New Thinking Allowed Audio Podcast

Rosicrucian Origins with Ronnie Pontiac

Ronnie Pontiac was the personal research assistant for Manly P. Hall at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles. He is author of American Metaphysical Religion: Esoteric and Mystical Traditions of the New World. He is coauthor with Tamra Lucid of The Magic of the Orphic Hymns: A New Translation for the Modern Mystic.

He explores the true origins of Rosicrucianism, arguing that the famous manifestos were a radical literary and cultural intervention rather than an ancient secret order. Pontiac situates their emergence within the religious, political, and intellectual upheavals of 17th-century Europe, particularly during the Thirty Years’ War. Ronnie reframes Rosicrucianism as a decentralized countercultural movement that spread ideas through symbolism, imagination, and culture rather than hierarchy or initiation.

00:00:01 Introduction: Rosicrucian origins and misconceptions

00:09:38 Religious conflict and the Holy Roman Empire

00:18:20 Emperor Rudolph II and hermetic culture

00:28:22 The Rosicrucian manifestos and public reaction

00:38:33 Alchemical marriage and political mythology

00:47:56 Defeat of Bohemia and shattered hopes

00:56:10 Counterculture and horizontal transmission

01:05:48 The dangers of intellectual hierarchy

01:14:21 Living Rosicrucian principles in practice

01:28:49 Conclusion

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He currently serves as Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science.

(Recorded on December 26, 2025)

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The Globalization of Remote Viewing & IRVA: A Presidential Dialog with Luciano Arruda

Luciano Arruda is the incoming President of the International Remote VIewing Association (IRVA). He’s the Director of Globalization Programs at Automation Anywhere managing global scalable programs and supporting growth initiatives in Asia Pacific, Japan, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. He is fluent in Brazilian Portuguese, Latin American Spanish and English and is a citizen of Brazil, Italy, and the United States. Luciano has been leading IRVA’s International initiatives. The IRVA website is https://www.irva.org/

Luciano shares his journey from discovering remote viewing in 2022 to becoming a key figure in IRVA’s global expansion. Together, Luciano and Debra Katz discuss the intersection of clairvoyance and remote viewing, the challenges of maintaining historical integrity while embracing new applications, and the importance of international community engagement. Learn about the future of remote viewing and the initiatives IRVA is spearheading under Luciano’s leadership.

00:01:28 Introducing IRVA’s new president

00:08:15 Clairvoyant reading versus remote viewing

00:12:57 The expansion of remote viewing internationally

00:26:10 Can we eventually offer free memberships, conferences & classes?

00:33:30 Online conferences versus the joy of in-person togetherness

00:40:10 Pro-military/government versus anti-military

00:52:39 Challenges to recruiting international leadership

01:09:07 The need for unified vision and long-term leadership

Guest Host Debra Lynne Katz, PhD, is IRVA’s outgoing president. She founded the International School of Clairvoyance and has trained students internationally in remote viewing, clairvoyance, and intuitive development for over two decades. She is the author You Are Psychic: The Art of Clairvoyant Reading and Healing, Extraordinary Psychic, The Complete Clairvoyant: A Trilogy, Freeing the Genie Within, and Associative Remote Viewing: The Art and Science of Predicting Outcomes (co-authored with Jon Knowles). She’s a professional remote viewer, clairvoyant and energy healer. She teaches remote viewing at the California Institute for Human Sciences.

(Recorded on December 21, 2025)

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Evidence of the Afterlife Can Heal Your Suffering with Lauren Robertson

Lauren Robertson, MA, is a spirit communicator, transformational coach, and speaker. She has conducted 15,000+ sittings and public demonstrations globally. She is author of Medium in Manolos: A Life Affirming Guide to Modern Mediumship. She writes the Art and Science of Mediumship on Substack. As a psychic medium she helps people explore their spirituality and overcome difficult emotions to live freer and happier lives. Lauren studied philosophy and literature, specializing in Consciousness Studies, at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. (website and link to meditation on her site)

Lauren describes how mediumship can transform grief into continuing bonds of love. She gives insights on how mediums can receive accurate and detailed information from the spirit world. Lauren describes practical steps to communicate with loved ones in the spirit world, including how to ask for specific signs and messages, and the role of dreams and imagery in connecting with the afterlife.

