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Two-hour DVDs, each containing four complete programs from the Thinking Allowed television series. For other VideoQuartet titles, see also: Complete VideoQuartet List VideoQuartets #Q214 - #Q304 VideoQuartets #Q314 - #Q404 VideoQuartets #Q414 - #Q474

	Science and the Spirit (#Q114)		2 hours $69.95

SCIENCE AND SPIRITUAL TRADITIONS Charles Tart (#S111) 30 min. $29.95 Western science and traditional spiritual practice are both dedicated to the search for truth. Charles Tart, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of California at Davis and author of States of Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychologies, suggests that in the future we may be able to specify which types of individuals are likely to benefit most from particular spiritual disciplines. VALUE AND PURPOSE IN SCIENCE Arthur M. Young (#S112) 30 min. $29.95 Consciousness, rather than being a property which "emerges" at higher orders of complexity, is a basic principle intrinsic to every level of creation, according to this stimulating program with philosopher Arthur M. Young. Inventor of the Bell Helicopter and founder of the Institute for the Study of Consciousness, Young's books include The Reflexive Universe, The Geometry of Meaning and Which Way Out. SCIENCE AND RELIGION Willis Harman (#S114) 30 min. $29.95 While conventional religion and science are often in conflict, says Willis Harman, Ph.D., there is a growing convergence between non-reductionistic science and internally oriented religious traditions. Dr. Harman, president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and author of Higher Creativity and An Incomplete Guide to the Future, points out that this movement reflects an important new area of public interest. BEYOND THE POST-MODERN MIND Huston Smith (#S113) 30 min. $29.95 The modern western worldview is dominated by the materialist values of science. According to Huston Smith, Ph.D., this withdrawal of emphasis from human values--and from essential elements such as meaning, quality and purpose--has lead to widespread alienation and social discontent. Dr. Smith is a former professor of religion at M.I.T. and author of The Religions of Man and Beyond the Post-Modern Mind. (#S113)

	New Physics and Beyond (#Q124)		2 hours $69.95

PHYSICS AND CONSCIOUSNESS Fred Alan Wolf (#S450) 30 min. $29.95 Witty and profound, physicist Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., is the author of the American Book Award winning Taking the Quantum Leap as well as Starwave and The Body Quantum. Dr. Wolf's far-ranging thinking extends our understanding of quantum physics as it applies to the human body and mind, suggesting that we are inextricably connected with all that exists in the physical universe. A NEW SCIENCE OF LIFE Rupert Sheldrake (#S495) 30 min. $29.95 Biologist Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., author of A New Science of Life, has stimulated and even startled the scientific world by challenging mechanistic thinking in the life sciences. Dr. Sheldrake proposes a startling alternative to the idea that genetic programming is solely responsible for diversity of form, development of behavior and development of mind in living creatures. CONSCIOUSNESS AND HYPERSPACE Saul-Paul Sirag (#S480) 30 min. $29.95 Nineteenth century theologians developed the idea of multiple dimensions to explain the idea of God in scientific language. Physicist Saul-Paul Sirag discusses current theories of multiple dimensions, which have been fabricated to account for sub-atomic interactions, and the implications of these theories for the psychology and technology of the twenty-first century. CONSCIOUSNESS AND QUANTUM REALITY Nick Herbert (#S470) 30 min. $29.95 The mysteries of sub-atomic physics offer us startling new perspectives on the human mind. Physicist Nick Herbert, Ph.D., author of Quantum Reality, points out that no matter how one interprets the equations of quantum physics the results lead to amazing and paradoxical concepts. Perhaps that time runs backwards as well as forward. Perhaps multiple independent universes are created each second. (#S470)

