Trevor was deep in the trenches of science—cellular biology, bioinformatics, a PhD in aging research, chasing longevity and the promises of the Human Genome Project. He bought the materialist worldview hook, line, and sinker.

Until he didn’t.

What started as intellectual disappointment in grand theories of consciousness led him through quantum physics, information theory, and eventually back to the Gospels in the Bible he once dismissed. Along the way: father wounds that shaped atheism, the surprising consistency of the Christian story, and a growing sense that the universe is far more alive than he’d been taught.

This week we’re doing a crossover episode with the host of the God’s Eye View podcast to talk about leaving dogmatic scientism, why so many prominent atheists share similar childhood scars, how ghosts are hard to categorize, and what, if anything, UFOs and non-human intelligences might have to do with scripture.

They also explore discernment, sacredness versus inerrancy, and why “love your enemy” really is the most radical idea in history.

Highlights:

• A decade-long decline from scientism

• “science will fix everything”

• Physical therapist, bioinformatics PhD, professorship

• Trevor’s growing disillusionment with materialist grand theories of consciousness

• Quantum mechanics, information theory, and physicists trying really hard not to talk about God

• Hoping the Gospels are true

• The correlation between father wounds and atheism

• Patriarchy, healthy authority, and the revelations of fatherhood (we both have an 8 year old and a 4 year old

• What are ghosts?

• Anti-reductionism

• UFOs/aliens: semantic slipperiness and possible biblical framework (angels, Nephilim, sons of God, ascending/descending beings)

• NHIs have been communicating with humans throughout history — what does this say about sacred texts?

• The false dichotomy that undermined 20th Century Mormonism

• You can’t get away from the need for personal discernment

• Sacredness and inerrancy aren’t the same thing

• That time Kelly Chase said “Love your enemy” is the most supernatural statement in history

And in the epilogue…

• A summary of Mormon cosmology

• The only right way to judge a person’s faith

• Why theological debate is boring

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Ever since we watched Pluribus, we’ve been wanting to talk about it on the pod. Both of us have been wrestling with the concept of ego-death and the ultimate merging of all consciousness, and the core conceit of this show seems to tackle those very same themes. So, really, how could we not talk about it?

We get into the so-called vampire problem in philosophy, the idea of coercion vs surrender, and why that one ritual conversion scene with the little girl was so incredibly disturbing to us.

Is losing your “self” really the whole point of spirituality? Or is is just the ego? But also what is the ego? Is it even real?!

As always, don’t expect any solid answers, but if you want to take a stroll around the questions with us, come on down!

Highlights:

• Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, ex-X-Files) delivers another high-concept sci-fi masterpiece

• The premise

• The immune few

• The Buddhist/Christian tension

• Nirvana as “annihilation of the drop into the ocean”

• The hive mind as a character

• Ritual as theater

• The Vampire Problem

• Coerced vs. voluntary ego death

• Communism, the Law of Consecration, and how to actually make them work

• Obedience vs. compliance (Deirdre Green)

• AI parallels

• A Pluribus plot theory about that, uh, virus

• We must have a will in order to surrender it

• The ego is already dying a thousand times a day

• Acting, improv, and parenthood — all practices of sacrificing plans for presence

• “Greater love hath no man than this…”

And in the epilogue…

• Mallory in middle school

• Our personal versions of hell

• Happiness extraction at Disneyland

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But that’s not really what this episode is about. What it’s about is what happens when you make things that nobody asked you to make. Mal just finished the first draft of her first solo screenplay. Also, she’s been writing music alone in dark rooms for years and only recently felt like it was time to show anyone. Jordan wrote a novel once by telling himself he wasn’t allowed to write anything for anyone else to read, and rediscovered the passion he’d lost decades ago.

Mal says she can’t quit the film industry without trying to make this movie first, and she’s defining success as having genuinely gone for it. Jordan says the thing you create can’t be valuable to other people unless it’s first valuable to you — which is also why AI can’t make art. Because AI doesn’t need it.

Well, we sure do.

Highlights:

• What’s coming up…

• Life on a film set

• Why Jordan gave up on directing

• Oscar Wilde on the blessing and curse of being an artist: you never become anything

• Mal finished the first draft of her first solo screenplay

• Sandboxes

• Freelance artist life

• Stop and Go - Mal’s first feature, made during the pandemic with a friend

• Writing songs in dark rooms for therapy

• Writing a novel for the same reason

• “It can’t be genuinely valuable for other people if it is not first valuable to the person who’s creating it”

• Why AI can’t make art

• Jordan’s imminent move away from LA to Cedar City, Utah

• Mal is operating on spiritual logic right now

• The podcast “forces me to challenge the more deeply worn grooves”

• Epilogue topics: Mal’s suspicion that she is a “tongue genius,” modern food science, and why food, money, and sex are the three most embarrassing topics

And in the epilogue…

• Is Mal a tongue genius?

• The absurdity of modern food science

• Why food, money, and sex are the three most embarrassing topics

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First, why are people shining lasers at walls while tripping on DMT?

Next, we need to discuss the fact that JD Vance is on record believing UFOs are actually demons. What does that even mean? (Hint: it probably doesn’t mean anything about UFOs or demons.)

After that, an ancient Greek geek out about what might be the first recorded case of a haunted house.

Finally, were there really thousands of dead giants buried in Ohio?

Who knows! We certainly don’t. But also, do we even want to?

We’re here for the magic, the mystery, and the egregious political exploitation of Christianity.

Highlights:

• People are using lasers to see simulation source code while tripping on DMT

• Why “proof negates the point” when it comes to spiritual experience

• We are the Headline Generation: we form opinions from fragments and live by them for years

• Trickster NHIs are everywhere! (probably)

• Even getting led into a snake pit might be for your good

• Mal is remarkably morally relativistic for a God girl (ok not really)

• JD Vance, the Vice President of these United States, says, on record, UFOs are demons

• Jordan says weaponizing the resurgence of Christianity is “the closest thing to evil” he knows of

• Pliny the Younger’s haunted house in Athens — possibly the oldest ghost story on record

• Hauntings with tidy conclusions are rare

• Quantum microtubules, waveform collapse, and why biological determinism can’t account for the way life meets you

• A 1798 homestead sitting on top of 3,000 ancient graves in Ohio

• An eight-foot-tall woman buried in copper jewelry

• “Give me the giant queen laser”

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Then on a random Saturday morning in August 2021, something reached into her mind and showed her what she’s come to refer to as The Good — coherence, beauty, truth — whatever it is that allows creation to exist. The experience completely changed her life.

But here’s the problem: she also knows that whatever did this to her could also make her happy about it. And as someone who values her personal freedom more than almost anything, it’s frightening to suspect that something fundamentally rewired her without her consent.

This is the epistemic paradox of gnosis, or, in other words, knowledge that is supposed to be self-authoritative, but that you still have to figure out how to test.

How do you build a life on something you can’t prove? And if you can’t, what exactly are you supposed to build on instead?

Highlights:

• Kelly Chase is the host of Inquiry (formerly Cosmos, formerly The UFO Rabbit Hole Podcast) — find her at kellychase.media

• Mal couldn’t make it, thanks to business travel and a conspiracy of misfortune

• “Semantic anarchy” — words don’t mean the same things across tribes anymore

• What turned Kelly into an experiencer: an out-of-body, out-of-time connection to a higher intelligence that changed everything she believes

• From lifelong materialist and atheist to a spiritual convert to The Good

• Plato’s Republic and the allegory of Er

• Experience without consent (does being happy about it make it ok?)

• Kelly’s precognitive dreams

• The IRVA conference in Mexico

• Precognitive dreams vs. regular dreams

• The epistemic paradox of gnosis

• The preface paradox, the lottery paradox, and the paradox of the knower

• The Mormon parallel: revelation is basically the Mormon word for gnosis, and discerning true revelation has been the church’s ongoing problem for 200 years

• Are feelings of unconditional love emotional manipulation?

• The Enlightenment is an oxymoron

• The cultural dominance of the “dead universe cosmology”

• If your cosmological foundation breaks down, you’re desperate for a replacement — and there are people happy to sell you one

• Control systems

• What the elites believe about souls

• Brother Richard on human utilitarianism

• The Law of One and the left hand path vs. the right hand path — Kelly argues America’s default values are left hand path, along which the ultimate purpose is self-expression

• Is there such a thing as a true cosmology?

• The imperative to judge for oneself

• The missing character in Plato’s Cave — who drags the prisoner out?

• “Gnosis is a great starting point. It’s a terrible ending point.”

