Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove: The World's only Parapsychology PhD | Talk Tracks

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In this episode of The Talk Tracks, host Ky sits down with Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove, the world's first and only PhD in parapsychology, to explor

Key takeaways

• Shared death experiences (STE) can serve as powerful catalysts for personal transformation and spiritual awakening.
• Dreams and synchronicities may be manifestations of a conscious universe guiding individuals toward their unique destinies.

Main topics

• Shared death experiences (STE)
• Parapsychology as a field of study

Notable quotes

"I would wish that everybody could feel as fulfilled as I do, knowing that the work that you're doing is helping other people and giving you an enormous amount of satisfaction."

Conclusion

Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove's life exemplifies the power of following inner guidance through dreams and

Transcript preview

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You can also get free shipping on select orders, and every order is backed by their 365-day money-back guarantee, so you can try it with confidence. You won't find this on Amazon, in stores, or anywhere else. That's buyoptimizers.com slash tapes, code tapes. Today's guest is Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. Dr. Mishlove is the world's first and only PhD in parapsychology. For those unfamiliar with the term, parapsychology refers to a field of study concerned with the investigation of paranormal or anomalous psychological phenomena. Dr. Mishlove has spent the last 50 years deeply enmeshed with the world's top minds of frontier science, interviewing leaders in fields such as physics and psychology for his show New Thinking Allowed, while authoring books of his own such as The Roots of Consciousness or The PK Man. On today's episode, we talk with Dr. Mishlove about how a shared death experience started him on Speaker 1 (3:27) his path to parapsychology. So Speaker 2 (3:29) without Speaker 1 (3:30) further ado, Jeffrey, why don't you go ahead Speaker 2 (3:32) and introduce yourself and maybe you can even talk about your... life growing up and how it led you to pursue such an unusual career path. Speaker 1 (3:38) Sure. My name is Jeffrey Mishlove. I have a doctoral degree in parapsychology. It was awarded from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980. As far as I know, to this day, I have the only doctoral diploma that actually says parapsychology on it. ever awarded anywhere in the world by an accredited university. But I have to qualify that right away to say there are probably two or three hundred people who have done doctoral-level research in the field of parapsychology. They just have diplomas that say other things on them. So my degree is unique because it was through an individual interdisciplinary doctoral program that I designed myself. So I was able to envision parapsychology the way I'd like to see it, which includes the entire history of mysticism in all cultures going back to ancient shamanism. And I see parapsychology as part of that larger tradition. rather than simply a branch of experimental psychology. I had a pretty normal upbringing. I was raised in the Midwest in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. My father ran a furniture store and was also in the real estate business, and I imagined I'd probably do something like that. when I got older. But as I got into college in the 1960s, it was a time of enormous social upheaval, a time of social protest because of the Vietnam War and people questioning authority. And also the use of psychedelic drugs is beginning at that time. So you might say I had my mind blown open as an undergraduate in college. In fact, I wrote a senior honors thesis at the University of Wisconsin on the psychology of religious mysticism. I had that interest even as an undergraduate. Then I enrolled in graduate school at Berkeley in criminology. If you had known me in 1972, you would have seen a person who was doing field work at San Quentin Prison. working in the psychiatric unit there, doing group therapy sessions with murderers and rapists. When Speaker 2 (6:16) did you go from criminology to pursuing parapsychology? Speaker 1 (6:19) Well, when I had the first and probably only major mystical experience of my life. It occurred in March of 1972 when I was asleep. To be honest, it was about 7.30 in the morning and... My great-uncle Harry, who was in his 80s, appeared to me in a dream. And it was the most powerful dream of my life. Uncle Harry and I had an in-depth conversation. I can't really articulate exactly what happened. It was beyond words. But when I awoke from the dream, I was crying tears of joy. And I was singing. a sacred song, a very sacred song from my own religious background of Judaism. And so I wrote home. I said, how's Uncle Harry? I had a dream about him. And my mother called me immediately when she got my letter and said, how did you know Uncle Harry had just died? And when I checked the records, it appears that he died exactly at the moment I had that dream. So that threw me through a loop. I began asking my professors, what do you know about this sort of thing? And I quickly discovered they didn't know anything. So Speaker 2 (7:38) what Dr. Mishlove had experienced is commonly referred to as a shared death experience, or STE. And we just did an episode all about shared death experiences, so please check that out. But in short, a shared death experience is when a loved one or caregiver experiences what appears to be the first stages of entering an afterlife along with the person who is dying or has just died. And again, if you want to hear more about this, please check out our last week's Talk Trax episode, which does a deep dive into this fascinating event. So Jeffrey, after you had your shared death experience, how did you feel about it? And, you know, how did you change moving on after such a profoundly mystical experience? I Speaker 1 (8:12) felt it was so... in my life so important that it was worth finding out. I had to explore this. I had no real choice, and I agonized and agonized about it for months, actually. Like, how am I going to do this? I'm in criminology, and I realized, well, I'm looking at human deviance from the negative side, psychopathology and crime. But what if I were