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The absence of authentic exchange on TV is nowhere more convincingly evidenced than when the opposite suddenly appears. The questions you raise are worthwhile and the style encourages thinking on the part of the viewer.
Philip Wander
Prof. of Communication
San Jose State University
Thinking Allowed is the most stimulating, provocative, thought provoking and well produced interview show I have ever seen. Interviewer Jeffrey Mishlove is so thoroughly grounded and able to pick up on responses with great follow-up questions. He has the ability to re-state concepts to capture the 'nugget.' His program is a true gem on your channel.
Anna B. Bender
Madison, WI
The programs are extremely interesting and informative. I think as an interviewer you are excellent. Thank you for such quality and insight in your programs. There are many of us who watch this program weekly and have interesting conversations following the broadcast.
Pam Moon
Pacifica, CA
Wonderful! What a great show.
Hal Zina Bennett
Palo Alto, CA
It was absolutely excellent! It was such a pleasure to finally listen to an intelligent, down to earth and totally sincere person speak about something as personal and important as their spiritual expansion. I also want to express my appreciation for the genuine respect and sensitivity you showed the subject of spiritual development.
Rhonda Chaikin
Moraga, CA
For the first time, individuals interested in human potential can explore new vistas with top scholars and practitioners. This is an invaluable opportunity for viewers to be on the forefront.
Diane Shaver Clemens
Professor of History
Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
The work you are doing in broadening the understanding of significant and little-understood phenomena can be of real service to our culture.
George Leonard
Author
Mill Valley, CA
I believe you are doing an outstanding job with this series. It is a critical contribution. I am honored to be associated with it in any way.
Michael L. Ray
Professor, Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Your interviewing skills are excellent. The first time I watched your program, I was immediately struck by your obvious sense of compassion and innate empathy. I applaud the fact that you use your intellect to contribute to humanity and I respect the goodwill that emanates from you to your interviewee and audience alike.
Gillian Wilkerson
Tiburon, CA
I believe the series is a significant contribution to the humanities and to the quality of television broadcasting.
Theodore Roszak
Professor of History
California State Univ., Hayward
The series has the potential for exploring the middle ground between formal educationwhich science has backed into procrustean canons of thoughtand `California gullibility` which (rebounding from the scientism of the academy) is in danger of rejecting critical standards entirely.
Huston Smith
Emeritus Professor
M.I.T.
This is an excellent series, bringing important educational information about a number of vital human concerns.
Charles T. Tart
Prof. of Psychology
Univ. of California, Davis
Your work is outstanding in its many dimensions. The first is your willingness to bring to the public important thinkers at a time when there is a premium on the `slick and the pop.`
John R. O'Neil
President
California School Professional Psychology
I appreciate your commitment to quality in programming.
Frances Vaughan
Past President
Assn. Humanistic Psychology
Thinking Allowed presents the great teachers and thinkers, the healers and mystics of our time...and they're talking ...with a depth you'll rarely see on television....Jeffrey Mishlove gets points for knowing his material well and through insightful comments....
Gene Bruce
East West Journal
I have for many years watched interviewers, good and bad, and thought about their insight or lack thereof. I am absolutely delighted with Thinking Allowed and mostly because of your fine work and personal interaction with your various guests. I am fascinated with your depth of understanding and your ability to communicate with grace, dignity and warmth.
Dr. Mychael Gleeson
New Westminster, BC
I love the program.
Robert Blosser
Mill Valley, CA
Your program was so fabulous and fascinating and so loaded with insightful information...
Margaritte Bartlett
Menlo Park, CA
I'm enjoying these conversations immensely.
Jordeen Oliver
Fremont, CA
I am a fan of your program Thinking Allowed. It is a pleasure to see such a sharp intellect managed with so much gentleness and finesse. Thank you for coming into my home with so much care and with such a light footstep.
Walter Dobbs
Washington, DC
I have seen your show several times over the past months and have always appreciated your program. Not only are your guests fascinating and always thought-provoking, but your interview skills and grasp on a wide variety of subjects is always impressive. Thank you for your vision. And thank you for sharing this vision with eloquence, warmth and intellectual vigor.