	New Pathways in Science (#Q134)		2 hours $69.95

THE UNIVERSAL ORGANISM Rupert Sheldrake (#S496) 30 min. $29.95 The so-called "laws of nature" may actually be more like habits and instincts than immutable and inviolable laws. Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., biologist and author of the controversial A New Science of Life, suggests that from this perspective all of creation may be viewed as a living organism. This ancient concept, he says, challenges the notion of the universe as a mechanism with God as the great mechanic. THE HOLOGRAPHIC BRAIN Karl Pribram (#S490) 30 min. $29.95 With a better understanding of neurological functioning, says Karl Pribram, M.D., we may find the groundwork for a new approach to understanding spiritual and mystical experiences. Dr. Pribram, professor of neuropsychology at Stanford University and author of Languages of the Brain, is best known for his "holonomic" theory of brain functioning. TIME AND DESTINY Charles Muses (#S460) 30 min. $29.95 The qualitative and cyclical nature of time is the subject of this fascinating interview with mathematician, physicist and philosopher Charles Muses, Ph.D., author of Destiny and Control in Human Systems and The Lion Path. Drawing on quantum physics and geometry, Dr. Muses shows how these cyclic patterns can be understood and developed through the cultivation of intuition and feeling with resonant timing. EVOLUTION: THE GREAT CHAIN OF BEING Arthur M. Young (#S510) 30 min. $29.95 Philosopher Arthur M. Young, author of The Reflexive Universe, describes three different types of evolution: physical evolution of the form of the body, evolution of the "group soul" of a species, and personal evolution, i.e., the spiritual evolution of the individual. This program contains excerpts from Arthur M. Young: The Reflexive Universe, a documentary about Young's life and work.

Exploring Parapsychology (#Q144)		2 hours $69.95

UNDERSTANDING EXTRA-SENSORY PERCEPTION Charles Tart (#S270) 30 min. $29.95 One of America's foremost parapsychology researchers, Charles Tart, Ph.D., discusses his own research as he examines factors that facilitate ESP scoring in the laboratory. These range from feedback learning strategies to methods for shielding the human body from random electromagnetic and geomagnetic influences. Dr. Tart is the author of Psi: Studies in the Scientific Realm and Learning to Use Extrasensory Perception. EXPLANATIONS OF THE SUPERNATURAL Michael Scriven (#S280) 30 min. $29.95 In this provocative interview, Michael Scriven, D.Phil., calls to task those who maintain that all psychic claims must be either fraud or error, since such an attitude implies that current scientific models will never be superceded. Dr. Scriven is a multi-disciplinary scholar who has made significant contributions to mathematics, logic, philosophy of science, ethics, education, psychology and parapsychology. LEARNING TO USE ESP Milan Ryzl (#S240) 30 min. $29.95 A parapsychologist whose pioneering work in Czechoslovakia was featured in the best-selling Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, Milan Ryzl, Ph.D., shares his personal experiences as a hypnotist and researcher, describing his training methods and their practical applications. One of Dr. Ryzl's subjects was able to identify a each digit of a 15 digit number through clairvoyant perception. PSYCHOKINESIS, OR MIND-OVER-MATTER Julian Isaacs (#S285) 30 min. $29.95 Julian Isaacs, Ph.D., professor of parapsychology at John F. Kennedy University, is a council member of the British Society for Psychical Research and an applied psychologist specializing in training psychokinetic abilities. Dr. Isaacs' most successful subjects have learned to attain a "zenlike" state of concentration of both "focus on" and "indifference to" the experimental task.

The Roots of Consciousness ()	2 hours $69.95

NEW WORLD, NEW MIND Robert Ornstein (#S008) 30 min. $29.95 Robert Ornstein, author of The Psychology of Consciousness, The Psychology of Meditation and The Evolution of Consciousness, points out that our brains evolved in a world very different from the civilization that we have created. Our minds are not well-equipped to deal with the slowly accumulating problems that are threatening us today -- such as pollution and population growth. . TOWARD A NEW PARADIGM OF THE UNCONSCIOUS Stanislav Grof (#S040) 30 min. $29.95 In extraordinary circumstances, the human mind is capable of accessing information from anywhere in time or space, according to evidence provided by Stanislav Grof, M.D.. Author of Realms of the Human Unconscious, Dr. Grof is an innovative psychotherapist who has attempted to integrate the divergent schools of Freud, Jung and Reich with insights from the leading edge of contemporary physics and biology. DETERMINISM, FREE WILL AND FATE Arthur M. Young (#S500) 30 min. $29.95 Free will and purpose are not inconsistent with a universe subject to law. In fact, says Arthur Young, free will would be ineffective without a determinate world to act upon. Young, philosopher, inventor of the Bell helicopter and author of The Reflexive Universe, also discusses the difference between determinism--the belief that everything acts according to law--and pre-destination or fate. PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE Huston Smith (#S030) 30 min. $29.95 One of the most widely read writers in the field of philosophy and religion, Huston Smith's classic book The Religions of Man has sold over two million copies. In this stimulating program Dr. Smith discusses the relation between psychedelic experience and religious practice, the god within and the cultivation of psychic experiences within religious and shamanic traditions.

Critical Self Awareness (#Q164)		2 hours $69.95

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL BLINDSPOTS Patricia Sun (#S115) 30 min. $29.95 The fear of confronting ourselves and each other leads to unnecessary suppression of our own higher powers. Patricia Sun, an expert in communications and conflict resolution, spiritual teacher, healer and charismatic speaker, suggests that through a return to innocence we can rediscover our connection with each other in a healing manner. QUESTIONING ASSUMPTIONS Donald Michael (#S116) 30 min. $29.95 Donald Michael, Ph.D., is a former policy analyst for the National Science Foundation and the Joint Chiefs of Staff and author of The Next Generation and The Uncertain Society. He suggests that we are frequently misled by the certainties offered by politicians and social reformers. He also takes issue with the anti-scientistic bias of many social activists, adding that by admitting our uncertainties we can begin to learn. THINKING ABOUT THINKING Michael Scriven (#S140) 30 min. $29.95 "Evaluation phobia" is Dr. Michael Scriven's term for the fear that individuals and organizations have about carefully examining the logic of their own decisions. Scriven, D.Phil., is a philosopher and multi-disciplinary scholar whose speciality is the very process of thinking itself. He is the author of many books, including Primary Philosophy, Reasoning, and The Logic of Evaluation. COMMUNICATION AND CONGRUENCE Virginia Satir (#S118) 30 min. $29.95 Many of us are afraid to communicate to others our true feelings. One of the most influential modern psychologists and a founder of family therapy, Virginia Satir describes how internalized "rules" for social behavior limit our communication. Ms. Satir demonstrates various communication styles--depreciation, blaming, intellectualizing and irrelevance--which people use to cover up their feelings of low self-esteem.

Transforming Awareness (#Q174)		2 hours $69.95

SELF-OBSERVATION Charles Tart (#S117) 30 min. $29.95 Countless factors can mitigate against self-observation in Western society. Charles Tart, Ph.D., noted psychologist and author of Waking Up, suggests we begin by learning to focus on seemingly trivial details such as bodily sensations. Through repeated and diligent practice, he says, the process of self-observation leads us to a larger view of ourselves and our potential. (#S117) BECOMING MORE FULLY HUMAN Virginia Satir (#S123) 30 min. $29.95 The problems of society result less from an intrinsic "evil" in human nature than from our failure to stop repeating behavior patterns from the past. Change, says Virginia Satir, begins with learning to accept and understand the many parts of oneself. Ms. Satir, one of the most influential psychologists alive today, is the author of Conjoint Family Therapy, Peoplemaking, Self Esteem and numerous other books. METAPHORS OF TRANSFORMATION Ralph Metzner (#S070) 30 min. $29.95 Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., is well known as a consciousness explorer. Here he stresses the importance of metaphor in guiding and understanding human development, focussing on the metaphors of transformation from a caterpillar to a butterfly, of the journey, and of death and rebirth. Dr. Metzner is author of Opening to Inner Light and Maps of Consciousness and co-author of The Psychedelic Experience. TRANSCENDING LIMITATIONS James Fadiman (#S120) 30 min. $29.95 We all limit ourselves by attachment to old attitudes and outworn ideas. James Fadiman, Ph.D., author of Be All That You Are, offers several techniques to help us recognize and discard such attitudes and set goals for the changes we desire. A distinguished humanistic psychologist, Dr. Fadiman is past-president of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. (#S120)

	Personal & Spiritual Development (#Q184)		2 hours $69.95

WAKING UP Charles Tart (#S020) 30 min. $29.95 Our normal waking state of consciousness can be likened to being "asleep" in comparison to other states of awareness we might attain. In this intriguing discussion, psychologist Charles Tart, Ph.D., author of Altered States of Consciousness and Waking Up, suggests that we can begin to "wake up" by allowing our awareness to become conscious of itself. This can become a simple, yet powerful, discipline. THE PRACTICE OF MEDITATION Jack Kornfield (#S315) 30 min. $29.95 Through quieting the mind we become aware of our unconscious tensions and the act of awareness itself serves to heal those tensions. Buddhist teacher of Vipassana (mindfulness) meditation, clinical psychologist and author of Living Masters of Buddhism and A Clear Forest Pool, Jack Kornfield, Ph.D., seeks out the factors common to all varieties of meditation. PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT AND THE PSYCHE Helen Palmer (#S065) 30 min. $29.95 Certain paranoid and neurotic states can open the mind to a range of intuitive and psychic experiences, according to this provocative discussion with Helen Palmer, Ph.D.. Author of The Enneagram and a noted psychic intuitive, psychologist and founder of the Center for the Investigation and Training of Intuition, Dr. Palmer suggests that through inner practices we can observe our minds and recognize these experiences when they occur. SPIRITUAL TRAINING Irina Tweedie (#S058) 30 min. $29.95 Mrs. Irina Tweedie is the author of Daughter of Fire, a diary of her intensive spiritual training in India with a Hindu Sufi master. In this moving and personal interview, the 80-year-old Mrs. Tweedie, who is now a Sufi teacher in London, describes the bliss, peace and love--and the despair, hatred and loneliness--of her years of training in the Sufi tradition.

