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while authoring books of his own such as the Roots of Consciousness or the P.K. Man. On today's episode we talk with Dr. Mishlove about how a shared death experience started him on his path to Pericycology. So without further ado, Jeffrey, why don't you go ahead 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? Sure. My name is Jeffrey Mishlove. I have a doctoral degree in Pericycology. 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 Pericycology on it, ever awarded anywhere in the world by an accredited university. But after qualified that right away to say they're probably two or three hundred people who have done doctoral level research in the field of Pericycology, 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
Pericycology the way I'd like to see it, which includes the entire history of mysticism and all cultures going back to ancient shamanism. And I see Pericycology 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 Fondalac, Wisconsin, my father ran a furniture store and was also in the real estate
Business.
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. And in fact, I wrote a senior honors thesis at the University of Wisconsin on the psychology of religious mysticism. As I had that interest, even as an undergraduate, then I enrolled in graduate school at Berkeley in criminology. And if you had known me in 1972, you would have seen a person who was doing field
work at Sam Quentin Prison working in the Psychiatric Unit there doing group therapy sessions
“with murderers and rapists. When did you go from criminology to pursuing Pericycology?”
Well, when I had the first and probably only major mystical experience of my life, it occurred in March 1972 when I was asleep. To be honest, it was about 730 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, what Dr. Michelleov had experienced is commonly referred to as a shared-death experience, or STE. And we just didn't 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-tracks 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 felt it was so big 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 realize, well, I'm looking at human deviance from a negative side, psychopathology, and crime. But what if I were to switch and study human deviance from the positive side, which would be mysticism, and parapsychology, intuition, creativity? Maybe I can just switch. I talked around at the university. There really worked programs of that sort, but I persisted
in thinking about it, and wanting to make this change, I desperately wanted to make the change. I couldn't continue on this same track any longer. And one day, it's like I woke up in the morning with a certainty, a knowledge that I was going to find the answer to my quest in a dream. And the dream was going to happen that night. And like all day long, I just knew tonight's the night. The dream is going to come. And sure enough, at night, I had a dream. And in the dream,
I'll tell you the dream, if I may. I was just visiting some friends who lived across town in Albany, California, but the other side of Berkeley, married student housing. I knew them well.
“I knocked on the door of their apartment to no answer. And in the dream, I found a key,”
let myself into their apartment, walked into the living room. And there, flat on the living room, floor, all laid out was a magazine. I picked up this magazine, which in the dream was called I, E, Y, E. And was paging through it in the dream when I woke up with this feeling of exhilaration.
This is it.
as to what it meant. So I put on my tennis shoes. This is the days like before running shoes,
even. And I ran across town five miles to this apartment. I got there, I knocked on the door, and as I
“had dreamt, no answer. And it turned out, I did know where they had a key. And I took the key, let myself”
into their apartment, walked into the living room. There in the middle of the living room, floor, was this a magazine, all displayed out. I picked it up in the name of this magazine, was focused. And it happened to be for people in the San Francisco Bay Area, they'll know it's the magazine of listener-sponsored radio and television, KQED. As I'm paging through the magazine,
it dawned on me. For the first time in my life, I could pursue my interests by getting involved
in the nonprofit sector of the media. So what Dr. Michelov experienced here is what's often referred to as Clare Cognacense. And Clare Cognacense means clear knowing, which is a psychic or intuitive ability, where a person suddenly just knows something, without any logical explanation or proof. Okay, so Jeffrey, you have the stream that kind of leads you to a radio station. Which was an odd thing for me, because back in those days, I had long hair. I had a beard.
I was a hippie, and not only that, I didn't believe, I didn't own a radio or television, and I was certain that they were all funny below me. I wanted nothing to do with electronic media. I thought the only authentic human interactions were face-to-face, but I changed my mind right then. And I went over to KPFA Radio, which was listener-sponsored Pacifica Radio in Berkeley, California, where I lived, and said, "I'm here to volunteer," and they said, "Oh, good.
Here we need somebody to sit at this desk, and when you hear the buzzer, press this button, and let people in the front door." And even though I had my master's degree at that point in criminology, I gladly did it. And within three weeks, I had learned how to produce a radio show, which was called, if I remember correctly, you don't have to be from out of town to be psychic, and because I had a lot of local friends who were part of the community in Berkeley.
And so the program director liked it so much. He said, "We've got a slot, a regular slot for you every Tuesday and Thursday at noon. Would you mind hosting this interview show called The Minds Year?" And like within three weeks of my dream, I'm sitting at a table with world-class experts from all over the world, passing through San Francisco on their book tours and coming to KPFA, which had a 50,000-watt transmitter and covered all in northern California. And I had a resource
that I could have in depth, people like Robert Monroe were passing through the author of
“journeys out of the body and many, many luminaries. And that's what gave me the confidence to go”
back to the university and create my own individual interdisciplinary doctoral major in Paris psychology so that that's how it began. And so incredible. So you're interviewing some of the biggest names in consciousness studies within weeks of following a literal dream. It's almost like that was your schooling, right? Like the radio show was your education and you were able to receive
this first hand primary knowledge from these amazing people. Oh, yes. And for those of you
unfamiliar with Robert Monroe, he's really the definitive modern researcher on out-of-body experiences and astral projection, which is where your consciousness separates from your physical body to travel through a non-physical dimension called the astral plane. Robert Monroe also started the Monroe Institute, where Tom Campbell, who we've had in the show, really pioneered a lot of his field research into astral projection. Okay, so I digress. So Jeffrey, can you tell us a little bit more
about some of the people you interviewed during that time? What was it like to be a part of all that?
