E11: Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder

Bill Browder thought investing in Russian companies was a simple, straightforward way to make a lot of money–and it was. It also turned out to be a great way to make some powerful enemies.

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This an autobiography about hedge fund founder, Bill Browder, and what he went through in the late 90s early 00’s, when he decided to invest in Russia’s transition from communism to capitalism. Basically, in his early 20s, he was doing financial consulting when he went to work for this company called BCG Capital run by a crotchety man named Robert Maxwell. He doesn’t mention this in his book, but guess who is related to Robert Maxwell? None other than Ghislaine Maxwell. To hear about who Robert Maxwell was as a boss, you start to feel less surprised about what a bad egg his daughter turned out to be. He would fire people left and right like he was Donald Trump on meth – he would yell so ferociously at people that he once caused a dude to have a heart attack. 

Browder, the author, knew about Maxwell’s reputation before he went to work there, but he saw a lot of potential in investing in Eastern Europe as they increasingly privatized, that he went to work for him anyway. But just within a few months of starting his new job, Robert Maxwell, 68, was found dead at sea. To this day, it’s unclear whether it was murder, suicide, or murder – it was probably murder.

Almost as soon as Maxwell dies, shit goes seriously south at the company. Browder’s boss calls him in and tells him that they’re paying out bonuses early this year, and he hands Browder a check for 50K pounds – this is the largest sum of money Browder had ever received so he was stoked. Strangely, the check was written out by hand instead of printed – that’s fishy, but Browder goes straight to the bank. But the bank teller comes back, looking a little sheepish, and says, sorry but the funds are not available for this check. Now BCG should be a multibillion pound company – so how in the world is his 50K check bouncing. 

To make a long story short, Robert Maxwell had pulled 460 million pounds from the company’s pension fund to prop up the share price, and so overnight, 32 thousand pensioners lost their pension. Tons of people at the company get fired, but Browder doesn’t because he is in charge of all these Eastern European investments that the company doesn’t know what to do with. He thinks this is a good thing and that it will buy him time to find his next job, but the fact that he has working for Maxwell on his resume makes him complete kryptonite – no one will hire him.

So he ends up taking a demotion at Salomon Brothers, and there he ends up running investments in Russia – because no one wants to work with them. So Browder, when he goes to his first consulting opportunity with some fishing / boating company, figures out that, as Russia was attempting to transition from communism to capitalism, and they were essentially selling significant assets for pennies.

He’s so excited about this, and runs back to the company to tell as many people as he could that they were essentially giving money away for free in Russia. The first dude he asks says,
“What are the advisory fees?” Now, with the kind of profit that stands to be made, this question couldn’t be less important. The next guy was like, “what are the spreads and trading volumes?” Again, the most unimportant detail to focus on. Surely these men were clever people – so this goes to show how caught up in details even smart people can become – and they totally miss the forest for the trees. He continues to harp on Russia for weeks, no one pays attention, people start to think he’s crazy – he stops getting invited to lunch. He’s the office pariah. Pretty soon, his year at Salomon is about up, and he’s only made 50K for the company when he gets a call from this executive at the company who’s interested in hearing his Russia presentation. So he goes and gives the presentation, and he’s not even done with it before the exec is like, “holy shit, here’s 25 million, go to Russia and make us some money.”

And he does, to make a long story short. He makes 100 million almost overnight, and now all the same people who had stopped inviting him to lunch are crowding around his desk. He’s a huge success, and he’s meeting with major investors like Sir John Templeton, and whoever Michael Douglas played in Wall Street. 

So he’s made his company so much money, but he sits in this meeting where a bunch of people try to take credit for the Russia business, and he just realizes that he wants out of working for other people altogether. So he quits Solomon and starts to meet with people asking for startup capital.

Here’s a crazy, and pretty infuriating, story. He meets with this dude from an English Bank called Flemings, discusses his business plan, and says that he’ll give 50% of his business to the investor for 25 million. The investor says, “well, who will get the other 50%?” Browder says, “I will.” Here is the investor’s response:

“But if the Russian market goes up as much as you say, you would make millions.”

“Yes, that’s the point – and so would you.”

“I’m terribly sorry Mr. Browder. That type of arrangement definitely wouldn’t fly around here.”

Stunning. What. A. Dick.

So after running around a bit, he was able to get money from this rich guy named Edmond Safra. Strangely, Safra normally only did deals with people he’d known for years, so this was a nice compliment. He then moved to Moscow and married his gf so she’d come with him. But she gets pregnant and decides she needs to stay in London – so he goes to Moscow alone.

So, while he’s in Moscow, he finds out that a lot of companies – maybe even the majority – are selling preferred vs ordinary shares; and the preferred shares are essentially selling at a 95% discount. Why? Who the heck knows?! As nearly as he can tell, it’s because no one is asking why. He doesn’t say this in the book, but I got the impression that this system of selling shares was sort of newly being set up because they were just getting back into capitalism after years of communism, and people are so used to communism sucking the life and resources out of them, that they don’t even know a good deal when they see it. Browder, sees it for the good deal it is, and he gets his business partners to send money to invest right away.

Meanwhile, he hires a few people to his company – finding good people was also a huge challenge due to communism. One of the people is this hot secretary named Svetlana. I think we all know where that’s heading. But he ends up marrying Sabrina, his pregnant gf a few weeks later. Meanwhile, he’s making money hand over fist buying shares in all of these companies.

One day, one of his contacts tells him that a Russian Oligarch named Vladimir Potanin is interested in selling him 4% of his oil company, Sidanco. Browder does his research, and realizes that this deal is just stunning, so he buys 1.2% for a steal. He makes money, Potanin makes money, drinks all around. A few weeks or months later, he’s on vacation in South Africa, when a colleague of his gives him a call to tell him that apparently, Potanin is now selling shares for much less, and he’s not allowing Browder and his buds to partake of this deal. It’s basically screwing him and his clients out of tons of money, but even stranger, Potanin seems to be screwing himself out of tons of money.

And, shockingly, that is exactly what he is doing. Here is the conversation that Browder has with a representative from Potanin’s company:

Browder: If this dilution goes forward, it’s going to cost me and my investors … $87 million.

Leonid: Yes, we know. That’s the intention, Bill.

Browder: You’re deliberately trying to screw us?

Leonid: Yes.

Browder just can’t believe it. Leonid is just walking away and Browder has no fucking recourse, so Browder just yells at him, “If you do this, I’m going to be forced to go to war with you.” This is a ridiculous statement. He’s an American, and he’s threatening a Russian Oligarch on his home turf, but Browder’s been pretty much backed into a corner.

Browder starts by basically telling all of Potanin’s business partners about what Potanin is capable of doing; They all bitch back to Potanin, which just basically pisses him off. The next thing he does is talk to a reporter. Now this is really not done in Russia. Browder’s totally asking to be murdered. The story goes global – all of the financial reports are talking about it. It’s making Potanin look very bad. But it’s also putting a target on Browder’s back. He starts traveling around with 15 guards, literally. 

He then meets with the chairman of the Russian Federal Securities and Exchange Commission. And he actually takes on the case, and shuts the entire thing down. So basically, Bill wins the fight. He also goes on to make insane amounts of money, and he’s only 33 years old.

But then, things go really south with his investment firm — Russia basically defaults, and his firm loses 90% of its wealth; and his wife also tells him she wants a divorce. So he’s now at a place pretty close to rock bottom. But then he gets a call and finds out that his business partner, Edmund Safra, was dead at 67 – he’d died in a house fire which was purposely caused, so he was basically murdered.

Anyway, so back in Moscow, Browder is trying to make back all the money he’s lost his clients, but he’s finding that the Russian Oligarchs are engaging in all sorts of nefarious and illegal practices to essentially steal anything they can from shareholders. Browder wants to combat this, so he gives a presentation one morning to the American Chamber of Commerce in Moscow about all of the strategies the oligarchs are using to steal. He’s apparently the only one stupid or brave enough to speak out against the oligarchs.

He meets this woman there and she just has this amazing quality to him, he’s totally in to her right away – her name is Elena. But she’s like the woman every man in Russia wants to date. He tells a friend of his that he went on a date with Elena Molokova, and his friend is like, THE Elena Molokova?! She’s really hard to get; she seems aloof during many of their dates…I don’t get it – I’ve played aloof trying to get hot guys and it totally doesn’t work… Anyway, he finally convinces her to give him a shot, and they fall in love blah blah blah; 

Well, this is the shot in the arm he needs to fight the Russians. Now it’s still totally true that the Russians will murder anyone who gets in their way with impunity. So this guy has balls the size of Canada – and a brain the size of a hockey puck. 

So Browder and his partner, Vadim, start researching into this oil company Gazprom. They believe that the management of Gazprom has stolen exorbitant wealth from the company, but they can’t prove it. Everything they know is hearsay, so that’s that. 

Here’s how they prove it – this defies all belief, btw – one day, this street kid is hocking wares to Vadim while he’s stuck in traffic, selling things like newspapers, pirated CDs. This kid tells Vadim that he’s selling, wait for it, databases. So he has all these CD-ROMs with tax records, info about pension funds…really?!? So at this street corner you can buy newspapers, gum, maybe a bottle of water; or, for the same money, you can buy all of the Records of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce — this is what they call a Tuesday in post-communist Russia.

When they looked into these records, they saw that Gazprom management had basically sold major company assets for pennies to relatives, essentially. But, interestingly, 90% of Gazprom’s assets remain in Gazprom – something other investors are not aware of. Browder says, and I quote:

What should an investor do in a situation like this? I’ll tell you what: you buy the shit out of that stock.

But Browder also shared the story of Gazprom’s corruption with 6 different major media outlets – this became world news. So then Gazprom got the Russian commerce watchdogs to say that there was nothing wrong with what they did. They also got Price Waterhouse to say the same thing – that Gazprom had done nothing wrong. And that’s where Browder thought the entire situation was going to be left – the bad guys won. But enter newly elected President Vladimir Putin. He steps in and basically bitch slaps the Gazprom oligarchs. Overnight, this leads to the Gazprom stock skyrocketing, and Browder’s fund makes money hand over fist. 

Browder then dives into the next corrupt company and exposes them – all the while with Putin ensuring that these companies don’t get away with it. So, how is Browder not being murdered again and again? Well, it turns out, what he’s doing is so insane and brazen, that people literally think that he’s got some serious muscle behind him – like he must be backed by some big and scary organization, when in reality, he’s a slightly less intimidating version of a My Little Pony.

Anyway, Browder is enjoying making a lot of money and also turning around a lot of the corruption in Russia when one day, Putin shows his true colors – mauve. JK, but basically Putin starts to persecute the oligarchs with jail time in what turns out to be a successful effort to put them all into his pocket. Suddenly, the work Browder is doing to expose corruption actually works against Putin’s best interest; so in 2005, Browder is expelled from Russia.

So after some back and forth – he finally finds out that he’s been banned from Russia due to being a threat to Russian security. This is obviously ridiculous, but it comes from the highest level in Russia, so there doesn’t seem to be anything he can do. 

The cool thing is that he’s actually able to sell all of his assets secretly with another banker in Russia, so he is able to save his client’s money before Putin gets his hands on it, but his business dealings in Russia are over and he starts losing all of his clients. This is when he starts to do business in other emerging countries – looking for the same kinds of sweet deals he was able to find in Russia – and this actually goes well. So here is where the story should have ended, but the Russians, and by Russians I think I mean Putin, have it in for Browder. They start raiding his offices with accusations that are based on lies; and they’re even going public – making it seem like Browder was engaged in all this illegal shit. Worse, there doesn’t seem to be anything he can do about it.

But he and his company have one small Ace in the hole. There is an inside in the Russian government, who goes by the alias Aslan, who wants to take down the corrupt ones in the government, so he will feed them what information he can.

There’s a lot of back and forth detail here that I’m skipping, but ultimately, Bill is being accused of tax evasion. The weird thing is that they basically raided all of Hermitage fund’s offices, and I think pretended that they found some documents showing that Hermitage had stolen some company worth millions – ultimately, they created over a billion dollars worth of companies which they claimed that Hermitage had stolen – all completely fabricated. But they can’t figure out what the motive is for generating this story; then, they finally figure it out – Hermitage paid 230 million in taxes the year they were reported to have stolen these companies. The Russian baddies look to be attempting to retrieve the 230 million in taxes back into their pockets.

Browder and his pals are actually able to show that certain banks received taxes back from the Russian government in the amt of 230 million dollars – all due to this fraudulent claim of stolen companies. They put together all the evidence and share it with the press, but instead of taking the bad guys down, the situation just gets worse. His lawyer, Eduard, has to leave Russia in the middle of the night to an undisclosed location with no idea when he’ll be able to return to his wife.

One of the Lawyers who worked with him, Sergey Magnitsky, didn’t leave Russia like the others because he knew he hadn’t done anything wrong. THe police came, raided his house, and arrested him. He told his wife and kids that he’d be back soon. This arrest began a months-long ordeal for Sergei. Basically, they wanted him to retract his original statement which incriminated the people who fraudulently claimed 230 million in tax money. While he was in prison, he basically lived with his own sewage, almost froze to death, wasn’t allowed to see his wife or mom, wasn’t allowed to speak to his 8 year old kid – still, he wouldn’t retract his statement.

