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Leslie Kean is an independent investigative journalist and author of Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife. In 2010, her book UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record was a New York Times bestseller. She is also coauthor of Burma’s Revolution of the Spirit: The Struggle for Democratic Freedom and Dignity as well as Henry Hyde's Moral Universe. Her website is Here she describes the many historical descriptions of spirit materialization, observed under well-controlled conditions by experienced researchers such as Nobel laureate Charles Richet. She acknowledges that such phenomena are ostensibly unbelievable, no matter how well-attested. She describes her own experience witnessing such phenomena in the presence of the spiritualist circle in England centered on the physical medium, Stewart Alexander. She describes levitations, matter passing through matter, materializations, and direct voice manifestations. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology“ ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). (Recorded on June 9, 2020) For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to friends@. For opportunities to help support the New Thinking Allowed video channel -- please visit the New Thinking Allowed Foundation at . To join the NTA Psi Experience Community on Facebook, see To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our podcast at You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife by Leslie Kean, click here: LINKS TO BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS INTERVIEW: Leslie Kean, Burma’s Revolution of the Spirit: The Struggle for Democratic Freedom and Dignity – Leslie Kean, Henry Hyde's Moral Universe – Leslie Kean, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record – Hereward Carrington, Eusapia Palladino and Her Phenomena – Zofia Weaver, Other Realities? The Enigma of Franek Kluski's Mediumship – Viscount Adare, Experiences in Spiritualism with D. D. Home – Malcolm Bird, Margery the Medium – Carlos Alvarado, Charles Richet: A Nobel Laureate's Exploration of Psychic Phenomena – Gustave Geley, Materializations: Experimente Mit M. Franek Kluski – Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain – Stephen E. Braude, Immortal Remains: The Evidence for Life After Death – Jeffrey Mishlove, The PK Man: A True Story of Mind Over Matter – Leslie Flint, Voices in the Dark: My Life as a Medium – Stewart Alexander, An Extraordinary Journey: My Life As a Physical Medium – Gladys Osborne Leonard, My Life in Two Worlds – Louie Harris, Alec Harris: The Full Story of His Remarkable Physical Mediumship – Charles Richet, Thirty Years of Psychical Research – Sir William Crookes, Crookes and the Spirit World – (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.) Our Facebook page: Our Twitter page: Our Instagram page: Our LinkedIn discussion group:
