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Mike Fiorito -- Neon Galactic -- Episode 32 Aug 07, 2024

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This episode of Neon Galactic features a beautiful conversation with writer, musician, and music journalist Mike Fiorito, and centers around UFOs and his newest book, For All We Know. This wonderfully written short fiction novel explores the transcendent experiences of one man over the course of his life, and the mechanisms by which he -- and by extension, all of us -- can access the liminal world and achieve an expanded state of consciousness. Rare for a book about UFOs, Fiorito's fictional narrative is powerfully written, and ambitious in its attempts to communicate the nature of these experiences in a literary format. It's a beautiful rendering of episodes many of us have had, but don't necessarily have the language or permission to embrace. It explores the use of entheogens as a means to raise consciousness, and also points out that humanity at this point in its development has forgotten that simple, and rather mundane, experiences -- like reading a book or listening to a song -- offer us a way to lift ourselves out of the crushingly ordinary workaday world and achieve a kind of gnosis. We also discuss Fiorito's abiding interest in ufology, what he thinks of recent developments in the fight for disclosure, and how his passion for the subject has fueled a broader search for spirit and community. To buy Fiortio's books or get a sense of his broader bibliography: http://mikefiorito.com. ———————- Music Credits: Music: Cinematic Logo 04 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8221-cinematic-logo-04 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Technology Calm Logo 01 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6660-technology-calm-logo-01 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license --- Neon Galactic is a production of PBS affiliate KEET-TV in Eureka, CA. Please don’t forget to like and subscribe. Public television can always use your support. On X: @jfrickingfaulk #neongalactic #UAP #space #aliens #ufo #consciousness #phenomenon #ghosts #afterlife #NDE #entheogens #spirit #music #art #ForAllWeKnow #literature

Chris Avis -- Neon Galactic -- Episode 31 Aug 07, 2024

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On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview Dr. Christopher Avis, a physics instructor and climatologist from Camosun College in British Columbia, who had his worldview transformed after taking Ketamine as part of a treatment program for depression. The process opened him up to notions beyond materialism, and made him rethink how he viewed the transcendent, subjects like NDEs, OBEs, spirituality, and science, among other things. Suddenly, what had long seemed like woo was a visceral encounter with a different, but very much real, world beyond the senses. That experience, coupled with a re-introduction to the sacred that was facilitated by the ketamine program organizers, has grounded Avis in his own body and emphasized to him the importance of community and connectedness. His transformation occurred as the UAP discussion in the United States gained international attention through the whistleblower testimony of David Grusch before a congressional committee, and the introduction of the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023. Both developments reawakened in Avis a curiosity and passion for the UFO subject, which he realized was telling all of us something very important about the nature of reality. Like so many others, Avis then went on a deep dive of research and study that led him to the work of Jeffrey Kripal, Diana Pasulka, James Madden, and many others. In this conversation, we discuss the nature of “the flip,” per Kripal; the importance of the UFO subject; how academia and the sciences will respond if materialism meets its timely end; the risks taken by open-minded scientists asserting interest in these sorts of topics; and how educational institutions are facing a number of challenges in this moment that will be even further complicated by a revolution in the sciences. We also marvel at how so many of the issues now facing humanity are connected, either directly or tangentially, to the UAP subject and its many facets. ——————— Music Credits: Music: Cinematic Logo 04 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8221-cinematic-logo-04 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Technology Calm Logo 01 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6660-technology-calm-logo-01 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license --- Neon Galactic is a production of PBS affiliate KEET-TV in Eureka, CA. Please don’t forget to like and subscribe. Public television can always use your support. On X: @jfrickingfaulk #neongalactic #UAP #space #aliens #ufo #consciousness #phenomenon #ghosts #afterlife #NDE #contactmodalities #ketamine #depression #camosuncollege

