Thinking Allowed: Conversations on the Leading Edge of Knowledge

by Jeffrey Mishlove

Book Overview

Interviews with some of the leading intellectuals of our time, including Joseph Campbell, Fritjof Capra, Rollo May, Arthur Young, Matthew Fox, Ram Dass, Jacob Needleman, Rupert Sheldrake, Huston Smith and many others.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0933031645
• ISBN13: 9780933031647
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Council Oak Books
• Length: 596 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Exciting & Meaningful Discussions of Human Consciousness

This book is one of those rare ones I find I wish to memorize each concept, each interviewee has related. Completely user freindly and intense at the same time, an excellent book. There are 39 interviews in this book and no adequate way to review all in one small review, so I am relating the whole theme's presentation in a few paragraphs. And this is written in exciting and meaningful discussions that are evolutionary and revolutionary in modern day understandings in psychology, physics, biology, human consciousness, science, human growth and achievement, societal transformation and parallel historical patterns, the mind-brain relationships and much more. Both Jeffrey Mishlove's aimed questions and subsequent answers of the interviewees are excellent in nature, and in most cases, relate to their prior and upcoming books. I rate this book up there with the maximum rating. I've never seen Mishlove's television show or videos of the same and emphatically wish there was another book of additional interviews to read. I love this book. It's the type of book that leave you with substance. Information in this book ranges from quantum physics and the human shift in consciousness, the transformations of human evolutionary growth, ancient societies and lost metaphysical properties useful in our day, evolution of the human potential in addition to our physical bodies, our brains acting as tuners to morphic-information fields as opposed to information storage, the Platonic concept of ideas of a higher realm then our ordinary conceptual thinking, the metaphorical nature of mythology and its applications to universal modern day physics, how we exist in a middle world capable of transcending to higher realms in regard to scientific quantity to spiritual quality, to teleological and spiritual concepts of higher purposes in a harmony of science and religion, to the idea of hyperspace and multidimensional reality or realms with superstring and fiber bundle theories in physics, to the beneficial properties of existential psychology and the creativity that is born out of despair, to recognition of ourselves as good who make both good and bad decisions to cease imprisoning ourselves with demands that act self-defeating, to open communication, the recognition of unconscious communication and our ability to speak to others in ways less negative conveying our messages, to walking with people in existential subjectivity apart from Freudian scientific objectivity. The recognition of our multiple personalities we must stop disowning but rather acknowledge and use in controlled, meaningful ways. To see in transpersonal psychology a interdependence that transcends the separate dependence and angst or anxiety in existential psychology.