But there was a small glimmer of hope – Sergei was able to help other inmates with legal advice, so he becomes very popular – kind of like the sleazeball lawyer in the documentary Crazy Love – where he went to prison for throwing acid on his ex-fiance’s face, but then became super popular in prison because he was able to help everyone with legal advice. But Sergei is a good guy helping folks. The Russian prison system is dedicated to torturing Sergei, and his health is starting to fail – he loses 40 pounds due to some sort of stomach issue. 

Then, one day, a 24 yo secretary recommends they do a YouTube video – this is 2009, so that was still an up and coming thing. He creates a video, but before releasing it, he wants Sergei to approve it. 

Meanwhile, the Russians are keeping up with their accusations of Browder and plan to issue an interpol Red Notice with their baseless claims. Browder puts together a press statement to attempt to get the real story out – but he’s going up against Goliath. But then he remembers the YouTube video – I’ve included this in the shownotes.

It did well, but it did not get Sergei out of prison in time, and he passed away — basically he was beaten to death — in November of 2009. Browder writes this in the book:

Sergei Magnitsky was killed for his ideals. He was killed because he believed in the law. He was killed because he loved his people, and because he loved Russia. He was 37 years old.

Everyone is devastated by Sergei’s death, and Browder can’t really function. Sergei died because he uncovered some serious corruption, and because he wouldn’t lie about it. Browder can think of only one thing, and that is to  get justice for Sergei – but how? He starts going to various government officials in DC, but is getting largely ignored. Then, he has this meeting with Kyle Parker. Browder doesn’t have much hope in this meeting, since Parker had left off Sergei’s imprisonment in a briefing which went to Obama just 4 months earlier. Well, Parker turns out to feel a lot of remorse for making this decision when he finds out that Sergei was killed in prison. He read Browder’s words about Sergei when he was on the train, and just cried. He felt very responsible for what happened to Sergei, so Parker is on a mission to try to right the wrong as best as he can. 

The goal at this point is to essentially punish the many people who were responsible for what happened to Sergei by blocking them from entering the US and doing business in the US. There’s about 60 people on this list, and some of whom will be severely affected if this measure goes forward. The people at the top of this list are Kuznetsov and Karpov. They’re both just getting away with such bloody murder, its’ outrageous. Here’s where YouTube steps in to save the day. Browder and co make a video about these guys, and they go viral – everyone in Russia is seeing how these guys live like insane millionaires, yet make pretty meager salaries. It’s simply not possible unless they are engaged in some sort of criminal activity. So the Russian authorities act like there’s nothing to see here, but the Russian people definitely take notice.

There’s a lot of back and forth for Browder getting the Magnitsky Act passed. At one point Senator John Kerry basically stands in the way because he was, is and always will be a dick. JK, but this is a quote from the book:

The rumor in Washington was that John Kerry was blocking the bill for one simple reason: he wanted to be secretary of state after … Clinton … . According to the story making the rounds, one of the conditions for his getting the job was to make sure that the Magnitsky Act never saw the light of day… .

But Browder is finally able to get the Magnitsky Act passed, and it really pisses Russia off. Putin apparently then puts in a law that blocks Russian children from being adopted by American families. And a lot of these kids need medical care that they will now not be able to get – it’s pretty devious. 

Anyway, the saga continues – Browder talks about a man who was an informant to him about a corrupt Russian Oligarch get murdered on the streets in the UK, and Russia puts out an interpol Red Notice accusing Browder of murdering Magnitsky. He’s able to have the Notice blocked or revoked by Interpol, just with overwhelming evidence of his innocence; but frankly, if I were this guy, I might always feel like I had a bit of a target on my back. And Browder even says that part of the reason he wrote the book was to get the story out there as an additional measure of protection.

That’s it for this time – see you soon!

E10: Notes from the Cosmos by Gordon Michael Scallion

I’m going to go fully off the rails into the land of Woo and we’re going to we’re going to discuss the book Notes from the Cosmos by Gordon Michael Scallion.

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He also had a magazine called the Earth Changes Report that he would write with his wife sometime in the 90s. If you Google Gordon Michael Scallion, btw, you get significantly different results than if you use Duck Duck Go. One of the things that Scallion is probably most well known for is this future map of the world. I have it linked in the shownotes. 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2017/06/10/the-shocking-doomsday-maps-of-the-world-and-the-billionaire-escape-plans/?sh=6669e60d4047

So Gordon Michael Scallion was basically a normal guy it sounds like. He grew up he was really interested in electronics he was actually kind of naturally good at it and he even kind of wonders if this was maybe sort of the beginnings of his connection to the netherrealm maybe the alternate dimensions but he was really good with electronics he did a lot of electronics consulting and he was pretty Successful.

Suffered from pretty bad asthma – missed lots of school. This will be relevant later.

In the mid-70s when he was in his early 30s he and a couple buddies decided to go down to Mexico and this is where he really started having strange inexplicable experiences. 

Starting with a bloody bull fight, and sensation that he’s seen it all before.

Then, he goes to Pyramids of Teotihuacan – transported to the same place but a different time -he could see buildings which were no longer there and a bunch of other details which just didn’t make sense to him because, frankly, it didn’t make sense, period.

But he was so steeped in his normal, every day run of the mill life and thinking, that he literally just wrote this vision off to the altitude he was at and the thin-ness of the air. And I’m sure there was a part of him which was afraid that he might just be flat out losing it.

The very next day the same thing happened to him again he and his friends went to an old dormant volcano and as they were ascending to see the top of the volcano he was transported again to a Time who knows when when the volcano is literally erupting so he could see rocks and lava all around him just exploding.

So this was his trip to Mexico and this is his introduction to What was in store for him.

But he and his friends returned from Mexico and for the next few years absolutely nothing happened so this was just a glitch in The Matrix. He moved to Florida, his asthma lessened quite a bit. He was living on a houseboat, making good money, and had a dog. He was basically as happy as a clam. 

Then, when he was in his late thirties in 1979, shit started gettin real. And by real, I mean the opposite of.

One day he was talking to a client and all of a sudden all of a sudden he just lost his voice he couldn’t speak and the client was kind of uncomfortable and basically walked away so he went to the doctor and course he couldn’t explain what’s going on but the doctor really couldn’t figure out anything obvious and admitted to the hospital for overnight testing and so he lay there still unable to speak and he was watching late-night TV when he started to notice this glow coming from the door and he just thought they had testing equipment out there and that’s where the glow is coming from but then the glow started coming towards him towards his bed and then pretty soon the whole time he’s a sort of explaining it away, but at some point the glow is literally the figure of an elderly woman hovering two feet above his knees and here’s the part where he starts to get him comfortable so he’s thinking to himself I need help and he’s wanted to call the nurse and trying to rationalize what in the world is going on without sort of admitting to himself maybe I’m crazy come to the conclusion because he has these IVs sticking out his arms and comes to the conclusion that they’ve given him some sort of drug that is causing hallucinations and now us a sufficient explanation in his head to get him to relax so he just he’s like oh wow this is just by the way they admit you overnight I just don’t see them giving you drugs that would cause that there aren’t really that many drugs outside of flat-out hallucinogens sort of reaction I don’t think at least I’ve never had that

So after he relaxes into what he thinks is just a drug-induced hallucination he’s able to start to actually hear what this elderly ghost is saying to him as she hovers about him while he’s in his bed and she basically says hey get out pencil and paper and start writing this s*** down cuz I I’m going to drop some knowledge and she starts telling him things about as of one of these starting in the late 80s she says this is by the way again or reminder 1979 starting in the late 80s they’re going to start being an increasing amount of sort of events like hurricanes or earthquakes volcanoes Etc. I don’t know if there’s that many other events outside of that yeah so she tells him some predictions stuff that’s going to happen in the next as she says lunar cycle and as well as stuff that’s going to happen years from now so he’s writing all this down thinking hahaha this is an interesting hallucination but you know since he’s writing it down probably there’s a part of him that is starting to kind of get that this is not a hallucination but anyway any racing all down and then when she’s done. 

Another sort of pyrotechnic and her turn Prismatic and seep into every part of the of the rooms is just amazing and then and then it’s over and he starts hearing Ed McMahon on The Tonight Show again introducing Johnny Carson so he just goes to sleep 

The next morning the nurse comes in like a how are you doing I’m doing good and of course this means his voice is comeback and the. So he gets released from the hospital they have no diagnosis of what caused his vocal constriction by the doctor kind of suggest or hints that maybe he’s having like a bit of a mental problem; and, based on the previous night’s events, he sort of thinks that might be true; but he asked the doctor who were those crazy drugs that you gave me and the doctor said it was just a glucose solution so basically just some sugar water to make sure you don’t dehydrate or starve so hardly anything that would cause an elderly female ghost to hover over your bed and recite predictions of catastrophic world events.

He talks to one of his friends who was actually a psychiatrist about everything that had happened to him and he even shared some of the predictions you got with him. A couple days later, the friend says have you seen the news. Scallion’s like “no, why?” and you guessed it, the predictions she had him write down had come true. at the time he didn’t give a s***. He just wanted this all to go away, so he completely ignored it. He doesn’t give any details about what the predictions were.

He thought that if he moved from Florida back to Connecticut that maybe the visions would just go away so he moved to Connecticut; but that didn’t work. In fact, he was starting to undergo these weird body changes. So he used to have Big Macs everyday for lunch and it was relatively young so just didn’t actually cause too much of a problem for him but when you return from Florida and he tried to eat a Big Mac he literally had a 24-hour bug.

Scallion, despite trying to run from these experiences, continues to have them. There’s an incident where he’s in a crowded grocery store, and he is just suddenly enveloped by a vision of some far off distant place. When he comes to, all these people are pushing past him irritatedly. 

He also notices that when he meets up with people, he can see visions to their left or right. He starts to realize that these visions are possible future scenarios of these folks.

He’s still uncertain about what it all means, or what to do with this weird information, but meanwhile, he’s not doing so well professionally, and his finances are dwindling. 

He decides to take a meditation class to learn more about what’s happening with him. 

He’s the only one who shows up to the class – everyone’s worst fear. The instructor tells him that  he has the look of one with prophecy. So they start the meditation, and he blacks out. After an hour, he comes to having no idea what just happened. He’s heading out the door when the instructor gives him a tape. So she had recorded the entire thing. He doesn’t want the tape, but she insists.

After a while, he finally decides to listen to the tape – it’s him, but not him speaking, and he’s basically describing what happened to him while he was in the hospital, as well as what is going to happen to him during his lifetime. 

He opens a learning center for spiritual stuff. A lot of interesting things happen at that learning center. At one point, two men show up asking for him specifically to help them with healing. He has no idea what to do, but they insist he is the right man for the job. One of the men is suffering from some liver toxicity, and he’s dying. The other man is actually a physician, but he cannot help him. When the 3 men sit down, Scallion is just kind of sitting there like, I don’t know what you want from me. Then, the doctor puts Scallion’s hand on the patient’s arm or something. Almost immediately, Scallion starts relaying what to do. He gives them instructions about how to create a poultice out of various herbs and where to put it how many times a day. They go on their merry way, and years later they write him a thank you letter from Europe where they are living happily ever after.

He goes into a trance state and channels a class on reincarnation.

He receives a message that he should fly to LA, and after driving around aimlessly, he pulls into a place (just randomly) called the Aquarian center, where he meets this man named Torkum Saraydarian — an author on Amazon.

Torkum tells him he’ll see him in Sedona in a year. That’s it. That’s the purpose of his flight to LA.

A Year later, Torkum happens to be the dude who ends up marrying him and his now wife, Cynthia. Now was that worth a trip to LA? Of course, this reminds me of Eckhart Tolle who also had to travel to California in order to write his first book. Maybe Scallion needed to be in CA for energy stabilizing reasons. 

So remember at the beginning of the podcast when I mentioned that Scallion had really bad asthma? Well, this will be relevant for this next story. Scallion talks about counseling people, and looking into their past lives, but he’d never actually looked into his own history.

One afternoon, he’s dozing off for a cat nap, and he’s whisked away to a completely different land. He’s at something which looks like a man-made harbor. There’s a long channel which is bordered by these large, megalithic stones, which the ships, of which there are many, dock against. Scallion mentions in passing that the ships do not seem to have motors or sails…this is an interesting theme which comes up frequently in research about ancient societies on Earth where the ships and flying vessels don’t have motors or any seeming strategy for moving or staying in air…

Back to the story. Scallion, in the dream, floats over to one particular boat, it’s about 100 ft long, and as he looks closer, he can see that a chamber on the ship has been opened, and people are coming out. When he looks closer, he can see that these people are half human, but also half animal. Several of them have tails and some are covered with fur or scales–it’s like a door has been opened up to the land of Narnia, and all of these creatures are coming out. They look terrified. The men on the ship are escorting them out of the ship to apparently be chained to metal poles which are set up on the harbor. 

The people are packed in like sardines, and Scallion says that the odor is atrocious. But it gets worse. When all of the people have been escorted out, he looks into the back of the room, and he can see several creatures which are lying on the ground, their eyes and mouths wide open in an expression of panic. They are all dead from suffocation.

