Jonathan Dinsmore, MS, is an instructor in psychology at the University of Arkansas. He is author of Mystical Luminosity: The Initiation of a Construct Grounded in Phenomenology.

Gary Gach is an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Francisco. He is author of The Idiot’s Guide to Buddhism as well as Pause, Breathe, Smile – Awakening Mindfulness When Meditation is Not Enough. He is cotranslator of three Korean books of poetry by Ko Un. He is editor of What Book!? Buddha [...]

Christopher Naughton, JD, is a former prosecutor and multiple Emmy Award-winning host of The American Law Journal television program. He is author of America’s Next Great Awakening: What the Convergence of Mysticism, Religion, Atheism, and Science Means for the Nation. And You.

Graham Nicholls has 35 years’ experience having out-of-body experiences and researching them. He has participated in research at the Rhine Research Center and the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He is on the Rhine Research Center advisory board. He is author of Avenues of the Human Spirit and Navigating the Out-of-Body Experience: Radical New Techniques. His [...]

Doug Marman, an Eckankar practitioner, is author of The Whole Truth: The Spiritual Legacy of Paul Twitchell; It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi; The Hidden Teachings of Rumi; The Silent Questions: A Spiritual Odyssey; The Spiritual Flow of Life and the Science of Catalysts; Sukhmani: The Secret of Inner Peace; and [...]

Jeffrey Mishlove distinguishes between spiritual entities and a spiritual realm. He suggests that the reality of spirits is dependent upon the level of reality being discussed. Spirits may possess a dream body or an astral body; however, at a deeper level of reality, individual “selves” are something of an illusion created, according to Buddhist thought, [...]

Jeffrey Mishlove references the Illuminationist school of Sufi philosophy, as expounded by the twelfth century Persian philosopher and mystic, Suhrawardi, and popularized in recent times by the French philosopher, Henry Corbin. The concept of the “imaginal” as very distinct from “imagination” is also implicit in Carl G. Jung’s explication of psychological dynamics, as imparted to [...]