Society for Psychical Research

He Had a Near-Death Experience and Realized What UFOs Actually Are | Keith Thompson

Third Eye DropsNov 1, 2026

At 24, journalist Keith Thompson nearly drowned in a Hawaiian riptide, left his body, and met dead relatives, including a great-uncle he didn't know had died. That experience launched decades of reporting on UFOs, near-death experiences, seances, and objects that seemingly appear from nowhere. In his new book Anomalous Phenomena, he argues these mysteries share a common pattern that points to a deep interconnectedness at the root of reality, one that materialist science has refused to map.

Keith Thompson: Anomalous Phenomena—UFOs, Apports, and the Mystery of Consciousness

Earth AncientsOct 21, 2026

Journalist Keith Thompson, who introduced Harvard psychiatrist John Mack to the alien abduction phenomenon, discusses his new book 'Anomalous Phenomena: Apports and the Mystery of Objects that Materialize and Translocate.' He describes the Scole Experiment, a five-year series of seances in which coins, a 1944 newspaper, and images on sealed film reportedly appeared from nowhere, along with his own teenage experience of cosmic oneness and a near-death experience while drowning in Hawaii. The conversation ranges across Navajo Rangers investigating Bigfoot and skinwalkers, stigmata, Lourdes healings, Charles Lindbergh's phantom cockpit companions, and the state of UFO disclosure.

Is Consciousness a Nested Quantum Field? with Christopher Noël

New Thinking AllowedSep 30, 2026

Author Christopher Noël proposes that consciousness is an 18th quantum field: a natural, physical, highest-frequency and lowest-density field nested inside matter and entangled with everything. He argues this single model can explain remote viewing, near-death experiences, poltergeists, levitation, UAP flight and Sasquatch encounters, which all share side effects such as sudden cold, pressure drops and electrical failures. The conversation goes further, with claims that we already exist in the afterlife and that so-called aliens covet human souls.

Postmortem Survival and Analytical Idealism with Bernardo Kastrup (4K Reboot)

New Thinking AllowedSep 1, 2026

Philosopher Bernardo Kastrup argues that analytical idealism allows for the only kind of life after death that truly matters: the survival of our deepest sense of subjectivity, freed from personal identity, much like waking up from a dream. He suggests that at death our memories and even our skills spill into a wider field of mind, where mediums might pick them up, which could explain evidence for survival without requiring the personal ego to persist. Host Jeffrey Mishlove challenges him with famous cases, including a chess game played through a medium, the spirit healer George Chapman, and the Myers cross-correspondences, and Kastrup weighs each with cautious openness.

The Case for the Afterlife with Chris Carter

New Thinking AllowedAug 28, 2026

Oxford-educated physics teacher Chris Carter joins psychologist Jeffrey Mishlove to argue that science, done properly, does not rule out life after death and may actually support it. Carter lays out five independent lines of evidence, namely deathbed visions, near-death experiences, apparitions, children who remember past lives, and communication through mediums, which he says all point to the survival of consciousness. Highlights include a chess match allegedly played between a living grandmaster and a dead one through a medium, and a dying woman who 'saw' a sister whose death had been kept from her.

Body, Mind, and Death with David Lorimer (4K Reboot)

New Thinking AllowedAug 17, 2026

David Lorimer, longtime program director of the Scientific and Medical Network, argues that well-documented phenomena like crisis apparitions, near-death life reviews, and mediumship cannot be explained by the assumption that the brain produces consciousness. He traces this view through the visionary scientist Emanuel Swedenborg, William James, and the early Society for Psychical Research, and even describes an automatic-writing message said to come from the late skeptic Bertrand Russell. Lorimer concludes that if all minds are connected at a deep level, then harming others is harming ourselves, which gives the research a direct ethical meaning.

Cultivating Physical Mediumship with Robin Foy (1943 - 2022) (4K Reboot)

New Thinking AllowedAug 13, 2026

Robin Foy, founder of the Noah's Ark Society and the famous Scole Experiment, recounts five decades of pursuing physical mediumship, from his first seance circle in Leicester in 1973 to sittings with direct voice medium Leslie Flint. He describes startling claimed phenomena, including a pet hamster and dog allegedly teleported by spirits and a spirit team that taught his group to produce phenomena using 'creative energy' instead of ectoplasm. He also explains how spirit messages, including clues about goats with bells and golden eagles, led him to a property near a sacred mountain in Antequera, Spain, for a new Spiritual Science center.

The Scole Experiment Part 2: The Germanium Receptor

Astonishing LegendsFeb 15, 2026

The Scole Experiment in rural Norfolk sought to prove that communication with spirits could be achieved through a purportedly powerless device. Instead of exposing a hoax, investigators were faced with phenomena that defied their understanding of physics. This episode explores whether this experiment was a breakthrough in spirit communication or simply an elaborate trick.