One World in a New World – Apocalyptic Chats

🌍One World in a New World – Apocalyptic Chats

One World in a New World explores consciousness, systems thinking, AI-human partnership, global transformation, spirituality, leadership, coherence, sustainability, and the future of humanity through conversations with visionary leaders, scientists, authors, entrepreneurs, and changemakers.

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One World in a New World with Laura Staley, Ph.D. - Founder, Cherish Your World Feb 25, 2022

Show notes

Each episode we take deep dives into personal awareness, inner connections and realizations that transform into practical applications in the outer world. It's our way of sharing learning, understanding and wisdom for the times - offering considerations for the great 'weset' and 'upwising' that starts with people just like you that are seeking confidence in their own path or a new living awareness altogether.

After an initial misstep and correction, much like life, we delve into the early connection Laura found in the midst of an emotionally traumatic childhood. Her story is not uncommon, though many go through traumatic childhoods and repeat them as adults. She speaks of recognizing the early connection with her soul as a place of solace, though she didn't realize it until later in life.

Did you spend time in nature as a youth? What was that like? How did it feel? Can you remember?

Laura shares her experiences in nature as a child that's a very interesting perspective. We also have an interlude on the notion of choosing our childhood experiences in order to grow and evolve our understanding of our greater self.

We often think life is a series of coincidences that 'happen' to us. Is it possible there is a preliminary conversation between self and Self before entry?

What becomes obvious is the life path Laura chose combined inner and outer sciences, like Feng Shui and political science, that gave her the foundation for building not only an understanding, an experience of the connection with everything through a sense of love.

For those that haven't experienced it the reference to Tom Campbell attempting to explain a right-brained world to a left-brained thinking being nearly impossible because it is experiential rather than intellectual.

Further on Laura explores looking back and identifying the manner in which she was able to move out of the constraints of early childhood trauma and find triumph through her personal discoveries.

First, she notes an inner voice that spoke in comfort and surety of her eventual safety. But first, she had to experience some devastating events that she reveals through her 'healed' reflection.

Zen asks, "Why are we so biased and prejudiced that we cannot see ourselves in another?" After a short struggle, Laura answers, "Fear." Considering how interconnected the electromagnetic spectrum is, could it be that the chime from her computer is a perfect synchronicity in edifying her answer.

She goes on to say that if she feels disconnected [fearful] then everything is a threat. Zen reflects on the notion as evidence of a kind of quantum entanglement with the unified field regarding synchronicities and need for further attention.

Much more happens that writing about it doesn't do it justice, you just have to listen and/or watch. Our discussion deepens into ways in which we both have found to further the connection with others, be better in resolving perceived conflict and engaging the inner-knowing and understanding of our processes that can be repeated with others effectively.

Laura shares several events that example the practical and pragmatic use of emotional maturity or being able to be the anchor in the center of the storm.

Thanks in advance for watching. Please do like, share and subscribe if you find value.

Connect with Laura on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurastaley1/

Cherish Your World: http://www.cherishyourworld.com/

Visit Laura's Blog: https://sacredstories.com/category/blog/laura-staley/

BizCatalyst360 Columnist: https://www.bizcatalyst360.com/author/laurastaley/

Laura's Books:

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One World in a New World with Lisa Ma - Growth Strategist, Stronger Together X Feb 18, 2022

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Lisa Ma converted a highly-developed skill set to fulfill a passion for helping humanity. She believes we're stronger together and can co-create a strategic path that unites superpowers toward a greater vision for humanity's future. Her superpower is connecting people, for instance. Others have gifts and skills that are complementary to a shift toward a healthy transformation.

We jump right in to the challenge many folks have today of enjoying being able to perform at peak in virtually any company position, yet feel a bit empty in relation to being able to do good things in the world. Lisa shares a bit of her travels and engagements around the world, yet that even with those events she still felt there was something missing. She was still seeking something more and sought out ways to be involved in philanthropy and volunteer work as a way to fill the gap.

Do you feel that there is something missing in your life in regard to engaging your passion for service? Many are discovering their passion for helping others now, especially with the challenges we're all facing on multiple fronts. Lisa found that her passion for service blossomed in 2020, starting with a great deal of introspection. She began to notice how synchronicities led her to discovering people, places and things in new ways.