Then, Scallion wakes up. So this is really horrible, but what does it have to do with Scallion? This is when his guide speaks up and says:

Your inner World Journey has taken you back to a Time Some 18,000 years ago to a place where you once dwelled. In this land, you were captain of The Vessel star Maiden out of the port city of Alta Nuune in the greater land known then as Atlantis. You were a highly successful Trader in what was then known as servant class mixtures. These were beings containing both human and animal qualities … Some creatures contained vestiges of the plant kingdoms as well. For at that time creatures such as these were still on the Earth a result of genetic experimentation with nature.

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These beings … were looked upon as beasts of burden. …  Your name then was Bu-Te-Nam. You were the captain of the ship you saw.

In your dream you were witnessing an actual past life event …

 From this life as Bu-Te-Nam, you lost in Soul growth … which lasts to this day. To you and to most people at that time, these beings of God we’re less than cattle. To increase your profits you packed as many of them into the hold of your ship as you could fit. Through your actions over the years many hundreds lost their lives through Suffocation. This brought to you the karma that directly impedes you in this life now and has affected your health adversely since birth.

I’m going to stop there, but there is so much more in this book to explore. I would say I only covered about a quarter of it. But I do want to point one major flaw out…if you can even call it a flaw. The Book came out in 1997, and Scallion decided to include a series of predictions for 1998 through 2012, and, spoiler alert, I’m not sure if any of these came true.

One of the topics which Scallion brings up is the importance of dreaming, and how we receive important messages in our sleep. Something which hit me particularly hard was when he said, “Or perhaps the message requires strong emotional impact–nightmare scenes that act as wake-up calls when we have been sleepwalking through our days, ignoring the signals and warning signs all around us.”

This statement made me think about how recently, when I’ve decided to drink some beer the previous day, I’ll often have really chaotic and doom-like dreams. I’ve thought that those dreams were a direct result of my drinking (which could be viewed as a way of sleep-walking through life), and this was further confirmation of that theory.

E9 Conspiracies and Secret Societies by Brad Steiger

So this book is basically an index of various conspiracy theories. I love a good conspiracy theory, but I think that sometimes we think we see obvious evidence of conspiracy, when there are several other factors weighing in which we’re just not aware of. A good example of this is the pandemic. Some people will look at what has happened since quarantine and say that clearly this was a plan from some evil overlord group which was designed to exert global authoritarian rule. My thought is that there is no way that anyone planned this since so many variables were completely unpredictable. That said, I definitely think that there are some serious behind the scenes shenanigans going on now.

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In his intro, Steiger talks about a few things which our US government has done in our past; and these crimes were at the time considered conspiracy theories promoted only by quacks. One of the things which turned out to be true is that throughout the 40s through 60s, the FBI had orders to, quote, “defame, disgrace, and dispose of war protesters, radical political groups, and freedom marchers by any means necessary.” Does this sound familiar to anyone out there.

I don’t know what his resources are for the next two stories, but if they’re true, then the government truly behaves like a psychopath. Steiger claims that in the 50s, the Dept of Defense would just set off nuclear bombs in a remote desert, and then monitor the humans downwind for health issues or death. I’m not sure if anything came of this, but he also claims that in 1966, the US Army dropped bacteria into ventilation grates throughout the NYC subway system. Before you freak out (like I did), this was harmless bacteria. THe purpose of spraying New Yorkers with it was to see what they would do. So people were just walking along, and out of a vent came all this dust all over them. The people just brushed off and continued walking. What the hell did the Army expect!? Who would have had that happen to them and then immediately assume that they’ve just been attacked with biological warfare?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/04/22/army-report-details-germ-war-exercise-in-ny-subway-in-66/70772a8b-8223-47de-99b4-876d5e57dd9c/ (1980)

Some people got sick and died because of these harmless bacterial experiments.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/03/09/army-conducted-239-secret-open-air-germ-warfare-tests/b17e5ee7-3006-4152-acf3-0ad163e17a22/ (1977)

And just by way of further introduction, a lot of you have probably heard of Alex Jones. I’ve watched him a few times. He sometimes rants and says a bunch of things that make no sense. But the man has been right A LOT. Joe Rogan, on episode #1639 posted a meme about all the thing that Alex Jones has gotten right:

  1. TV Spying on you
  2. Elite cabal of sex traffickers
  3. They’re turning frogs gay (plastics and pesticides are doing weird shit)
    1. Bohemian grove
    2. Silver iodide
  4. Rich people using baby blood
  5. Human monkey embryo
  6. Interdimensional elves 

So, to me, there is something to be said for conspiracy theories. I think that the way Alex Jones reports some of them make them seem like they’re something other than what they are, but he’s not just spewing horse paste at people – there’s something to what he’s saying; and with that, I will start to share some of the conspiracies summarized in Steiger’s book.

Alchemy

Now this is a topic which requires way more than just the couple of pages Steiger dedicates in his book. Probably the first thing you think of when you hear Alchemy is the concept of transmuting base metal into gold. But alchemy was likely about much more than this. So back in medieval times, alchemists would call on angels to help with various tasks. They believed that Michael (archangel?) would turn metal into gold, but would also help to get rid of any anger you had coming at you from an enemy. Gabriel turned shit into silver, and told you the future, and then there was a whole group of angels who created gems to help protect the alchemist from negative entities. Sounds like modern gemology to me. 


Meanwhile, the clergy believed that the help that alchemists were receiving from these angels was demonic in nature and designed to seduce man into mundane pleasures … so alchemy is more than just turning base metal into gold, it’s also this practice of summoning and working with higher powers or entities. And there’s a question as to whether the outcome is good or evil. Steiger points out the belief that some secret societies have been created by alchemists, such as the Illuminati. The first knee jerk response is to then think that no good comes from alchemy; but then I remind myself that societies or groups of people in general tend to start off good, and then gradually morph into their baser parts.

I’ll research more into alchemy and dedicate an episode or 20 to this topic. I do like stories about Fulcanelli and Saint Germaine (same person?). 

Anthroposophy

I think I am an anthroposophist. This belief system was started by a man named Rudolph Steiner. When he was in his late 30s, he had this revelation of Christ showing up and letting him know that sometime in the 20th century, humanity would enter into the “fullness of time.” as nearly as I can tell, this meant that the Christ consciousness would become available to people, so that we could all live our lives like Christ – like perform miracles and shit. STeiner was born in 1861 in what is now Yugoslavia, and he had a significant background in math and science; but I guess his true passion transcended those disciplines – maybe because he claims to have had mystical experiences as a kid. He also says that he trained in the occult with someone he refers to only as the Master. 

Steiner also claimed to be able to read the Akashic Records. I’ve heard of these a lot before – many people now claim to be able to tap into these … I think they’re basically like a resource of all knowledge or something. It seems weird to call these the Akashic Records. Anyway, he said he was able to see into our past, and he saw the Atlanteans, and how they apparently interacted with a higher type of being; and these beings only talked to a select few of the Atlanteans – only the “smartest, the strongest, and the most intellectually flexible.” Basically these better people produced demi-gods … so the higher order beings got it on with the human ladies. This story sounds a lot like that of the Nephilim from the Bible, who were thought to have mated with humans, and were deemed by the church to be demons, basically. I think there was some question about whether they were the good guys or the bad guys, so just to play it safe, they were thrown out altogether, and categorized as all bad. 

Anyway, Steiner thinks that the descendents of the Nephilim are still roaming around waiting to be activated with the Christ Consciousness so they can, and I quote:

Initiate those members of humankind who have sufficiently developed their faculty of thought to allow them to unite with the divine. People so initiated will be able to receive Revelations and perform what others will consider Miracles, and will go on to become the mediators between humankind and the higher intelligences. 

Brad Steiger

So the Theosophists liked this way of thinking, and invited Steiner to join them, and he did; but after a while, he became uncomfortable with the fact that they didn’t really give a shit about the whole “Christ Consciousness,” part of the deal. They wanted to also be allowed to have orgies and hex people, I guess.

Quick aside – there’s a couple sections in the book dedicated to, well, basically the New World Order – there’s a couple other names for this group – but on one page it lists all of their goals for achieving world domination, and I have to say that they must have ticked a number of their goals off the list  in 2020 and 2021. So, it goes to show you that even megalomaniacal psychopaths can achieve their dreams.

Bohemian Grove

I can’t tell, by the way he writes this, if this is an established group, and the conspiracy is around what they’re actually up to – or if this group as well as their deeds are made up. But some of the stories he tells about what they do were just too juicy, and in some cases, hilarious, to pass up.

Apparently, this is a 2700 acre property in Sonoma County, CA; and every year, 2500 elite men – only men – meet for 17 days and, supposedly make decisions about international policy that have far reaching effects. Steiger names a bunch of high ranking people – like US presidents, who have been members of this group.

Despite this group being men only, apparently Queen Elizabeth visited in 1983, and they put on this wild ecstatic pagan dance in her honor, “complete with stage props such as Egyptian pyramids and Babylonian artifacts.” OOOOO! Does the subterfuge and intrigue know no limits?!

Ronald Reagan supposedly told friends that it was his membership in this group that led to his presidency; and in 1995,  Newt Gingrich, who was the House SPeaker, was told to cooperate with Bill Clinton on building the New World Order. This is one of the reasons I wonder about how credible this idea of a NWO is; i mean, maybe they’re playing a long game, but it seems to be taking forever to get this whole New World Order set up. Chop Chop people. I have things to do, but then not do because I’m procrastinating, and then feel guilty about.

Here’s what might just be my favorite quote from this book so far:

One of the main rituals performed by the Bohemian Grove participant involves their bowing down before a 40-foot statue of an owl. Walter Cronkite, on tape, is said to be the voice of the carved wood owl, the mascot at Bohemian Grove that opens the ceremonies. 

Conspiracies and Secret Societies by Brad Steiger

I don’t know for sure, but i think that if Bohemian Grove were made of up women, things would be different. 

What I find confusing is that this sounds a lot like another group – called the Bilderberg’s, whom Steiger talks about. And I feel like there have been a couple of these groups – maybe also the Illuminati, who have this vision of dominating the world. So are they all fighting against each other? Maybe thats why its taking them so long. 

I kid, but I do think there are powerful forces which control a lot more than we are even remotely aware of. Eric Weinstein actually gives a very compelling account of two major findings which were conspicuously blown off and ignored by the media. I’ve linked to this episode in the shownotes. Weinstein talks about how presidential candidates, like Andrew Yang, get ignored / misrepresented when they start to gain traction in the poles, suggesting some seedy manipulation. He also talks about Jeffrey Epstein, and how he may have been a front man for way more than just a pedophile ring. This is my interpretation of his story, but it’s probably best to get the full story from him. It’s very interesting. 

Ooh, before I forget, ironically, on the show Bannon’s War Room (with Steve Bannon), the mRNA physician, Robert Malone, talked about how he and a colleague had submitted papers discussing their success treating patients with various pharmaceutical modalities (none of which rake in money for the pharma companies), and Malone said both case studies were completely dismissed. Why? No one knows. 

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/episode-1-257-from-rome-doctors-against-madness-w-dr/id1485351658?i=1000535176114

What’s also interesting is Cattle Mutilation – how’s that for a segue?

This is sort of like the story of crop circles, in that, based on what I hear about it, if you have any doubts about whether this is true, all you have to do is check it out for yourself. So these cows are found with various organs removed, including eyes, anuses, genitalia, ears — I mean, that alone tells you something funky is going on because they just leave the filet mignon. But the precision with which these incisions are made is laser focused, and seemingly using a technology which is beyond what we have available. Also, not a drop of blood was found at these sites. These animal mutilations have happened worldwide; and many ranchers report seeing UFOs basically. There have also been multiple reports of tripod markings near the animal – how the aliens use a tripod for their work, I have no idea. Maybe they film themselves…it’s like alien porn for them.

Wikipedia says that the US government conducted an investigation in the late 70s, and barely came to any conclusion, other than to say that the majority of these cases seemed to be due to natural predation. Another report said that it looked like the cows were tranquilized and given an anticoagulant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_mutilation#Conventional_explanations

Of course, most likely, everyone listening to this podcast already has zero trust in the conclusions drawn by any US government investigation, but I alway like to read the bullshit stories government officials have to concoct in order to deflect attention. Natural predation seems to be the most popular story, but i think this is a pretty simple hypothesis to debunk, just by seeing the results for oneself – do these incisions truly have laser like precision, or are they clearly giant animal bite marks – I feel like the difference would not be subtle.

E3 Psychics: One Mind by Larry Dossey

Today, I’m going to focus on the world of the psychics and the book I found which most succinctly, yet comprehensively is, One Mind: How our Individual Mind is Part of a greater Consciousness and why it matters by Larry Dossey, MD.

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In this book, Dossey is trying to make the point that we are essentially all connected psychically or that there is once consciousness which pervades all things; He calls this consciousness “Kiki,” and consults with her daily on proper bowtie selection. Just kidding, wanted to make sure you’re awake. 

And, one of the things I found most intriguing was how Dossey managed to pull in examples of all sorts of seemingly separate phenomena to make the point that one central consciousness pervades all things.

and the first part of his book conveys this message through a bunch of stories about people either knowing things about relatives that they had no way of knowing, other than through some sort of psychic connection. He also tells stories about interspecies connections – so for example, dogs knowing when their owners were dead, even when separated by great distances. So the dog sitter will notice the dog suddenly running around distraught, for seemingly no reason; and later will find out that the owner had died in a car crash or something. 

