Awakening of Consciousness and Non-Local Psychology

At the forefront of contemporary psychotherapy, clinicians and researchers are stepping beyond naive materialist frameworks and pathology-centered models. By honoring the multidimensional wholeness of human existence and the interconnectedness of non-local consciousness, they have developed new therapeutic modalities that guide clients toward "PsychoSpiritual Transformation," "Awakening," and "Self-Realization."

Within Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove's dialogue archives, the most prominent of these transformative clinical models crystallize into the following five approaches:

1. Integrative Chakra Therapy (ICT)

Developed and practiced by Dr. Richard Jelusich, this modality bridges subtle energetic perception with spiritual individuation.

• Chakras as Conduits of Consciousness: Rather than treating chakras merely as localized physical energy centers, ICT understands them as trans-dimensional "conduits of consciousness" and higher organs of subtle perception.
• Multidimensional Fusion and Union: Through contemplative practices such as meditation, prayer, yoga, or focused awareness upon the chakras themselves, these subtle centers are awakened and harmonized. This brings the three dimensions of the "physical body, astral body, and causal body" into living alignment and union, guiding the seeker toward self-awakening — the Vedantic realization of Tat Tvam Asi ("Thou Art That").
• Dissolving Karma and Self-Empowerment: When chakras awaken, latent "seeds of karma" held within them are stirred and surface as concrete life challenges and trials. Crucially, these trials arise precisely because the client has cultivated the inner strength to meet them and dissolve old karmic patterns — ultimately enabling genuine "self-empowerment," seeing reality as it is and living in fidelity to one's authentic soul blueprint.

2. PsychoMagic

Originated by visionary artist and filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, and highlighted by psychotherapist Dr. Paul J. Leslie as a potent source of clinical inspiration.

• Symbolic Actions and Theatrical Rituals: Instead of endlessly repeating verbal dialogue in talk therapy, the practitioner prescribes concrete "symbolic acts and theatrical rituals" that speak directly in the native language of the deep unconscious.
• Resetting the Unconscious: Synthesizing Mexican shamanic psychic surgery, psychoanalysis, Jungian archetypes, and the symbolic architecture of the Tarot, PsychoMagic assigns unexpected, non-ordinary tasks outside the frame of habitual rational thought — bypassing calcified ego defenses and catalyzing an immediate shift in consciousness.
• Liberation from Intergenerational Bondage: Traumas and compulsive behavioral patterns unconsciously transmitted across generations within a family lineage are alchemically transmuted through ritual action, reconnecting the individual mind with "Universal Consciousness."

3. PsychoSpiritual Transformation Treating Trauma as a Catalyst for Awakening

A transpersonal clinical approach practiced by Dr. Sharon G. Mijares and colleagues, bridging ancient contemplative wisdom traditions with depth psychology.

• Moving Beyond Victimhood to Individuation: Rather than leaving trauma frozen as a "pathology to be managed" or a permanent "victim identity," this approach reframes profound upheaval as an "Awakener" — a fierce summons shaking the person awake to deeper dimensions of being.
• The Myth of the "Wounded Healer" (Chiron): Drawing upon the Greek myth of the centaur sage Chiron as a clinical metaphor, unhealed existential pain is transmuted into the very fuel of self-discovery and Jungian Individuation, turning suffering into a sacred quest toward "becoming fully human."

4. The Anatomy of Presence (Shifting the Seat of Attention)

Articulated by Dr. Glenn Hartelius and colleagues, this somatic-phenomenological approach centers upon embodied presence within the lived body.

• Returning from Head-Centered Dominance to the Lived Body: Conditioned by modern conceptual education, contemporary individuals over-develop a head-centered "mental ego," leaving their "seat of attention" chronically lodged inside the cranium.
• Intentional Shifting of the Seat of Attention: Through somatic inquiry and the gentle attunement of interoceptive felt sense, the seat of attention is intentionally lowered from the head down into the lived body (such as the abdomen or tanden). Excessive cognitive chatter subsides almost instantaneously, co-creating deep somatic presence and a relational Safe Space in which innate healing wisdom and higher intuition naturally awaken.

5. De-pathologizing Anomalous Experiences via Clinical Parapsychology

Championed by clinicians such as John Carpenter and Dr. Paul J. Leslie, this approach integrates anomalous and transpersonal experiences directly into therapeutic care.

• Normalizing Anomalous Experiences: Clients who report Near-Death Experiences (NDEs), Out-of-Body Experiences (OBEs), After-Death Communications (ADCs), or striking synchronicities are no longer hastily misdiagnosed with delusion or psychiatric disorder; instead, their experiences are received as natural extensions of human consciousness.
• Integrating Them as "Sacred Moments": By honoring these events as sacred moments within therapy, a resilient therapeutic alliance is forged, allowing therapist and client to jointly explore the deeper "meaning for the soul's unfolding" carried within the experience.

