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.

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.

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

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 [...]

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

In this discussion, Dr. Neppe proposes connections between the Neppe-Close theoretical model of higher consciousness and reality and its implications for our understanding of the divine.