Stanley Krippner, PhD, is a Fellow in five APA divisions and past president of two divisions (30 and 32). Formerly, he was director of the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory in Brooklyn, NY. He is the coauthor of Dream Telepathy, Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them, The Mythic Path, and Haunted by [...]

Tamlyn Hunt, JD, is an attorney and renewable-energy specialist. He is the co-originator of the General Resonance Theory of Consciousness, developed in affiliation with Jonathan Schooler at UC, Santa Barbara. He is author of Eco, Ego, Eros: Essays in Philosophy, Spirituality, and Science; Mind, World, God: Science and Spirit in the 21st Century; Solar: Why [...]

Gabriel Kennedy (aka Prop Anon) is the author of Chapel Perilous: The Life & Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson. He is also a visual artist and musician.

Betty J. Kovács, PhD, taught symbolic/mythic language for twenty-five years. She has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Jung Society of Claremont, California, and sits on the Academic Advisory Board of Forever Family Foundation. Dr. Kovács is author of Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World, winner of [...]

Matthew Ingram is author of Retreat: How the Counterculture Invented Wellness.

Ike Baker is an author, lecturer, and independent scholar specializing in Western esoteric traditions. He is the host of the Arcanvm YouTube channel and podcast, where he produces documentary-style presentations exploring the history and practice of magic, mysticism, and occult philosophy. Baker is also a senior adept and temple chief within the Hermetic Order of [...]

Kevin Cann is a contributor to Jeffrey Kripal’s book, How to Think Impossibly. He is a high-functioning, autistic individual. His website is https://platonicsurrealism.com/

Robert Falconer, MA, is a skilled practitioner of Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy. He is coauthor with Richard Schwartz (founder of IFS) of Many Minds One Self: Evidence for a Radical Shift in Paradigm. He is author of The Others Within Us: Internal Family Systems, Porous Mind and Spirit Possession. His website is https://robertfalconer.us/

Dena Merriam is author of a series of books based upon her past-life memories. They include My Journey Through Time: A Spiritual Memoir of Life, Death, and Rebirth; Rukmini and the Turning of Time: The Dawn of an Era; The Untold Story of Sita: An Empowering Tale for Our Time; When the Bright Moon Rises: [...]

Christopher Noël holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from Yale University and a Master’s in Fine Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts where he taught writing for 20 years. He also researches the phenomenon of Sasquatch. He is author of In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing: A Geography of Grief, MindSpeak: Tapping [...]

New Thinking Allowed Host, Jeffrey Mishlove, reflects back on his original intention in founding the New Thinking Allowed channel back in 2015. He explains his vision and his motivation today. He also introduces the New Thinking Allowed Bot, as well as his plans for developing educational programs based upon the archives of this channel.

Charles Upton’s first books of poetry were published in 1968 and 1969 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Light Books in San Francisco. He was then considered the youngest member of the “beat generation” as he was still in high school. He has subsequently written many books associated with the traditionalist school of spirituality including The [...]

Don Lattin, a former journalist, is author of Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge; Following Our Bliss: How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today; The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in [...]

Here he raises the question of whether, on occasions when individuals feel themselves to be receiving psychic gifts through the agency of external entities (spirits, aliens, etc.), they might be actually be projecting from the depths of their own psyche.

Paul Levy is author of The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis, Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil, Awakened By Darkness: When Evil Becomes Your Father, The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality, and Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus that is Plaguing Our World. He has been [...]