One of the stories is about a whale and her offspring. They had basically gotten trapped in a bay, and were almost about to beach themselves. Several human rescuers were working to set them free, but nothing seemed to be working. The humans were getting exhausted, and the whales were getting exhausted, so it really looked like the end was near. But then, this dolphin came; and the dolphin had a name because apparently she had been frequently seen in the area – Mocha. She basically comes in, establishes trust with the whales, and shows them the exit out of the bay. Then, she comes back and plays with the people there. 

Bottlenose dolphins are the best. There are multiple accounts of dolphins forming circles around people in water with great white sharks. 

One surprising story was about a cow which attacked its owner – I didn’t even think that could happen. The cow, we’ll call her Bessie, knocked the owner to the ground, and was basically keeping her down. Apparently, the next thing which could have happened is that the other cows could have joined in. This story alone is pretty shocking, because I never knew about killer cows. Anyway, the farmer’s horse charged the cow, scaring Bessie away. In Bessie’s defense, though, we have treated cows abysmally. I’m not sure what happened to Bessie after that, but I would have been tempted to enjoy some delicious Bessie filet mignon if I were that farmer.

Here’s a crazy story about bees – apparently, they are really close to their beekeepers, and there are customs where people will go to tell the hive that the beekeeper has died when the beekeeper passes away. There was one instance in which a beekeeper died, and his kids circled the 14 hives which he maintained and they told the bees that he’d died. I’m not sure how they communicated this…perhaps they walked around making buzzing noises and hoping for the best. Then, at the beekeepers’ funeral, the bees came and just covered the grave and the gravestone. Interestingly, the author felt the need to point out that they ignored several flowers and flowering plants nearby–like we would be thinking, “well, obviously the bees covered the grave and stone because there were no flowers around.”

Side note for aspiring beekeepers – there’s an old folklore tale that you must keep your bees informed of significant family events – births, deaths, marriages, etc. If you don’t then they’ll leave you. 

There was also a story of a cat which lived in a nursing home, and it would curl up on the beds of people who were about to die in the next 6 hours. It’s like, get rid of that fucking cat!

So that’s the first part of Dossey’s book, but then he transitions into Part 2. Here is where he supports the view of One Mind, but the examples get way more out there–at least as far as I am concerned, and you’ll see what I mean. This is when I really started liking the book.

But before I go into some of the stories, I want to take a quick detour – and this is something that has always sort of made me a little uncomfortable with reconciling. 

This is the concept that our minds are not actually our brains; rather, our brains serve as a sort of antennae, or probably more accurate, filter between what our conscious mind perceives, and all the information which is out there. But, anyone out there who has ever taken a neuroscience course is probably thinking bullshit – we know that we can stimulate certain parts of the brain, and the person will taste cotton candy or see blue face masks; and we know that if certain parts of the brain are damaged, then the person can experience major distortions in perception or communication, or whatever – so this then makes it seem like everything–consciousness, perception, personality comes from the brain. 

Here’s where Dossey makes this analogy. You know how your television receives signals from the ether, and then displays them. Well, this does not mean that the images are coming from the TV. The Images are actually coming from somewhere else and being transmitted to the TV. If you damage a part of the TV, then you’ll see distorted images. Just like, if you damage a part of the brain, then the person might have a distorted perception of the world. I thought this was a really interesting way to resolve conflicts between what neuroscience tells us about perception, and what psychedelic drugs tell us.

Dossey then goes to the year 1982 when Mellen-Thomas Benedict, in his early 30s, was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. He opted out of chemo, and basically went home to die. He didn’t have health insurance, so he just had hospice come and take care of him. This went on for 18 months. 

One morning, he woke up and knew it was his last day on earth, but he’d been reading something about how interesting things happen when you die, so he didn’t want his body to be disturbed for ~6 hrs. Fortunately, his hospice nurse complied with this when she indeed found him dead that day. 

Suddenly, he experienced being outside his body. He had a sense of panoramic vision and saw a magnificent shining light…It seemed to be a conduit to the Source or the Higher Self. “I just went into it,” he said later, “and it was just overwhelming. It was like all the love you’ve ever wanted, and it was the kind of love that cures, heals, regenerates.” Then the light turned into an exquisitely gorgeous mandala of human souls.

Benedict felt all his negative judgement and cynical attitudes about his fellow human beings giving way toward a view that was equally hopeful and positive. He conversed with the great light he rode a stream of Consciousness through the Galaxy and glimpsed the entire universe he felt he was in pre-creation before the Big Bang his Consciousness expanded to Infinity it was revealed to him that there is no death only immortality with this assurance the entire process then reversed itself and he returned to his body.

Three days later, he was like “I think I’ll go for a walk.” He leaves hospice and is just going about his life when a friend notices Benedict’s good health and is like, “you should get that checked out.” So they do whatever scans they do, and the doctor tells him he doesn’t have any cancer. Benedict is like, “it’s a miracle!” to which the doctor replies, “no, it’s called a spontaneous remission.” Literally, Benedict had such advanced cancer, that he died a few months earlier, and the doctor is completely unimpressed. It really makes me wonder how many amazing things doctors play witness to on a regular basis, and it just completely misses their attention.

But apparently, you don’t have to die to have an NDE. Dossey talks about Nancy Clark, a cytologist in oncology research. As she was giving birth, she suffered from severe eclampsia, which is high blood pressure. I think this was back in the 60s when they must not have had an understanding or drugs for that or something. At any rate, she died. And this death was no joke. When she came back, she was in the morgue. But while she was dead, she had all the blissful experiences people discuss frequently when they die. I didn’t write down all the details because I didn’t intend this episode to be devoted to NDEs. But the reason I bring up Clark is for what happened to her later on. When she was 38, she was delivering a eulogy for a friend when, all of the sudden, the same thing happened again. She went into the heavens, experienced bliss, peace, love of all mankind. She saw that her dead friend was standing beside her, holding her hand. She wanted to stay there (as many people report), but came back because she was given a mission to share her experience. She ended up coming back to her body 15 minutes later. As nearly as I can tell from reading this, she just spoke for 15 minutes without anyone noticing that she’d completely left her body. People did, however, report a white glow all over the outline of her body.

[also, I say blissful, but there have been people who have no had such blissful experiences.]

Interestingly, as she went around telling everyone about her experience, she lost her friends, her family didn’t believe her – unbelievable. A minister told her that she needed to stop speaking about it because the devil was speaking through her. Just insane. But as Clark went around speaking about her experience, she encountered 102 other people who had “NDE’s” while completely healthy. ONe person was driving a car when it happened. I would have thought that God would try to time his interventions a little better than that. But, if you can give a 15 minute speech while experiencing death, then, I guess driving a car isn’t too far off.

The next section of the book kind of freaked me out a little, and definitely made me think twice about dabbling in the mystic arts (seances, etc). Apparently, there have been reported cases of people basically taking on new and different personalities – basically like possession. In 1785, Mary Reynolds, aged 19 at the time, went deaf and blind for weeks. When she regained her senses, she had no memory of, well, basically who she was. You, know, things like, you’re Mary Reynolds, it’s 1785. There’s no TV or internet. Life is really boring and we do work or sit in church all the time. Her family sort of brought her back, and apparently, she sort of toggled between two different personalities–Mary Reynolds and someone else, for 15 years. Then, when she was 36, the second personality basically took over, and that’s who she was until she died at age 61.

The other scarier case was of Iris Farczady. She was a well-educated Hungarian girl. It was mentioned in the book that she had dabbled in seances, and when she was 15, she underwent an abrupt personality change, but not only that, she knew who she was. She was a 41 year old spanish working class woman named Lucia. Ail of the sudden, Iris, or, the teenager formerly known as Iris, could speak Spanish, and could no longer speak Hungarian. I’m sure there were significant personality changes which she experienced as well, but the most convincing element to me is the ability to speak a language overnight. That has got to be a challenge to fake. Basically, Iris ceased to exist. It was a mystery to how this happened. A paranormal research team interviewed Lucia when she was 86 (in 1998), and they couldn’t work out how it happened. Why would an educated upper class young girl want to be a lower class working woman. The book did mention one detail – that Lucia hated the upper class. I wonder if this was some sort of dark magic she was able to put into play. Who knows. The researchers looking into this did not label it as a possession because they had no proof. 

That’s it!

E2 Reincarnation: Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian L. Weiss, MD

So psychiatrists get the best stories. This is a book about how a typical, atheist, psychiatrist, Dr. Brian Weiss, discovered something extraordinary while treating a patient who seemed to suffer from several phobias.

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The patient, whom he calls Catherine for the sake of anonymity, seems like a pretty typical, albeit strikingly beautiful woman. She was a middle child, raised in a conservative catholic family in Massachusetts and had an older brother and a younger sister. But when she started talking about her symptoms, she became noticeably tense and nervous. This chick was afraid of everything. She was afraid of water, couldn’t take pills because she was afraid of choking, [honestly, I think this chick would have annoyed the fuck out of me] she was afraid of airplanes, the dark – sometimes she would just sleep in the closet. Not only that, but she was getting worse; she wasn’t able to sleep that well, so her life was kind of in shambles.

So, Weiss listens to all of this, and he’s sure he can help her. He’s had many patients just like her before, and he’s been able to come up with some sort of treatment for them. He says that his standard practice at the time was to use some sort of pill, like an anti-anxiety med, or a tranquilizer, but he says that his practice now has changed to use these things only sparingly. What i find interesting, is this statement

No medicine can reach the real roots of these symptoms. My experiences with Catherine and others like her have proved this to me. Now I know there can be cures, not just the suppression or covering-over of symptoms.

Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian L. Weiss, MD

I would imagine most experienced psychiatrists would think that a bold statement. 

Anyway, as Catherine is talking about her past, she really doesn’t remember a bunch of disturbing stuff which happened to her as a kid. She remembers being pushed off the diving board; but she was pretty scared of water before that incident. Her father was an alcoholic, and would fight with her mom – not cool, but not something which one would expect to have caused the crippling fear Catherine is experiencing. 

As far as religion is concerned, she basically was a Catholic, didn’t really question the belief system. She thought that when you die you either go to purgatory or hell. The idea of reincarnation wasn’t really in her sphere of belief – she didn’t really think about it.

So, how did Catherine end up on Weiss’ couch? Or in Weiss’ office is probably a better way to say that. Well, she went and got a technical degree after high school, and then moved to Miami to work in a hospital there at the age of 21. She knew quite a bit of the staff there, and had good rapport with many of them; and one of them, a surgeon, noticed that she seemed a bit off – maybe depressed or something, but he didn’t say anything to her about it. Then, he was driving somewhere and saw her driving as well, and he must have just been overcome because he literally waved her down, so she had to stop her car, and he said to her, “I want you to see Dr. Weiss, Now!” I’m guessing Weiss had a good reputation in the hospital, but this was surprising even to the surgeon. He couldn’t believe how emphatic he was being. So finally, Catherine decides to schedule an appointment with Weiss. At this point, she was having terrible nightmares about being on a bridge when it collapsed and drowning, as well as being trapped in a pitch black room unable to find a way out. 

So she starts seeing Weiss on a regular basis – once or twice a week – ka-ching! And this goes on for 18 months, but Weiss is surprised at how she doesn’t seem to be getting any better. Then, something really strange happens. She goes to Chicago with her married boyfriend (as you do), and convinces him to go see this ancient Egyptian exhibit – she likes Egyptian stuff. So they go, and the guide is talking about a particular artifact, and she just speaks up and corrects him about it–but she has no idea how in the world she knew what she knew. So this entire time, Weiss has been suggesting that they do hypnosis, since he’s found that he’s better able to help people remember repressed memories from very young ages, and this can be useful for curing all sorts of problems, like bad habits, or phobias. But up until now she’s been too nervous to even try it. But after this Egyptian artifact incident, she realizes that there could be quite a lot of info hidden inside her mind, so she finally decides to do it.

So he takes her back in time through hypnotic regression, and she remembers a bunch of things that happened to her when she was young, and then she remembers something really awful that happened when she was 3 years old, basically her father drunkenly molesting her; and once she gets to this memory, Weiss is like, alright, now we’ve got it; and he basically thinks his work with Catherine is going to be essentially done. He talks with her about the memory after she wakes up, and sends her on her way to integrate. But what surprises him is that she’s not fixed at all after this. Normally, this kind of dredging up of a repressed memory would significantly help his patients. So he thinks maybe something else was hidden, even before she was 3 years old, so back into hypnosis she goes…but here’s where it gets interesting:

She starts describing walking up to this tall white building with an open front and pillars. She says that she has long, braided, blond hair and is walking up to a marketplace. She’s 18 yo, and her name is Aronda. Weiss is very confused by this. His perspective at this time is that of a scientist, very 3 dimensional in his thinking process – if he can’t see it taste it feel it, it doesn’t exist – so spiritual stuff is not a part of his wheelhouse. He’s freaked out as she’s talking, the room gets cold for him, which is hilarious because the psychiatrist is not the one who is supposed to lose it during a therapy session. But he’s fascinated by what’s going on, so he keeps asking her questions. She remembers when she had a daughter named Cleastra, and she says that Cleastra is now her niece Rachel – with whom she has always had a really close relationship. Sadly, she remembers when huge tidal waves came and swept the village away, and she was holding her baby as they both drowned, but then she remembers the same event but after they were all dead – she was up in the clouds looking down – no further description of what happened after that. 