Lisa goes on to reveal that she initially found the process intriguing from how she was experiencing a new living awareness, yet she was still analyzing the process through her old corporate-trained analytical thinking. She notes the difference between being in her head and thinking things through to find answers and being in her heart where she 'just knew' the answers to her queries.

We discuss the notions of spiritual awakenings and the process of taking skill sets to the next level. For Lisa, it was using technology to begin bringing people together to figure out how to help each other in the new virtual environment made possible by the sequestration conditions.

We weave a sharing of the process from multiple perspectives you will find inspiring and inviting. Lisa's way of bridging the very practical and pragmatic business-minded activity with the activities that explore more of the 'being' first and connecting and sensing each other, then learning how to serve humanity by working together better. She notes the co-creative process flows into many dynamics of paradigm shifting.

There's a lot of tasty tidbits and nuggets of nourishment for encouraging connecting, unleashing your own superpowers and connecting with others through the virtual opportunities at present.

You'll enjoy the conversation and please do subscribe and share. The ability, desire and sharing of conversations that matter is a superpower you hold, too.

Connect with Lisa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisaxma/

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One World in a New World with Mark O'Brien - Founder, O'Brien Communications Group Feb 18, 2022

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In another apocalyptic chat, Mark starts off by acknowledging the children he's had the chance to share his books with (below) and how they have re-instilled his sense of awe and wonder. Children are fearless and haven't learned or been conditioned to be guarded about their awe and wonder. Regarding his children's books, he speaks to the creation of something given to the world and the responsibility that comes with it.

Mark's comments about what it was like to restore his awe and wonder are priceless and best heard than read. He goes on to say that he's been aware of that 'inner knowing' though he never felt he would ever be able to exercise it again. Do we surrender the sense of awe and wonder or is it taken away from us? What do you think?

What is your passion? Mark's sense of his greatest desire was to write, though he didn't feel free enough to do so. How do you feel about your passion play, or deepest desires and how you've been reluctant to proceed? Have you lost your parents or a loved one? How did that affect you? Mark speaks about his concern about his father's transition, how he would handle it and how he did.

How is your relationship with friends? Would they know you well enough to reach out to help when you need it? Mark shares about a friend that saw his depression and set him up with a therapist that he resisted at first, then weeks in he realized he was making a transition. Having someone to talk with is often what's necessary to make the personal transformation.

Zen offers that it isn't so much what the therapist says, beyond the questions asked, it's hearing yourself take the conversation out of your head and being able to listen to the words coming out of your mouth that allows a different level of processing that makes a huge difference. What kind of shields do you put up to protect yourself from life experience

We talk about real-life and Mark's experience in the ad agency he worked for, and was preparing to leave. He speaks about the transition from his implosion to and explosion of confidence and perseverance toward breaking out on his own. He shares a story about an experience in meeting a person in line at a coffee shop that spoke to him about her own explosion as a cancer survivor. You'll enjoy the spark from his connection that is evidence of awe and wonder restored.

Have you ever had the opportunity to participate in a collaborative exercise, like a writing class? How did you feel about participating? Were you afraid of being judged? What if you had an opportunity and knew there was nothing you could do wrong? How would that change your personal view of yourself? Mark describes an opportunity he created for others through a BizCatalyst360 Salon. (see below)

More insights, sharing and reflecting on similar situations continue throughout the balance of this conversation that you just have to listen to for the full effect. Thanks for watching and please do subscribe, share and comment. We've all got insightful moments and we're happen to share some of those to help us restore our humanity and transition into a brighter future than we have now.

Connect with Mark on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markobrien/

O'Brien Communications Group: https://obriencg.com/

Mark's Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3pzC5cp

Salon Site: https://BizCatalyst360.com

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Connect with Zen on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zenbenefiel

Life's Puzzle Pieces - The Art and Science of Assembly:: https://amzn.to/3GlMSxS

Transformational Coaching: https://BeTheDream.com

Zen's Digital CV: https://ZenBenefiel.com

One World in a New World with Doug Breitbart - CoFounder, Being in Systems Feb 11, 2022

Show notes

What would you expect from a consultant specializing in the formation and launch of new businesses, the review and turn-around of existing companies, and optimization of operations, management team, business or revenue model, and marketing/sales strategy? This conversation is quite different than you would expect. Doug is more about BEing than DOing and assists others in doing so at organizational levels.