Susana Crofton
Corte Madera, CA
(About the Thinking Allowed book of selected transcripts.) It is difficult today, because of the cult of specialization, to get firsthand overviews of important social and cultural changes taking place in our society. So, it was with particular pleasure that I reviewed this book. And what a wonderful time I had with it. I could not put it down. What this extensive book does is bring to us the current thinking of almost forty of the world's proactive thinkers as they have been interviewed on TV by a marvelously insightful and erudite interviewer, Jeffrey Mishlove."
Bryan W. Fearon
SSC Booknews
I would like to acknowledge the power and insightfulness of the gestalt created by the Thinking Allowed series. Brilliantly hosted by Jeffrey Mishlove, it had a profound impact on me...and my way of seeing and experiencing the world....I can't put adequately into words the depth of my feelings and gratefulness for the stimulus this series provided.
Benjamin I. Young, Jr
Management Consultant
Belvedere, CA
It delighted me to see such a quality program on television. It was a thrill to see someone bringing a knowledge of the mind to the people in such a way.
June Q. Murray
Marietta, GA
Thinking Allowed plays to the largest stage in the world, the viewers' imagination. Viewers are taken by the hand on a tour of the minds and imaginations of interesting guests. Distracting visuals are not needed, as Jeffrey Mishlove's comments paint a talking picture of the tour.
Peter Barcik
Berkeley, CA
I know of no other program which even approaches yours in quality, variety and depth.
Maurice Stump
Mesa, AZ
Thinking Allowed is my favorite TV show.
Jean Whitehead
Little Rock, AR
I enjoy your program so much. It has introduced me to subjects I was unaware of and has me buying books for further study. I am sure you are enriching the lives of many others, too.
Sophie Metrofsky
Manchester, CT
I've enjoyed your work for many years. It is interesting, informative and inspiring. Your interviews have managed to cover most of the people on the cutting edge.
Martin Segal
Miami, FL
Thinking Allowed is one of only a few programs I watch faithfully each week.
Rick de Yampert
Daytona Beach, FL
I feel constrained to communicate to you the great help that your productions have been to me in my search for knowledge and enlightenment. Nowhere else can I find the broad spectrum of current thought in one source. Dr. Mishlove does a magnificent job as interviewer, demonstrating the breadth and strength of his own knowledge.
Marcellus R. Meek
Founding Partner
Baker & McKenzie, Inc.
Your video productions are most helpful in channeling...thought-provoking yet accessible contexts for our people. I have found them engaging in my own professional development and anticipate ever-widening...use as we engage others with them.
Mary Roush
DuPont Corporation
Wilmington, DE
Mishlove...is well informed about his subjects and comes across as a sort of thinking person's Dick Cavett.
Randy Pitman
Video Librarian
Thinking Allowed is a wonderful, exciting, interesting half hour. Thank you for subject matter that explores boundless existence that will be realities of tomorrow. I most certainly wish that your half hour will be extended to at least an hour very soon.
Anna English
New York, NY
One of the high points of my week is watching Thinking Allowed. As a mother of middle-aged twins and grandmother of five, and a client of several psychotherapists, I am hypercritical. I am particularly impressed by the amount of preparation you obviously must do for each program.
Rachel Rubin Gold
San Francisco, CA
These programs are an indispensable, quality resource for everybody with a serious interest in personal or organizational transformation. I whole-heartedly recommend them.
Ron Gordon
Former President, Atari, Inc.
Your great interview program on TV is the only show that gives me the feeling that I actually learned something useful, interesting and provocative instead of just being programmed by the media.
Harvey Sherback
Berkeley, CA
Dear Jeffrey has become part of our family.
Maria G. Hofling
Petaluma, CA
Mishlove himself has quite a pleasing and personable media presence. He is both friendly and intellectually astute. His interviews contain thoughtful preambles and elaborations....I rest easier knowing that these ideas are circulating the planet by satellite and that here and there they are touching minds and hearts and thereby potentially making a difference in individual lives, and, if people with power are watching, in whole countries.
Paul Van Ness
Common Boundary Journal
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Your programming is unique and of consistently high quality. It always strikes me as significant that you are capable of exploring the fields of business, medicine, literature, and the fine arts with equal skill.
Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier
Department of Medicine
Univ. of California, San Francisco
The programs are excellent and they fill a need in audio-visual materials dealing with research into consciousness. As a community college psychology professor, I can foresee an entire course being offered with these tapes as the foundation of the curriculum.
Don Holmlund
Behavioral Science Dept.
Marin Community College
Kentfield, CA
The best thirty minutes on TV.
Julio King
Charlotte, NC
Compliments to Jeff Mishlove for the simple and elegant way he does his job, and the interesting people he brings to my livingroom.
Beverly Anderson
San Francisco, CA
Thinking Allowed must be one of the most exciting programs on TV. I do pray for the program's longevity. I am an ignorant ordinary. But that program opens me up to something beyond my comprehension that fascinates me and awes me and humbles me.
Masako Tomioka
San Francisco, CA
I am a faithful fan of your show...and I derive a great deal from it. In my opinion there really ought to be more shows like yours on TV. Currently I am a prisoner at San Quentin State Prison, however, I will be released this summer and...plan to go on to get a Masters degree in Counseling.
Steven Stratford
Tamal, CA
We have never before had this amount of favorable input to our programming.
Wendell D. Jones
Program Director
KCSM-TV 60
It would be wonderful if schools had access to the Thinking Allowed video series.
Marie Rhodes
Sacramento, CA
Each week...I eagerly await your extraordinary interviewsand what you yourself have to say. You seem prepared to be a good host and a knowledgeable one in all academic fields. In summary, your half hour program is mind-expanding, delightful, and very much anticipated from week to week.
Jeanette Stegner
San Francisco, CA
The depth of your spiritual knowledge is beyond what I had thought. Your show is the best thing of its kind so far on TV.
Wendell E. Wilkinson
San Francisco, CA
The Thinking Allowed series is like a cool drink in the desert of studied ignorance that surrounds us. You have even hooked my husband, himself thoughtful, but who has heretofore shied away from the ambiguities of mind research. For this I am grateful.
Catherine W. Hughes
Mill Valley, CA
Thinking Allowed is the only television program I would recommend to friends due to the quality of the information. I am certainly amazed that the major television networks don't feel an obligation to stimulate viewer interest with more productive entertainment.
Linda J. Moudakas
San Jose, CA
The Thinking Allowed series will appeal to all those who embraced The Power of Myth with Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers...Excellent...Highly recommended...Thinking Allowed consistently features 'leading edge' topics, uncluttered stage production and the warm, knowledgeable style of interviewer/psycho-therapist Jeffrey Mishlove...The brilliance of the dialogues transcends the limitations of the talking-heads format.
ABC Clio
Video Rating Guide for Libraries
You and your program Thinking Allowed get a standing ovation from this household. You are marvelous. Your guests are marvelous. You are changing the world, you know. Thank you for helping us make the 'connection.' The name of the show says it all.
Gay Bechir & Family
Denver, CO
Packing the passing moment with presence and then to function within this holy modus...What a sharp aim must be taken to strike such an expansive target! And yet, are we not all archers of the absolute?
Donald T. Somersset
Sausalito, CA
Programs such as yours are surely needed. I think they serve two purposes. They educate the general public and they expose the in" crowd to new avenues. We can't read everything and there is always someone new to be exposed to."
Ananda Shakti
Berkeley, CA
This is the best programming I've ever seen on television.
Patricia Churchill
San Francisco, CA
Thinking Allowed has opened a wonder of new ideas for me and a fresh breeze of intelligence to television broadcasting.
Robert B. Beeching
Boston, MA
Since there appears to be an increasing societal interest in these types of phenomena, I believe it should be intelligently and responsibly presented as in the Thinking Allowed series.
Carl A. Chapman
Oakland, CA
Thank you for the best program on TV.
Doris Katsuda
Colorado Springs, CO
Thinking Allowed is one of the best locally produced series we have had the pleasure of screening. We are especially impressed by the range of guests who have participated in your series and its overall technical quality.
Avon Killion
Program Manager, KTEH-TV
San Jose, CA
Thinking Allowed is the spiritual Rx for inquiring minds who want to know.
