David Lorimer is the Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network. He has edited several books, including The Spirit of Science: From Experiment to Experience, Thinking Beyond the Brain: A Wider Science of Consciousness, and The Circle of Sacred Dance: Peter Deunov’s Paneurythmy. He has also authored a number of books including Survival: Death [...]

Vladimir Miskovic was formerly Assistant Professor of Psychology and Integrative Neuroscience at Binghamton University (SUNY) and a research scientist at X: The Moonshot Factory, previously known as Google X. He is also a former novice monk. He is coauthor with Stephen Jay Lynn of Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of [...]

Matthew Ingram is known for throwing raves in West Africa in 1993, writing for Teletubbies, his cult music blog Woebot, writing for the Wire and FACT magazines, setting up the Dissensus forum and putting out a series of LPs. His “Vitamin C” animated documentary was shown at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival. He is [...]

Matthew Ingram is known for throwing raves in West Africa in 1993, writing for Teletubbies, his cult music blog Woebot, writing for the Wire and FACT magazines, setting up the Dissensus forum and putting out a series of LPs. His “Vitamin C” animated documentary was shown at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival. He is [...]

Jeffrey Mishlove reflects on Forays into Hyperspace, the memoir of physicist and consciousness theorist Saul-Paul Sirag, a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area consciousness movement of the 1970s–90s. Mishlove shares personal memories of their close friendship, their time at the Institute for the Study of Consciousness, and Sirag’s development of a higher-dimensional, mathematical [...]

Charles T. Tart, PhD, was emeritus professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, as well as the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He was a past-president of the Parapsychological Association. He has published over 100 scientific papers in parapsychology. He was editor of several anthologies including Altered States of Consciousness, Transpersonal Psychologies, Mind at [...]

Charles T. Tart, PhD, was emeritus professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, as well as the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He was a past-president of the Parapsychological Association. He has published over 100 scientific papers in parapsychology. He was editor of several anthologies including Altered States of Consciousness, Transpersonal Psychologies, Mind at [...]

Russell Targ, a laser physicist, cofounded the remote viewing research program at SRI International. He is coauthor of Mind Reach, The Mind Race, Miracles of Mind, The Heart of the Mind, and The End of Suffering. He is author of Limitless Mind and The Reality of ESP: A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities. He is [...]

Etzel Cardeña, PhD, holds the endowed Thorsen Chair in psychology at Lund University in Sweden, where he directs the Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology (CERCAP). Among his books are Varieties of Anomalous Experience published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and now in its second edition, the two-volumes Altering Consciousness: A Multidisciplinary [...]

Nancy Zingrone received her doctorate in psychology from the University of Edinburgh for her dissertation examining the debates concerning he legitimacy of parapsychology. She is joining the faculty of the California Institute for Human Science where she will be teaching the early history of parapsychology and psychical research. She is now a Core Distinguished part-time [...]

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.

Charles T. Tart, PhD, is emeritus professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis. He is a past-president of the Parapsychological Association. He has published over 100 scientific papers in parapsychology. He is editor of several anthologies including Altered States of Consciousness, Transpersonal Psychologies, Mind at Large, and Body Mind Spirit: Exploring the Parapsychology [...]

Jeffrey J. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought and former chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His books include Kali’s Child, Esalen, Authors of the Impossible, The Serpent’s Gift, Mutants and Mystics, The Supernatural (with Whitley Strieber), Secret Body, The Flip: Epiphanies [...]

Etzel Cardeña holds the endowed Thorsen Chair in psychology at Lund University in Sweden, where he directs the Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology (CERCAP). Among his books are Varieties of Anomalous Experience published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and now in its second edition, the two-volume Altering Consciousness: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, [...]

Mike Jay is a freelance journalist and cultural historian. He is author of many books including Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind; Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century; High Society: The Central Role of Mind-Altering Drugs in History, Science and Culture; Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic; This [...]

This video is a special release from the original Thinking Allowed series that ran on public television from 1986 until 2002. It was recorded in about 1987. It will remain public for only one week.

In this interview by Jana Rogge, managing editor of the New Thinking Allowed Magazine, he describes his early years as a student of parapsychology.

Heidi Jurka is author of The Making of a Psychic. During the period from 1976 to 1979 she worked closely with parapsychologist Andrija Puharich on his “space kids” project. She was living in Puharich’s house in August 1978 when the place was set on fire by an arsonist.