Pierre Grimes, PhD, is a specialist in classical Greek philosophy. He is the founder of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association. He is also founder of the Noetic Society in the Los Angeles area. He is author of Philosophical Midwifery: A New Paradigm for Understanding Human Problems, Socrates and Jesus: A Dialogue in Heaven, and Unblocking: Removing Blocks to Understanding. He is also a decorated veteran of the second world war.

Here he shares his passion for Plato as his greatest spiritual inspiration. He distinguishes between the Socratic dialogue and the Platonic dialectic. He highlights passages from some of Plato's dialogues. He describes the similarities between the emphasis on the "self" in Plato and in Buddhism, and laments that modern, western philosophy has lost this emphasis on selfknowledge.

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 coproduced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is also pastpresident of the nonprofit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities.

(Recorded on April 16, 2018)

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