Thought Leaders
When I began filming THE FLANAGAN EXPERIMENTS in the spring of 2013, I was no stranger to cameras or the remarkable personalities of the New Age community. By then, I had already spent three years interviewing and filming luminaries in Los Angeles—people who didn’t just talk about transformation, but embodied it. I’d had the privilege of working with Don Miguel Ruiz, the legendary author of The Four Agreements; Barnet Bain, producer of What Dreams May Come; acclaimed UFO experts; and Connie Miller, founder of Soul Drama, whose work cracked open a breakthrough for my creating DreamShield Planetary Meditations.
These experiences were extraordinary—but nothing prepared me for the joy of working with Dr. Patrick Flanagan.
Patrick wasn’t just a scientist. He was a living fusion of inventor, philosopher, athlete, and mystic—a man whose curiosity about life seemed as boundless as the energy he radiated. To make filming convenient for him, I built a full green-screen set right inside his Cottonwood, Arizona warehouse, just a short stroll from the reception area of his internationally renowned health and wellness company, PhiSciences. It became our creative HQ.
On days when Patrick was available for filming, we would start in the company’s reception room, surrounded by his dedicated staff. These sessions weren’t just “pre-production meetings”—they were brainstorming marathons, fueled by Patrick’s restless mind and his childlike excitement about the next big idea. Often, the conversation would get so energized that I’d grab the camera right there and start rolling.
One afternoon, as an airplane descended into Cottonwood’s small airport just across the street—its engines rattling the office windows—Patrick grinned and said,
“Ken, how about you film me demonstrating how I change my weight at will like I did on Tom Snyder’s show years ago?”
I was all in. “Sure thing.,Dr. Flanagan.”
Mind Over Matter
Before I could press for details, Patrick was already in action. He called over two of his staff—both well over six feet tall—to assist. Patrick’s lean, muscular 5’5” frame, at 69 years old, looked impossibly youthful next to theirs.
The “experiment” was deceptively simple: one man would stand on each side of Patrick, and together they would lift him by placing their hands under his wrists and elbows. At first, Patrick made himself “heavy” by concentrating and shifting his body’s internal energy. The two men strained, their faces reddening. Then, with a subtle shift—an exhale, a moment of mental focus—Patrick suddenly became so “light” they nearly tossed him upward without effort.
It wasn’t a stage trick. I’d been in real estate for 25 years, advising giants like Target Stores, McKinsey & Company, Oprah’s Harpo Studios McDonald’s, and Quaker Oats—my business had taught me to detect B.S. from a mile away. This was something else. Patrick was demonstrating a form of martial arts mind-body control that science still struggles to explain, but that his staff accepted as just another day with Dr. Flanagan.
What struck me most, though, wasn’t just the phenomenon—it was the love in the room. His team, who handled everything from global shipping to research to keeping the books, adored him. They weren’t just employees; they were co-adventurers on a mission to bring better health and higher consciousness to the world.
That bond of loyalty and joy was still alive five years after Patrick’s passing, when PhiSciences continued to run on the momentum he created. And you can feel that warmth—along with Patrick’s mischievous genius—in the video of that day, which remains one of my personal favorites in the entire series.
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