In this conversation, Karl Friston unpacks epistemic trust in everyday terms—how our brains decide who to learn from and what to believe amid deepfakes, polarized media, and belonging needs. We explore why “learning gates” open with felt safety and shared narratives, how attachment histories bias trust, and why body signals are critical red flags for [...]

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He describes his long-standing interest in the field of medical intuition for the purpose of diagnosis. He points out that the best medical intuitives with whom he had worked had comparatively rare natural abilities. He speaks about his own approach to intuition as it pertains to the development of new approaches to healing. He speaks [...]

He shares some insights into the life and poetry of the great Sufi master, focusing especially on the unique relationship between Rumi and his spiritual lover and mentor, Shams of Tabriz. Through careful analysis, he explicates various lines of poetry that have seemed awkward or disconnected to critics. He illuminates the unique stages of ecstasy [...]

In this conversation, Mike explores truth as a form of medicine—touching on intergenerational trauma, shame and shadow, self-love, nondual awareness, and how psychedelics and meditation can help us live more coherently, compassionately, and wholeheartedly.

She explains that, since early childhood, she has experienced beings of light as well as energy patterns around people. This led her to search for both answers and practical applications. Her film, Superhuman, offers a synthesis of scientific and philosophical interpretations — as well as on-camera practical demonstrations of extrasensory perception and psychokinesis. 

Kelvin Chin discusses his spontaneous memories of past lives, describing how these experiences emerged naturally over decades through meditation and deep relaxation. He explains how these memories span multiple eras, cultures, and even non-human forms, offering insights into consciousness, the afterlife, and the continuity of mind. Kelvin also emphasizes the practical value of such experiences [...]

Most brain researchers believe we will eventually explain the mind in terms of neurological functioning. According to Dr. Julian Isaacs, PhD,  this materialist view is inconsistent with the evidence of parapsychology. New developments in areas such as theoretical physics, says Dr. Isaacs, may eventually lead to an understanding of the common ground connecting mind and [...]

Steve explores how mainstream media handles stories of the unexplained and why skepticism and belief often clash in reporting the paranormal. He discusses his investigations into lucid dreaming, after-death communication, and the psychological challenges that follow extraordinary experiences. Volk shares how personal encounters—from family hauntings to precognitive dreams—reshaped his understanding of reality and journalism’s responsibility [...]

Simon Duan discusses his hypothesis of Platonic computation, a postmaterialist model proposing that consciousness, mind, and matter emerge from a deeper non-physical realm of forms. He explains how this framework may illuminate the enigmatic Dodleston Messages, a decades-old case involving anomalous communications that appear to originate from both the past and the future. Duan explores [...]

He describes his work in the field of energy medicine — including the use of a variety of electromagnetic devices that he invented, researched, and patented. In particular, he focuses on pulsed electromagnetic field technology. He also describes his work in the area of spiritual energies, including medical intuition, communication with spirit beings, and reincarnation. [...]

He explains that the many tests performed with regard to Bell’s Theorem in physics have now clearly demonstrated that what we conventionally consider the objective world does not exist independent of our own observations. This is a serious problem for metaphysical materialism. However, it is easily reconciled by the metaphysics of the nineteenth century philosopher, [...]

He discusses a constellation of philosophical perspectives – going back to Nietzsche, Husserl, and Heidegger – and their implications for science in general and parapsychology in particular. The discussion is also peppered with references to feminism, psychoanalysis, marginalized social groups, post-structuralism, and the European Enlightenment. He points out that William James was, essentially, a phenomenologist.

Arnaud explores the neuroscience of mind wandering, explaining how spontaneous thought arises, why it is universal, and how it relates to meditation and brain networks. He discusses the default mode network, metacognition, and how awareness of wandering thoughts reveals the dynamic nature of consciousness. Delorme also shares practical insights into tuning the mind through meditation [...]

George Leonard was an aikido black belt and creator of the Leonard Energy Training system. He served as a senior editor of Look magazine and as president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. He authored numerous books, including Education and Ecstasy, The Silent Pulse, The Ultimate Athlete, The Transformation, and Walking on the Edge of [...]

Jason Gregory explores the essence of Taoism, emphasizing its critique of social conditioning and its guidance toward naturalness, spontaneity, and effortless being. He explains how Taoist ideas intersect with Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, and wider metaphysical traditions, revealing a shared vision of an undivided reality beneath cultural structures. Gregory also discusses practices such as wu wei, [...]

She describes a year long project, paid for by a consulting client, in which she endeavored to establish telepathic communication with a variety of non-human, presumably extra-terrestrial or extra-dimensional, entities. Admittedly, the results of this effort are highly speculative. However, she was surprised at how extraordinarily real the experience felt. A spreadsheet describing the characteristics [...]

Together with his beloved wife, Tamra Lucid, Ronnie Pontiac wrote The Unobstructed Way, a book about the spiritual insights gleaned by the popular author, Stewart White, in the early twentieth century working with his wife Betty who demonstrated mediumistic skills. After Betty’s death, communications from her continued. Ironically, shortly after the book’s completion, Tamra died [...]

Here he shares his passion for parapsychology and psychical research and describes several of his own experiments. He also reviews the history of these disciplines from his unique perspective as a physicist and astronomer. The discussion touches on questions of postmortem survival, reincarnation, telepathy, and UFOs. He shares his memories of the late Professor Ian [...]

He acknowledges his role as a magician conjuring a world in which the human race will enter conscious communication with the spectrum of beings he refers to as “the visitors”. He frankly admits that this is not a task he can accomplish by himself. However, there is a large underground of support. He emphasizes a [...]

