In this 2020 rebooted video, he discusses the history of Western and Eastern traditions concerning the right and left hand spiritual paths, particularly tantra as practiced by the Aghori sect. He relates this to the left and right divisions in politics, as well as the cultural distinction between conservative/classical and romantic. The discussion also encompasses [...]

In this 2021 rebooted video, he distinguishes between “shamanic practitioners” such as himself and authentic shamans who work within very specific cultural traditions and are acknowledged as such by their community. As a psychologist, he incorporates drumming, chanting, and other trance and animistic practices, from various cultures, into his work and personal life. He points [...]

Emile explores the romance of metaphysics as the love of the idea, tracing its rigorous tradition from Aristotle’s unmoved mover and primacy of thinking through Plato’s forms and the allegory of the cave. He examines Neoplatonic developments with Plotinus, Iamblichus, and Proclus, highlighting the ineffable, nondiscursive insight, ritual, and the tension between reason and mystery [...]

In this video, rebooted from 2021, she contrasts the “eternalist” view of physics, as expressed in the idea of a “block universe” based on Einstein’s theory of relativity, with a “dynamical” view as expressed in the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics. These interpretations of the physical universe both allow some form of human postmortem survival [...]

The late Kathleen Speeth, PhD, was a clinical psychologist and co-editor (with Daniel Goleman) of Essential Psychotherapies. She is author of The Gurdjieff Work and Gurdjieff: Seeker of the Truth. She was a faculty member of the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology in Menlo Park, California.

Nancy du Tertre recounts her 2019 St. Petersburg psychokinesis training that became a cult-like ordeal of isolation, deprivation, obedience and mind-control. She shows how trained professionals fall into subtle traps, notes anomalous PK amid the abuse, and later research linking the founder to child-sexual-abuse claims and elite networks. The talk explores mind control in closed [...]

In this video, originally released in 2021, he describes his research activities with mediums. He notes that most mediums say that they can distinguish between spirit communication and other forms of psychic functioning. He has endeavored to find physiological and psychological markers of accurate psi-mediated information from mediums with tantalizing and suggestive results. He is [...]

This stimulating conversation, recorded in 2021, explores the very nature of music and covers different music genres including blues, rock, gospel, jazz, new age, and even punk. Some of the many musicians discussed include John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Carlos Santana, Paul Horn, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Robert Johnson, Enya, Brian Wilson, Allen Ginsberg, Bob [...]