Gods, Egregores, and Archetypes with Ronnie Pontiac

Ronnie Pontiac was the personal research assistant for Manly P. Hall at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles. He is author of American Metaphysical Religion: Esoteric and Mystical Traditions of the New World. He is coauthor with Tamra Lucid of The Magic of the Orphic Hymns: A New Translation for the Modern Mystic. Here he reviews the many interpretations offered by both philosophers and mystics regarding the nature of deities. He relates these to his previous interview in which he discusses the awakening of the ancient Egyptian goddess Sekhmet in the present era. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:01 The human imagination 00:16:07 Psychologizing the divine 00:27:05 The inner pantheon 00:36:05 Egregores 00:43:19 Tulpas, thoughtforms, astral shells 00:51:46 Archetypes 00:58:46 Mistaking words for reality 01:04:23 Breaking out of the consensus trance 01:11:34 Conclusion Edited subtitles for this video are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, and Swedish. 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). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. (Recorded on August 1, 2024) For a short video on How to Get the Most From New Thinking Allowed, go to InPresence 0253: How to Get the Most From ... For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see https://newthinkingallowed.com/Listin.... Check out the New Thinking Allowed Foundation website at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as opportunities to shop and to support our video productions – plus, this is where people can subscribe to our FREE, weekly Newsletter and can download a FREE .pdf copy of our quarterly magazine. To order high-quality, printed copies of our quarterly magazine: NTA-Magazine.MagCloud.com 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 [email protected]. To join the NTA Psi Experience Community on Facebook, see Facebook: 1953031791426543 To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n.... You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order American Metaphysical Religion by Ronnie Pontiac, click here: https://amzn.to/3BtjFkd. (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.) To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on https://amzn.to/3LzLA7Y To order the second book in the New Thinking Allowed Dialogues series, Russell Targ: Ninety Years of ESP, Remote Viewing, and Timeless Awareness, go to https://amzn.to/4aw2iyr To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: UFOs and UAP – Are We Really Alone?, go to https://amzn.to/3Y0VOVh To order the Magic of the Orphic Hymns by Tamra Lucid and Ronnie Pontiac, go to https://amzn.to/3sPMg2o