Here Pat shares insights from her work as a relational psychotherapist and from her research on chronic shame. She discusses shame’s relationship to addiction, narcissism, and to the dysregulation in ourselves and in the culture writ large.

In this interview, rebooted from 2016, he explains why he felt the need to coin the term, “anomalous cognition,” to refer to phenomena previously known as extrasensory perception, clairvoyance, or remote viewing. He then describes a variety of research questions that concerned him – such as how to find the most talented subjects and under [...]

Countless factors can mitigate against self-observation in Western society. Charles Tart, PhD, noted psychologist and author of Waking Up, suggests we begin by learning to focus on seemingly trivial details such as bodily sensations. Through repeated and diligent practice, he says, the process of self-observation leads us to a larger view of ourselves and our [...]

In this rebooted video from 2016, he notes that, while the question of reincarnation in robots seems outlandish, most of our present technology would have seemed nonsensical and incomprehensible to earlier generations of humans. He quotes the 14th Dalai Lama who suggested (half-jokingly) that artificial intelligence programmers of the future might incarnate into robots. He [...]

In this video, rebooted from 2016, he suggests that there exists an immune system for the human psyche that serves to protect us from invading thought forms and spiritual entities. This system is traditionally identified by spiritists as the “perispirit” and by Theosophists as the “etheric body”. It can be enhanced through the use of [...]

In this video, rebooted from 2016, he describes his complex relationship with individuals he terms “scoffers” of parapsychology. Some of these individuals have labeled him a “charlatan” and have also consistently misrepresented the details of his own research – even after having been repeatedly corrected. However, on other occasions he has developed good working relationships [...]