James Madden & Mathew Roberts -- Neon Galactic -- Episode 30 Aug 07, 2024

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On this episode of Neon Galactic, we chat with two of the finest minds in the UAP subject and come to see some rather startling possibilities about the nature of the UAP/UFO/NHI phenomenon and its interest in us. Dr. James Madden, author and professor of philosophy, joins experiencer and author Matthew Roberts and myself to examine the contact phenomenon and break down what those collective experiences may be telling us. Roberts’ book “Initiated” chronicles his own engagement with non-human intelligences, and describes how this contact led him on an intellectual journey through such subjects as philosophy, history, Jungian psychology and more. In addition to his experience onboard the USS Roosevelt during the now famed Gimbal engagement, Roberts later underwent a psychic transformation brought on by these non-human intelligences, and from that experience gained important insight into the personal and psychological impacts of contact. These impactful incidents occurred as Roberts worked at the Office of Naval Intelligence, an experience there that was not unique to him. Were they being targeted? We also discuss how Academia might ultimately be able to accommodate the coming intellectual shifts associated with disclosure, but not before a rather drastic humbling. How will it feel when they all suddenly realize they've been wrong all along? Neon Galactic is a production of PBS-affiliate KEET-TV in Eureka, CA. Please don’t forget to like and subscribe. Public television can always use your support. On X: James Faulk: @jfrickingfaulk Matthew Roberst: @UFOphilosophy Dr. James Madden: @JDMadden3 To read Initiated: https://www.amazon.com/Initiated-Depr... To visit Dr. James Madden's Substack: jdmadden.substack.com Music Credits: Music: Cinematic Logo 04 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8221-cinema... Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Technology Calm Logo 01 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6660-techno... Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license --- #ufo #uap #alien #initiation #government #space #afterlife #netflix #encounters #abduction #plato #space #spirituality

Michael Zimmerman -- Neon Galactic -- Episode 29 Aug 07, 2024

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On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview Professor Michael Zimmerman from the University of Colorado at Boulder, whose long-time interest in the phenomenon started in childhood and later blossomed into an area of intense study and concern over where the exactly the phenomenon may be leading us, and what it may indicate about humanity’s future. Zimmerman has written numerous academic papers on UFOs and the abduction phenomenon, and developed a working relationship with Harvard University psychiatrist and professor John Mack in the 1990s. Zimmerman in this interview discusses the technological ramifications of contact with NHI, and what that contact may be telling us about ourselves and what our current paradigms allow us to value. We discuss the thinking of philosopher Martin Heidegger, and how it relates to humanity’s ongoing struggle to balance our technological worldview with our humanity, as well as insights developed and put forward by Jacques Vallee, Diana Pasulka, and James Madden. We also discuss AI, and what role that may be playing in our now fever-pitched societal recognition and debate over UFOs, UAPs, and NHI, and how the humanities will have a vital role in helping humanity adjust to a reality that may be way more vast and complicated than we ever realized. To read some of Zimmerman’s work: https://www.societyforuapstudies.org/search?q=zimmerman Simone is the AI expert we discuss from Diana Pasulka’s book, “Encounters.” ———————- Music Credits: Music: Cinematic Logo 04 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8221-cinematic-logo-04 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Technology Calm Logo 01 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6660-technology-calm-logo-01 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license --- Neon Galactic is a production of PBS affiliate KEET-TV in Eureka, CA. Please don’t forget to like and subscribe. Public television can always use your support. On X: @jfrickingfaulk #neongalactic #UAP #space #aliens ##nhi #ufo #consciousness #UAPphenomenon #heidegger #philosophy #plato

Rey Hernandez -- Neon Galactic -- Episode 28 Aug 07, 2024

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On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview Reinerio Hernandez, whose work and research into UFOs and other contact modalities has been a major contribution to the understanding of what’s actually being experienced by thousands of people all over the world. For him it started more than a decade ago with a paranormal encounter in his living room, one that disappeared his wife for over an hour and healed his dying dog. This experience — plus many others — set off a chain of events and encounters that changed Rey’s life and helped him to advance our understanding of what reality might actually be. His research — which can be found at www.agreaterreality.com — includes a one-of-a-kind statistical survey of some 4300 experiencers. The information uncovered there flies in the face of many long-standing assumptions about the nature and purpose of NHI contact. His primary conclusion is that virtually all paranormal phenomena stems from different forms of contact with a greater, likely non-physical realm that somehow connects with ours. This reality is one experienced through contact with UFOs, as well as near death experiences, out-of-body experiences, remote viewing, ghost encounters, and more. Hernandez has partnered with a long list of brilliant doctors, scientists, parapsychologists, and others, who share his insights and have helped write and edit his several books. As head of the Consciousness and Contact Research Institute, Hernandez also describes the next steps needed to further this research, and explains why he believes the other world is pushing humanity to change. ———————- Music Credits: Music: Cinematic Logo 04 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8221-cinematic-logo-04 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Technology Calm Logo 01 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6660-technology-calm-logo-01 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license --- Neon Galactic is a production of PBS affiliate KEET-TV in Eureka, CA. Please don’t forget to like and subscribe. Public television can always use your support. On X: @jfrickingfaulk #neongalactic #UAP #space #aliens #ufo #consciousness #UAPphenomenon #ghosts #afterlife #NDE #contactmodalities #space #universe #alien