“Because this field has been controversial for so long. Well, you know, you have to imagine”
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peripherally in that book, so it felt like the revolution was about to happen, that the whole world was going to wake up to what's going on in Paris psychology. I was invited in those years to live with Arthur Amian, the inventor of the bell helicopter, who founded the Institute for the Study of Consciousness in Berkeley, which became a hub of all the people who were interested in these things. And Arthur Young himself was a genius, so we were surrounded by geniuses. He was involved in funding,
some of the early research with Erie Galler at S.R.I. International of major industrial military think tank, and I sponsored Erie Galler's first major public event in the United States. We filled Zellerbach Auditorium, and on the Berkeley campus, 1800 people came, and I was sponsoring Symposiums on Drea Puharitch showed up. It seemed as if, you know, this was going to change the world. That the same time, but the internet was just getting started. Arpanette, people like Jacques Fale,
we're a part of our group studying UFOs, and it was a very strange time. It was also the patty hers kidnapping took place just a few blocks away from the Institute for the Study of Consciousness, and at APFA radio, where I was doing my show at the time, is where the Symbianese liberation army was sending their messages. So we had the world's media, camped right outside the radio station. The whiplash between mainstream, world-changing technology, and fringe mysticism occurring in the
exact same place is incredible. And this was a volatile moment in the 1970s when the boundaries of
physical reality, material science, and social order seem to be, you know, just cracking wide open.
Jeffrey, you know, with the world seemingly on the cusp of something new, wit...
studies being explored in the popular culture, how did we lose momentum? Well, as I say,
we thought it was going to change the world, then Jacques, who was working on Arpanette, said he also realized the internet is going to change the world. We can look back now and say, "Yes, the internet did." And Paris psychology and consciousness had a huge cultural impact, but it didn't achieve the kind of expectations that I had and many of us had back then.
“When I think of it now, that go back to the writings of William James, the founder of American”
psychology, who was also deeply involved in this field. And he said, "We cannot expect progress in what was then called cyclical research, decade by decade as we do in other disciplines,
because the implications are so deep, they're metaphysical." He said, "We have to instead look
by the century and by the half century to measure progress." So it's just, it's happening, but at a different speed, because it's truly far more profound than the internet and the internet is changing everybody's life. So, okay, if we go with that quote from William James, then you'd think there be a lot of progress, you know, an acceptance made around, you know, consciousness and kind of the unseen world. So, since it's been around 50 years, since you started in consciousness studies,
“do you see any difference between now and 1973? Oh, yes, there is a difference, for sure. The very”
fact that we're having this conversation is a reflection of that difference. It's being much more widely talked about, as far as I know, the telepathy tapes, it's like the number one podcast. So yeah, that reflects a difference. It's like things are getting better and worse altogether at the same time, where a humanity is, I would say, we're kind of at a tipping point. It's like many people would say it's incumbent upon us to make a leap of consciousness, or we're going to perish, because things
are heading in some levels in a very bad direction. And if human beings don't learn how to navigate this in a healthier way, we're probably going to end up destroying ourselves and it'll be our fault. Okay, so then what does your family think of your career in para psychology? You know, what? If it wasn't for having a supportive life, I wouldn't have been able to have had this career, because it would very difficult. There were times when, you know, nobody wanted
to hire me. So I was very fortunate to have a family who believed it would support my work.
“I think people who want to go into this field need to be aware that you have to have a real”
passion for it, because even today, well, things are opening up and there are many more opportunities than there used to be. It's still kind of controversial and there're going to be people who are vehemently opposed. As soon as I got my degree in para psychology, the skeptics were all over it. They call themselves skeptics, but they're not really. A true philosophical skeptic is more than anything skeptical of themselves. These people, they called themselves the psychops. They were not
skeptical of themselves. They were certain that they had the absolute truth. It was a religious belief
for them, and basically in materialism, and that all the psychic stuff had to be nonsense.