What does 'sovereignty' mean to you? Do you have it? Do you know you have it? Doug dives into his inner side of reality quickly to note that even if we don't want to admit it's there... it is. He relates a quick story about his introduction to a 'sensitive' and what she shared with him. What was your process for determining your life's course? Have you found one yet?

Doug reveals that early in life he really had no emotional connection to it. Life was about accomplishing, doing stuff and having things without much thought for others. He themes his beginnings as a contemporary version of a Neanderthal. Graduating from an Ivy League school with a law degree was no small accomplishment, though the 'work' kept him from connecting with life.

Even with the accomplishments he says he was rather bereft of self-awareness and consciousness. The entertainment industry was is home for a bit, culminating in a couple of artists with top five and top ten accomplishments. He had dramatic rise to success and an equally dramatic crash and burn. How did he move through that? Listen in...

Zen asks Doug to highlight some of the nuggets of learning along the way. HIs big take away, and offering, is don't feel like you have to go through all kinds of rites of passage to get somewhere; just go for it. Doug shares his experience in transforming his idea of reality (26 employees, top artists, offices and studios around the world) to being invited to a weekend personal development workshop that was extremely uncomfortable. You'll love what happened next. Listen in...

If you had the chance to transform your life into something you really need and want, why would you wait? Oh, there's a door that's scary to many and absolutely frightening to others. How many of those doors have you been presented with in your life and not taken advantage of them? How did you feel when you did walk through them?

Tuning in to this conversation could very well be one of those opportunities as Doug spells out the process that transformed his life over time and set him up with a new trajectory that he loves and offers a great reward in his service to others through organizational development.

Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy the conversation! ... and do subscribe, too.

Connect with Doug on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougbreitbart/

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One World in a New World with Geoff Woliner - CEO, Winning Wit Feb 04, 2022

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We start off recapping our original meeting through a leadership conference for American Society for Training and Development (now Association for Talent Development) which has chapters in 147 countries. We talk about his transition from ASTD and why he made it. You may find a similar theme in your life now.

Geoff shares how he saw his position as Charter Relations Director as a way to learn from others around the nation and share what was working across the country to other chapters who were struggling. It gave him a way to help many by paying attention and connecting the dots like a holistic systems thinker. He mentions how chapters were a place of solace for those caught in the economic downturn in the late 2000s.

Zen mentions his experience in the aerospace industry in the late 80s and attempting to introduce interpersonal skills meeting with less than favorable results. 30 years later, the scene had changed in the human resource and instructional arena, which included highly motivated people with high integrity that really wanted to serve others professionally in ways that helped them grow.

Geoff's book, Leaving 2020, is our next tangent and he shares that the book is about the trials and tribulations of people in the current times, going into and coming out of Covid. The impetus came after his business, like many others, disappeared. He'd been writing and speaking for public events and when public events ceased, so did his work. He was faced with a catastrophic event, yet came out of it seeing an opportunity to perform differently, still loving what he was doing.

"When something really profound happens, it doesn't come from you, it comes through you," Geoff says, acknowledging this is a common sense within artists, writers and creative sorts. He talks about the theme of the book and the epicenter of activity, New York City, and how it affected the main character to the point where he jumps from a building. You'll have to read the book for the 'rest of the story.'

Geoff acknowledges that at first his action were completely ego-based in not wanting to work for someone else and being able to leap into that opportunity. Even though it was ego-based initially, he found that the process changed his perspective completely and the element of service returned in a way that gave him fulfillment and joy in ways he certainly didn't expect at first. He recognized the impetus to push him into a greater aspect of himself, he just knew this book was something he had to do.

We take a jaunt into a chat about consciousness, quantum physics, and the growth of our humanity offering possibilities for a new living awareness to enter our experience as a whole. Geoff relates his takeaway on 2020 as so many profound consciousness shifts forward that happened on a micro and macro level. He says if you were paying attention you could see it, otherwise it just seemed like everything was going to hell.

Geoff speaks to the saving grace of a cohort in England who began Zoom meetings just a way for people to stay in touch with each other, even though they were stuck in quarantine. He talked about the comradery that developed with people from all over the world. He reveals that many of those people became characters in his book and that they had as much to do with the writing as he did, just by their relationships.