Joshua Cutchin -- Neon Galactic -- Episode 27 Aug 07, 2024

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On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview author and researcher Joshua Cutchin about his “Ecology of Souls” series of books, and how the the UAP/UFO/NHI phenomenon relates to the dead, and the afterlife. Cutchins books are broad in scope and meticulously researched, weaving threads from a variety of mythological and philosophical systems into a fabric of meaning that encourages recipients of these traditions to “die to death,” or lose their fear of dying. We consider this notion and how it may relate to the idea that NHI may be humanity from the future. We also discuss the role UFOs and UAPs may be playing for our species, encouraging us to get out from the burdened banality of scientism to rediscover wonder and imagination. We review Cutchin’s feelings on Disclosure, and how his sentiments have evolved over time, as well as the risk associated with trying to pin a single explanation on the entirety of the phenomenon. Jay, as mentioned in the beginning of this video, refers to Jay Christopher King from The Experiencer Group, Inquire Anomalous, and Ontocalypse Productions. Shop for Cutchin’s books here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Joshua-Cutchin/author/B00YPH8ODY?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true ———————- Music Credits: Music: Cinematic Logo 04 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8221-cinematic-logo-04 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Technology Calm Logo 01 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6660-technology-calm-logo-01 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license --- Neon Galactic is a production of PBS affiliate KEET-TV in Eureka, CA. Please don’t forget to like and subscribe. Public television can always use your support. On X: @jfrickingfaulk #neongalactic #UAP #space #aliens #ufo #consciousness #UAPphenomenon #fairies #afterlife #NDE #ecologyofsouls #space #alien #universe #philosophy #nhi

Nick Cook -- Neon Galactic -- Episode 25 Aug 07, 2024

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On this episode of Neon Galactic, we speak with author and journalist Nick Cook about his new, serialized book project, The Light Beyond The Mountains, and how it offers a kind of synthesis between his two areas of knowledge and research: arms manufacturing companies, developed during his years as a journalist with Jane’s Defence Weekly, and consciousness, which has more recently been for Cook a topic of interest and research. The book, available by subscription on Cook’s Rogue Icons Substack, will be updated every two weeks, unfolding the autobiographical tale chapter by chapter. This literary high-wire act promises to challenge Cook’s considerable talent and expertise while also offering rare insight into consciousness and the broader UAP phenomenon. Cook in this interview describes how the project came about, how this manner of publication suits his ultimate goal, and how his experience with these companies informs his current thinking on the state of the world and what’s needed to improve things. Saving the world is entirely possible, he argues, but will require that the genius of these companies be partly freed from the strictly proprietary development of weapons and directed toward addressing climate change and other global conundrums. We discuss the slowly changing paradigms of science and business, and how these shifts are necessary to navigate humanity’s current existential crisis. Both technology and consciousness have a formative role to play in the search for solutions. There is a reason to hope, he argues, but it will be a difficult road. The cover art for The Light Beyond The Mountains was produced by artist Tristan Maduro, who has twice been on this show himself. Subscribe to Nick’s Rogue Icons Substack: https://nickcook.substack.com Purchase his other books here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Nick-Cook/author/B001HCYOUM?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true ———————- Music Credits: Music: Cinematic Logo 04 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8221-cinematic-logo-04 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Technology Calm Logo 01 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6660-technology-calm-logo-01 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license --- Neon Galactic is a production of PBS affiliate KEET-TV in Eureka, CA. Please don’t forget to like and subscribe. Public television can always use your support. On X: @jfrickingfaulk @iamnickcook #neongalactic #nickcook #UAP #lightbeyondthemountains #space #aliens #ufo #consciousness #UAPphenomenon #JanesDefenceWeekly

Kevin Knuth -- Neon Galactic -- Episode 26 Aug 07, 2024

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On this episode of Neon Galactic, we talk with Professor Kevin Knuth from SUNY Albany, a physics professor who has worked diligently in recent years to elevate the study of UAPs and do real science on a subject that still comes with significant stigma in academic circles. Knuth is a member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, a founder of UAPx, and editor of the peer-reviewed journal, Entropy. His expertise are broad, after two decades in machine learning as it relates to astrophysics, as well as Bayesian Probability Theory, Information Theory, robotics, signal processing, neuroscience, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Quantum Mechanics, among other areas. He also received a grant from NASA to study exoplanets. In this conversation, we discuss his frustration with the behavior of the federal government on UAPs, and how its behavior demonstrates a remarkable degree of ineptitude. Knuth believes it incompetence rather than conspiracy, yet also says in this interview that he believes there is a dark side to this story, an element that may well have convinced some in the government that it's better to keep the secrets. Our collective frustration underlines the point that organizations like SCU, UAPx, the Galileo Project, and others, need to do their own science and ultimately take government secrecy out of the picture. In several UAP briefings that Knuth has given to congressional figures, he said they asked about equipment that can detect UAPs (USOs) in the ocean. That, he suspects, may be a major part of the story. Knuth, whose early work involved neuroimaging and brain research, also discusses the role of consciousness in the UAP phenomenon. What has been called high strangeness may, he posits, be merely mechanisms of nature that we don't yet understand, which other civilizations may well have mastered. Knuth made the point repeatedly that science as an institution needs to have more humility in its proclamations on the nature of things. When 85 percent of our universe remains unidentified, and consists of material we can't interact with, we know very little at all. LINKS: Dr. Kevin Knuth (Researchgate Publications List) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/... Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies https://www.explorescu.org/ Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles https://www.explorescu.org/post/estim... Music Credits: Music: Cinematic Logo 04 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8221-cinema... Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Technology Calm Logo 01 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6660-techno... Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license --- Neon Galactic is a production of PBS affiliate KEET-TV in Eureka, CA. Please don’t forget to like and subscribe. Public television can always use your support. On X: @jfrickingfaulk #space #ufo #science #exoplanets #NASA #UAP #galileo #alien #technosignature #ocean