	Spiritual Psychology (#Q194)		2 hours $69.95

SPIRITUALITY AND PSYCHOLOGY Frances Vaughan (#S010) 30 min. $29.95 True psychology is incomplete without an understanding of the spiritual yearnings of human beings. Frances Vaughan, Ph.D., is a transpersonal psychotherapist and president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. She is author of Awakening Intuition and The Inward Arc. Dr. Vaughan stresses that all spiritual traditions ultimately offer a means toward transcendence of the limited self. (#S010) PSYCHOTHERAPY AND SPIRITUAL PATHS Seymour Boorstein (#S045) 30 min. $29.95 While meditation may be ideal for some individuals, others with poorly developed ego structures may be harmed by engaging in intensive spiritual practices designed to dissolve the boundaries of the ego, according to Seymour Boorstein, M.D.. A psychoanalyst and editor of Transpersonal Psychotherapy, Dr. Boorstein discusses his transformation from a conventional--and athiestic--psychiatrist to a student of spirituality. VISIONARY EXPERIENCE OR PSYCHOSIS? John Weir Perry (#S060) 30 min. $29.95 The psychiatric community errs in treating visionary experience as a form of mental illness, says Jungian psychotherapist John Weir Perry, M.D.. Dr. Perry is the author of many books including The Heart of History and The Far Side of Madness. He suggests that psychiatric labelling and the use of anti-psychotic drugs serve to stifle the valuable integration of life's mythic dimensions. PAST LIFE REGRESSION AND SPIRIT DEPOSSESSION Edith Fiore (#S410) 30 min. $29.95 Edith Fiore, Ph.D., fascinating author of You Have Been Here Before and The Unquiet Dead, discusses her transformation from a conventional behavior therapist to a specialist in the application of spiritualist principles of reincarnation and spirit possession to psychotherapy. In particular, she talks about her experiences using "past-life regression" as a therapeutic technique.

	Consciousness & Modern Culture (#Q204)		2 hours $69.95

THE EMERGING NEW CULTURE Fritjof Capra (#S180) 30 min. $29.95 Best-selling author of The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point, physicist Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., discusses the new "wholistic" culture that has emerged in the late twentieth century. He argues that the biological sciences, quantum physics and systems theory will provide a theoretical foundation which will supercede the decaying culture based on a linear, mechanistic worldview. GLOBAL MIND-CHANGES Willis Harman (#S090) 30 min. $29.95 There is a new global emphasis on the inner life of the mind. Willis Harman, Ph.D., suggests that a new set of values, emerging spontaneously in many social strata and in different parts of the world, is having an impact in the world of business and corporate training. Dr. Harman is president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, futurist and author of Higher Creativity and An Incomplete Guide to the Future. STAYING ALIVE: PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN SURVIVAL Roger Walsh (#S110) 30 min. $29.95 We cannot live authentic lives without feeling touched by the major problems of the planet. Roger Walsh, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Staying Alive: The Psychology of Human Survival. In this moving interview he urges that by becoming aware of the roots of these problems in ourselves, we can begin to heal our culture of its dangerously insane condition. GOVERNANCE, UNCERTAINTY AND COMPASSION Donald Michael (#S193) 30 min. $29.95 When we acknowledge the existential realities of our uncertainty, our need for community and our isolation in the face of death, we are led to a position of compassion from which genuine long-range social planning may proceed. Donald Michael, Ph.D., is an emeritus professor in psychology and in planning and public policy at the University of Michigan, a prolific author and a respected policy advisor.

For other VideoQuartet titles, see also: Complete VideoQuartet List VideoQuartets #Q214 - #Q304 VideoQuartets #Q314 - #Q404 VideoQuartets #Q414 - #Q474

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