So they put enormous pressure on the university of California to withdraw the degree that it already been awarded. And when they failed at that, then they tried to lible me. And I had to fight a lible suit for six years. So it's a good thing that I was also credentialed as a clinical psychologist. Why do you think some people are so bothered about scholar studying, you know, the unseen world or the paranormal? What makes people so scared of even just researching
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of defense mechanisms. What are defense mechanisms all about? We're defending ourselves from knowing who we really are. We don't want to know what's inside our own minds. And the idea that somebody else might be able to look and see what's happening inside of our mind. Things that we don't want to know is terrifying to some people. And so it manifests itself in my opinion in these irrational skeptics who call themselves skeptics, but they're the least skeptical people of all when it
comes to questioning their own ideology. But they represent a social force that is trying to tamp down the potential expansion of telepathic abilities in the general population. They don't
“want it to have any legitimacy whatsoever. That's why I'm the only person after 40 years with”
doctoral degree that says Paris psychology, it should in their minds never have the legitimacy
of science or the legitimacy of a major public institution, because after all, well, I'll give you the perfect archetype for this. Back in the days, Winnery Geller was getting a lot of publicity. Arthur C. Clark, the great science fiction writer, who is wearing some beautiful books like Childhood's End in which he writes rather positively about the paranormal, came out publicly and he said, you know, Geller's a fraud. And at the same time, he was giving a talk, it Berkeley.
And I was in the audience. He's giving a talk in the student union and then he finished his talk. I raised my hand. I said, Mr. Clark, do you believe in ESC? And he said, this is very telling. He said,
“no, I do not because I don't want anybody to read my mind. So I want to change topics here just a”
little bit and talk about what you've been up to recently because you were the grand prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies essay competition presenting the best evidence for the survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. So congratulations on that win. Thank you. Well, I tell you what was really an interesting synchronicity is that the award ceremony took place at Bigelow Aerospace Facilities in Las Vegas on my 75th birthday. So it was a wonderful
birthday. What was your essay about? Because I know that there were some incredible essays out there
looking at the stuff. The theme of the essay was for the best evidence for the survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. The just of my essay, the thrust of it is that there are nine different lines of evidence each independent of the other all pointing to the idea of human survival. You might say, well, no, no one of them is conclusive but when you look at all nine, everything from nearby experiences to reincarnation evidence to people who use these voice boxes
and get electronic messages, they will scream the dead going back and forth to wake of the communications to mediums, physical medianship like materialization of the sea's people, for example, or voices that come out of the air, it's called direct voice medianship. That to mention the deathbed experiences where people sometimes see their loved ones waiting for them on the other side as they're dying and occasionally they had experiences of seeing someone they
didn't know was already deceased. So you've got all of these slurings of evidence and they're all pointing in that direction. So they have to look at the accumulation and they're very good examples in each of those categories. I've been doing interviews on this topic for decades. So I could go back to some of my old interviews, for example, for the Nobel Laureate. Francis Crick was talking
To me about the possibility of life after death.
we haven't ruined it out yet. He admitted on camera for me that it's totally reasonable within
what we know of science today that there could be an afterlife. So again, congratulations. And then, you know, since then, is there anything you've been working on? I've been a whole series of interviews 10 now with a very interesting case. I'd refer to it as two souls in one body. We were talking about a 37-year-old man, an 80-year-old female, sharing a body together. I'm working with a teen asscientist to study this case because the conventionally speaking would be called a case of
dissociative identity disorder. What used to be called multiple personality disorder?
“I think of them as really two different people. It doesn't matter how you review it. The key here is”
they've learned how to switch back and forth, incidentally. I've shared about it as a result of doing a lot of work on themselves, a lot of deep meditation. So at this point, even though it's in problematic, they had to be psychotherapy. It's now become not a disorder, but simply a condition. Maybe even a healthy condition, but brain researchers are interested in understanding what happens in the brain. These two personalities shift back and forth the way they do. So I've helped
organize a team of researchers, both the disciplinary, who are planning to do some extensive research on their case. Well, I'm very excited for what conclusions your team finds. Dr. Michalov, thank you
“for chatting with our team. You've walked so that others at value can really run when they do this”
work. So do you have any final messages for our listeners? Well, yes. I wonder when I look back at my life and see how I was guided by dreams to pursue the life that I've lived. And I would have to say, "Well, I'll be eating this here. I can look back and say it's been a great mouth. It's been very fulfilling. I would wish that everybody could feel as fulfilled as either, knowing that the work that you're doing is helping other people and getting you a normal amount of satisfaction."
So I wonder, you know, what's it all about? Why did I receive those dreams that pointed me a right direction? And it occurs to me that the universe is conscious. And we are conscious. We are part of a conscious universe. And each of us has a unique destiny to fulfill. It's different for each and
every person, but ultimately the universe wants each of us to become the very best version of ourselves.
And if we commit to doing that, the universe is going to reach out through dreams, through synchronities, and doors will open. So I encourage everybody who's listening to this podcast to think about what does it mean for you to become the best version of yourself? That's it for this episode of the talktracks. But new episodes will be released every Wednesday. So stay tuned, as we work to unravel
“all the threads, even the veiled ones that knit together are reality. And please remember to stay kind,”
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This episode was produced by Ryan Bechard, technical directing audio mix, and finishing by Jeremy Cole, opening and closing music by Elizabeth P.W. and original logo and cover art by Ben Condor Design. I'm Kai Dickens, your executive producer, writer, and host.
