In this video from 2015, he explains that panpsychism is the view that every whole entity in the universe, from the largest to the very smallest, possesses a measure of consciousness. He contrasts panpsychism with materialism, dualism, and idealism. He postulates that panpsychism is consistent with the data of parapsychology and psychical research. He also [...]

In this video from 2015, he discusses the concept of synchronicity as popularized by the great Swiss psychiatrist, Carl G. Jung. Several classical Jungian examples of synchronicity are presented. He makes a point of stressing the non-causal aspect of synchronistic events, pointing out that they are connected in time – but not necessarily in space. [...]

Here he discusses the concept of synchronicity as popularized by the great Swiss psychiatrist, Carl G. Jung. Several classical Jungian examples of synchronicity are presented. He makes a point of stressing the non-causal aspect of synchronistic events, pointing out that they are connected in time – but not necessarily in space. He discusses synchronistic events [...]

Here is challenges many ideas, common in our culture, that people often take for granted without question, such as the notion implicit in the Big Bang concept that the universe came into existence from pure nothingness. He also describes how scientific materialism is generally unquestioned in academic circles. Another concept that often is too implicitly [...]

Here de Quincey describes the process by which he wrote his novel, Deep Spirit: Cracking the Noetic Code, in which he describes a scientist’s communications with a dolphin. He literally wrote 400 pages in a two-week period. Later, while engaged in a shamanistic journey workshop, he came to feel that the novel itself represented a [...]

Here he describes a philosophical thought experiment concerning world of “zombies” that is identical in every physical respect to our normal world of experience – except for the fact that nothing and nobody is conscious. If such a world could exist it would mean that consciousness is not necessarily the product of a human brain. [...]