The Power of the Imaginal with Stephen Aizenstat

Stephen Aizenstat, PhD, is the founder of Pacifica Graduate Institute, Dream Tending, and the Academy of Imagination. He is coeditor (with Robert Bosnak) of Imagination and Medicine: The Future of Healing in an Age of Neuroscience. He is author of Dream Tending: Awakening to the Healing Power of Dreams and The Imagination Matrix: How to Access the Greatest Power You Have for Creativity, Connection, and Purpose.

Here he shares many personal stories to illustrate his view that our mental imagery is alive and active.

00:00 Introduction
02:26 Imagination and the paranormal
05:39 Rocks can talk
09:17 Curiosity
12:57 The machine
21:41 Connecting with people
26:39 Embodiment
30:44 The Bollingen tower
38:45 The Goanna lizard
58:35 Conclusion

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

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.

(Recorded on October 27, 2023)

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