She then describes a few other lives–hey, why stop at just one?–, and the session ends, and she goes home. Now, he doesn’t know what to think, but his curiosity is piqued to say the least. He’s a trained psychiatrist, and he can’t help but notice how clear and detailed her memories of these past life events are – something you wouldn’t expect from someone who is just making something up or imagining it. He’s really hoping that she’ll come back and do some more regressions, but he knows that it would be unprofessional to press her, but thank goodness, she’s starting to experience some significant benefits – he can see when she comes back the following week that she’s just glowing. She’s been getting better sleep, no longer these nightmares of a collapsing bridge. And consider what all this is like from her perspective – she must have been around 30 yo when all this happened, and did not believe that reincarnation was even possible. But her memories of these events are so real and vivid, that she’s sure they happened. And…praise hallelujah, she’s totally down for some more regression sessions!

One more interesting detail is that along the way as she remembers various people from her past, she recognizes some of them as people who are a part of her current life – she even sees previous lives of Weiss. One thing that I didn’t mention earlier was that when she first came to Miami, she started having an affair with this married dude with 2 kids; and this went on for years. And in one of her past life regressions, she’s actually a young man named Johan. And this seems to be a really primitive time. She, as Johan, is wearing a lot of animal skins, and sleeping in really dirty conditions. But she, as Johan, is sent off to war and she has a knife but doesn’t want to kill anyone. Suddenly, she’s grabbed from behind and her throat is slit. She is able to see her killer, and who is it, but none other than philandering Stuart. That dude seems to not have gotten much better over the years.

OK, after I read this next bit, I decided to schedule a past life regression session with this lady. Apparently, after Catherine had been through several of these sessions, her psychic powers just came fully online. She would know questions Weiss was going to ask before he asked it. Her parents came into town to visit, and her dad was skeptical about what was going on, so she took him to the race track and guessed every single winning horse correctly – every single one. Then, she gave the winnings to a homeless person because she didn’t feel right about using her psychic abilities for this type of financial gain. I wonder how she would feel about other people using her abilities for financial gain…

During these sessions, Catherine is going in and out of different previous lives, and each time, she basically ends each life by dying – no way to really avoid that one. And each time she sort of floats out of her body, and she can go silent for a while before entering a different life. So what is going on in between states? Here’s a quote from the book:

She again floated out of her body after her death, but this time she was not perplexed or confused. “I’m aware of Bright Lights. It’s wonderful; you get energy from this light.” She was resting, after death, in between lifetimes. Minutes passed in silence. Suddenly she spoke, but not in the slow whisper she had always used previously. Her voice was now Husky and Loud, without hesitation. “Our task is to learn, to become God-like through knowledge. We know so little. You are here to be my teacher. I have so much to learn. By knowledge we approach God, and then we can rest. Then we come back to teach and help others.”

Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian L. Weiss MD

WHAT THE EFF!?! This is an unbelievable spiritual insight! Weiss is just floored. Hilariously, he wants more, so during future sessions, she’ll be talking about a past life or other, and he’ll be like, “ok, now skip to where you die.” because he wants to hear more in between spiritual stuff. Now at this point of the doctor patient relationship, I really believe that Weiss should have started paying Catherine for these sessions. 

So she goes through a previous life, and then another; and when the second one ends, she’s back in the “in between.” Her voice changes back to that husky, loud sound – not the same as when she’s just recalling a past life. Here is what she says:

They tell me there are many Gods, for God is in each of us.

Your father is here and your son, who is a small child. Your father says you will know him because his name is Avrom, and your daughter is named after him. Also, his death was due to his heart. Your son’s heart was also important, for it was backwards, like a chicken’s. He made a great sacrifice for you out of his love. His soul is very advanced… his death satisfied his parents’ debts. Also he wanted to show you that medicine could only go so far, that its scope is very limited. 

Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian L. Weiss, MD

So, there was simply no way Catherine could have known any of this information. Dr. Weiss just goes completely cold out of shock. Now he had actually had a son, named Adam, who lived for only 23 days, due to this very rare condition of having a heart which was basically turned around backwards. He and his wife didn’t talk to anyone about this – it was very devastating to both of them; and he ultimately decided to go into psychiatry instead of internal medicine because of it. His father’s real name, Avram, was also a secret – he was called Alvin, and he did die of heart troubles; and his daughter had been named for him when she was born 4 months after he died. 

Weiss is just giddy with this information, and very hungry for more:

Who tells you these things?

The Master Spirits tell me. They tell me I have lived eighty-six times in physical state.

She goes through another lifetime and then dies again. He can tell that she’s getting tired, it’s getting close to the end of the session, so he’s not expecting much when she says that Robert Jarrod needs his help. Now, who is Robert Jarrod? He has no idea. 

Catherine continues to improve in all areas of her life. She’s still with the married guy, but other than that she seems to be doing well, and her intuition and psychic powers get stronger and stronger. She describes this dream she had which she didn’t remember much of, but she remembers a red fin kind of being embedded in her hand. Later, during the regression session, she remembers being a sailor on a boat, and hot metal slicing into her hand. And she ends up living quite a while in this lifetime, and ends up dying as an old man of a heart attack. And while she’s going through this heart attack, she’s really displaying all of the concerning symptoms of a heart attack. Weiss is sitting there wondering what to do since there’s no evidence to say that it’s safe to re experience a heart attack from a previous life. SO he just figures, what the hell, I guess we’ll see. Fortunately, she’s ok. The next thing you know, she’s in the In Between, and once more, I realized I could not leave this out of the podcast:

There are many souls in this Dimension. I am not the only one. We must be patient. That is something I never learned either… There are many dimensions… I have been to different planes at different times. Each one is a level of higher Consciousness. What plane we go to depends on how far we progressed…

 I asked her what lessons she had to learn in order to progress she answered immediately

That we must share our knowledge with other people. That we all have abilities far beyond what we use. Some of us find this out sooner than others. That you should check your vices before you come to this point. If you do not, you carry them over with you to another life. Only we can rid ourselves… Of the bad habits that we accumulate when we are in a physical state. The Masters cannot do that for us. If you choose to fight and not to rid yourself, then you will carry them over into another life. And only when you decide that you are strong enough to master the external problems, then you will no longer have them in your next life. 

She then talks about how we should not only go to people who have the same vibration as us – but we should also try to help people who aren’t on our vibrational level. Then she says that we have intuitive powers and it is important to pay attention to them in order to avoid danger. So there are some people on this planet who have greater intuitive powers than others – this is clearly the case, but she says that eventually, we will all have similar powers. 

More and more therapy sessions go by, and during several of them, the Masters show up – the spirit guides which Catherine channels in the in-between state. Sometimes, though, the Masters will show up to answer a question, and Catherine will still be experiencing a past life. Meanwhile, the entire time, Catherine is not interested in hearing back what she has channeled as the Masters, and she doesn’t remember any of it. She remembers the past lives, but not the in-between. 

At one point, the Masters basically tell Weiss that they are showing up for him, not Catherine. It’s almost as if Catherine was guided to Weiss so he could have these conversations with the Masters. In fact, this is almost certainly the case! The Masters give Weiss advice about how to treat patients with various issues; and I agree mostly with the below, but not completely, but here’s what they say:

You were correct in assuming this is the proper treatment for those in the physical state. You must eradicate the fears from their minds. It is a waste of energy when fear is present. It stifles them from fulfilling what they were sent here to fulfill. Take your cues from your surroundings. They must first be put into a level very very deep… where they no longer can feel their body. Then you can reach them. It’s only on the surface… that troubles lie. Deep within their soul, where the ideas are created, that is where you must reach them.

So if becoming more psychically attuned was not reason enough to attempt regression therapy, this is another reason – it seems to be the only way to eradicate fear, and the only way we can accomplish what we want in life?!? This seems to be a bit of a steep requirement; I think there must be other strategies for overcoming life hurdles, but it’s quite possible that this message really was just intended for Weiss since regression therapy would, I am assuming, eventually become his primary mode of psychotherapy.

This is basically where I am going to leave it. Weiss has more conversations with the entities through Catherine which he calls the Masters, but he has conversations with other entities, some even on lower dimensions than the Masters. I wondered if these entities could be trusted to provide advice which was in our best interest. At one point, some lower level entities say that if you have debt that you incur in one life, then you have to pay those in another life–this sound like Karma, basically, which is pretty interesting. They also say that if you have a vice in one life, you carry it to the next. This made me really think about my own bad eating habits. I really have to put this in check or I’ll get even fatter in my next life. 

Anyway, I highly recommend picking up this book. It was a very quick read, and there were more lessons from the Masters which I think are fascinating, but I just didn’t have time for…also, I didn’t want to paraphrase them, so I would have had to have just read aloud huge chunks from the book which just didn’t seem to make for professional podcasting–no matter how dulcet and sweet sounding my voice.

Thanks for listening, and I’ll see you next time!

E1 Aliens! Abduction by John E. Mack

This book is a series of interviews with 12 or so psychiatric patients who claimed that they had been abducted by aliens. These patients were seen by Dr. John E Mack of Harvard, and their stories turned out to be so remarkable, that Mack himself started to wonder if there might be some validity to the alien abduction phenomenon afterall.

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I want to give some background on Dr. Mack, the author of this book. Mack was a psychiatrist, and became the head of psychiatry at Harvard in 1977. This was also the year he received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his book about the life of British officer TE Lawrence called, “A Prince of our Disorder.” TE Lawrence is the dude who Lawrence of Arabia is about. This is an old movie I still have never seen, but I remember my theater coach in high school said it was his favorite movie. Anyway, so, it’s not like John E Mack was some chucklehead off the street. He was a legit scientist and physician.

Anyway, Mack was just bobbing along with his life as a well-regarded psychiatrist, when he learned about people who fancied that they’d been abducted by aliens. He says of this, “ When I first heard of people who reported being taken by humanoid beings into spacecraft, my initial reaction was that they must be suffering from some kind of delusion…” 

you think?

This was back in 1989, and to give some context, Mack was around 59 years old at this time. I mean, he had literally seen it all in his career by this time; and not to stereotype or anything, but that’s what I’m about to do, most people are pretty set in their beliefs after their thirties, so I really have to hand it to this guy for stretching outside his comfort zone. A lot of the abductees, or experiencers as they are called in this book), went through sessions with other psychiatrists and the psychiatrists just maintained that they were suffering delusions throughout their interactions. These psychotherapists just ignored the fact that the experiencers were, and I quote from Mack’s book, “discriminating individuals, largely of sound mind, who were as inclined to doubt their experiences as was I.”

So if you can imagine knowing that you are about to talk to a patient who is delusional and just needs your help, and you’re probably in the mindset of how do I understand this person so I can figure out how best to help them get over their psychosis; then, as you understand them more and more, you start to realize that your initial belief–that these people are nuts– just no longer makes sense…of this, Mack says

Faced with a phenomenon that does not fit one’s ontological perspective, the choices are to ignore it, to force it somehow into the old mold (this, I believe, is what leads to so many foolish conventional explanations of the abduction phenomenon), or to modify or expand the world view itself

John E. Mack, Abduction

So, literally at age 60, Dr. John Mack found his sessions with these experiencers to be so convincing that he realized that he had no choice but to change his entire worldview. That, my friends, could not have been an easy task.

Moreover, he was highly respected, and the backlash from the public, from academia was just as one might predict. Harvard actually ran an investigation into his methods, and this investigation was apparently totally invalid since Mack was not doing anything unethical and he was a tenured professor. He was ultimately cleared by Harvard, but given a censure for his methods – perhaps the regression hypnosis. 

It is really difficult to convince someone of the existence of something supernatural if they believe it to be fantasy. And not only that, but you usually end up alienating (so to speak) the person you’re trying to convince. I’m reminded of the producer of the movie The Phenomenon, James Fox. He was a non-believer in the UFO phenomenon, and so much so that when a good friend of his told him about UFOs and how they were real, Fox literally thought to himself, bummer, I really liked that guy; and now we can’t really be friends anymore because he’s a loon. Can you imagine what John Mack’s colleagues at Harvard thought when he started saying that there might be some validity to what all of these patients of his were saying?

Mack was killed in 2004 when he was hit by a motorcycle. Coincidentally, TE Lawrence, the man who Mack wrote a biography about, died in a motorcycle accident when he swerved to miss two boys which he had not seen.

I had no idea, when I started reading this book how pervasive the theme of sexual trauma was going to be. Basically, I’m not quite finished with the book, but 100% of the experiencers have really invasive experiments conducted on their bodies while they experience emotional and physical anguish. This is flat out disturbing, and, since this podcast is intended to be lighthearted, I’ve tried to gloss over a lot of the invasive and seemingly rapey accounts, but I really couldn’t review this book without including some anal probing – so you’ve been warned. 

I’m still not anti-alien even after reading about all of these horrible things. Mostly because – the experiencers themselves are not anti-alien. Again, many if not all of the abductees end up with this feeling that they are cooperating with the aliens, that they were part of some sort of special mission. What is this mission? Why, none other than to create an alien / human hybrid species to populate the earth with after the apocalypse of course. Dull, right? And here we thought this book was supposed to be interesting. 

The other purpose mentioned by one of the abductees is to sort of help us to evolve spiritually – which seems to require physical and emotional manipulation–one woman said that the aliens were scaring her on purpose because they needed for her to basically transcend her fear. 

