Apports and Other Anomalous Phenomena with Keith Thompson

Summary

Author Keith Thompson joins Jeffrey Mishlove to discuss his book Anomalous Phenomena, which argues that mind and matter are not separate but points on a dynamic spectrum that interact in surprising ways. Starting with the Scole Experiment, where objects such as an 1891 penny and a 1944 newspaper allegedly materialized during seances, Thompson links apports to near-death experiences, stigmata, Navajo Bigfoot cases, and shape-shifting UFOs. He shares his own near-death experience and his mother's deathbed visitation as personal evidence that our scientific maps, not reality, contain the anomalies.

Key takeaways

• 1The Scole Experiment (1993-1999) in Scole, Norfolk, England held over 400 seances in which apports reportedly appeared, including an 1891 penny and an unyellowed 1944 newspaper; Thompson says the Society for Psychical Research supervised it
• 2A spirit entity called 'Manu' allegedly levitated a camera to take photos, and unopened film reportedly developed images including a poem signed 'Wordsworth'
• 3Navajo Rangers Milford and Dover investigated Bigfoot cases and suggested the creatures may be trans-dimensional; Milford reported coins falling on him heads-up and being chased by a skinwalker at age 16
• 4Jacques Vallée and Eric Davis's paper 'The Physics of High Strangeness' describes UFOs as having both physical and 'antiphysical' traits
• 5Three-year-old Logan LaFalle reportedly received a dream message from a great-grandfather who died in a house fire, leading the family to a 'little red house' on ancestral burial ground
• 6Dowser Harold McCoy reportedly located a stolen harp through map dowsing for a Berkeley psychologist, later a board member of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and claimed he used 'thought forms' to keep the thief from damaging it

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Mind and matter, despite the firm divide that Western psychology, Western culture, Western science and philosophy hold to, do not fail to communicate. We are not embarrassed by the phenomena. Our theories are embarrassed. So yes, the apport phenomena of Skoll England is a major, it's the first chapter of the book. Second chapter, I deal with a three-year-old child who has an ancestral vision of his great grandfather that he did not know even existed. And the great grandfather came to him in a dramatic nighttime dream. From there I go to the Navajo reservation to two Navajo rangers, police officers, Milford and Dover, who were trained in SWAT team, you know, hardcore police methods, but were assigned to the paranormal cases such as Bigfoot. So I bring them all together, not saying that they are common in particulars, but the framework, they make a mockery of an idea of a firm division between mind and matter. Keep watching to learn more. The New Thinking Allowed magazine issue 10 on UFOs and UAP is now ready for free download. And you can also order beautiful printed copies. Go to newthinkingallowed.org. New Thinking Allowed is presented by the California Institute for Human Science, a fully accredited university offering Distant Learning graduate degrees that focus on mind, body, and spirit. The topics that we cover here. We are particularly excited to announce new degrees emphasizing parapsychology and the paranormal. Visit their website at CIHS.edu. Book 4 in the new Thinking Allowed dialogue series is Charles T. Tartt, Seventy Years of Exploring Consciousness and Parapsychology. Now available on Amazon. Thinking Allowed. Conversations on the leading edge of knowledge and discovery with psychologist Jeffrey Mishlove. Hello and welcome. I'm Jeffrey Mishlove. Our topic today is apports and their relationship to other anomalous phenomena.…

Excerpt from New Thinking Allowed, Oct 26, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.