Leien Shindy
West Palm Beach, FL
Thank you for presenting one of the most important programs on television today. Thinking Allowed has been my favorite show for some time now. I find it so inspiring that I have become a member of our local public TV station.
Joseph B. Hall
Fort Collins, CO
I have been watching the program and enjoying it for months. I am thinking seriously of exposing some of the alienated youth in my community to the ideas.
Jim Braxton
Brooklyn, NY
I just wanted to let you know how refreshing it is to have an inspiring and stimulating show such as Thinking Allowed on TV. The host is always well informed and able to draw out the guests. I've enjoyed each of the programs I've seen. Thank you, and keep on feeding the minds of us hungry people. Please let those responsible for funding this program know how much it is enjoyed by those who see it.
Lance Plaza
New York, NY
I absolutely love your show. After I've seen it I feel as if I've had my thinking clarified and my spirit soothed. You're a wonderful host very bright to be able to articulate states of existence that often resist by their nature and you appear very sweet and gentle and caring.
Paul Starnes
Gaffney, SC
The shows are very stimulating and thought provoking. It is very encouraging to find television of this caliber. I believe the importance of your work cannot be overstated. I only wish that others in the world of television broadcasting might learn something from your example.
Saul J. Diamond
Novato, CA
My wife and I love your interviews. After seeing you share so many differing life perspectives, we would love to hear someone interview you. Thank you and all who are responsible for your wonderful show.
John Lovewave
Santa Fe, NM
I must tell you that you have a special talent for interviewing. Not only do you draw your subjects out, but you have an almost frightening reservoir of knowledge from which to draw your questions. I am continually amazed at the breadth of your background. If you won't blush, I must add that you have a very ingenious, ingratiating manner that must put all of your people immediately at ease. In any event, I wouldn't miss Thinking Allowed for the world. And if you think this letter is immoderate, please excuse the enthusiasm of an 85-year old who came to all these interesting aspects of life rather late.
Rebecca Latimer
Sonoma, CA
I love watching your shows. They are well done, amazing and relaxing.
Mark T. Pellicori
Madison, WI
The great minds of today in Thinking Allowed have set me on a path of positiveness, good health and spiritual prosperity.
Tom Pessagno
West Palm Beach, FL
I watch your program religiously. I look forward to it every week and am disappointed when I miss it.
Raymond Jackson
Denver, CO
I am surprised to find that a half hour of television can be so consistently interesting. You bring an openness and insight to the discussions which I find absolutely refreshing. I always learn something new from the show and I am truly impressed with the format: letting these people speak their minds in a sympathetic setting without incessantly challenging their remarks.
Kenneth L. Anderson
Dept. of Philosophy
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
As a newcomer to this country from the Soviet Union, I had great pleasure to find a program like yours.
Anatoly Kravets
Denver, CO
I was absolutely held captivated, enthralled and spellbound...I feel privileged to have been exposed so vividly to such a great opportunity of wisdom.
Peggy Burrell
Kent, WA
This series has gone beyond the inspirational to build, systematically, a wealth of practical aids for living, from a range of viewpoints. I recommend it.
Ron Hartley
West Palm Beach, FL
Your program is my # 1 favorite, for which I would set the alarm and wake up any time of night.
Lou Rogers
Boulder, CO
Never has there been anything like Thinking Allowed a rare jewel of clarity, content and communication. This show should be seen for the greatness of its endeavor to implant the seed of ideas in our close-minded world. Jeffrey Mishlove is perfect in his capacity, and would be our guru had we needed one. This generation needs exposure to such as he on TV. We hope this program runs eternally, for it is our supreme TV viewing joy.
J. & B. Desidero
Brooklyn, NY
This college has ordered all your Thinking Allowed and InnerWork programs. We are proud to add these outstanding programs to our collection.
Frank L. Oliver
Assoc. Prof. of Sociology
Wm. Rainey Harper College
Palatine, IL
I watch Thinking Allowed every chance I get as I find it to be the most intelligent program on TV, largely because Jeffrey Mishlove is such a brilliant host.
Ronald Dickhoff
Elmhurst, NY
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