Remembering Researcher and Psychic Jean Millay (1929 - 2017) with Gail Hayssen (4K Reboot)

Summary

Psychologist Jeffrey Mishlove and shamanism student Gail Hayssen remember Jean Millay (1929-2017), an artist, biofeedback researcher, parapsychologist, and trance medium who was a central figure in the Bay Area parapsychology community. Hayssen recounts conference adventures, seances, and an exorcism with Millay, and describes how Millay chose to die while on 1960s-era LSD, much like Aldous Huxley. She also describes a later table-tipping session in which two women who had never heard of Millay reportedly felt as if they were on LSD and saw visions of light, which Hayssen took as Millay's spirit making contact.

Key takeaways

• 1Jean Millay built a brainwave biofeedback 'light sculpture' that was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York with help from Stanley Krippner
• 2Millay wrote 'Multidimensional Mind: Remote Viewing in Hyperspace', funded by shamanism scholar Ruth-Inge Heinze, and edited 'Radiant Minds', with an introduction by Jeffrey Mishlove
• 3Millay channeled a spirit guide named Ronac, including at a dinner attended by psychotherapist Virginia Satir
• 4Millay died in Hawaii after taking powdered 1960s LSD through a feeding tube, as Aldous Huxley did with a psychedelic at death
• 5Millay's partner Daryl appears in a Vice documentary about a secret MDMA/MDA lab, and guests at her farewell party were linked to 'Orange Sunshine' LSD production
• 6Hayssen reports a table-tipping session with Stanley Krippner in which participants sensed Millay's spirit through temperature changes, LSD-like feelings, and visions of light

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we did other interesting things to do together we did a seance together we did a um somebody needed a spirit eliminated from their house so she said let's go and we went off and did an exorcism in forestville to somebody who i don't even know and neither did she but they had a calling that we had to come and we did and um she included me in her book radiant minds which i didn't feel like what would i be doing in there but she wanted to honor subjects she said nobody ever writes the name or the story of the subjects they just write about the data and the information and she wanted to have some subjects highlighted there so i was like i can't believe you want me in your book you know so she just did so many wonderful things for me i wish she was here with us still today and we were going off to another conference together i can tell you that because um you know she was a mentor for me also and you know i can only reach her in spirit now keep watching to learn more new thinking aloud is presented by the california institute for human science a fully accredited university offering distant learning graduate degrees that focus on mind body and spirit the topics that we cover here we are particularly excited to announce new degrees emphasizing parapsychology and the paranormal visit their website at cihs.edu the new thinking aloud magazine issue 10 on ufos and uap is now ready for free download and you can also order beautiful printed copies go to new thinking aloud dot o-r-g book four in the new thinking aloud dialogue series is charles t tart 70 years of exploring consciousness...

Excerpt from New Thinking Allowed, Oct 28, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.