/2WO6t4S
Shinzen Young, The Science of Enlightenment – amzn.to/34GeGMU
Ronald Purser, McMindfulness – amzn.to/2M4Kq7X
Wilhelm Reich, The Function of the Orgasm – amzn.to/34nQizT
Sri Ramakrishna, Sayings – amzn.to/3mQjMfU
Lama Govinda, Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism – amzn.to/2WJSpcT
