Psychiatrist Price M. Cobbs was president of Pacific Management Systems in San Francisco.  He is co-author of The Jesus Bag and Black Rage.  While prejudice and stereotyping are natural functions of the brain in coping with a threatening environment, he says, we must consciously work to overcome the lazy mental habits that cause us to [...]

Here he shares his hypothesis that precognition is the basic mechanism that can explain every other form of parapsychological information transfer. Macro-psychokinesis, he suggests, may be the only suspected paranormal phenomenon that is not always amenable to explanation as a form of precognition. He offers several arguments for resolving the paradoxes posed by precognition – [...]

Here James Tunney expresses both appreciation and pointed criticism of the life and philosophy of Bishop George Berkeley (1865-1753). While he is considered among the top rank of philosophers, he was also a slaveholder (at least briefly) and a supporter of British Imperialism. Tunney notes that Berkeley’s version of metaphysical idealism often engenders a feeling [...]

Jean Shinoda Bolen, a Jungian analyst, is author of The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Every Woman, Gods in Every Man, and The Ring of Power.  She discusses Carl Jung’s concept of synchronicity, an acausal connecting principle.  This principle of connection is like the ancient Chinese concept of the Tao in that it cannot be [...]

In this interview from 2016, he notes that many of the great spiritual teachers of the twentieth century (Blavatsky, Steiner, Gurdjieff, Jung) had teachers who remain unknown. He suggests that this reflects the desire of all these individuals to avoid the limelight of public scrutiny. While describing most channeled material as “banal”, he praises Jane [...]

Here he describes his original life-changing encounter with Desmarquet’s book, prompting him to make the journey twice to Vietnam in order to meet Desmarquet. This resulted in a close working relationship that eventually led to the Chinese publication. Desmarquet describes how he was abducted by very kind and attractive, 8-foot tall, hermaphroditic, humanoid aliens and [...]