InPresence 0248: Spiritual Initiation

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death.

Here he focuses on the idea that we can initiate ourselves. In fact, he claims that no initiation is complete until we assume ownership over what has been learned.

00:00 Introduction
02:33 Giving birth to yourself
04:40 Jeff’s journey of self-initiation
13:08 Psychedelic vs. mystical
16:49 Initiation all the time
19:02 Rudolf Steiner on initiation
20:20 Emmy as exemplar
21:29 Conclusion

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

(Recorded on March 25, 2023)

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