Psychologist and historian of parapsychology Rosemarie Pilkington discusses the mysterious case of Dr. Bindelof, a purported spirit communicator associated with a group of teenage séance experimenters in the 1930s. The group reported striking physical phenomena including raps, table movements, photographic anomalies, and communications attributed to a personality identifying itself as Dr. Bindelof. Pilkington explores the [...]

Adrian explores the emerging field of synthetic biology, including the design and creation of entirely new life forms using artificial intelligence. He explains how genomes function as both instruction manuals and component libraries, and how decoding their “grammar” could allow humanity to engineer organisms for medicine, sustainability, and beyond. Woolfson also addresses profound ethical questions, [...]

Edward Hoffman, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and has been an adjunct associate professor at Yeshiva University in New York City for more than 20 years. An award-winning author, his books include Paths to Happiness, The Wisdom of Maimonides, and The Kabbalah Reader and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lectures widely on psychology [...]

In this 2020 video, he discusses the play, Magic, written by G. K. Chesterton that formed the basis for Ingmar Bergman’s 1958 film, The Magician. Both of these productions featured individuals with psychic powers who were mercilessly hounded by hostile representatives of society. He points out that these fictional scenarios closely match the actual treatment [...]

In this video, recorded in 2015, he describes the Indo-European family of languages and the relationship between Sanskrit and other languages of Europe and Asia. In India, Sanskrit developed a unique life as a language used in ritual and as a language for the sacred texts of the Vedanta tradition. Sanskrit became a language for [...]

Fred Alan Wolf is a physicist and author of Space-Time and Beyond, Taking the Quantum Leap, The Body Quantum, Star Wave, Parallel Universes, and The Eagle’s Quest. He describes his interactions with shamans among the North American Sioux Indians and in the jungles of Peru and in England. Shamans see the world as made up of vibrations, using resonance between individuals to [...]

Here he suggests that great writers portray psychic phenomena in a realistic manner. This fact is generally ignored by both parapsychologists and literary critics. He focuses on Shakespeare’s Hamlet in which Hamlet applied parapsychological principles in order to determine whether the ostensible ghost of his father was real and whether the information conveyed by the [...]