There's more tasty tidbits hidden in the conversation that only by watching it will you receive the benefits of the wit and wisdom Geoff and Zen share through their apocalyptic chat. It will be worth your investment of time for sure.

Connect with Geoff on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffwoliner/

Winning Wit: https://winningwit.com

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One World in a New World with Dr. Pat Boulogne - Author, Health Coach & Strategist Jan 28, 2022

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Dr. Boulogne's younger years, growing up in a neighborhood of mainly boys, put her in a more explorative environment as curiosity about Nature led her into places girls weren't necessarily going. She relates that growing up that neighbors just didn't lock their doors. It's much different today and kids don't often have the opportunity to explore Nature.

She relates her process of being introduced to Oriental Medicine and that during her early years she had been working toward PreMed and had all the credits necessary. It occurred to her that the hospital wasn't really a place for people to get healthy, especially when life's activities were much healthier activities.

We corroborate that the focus of our attention, intention and interactions are primary functional disciplines that lead to changing lifestyles from the gloomy to the glorious, even for the terminally ill. Pat offers that even watching 'happy' movies and shows are effective in changing the body's chemistry which was also mentioned by Dr. Melissa Hughes in a previous interview.

Dr. Boulogne talks about a time when her office location had a tree for hugging, just outside her door. She'd recommend giving it a hug, which sometimes caused a bit of reticence in her patience due to the 'odd' behavior and its perception by others, "What if someone is watching?" Her response, "Who cares?" So what. Live joyously. It's your health.

Our conversation moves to the inner and outer 'talk' going on with most people. Dr. Pat shares that is is just 'talk' and that the true power in oneself is realizing we are in charge of our thoughts. She shares in such cases of realization, it's like a rocket ship for better life experiences when one realizes they are in charge of their thinking.

Check in to her comments about having superpowers. What is/are yours?

Pat mentions she operates on a kind of Einstein's time theory where she has her list of things that need to be done and the time allotted for accomplishing them. She states that turning her attention, intention and interaction toward achieving those 'goals' for the day more often than not allows her to complete the tasks and have time left over. Imagine if you were able to craft your day with such precision and then allow the process of focus to create the flow of completion.

Pat's sharing of her understanding and wisdom about the mammalian brain activity parallels my conversation with Dr. Hughes as well. We further discuss the trends of moving out of last centuries constrictive notions of command and control environments toward a more aware and open framework that can adapt and change through our mind flow.

You've just got to listen to the rest of the discussion as it holds wonderful insights and revelations as to how we can alter our living awareness to include a much larger dynamic of life and is accompanied by the ability and capability for change. After all, we're in a tight spot globally right now.

Wouldn't it be great to explore new possibilities with curiosity, questions and trips down the rabbit holes to discover and share opportunities to achieve great things for ourselves and humanity?

Connect with Dr. Pat on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drpatboulogne/

Dr. Pat's website: https://healthteamnetwork.com/

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One World in a New World with Melissa Hughes, Ph.D. - Neuroscience Geek Jan 21, 2022

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It doesn't matter whether you really care about what's going on between your ears the way Dr. Melissa Hughes does. You will enjoy how she brings much needed discussion to light - how the brain works and what we can do with that knowledge.

As a fourth grade teacher, she came to the with the question, "How can I be the best teacher I can be if I don't understand how the brains work, or how the brain quirks?" You'll enjoy the details she offers as to how and what we've learned about the brain.

She shares that the boon in brain research started in the 1990s under the Bush administration, which sought to organize technology toward exploring the topic. Melissa relates her trying times as a teacher in Ohio and the effect of emotional contagions and stress hormones from teachers to students regarding the new high-stake tests that had been introduced.

The learning she found as a teacher and applying in the classroom was not just for the classroom, it actually helps throughout life. She relates how the 'happy chemicals' triggers the higher thinking functions of the brain and shares more definitive details about the chemistry and functions. Have you ever had a 'What was I thinking," moments? Melissa offers some insights in observing our interactions for self-growth.

What all is happening outside of our awareness? How do we find out? We move into noting various pieces of awareness, such as confirmation bias, that affect interactions on personal and professional levels all the time. Intellectual humility comes over time by seeking out other opinions and perceptions that are in direct opposition to our belief systems.

