Mona Sobhani, PhD, is a cognitive neuroscientist who is a former research scientist at the University of Southern California and is the co-founder of Exploring Consciousness, a community of curious scientists who are seeking to understand consciousness and spirituality. She is the author of Proof of Spiritual Phenomena: A Neuroscientist’s Discovery of the Ineffable Mysteries [...]

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 [...]

Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, is a computer scientist, who has also 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, Decoding Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics, and Decoding Jung’s Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of [...]

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. Kovacs is author of Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World, winner of [...]

Jeffrey Mishlove dialogues with himself about reality and illusion as it pertains to life after death. He draws upon the concept of “the plane of illusion” as articulated in the automatic writing ostensibly dictated by the deceased Frederic Myers in Geraldine Cummins’ book, The Road to Immortality. He also draws upon discussions between Sir Oliver [...]

Jeffrey Mishlove interviews himself, once again, about some of the deepest problems confronting philosophy, psychology, and parapsychology. He draws upon New Thinking Allowed conversations with Ruth Kastner, Bernardo Kastrup, Stephani Stephens, Stuart Hameroff, and Charles Tart to explain the barely explored continents of consciousness including the collective unconscious, the afterlife, and realms of nonhuman entities. [...]

Peter B. Todd, MAPS, a psychotherapist with a Jungian orientation, is author of The Individuation of God: Integrating Science and Religion. He experienced clinical death, during cardiac surgery, in 2005, and was subsequently revived. He was also a gold medalist at the 1982 Gay Games in San Francisco.

Andy Hilton is author of Anthropology and Mysticism in the Making of Initiation. He is also coeditor of the anthology, Perspectives on Commoning.