Here he notes that René Guénon wrote about several types of initiation that deviate from authenticity: anti-initiation (i.e., materialism), pseudo-initiation (i.e., fantasy), and counter-initiation (i.e., potentially, if not actually, evil). He proposes that counter-initiation is the ultimate conspiracy theory – the conspiracy behind all other harmful conspiracies. He provide a number of examples, including Satanism, [...]

A Jungian psychotherapist, John Weir Perry, MD, is author of many books including The Heart of History and The Far Side of Madness.  He suggests that the psychiatric community errs in treating visionary experience as a form of mental illness.  Psychiatric labelling and the use of anti-psychotic drugs serve to stifle the valuable integration of [...]

Here he describes the historical evolution of the Enneagram beginning with G. I. Gurdjieff and Oscar Ichazo. He describes the ancient Sarmoung Brotherhood as portrayed by Gurdjieff. He notes that his own work is related primarily to spiritual awakening. The Enneagram shows a particular path toward wholeness that can be discovered within each of the [...]

This interview was recorded in Las Vegas, NV, where Walter was one of the award recipients of the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies essay competition. Here he discusses his work as an archivist endeavoring to professionally preserve rare records of psychical research and spiritualism. Of particular interest is the research in Winnipeg, Canada, in the [...]

This is second in a series of interviews with Gail about the cultural practices of the Huichol Indians of Mexico. Gail shares how she first came to realize that she had cancer while high in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains with the Huichol indians, far from civilization. She describes the shamanic healing that may have [...]

Here she describes in detail how her life history as a psychic experiencer led her to direct and film this unique project. Based on frequent UFO sightings reported near Catalina Island, off the California coast, she put together three teams of researchers – armed with extensive photographic and scientific equipment. One team was on the [...]

Free will and purpose are not inconsistent with a universe subject to law. In fact, says Arthur Young, your free will would be ineffective without a determinate world to act upon. Young, inventor of the Bell helicopter and author of The Reflexive Universe, also discusses the difference between determinism the belief that everything acts according [...]

Here he maintains that detachment from body-mind identity is the core principle behind his teachings. When we can let go of who we think we are, we get in touch with our true Self. People are often afraid they will lose something of value if they become detached. However, RJ claims that, when properly understood, [...]

Keith Thompson, author of Angels and Aliens: UFOs and The Mythic Imagination, suggests that regardless of whether UFOs actually represent hardware from outer-space, reports of sightings and encounters with UFOs and their occupants are a source of modern folklore in the making. In tracing four decades of debate among UFO researchers and debunkers, he suggests [...]

Here he explains that the Experiment With Time, written by J.W. Dunne in 1927, provides a protocol by which average people can demonstrate to themselves that our dreams contain as much information from the future as from the past. He offers a series of steps to aid viewers in discovering the truth about precognition (or [...]

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Sally reviews the history of her parents’ remarkable careers. After receiving their doctoral degrees in botany, they determined to enter the controversial field of psychical research. Nevertheless, they became disillusioned with field studies of séances and mediums, and gravitated towards experimental studies. Using careful scientific controls and statistical methods, while not ignoring personal experiences, they [...]

A concern with nature and humanity is primary to the social conventions of organized religion.  Matthew Fox, a former Dominican priest and spiritual theologian, was director of the Institute for Culture and Creation Spirituality at Holy Names College.  He is author of numerous books including The Coming of the Cosmic Christ and Original Blessing. Fox says [...]

You can download his paper, Our Wild Kosmos! at https://whatsupwithufos.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Exo_Studies.pdf.

Here he points out that Swedenborg, an eighteenth century scientist, engaged in lengthy excursions into the afterlife throughout the last three decades of his life – as the result of a spiritual awakening. Dr. Rose describes Swedenborg’s visions of angels and demons and how they align with or conflict with the conventional Christian theology of [...]

Matthew Fox is a spiritual theologian, an Episcopal priest and an activist for gender justice and eco-justice. He has written 37 books. Among them are Original Blessing, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, A Spirituality Named Compassion, The Reinvention of Work, The Hidden Spirituality of Men, Christian Mystics and The Pope’s War. Most recently, he [...]

Here she explains to Emmy Vadnais how she began working in the classroom to assist children in cultivating and understanding their natural intuitive gifts. She describes a variety of exercises and provides examples showing how young children responded. She points out that children can learn to acknowledge their innate psychic potentials without feeling ego-attached. Such [...]

Although not a UFOlogist, Upton feels that the Traditionalist metaphysics of René Guénon affords him a foundation from which he can criticize the current wave of interest in UFOs. Guénon maintains that we are at the “end of times” in which dark paranormal forces are breaking through into our physical world. The UFO abduction literature [...]

Russell describes his own remote viewing experiences, starting as early as 1956. While conducting research at SRI International in 1974, when the remote viewer (Pat Price) failed to show up, Russell filled in and achieved an outstanding description of an airport target. He also describes an amazing series of coincidences that resulted in the first [...]

Here he points out that his remote-viewing mentor, Ingo Swann, expressed concern that alien entities were influencing earth’s population so as to stifle cultivation of our parapsychological skills. Swann felt that human have enormous psychic potentials and aliens find this threatening. He provides some details of his own potential alien encounters in the context of [...]

She will answer viewers questions about the gradual process through which she became aware of communications with the deceased – as well as what she learned learning from James Van Praagh, Lyn Buchanan, Whitley Strieber, Tom Campbell, and others. Viewers can also ask about how her psychic sensitivities were sharpened as the result of traumatic [...]

Arthur M. Young was the inventor of the Bell Helicoptor.  He was also founder of the Institute for the Study of Consciousness in Berkeley, California, and author of The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning.  Here he states that insights about angular relationships were very important in the development of the helicoptor and led [...]