What do you do to engage intellectual humility? Do you know how? Melissa offers some possibilities as to how one might engage the process, though she notes it takes a lot of discipline to do so. Her research into creating 'atmosphere' and 'experience' in restaurants found much detail of other perceptions we have in the moment that we aren't conscious of in the moment.

How do you or we use the invitation to experience more? Melissa starts with attention and intention (perhaps interactions, too). Do we really pay attention to everything we are feeling or sensing in the moment that affects how we engage each other and our situational experience.

How do we see the world? Is it through just our own experience or do we consider what has shaped another's point of view? Melissa mentions that we must learn this behavior, that we aren't necessarily given the natural skill. We have to develop the self-awareness over time and through disciplined effort.

How have we dealt with the opportunity for self-reflection during 2020 and moving forward? What are your hopes? What have you learned about yourself? Melissa's questions of how things have been affected by this period offers multiple perspectives to consider further.

How do we build psychological safety and emotional intelligence in the hybrid world? Melissa shares some details from current research and considerations that you'll find intriguing, if not useful. Further in there are some suggestions for putting this awareness of how we affect our own consciousness and others similarly into practical use. She offers a challenge for testing it.

Melissa says we need more human connection; those moments of happy thoughts that occur when people interact in healthy ways, like sharing a smile. She shares three techniques to find balance and 'happy thoughts' in the moment. They are all things that affect the brain/body connection. If you can breath, you can put them into action.

"Pay attention to what you are paying attention to," was Melissa's parting gift.

One World in a New World with Tom Paladino - Scalar Energy Researcher Jan 14, 2022

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Please do subscribe and share this series. The feedback has been stellar from our guests and you'll enjoy the individual journeys we take to share a collective mind flow toward a new living awareness. Our conversations dive into uncharted territory with curiosity and questions. We 'uncover' some very interesting and salient points of order.

Tom Paladino has over 25 years of research and study of scalar energy; a new way of looking at consciousness. We begin with a brief clarification of what scalar energy is, which Tom states is simply 'consciousness.' He shares that discovering Tesla's work early in life inspired and intrigued him to pursue further study of scalar energy. A reference of conversations with 'people from elsewhere,' edifies what Tom has found, too.

When we speak of 'energy,' perhaps we've been sequestering its capacity for understanding because we've been looking at 'it' through only electromagnetic lenses. Tom relates there are two kinds of energy; electromagnetic and scalar. He feels the mind and heart are both scalar energy driven, from the sense of their connection to our reality; that feeling and thinking are scalar activities. How does that work from his perspective?

Tom brings the questions of how thought is scalar, it's non-physical, and that our days are a result of how we 'project' our waking 'mood' into the day. The discussion moves to suggestions as to how to make oneself aware of the 'stinking thinking' and being able to shift on the fly. He demonstrates examples through his own realizations and the discipline necessary to simply be aware of our thinking.

Looking for the positive directions or opportunities is always a choice. Tom says just being realistic about moving throughout the day is just being your best in the moment. Whether prayer, meditation or just intention, just doing the best we can in the present moment is what shifts our reality to experiencing a better life personally and quite likely for those around us, too. What kind of examples will Tom share? Zen reflects a varied of similar views from different perspectives, too.

So what can the individual do to promote their well-being? If it begins with 'consciousness' then managing life with simple daily goals moves the needle one day at a time. Tom offers that daily goal setting, even simple ones, changes our reality toward living a happier and more joy filled life. He makes a distinction between have a goal of being successful and having a purpose in life. He recommends giving attention, intention and interaction toward the latter.

There is a psychological set point. Once you develop that path, that you are the captain of your ship, people take that seriously. Human proclivities often include self-deprecation instead of self-empowerment. Recognizing and changing those patterns, the internal dialogue, is key in reorganizing one's life toward finding purpose. He believes if we all (each of the 7.9 billion) would just do one kind act a day, make one improvement on self a day, it's possible to experience paradise on earth.

Watch the entire episode for more insights and suggestions for learning to live in a new awareness and assisting our relatives to do the same. If you experience undesirable others, just do your best to uplift them is Tom's advice. He mentions prayer as a tool for self and others, too. If we consider that within the realms of consciousness, there is a call and response aspect that just might be correlated by advancing our understanding of quantum entanglement.

