Thinking Allowed

Psychology, philosophy, health, spirituality, science and computers are among the topics covered in this interview program, which takes an "alternative" point of view on these subjects. (1987-2002).

Thinking Allowed is an American independent public television series which was broadcast from 1986 to 2002. It began as The Mind's Eye on KCSM-TV in San Mateo, California, in 1986 and changed to Thinking Allowed in 1988 when it was distributed to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). It was an interview program providing alternative points of view on a wide variety of subjects in humanistic psychology, living philosophically, frontiers of science, personal and spiritual development, health and healing, mythology, parapsychology, computers and cognition, management psychology, and global awareness.

The series' host was Jeffrey Mishlove, and featured more than 200 prominant intellectual figures, which included Rupert Sheldrake, Russell Targ, Joseph Campbell, Jacques Vallée, Albert Ellis, H. Dean Brown, Riane Eisler, Virginia Satir, Rollo May, Terence McKenna, Arthur M. Young, Irvin Yalom, Jean Houston, Colin Wilson, Jacob Needleman, J. Nigro Sansonese, Rachel Naomi Remen, Michael Talbot, Theodore Roszak, Robert Ornstein, Jean Shinoda Bole and many others.

The original interviews can be seen on the show's YouTube channel.

Mishlove returned to the format with new interviews titled New Thinking Allowed in 2015, also on YouTube.