Human beings are capable of extraordinary transformations that often go unrecognized in contemporary thought. Michael Murphy summarizes scientific efforts to document extraordinary human capabilities. He draws upon research in hypnosis, parapsychology, and biofeedback as well as medical accounts of the placebo effect and the uncanny remission of disease. Murphy suggests that programs of transformative training [...]

Mrs. Irina Tweedie was the author of Daughter of Fire, a diary of her intensive spiritual training in India with a Hindu Sufi master.  In this moving and personal interview, the 80-year-old Mrs. Tweedie, who was then a Sufi teacher in London, describes the bliss, peace and love — and the despair, hatred and loneliness [...]

When the guru teaches, says Joseph Chilton Pearce, he does so not through the intellect but by opening the heart to spiritual experience. Pearce was a devotee of Siddha Yoga as taught by Swami Muktananda and his successor Gurumayi Chidvilasananda. He compares the guru-disciple relationship to the bonding relationship which occurs between parent and child.

Peter Russell is a visionary writer, filmmaker, and management consultant.  He is author of The Creative Manager, The Global Brain and The White Hole in Time. Here he suggests that if we wish to understand the significance of the present, we must understand all of cosmic and biological evolution. He maintains that the human race [...]

In ancient times, says Leonard Shlain, human societies universally worshipped the image of a goddess. Sometime about 5,000 years ago a massive shift occurred in which the gender of the diety changed. He presents his hypothesis that this change is related to the introduction of the alphabet and its effects upon the human brain. He [...]

A leading visionary thinker, Barbara Marx Hubbard suggests that we are in a unique evolutionary phase in which the universe is coming to understand itself through the vehicle of human consciousness. She argues that the spiritual attainments of the great religious founders and avatars are now becoming available to masses of people. 

This open-ended conversation largely focuses on the emotional issues associated with becoming a professional remote viewer.

Throughout his life, Manuel had a number of experiences which could be considered anomalous or paranormal. It is his hope that by sharing his knowledge and experience in both psychiatry and the world unknown, he will provide a bridge between these two worlds and will give people permission to share their own experiences without shame [...]

PowerHunch!: Living an Intuitive Life. Her website is drmarciaemery.com.

Here he shares insights from his long career as a paranormal student and researcher, from the 1960s to the present day.

In celebration of its 75th anniversary, Rizwan Virk highlights stories and lessons from saints and mystics from the book, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda. He offers that life is like a video game where we all must find our own karmic path through quests and achievements.

Here he discusses his childhood and early life as well as his initial research efforts regarding UFOs and paranormal manifestations. NOTE: This is a revised version of the video that was previously released.

Here he focuses on the influential eighteenth century, Scottish philosopher, David Hume, his philosophy of naturalism, and his argument against religious miracles. He examines how that argument has been wrongly used by those hostile to parapsychology.

Here he shares some of his most recent work training advanced remote viewing skills.

Edited subtitles for this video are available in Russian, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, and Spanish.

Here he shares his interest in establishing empirical evidence for the existence of the afterlife, and its implications.

Here she reflects on her experiences living with him in New York and on his literary, artistic, and parapsychological legacy.

Here she describes her own personal experiences as a child and also her findings from interviewing people about their own childhood psi experiences.

Normandi shares that a belief in angels exists in all the world’s religions, they are everywhere, and are as close to us as thought.

Here he describes why he purchased the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah as well as the paranormal phenomena, such as cattle mutilations, that his investigations there yielded.

Here he describes the history of Andrija Puharich’s parapsychological investigations as well as his own investigations of the connection between psychedelics and psi ability.

June Singer, PhD, an analytic psychologist, was author of Seeing Through the Visible World: Jung, Gnosis and Chaos; A Gnostic Book of Hours; and Boundaries of the Soul.  Here she discusses Gnosticism as a practice that involved a fusion of Judaism, Christianity and Manicheanism. The Gnostic texts found in the Nag Hamadi scrolls appear to satirize traditional [...]

Edited subtitles for this video are available in Russian, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, and Spanish.

Here he explains how he teaches college students about the possibility of life after death.

Here he focuses on the struggle between materialism and spiritual realities, particularly in the light of Henry Corbin’s great scholarship regarding Islamic mysticism. He finds a possible resolution in the poetic imagination.

Here he compares Janet’s discoveries concerning dissociation with the insights of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.

Here he describes a 21-day process for achieving awareness of your true, immortal self.

Here he continues his multi-decades exploration into the nature of the “Visitor” phenomena he has been confronting since 1985.

Here he describes his understanding of reincarnation, based upon his out-of-body experiences and work with subtle energy.

Here he focuses on the life and work of one of the most widely read and influential American writers. He expands on the mythological motifs behind Steinbeck’s social critiques.

Here she describes her decades of work with conscious intention and subtle energy, and its relationship to the out-of-body experience as well as other forms of nonlocal consciousness.

Here he explains why 19th Century America was a fountain of innovative metaphysical traditions, many of lasting influence.

Motivational training techniques often focus mindlessly on “positive thinking”, glossing over the need for people to engage in soul-search­ing and self-renewal. John O’Neil, past-president of the Califor­nia School of Professional Psychology, discusses the unfor­tunate trend to treat “success” as an all-con­suming end in itself, without regard to the consequences of this attitude. O’Neil is author of The [...]

Paul Perry Perry is the co-author of many best-selling books concerning near-death experiences and the afterlife, six of them were written with Raymond Moody. His newest book with Moody is Proof of Life After Life: 7 Reasons to Believe There is an Afterlife.

Rod Chelberg shares several stories of being guided by a divine presence in the emergency room, ICU, and end-of-life care as a physician. He describes how we are all mystics and can quiet our minds to awaken spiritual gifts, let love flow, and walk in peace.

Friedemann suggests ways to move past survival patterns within the subconscious mind to discover deeper love, truth, and a greater purpose.

The average human is functioning in an unawakened state, according to Russian philosopher and mystic George Ivanovich Gurdjieff. Psychologist Kathleen Speeth, Ph.D., author of The Gurdjieff Work and Gurdjieff: Seeker of the Truth, was raised by parents who were students of Gurdjieff, whom she met as a child. She discusses the history and present status of the Gurdjieff [...]

Jane Caputi, professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico, is author of Gossips, Gorgons and Crones. She notes that, over the centuries, powerful female, mythological figures have been superceded by patriarchal symbols. This also correlates with the rise of the warrior mentality. Today, as we face the problems that our nuclear technology has [...]

Here he describes the life and scholarship of the French scholar, Henry Corbin, particularly with reference to Iranian mysticism and his concept of the imaginal.

Here he emphasizes the importance of understanding the soul-eviscerating forces that underly civilization’s rush toward technological control.