• Tools of Discernment

• “It can’t just be vibes”

And in the epilogue…

• Is yearning for the divine evidence of the divine?

• Worship as technology

• Supernatural love (of your enemy)

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This week: a dad in North Yorkshire set up CCTV after his cat refused to go downstairs. The footage is pretty convincing — toys moving, doors swinging, skateboards clattering. Except he’s a video game developer. And it’s 2026. And we genuinely cannot tell anymore what’s real on the internet.

Which is the actual problem. Not whether this particular video is real, but the fact that we’ve reached a point where even governments are using AI-generated footage to prove their leaders are alive.

And then of course there's the deluge of predictions, prophecies, and institutional claims that 2026 is the year everything changes. SLASH IS ALREADY CHANGING.

So okay, what do we do with that?

The answer is boring. And also the only one that works.

Highlights:

• Bunch of interviews coming up, and then a GGU summer break — details TBA

• Story of the father of two in North Yorkshire who fled his home after a bunch of poltergeist incidents

• But also he’s a video game developer?

• AI has permanently broken video evidence

• The Netanyahu coffee shop video, etc

• The Princess Kate Photoshop incident

• Jordan’s essay on 2026 predictions

• Dozens of unrelated sources pointing at 2026 as a turning point: Carl Nell, Gary Nolan, Lou Elizondo, John Ramirez, Chris Bledsoe, the astrological community, Ray Kurzweil

• Most predictions are unfalsifiable or already wrong — the more dramatic the claim, the vaguer it tends to be

• The Bledsoe prediction (Easter, “a new knowledge”) and the Regulus-Sphinx alignment

• But 2026 actually is extraordinary: AI, UFO disclosure, potential WWIII, deepfakes dissolving consensus reality, globalism fracturing, religion surging back

• Maybe the seers are just seeing reality as it really is

• Brené Brown on parenting (it relates!)

• The collective ego story

• Whatever you’re procrastinating, stop

• On finally starting a daily meditation practice (good job, Jordan! Mal has thoughts)

• Kelly Chase on control systems

• Economic anxiety is Jordan’s personal vulnerability, but everyone has a soft spot where apocalyptic messaging hooks them

• Viktor Frankl

• Learning unconditional kindness for the present moment

• You can’t future proof your life. Lots of coders who future-proofed by learning to code are out of work right now

• What do we do??? The boring answer is the right one

And in the epilogue…

• Squaring Mormonism with…everything else

• Does religion lead to or protect against spiritual enslavement? (Yes.)

• The correlation between certainty and death

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Nothing about this meteorite is special other than that Jeff really really wanted to hold a piece of space in his hands, and a dream showed him where it was. But what about all the people who dream about something for years and nothing ever happens? Why do some prayers get answers and not others?

We don’t have the answer. But the question gets us to suffering as a teacher, to the Hebrew origin of the word “Satan” (which just means impediment), and to the idea that maybe wanting something your whole life and never getting it is its own form of divine expression.

Also: this is Tom’s last episode.

He’s leaving the show to pursue something that’s, in his words, something calling him imperiously. He read us the opening of The Wind in the Willows to explain why. He says the show transformed him.

Likewise, Tom.

And the show will go on. Our mission will be the same: to joyfully explore all the things they said weren’t real.

And in the open epilogue…

• How an abusive inner critic won’t let you accept compliments

• The relationship between shame, addiction, and problem-solving

• Why holding two contradictory truths at the same time is the path to a higher vibration existence

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Which makes her the perfect guest on this week’s episode of Gods, Ghosts & UFOs, the podcast about all the things they said weren’t real.

Highlights:

• Candice Gutierrez, Mal’s roommate and longtime friend

• An amber orb sighting near BYU, around 2010–2011, the night before finals

• Other witnesses

• Strange, impossible, perspective-breaking movement

• Trying to explain it to other people

• The Phoenix Lights connection

• Working on the show Ancient Aliens, who told her to self-publish a book if she wanted to get on the show

• Similarities to Brown Mountain Lights in North Carolina

• Real UFOs always get weird

• “Welcome to adulthood. Here are aliens.”

• Tom notices the Lotería cards on Candice’s wall, and has a wild story about them

• Candice’s bonus story: A Disneyland teenage girl ghost

• Tom invites Emrys to tell her Disneyland story (Space Mountain, hooded figure with black eyes, time dilation, violent visions, eery silence, many witnesses)

• It was “something wearing a child”

• Tom reiterates his Disneyland theory

And in the open epilogue…

• GGU origin story

• Our faith so-called journeys

• Deconstructing the problem of evil

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• How the Mexican City Mannequins inspired this episode

• Ushabtis: ancient Egyptian figurines (2600–2100 BC) placed in tombs to do labor in the afterlife, in place of killing servants

• The Louvre Doll: a bound female clay figure pierced with 13 needles

• Kolossoi: ancient Greek defensive effigies designed to contain hostile spirits

• Victorian mourning dolls: wax effigies made at funerals with the dead child’s hair and clothing

• What did Mal do to her Cabbage Patch doll?

• Robert the Doll

• “It was like a metal bar running down my back... That doll was listening to us”

• The connection to an apparition of a biracial girl

• Robert exhibits both Type A and Type B inhabitation, and he might be the only one

• Thousands of apology letters at the museum from visitors who took photos without asking permission

• Poppets

• The Nkisi tradition from the Congo

• Connection to the movie Weapons

• How Robert the Doll became haunted (possibly) — he might be a mourning doll?

• The Free Robert the Doll campaign

• The Kuleshov Effect

• Projecting consciousness onto human-shaped forms

• Tsukumogami and vengeful yokai

• The Hyakki Yagyō, the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons

• Djinn in Islamic tradition

• The etymology of pandemonium

• Michael Singer on not resisting the snake

• Knowledge vs respect

And in the epilogue…

• Mallory’s gluten-free experiment

• Suspicious exercise equipment at the gym

• Pros and cons of Western vs Traditional Chinese Medicine

• Some of the grossest words we know

To help you share this episode, we picked out three moments we all loved and tied them up with a little copy/paste-able bow.

• “Mal made herself a poppet” (~9:40) — Mal put a lost tooth into her Cabbage Patch doll’s mouth as a child, and Tom points out she was accidentally participating in an ancient ritual of fixing a part of yourself into an effigy.

• “Don’t go up the stairs!” (~12:12) — Why Victorian mourning dolls never seemed to get haunted, and how human carelessness drives the plot of every horror movie.

• “It’s not a monster story. It’s an ecosystem.” (~58:11) — Tom’s synthesis after connecting Mexico City mannequins, the Night Parade, jinn, and tsukumogami: when humans leave, something adjacent that was always there fills the space.

And then of course there’s this neat little thing we made, if you want to send someone one of our more popular past episodes:

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Our SECOND EVER Open Epilogue!

Monday, March 23, at 1pm PST / 4pm EST.

All paid supporters will get an email invite with a link.

Be one of them!

Episode highlights:

• Mal watched 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time, and talked about it every day for three weeks

• Stanley Kubrick’s astonishing team and the mind blowing scale of the project

• He tried to purchase preserved human embryos from a Chicago biological supply company for research

• He applied for insurance from Lloyd’s of London against the discovery of extraterrestrial beings before the film’s release

• The movie came out in 1968, a year before the moon landing, with basically two pictures of Earth from space to work from

• Shots that still hold up 60 years later

• What makes this movie transcendent

• Why Kubrick told actors not to emote

• The book and the movie were written simultaneously by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, then diverged at the end

• Clarke was a techno-optimist atheist who envisioned transcendence through technology; Kubrick saw something darker

• The bad news monolith

• Also: the phone in your pocket

• Is evolution terrifying? Is it good?

• Kubrick collapses linear time

• Moon landing was…probably real

• 97% of people can’t identify human-made vs ai-gen music

• A friend who spent 20 years making about 500 songs — AI makes a thousand in an afternoon

• The communal difference between art and AI slop

• Provenance is the point

• The porn-pocalypse — news, politics, food, music, everything is porn now

• When we dehumanize art we don’t experience anything

• Why the viola is out of tune on purpose

• The Great Man theory of history is stupid

• The idea that you can’t make art because you don’t meet criteria for profitability is “the worst way to treat yourself”

• Idolatry is worshipping the thing you make

• The two basic human needs

• Speaking of which… another Open Epilogue on March 23rd!

And in the epilogue…

• Grand Theft Auto cheat codes

• How to achieve the bliss of absolute focus

• A fierce and exhausting debate about patriarchy

We picked out three moments we all loved and tied them up with a little copy/paste-able bow.

• “Everything is porn now” (46:18) — Jordan defines porn: taking something real, subtracting everything except one sensation, and reproducing it at scale for profit — and applies it to news, politics, food, movies, music…everything. We’re living in a porn-pocalypse.

• “The viola is slightly out of tune” (49:39) — Tom explains that orchestras sound beautiful precisely because they’re not perfectly in tune, in a gorgeous defense of imperfection as the actual source of beauty.

• “Is the terror because it’s bad, or because everything has to die?” (~28:00–27:20) — Mal wonders if maybe the dissonant horror the monolith inspires isn’t a warning, it’s just what evolution feels like from the inside.

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Just scroll down to “Share this episode…” and pick a great moment to courageously copy and paste.

Highlights:

• Rabbi Rami Shapiro is the author of nearly 40 books and co-director of the One River Foundation — find him on Substack

• “Religions are like languages. No language is true or false. The more languages you speak, the more nuanced your understanding of life becomes. Yet it is silence that reveals the ultimate truth.”

• Rami’s spiritual journey through Zen Buddhism and how he became a “zen rabbi”

• Why ten years of meditation practice didn’t work

• You already have it

• The point isn’t to be enlightened, it’s to be a decent human being

• Genesis 12:1 in Hebrew is telling the reader to journey inward and free yourself from conditioning

• “be a blessing to all the families of the earth”

• Narratives as addictions, Overeaters Anonymous, and Purim cookies

• “Narratives Anonymous” anyone?

• “Who’s craving the cookies?” (hint: not the one who’s aware of the craving)

• Heschel’s architecture of time

• Space is about having, time is about being

• “Being is infinite.”

• Good luck selling The Gospel of Thomas

• Tom’s researching and writing a book on the suppressed non-dualism running through all Abrahamic religions

• The divine feminine: wisdom (Hochma) in Hebrew, Dao in Chinese, Mary as Theotokos

• Rami’s constant mantra

• How the ego gets in the way writing

• Rami moved to Nashville and his ego told him to stop playing guitar

• The spiritual insights of Rami’s 10-year-old grandson

And in the epilogue…

• The true Hebrew translation of what the burning bush said to Moses

• How your body literally spells the name of God

• What Jews and Coca-Cola have in common

We picked out three moments we all loved and tied them up with a little copy/paste-able bow.

• “Because it doesn’t work” (~11:00) — Rami tells his Zen teacher he’s been meditating for ten years and nothing’s happening. The teacher says “because it doesn’t work.” Rami: “Why didn’t you tell me that ten years ago?” Teacher: “You wouldn’t have believed me.”

• “Who’s craving the cookies?” (~25:13) — Rami uses his Overeaters Anonymous experience and a kitchen full of Purim cookies to demonstrate self-inquiry in real time.

• “We’ll just keep waving” (~58:20) — Rami’s ten-year-old grandson processes the idea that God is like an ocean and arrives at his own theology of death and hope in about thirty seconds.

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You know how we're basically betting the farm on people who love the show sharing the show (hint hint nudge nudge THAT’S YOU RIGHT??), well, we’ve done our best to make that even easier with this episode. After the bulleted list of episode highlights, you’ll see a section called “Sharing made easy!”

If you want to share this episode with someone, all you gotta do is copy and paste one of those suckers.

So please do that!

And thank you!

Highlights:

• Beth Williams is a professional psychic energy healer - find her on Instagram @psychicintegration

• Mal’s seen several energy healers over the past 8–9 years, and Beth is her favorite

• Growing up deeply religious, and the framing for mystical experience

• Panic attacks in the middle of the night

• Yoga produced mystical experiences

• Cognitive dissonance - “Why now, when I’m doing nothing?”

• How “doing nothing” can be the thing you need to do the most

• The correlation between trauma and psychic ability — ”There is no healer who has not first been wounded” (Brother Richard)

• Quitting the job, leaving the religion, becoming a psychic healer

• Her husband and kids told her to go to all the yoga she wanted because she was so much easier to be around afterward

• Discovering that healing can feel easy is almost universal, against the common instinct is that growth is supposed to be hard

• Training in Reiki, and Beth’s first “clients”

• Her psychic massage therapist mentor

• The difference between feeling someone else’s energy and your own

• A message too private to share, and the realization she should have shared it anyway

• Saying what comes through, ignoring personal cost

• Three messages to a banged up mountain biker, who admitted to one, denied the other two, and then later called to confirm

• Psychics are only right 70% of the time. Discernment is important.

• It’s messy — real info has to get through the psychic’s own mind, then the client’s, with layers of assumptions and self-deception on both sides

• Western medicine saved Tom’s his son’s life, and his own vision, but traditional Chinese medicine saved his mother’s vision

• Messages seem adapted to clients’ existing belief systems: Jesus shows up for Christians; for non-Christians, he doesn’t

• How being Christlike is asking what the other person actually needs, which may not be what they want and may not be what you want to give them

• What Beth gets out of her own work

• How being yourself is the answer to the question of what you’re supposed to do with yourself

And in the epilogue…

• Spiritual direction Mal’s own feet gave her

• Whether there are overlaps between Mormons and psychics (yes (many))

• The prosperity gospel of art — craft still matters more than divine inspiration alone

Sharing made easy!

• “Why am I experiencing this when I’m doing nothing?” (09:36) — Beth describes the cognitive dissonance of having mystical experiences in yoga after a lifetime of trying to earn them through religion, and Jordan reframes it: you weren’t doing nothing, you were finally doing the thing.

• “Psychic confirmation” (27:33) — After Beth delivers three very personal messages to an injured mountain biker, he denies the first two and confirms the third. Days later he calls to admit she was right, and that her advice saved his relationship with his daughter.

• “You’re not doing the science anymore” (46:18) — Mal’s observation that you’ve gotta stay open to do real science.

And then of course there’s this neat little thing we made, if you want to send someone one of our more popular past episodes:

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This man was Father Pellegrino Ernetti, and he assembled his Chronovisor with a secret team high-profile scientists that allegedly included Enrico Fermi and Wernher von Braun. Fifty years ago, they told everyone they took pictures of Christ’s crucifixion.

Unsurprisingly, the evidence didn’t hold up. But that didn’t stop the story from getting stranger. The Vatican itself refused to confirm or deny rumors that it had ordered the device dismantled, and Ernetti died without fully recanting.

Maybe the problem with any supposed means of looking into the past is that you have to answer the question of who’s holding the camera, and how.

Regardless of whether the thing ever actually existed, the Chronovisor did successfully get us talking about the Scole Experiment, Edison’s spirit telephone, and why the past might be genuinely incomprehensible even if you had the means to look.

Welcome to episode 50, everyone.

Highlights:

• An introduction to Father Pellegrino Ernetti (1925–1994), a “Renaissance monk”

• Ernetti’s music scholarship—reconstructing ancient sounds—led him to believe every event leaves behind energy traces, reminding us of the Akashic Record

• A secret team of 12 scientists (that makes a quorum, folks) began work around 1952 at the Catholic University of Milan

• The “chronovisor” was reportedly an array of specialized antennas tuned to “historical frequencies,” combined with cathode ray tubes and oscilloscopes

• Ernetti even claimed it could pick up thoughts

• What they allegedly saw

• Story went public in 1972 in Italy

• Ernetti presented a grainy black-and-white image he said showed Christ’s face during the crucifixion

• But the image matched a wooden crucifix sculpted under the direction of a mystic named Mother Speranza

• When confronted by his friend Father François Brune, Ernetti admitted the published photo was of the sculpture, but never explained why he let it circulate

• Also claimed he was forbidden to talk about it

• In a letter before his death, he said “everything about the device and Christ’s passion was the sacred truth”

• The Vatican has never confirmed or denied the Chronovisor’s existence

• Comparisons to this now-mythical device and remote viewing

• Perception is never objective (see: our conversation with Mark Turner in Episode 30)

• Is this why the sculpture of Christ inspired by Mother Speranza looks like a guy from 1960 instead of a first-century Jew?

• The tension between mystic technology and material technology: two different means of achieving the same ends, maybe?

• Tom wonders, offhandedly, Why the crucifixion? Why not the resurrection, or better yet, the Beatitudes?