Peter Levenda -- Neon Galactic -- Episode 24 Aug 07, 2024

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On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview researcher and writer Peter Levenda on how his research and insights surrounding the Sinister Forces trilogy connect with his later work on Sekret Machines with Tom Delonge. Note: Our ZOOM connection was spotty … either MIB or The Others were clearly responsible. Ahem. We edited out most of the latent pauses, but some remain, and the glitches are (mostly) to blame for the occasionally odd cadence to the conversation. Levenda and I start our chat with the long list of improbable synchronicities surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and how those weird reality signals represent part of an underlying pattern of fate that seems to include UFOs. Levenda’s own life was caught up in the wake of these historic events, leading him on an unlikely intellectual journey that has put him near the center of things, a singular node in a broader constellation of meaning. We talk about the nature of the UFO/NHI phenomenon, and what ontologies allow for the phenomena observed. Levenda also discusses Merkaba mysticism, and how the technology of consciousness can provide immediate and visceral insights into the nature of things, while also allowing us means of spiritual egress. To purchase Peter’s books: ttps://www.amazon.com/stores/Peter-Levenda/author/B000APV41O?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true Music Credits: Music: Cinematic Logo 04 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8221-cinematic-logo-04 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Technology Calm Logo 01 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6660-technology-calm-logo-01 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license —- Neon Galactic is a production of PBS affiliate KEET-TV in Eureka, CA. Please don’t forget to like and subscribe. Public television can always use your support. On X: @jfrickingfaulk @Peter_Levenda --- #sekretmachines #peterlevenda #extraterrestrial #ufo #alien #uap #space #consciousness #nhi #phenomena #sinisterforces Peter and Marco Visconti are holding a class in February 2024 on celestial flight using Peter’s book, “Stairway to Heaven,” as guide. To learn more: https://www.marcovisconti.org/ascent

Bernardo Kastrup -- Neon Galactic -- Episode 23 Aug 07, 2024

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In this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview forward-thinking author and philosopher Bernardo Kastrup, who defines for viewers his notion of Idealism: How the universe can be most accurately considered a working mind rather than a physical and independently existing collection of forces, fields and particles. He also offers his take on UFOs and UAPs, differentiating between hard, physical craft on radar and the broader contact phenomenon. Throughout his work, Kastrup has unveiled and delineated a ruthlessly logical ontology that addresses many of the so-called insoluble problems of science, revealing them ultimately to be mirages that arise out of the problematic physicalist ontology that now predominates in academia and mainstream science. His work answers mainstream criticisms that only materialism can be vigorously defended. After reading his books, one clearly sees that logic in fact supports his position. Idealism is the more parsimonious explanation for reality, and has greater explanatory power. We discuss his views on reality, how human personality fits in the broader cosmic picture, and how human mythologies are pervasive yet – at the moment – have been robbed of all their power to provide meaning to the human experience.. We also talk about the phenomenon of UAPs and NHI, considering whether these might form a more comprehensive and transcendent mythology that could better connect us with metaphysical truths. Kastrup says he believes David Grusch, UAP whistleblower, and decries how “idiot” scientists with too much concern for their ego and reputations have attacked the phenomenon and the witnesses while themselves becoming detached from the scientific trenches where materialism has increasingly faltered. To purchase Kastrup’s books, visit: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Bernardo-Kastrup/author/B004OFGCA4?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true Music Credits: Music: Cinematic Logo 04 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8221-cinematic-logo-04 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Technology Calm Logo 01 by TaigaSoundProd Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6660-technology-calm-logo-01 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license --- Neon Galactic is a production of PBS affiliate KEET-TV in Eureka, CA. Please don’t forget to like and subscribe. Public television can always use your support. On X: @jfrickingfaulk @BernardoKastrup #space #ufo #materialism #afterlife #philosophy #uap #nhi #alien

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