This wide-ranging conversation covers many of the essential conundrums we have in society today.

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

Ashok K. Gangadean is professor of Philosophy at Haverford College, PA. He serves as director of the Global Dialogue Institute and is author of Meditative Reason, Between Worlds and The Awakening of the Global Mind. The spiritual and philosophical traditions of humanity all point toward an underlying first principle which Gangadean refers to as the Logos. This principle partakes [...]

Here he describes Chinese culture’s historical interest in the paranormal, contemporary developments, psychic education of children in China, personal experiences of high strangeness, and his own theoretical model to explain his many observations.

Here he addresses inconsistencies in the spiritual/political theory carrying great weight in Russia today.

Judith Orloff is on the UCLA psychiatric clinical faculty.  She is also a practicing clairvoyant and is author of Second Sight. Here she describes her own struggle coming to terms with her psychic abilities while establishing herself in a psychiatric career — where claims of psychic functioning are often viewed as signs of mental illness. 

Here, she describes her interest in psychedelics going back to 1965. She became involved with a Dutch scientist, Bart Huges, who developed the hypothesis that LSD produced greater blood flow in the brain. The same hypothesis also led to an interest in the ancient practice trepanation. The Beckley Foundation is currently active in collaborating with [...]