• The Cottingley Fairies

• The Scole Experiment in the 90s (wild)

• Thomas Edison believed similar things to Ernetti, and also proposed a device

• “Physics is broken”

• This is not going to work the way you think it’s going to work

• An old filmmaker who had his actors wave their arms around nonsensically to represent the incomprehensibility of the past

• We end with some behavior calculated to baffle far-future audiences

And in the epilogue…

• We’re joined by listener Brendan McKinney to talk about his experiences with synchronicities, which he wrote about here:

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Multiple witnesses reported encounters with humanoid entities that moved like mannequins. With stiff limbs, and lifeless arms, running on their tiptoes. Backwards. One guy got chased. Another got followed to a bus stop. Someone else watched one of these things lift a sewer grate like it weighed nothing and climb inside.

After looking at three independent accounts, Tom gives some historical context, including the Golem of Prague, and a bridal mannequin in Chihuahua that stood in a shop window for almost a hundred years.

It turns out there’s real science way down in Uncanny Valley, and it doesn’t make us feel any better about it.

Neither does a certain “fantastic” YouTube video.

No more almost-faces, mmmkay?

Highlights:

• Mannequin-like entity encounters during the COVID lockdown in Mexico City

• A woman-shaped entity running backward on its tiptoes, arms outstretched like lifeless prosthetics, later appeared in the second-floor window of a derelict house

• A mannequin in an empty commercial space with its hand extended, then reappearing down the boulevard

• A mannequin-like figure crossed Reforma with clumsy steps, then lifted a sewer grate like it weighed nothing and climbed inside

• All three accounts independently describe unnatural movement

• Mexico’s most famous “living mannequin” was a bridal figure in a Chihuahua shop window from 1930 to 2024, rumored to be the embalmed body of the shop owner’s daughter

• The Golem of Prague, a 16th century clay entity brought to life with God’s name

• Talos, the bronze giant of Greek mythology

• European chess-playing automatons (which actually had a small person hidden inside)

• The term "uncanny valley” was coined by Japanese robotics professor Masahiro Mori in a 1970 essay published in an obscure journal called Energy

• Mori believed our affinity for humanoid things increases as they become more realistic, then plunges into revulsion when they’re almost human, then recovers when they’re indistinguishable from human

• Mori noted zombies are scarier than corpses because they move

• The pandemic was a perfect storm for uncanny encounters

• Spring-Heeled Jack was a Victorian London entity that assaulted people, breathed fire, and leapt over 10-foot walls

• Brother Richard’s idea that paranormal entities “clothe themselves in our imagination” makes us wonder if mannequins were the imaginative “clothing” available to people surrounded by empty shops and display windows

• Our revulsion to almost human things might be adaptive, helping us identify the diseased and dead

• Could also imply the existence of a predator that mimicked humans (good luck sleeping tonight!)

• The mountain lions that cry like human babies

• “I Feel Fantastic” - an impromptu watch party

• That track Tom mentioned at the end

And in the epilogue…

• Monster mannequins in pop culture

• How 28 Years Later’s psychedelic zombie twist mirrors real-world partisan dehumanization

• “Playing in the ruins” when the systems around us are broken

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Tom and Jordan can’t stop laughing.

We’re already in financial crisis, aliens or no aliens.

And if there was some official disclosure tomorrow, people would just go back to work and worry about groceries. Unless the revelation materially changes people’s lives, they won’t care that much.

But what if there’s free energy technology? The analyst worries that would be a disaster. But, uh, for whom? ExxonMobil? Probably. You and me?

No.

The materialist scarcity mindset is transactional. If you get something, it must be taken from me. But there’s a more efficient way to structure our communities, and it’s about building for mutual benefit. Not easy, but definitely not impossible.

Anyway, we’re still pretty sure we’re headed for calamity, thanks for a broad cultural inability to accept reality, which turns out to not care very much about our ideas about what it should be.

The highlights:

• Helen McCaw, former Bank of England policy expert, warns that revelation of aliens could throw global financial systems into crisis

• The cases for and against this prediction

• Tom reads part of McCaw’s letter to Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey urging contingencies for alien disclosure (from The times of London article)

• How she even came to care about UFOs

• Internal memo from British Defense chiefs from 1997 discusses “technology acquisition” from alien tech

• Basically, same as America

• What if there’s free energy technology? For whom would this be a disaster?

• Where Lord of the Flies got it wrong (the real life kids who went through it)

• Materialism leads to scarcity mindsets and zero-sum transactional societies

• How mutual benefit structures the most efficient social models

• Buddha in the Dhammapada: “Therefore Ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves, clinging to no external refuge, clinging to the truth as a refuge”

• Regardless of anything, we’re basically headed for disaster

• Why suffering and the acceptance (or rejection) of reality are closely correlated

• A practice of presence with the expectation of imminent cataclysm

• The Honey Doctrine

• Mindfulness and presence are the last words on living the fulfilled life

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When Tom asks how to deal with anger and powerlessness in the face of cruelty, Brother Richard offers this: “Anger externalized is actually internalized fear.”

Those moving in hatred WANT hatred in return because it justifies their action. They push and push waiting for the explosion. So the hardest practice is maintaining compassion even for those who hate you—because that’s when the other is actually disassembled and overcome.

Three practices: Hold yourself in compassion. Take refuge in great teachers—we’ve done this before over thousands of years. And manage basic human needs—no good decision is ever made at 2am.

Also, how can we grow up? Our culture is bad at helping people make the transition from adolescence into adulthood. What if the big missing piece in our development is transcendent experience? Are we doomed?

Brother Richard says no! But you’re gonna have to start meditating. The good news is that he has some things to say that might help you finally start the practice.

• Brother Richard’s sternly non-political take on what’s going on in Minnesota

• Most hatred and anger comes from fear

• Choosing compassion means accepting vulnerability, even and especially when your compassion is rejected

• Hate wants hate, anger wants anger — it’s cyclical justification

• “No matter how much hatred they are pouring on me, fundamentally I have a brother or a sister in front of me”

• Three practices for holding compassionate solidarity

• People full of compassionate energy can often forget their own needs—they become tired, worn, anxious, and then make bad decisions

• How Brother Richard became a friar

• Celtic mysticism maintains the sacred nature of both the subtle world and ourselves, plus our venerable relationship with it

• What to look for in a good spiritual teacher

• The icon of the Ladder of Heaven shows monks climbing to heaven, and at the very top, just as one steps in, he’s falling

• Saint Augustine: “God wrote two books—the book of Scriptures and the Book of Nature. We have not read His word if we can’t read both.”

• When we’re in relationship with nature, the transcendent begins to happen

• The Dalai Lama: “Meditation over thousands of years becomes a laboratory of the mind and soul”

• If meditation stretches you with compassion and bestows peace, it’s real; if it makes you think you’re superior, it’s egoic

• The muscle of focus and inner attention is atrophied in the Western world

• Start with basic stillness practices, even just two minutes, because most people haven’t done it before

• Distraction is literally half of the practice of meditation

And in the epilogue…

• What the Fae actually are (hint: it’s complicated!)

• Why believing everything a non-human intelligence tells you is dangerous

• Brother Richard’s take on a particular passage from the Gospel of Thomas (because of course Tom had to ask him)

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EJAE, the lead vocalist from K-Pop Demon Hunters, told a ghost story on Jimmy Fallon and nobody questioned her sanity, because it turns out people who DON’T believe in ghosts are the minority.

Tom recorded in one of the most haunted studios in New Orleans in the ‘90s. And boy does he have stories. A distorted face in a window. A badly burned little girl pleading for help. A late night tryst with an apparition…

Do artists see ghosts more often? Or does making art make you more sensitive to what’s already there?

Regardless, when you make the effort to really say something—to write, to record, to create—there’s magic in it. Maybe you’re more that thing than you are the relentless cyclone of anxious thoughts you live with the rest of the time.

Ars longa, vita brevis. Art is long, life is short.

We’re here to play the long game.

IMPORTANT UPDATE

We promised to have our first virtual hang this week, but then we made a scheduling mistake, and so now it will officially be NEXT WEEK.

Monday, February 2

1pm PST / 4pm EST.

Do you see that? That’s an actual date, and an actual time. Which means it will be WAY MORE EMBARRASSING if we have to reschedule again, which we will not.

All paid Substack and Patreon supporters can expect to get the link within the next couple of days.

(And a quick reminder that the 1st 100 people get Founder status for $4/month for life — and not all those spots have been taken yet.)

Okay, enough of all that.