So there are many similar elements to each of the stories, but I thought I would note a few highlights which were interesting to me.

Chapter 10

Paul started seeing a normal psychotherapist, and during regression sessions with her, started experiencing connections with this alien presence. He then asked the aliens to give him a sign that they were real, and there was a loud knock at the door, behind which no one was. The psychotherapist was freaked out, and he had to calm her down. He then told her that something was going to come for her that weekend – which, I feel like he could have reached for a phrase which was less anxiety inducing. When they met the following week, she admitted that her bed had bounced up and down…which totally seems demon related.

Chapter 12 the Magic Mountain

Dave, before he gets put under regression, talks about some of the odd events of his life which have made him wonder if he might actually be an abductee. One of the stories he tells is about a night he was driving 65 mph in a rainstorm with friends in Canada. Suddenly, a bus blew past them, going really fast – maybe 90 mph. This was when his friends exclaimed because they realized that they were 90 MILES behind where they had thought they’d reached. None of the boys had any idea how they had just lost all of that mileage. To add to the strangeness, there was a bus accident that night in the news where 65 people had been killed.

There are several people highlighted in this book, and I decided to go into detail about one of them, and this is Peter. I chose Peter because his story held a lot of elements which were here and there throughout each of the abductees–he really went through it all; but then interestingly, continued to come back for more (meaning the regression sessions), because he felt that he gained so much from reliving these experiences.

Peter was 34 when he came to see Dr. Mack. He was getting into acupuncture, but also had experience managing hotels. In the book, Mack says, “Peter’s case provides one of the most dramatic examples of the way the nature of abduction experiences can be transformed in conjunction with the evolution of the experiencer’s consciousness.” So as your consciousness expands, the way you view the abduction changes–for the better. 

For all of the patients, Mack gives some background on their history as well as what they remembered of their abduction experiences before they came to him. And there seems to be a consistent theme of people remembering seeing something odd or unusual, but then they’d fall asleep, and seemingly nothing else would happen; but then Mack would put them under regression hypnosis, and there all of this detail would come out. 

Peter was no different. He had vague recollections of seeing large owls, but then, nothing much else. He also remembered playing with alien hybrid children when he was 4. But meanwhile, before he came to see Mack, he really wanted to believe that everything was his imagination. At the same time, he felt that the experience must be real in some way, because he feels so much emotion around it; so he decides to do the regression session. And keep in mind that some of these sessions really dredge up some very horrific experiences, and I want to keep this podcast lighthearted, so if any of you have read the book, and you’re thinking to your self, “Hey, she’s just glossing over the part where he had an anal probe.” you’re right, I totally am. But I still get into some raw stuff, so if you’re a kid, or a parent, you may not want to listen to the rest of this.

Under regression, he remembers going to sleep, but then getting up to walk over to his couch. That’s when he sees a little creature. He feels humiliated because he’s naked, and he feels rage because he knows that they have essentially made him completely powerless; he can’t move; he basically is completely vulnerable to their will. The beings are thin and short – with the taller one coming up to Peter’s chest. They end up “hitting” him with this light at his forehead; and after that things become peaceful for him–both in the regression session, but also at the time these events are happening; he has no fear or humiliation anymore, and at this point, he normally just forgets everything that happens after. 

The beings wave a light under his body, and he lifts very lightly off the couch and through the door. They glide him outside and towards this very bright light into this small spaceship. They take him on a tour around the spaceship, and he feels like an honored guest. They fly up, and earth becomes just a pinpoint. He then goes into a room full of maybe a hundred human men and women. It’s weird because the aliens seem to tell him to go mix and mingle, but when he walks up to this dude to chat, the dude says, “not yet, you have to go, not yet.” He gets this sinking feeling. During the regression, Peter has to stop things because he is just really not wanting to face what happens next. 

Back in his regression, in the spaceship, he’s taken to this room where there are humans in suspended animation with helmets on their heads. They then put this silver dome like helmet on his head and then he is taken to this examination table. He says this examination table is really comfortable – like it molds to every contour of his body. I found this detail to be sort of hilariously off-topic. Again, during the regression session Peter is yelling to Dr. Mack, “I don’t want to tell you what happens now.” So he is really experiencing deep distress. He goes on anyway, and says that they start to “suck the lifeforce out of the top of his head.” I have no idea what this is about, and I don’t think Peter ever goes into it either. What is the purpose of this?

He’s then taken to another examination table which he feels the need to point out is super comfy where, and i think I said I wasn’t going to be mentioning anal probes, so if you don’t want to hear about this, stop listening now, because I changed my mind and am going to mention anal probes – we’ll see how many times i say “anal probe” before this episode is over. The next thing that happens is that they put this tube up inside his body through his groin. It’s humiliating, but he doesn’t feel any pain, so little pain, that he mentions during his session, “I’m amazed at some of the simple technological things that they’ve got that we haven’t thought of yet.” again, with these strange, off-topic comments. The next thing they do is, wait for it, anal probe! They shove something up his backside, and he thinks that they’re leaving basically a tracking device. 

When Peter is done with the regression, they talk about the humiliation and anguish he feels over this memory, and he says that he feels that on some level he’s a willing participant in this entire process. He likens it to a woman giving birth – it’s painful and she feels rage and anger, but in the end, she’s not pissed at the baby or unhappy that she agreed to it.

At some point, Peter leads a 4 day energy healing workshop. You might remember from earlier that he had gotten his acupuncture license. After this workshop, he realizes that he is abducted again. The circumstances around the abduction are mysterious as well. He’s staying in a house with other workshop attendees, and they all decide to go for a walk. He, for some reason, decides not to, and he wonders if is because on some unconscious level the aliens communicated with him to stay behind so they could visit him. Also, just to cast doubt on the skeptics who think this is all happening in Peter’s mind, the women who went on the walk actually saw the spaceship. 

So during the regression, as you might expect, he remembered being abducted. The aliens then put an instrument in his eye, dug around, and then pulled something out. He basically, thinks that this is an instrument which tracks memory. Then, Dr. Mack says that the timbre of Peter’s voice changes to this monotonous droning, and it basically his him shifting to speaking as an alien himself. Here is a freaky quote from the book:

we want to study the chemical reactions of the brain and how people will react in order to “know when it is time to be present.”  we will know at what level the shock will come in, so we will be better able to control it so we will be in tune with the human beings as they go through this shock process, as they go through the unfolding of seeing us for the first time.

John E. Mack, Abduction

This is when Peter’s voice returns to being his own in the regression session, and he says that, “the beings are working with us,… so they will be able to tell how we will react to their manifesting before us.”

What’s creepy about the part of the regression where Peter took on the identity of the alien, is that he essentially was channeling alien consciousness right there and then–so he was no longer reviewing past events, aliens were all up in the house. 

After these sessions with Mack, it was still bothering Peter that he just felt so much fear around the alien experiences, and he wanted to see if he could address this fear; this was how he entered into the third regression session; and Mack said it was the most dramatic experience he had ever encountered with an experiencer. It was so profound that it really removed any doubt from Mack’s mind that he was dealing with something real. 

They enter the regression, and Peter starts to leap from experience to experience. At first, it seems like he’s going to go into an abduction when he lived in Hawaii, but then it shifts to when he was 4, and he remembers playing with aliens, and then his consciousness shifts to when he was age 8…he seems to leap from event to event; and each time, he’s getting more and more agitated. Things really come to a head when he remembers lying on a table and having a sperm sample taken from him when he was 19. He’s screaming in terror and just sheer rage. The procedure itself is extremely disturbing for him, but he also remembers the fear of basically being completely powerless and taken against his will. 

After the regression was over, Mack and Peter talked about it, and Peter said that he believes the physical and psychological torture is necesary for some sort of spiritual growth the aliens are trying to develop. This sounds weak, and Mack even suggests that maybe the aliens are just using us, and then making us think that there’s some sort of spiritual growth in it for us; but Peter is certain that the spiritual part is real and necessary. Why? 

They need my consciousness to expand. They need more of my brain to be awake. 

Why?

So they can interact with our planet

Why?

So they can prevent our beings from becoming extinct.

John E. Mack, Abduction

So – just your average afternoon chat about the end of the world. No big deal. This is another reason I chose to go into Peter’s story – he has some more prophecies I want to share in a sec.

But before I do, I want to mention that each of the regression sessions were recorded, and this particular session was so striking and dramatic that Mack ended up using it when he gave lectures about the abduction phenomenon. There was even a lecture which he had to stop showing the recording early because people couldn’t handle watching Peter’s experience. In Canada, this dude was doing a documentary series called “Man Alive,” and he asked Peter to be a guest, and he showed the video. Unfortunately, this series was never aired in the US – lame.

After feeling like he’s integrated this dramatic regression session, Peter realizes that he still wants to go deeper because he senses that there’s more he wants to remember. He remembers a time when these three people, he calls them Holy Rollers come to the door – maybe trying to give him religious pamphlets or something. There’s a woman with them, and she is giving him this knowing look, and it sort of puts him off a bit. Then, during the regression session, he realizes that the holy rollers were aliens in disguise. This freaks him out because he wonders how many aliens he’s seen in real life, and not known it. But it gets more interesting. This time, during his “abduction,” the aliens really aren’t forcing him to do anything. They actually give him the choice of whether he wants to walk through the wall (which would basically mean coming with them, and sort of graduating to the next level of commitment), or just staying put. He’s really conflicted because taking that next step really feels like a leap of faith. A lot of hemming and hawing takes place where he almost makes the leap, but then doesn’t. His stress level is really high, but eventually, he makes the leap, and is taken up to the ship where he glides past all these alien babies and is taken to a room.

Remember that Holy Roller woman who gave Peter the knowing look at his door? Well, he realizes that she’s his “real” wife “on a soul level.” He realizes, to his horror, that he’s had tons of sex with her and is the father of all those alien beings he saw! And just in case there was any ambiguity on the matter, these aliens are not attractive. He describes their skin as slimy and cold..I mean, he’s just disgusted. Still, on some level, he thinks that he agreed to this – maybe even 10 lifetimes before. 

By the way, Peter goes home, and tells his wife everything. Hey honey, you know how I’ve had these vague alien abduction experiences and I’ve been getting therapy from Dr. Mack? Wellll, I found out the other day something new. Wanna guess? As it turns out, and I don’t mean to brag, but I Happen to have fathered a spaceship full of hybrid alien babies with this female alien being – probably since even before you and I met. How about that? How did she react? Totally fine with it – no problem. She’s like, well, boys will be boys. If he’s gonna have his spaceship of hybrid alien babies then I guess he’s just gotta have his spaceship of hybrid alien babies. 

Alright, now, let’s get to prophecy, this is Session number 6 with Peter. Here’s where he learns from his alien friends that there are actually beings from all over the universe battling over control of the earth. 

Say what? Now a skeptic might ask how in the world would we human beings not be aware of this, not even notice that there are alien beings trying to control us? Maybe their strategy is to keep us unaware while they bleed us of our energy. How might they be doing this, you ask? Perhaps by keeping us trapped in our minds, constantly preoccupied with the past or the future, or distracted by Netflix or social media so that our true souls, our true essence never sees the light of day. 

Peter talks about people being taken up – as described by the rapture in the bible – taken up into spaceships which he says are ready for this crumbling of society which is going to transpire. He suggests that this might happen in 2010 – so it’s at least nice to know that he was wrong about that…but he’s also not really firm on that date. What I find interesting about his perceptions that there would be spaceships on standby to carry people away is that it’s not the first time I’ve heard this story. I think David Wilcock has suggested the exact same thing, and the year he thinks this will happen is 2030, but again, who knows. And there’s also a comedian named Jessa Reed who had an NDE in 2000; and she says that the aliens told her that it would get really bad – they showed her Portland on fire – which did happen last year during the protests; and they told her that all you have to do is reach out your hand, and we will take you up. So that’s three disparate sources giving pretty much the same story about aliens coming to lift us off this earth. 

I’m going to leave it there. If you think this sounds interesting, make sure to pick up the book, since I really left a lot of detail out – this is only a tiny fraction. Thanks for listening, everyone. See you next time!

E5 Crop Circles by Lucy Pringle

I love the way the preface of this book is written. Basically, he points out exactly what I’m thinking when I hear about Crop Circles – they were this big sensation in the 90s. People were really going crazy thinking that aliens were here and leaving messages in crops. And then Doug and Dave came along and said that they’d been leaving their beds at night to go out and create these crop circles as a laugh–even without their wives knowing…for 10 YEARS. I’m sorry, but if my husband had been sneaking out regularly with another woman’s husband for 10 years…the last thing I’d be thinking would be crop circles.

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These two dudes, were sneaking out for 10 years to brokeback mountain with each other, when some man in black deep state official used this info to bribe them into telling a story about how they were the dopes who were creating these crop circles.

But after this, the stories about crop circles just went away. Anyone who continued to talk about crop circles after this was considered a looney. This is precisely what I thought as well. Crop circles were a hoax, move on with your life. Then, I started evaluating why I believed what I believed; and, as I started realizing that reality might be much stranger than I’d originally thought, crop circles “Cropped” back into my awareness. 

The author, Lucy Pringle, acknowledges that some of the crop circles which were spotted were actually hoaxes – maybe Doug and Dave’s creations or some other person’s good work. But she brings up several reasons why the hoaxes don’t necessarily disprove the existence of real, unexplained, crop circles. One was the fact that several people remembered crop circles way back in the 1930s. One woman said she played in the crop circles with her friends during the war. And she said there were two fields where the circles would show up; and it went on for 3 – 4 years…I’m guessing before they just stopped showing up…?