Within a post-materialist paradigm grounded in non-local consciousness, awareness is not a secondary epiphenomenon secreted by the physical brain; rather, consciousness is "fundamental and causal," and every individual mind participates in a mutually interconnected "web or matrix of consciousness."

Viewed through this ontology, the concrete roles played by non-local consciousness in clinical practice converge into four primary dimensions:

Within transpersonal psychology and integrative somatic-spiritual praxis, the alchemical process of elevating trauma into an "Awakener" unfolds through five decisive stages and transformative mechanisms:

1. Shifting Meaning from "Victim" to "Seeker" (Reframing the Trauma as an Awakener)

Dr. Sharon G. Mijares advocates liberating trauma from the closed narrative of "I am a victim" and repositioning it as "a catalyst that awakens one's true essence and Divine Spark." Precisely because a seismic shock overwhelms the habitual coping strategies of the everyday ego, the individual is compelled to break through the confines of their former identity and embark upon a far deeper existential quest.

2. The Mythic Model of the "Wounded Healer" (The Chiron Metaphor)

Clinicians draw upon the Greek myth of Chiron — the wise centaur who carried an incurable wound throughout his immortal life, yet through confronting that very agony discovered the profound art of healing others.

• Inquiring into the Intention of the Wound: Instead of despairing, "The pain has returned again," the seeker asks phenomenology's transformative question: "What new growth is this wound asking of me right now? What is my next step?"
• The Alchemy of Pain: Rather than making the total erasure of memory the goal, the meaning of the wound itself is transmuted — turning raw suffering into irreplaceable wisdom and compassionate vitality capable of holding others in their darkness.

3. Accessing Non-Local Consciousness and Somatic Grounding (Accessing Inner Worlds & Somatic Integration)

When the outer environment becomes unbearable or unsafe, survivors of severe trauma often retreat into deep interior realms through protective dissociation.

• Flowering of Intuition and Psi Sensitivity: Paradoxically, this dissociative retreat can open gateways into time-and-space-transcending non-local consciousness, awakening heightened intuitive perception and anomalous sensitivity.
• Integration Through Somatic Psychology: Crucially, rather than escaping into ungrounded spiritual fantasy ("Fabricated Spirituality" or spiritual bypassing), authentic transformation requires descending into the instinctual, embodied "Underworld" of the lived body and integrating both primal bodily reality and higher love and light within living somatic experience.

4. Reconstructing Personal Myth and Temporal Horizons (Reconstructing Time & Re-scripting)

In the clinical methodology of Prof. Stanley Krippner and colleagues, the seeker actively rewrites the unconscious life narrative — their "Personal Myth."

• Creative Re-scripting of Nightmares: For recurring post-traumatic nightmares that perpetuate terror, the survivor consciously crafts an empowering, constructive ending during waking hours, rehearsing it repeatedly through painting, enactment, and felt imagery until fear is released from the bodymind system.
• Introducing the Transpersonal Future: Temporal awareness is expanded beyond fixation on a wounded past toward a "Transpersonal Future" — envisioning one's spiritual evolution and the enduring legacy of love left beyond bodily death.

5. Resetting the Unconscious Through Symbolic Action and Ritual (PsychoMagic Actions)

Following the "PsychoMagic" of Dr. Paul J. Leslie and Alejandro Jodorowsky, therapy moves beyond purely verbal reflection into enacted symbolic rituals that speak directly to the deep unconscious — severing ancestral entanglements and awakening awareness to cosmic wholeness.

Here are the primary experiential methods for discovering and rewriting Personal Myths, systematized through the research and clinical praxis of Prof. Stanley Krippner and his collaborators:

1. Discovering and Dialoguing with Your "Personal Myth" Through Dreams (5-Step Self-Inquiry Practice)

This is a concise, potent practice utilizing dream imagery and bodily felt sense — a discipline Prof. Krippner himself practices for several minutes each morning.

2. Ritual Practices Systematized in Personal Mythology

In the landmark volume Personal Mythology, co-authored by Prof. Stanley Krippner and Dr. David Feinstein, twenty-two structured ritual exercises guide the transformation of inner narratives.