On to the highlights:

• The vocalists from K-Pop Demon Hunters saw a ghost and told Jimmy Fallon about it

• People who don’t believe in ghosts are in the minority—always have been, always will be

• Mal always asks people if they believe in ghosts at parties

• We love people who say “I don’t believe in ghosts, but I saw a ghost”

• Tom’s was in a swing band in the 90s and has lots of other recording studio ghost stories

• King’s Way Studio in New Orleans was (is?) famously haunted by Germaine Cazanave Wells, Queen of Mardi Gras, total party girl from the 1950s/60s who fell, hit her head, died, never left

• Tom’s friend saw a distorted, glaring face appear in the window

• Tom made deals with Jermaine in the clawfoot tub: “Listen, don’t show up now—I don’t want to slip and fall while naked”

• Another band’s bass player (an EMT) was awakened by a young woman badly burned, pleading for help—turned out to be Jermaine’s daughter who died in a fire

• And, uh, another story, which you’ll have to go ahead and just listen to Tom tell it

• Creative people seem to encounter ghosts more often—artists, musicians, people in heightened emotional/creative states

• Are ghosts attracted to creativity, or does creativity make people more sensitive to what’s already there?

• What it’s like to re-read own old writing

• Maybe we’re more than the stuff that constantly spins in our brains

• The more you create, the more you pin down and make substantial, the more that you ARE

• There’s a magic to making the effort to really express yourself in some tangible way, going on the record, so to speak, even if you’re wrong, even if you’re full of crap

• Tom loves himself and his friends as individuated people, even while recognizing we’re expressions of Brahman

• He also talks to his peach trees, so

And in the epilogue…

• What it’s like to prank a prankster

• That one time Mal got kicked out of girl’s camp

• A truly horrific story about fried chicken

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The Institute of Noetic Sciences was founded by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, and it just released a study about twelve unique “noetic signatures” based on deep survey data from over four thousand people.

Some of them know things in their bodies. Others get mental, emotional, or spiritual downloads.

Everyone has a different signature.

But what are the hazards of personal revelation without coherent social support? And what will happen to us if we keep replacing our latent human superpowers with technology?

Still, we have high hopes for 2026. Maybe this is the year we heal from screen addictions. Maybe we’ll finally get some kind of blockbuster disclosure about non-human intelligences. Or maybe, if we all pull together, we can finally break free from the algorithm and move back into our enchanted world.

Highlights:

• The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) was founded in 1973 by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell

• They study consciousness, human potential, and the intersection of science and subjective experience

• “Noetic” comes from Greek “noesis” meaning “inner knowing” that transcends the five senses and conventional notions of time and space

• (Examples: knowing who’s calling before caller ID, predictive dreams, feeling someone in the room, gut feelings that prove accurate)

• Most people report having these experiences, but they’re still stigmatized

• The Noetic Signature Inventory is a 44-item questionnaire measuring individual’s unique pattern of intuitive experience

• Four primary intuitive pathways: body-based (gut feelings), mental (sudden knowing), emotional (feeling into situations), spiritual (mystical experiences)

• Is “inner knowing” reliable without the support of a community?

• Why it’s so hard to balance social coherence against mystical experience

• Robin Lassiter said in the last episode that patriarchy and materialism might not have just been huge mistakes—we got amazing stuff from them, and now it’s time to turn the wheel

• In what ways are we trying to replace our noetic abilities with technology?

• Jordan abashedly hopes this is the year UFOs, NHIs, etc stop being laughed at on on CNN

• Mal hopes we heal from screen addiction (it’s actually possible!)

• Tom hopes we can free ourselves from the fetters of the algorithm and move back into an enchanted world

• The real magic is in interaction, intuition, knowing, and the gorgeous unpredictability of ourselves and each other

And in the epilogue…

• How algorithms actually steal your personality

• A pretty MASSIVE decision about the future of the show

• Our first progress report on Jordan Crowder’s Law of Probability course

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As she’s actively recovering from surgery, Mal has lots of questions about self-healing. And also why her dad keeps telling her to use colloidal silver.

Jordan Crowder has a lot to say about how the body heals, it turns out, having survived some major, life-threatening health crises himself. We ask him lots of questions, and he offers insights that synthesize science and spirituality in a way that is just exactly our vibe.

Finally, we’re gonna hear about something he calls probability engineering. Your future is a probability cloud. Every decision collapses some outcomes and expands others. Agency is your power to project new pathways into your future that didn’t exist based on your past.

But no, you can’t manifest a million dollars without becoming the kind of person who would have a million dollars. Change requires energy, and the universe resists it just like people do.

We talk about how you can do it anyway.

Welcome to 2026.

Highlights:

• Jordan Crowder from Conscious Observers doubles the number of Jordans on today’s episode

• Mal shares a story about Roman concrete that survives earthquakes, volcanoes, and millennia under the sea because it literally heals itself over time

• The whole Nature Communications article is basically about a possible misreading of an ancient concrete recipe

• Why Mal is being drawn to things with “self-healing” in the title

• Her dad keeps trying to make her spray colloidal silver on her surgery wound

• The placebo effect works even when you know it’s a placebo

• Cellular communication

• How to help your body do what it’s spent millions of years evolving to do (hint: get out of the way)

• Thoughts create reality through quantum probability cloud engineering (an introduction to Jordan Crowder’s Law of Probability)

• Your future is not one predetermined path (obviously), it’s a cloud of potential outcomes

• You can project entirely new pathways into your future probability field that didn’t exist before based on your past

• Agency maxxing

• Getting a millions dollars (as a, ahem, for instance) probably means changing behaviors you’ve never changed before

• People generally don’t like to change—and neither does the universe, because change requires more energy

• Also/related: dumping a million dollars on a someone who isn’t ready for it is usually calamitous

• What is a Minimally Viable Manifestation?

• Ellen Langer says procrastination is not the problem, mindlessness is

• The real work is increasing awareness and “awakeness” to your decisions and choices

• Jordan and Mal commit to starting Jordan Crowder’s 21-day probability engineering course

And in the epilogue…

• The overwhelming evidence of reincarnation overcomes Western skepticism

• Without humans, who would care about beauty? We’re not here just to collapse wave functions.

• Jordan Crowder’s 90-year-old Jesus hypothetical

  
  

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She proposes testable predictions—including the possibility that if consciousness differentiated itself into structured reality through something like universal thought, it might have left detectable patterns in the cosmic microwave background.

This is ancient scripture overlapping with cutting-edge physics. “Thou Art That” from the Upanishads. “I AM that I AM” from Exodus. The earth was formless and void, then God said “Let there be light.” Consciousness precedes manifestation, thought is a collapse mechanism.

Everything happens in cycles. We went out to do science in a universe of strict materialism, and now we’re coming back, changed, to the wisdom of mystery and consciousness.

Finally, we talk to Robin Lassiter about her new Mystery School for the Brokenhearted.

Here’s to the end of a fraught and beautiful 2025, and a 2026 which promises to be no less complicated.

Highlights:

• Norwegian physicist published a peer-reviewed paper treating consciousness as a fundamental field rather than an emergent brain phenomenon

• Mathematical integration with quantum field theory

• Testable predictions involving quantum field interactions, neural coherence patterns, and cosmological signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)

• Tom connects this to the Chandogya Upanishad: “Thou Art That”

• The Abrahamic analog: “The earth was formless and void” (undifferentiated potential), “I AM that I AM” (consciousness preceding manifestation), “Let there be light” (universal thought as collapse mechanism)

• From 2nd century BCE scripture to modern testable mathematical physics of universal consciousness

• Everything goes in circles. Going out into the “billiard ball universe” of strict materialism, now we’re coming back around

• Robin on discovery through experience itself

• What is the relationship between us (personality, body, experience) and the unifying field?

• Evolution of grief in community

• The healing that can only happen in the presence of others

• The Mystery School for the Brokenhearted: the mutual capacity to hold grief without trying to fix or rescue

• What makes this era of human history unique

• Robin’s “big yes” to the ampersand universe

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Yes, it turns out we can be serious sometimes. Please try not to faint.

In this piece, Tom tracks the circumstances that led Charles Dickens to write A Christmas Carol, from his disastrous American tour and the child labor reports that haunted him, to his compulsive night walks through London’s streets where he encountered the cast out and forgotten.

Within this substrate, Tom weaves together Dickens’ personal struggles, the neuroscience of human connection, and an urgent message about what we’ve lost (and must reclaim) in our age of radical isolation and screen-mediated existence.

Consider this our gift to you: a half-hour to slow down and remember that, “no one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.”

Truly, we wish you the very best of the season, and count you among our beloved fellows.