One of the biggest questions I have is why are crop circles so heavily concentrated in the UK? Of course, they’ve been spotted all over the world, but the UK seems to just get tons of them. Pringle points out that the majority of crop circles are in this spot – the “chalk lands of the Wessex triangle.” She says that underneath this area are aquifers or pockets of water. She thinks that the water is “attracting” the electricity which is forming the circle. Now, how that actually works, i have no idea; but I imagine it’s just a theory anyway, since no one really knows how crop circles are formed. She also points out:

There are also many energy or geodetic stress lines here. These lines move in harmony with the earth’s tectonic plates, and release electromagnetic fields when they shift. All genuine crop formations appear on these energy lines.

Crop Circles by Lucy Pringle

The other point that she makes is the nature of disturbance to each plant in the crop circle. She describes how the plants in a genuine crop circle will have evidence of explosive cavities in the stem joints–similar to what happens when you heat a potato without pricking it. Just one exploded cavity or several? I was unclear about this. The stem also falls over – it doesn’t break; whereas fake crop circles, however, have crushed stems–because someone is just stepping on the plants with wooden planks, I guess. Now, if this is true, exactly as she states it, then this should be verifiable – are there really exploded cavities and is it true that we really have no explanation for how these explosions happened. IF it’s true that we have no explanation for this, then it should be pretty solid proof that real crop circles have unexplained origins…or aliens which is how I categorize all unexplained phenomena. 

The other point about crop circles she makes is how they all seem to display these perfect mathematical or geometric patterns; and there are several diagrams of circles in the book which have lines and numbers and equations written on them…but I didn’t see an explanation of what patterns were being identified. Now this isn’t to say that there isn’t any, and Pringle most likely left out this bit from her book because it would have been devastatingly boring, but it’s another piece of evidence which would be compelling. Are there really representations in these circles of perfect mathematical proportions and ratios; and, if so, what mathematician is designing these things and then going out in the middle of the night with wood planks to create them? 

The speed with which they are created is also one of the nails in the coffin of the debunkers – who should all be put to death (kidding). Aside from the multiple eyewitness accounts of them appearing in real time right before their eyes, there have been cases of multiple eyewitnesses taking note of an empty field at one moment, and then a crop circled field only a few hours later. Meanwhile, when the debunkers attempt to fake a crop circle, way more time and manpower are required One example is a formation called the Julia set. I’ll leave a photo in the shownotes or you can google it. It’s stunning; and it was close to stonehenge. So at 5:30 pm, a pilot flew over an empty field; then at 6 pm, another pilot flew over – and there was the Julia Set. 

https://cropcircles.lucypringle.co.uk/photos/1996/uk1996ay.shtml

Meanwhile, a gamekeeper and a security guard were able to confirm that nothing was there in the morning; Pringle claims also that a police report (arrest the aliens) concluded based on the eyewitness accounts, that basically the formation appeared within 15 minutes. So again, we have evidence to suggest that human beings with wooden planks are not necessarily behind all crop circle formations.

Throughout the book, Pringle has all sorts of beautiful photographs of the various crop circle formations. I think I only saw 2 or 3 which were of hoaxes, and I wish that she’d added a few more since it’s interesting to compare the man-made crop circles with the ones that are authentic. One of the man made ones was of a Mazda car; and Mazda apparently commissioned the crop formation to be created as a marketing campaign. Pringle claims that the two men hired to do this were heard to be arguing with each other and really putting up a fuss trying to get this car finished. Now she might just be saying this to support her case, who knows; but if it’s true, then it definitely begs the question how are the rest of the formations done, and consistently created year after year – when it’s that much of a pain in the ass. 

I have a link to her website btw in the shownotes:

Crop Circles 2021 ~ August

And there are so many photos of crop circle formations. Hilariously, after the description for each photo, she mentions what the crop was. So it’s like ,”The Julia Set, Wiltshire, 7 July 1996 919 ft x 508 ft, 151 circles, Wheat. It would be funny if she’d left the crop type out of the description, and someone reading the book is like, “wait, was this found in wheat or oats or barley? Seriously, does this woman know anything about these crop circles?!” this is bullshit!

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you the half mile (over 2500 feet) long pictogram crop formation which appeared in Oxfordshire on the 26th of July 1994. This massive formation appeared within the span of minutes as unknown electromagnetic forces streamed through each individual plant knocking them over at their stem joints, resulting in a massive work of art which reflects mathematical and geometric patterns of utmost precision. But if you thought this was impressive, get this, the crop was russet potatoes.

I just made this up

Pringle also discusses crop circle phenomena – so in addition to the crop circles just forming, there are also strange phenomena which occur when people encounter the crop circles. What I love about the way she’s written this book is that she had little title headings for each anecdote; and the headings are sort of understated for the stories behind them. For example, Pringle reports findings from a man named Andre Tong, a farmer, who was called by a fellow farmer to investigate something unusual…a four pointed star, roughly the size of an acre had formed in his crop overnight. Moreover, this was a crop of carrots; and all of the carrots had just disappeared…there weren’t even holes where the carrots would have been; and these carrots were the size of a man’s fist. Andre said that the farmer was really pissed that someone had taken his carrots; meanwhile, Andre was thinking that hundreds of people would have been needed to remove all of those carrots overnight. Pringle decided to title this particular anecdote, “Some of our vegetables are missing.” 

Another section of her book is devoted to some of the physical effects – and even healing effects – which have been observed by people entering the crop circles. And I’m going to talk about some of the anecdotes which people shared with Pringle in a sec, but I have to point out–again, with her understated titles–a man entered one of the formations, and immediately had an erection until the following day. What does Pringle title that subsection of the chapter? “An uplifting experience.”

So the way that Pringle first discovered that crop circles might have effects on our physical bodies was through her own experience as well as that of a friend’s on the same day. So she and a friend were going to check out this formation; and as she was on her way, she was noticing this shoulder pain she had from playing tennis the day before; but then, when she got to a particular part of the formation, she felt this energy rippling through her shoulders, and the pain went away. But she also just enjoyed the sensation, so she stayed where she was. She called her friend Margaret over as well, but didn’t tell her why. She wanted to see if Margaret noticed anything. Well, she did – immediately. She suffered from Raynaud’s phenomenon, and straight away noticed tingling in her fingertips where the circulation was often blocked. Margaret also suffered from scleroderma which led to many issues, including really bad acid reflux in her esophagus, so she usually couldn’t lie down; but she ended up lying down for 20 minutes straight in the circle because the reflux was just gone. And even when she left the formation, she continued to experience well-being.

After this, Pringle decided to pay attention to stories about the healing effects of the circle; she collected quite a few stories about people with really bad arthritic pain receiving great relief when they step in the crop circle formations; but some people would be relieved for a few days after only, while others’ experienced well being for a year after. It’s interesting to think about what the differences between these two groups of people might be. 

Disappointingly, there have also been reports of people experiencing healings in crop circle hoaxes. Now this could be due to the fact that the hoaxes are created in the  natural energy vortices in which we find genuine crop circles, but it does suggest that some placebo effect may be playing a role in some of these cases.

But the other interesting thing she noticed was that sometimes, the crop circles actually made her feel awful. There was a formation which they called the Insectogram. It’s not an insect shape, but it kind of looks like one. She says that she and her friend were just walking around it, feeling peaceful when Sarah, her friend just ran out to the car. She was nauseous, but when she got out of the formation, she was fine again. Maybe this was due to Sarah not eating that morning, who knows, but the next day, Pringle brought another friend, Michelle, to the same formation. Michelle didn’t even make it within 20 yards of the formation before she just stopped short, like she’d hit a wall. Then, I guess she moved past the wall, when she just fell down, lying prostrate on the ground. She told Pringle she was fine, and just needed to lie there, but she stayed there for quite a bit. Pringle said she went to what she referred to as a “Safe spot” in the formation. I Have no idea what that means, but when she saw Michelle finally kind of peel herself up from the ground, Pringle started feeling really nauseous and actually had to run out. I wonder if she just feels like it’s impolite to say “and then I puked,” because all she ever says is that someone or another felt nauseous. 

One guy visited the formation and he experienced some of the unpleasant sensations, but they were familiar to him since he was a molecular biologist. He said they were similar to UV and gamma radiation; and I’m thinking, “safety precautions, buddy. Just because your job involves radiation, doesn’t mean that you have to get exposed to it. What are you just taking a bath in the lab?” 

A lot of people experience all sorts of emotions, from well-being to anger; and it’s easy to pass all of this off as some sort of placebo effect, but she does tell one story which I found to be compelling; and this is of Ralph Noyes. Now Noyes was actually the undersecretary of State in a division which actually handled UFO reports, so he has some credibility. But in 1990, he went to visit a triangle formation, wheat; and what happened to him in that formation stunned him so much that he didn’t speak about it for 2 years after – because he was trying to find some sort of rational explanation for what happened to him. To begin, when he entered the formation, he saw a vision of a flow of bright particles from one side of the triangle to the other, but when he asked his friends, they didn’t see it. But more mysterious, and even slightly disturbing to him, was that he and his friends were just enchanted by the area. They stayed there for an hour and a half, standing at first, and eventually sitting down. 

Now, if your friend came to you and asked if you wanted to go to a field, and just stand there for an hour and a half…you’d be like, “is there cotton candy?” “no,” “ah, but is there a ferris wheel?” “no. there’s nothing but a triangle, and we’re going to stand in it for an hour and a half. I just don’t think that would seem very appealing. But he found it disturbing because he really felt like being inside the formation was addictive, like if he stayed there any longer, he’d just let go of all the responsibilities of his normal life. 

But other unusual occurrences have transpired in connection with crop circles. One story is about Ray Barnes who witnessed a crop circle being formed in 1981. Barnes claimed that he saw a line go through the field…which is difficult for me to imagine. But the line started at one point, and moved in an arc-like pattern through the field. There’s a diagram in the book which is how I’m able to describe this. At the point where it ended, it created just a single circle–that’s it. I would say that, as crop circles go, this is a pretty boring one. But maybe that’s all he could take witnessing because some time later, he started losing vision in his right eye, and a few years after that, his left eye. Basically, he developed these cataracts, and the ophthalmologist said they were “fluorescent sclera.” The only case of this the ophthalmologist had ever seen; and usually, this is a result of radiation exposure. 

To make the story more interesting, Ray claims that two weeks before his cataract surgery, he had these dreams which were prophetic of the actual surgery. He saw in his dream being wheeled into a room with a green ceiling, and that’s exactly what happened – not sure how he could have known that the ceiling in the surgery room would be green. But what was more interesting was that after the surgery, he had this superhuman vision – he could see auras around everything, as well as all these intricate patterns – he says the kinds of patterns you would see in satins or silks. I’m guessing what he’s talking about is like the paisley designs, but it’s not clear from the book. Honestly, what this sounds like is what you would see if you were on a psychedelic. 

What happens if you eat seeds from within a crop circle? According to one woman, a crop circle formation just shows up in your hair. Just kidding, but one woman reported that she felt like she had taken speed. She felt lots of energy, sleeplessness, nervousness, loss of appetite. A couple of these side effects sound nice. This went on for a while, relative to other drug “trips” if you will because she ate the seeds, and didn’t even feel anything until the next day…then she kept feeling it for 5 days. On the fifth day:

I was flying and it happened very suddenly. I remember walking along a street in Glastonbury when I was overcome by a feeling of total cellular vibration. I stopped and stared at my hands because of what felt like streams of energy pouring out of my palms. It was like the tingling sensation one gets after a limb has “gone to sleep” and The blood starts to flow again. I found I could not focus on anything and was extremely disoriented.

Crop Circles by Lucy Pringle

See, at first when I’m reading this, I’m thinking “wow, that sounds like an amazing trip, give me some seeds!” but the second part of the story doesn’t sound so great. And the energy build up seemed to get even worse, to the point where Barbara got scared. She lay in the grass, and said that letting the energy pour out of her hands seemed to help a bit. Here’s the kicker, she was allergic to wheat! Why, you ask, did she eat it? Well, apparently, she was just struck by this unexplained compulsion to consume the seeds, so she did. Moreover, since the effects of eating the seeds didn’t come to her until the next day, she did not put it together that the seeds might have actually caused the issue. But she got back home, was feeling fine, and decided to eat some of those seeds again!! Once more, she had this rush of energy flow through her body to the point that she thought she was going to spontaneously combust. She also works with electrical equipment, and noticed that a lot of it was shorting out!. 

Then, the sneaky little devil decided to give her coworkers the seeds…and they experienced the same thing! I wonder if she warned them before she gave them the seeds. Sneakier yet, the author claims that she sent Barbara some seeds from a non-crop circle formation, and Barbara ate those, and reported no strange side effects. 

The last crop circle phenomenon I want to touch on is that of time slips. Time slips are a very intriguing phenomenon – perhaps you have seen the show Outlander in which a woman accidentally is thrown back in time, and falls in love with a hot Scottish guy – At first it’s this hot fantasy until you realize that there’s no plumbing. When she is returned to the future, she longs to go back to her hot Scot. Time slippage not withstanding, the most unrealistic part of this show is the idea that a woman can fall so hard in love with a man that she will forgo the conveniences of modern technology to be with him. 

