Mitch Horowitz is the author of many books on esoterica, spirituality, mysticism and the occult. Among his titles are The Seeker’s Guide to the Secret Teachings of All Ages, The Miracle Club, One Simple Idea, and Occult America. His website is https://mitchhorowitz.com/.

Richard Reichbart, JD, PhD, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst. For thirty five years, he has maintained a private practice for the treatment of adults, adolescents and children in Northern New Jersey. In addition, he is a short story writer, a parapsychologist, and a poet. He is author of The Paranormal Surrounds Us: Psychic Phenomena [...]

Here Jeffrey Mishlove engages in a dialogue with himself about the paradigm shift that would be required for the paranormal to become normalized. He compares this to the paradigm change that occurred from the belief that witches must be put to death to the belief that there is no such thing as a real witch. [...]

Loyd Auerbach, MS, received his masters’ degree in parapsychology from John F. Kennedy University. He is author of Mind Over Matter; ESP, Hauntings, and Poltergeists: A Parapsychologist’s Handbook;  Psychic Dreaming: Dreamworking, Reincarnation, Out-of-Body Experiences & Clairvoyance; and Ghost Hunting: How to Investigate the Paranormal. He is co-author (with Ed May, Joseph McMoneagle, and Victor Rubel) of [...]

Gary Lachman is the author of twenty-one books on topics ranging from the evolution of consciousness to literary suicides, popular culture and the history of the occult. He has written a rock and roll memoir of the 1970s, biographies of Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, C. G. Jung, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Emanuel Swedenborg, P. D. Ouspensky, and Colin Wilson, histories of [...]

Imants Barušs is Professor of Psychology at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is author of The Personal Nature of Notions of Consciousness: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of the Role of the Personal in the Understanding of Consciousness, Science as a Spiritual Practice, Alterations of Consciousness: An Empirical Analysis [...]

Patricia A. DeYoung, PhD has a Masters of Social Work and a PhD in Philosophy of Education from the University of Toronto. She is a Registered Clinical Social Worker in Ontario, Canada and has been a practitioner of psychotherapy since 1996. She was a founding faculty member of the Toronto Institute for Relational Psychotherapy, where [...]

Mark Solms is Director of Neuropsychology at the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town. He is also Honorary Lecturer in Neurosurgery at the St Bartholomew’s & Royal London Hospital School of Medicine and an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists. He is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the [...]

Julia Gordon-Bramer, MFA, is author of Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath, Decoding Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy”: Discover the Layers of Meaning Beyond the Brute, Decoding Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus”: Freedom’s Feminine Fire, Tarot Life Lessons: Living Wisdom from the Major Arcana, and most recently The Occult Sylvia Plath: The Hidden Spiritual Life of [...]

Eric Wargo, PhD, an anthropologist, is author of Time Loops, Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self: Interpreting Messages From Your Future, and most recently From Nowhere: Artists, Writers, and the Precognitive Imagination. His website is https://www.thenightshirt.com/

Diane Hennacy Powell, MD, is author of The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena. She has used her training in neuroscience and psychiatry to investigation the psychic abilities of autistic savants.

Gary Lachman is the author of over twenty books about the history of esotericism and its influence on politics and society. He has written biographies of Carl Jung, Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Emanuel Swedenborg, P. D. Ouspensky, and Colin Wilson. His newest book is Maurice Nicoll: The Forgotten Teacher of the Fourth [...]

Davis K. Brimberg, PhD, is a clinical psychologist. She has also studied dance and theater extensively as an adolescent and young adult. She is author of Teachings From the Gatekeeper: A Memoir and Journey into Parapsychology. Her website is https://www.drdaviskbrimberg.com/

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 [...]

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/

00:28:50 Emptiness vs. nothingRobert Thurman, PhD, is professor emeritus at Columbia University where was a teaching professor for 50 years on Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies. He was the first Westerner Tibetan Buddhist monk, ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He is author of many books, including Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth [...]

Here he points to salient psychological and sociological variables that impact both psychic belief systems and psychic laboratory performance.

David Hanscom, MD, is author of, Back in Control: A Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain and Do You Really Need Spine Surgery?: Take Control with a Spine Surgeon’s Advice. Dr. Hanscom is an orthopedic complex spinal deformity surgeon who quit his surgical practice in 2019 to focus on teaching people how to break loose [...]