The Afterlife and the Unconscious with Betty Kovács (4K Reboot)

Summary

Dr. Betty Kovács, author of The Miracle of Death, describes detailed after-death communications with her son Pishti and her husband Istvan, both of whom died in car accidents two years apart. She argues that the afterlife is not a distant place but a dimension of one universal mind that is always present, which we normally shut out through what Aldous Huxley called a mental 'valve.' Along the way she recounts shamanic visions, a cosmic feminine being named Saira, and an encounter with a glowing disc of consciousness that declared, 'Your planet has called us and we are here.'

Key takeaways

• 1Kovács says her son Pishti, after his death, told his father that the two of them were 'twin souls' who shared the same soul.
• 2Pishti was taken off life support on the same day and at the same hour that Kovács's mother had been killed by a car one year earlier, which she describes as a synchronicity.
• 3Her husband Istvan, a Hungarian revolution refugee, had visions of a faceless feminine being named Saira ('Sira' in Hungarian), and later merged with her in a waterfall vision at Machu Picchu.
• 4Pishti described Saira as having a body so vast it covered solar systems and galaxies. Kovács later found nearly identical wording in Mary Rodwell's accounts of children who claim non-human origins.
• 5She recounts seeing a huge disc of cosmic consciousness from which a being in white emerged, entered her body through the crown chakra, and said, 'We are the light that circles around your planet.'
• 6She describes taking part in San Pedro cactus ceremonies with South American shamans, including one in Death Valley where she felt the grief of a wounded feminine archetype.
• 7Ideas and sources cited include Aldous Huxley's 'reducing valve' theory of the mind, William Blake, Carl Jung's Red Book and his encounters with the dead, Homer's Odyssey, and the Tibetan Bardo.

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Transcript excerpt

Well, I think it's all one. I do think it's all one. I think we differentiate it, given our culture and our experience and our lack of experience. I think it is all one. It's perpetually being. And yet, because we live in time and space, we put these things in different spaces and different categories. But as you said, you know, we do have to brush our teeth and buy the groceries and that sort of thing. And I think then we sort of close a certain part off. And as Aldous Huxley had said, you know, there's that valve. We're all born into universal mind. It's always who we are. It's always present. But we have a valve that we have to kind of close down and just allow a trickle of it to flow through so that we can do these things in ordinary daily life. And then it's as though we forgot how to release that valve. But if we just release the valve, we are where we've always been. Keep watching to learn more. You can now download all nine copies of the New Thinking Allowed magazine for free or 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 C-I-H-S dot E-D-U. Book four 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. ...

Excerpt from New Thinking Allowed, Aug 18, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.