The Why Files: Operation Podcast The Basement: Jeffrey Mishlove | Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness. It Filters It
Apr 27, 2026
Jeffrey Mishlove, parapsychologist with the only U.S. PhD in parapsychology and decades researching consciousness and mysticism. He recounts encounters with Ted Owens and SRI’s Stargate circle. He discusses shared-death dreams, terminal lucidity, the brain-as-filter idea, evidence for survival after death, and soul-group and reincarnation concepts.
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Dream Of Uncle Harry Changed Career
- Jeffrey Mishlove had a profound remote shared-death dream where his great-uncle Harry visited and took him partway beyond death.
- He woke singing Ovinu Malkeinu, cried with joy, and that experience redirected him from criminology to studying mysticism and consciousness.
Dream Magazine Led To Radio Career
- A hypnagogic dream guided Mishlove to a magazine called Focus that led him to volunteer at KPFA and start producing programs on consciousness.
- Within weeks he moved from receptionist duties to hosting The Mind's Ear and interviewing leading figures in parapsychology.
Challenger Warning Phone Call
- On Christmas Eve Owens called Mishlove and told him to warn the U.S. government not to launch the next space shuttle because UFOs would bring it down.
- Mishlove did not act, and about a month later the Challenger disaster occurred, which haunted him emotionally.
