In this open-ended discussion, Emmy and Jeff address questions concerning healthcare and the environment, as well as the distinctions between democratic and authoritarian governments. One concern is political hostility and polarization. Emmy and Jeff question whether remaining silent during this troubling period is a form of complicity. Furthermore, what are the political implications of nonlocal [...]

Edi describes how dictators rise to power and how their playbook is always the same. He emphasizes the need for open-mindedness, education, and critical thinking to advance society forward in positive directions and the empowering roles of intuition, love, and vulnerability to confront authoritarianism.

You can view our previous interview with him on this topic at https://youtu.be/uv-dH7g0x34

In this very personal reboot video from 2020, he reveals how and why his years in prison (as a drug dealer) facilitated his achieving a temporary state of enlightenment. He acknowledges that, in his case, the suffering seemed necessary for him to have achieved a breakthrough. Given the positive changes he experienced, he maintains that, if [...]

In this video, rebooted from 2016, he discusses the events that took place during his year long work as a consultant to the remote viewing program of Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ at SRI International, funded by the U.S. military intelligence community. He describes the unique psychological conditions at SRI that seemed to be extremely [...]

In this video he recounts how India transformed his understanding of spiritual life—from early Advaita/Jñāna practice in the U.S. to immersive encounters with India’s sacred culture. He reflects on reports of siddhis (yogic powers) while affirming the “greater miracle” of moral transformation, visits Gandhi’s ashram and Vinoba Bhave’s village movement, observes laboratory studies of yogis’ [...]

In this interview, rebooted from 2019, he shares his investigations of hoodoo or conjure practitioners in the Carolinas and Georgia. His perspective is not that of a practitioner, but rather that of a sympathetic psychotherapist interested in understanding the prevalent, yet hidden, culture he found himself surrounded by in South Carolina. He traces the origin [...]