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Meditation, Neuroscience, New Thinking Allowed, Parapsychology, Psi, Psychedelics, Psycho-Spiritual Evolution, Science, Spirituality
Science and Spirituality
Mona shares her transformation from being a diehard scientific materialist to an open-minded spiritual seeker and suggests collaboration among all scientific fields to help understand the nature of reality. 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 of the Universe. She writes about the psychedelic renaissance, altered states of consciousness, and the transpersonal In the Brave New World of Psychedelic Science on Substack.…
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First In Studio Guest for New Thinking Allowed
I am grateful for my first in studio interview on March 1st with the wonderful Shannon Taggart for New Thinking Allowed talking about art, the invisible world, and parapsychology. We had so much fun! Thank you for the great time and fascinating conversations, on and off the camera! Check out her incredible book, Séance, full of fabulous pictures and stories. Thank you, Shannon Taggart! I look forward to more conversations with you. Full interview will be released in a couple of weeks on my New Thinking Allowed playlist on YouTube.
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Afterlife, Channeling, Death, Grief, Loss, Love, Meditation, New Thinking Allowed, Parapsychology, Relationships
Love and Impermanance
When you suffer a loss, such as Matthew McKay’s, how do you recover or heal from grief? He lost his son. Now, he shares how they can communicate and the love that binds them together. Matthew McKay, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, professor of psychology at the Wright Institute, co-founder of Haight Ashbury Psychological Services, founder of the Berkeley CBT Clinic, and co-founder of the Bay Area Trauma Recovery Clinic, which serves low-income clients. He has authored and co-authored more than 40 books, including The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook, Seeking Jordan: How I Learned the Truth about Death and the Invisible Universe, The Luminous Landscape of the Afterlife: Jordan’s…
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New Thinking Allowed’s New CoHost, Emmy Vadnais
New Thinking Allowed’s New CoHost, Emmy Vadnais A New Role Model for the Fields of Intuitive Development and Integrative Health By D. J. Rees September 8, 2022 Read or download a PDF of this article here. Marking a historic moment with the highly esteemed production of New Thinking Allowed (NTA), a well-known YouTube channel with over 127,000 subscribers, while simultaneously paving the path into the future of parapsychological studies, Emmy Vadnais will be answering your questions on September 11th, 2022, as NTA’s new CoHost during a Live Stream Event.1 Who is Emmy Vadnais? Well, we will get to that in just a few moments and what important roles she has…
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Compassion, New Thinking Allowed, Oneness, Out-of-Body Experience, Parapsychology, Peace, Spirituality
Spirituality and Out-of-Body Experience
Have you ever had an out-of-body experience? Here’s a great conversation I had with Graham Nicholls on New Thinking Allowed. Graham describes the out-of-body (OBE) as an immersive psychic experience that includes sensations of floating and movement beyond the physical body. OBEs can occur during deep relaxation, exhaustion, sleep, and near-death experiences. A person can directly experience their spirit, inner peace, compassion, and oneness with everything. OBEs may assist to diminish the fear of death. He shares his art installations, technology, and suggestions on how to induce an OBE. Graham Nicholls has 35 years’ experience having out-of-body experiences and researching them. He has participated in research at the Rhine Research…
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Psychopathologizing Psychic Phenomena
We all have them, but don’t always feel comfortable talking about them for fear of judgment. This is an enlightening conversation for those who are concerned about sharing psychic, intuitive, or paranormal experiences. Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L interviewed Dr. Paul J. Leslie about Psychopathologizing Psychic Phenomena on New Thinking Allowed. Dr. Paul J. Leslie shares that the norm may be that most people, including mental health practitioners, have psychic and paranormal experiences. However, people often don’t share their experiences for fear of being thought of as crazy or diagnosed with a mental health disorder. He differentiates between what may be a psychic experience or a pathology. If the experience is comforting…