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 [...]

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 [...]

Ike discusses the history, philosophy, and practice of esoteric ceremonial magic within the Western tradition. He traces its roots from ancient shamanic practices, Greek philosophy, and Egyptian religion through Renaissance occultism and into modern initiatory orders such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Baker explains how ceremonial magic functions as a disciplined exploration [...]

Karen describes her own near-death experiences that awakened her spiritual awareness and led her to explore past lives. She suggests that by remembering past lives one can learn, heal, forgive, and gain new perspectives on a soul level.

In this video from 2020, the discussion focuses on the Esalen Institute, in Big Sur, California, as an important hub of the human potential movement that began in the 1960s and continues to the present day. Topics include gestalt therapy, holotropic breathing, kundalini and the Spiritual Emergence Network, sensory isolation, rebirthing, encounter groups, Rolfing and [...]

Here he describes the marginal scientific status of both parapsychology (data looking for a theory) and psychoanalysis (a theory looking for data). He points to the specific role of Jacques Lacan in focusing on the linguistic aspects of psychoanalysis. He examines some of the internal contradictions with parapsychology, such as its emphasis on the empirical [...]

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 [...]