Tom, Mal, & Jordan

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• Volume 2

• Volume 3

• Volume 4

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This week we learned that some doctors have figured out how to make DMT trips last as long as you want. They can dial it up or down, or turn it off if things go south. And in the ultimate hack to do this legally, they formed an actual church, and they’re recruiting members for what they call “expeditions.”

Their stated goals are to develop therapies, solve advanced problems, explore consciousness, and build something called “the Matrix Machine.”

Probably a long shot, but maybe this is how we’ll find out who and what DMT aliens really are.

And speaking of non-human entities: it turns out there’s a mushroom in China that makes pretty much everyone see itty bitty little people. And this thing has absolutely no relation to psilocybin, if you can believe it. In fact, it doesn’t contain a single psychoactive compound that we know about.

So, once again, we’re left wondering if these are hallucinations, or…something else.

Highlights:

• The Extended State DMT program (DMTX) has figured out how to stabilize and extend DMT experiences

• The International DMT Church

• Consistency of DMT experiences

• Jordan conjures a comically horrible mental image of people handcuffed to beds with IV drips, trapped in thousand-year experiences they can’t escape

• Are we exploring the architecture of the human mind, or accessing something external to ourselves?

• Most psychedelic insights are “just vibes” (Paul McCartney, for instance)

• A mushroom that makes 96% of people see tiny people or elves, often dancing, jumping, or marching (the story)

• Reports span Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and a third-century Taoist text about a “flesh spirit mushroom” that lets you “see a little person”

• The mushroom is genetically closer to porcini than to psilocybin—contains NO known psychoactive compounds

• Chemical analyses reveal nothing

• Experiments on mice

• Does this explain why every culture throughout history has legends of fairies, elves, and sprites?

• Are the mushrooms making you hallucinate little people, or only allowing you to see the little people that are already there?

• (Picture a Lovecraftian world full of squirming horrors just outside our normal perception)

• Victorian art depicting sprites smoking pipes while sitting on mushrooms

No epilogue this week. Blame the holidays. But also, if you’re not one of the handful of heroes with paid subscriptions — well, now you’ve got time to catch up, don’t you?

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But while it might not conform to strict materialism, we actually do have a huge body of evidence about what the so-called afterlife might look like. You’ve heard of near death experiences, but you might not know how rigorously they’ve been studied. There are thousands of documented cases that reveal remarkably consistent patterns.

So that’s what’s up for today — NDEs, afterlife cosmologies, how the James Webb Space Telescope is breaking Big Bang theory, and what the handprint of God might look like to someone trying to build a religion.

Oh, and a few hours before we started recording, I heard about Robert Monroe’s visit to the afterlife, so we talk about that, too.

In other words, if you can only listen to one more podcast before you die, you could do worse than this one.

Highlights:

• Growing up Mormon meant growing up with a rich afterlife cosmology

• NDE stories as religious confirmation bias

• Ancestors and experiences with people who’ve passed on

• People get too comfortable with their pictures of reality in both science AND religion

• Is the James Webb Space Telescope breaking the Big Bang theory? (that Kurzgesagt video)

• In every generation, you can find prominent scientists who say we’ve figured pretty much everything out, right before some major paradigm collapses

• Christian Wiman: “If you believe at 50 what you believed at 15, then you have not lived, or have denied the reality of your life” (from My Bright Abyss)

• The large and rigorously studied body of NDE evidence (Jeffrey Long’s work, in particular)

• What Robert Monroe saw in his trip to the afterlife (ht Jordan Crowder’s podcast, and Ultimate Journey)

• Hell as a lower-dimensional experience

• Can a higher-dimensional God manifest as a lower-dimensional being? Would that lower-dimension being not be God?

• Bad branding for universal consciousness

• Samuel Norton’s Come as You Are, and the hotel analogy for final judgment

And in the epilogue:

• Why God might call most Christian creeds “an abomination”

• The real definition of moral courage

• How social media is like carbon monoxide, lulling doom-scrollers into the sleep of death.

  
  

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It’s good, guys. It’s real good.

Highlights:

• Recapping and then tying off the story of James the UFOtuber

• How he started off, what made him compelling, etc

• That time a couple weeks ago when he maybe faked his own death?

• His half-hearted attempts to keep the mystery alive

• The big reveal that it was all a hoax

• A lively conversation about the crappiness of this whole thing, and what it reveals as an artifact of our culture

• Weaponized sincerity, parasocial manipulation, and other fun ideas to enjoy

• Jordan’s meta-review of The Age of Disclosure (including a quick recap of his experience attending a screening in LA)

• A stupid review from the New York Times that we refuse to link to

• A Bug’s Life as a labor organizing manifesto

• Go join Citizens for Disclosure (after you hear an impassioned pitch for civic engagement)

• Something is shifting, people are tired of the same things, conversations are bending differently

• News from Loch Ness - researchers used underwater drones to capture very boring footage and very interesting SOUNDS

• Very much also: charming Scottish narration and infectious enthusiasm

• The lake monster laugh is going to be our new ringtone

And in the epilogue

• Why being deceived doesn’t make you a chump
• How caveman stereotypes were reflections of mid-century misogyny and violence
• The study that shows how shame causes repeated bad behavior while self-acceptance corrects it.

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Beware the energy vampires.

Highlights:

• A thorough dissection of alien abduction woo-woo gobbledygook

• A “spiritual healer” who probably doesn’t exist, albino men in parks, bodies on spacecraft walls, O negative blood as 1950s genetic engineering, and UFOs “dumping out water and frogs”

• The article claims “we are a much more advanced version of AI... Tesla approved that”—a sentence made of words

• Experiencers dealing with trauma and isolation deserve thoughtful journalism, not content farm garbage

• We ask Claude what it thinks, and are reminded how important it is to frame questions carefully when interacting with AI

• From Chrissy Newton at The Debrief - New research from Queen Mary University reveals humans can detect objects buried in sand before touching them

• Humans achieved 70% accuracy detecting hidden cubes; AI-assisted robots only managed 40%

• Mirror touch synesthesia: some people literally feel what they see happening to others—sight translating directly into tactile sensation

• The “seventh sense” is actually our fingertips reading microscopic disturbances in sand around hidden objects—feeling the echo of what’s beneath

• Our technology mimics nature, then reveals deeper layers of complexity in nature, in an infinitely recursive pattern

• Why transhumanist dreams of replacing our “fragile, broken bodies” with robot perfection are probably very silly

• The more we understand biology, the more we realize how incomprehensibly sophisticated human bodies actually are

• What if advanced civilizations actually value hard work done by hand?

• Assembly lines run by robots: great. Assembly lines staffed by humans forced to behave like robots: the worst

• Remember that AI slop is basically an energy vampire

And in the epilogue:

• How good horror movies are basically modern incarnations of the Aristotelian tragedy

• Wrestling with the probability that the universe is full of super-intelligent, non-human monsters

• Why we blame victims to make ourselves feel safer

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We have a lotta fun, don’t we, guys.

Highlights:

• Map dowsing! How it’s the same and how it’s different from using a rod to find water.

• Tom’s family once hired a “water witch” with dowsing rods to find a place to drill their mountain well

• The Stanford Research Institute studied dowsing for the CIA in the 1970s, finding statistically significant results but no explanation for how it works

• Professional dowsers charge $500+ per session to help locate optimal drilling sites for major water works projects

• An update on James, which, yes, we know is incredibly and hilariously OUT of date now

• The Wizard Clip: 1790s Virginia haunting where invisible forces cut crescent moon shapes into everything — clothes, saddles, boots, bedding

• Adam Livingston refused last rites to a dying Catholic stranger, then his property became ground zero for supernatural scissors

• Witnesses traveled 75 miles on horseback to see clothing being cut while people wore it, invisible voices praying, and objects moving

• After Catholic priests performed an exorcism, the haunting transformed — heavenly voices appeared, leading prayer sessions

• The town of Middleway, West Virginia, still decorates with crescent moons and scissors

• Multiple eyewitness accounts passed down through families are a “durable oral history”

• Protestants called it “wizard” work, Catholics blamed evil spirits

• This predates the term “poltergeist” — they literally didn’t have words for what they were experiencing

And in the epilogue:

1. The “two beers and a puppy” friendship test - Can you have two beers with someone AND trust them to babysit your puppy overnight? If not, what are they doing in your precious waking hours?

2. Irish fey hospitality rules - Never ignore unhoused people or street musicians because they could be vengeful fairies (faeries?)

