William S. Lyon, PhD, an anthropologist, is author of the Encyclopedia of Native American Healing, the Encyclopedia of Native American Shamanism, and Spirit Talkers: North American Indian Medicine Powers. He is coauthor, with Wallace Black Elk of Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota.

Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, is a computer scientist. He is author of Rationalist Spirituality, Why Materialism is Baloney, Dreamed Up Reality, Meaning in Absurdity, Brief Peeks Beyond, More Than Allegory, and The Idea of the World. He has published several papers in Scientific American arguing for metaphysical idealism.

Thomas Brophy, PhD, is president emeritus of the California Institute for Human Science. He also serves as president of the Society for Consciousness Studies. He is author of The Mechanism Demands a Mysticism: An Exploration of Spirit, Matter and Physics (see https://amzn.to/3abDkGz) as well as The Origin Map: Discovery of a Prehistoric, Megalithic, Astrophysical Map [...]

Erik Davis, PhD, a religious historian is author of TechGnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information. His other books include Led Zeppelin IV; High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies; Visionary State: A Journey Through California’s Spiritual Landscape; and Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica.

Jeffrey Mishlove shares a memory of the time when his mentor, Arthur M. Young (inventor of the Bell Helicopter), told him that, if he could live his life over again, he would like to build a UFO. Today such a prospect does not seem entirely far-fetched. Jeffrey shares details regarding “meta-material” that ostensibly came from [...]

William S. Lyon, PhD, an anthropologist, is author of the Encyclopedia of Native American Healing, the Encyclopedia of Native American Shamanism, and Spirit Talkers: North American Indian Medicine Powers. He is coauthor, with Wallace Black Elk of Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota.

Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, is a computer scientist, who has recently completed a second doctoral degree in philosophy. He is author of Rationalist Spirituality, Why Materialism is Baloney, Dreamed Up Reality, Meaning in Absurdity, Brief Peeks Beyond, More Than Allegory, The Idea of the World, and Decoding Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics. He has published several papers on Scientific [...]

New Thinking Allowed host Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, discusses events that seem, on the surface, to be so improbable that the people reporting them are sometimes described as being “paraphrenic” — suffering from psychotic delusions, even if they show no other symptoms of mental disorder. Such individuals have been guests on New Thinking Allowed. Jeffrey suggests [...]