San delves into the profound teachings of the Tao Te Ching, exploring its significance, the essence of Lao Tzu, and the magical aspects of Taoism. He describes how the text serves as a manual for self-discovery and spiritual growth, emphasizing the importance of intuition, the paradoxes within the teachings, and the transformative power of reading [...]

Here he explains that he began having lucid dreams as a child and has now made a profession of studying such dreams and facilitating others in experiencing them. For the most part, he recognizes that lucid dreaming is a way of exploring the depths of one’s own psyche – although it can also be viewed [...]

He explains how he came to work with and participate in the ceremonies of native American shamans. In particular he describes his relationship with Wallace Black Elk and also Godfrey Chipps. He speculates that he may have been a Lakota shaman named Hollow Horn in a previous lifetime. He recounts many eyewitness stories regarding medicine [...]

He explains how, as a meditation teacher, he came to see telekinesis (another term for psychokinesis) as a clearly visible way to demonstrate the psychic powers of the human mind. It took him many months to cultivate this ability himself, but it can often be imparted to others within a few hours. The deeper significance [...]

He describes the concept of a virus of the mind, infecting all of humanity. He references the native Cree term Wetiko. However, it could be thought of as Satan or Ahriman or the Archons. In Jungian terms, it involves a projection of one’s own shadow onto elements of the world at large. It is a [...]

Lauren describes how mediumship can transform grief into continuing bonds of love. She gives insights on how mediums can receive accurate and detailed information from the spirit world. Lauren describes practical steps to communicate with loved ones in the spirit world, including how to ask for specific signs and messages, and the role of dreams [...]

Glenn Aparicio Parry explores love as the primordial force underlying nature, consciousness, and the cosmos itself. He describes how ancient wisdom traditions, indigenous worldviews, and modern physics all point toward love as the vibration that restores wholeness amid strife. He also reflects on time, ritual, the moon, and the evolution of human consciousness as pathways [...]

Here he describes different approaches taken to the realm of spirits by scholars in anthropology. He recalls his own fieldwork studying spiritualist mediumship in the United Kingdom. He presents various cases suggesting that spiritual entities are part of the natural world. However, he acknowledges that it is exceedingly tricky to distinguish between living agent psi [...]

David explores how our responses to others’ suffering influence both physical and psychological pain. He describes how schadenfreude — taking pleasure in another person’s suffering — can bring temporary relief, while compassion toward oneself and others may have longer-term effects. Helping others and experiencing connection can support healing, suggesting that altruism may contribute to lasting [...]

Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired Magazine. He posits that our increasingly complex and autonomous machines and systems are becoming indistinguishable from living things. The “neo-biological civilization” is one where the principles of biology—such as decentralized control, evolution, and error-honoring institutions—are necessary to design and manage our technological and social systems. This [...]

He explains that he is using the term hypnagogia to describe explorations of one’s psychic depths including, but not limited to, states associated with sleep and dreaming. He shares a number of his own hypnagogic journeys – starting at the age of five. He discusses the sense of dread that sometimes accompanies these encounters with [...]

Here she describes magical practices dating back to neolithic times in Britain. She explains that certain sites were used for burials, initiations, and ritual activities. These were carefully coordinated with the seasons and the movement of celestial bodies. She describes her own experience inside an ancient chamber of initiation. She also discusses how people’s experience [...]

Stephen A. Diamond, PhD, is an American clinical and forensic psychologist, a former pupil and protégé of Dr. Rollo May, and notable author of Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil and Creativity. His work focuses on the psychological topics of anger, violence, evil, mental illness, and the daimonic.

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Regardless of the physical reality of UFOs, says Jacques Vallée, PhD, the fact that people believe they have experienced contact with alien entities is an appropriate subject for scientific scrutiny. Vallée is a computer scientist, UFO researcher and author whose books include Challenge to Science, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, The Edge of Reality, The Invisible [...]

Kathleen Speeth, PhD, is co-editor (with Daniel Goleman) of The Essential Psychotherapies. She is author of The Gurdjieff Work and Gurdjieff: Seeker of the Truth. She served on the faculty of the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology in Menlo Park, California. She maintains that, underneath the apparent separation of individuals, there is a level of unity and interconnectedness. True liberation, suggests [...]

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He explains that his own paranormal personal history exploration has led him to investigate odd memories associated with ostensible alien encounters. To do so, he sought the help of a hypnotherapist specializing in such cases. He also reached out to an old friend who shared one such experience. In addition to recovered memories, he describes [...]

Here he will review UFO sightings at numerous nuclear missile launch sites. In some cases, these sightings were associated with either activation or deactivation of missile launch sequences. He will also describe personal encounters he has experienced since childhood with ostensible non-human entities. He suggests that these entities are closely monitoring the development of nuclear [...]

She describes how, while attending a psychokinetic training program in Russia, she developed a severe injury to her spine. Upon returning to the United States, immediate surgery was recommended. Nevertheless she attempted, with little success, to treat her condition using holistic methods. In February 2020 she experienced an unusual “more than lucid” dream. Within days, [...]

The late philosopher Huston Smith is emeritus professor of philosophy at Syracuse University. He has also taught at M.I.T. and at U.C. Berkeley. He is author of The World’s Religions, The Primordial Tradition and Beyond the Post-Modern Mind. Here he points out that we confront three essential relationships with nature, with other people, and with ourselves, and that [...]

Deepak shares how artificial intelligence (AI) can become a tool for awakening rather than destruction. While acknowledging that technological progress has surpassed our emotional and spiritual evolution, he offers insight into how we can utilize AI to support our own movement toward wisdom, compassion, and dharma. Used consciously, it can help us remember who we [...]