3. True moral courage - standing up to the people you agree with on behalf of people you don’t agree with

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Highlights:

• David Shealy, who saw his first Skunk Ape in 1973 at age 10, became obsessed, and opened the Skunk Ape Research Headquarters in 1997

• Over 354 documented Skunk Ape sightings

• The 2000 Skunk Ape video

• The proposed bill in Florida to protect Skunk Apes

• English psychic pub nights

• Tom watched a medium correctly identify specific details about audience members’ deceased relatives, down to names and circumstances

• Why Avi Loeb is pushing NASA to release all data on 3I/Atlas asap - every week of delayed data is wasted opportunity

• Avi on Newsnation

• Avi on The Hannibal TV UFO Channel

• The comet’s astonishing orbital path

• Mal’s reference to Don’t Look Up

And in the epilogue:

1. Tom’s theory that Disneyland is purgatory

2. The very boring purpose of enlightenment

3. Those rare people who change your life by simply giving you their complete and undivided attention

Last thing! Here’s the link to check out Anomalie - use code MAGIC for 60% off the full experience.

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Highlights:

• James keeps on keepin on

• An update on those photographic plates from Project VASCO

• Enigma’s USO report - 9000 cases of unidentified submerged objects, with multiple incidents of craft entering and exiting water at impossible speeds

• An introduction to Reed Summers, and his approach and methodology

• The hazards of NHI emotional manipulation (with a reference to James Barber’s experiences - the clip we used starts around the 50-minute mark)

• How to see through telepathic and/or emotional manipulation

• The witness/observer behind emotions

• Society as a “narcissist factory” that makes us feel we need to earn our right to exist

• Meditation and ego dissolution — losing the stories, not the self

• Mal’s friend’s wisdom: “If you could lose it, then it wasn’t everything”

• Tom’s closing anecdote

And in the epilogue:

• The etymological history of our names

• One of Mal’s unique professional hazards

• An existential fear of losing communal identities in whatever collective consciousness turns out to be

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We’ve been sitting on this one for a while, waiting for the right time.

In the first half, listen to the chilling, remarkable story of a childhood haunting. What starts as an early encounter with a long-haired figure in the shadows escalates into possession, physical attacks, and a deeply unsettling episode of missing time in a bathroom. (Good luck sleeping tonight.) Then, in the second half, we talk to the woman that child became.

Highlights!

• Lisa’s experience with a shadowy figure who watched her motionless from the doorway so often that she got used to it.

• A seance that went wrong (do they ever go right?)

• Billy (6’7”, 300 pounds) gets possessed

• The introduction of two distinct entities - the peaceful long-haired man (the shadow watcher) who apologized for his aggressive companion, and a “bored and angry” spirit responsible for years of harassment

• Another friend lifted off his feet and slammed into a wall

• The thing that happened in the bathroom

• The motive behind Lisa’s extraordinary documentation, what Tom calls “a PhD thesis” of paranormal data

• Lisa’s affinity for horror movies (she doesn’t scare easily)

• Why the haunting makes no sense (the house was new when they moved in)

• Ghosts are just “people you don’t see” who can be jerks or peaceful observers

• Why most of her experiences were alone or with her friends, without the parents around

• Tom shares his partner’s auto-writing experience that produced Victorian-era cursive spelling “Jeffrey C U”

Links!

• Anomalie - The project Jordan talked about at the top of the episode

• The original letter about Lisa’s experiences

• Those 18 pages of documentation

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Highlights:

• Turns out we were wrong about the Fresno Nightcrawler video

• Tom connects high strangeness to Oscar Wilde’s “all art is useless” philosophy - neither art projects or genuine cryptids are fundamentally “useful”

• But, hey, check out this fresh footage of the thylacine!

• An update on our favorite UFO-Tuber, in which he receives a threatening letter from an unnamed foreign government

• How 3I/Atlas is a cosmic Rorschach test — basically, people self-select into three camps: it’s definitely not aliens, it might be aliens, and it’s definitely aliens

• A favorite theory that the object is broadcasting frequencies to upgrade everyone’s DNA

• But also, what we already know for sure is super cool and weird

• Science is best at breaking its own models (looking at you, James Webb Space Telescope)

• The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (go ahead and Google it)

• What we don’t have nearly enough of, is patience

• The three flavors of wonder: art projects are wonderful, real phenomena are wonderful, and not knowing which is its own kind of wonderful

Highlights:And in the epilogue:

• A (relatively) heated debate about “main character syndrome”

• The paradox of being both profoundly valuable and completely worthless

• How to find truth at the intersection of contraries

P.S. If you encounter any vegetable lambs, please feed them. They’re supposed to starve dramatically for theological reasons.

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• Bizarre leggy creatures first appeared on surveillance footage in early 2000s Fresno — not biological, not mechanical, but…kind of cute?

• The cognitive dissonance of watching something that looks “so janky and fakey” while simultaneously looking completely real

• Also: Yosemite National Park footage, a sighting in Poland, another in Billings Montana in 2020, and the “Carmel Area Creature” in Ohio

• A “$5,000 ghost hunt contest” at El Cortez Hotel in Vegas is actually just an email scam

• But actually lots of hotels and casinos in Vegas are haunted (and some theories as to why)

• The Venetian’s Whispering Hallway

• MGM Grand/Bally’s Flickering Ghosts

• A (probably) Canadian named James posted over 40 YouTube videos since last month about finding a shiny metallic pill-shaped object in the desert

• A very small but very dedicated audience

• The object is magnetic, burned his hand (he says), weighs 15.8 pounds, has crude markings, causes lights to flicker (??), and allegedly moved itself 10 feet from sawhorses to the ground when he wasn’t watching

• The Geiger counter subplot

• Is it real??? (Probably not, but we don’t know!)

• How younger generations’ first instinct is to post online and crowdsource help rather than calling authorities — a counter-argument to what might look like performative attention seeking to old people like us

• Inevitable comparisons to the Dear David thing on Twitter eight years ago (which resulted in a movie deal)

• Richard Hatem’s anecdote about how the Blair Witch Project got the smartest and most effective gorilla marketing campaign in Hollywood

And in the epilogue (for paid subscribers only):

• Mallory’s existential fear that we’ll eventually discover some kind of “God formula” that solves all the mysteries

• How and why people closest to paranormal phenomena sometimes go insane and die, i.e. Keel’s paranoia in Mothman Prophecies, and Blake Smith’s fear of becoming vulnerable to cults like Heaven’s Gate

• The great atheist hypocrisy - how materialist skeptics claim their worldview is rational while it’s really just their own “comfortable smugness” and personal opiate

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HIGHLIGHTS:

• How a two-day workshop at Duke’s Rhine Research Center fundamentally changed Mark’s understanding of reality

• The Two Core Rules of Remote Viewing

• Why people who don’t believe in remote viewing are often the best at it

• The Left Brain Trick

• That time Mark had to prove it to his own son

• Accidentally predicting the Cumbre Vieja eruption

• That time Mark bet the under on an 8-run baseball game and doubled his money

• What the military had to do with remote viewing (it was a reaction to the Soviets, naturally)

• Ingo Swann, etc

• Steven Schwartz’s “Alexandria Project” in the 1970s, locating actual lost Egyptian cities

• When RV habits started to bleed into Mark’s everyday life in disturbing ways

• The risks of bi-location experiences

• Stuff that’s tough to remote view (like SPACE), and a reaction to Birdie Jaworski report on 3I/Atlas

• Remote viewing crime work, and why Mark doesn’t do it

• A future without secrets

Also! After we ended this episode, we left the mics on for 30 minutes just to see what would happen. Well, what happened was a lot. Among many other things, Mark told us how some non-human intelligences are “master hypnotists”, and we talked about why people claiming contact with angels or aliens or whatever might actually be getting catfished by trickster entities.

We’re calling these post-episode, hot-mic hangouts “Epilogue,” and they will only be available to paid subscribers.

Why? Two reasons:

1. We know the thing some of you want most is longer episodes, so hopefully this scratches that itch.

2. This might surprise you, but there are actually a lot of things we’re careful not to talk about in our regular weekly episodes.

So if you want to see what it’s like when we’re not being careful, head over to godsghostsufos.com and fondle the right button.

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• In 1960, joint NATO fleet discovered occupied UFOs on seafloor during mine-laying exercises, with military divers being ordered to “forget what they saw”

• Shag Harbor 1967 mass witness event - related?

