Here he discusses the second “cosmic law” formulated by his friends, Dean and Wendy Brown. He also pays tribute to Dean Brown, who was a major source of inspiration and guidance for him. He relates the principle of progressive contraries to the Dialectic philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. He shows how one can apply [...]

Here he shares some contemplations about the nature of pure nothingness. He notes that the universe began with nothing and that cosmologists suggest it will eventually return to nothing. This is also true, it seems, of consciousness itself. The great insight of Buddhism, regarding the nature of Nirvana, also relates to nothingness. Yet, in order [...]

Here he reflects on the idea that “we are the stuff that dreams are made of”. He notes that the line comes from Prospero, the magus in Shakespeare’s great play, The Tempest. Shakespeare was influenced by the Hermetic tradition and, it seems, meant the line to be taken seriously. Jeff also refers to an online [...]

Here he focuses on a research study published in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, titled “An Exploratory Study of Lucid Dreams Concerning Deceased Persons” by Annakatrin Puhle and Adrian Parker. Ninety participants were asked to practice a technique for inducing lucid dreams. Of these, 28 reported lucid dreams of deceased persons. A [...]

Here he describes the “As If” philosophy of Hans Vaihinger. He first learned of this approach when it was used as a justification for removing a resident at the Institute for the Study of Consciousness in Berkeley, CA. The philosophy suggests that — since we lack the means to validate or falsify many hypotheses in [...]

Here he reminisces about his mother, Rose Mishlove, who taught yoga for thirty years. This video was recorded on Mother’s Day. He also describes his mother’s career as an actress; and how she continued to perform, even while suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

Here he refers to Rudolf Steiner’s writings on the important of taking responsibility for our thoughts. He suggests that each and every thought we have is a spiritual entity. He points to other recognized spiritual entities — deities, ghosts, archetypes, tulpas, and pookas. He references the movie, Harvey, about a six-foot tall, invisible rabbit (or [...]

Here he describes a major scientific experiment, recently reported, that is the latest confirmation of research originally described in the 1975 edition of his book, The Roots of Consciousness. The study involves a sophisticated confirmation of Bell’s Theorem in physics and addresses the question of whether an external world exists independent of our observations. This [...]

Here he reflects on how Einstein’s theory of relativity treats time as relative to the speed travelled by various observers. The faster one travels, the slower time moves. So, at the speed of light, time stops completely. A human being traveling at the speed of light could traverse the entire universe without growing one day [...]

Here he discusses the probability that, to the extent we each wish to protect the private aspects of our lives, we contribute (unconsciously) to the suppression of psychic abilities in our culture. The Freudian theory of the unconscious makes it clear that we all are engaged in hiding some aspects of ourselves from ourselves. He [...]

Here he describes his views, as a parapsychologist, of the field of psychotronics. He mentions that he is an invited guest speaker at the 40th annual meeting of the U.S. Psychotronics Association, in the Chicago area, in July 2018. He also presents two short videos, recorded with U.S.P.A. president, Dr. Beverly Rubik.

Here he explains that Spiritism was originally founded by a French pedagogue who wrote under the pen name of Allan Kardec. Spiritism took root in Brazil where it combined with African religions brought by slaves. Perhaps the most famous of Brazilian Spiritist mediums was Chico Xavier, who wrote many books presumed to be dictated by [...]