He, like many, suggests we look for what brings us together and not what divides us. Our efforts to do so engages consciousness, scalar energy, to bring us all up. We all share this in common, regardless of our background, diversity or religion. It's a quantum relationship, according to Tom, that will soon unite us with understanding. That understanding of how to work together better touches the essenc

One World in a New World with Dennis Reina, Ph.D. - Author, Leadership Consultant Jan 07, 2022

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It's been over a decade since Dennis and I first met in Crystal City, VA. at an American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) international leadership conference. Now the Association for Talent Development, the event was full of instructional developers and chief learning officers. His work and business has grown substantially since then.

Dennis Reina, Ph.D. and his life and business partner, Michelle Reina, Ph.D. are the founders of Reina Trust Building®, a global consulting, assessment, coaching and development firm that has worked with leaders and teams in more than 250 organizations worldwide, and on every continent.

Reina helps organizations build and rebuild trust and exceed business goals through the power of human connection, no matter the company size, structure, location or market challenges.

Trust Building makes these organizations measurably more energetic, adaptive and capable. Our conversation covers his early explorations of taking advantage of traveling companions and finding his first job. It was a very interesting an unique one. He shares some about a Near-Death Experience he had early in life, too. We jump around from one spot to another and eventually land in a discussion about trust.

Dennis gets a bit caught up in books and models in an effort to explain what he's found leads to being able to discuss and initiate organizational culture trust. Why is it so important and how do you build or re-build trust within an organization?

Dennis is a cancer survivor as well, and we speak about the process of getting through the tough patches and grow into a future with less trepidation. We discuss more about questions, developing processes and building trust with self and others.

Like a true presenter, he pulls out a prop to help illustrate the various factors involved in trust. Bringing in the sense of trust and how it feels, with a little sidetrack, I was searching for a deeper explanation on how the trust in interpreted by the body. How would a leader learn how to tune into the gut, the intuition, of how the trust level is discerned.

Dennis shares some methods of inquiry to flush out details using the framework he and his wife have developed over the years. Character, Capability and Communication all affect trust. How do we work through questions that need to be asked in order to move the playing field to the next level and invite players to participate in a more authentic and honest fashion?

One World in a New World with Kosta Makreas - Founder, The People's Disclosure Movement Dec 31, 2021

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And now for something completely different. We've been diving deep into the lives of those in the trenches in business, organizational development and systems transformation in a variety of ways. Kosta Makreas brings a new dimension to the conversations, perhaps in some ways apocalyptic to our audience, from having a professional career in software engineering to interacting with Star People.

As two Hoosiers reuniting, we launch into some familiar territory for us. Both of us have been active in Ufology for decades, though Kosta has taken a front seat, so to speak, with his efforts to build, organize and support a vast network of folks who want to make contact with Star People, which is their preferred nomenclature according to Kosta.

What may seem odd or peculiar or even scary to some has been lifelong experiences for others. Kosta shares how his interest began as a youth and the challenges he faced growing up in a period when it wasn't too popular to talk about engaging aliens, let alone calling them Star People. His shares a synchronistic experience his wife had while he was away on a CE-5 week-long campout.

If you haven't heard the term, CE-5 refers to human initiated contact with Star People. Kosta's work began with Steven Greer and quickly evolved to developing contact groups around the world on his own. Our chat moves into discussing the People's Disclosure Movement, taking the notion of disclosure and putting it in the hands of the people instead of governments that have not been able to announce their knowledge.

Research and study is always necessary, and Kosta mentions a study that includes over 4,000 accounts from around the world. It was performed by an organization called FREE, under the title of Beyond UFOs - The Science of Consciousness and Contact with Non Human Intelligence. We discuss Kosta's work with ET Let's Talk (https:etletstalk.com) and the numbers of people involved. You might be surprise, though perhaps not.

If your curiosity is sparked, you'll enjoy the conversation for sure. We only scratch the surface of the work and how it affects those involved. For decades it wasn't popular to speak up or out about this topic and now folks seem to be flocking toward their own discovery and engagement.

Connect with Kosta on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gusmakreas/

Kosta's website: https://etletstalk.com

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Wilbert Smith's memoirs: https://bit.ly/2YoqTT3

UfologyPRSS website (curated): http://ufologyprss.com

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