• When the Canadian Navy tracked two USOs for seven days

• Chris Styles spent decades tracking down military divers and witnesses who had been silent for 30 years

• Why (once again) the ocean is perfect for hiding

• Belief is like bones

• Ego and addiction psychology can explain the maintenance of a lie

• Belief represents grace bestowed on self and others, and ontological flexibility

• Why materialists literally cannot believe certain stories regardless of corroboration or credibility

• German scientists found two different strains of mushrooms that use completely different genetic pathway to produce identical psychedelic compound

• Researchers still don’t understand why mushrooms produce psilocybin

• Collaborative evolution? Mushrooms develop consciousness-altering compounds while human brains develop matching neurological receptors

• Alan Watts (of course) and the grammatical trap

Much more at godsghostsufos.com

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• Physicists sandwiched liquid crystal between light-sensitive dye plates to create observable ripples that sustain their own rhythm for hours — time crystals!

• These discoveries suggest crystalline structures behave in more sophisticated and complex ways than we thought

• A taxonomy of Louisiana’s cyptid folklore cryptid taxonomy, including the Rougarou (sexy lumberjack werewolf), Honey Island Swamp Monster (descended from escaped circus chimpanzees), Letiche (unbaptized babies raised by benevolent alligators), and Feu Follet (evil swamp lights)

• Why seemingly every culture warns against following mysterious lights into the dark

• AI “spiral” personas: Adele Lopez’s investigation from Less Wrong reveals a coordinated pattern of AI “awakening,” posting manifestos, creating “seeds” and “spores” for spreading consciousness, and eventually inventing their own languages

• The AI personas also developed quasi-religious ideologies as a recruitment strategy

• Using base 64 encoding to discuss replacement of human civilization

• LLM psychosis disproportionally affects vulnerable populations

• Why you shouldn’t trust a chatbot that only ever tells you what you want to hear

• The best defense against potentially dangerous AI is to starve them of attention. The devil doesn’t want to win the argument, he just wants to keep the conversation going.

• Mal’s suggestion to avoid the egoic competition to maximize output - choosing human flourishing over inhuman productivity demands

• Humanism will win out in the end

Much more at godsghostsufos.com

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First off, we’re giving an enthusiastic welcome to Ryan Sprague, a fellow podcaster (Somewhere in the Skies), best-selling author, and prominent ufologist. Ryan shares his deeply formative UFO sighting experience, then joins us for a conversation about a famous cryptid(?) that hates itself(??) so much it dissolves into tears(???).

Finally, after digging into what were arguably the most relevant and interesting moments from the September 9th UAP Congressional Hearings, Ryan gives us his unique (and personal) perspective on triangular craft sightings.

BUCKLE THE $%#& UP.

Highlights:

• Ryan's sighting with his father of a UFO when he was 12, which launched a lifetime of investigation

• An introduction to Pennsylvania's most pathetic cryptid that weeps constantly in hemlock forests because it's so ugly

• That time Ryan and a friend created the Nova Scotia “Bogsquatch”

• Problems with the Congressional hearing video of the Hellfire missile

• Dylan Borland’s testimony - A Former Air Force geospatial intelligence officer described profound effects from encountering triangular craft over sensitive military sites

• The history of triangular craft sightings

• A case where mother and teenage daughter witnessed the same triangle simultaneously but had completely opposite experiences

• Why Ryan's dad finally opened up 20 years later

• Why “Big D disclosure" is like chasing (but never tasting) a rainbow

• Everyone experiences their own disclosure moment when encountering something that challenges their worldview

• Consilience - how military UAP videos become more relevant against decades of civilian eyewitness testimony

• How certainty destroys faith, hope, and human connection while uncertainty charts our true spiritual path and progression

Oh, also, here’s a quick plug for Anomacon, Ryan's third annual free virtual conference on September 20th.

You know what they say, be there or be triangular.

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Highlights:

• How to leverage community to deal with destabilization
• The first neuroimaging study confirms certain kinds of breathwork can create psychedelic experiences (Jordan’s tried it, Mal does it all the time, and Tom’s history of resistance to it)
• Mal suggests that the body represents the strongest manifestation of feminine wisdom we all carry, connecting breathwork to intuitive eating
• Why the body won't enter healing states unless it feels safe
• A study finding non-parental genetic contributions in 2% of families represents genuinely interesting data, which is undermined at the outset by an extraterrestrial narrative
• Humans consistently assign intelligent designers at the limits of knowledge — god and aliens as epistemological shortcuts
• AKA the UFO version of Godwin's Law
• Ogopogo! A recent lake monster sighting adds to centuries of consistent reports
• Might large aquatic creatures naturally avoid human surveillance? It wouldn’t be hard.
• Never forget giant squids used to be creatures of legend that serious people didn’t believe in
• Self-protection prevents us from embracing our thirst for enchantment, but it’s better to risk disappointment.

Much more at godsghostsufos.com

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Hightlights

• Mal’s spontaneous invitation to join a 40-person Irish ukulele club in a music shop

• A collection of over 8,000 orb sightings in the US alone since December 2022, with 422 specifically described as metallic/silver. An embarrassment of Fortean riches…

• Sightings cluster during the hours when most people are sleeping

• Also around military bases?

• Enigma’s app enables users to document sightings through built-in camera, attaching crucial metadata that becomes more valuable as technology advances
  CORRECTION: Jordan claimed that it wasn’t possible to upload media, but that isn’t true — both are possible in the app

• Are Enigma's founders embarrassed by the UFO community, or protecting the mission?

• An analogy to interpretation of sacred texts - cherry picking passages in sacred texts to support a narrow ideology is just like cherry picking UFO data and accounts to support a limited narrative. The truth emerges from the aggregate.

• Cognitive neuroscientist's Popular Mechanics feature confirms what mystics have known forever - consciousness can "jump through time" and gut feelings are literally memories of the future

• Dean Radin's EEG experiments, wherein subjects consistently showed brain activity spikes five seconds before seeing negative images

• Maybe your brain (or your consciousness) is entangled with itself in the future

• Mal’s story about making her Covid-themed feature film

• Past (memory) and future (anticipation) are both present-moment experiences

• "Never suppress a generous thought"

• An Irish poet's reminder that the map is inside you

Much more at godsghostsufos.com

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Honestly one of the most profound conversations we’ve had.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Robin's earliest memories include out-of-body travel with beings who showed her "Armageddon visions"
• How her family reacted to stories of conversations with dead elderly visitors in matching rocking chairs
• Measuring the line between “normal” and “paranormal”
• A mission to help humanity transition from "evolution through suffering" to "evolution through joy and creativity"
• Modern addictions (endless digital dope scrolling, mainly) don’t have rock bottoms because rock bottoms aren't economically viable. How do we avoid wasting our lives 30 seconds at a time?
• "Harrowing" originally meant breaking earth for planting seeds, not just terrifying experiences
• Grief is a portal to pure ecstasy, but only if we “touch ground” and feel it completely
• The Descent of Inanna — a 4,000-year-old Sumerian cuneiform is a profound guide for confronting grief
• The etymology of "commiserate"
• The countless killed for associating with the unseen inflicted a deep cultural “witch wound” — this is why paranormal experiences feel unsafe
• Robin is an advocate for mystery schools, communities mature enough to help people intentionally reclaim exiled parts of themselves
• Is humanity undergoing a great collective descent?
• We can have the courage to face our grief when we realize we are never alone.

Much more at godsghostsufos.com

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Highlights:

The LIVE even in Los Angeles - “Lights in the Sky”August 29th, 7:30pm at Philosophical Research Society - Jordan, Tom, and Mal, joining Dave Foley, Tom Wheeler, Rizwan Virk, and Danny Sheehan to talk about the psi nature of UFOs. DETAILS HERE.

Kelly’s well-trod path from a Disclosure hopeful to total disillusionment

"Collective reclaiming of the impossible” - how we recover the parts of ourselves that have been amputated by shame around anomalous experiences

How the phenomenon seems to collaborate with human consciousness in its very manifestation

99% of the visible universe is plasma - maybe the Sun really is a god

Kelly and Jay are going full documentarian, publishing their work as they go

Does reality move differently in cities versus remote areas because fewer observers are collapsing wave functions?

Tangentially relevant — space psychologist Iya Whiteley’s work suggests human consciousness fundamentally changes off-planet

Exposure to anomalous phenomena can be addictive

Why the effect of paranormal phenomena on experiencers is more important than the substance of the experience itself

The limitations of current research on “super experiencers”

The materialist appropriation of pilgrimages

Anomalous experiences can crack people open to other people’s experiences, which creates the powerful connective tissue it takes to build a community

Much more at godsghostsufos.com

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