Neurodiversity, Part 3: Tristan’s Life Story

Annika and Tristan are two distinct persons occupying a single body. To our knowledge, their case is unique and neither understood nor even described in the psychiatric and psychological literature. They believe that their case sheds light on the nature of consciousness and mind-body interaction. In this video, Annika has, essentially, left the body while Tristan shares his own incredible journey. He explains how he first experienced Annika entering his body, with the consciousness of an infant, when he was 22 years of age. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:51 Early life history 00:07:30 The fiancée 00:11:25 Annika’s early presence 00:15:58 Missing time 00:21:57 Shellfish allergy 00:29:38 The origin of Annika 00:40:04 The time Tristan “died“ for five years 00:51:01 Leaving the body at will 00:58:50 The present situation and the future 01:05:23 Conclusion Edited subtitles for this video are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, 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 March 31, 2024) For a short video on How to Get the Most From New Thinking Allowed, go to For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see Check out the New Thinking Allowed Foundation website at . 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. Check out New Thinking Allowed’s AI chatbot. You can create a free account at When you enter the space, you will see that our chatbot is one of several you can interact with. While it is still a work in progress, it has been trained on 1,600 NTA transcripts. It can provide intelligent answers about the contents of our interviews. It’s almost like having a conversation with Jeffrey Mishlove. To order high-quality, printed copies of our quarterly magazine: 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 friends@. To join the NTA Psi Experience Community on Facebook, see To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.) 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