00:00:00 Introduction

00:03:32 Burden of proof

00:12:49 Mediumship personality traits

00:23:37 Trust, practice, and skills

00:34:09 Living agent psi

00:38:31 Not a final goodbye

00:43:30 Direct communication with loved ones

00:48:31 Receiving signs and messages

00:57:35 Filling darkness with light

01:06:29 Conclusion

New Thinking Allowed CoHost, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, is a licensed occupational therapist, intuitive healer and coach, and spiritual guide based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Emmy is the founder of the Intuitive Connections and Holistic OT communities. She is the author of Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. Her website is https://emmyvadnais.com

(Recorded on October 7, 2025)

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MetaTheurgy with Kevin Cann

Kevin Cann is a contributor to Jeffrey Kripal’s book How to Think Impossibly. He is a high-functioning autistic individual whose perspectives inform his philosophical work. Cann is the originator of a worldview he calls Platonic Surrealism.

Kevin Cann explores MetaTheurgy as an expansion of ancient theurgy, reframing ritual, consciousness, and wonderworking through the contemporary lens of his system, Platonic Surrealism. He explains how human beings function as interfaces between awareness, potentiality, monadic consciousness, and the physical world, offering practical methods to restore agency in a postmodern culture marked by alienation. Cann also discusses how ritual, transcendence, and expanded states of mind can foster healing, meaning, and participation in a larger cosmic process.

00:00:01 Introduction: metatheurgy and expanded awareness

00:01:42 Origins, Platonic surrealism, and, ancient theurgy

00:03:48 Wonderworking, UFO summoning, and, altered states

00:07:03 Metamodern, moving beyond postmodern despair

00:12:02 Rituals, daily practices, and, reframing life

00:15:12 Healing, empowerment, and, suffering in modern life

00:29:47 Wonderworking, personal transformation as the core

00:33:21 Freewill, determinism, and, feedback loops

00:44:06 Human beings, monads, souls, and, plasma symbiosis

01:08:53 Conclusion

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science.

(Recorded on December 9, 2025)

For a short video on How to Get the Most From New Thinking Allowed, go to https://youtu.be/aVbfPFGxv9o

For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see https://newthinkingallowed.com/Listings.htm.

Check out the New Thinking Allowed Foundation website at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as opportunities to shop and to support our video productions – plus, this is where people can subscribe to our FREE, weekly Newsletter and can download a FREE .pdf copy of our quarterly magazine.

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Check out New Thinking Allowed’s AI chatbot. You can create a free account at awakin.ai/open/jeffreymishlove. When you enter the space, you will see that our chatbot is one of several you can interact with. While it is still a work in progress, it has been trained on 1,600 NTA transcripts. It can provide intelligent answers about the contents of our interviews. It’s almost like having a conversation with Jeffrey Mishlove.

If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to [email protected].

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To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-thinking-allowed-audio-podcast/id1435178031.

Download and read Jeffrey Mishlove’s Grand Prize essay in the Bigelow Institute competition, Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death, go to https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/docs/1st.pdf.

You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on https://amzn.to/3LzLA7Y (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.)

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Truth, Love and Psychedelic Healing with Michael Ryoshin Sapiro

Dr. Michael Ryoshin Sapiro, PsyD, is an ordained Zen Buddhist monk, clinical psychologist, psychedelic psychotherapist, and author of Truth Medicine: Healing and Living Authentically through Psychedelic Psychotherapy. A Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and longtime meditation teacher and researcher, he works extensively with special operations veterans, first responders, and others on the front lines of trauma and service. His work weaves Buddhism, depth psychology, and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy into a path of personal awakening for the sake of collective transformation.

In this conversation, Mike explores truth as a form of medicine—touching on intergenerational trauma, shame and shadow, self-love, nondual awareness, and how psychedelics and meditation can help us live more coherently, compassionately, and wholeheartedly.

Chapters

00:00:00 Introduction

00:06:15 Intergenerational trauma and ancestral wisdom

00:08:19 Truth as medicine

00:11:39 Psychedelics, information, and, integrating the message

00:16:15 Yoga, truth, and, nonviolence in the inner terrain

00:19:30 Family, culture, and, the deeper levels of truth

00:24:21 How we run from the truth, shadow work and Jung

00:36:07 Self-compassion before and beyond the medicine

00:39:09 Ego death, nondual states and spiritual emergency

00:46:25 Training mind, body, and, heart and building awareness

00:55:28 Hope, faith, and, showing up with kindness

00:59:53 Wholeness and the spectrum of balance

01:05:21 Final thoughts

New Thinking Allowed Guest Host Leanne Whitney, PhD, is a depth psychologist and transformational coach based in Los Angeles, CA. She is the author of Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali and currently serves as Executive Director of Center for Transformation and Integration. Her website is https://leannewhitney.com/

To learn about Leanne Whitney’s Transformational Coaching Certification Course with an emphasis in Somatic Integration Therapy, please visit: https://transformationandintegration.com/courses

Producer: Elena McNally

Editor: John Hartmann

(Recorded on October 20, 2025)

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