① The Four-Quadrant Temporal Mandala Drawing Practice

Dividing a mandala (circle) representing the wholeness of the Self into four quadrants, the practitioner intuitively draws symbolic imagery across four distinct temporal horizons:

② Dismantling "Descending Rituals" and Replacing Them with "Advancing Rituals"

In daily life, people unconsciously repeat self-sabotaging "descending rituals" (automatic self-denigrating thoughts and destructive habits rooted in "I am not good enough"). In this practice, one brings clear awareness to interrupt the descending pattern and intentionally cultivates new, mindful embodied actions ("advancing rituals") that carry both mind and lived body forward.

3. Practical Application of the my Mythos Program

Developed by Dr. Sydney Marshall Jones, my Mythos translates Prof. Krippner's personal mythology framework into an accessible, self-guided workbook curriculum.

Remarkably, its adaptation for young people, my Mythos for children, is actively utilized on the ground by local trauma specialists in Ukraine to care for children psychologically wounded by the devastation of war — yielding deeply restorative clinical outcomes.

Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove stands as an incomparable pioneer in contemporary parapsychology and consciousness studies — uniting rigorous scholarly integrity with a lifelong vocation as an intellectual bridge to the wider public.

1. A Singular "Ph.D. in Parapsychology" and a Dramatic Calling

• From Criminology to Consciousness Research: Initially, Mishlove earned a master's degree in criminology at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1972, while conducting grueling fieldwork interviewing murderers and rapists inside San Quentin State Prison, profound existential exhaustion led him to a life-defining realization: rather than studying "negative deviance" (crime and pathology), he yearned to investigate "positive deviance" — extraordinary human capacities of consciousness and transcendent experience.
• A Life-Changing Dream and Community Radio: The catalyst for this pivot was an unforgettable, luminous dream. Though he was living as a countercultural seeker who did not even own a radio at the time, he followed the dream's guidance and walked into local public radio station KPFA as a volunteer. Within just three weeks, he was appointed host of the interview program The Mind's Ear, forging the poise and confidence to engage in deep dialogue with the world's finest minds.
• The Only Accredited University Doctorate of Its Kind: Guided by philosopher Prof. Michael Scriven as dissertation chair alongside committee members including Dr. Charles Tart, Mishlove was formally awarded an individual interdisciplinary Ph.D. in "Parapsychology" by UC Berkeley in 1980 — remaining a uniquely historic doctoral diploma conferred by a premier accredited university.

2. Landmark Publications

• The Roots of Consciousness (1975): A monumental, encyclopedic survey charting the history of consciousness exploration and anomalous phenomena across East and West.
• The PK Man (2000): A ten-year empirical and documentary investigation into Ted Owens, an extraordinary figure who reportedly demonstrated over 160 large-scale macro-psychokinetic phenomena, including weather modulation and anomalous aerial sightings.
• Psi Development Systems: Adapted from his UC Berkeley doctoral dissertation, a comprehensive scholarly evaluation of training systems for cultivating psi capacities — spanning ancient yoga and esoteric ceremonial traditions to modern mental training protocols.

3. New Thinking Allowed and Co-Creating an Intellectual Safe Space

Across decades, Dr. Mishlove has cultivated one of the world's most respected forums for philosophical and scientific dialogue.

Sociological surveys consistently indicate that 70% to 80% of the general population has experienced at least one anomalous phenomenon (such as telepathy, precognitive dreams, or after-death contact), yet most remain silent out of fear of ridicule or pathologization. Dr. Mishlove has dedicated his life to providing society with an "intellectual Safe Space" where these profound dimensions of human experience can be examined with rigor, openness, and dignity.

4. Recent Honors and Rebuilding Graduate Education

• Grand Prize at the Bigelow Institute (BICS): In the international essay competition sponsored by the institute founded by aerospace entrepreneur Robert Bigelow — seeking the best available evidence for the survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death — Dr. Mishlove won top honors.
• Revitalizing Graduate Scholarship: At the California Institute for Human Science (CIHS), he has played a central role in establishing and mentoring accredited M.A. and Ph.D. degree concentrations in Parapsychology and Transpersonal Psychology — reviving formal graduate training largely absent since the 1980s and nurturing the next generation of post-materialist scholars.

Here are four unforgettable moments of dialogue preserved in the New Thinking Allowed archives that illuminate both the rigor and the lived wonder of consciousness research:

1. The Host's Candid Confession of the Vivid Dream That Changed His Destiny

(Dialogue Partner: Prof. Stanley Krippner)

2. Remote Viewing the Year 2050 and "Polluting the Well"

(Dialogue Partner: Stephan A. Schwartz)

3. Witnessing an Apport Materialization Firsthand and "Parapsychology's Internal Taboos"

(Dialogue Partner: Prof. Stanley Krippner)

4. Clinical Magic: Rapport and "Leaky Margins"

(Dialogue Partner: Dr. Paul J. Leslie)