In this three-hour interview, he goes through many of the details regarding his 2008 coma and near-death experience. He explains why scientists have been particularly interested in his medical records. He describes three distinct stages of the afterlife that he characterizes as the “earthworm’s view,” the “gateway valley,” and the “core realm.” He shares his [...]

This is first in a new series of interview with Gail about the cultural practices of the Huichol Indians of Mexico, who are known for their peyote rituals. Gail describes her first two trips to the Huichol country and how she was welcomed into this community. She explains what life is like at 10,000 feet [...]

Here he compares the standard, Newtonian view of time with other approaches. Einstein, for example, described the past and the future as stubbornly persisting illusions. Hermann Minkowski, who taught Einstein, referred to time as the fourth dimension. P. D. Ouspensky, the Russian philosopher who worked with G. I. Gurdjieff, postulated a six-dimensional universe with three [...]

Through Joanne’s past life and lives-between-life research, she shares that your life purpose can be identified through many avenues, such as memory triggers that give you clues as to what is appealing or familiar or to you. Most people have an affinity for their life purpose and may need only one past life session to [...]

Human intuition and perception are basic and essential phenomena of consciousness. As such, they will never be replicated by computers. This is the challenging notion of Hubert Dreyfus, PhD, archcritic of the artificial intelligence establishment. Dr. Dreyfus, was professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, is author of What Computers Can’t Do and co-author of Mind [...]

Here he identifies himself with Sufism and describes the influence of figures like Huston Smith and Frithjof Schuon on his thinking. He defines the traditionalist movement as one that recognizes the core truths to be found in the esoteric wisdom of the great religious traditions. He recalls his early years with the beatnik poets, the [...]

Changes in the human brain and nervous system can result from intensive spiritual disciplines. The late Lee Sannella, M.D., author of Kundalini: Psychosis or Transcendence?, devoted many decades to the exploration of spiritual paths. “Kundalini” refers to energy coiled at the base of the spine which can rise up to the brain. Although Western science knows [...]

Wendie shares that the medical intuition profession can be part of the healthcare team to help decrease medical errors and save lives. Her research shows that medical intuition can assist with increasing the accuracy rate of health assessments. Healthcare professionals can easily learn medical intuition to increase patient outcomes and satisfaction. Medical intuition can assess [...]

Here he describes four of the most important teachers he studied on his journey: Oscar Ichazo, founder of the Arica School (the Professor); American spiritual master Adi Da Samraj (the Guru); martial artist Michael Bookbinder (the warrior-priest); and psychologist, David K. Reynolds, who developed the system of Constructive Living (the Sage). He also suggests that [...]

John C. Lilly is author of numerous classic works including The Mind of the Dolphin, The Deep Self, Simulations of God and Center of the Cyclone. A trained psychoanalyst and former researcher for the National Institutes of Health,  Lilly reveals a lifelong pattern of deep inner exploration, beginning with his psychoanalysis in the 1940s, his development [...]

Edith Fiore, PhD, fascinating author of You Have Been Here Before and The Unquiet Dead, discusses her transformation from a conventional behavior therapist to a specialist in the application of spiritualist principles of reincarnation and spirit possession to psychotherapy. In particular, she talks about her experiences using “past-life regression” as a therapeutic technique.

Here describes a 1917 series of events that took place in Fatima, Portugal, involving apparitions of “Our Lady” that appeared to three children – and eventually to a large crowd of tens of thousands of people. Various prophecies have been associated with the Fatima occurrences. Tunney examines the existing records concerning these prophecies and relates [...]

Professor Kripal organized the Archives of the Impossible symposium at Ric University. See https://impossiblearchives.rice.edu/

In this three-hour conversation, James reviews his background in international law. He shares his interest in the rights of indigenous people and how they conflict with the modern tendencies toward standardization. Tunney’s writings on mysticism (light) versus repressive technology (dark) emerges from the insight that there has been a failure of spiritual evolution. This is [...]

Our real educational and cultural needs are in danger of becoming lost in the erro­neous fascination with the information processing model of the mind.  One of America’s foremost social critics, Theodore Roszak, author of The Making of the Counter-Culture and The Cult of Information, delivers a scathing indictment of the over-selling of computer and high-tech [...]

Here he describes his understanding of “ascended masters” based on his personal experiences – including intuitive and physical encounters and past-life memories. RJ maintains that there are 13 “old school” ascended masters, who were created as such. There are many more “new school” ascended masters who attained this status through a process of spiritual evolution. [...]

Jungian analysis focuses on unconscious archetypes that operate beneath our cultural conditioning.  Transformation, says June Singer, must emerge from within, apart from any preconceptions of the analyst.  Dr. Singer, a practicing Jungian analyst, is author of Boundaries of the Soul: The Practice of Jung’s Psychology.

Studies show that many of us can exert a mental influence on the physiological activity of others in distant locations. Marilyn Schlitz, a parapsychologist and anthropologist, was a research associate with the Mind Science Foundation when this video was recorded. She suggests that this phenomenon, known as biological psychokinesis, may be the basis for much [...]

Here she describes her successful journey, of more than forty years, as a researcher in parapsychology. Her work encompasses remote viewing, distant mental influence on living systems, and psychic healing. Along the way, she worked with many luminaries in the field. She describes the nuances of navigating through academic and research circles, collaborating with skeptics, [...]

Fred Alan Wolf, PhD, is author of Taking the Quantum Leap, which won the National Book Award in science.  He has also written Space, Time and Beyond; StarWave; The Body Quantum; Parallel Universes; The Dreaming Universe; The Eagle’s Quest; and The Spiritual Universe: How Quantum Physics Proves the Existence of the Soul.