But I digress. Ron Russell, an American artist, was with his friend, John at a formation called the “nested Dragon,” in Avebury Trusloe in August of 1994. He realized when they got to the formation that he had left his film in the car, so he started the walk back, retracing his steps; but as he retraced his steps, he realized that the car wasn’t anywhere in sight. Moreover, the tram lines – which are fairly ever present in these crops – were no longer there. He was sure he was walking the same route back as he did on the way there, though, so he was really confused. Hilariously, the way he describes it is like he thought right away that he had just gone back in time. You know, as one does when one is walking around a crop circle late at night. Anyway, he sees these open fires off in the distance and walks towards them. There he sees these short people walking around them, as well as these thatched huts; so his mind is made up that he’s in the past. He wants to say hi, but realizes that he might get burned at the stake for his attire and camera, so he backtracks to the crop circle.

When he gets there, he tells his friend, “come with me, i’ve found a time door.” Again, this was before the show Outlander was out, so his friend just follows him; but this time around, the car is exactly where it originally was and the door apparently had disappeared. Anyway, he apologizes to John for being gone for so long, but John is like, what are you talking about, you were gone for like 5 minutes…

So that’s it for today’s episode. Thank you for listening, and see you next time!

E6 Miracles: Cured by Jeffrey Rediger MD

Medical disclaimer – before I get into the stories from this book, Let me make it clear that I am not making any medical recommendations, and that these stories are being shared for entertainment purposes only. Consult with your doctor before trying anything.

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This book starts with the story of Claire, a 63 yo soon-to-be retiree looking forward to moving from Oregon to Hawaii, and retiring with her husband. But she starts to experience concerning symptoms, and finds out that she has one of the deadliest cancers out there – pancreatic. And when she met with the surgeon who was going to cut her 2 cm tumor out, he was very honest and straightforward with her that surgery only came with a 5% chance of curing her. Meanwhile, she was almost guaranteed to writhe in pain and suffer the consequences of the procedure for a long time. So she opted out of really undergoing any treatment for her pancreatic cancer.

The author, Jeffrey Rediger, then sort of fast forwards 5 years. Claire is actually undergoing another type of medical test for some other ailment she had. The test involved a scan which happened to include her pancreas….where no sign of the previous cancer was found. Now, Claire had opted out of all conventional treatments (chemo, radiation, surgery), yet here she was cancer free. 

Interestingly, her doctor told her that her experience had no medical value, it was just a fluke. He didn’t ask her what she changed or tried, he just shooed her along.

Here is where Rediger makes sort of the premise of his book, and that is to determine what the people are doing when they are able to cure their ailments. What are their techniques and strategies. And it’s interesting that we do make a point of studying strategies of people like successful athletes or musicians so we can learn from them, but we completely ignore what people who have successfully cured themselves are doing. And that’s basically what he is doing in this book.

The author says that when he was starting his research of spontaneous remission of cancer, he had heard the statistic that 1 in 100 thousand would experience spontaneous remission, but when he looked into the source of this stat, he found that it was basically made up. When he dug into the topic further, it looked like cases of spontaneous remission were actually much higher, and often would spike after big media stories, the release of popular books, or conferences. He said that when he would ask a group of physicians how many of them had observed remissions which had no medical explanation, several hands would always shoot up, but when he would ask them how many of them documented these observations in case studies, all hands went down. So there might be quite a few more spontaneous healings than we know.

Certainly the author, Jeffrey Rediger, was guided by many sources to research the topic of this book. But one of the influences which, at the very least, got him to travel to Brazil to study faith healers there, was a woman in the hospital he worked in, Nikki. Nikki had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and flew to Brazil for healing. After this, she did experience what would appear to be a miraculous recovery for a while, but ended up ultimately succumbing to her disease. And of course, Rediger thought that it was all a sham. People can undergo all sorts of “recoveries” and simply just be experiencing a placebo effect. For example, some people can think that they have been spontaneously healed…but then you can see the tumors growing on their scans, and their lifespan isn’t increased anymore than if they’d received no treatment. But Nikki was so adamant that Rediger at least check it out, that she even got people from her experience in Brazil to contact him, and tell him their stories.

So finally, he decides to check it out. He starts at the Casa de dom Inacio Loyola in Abadiania, Brazil. – this is the place where the famous healer, John of God, operates. And while he was in Brazil, he certainly came across a fair number of miraculous healings. For example, there was one man, who was in his 80s who’d been diagnosed with glioblastoma decades earlier. When he asked the guy if he made any changes in his life, the man said, nothing really. He kind of was attributing his healing to just coming to the Casa of John of God, and that was it. HIs wife, however, was sitting next to him, and said everything had changed. Before the diagnosis, he was a completely absent husband and father, focusing on his job, or going out drinking. After the diagnosis, his focus shifted to the family, and he just became a much more engaged person. 

After hearing many of these stories of healings, Rediger came to the conclusion that something real was happening at the Casa of John of God, but he actually thought it wasn’t anything John of God was doing. Rather, he thought these were people who had made some sort of significant changes in their lives. But what was that?

So, as he sorts through the “what” of these cures, he supports this hypothesis that one of 4 aspects of the patient’s life has gone awry, and needs to be tweaked. These aspects include:

Your immune system, your nutrition, Your stress response, and your identity. In the book, Rediger details nicely a lot of the science that backs up his rationale for each of these different systems possibly contributing to ill health. I just skipped all of that because it bored me, and went straight to the anecdotes. 

  1. Your Immune system:

He cites case studies of patients who were diagnosed with terminal cancers, who then got some sort of infection after a surgery – possibly to remove the tumor, or some of the tumor. And these people are in the hospital a while as their bodies fight this infection which they got as a result of the surgery. Normally, we would say this is a bad thing, but in certain cases, the patients have gone into remission from this incurable disease. The idea is that perhaps their immune system kicked into gear as a result of the infection, and then it went on to do it’s normal job, which is to also get rid of cancer cells.

It’s rare that I learn something from history which truly shocks me, but Rediger reveals in this book that the famous microbiologist, Louis Pasteur, who is the reason for Pasteurization, actually had a really heated debate with another colleague, Antoine Bechamp, over how best to view or approach the topic of these germs which they were only newly discovering at the time. And, if you can imagine at the time, whenever these germs were discovered, they were basically determined to be the culprit behind these terrible diseases, or your favorite cheese going bad too early. So naturally Pasteur and the public supported this scorched earth policy when it came to these microbes – kill them all! And, it’s been years (Pasteurization came out in 1862), but I would say that it’s really only relatively recently that mainstream medicine is starting to recognize that having a healthy balance of microbes might actually be best–well, at least as it pertains to our human biological systems. We now hypothesize that a lot of people who may have received a lot of antibiotic treatments as a kid are more likely to have some sort of chronic condition, and possibly the imbalance of the types of bugs which live in their intestines are the reason why. 

But this ISN’t something that we have only now come to understand. Even as early as when Pasteur was touting his “scorched-earth” recommendation for microbes, another, sorry, French biologist, Antoine Bechamp, was adamant that the specific microbe didn’t really matter. What mattered was the environment or terrain within which the microbe was introduced. Moreover, he had a colleague, Claude Bernard, who agreed with him so strongly, that this dude literally drank a glass of dirty water with Cholera…and he was totally fine. Now this guy must have been so confident because Cholera was one bitch of a disease back then. One last note on this story, as Louis Pasteur lay dying on his deathbed, which is where people go to die, he said, “Bernard was right, the pathogen is nothing; the terrain is everything.”

  1. Healing your Nutrition

Here’s the part where Rediger talks about how diet might impact an incurable disease. He brings up the story of Tom Wood, who had type 2 diabetes. Despite taking an increasing number of medications, his physical condition got worse and worse over time. He had less and less energy, and was experiencing disease of various organs from the high blood sugar. Then, one day, he went on a diet plan which was being advertised with a money back guarantee, and after a month of basically eating vegetarian, possibly vegan, he really had eliminated the need for half of his medications, and he was starting to feel a lot better. Now, he’s lean, no longer diabetic, and is able to walk 3 miles a day – whereas previously he could barely walk 100 feet. 

What was interesting to me here was that his doctor had never seen anyone reverse their disease. This is as recent as within the last 6 years. 

I have to hand it to Rediger here, because my impression from the book is that his preference is a vegan or vegetarian diet; but that doesn’t stop him from relaying the story of Pablo Kelly, who ended up going on a ketogenic diet when he found out that he had terminal glioblastoma multiforme. He started by fasting, which basically depletes the glucose stores in your body, and then he ate only meat, veggies, butter, and nuts. Basically, this just kept the tumor from growing for about 2 years. Then, a surgeon went in and cut out 90% of the tumor, and over the following months, the tendrils basically went away. That would be funny if it was really just the fast that stopped the cancer, and everything else he did was completely unnecessary.

  1. Healing your stress response

To illustrate the impact of stress on the body, Rediger brings up the story of Jan. When Rediger met Jan, he had a picture of her sitting in front of him at his desk (he was interviewing various patients who had healed in Brazil). This picture was from before Jan came to the healing center. When she walked in the room, he could not recognize her from her photo. So Jan’s story started in her teen years, when she struggled to keep awake, falling asleep on her homework. When she reached her twenties, she started getting more symptoms, rupturing a disc in her back. Then, she was diagnosed with something called dry nerve root – which sounds very painful. They had to give her surgery for that, but it put her in a wheelchair for 5 years. Meanwhile, she got married, had kids; but she keep having terrible symptoms — damn, lady, I got two functional legs and I can’t get a dude to save my life. Finally, and way too late, she was diagnosed with Lupus. So all of these terrible symptoms were due to the root cause of an autoimmune condition. By this time, she had so much organ damage from years of not having a diagnosis. Meanwhile, her situation at home wasn’t great. None of the details were shared in the book, but basically her husband left her, and her kids didn’t like her much either–talk about adding insult to injury. That would be funny if it was because she had like 10 different affairs – just men all over town that she was wheeling around to.

Her disease continued to worsen. She was on 15 medications, and really expecting to conk out any time. Interestingly, several people suggested that she go to the healing center in Brazil.

So finally, she was like, what do I have to lose. So she went. At the healing center, Rediger talks about the fact that one of the healing modalities offered was meditation – and people would basically meditate for hours. At one point, the meditation instructor walked up to Jan, and said, “They don’t belong to you.” What? “Your children, they don’t belong to you, they belong to God.”

Now the weight of this failed relationship with her kids had been so heavy on her, that when the instructor said this to her, she basically started crying, and just cried for days. Now, whether this was it or not, Jan started getting better. She started taking fewer and fewer medications. She even weaned off one of her meds so quickly that Rediger thought that alone could have killed her, but she was fine. And only a couple years later, she was unrecognizable. Certainly the fact that she’d lost weight contributed, but Rediger said this was not the only factor making her look so different. She said that she’d walk past people she knew, and they wouldn’t even recognize her.

This is a striking transformation for someone who just started to eat healthy and meditate. 15 medications, relationships with her family so bad that they abandoned her, the brink of multi-organ failure. It supports this theory I have that, if you’re still alive, there’s hope for you. If this woman can turn things around, so many others can do the same.

  1. Healing your Identity

Rediger also writes about Daniel, a 20 something seminary student who was raised in a very strict, conservatively religious household. Daniel felt a lot of guilt and shame about who he was and who he felt that he was supposed to be. He felt like he didn’t deserve to be an ordained pastor. He had a girlfriend, but his relationship was strained with her because of his conflicting feelings around sex and intimacy. At some point, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer; and, at the time, there wasn’t an effective cure for his disease, so it progressed, and he sort of started to prepare for death. Meanwhile, he went to a psychotherapist who did some regressive hypnosis on him. It took him back to when he was a very young boy, and he remembered his great grandmother. He could remember and feel how much unconditional love she showered on him. And, he carried this feeling of unconditional love with him out of the hypnotherapy session. Since he was dying, they asked him for what he wanted, and he said, I want to get ordained, and married. So, he got ordained and married. As he was going through the wedding ceremony, it seemed like he might not even make it through, he was so ghost-like from the advanced cancer. But he was starting to feel pretty good, and after a while, they decided to do scans on him, and low and behold, his tumors seemed to be shrinking–some of them were gone. Pretty soon, he was pronounced cancer free. So was it this new-found unconditional love for himself which somehow taught his body how to rid itself of cancer, or were these two unique events just coincidence.

Ok, I have no idea which of the categories this last story fits into. I would call it spiritual transformation…maybe? Anyway, this story again involves a dude with glioblastoma, his name is Matt Ireland (that’s right, you just heard me say “is” instead of “was,” so there’s a little hint as to how this ends). This guy was living the life – he was in his early twenties, and he was leading ski tours in the winter in Colorado, and mountain biking tours in the summer. Then, he started feeling really depressed, and it was basically out of nowhere because he’d always been so cheery that people would give him flack for that. Then, it started to become clear that something was wrong because he was getting these really bad headaches, pretty much every day, and he was even getting nauseated and dizzy – pretty concerning symptoms. Long story short, he’s got aggressive GBM. He can barely pay for the treatments, and his health is just getting worse and worse. He ends up going home to live with his mom–probably thinking that death is around the corner. But he hadn’t completely given up. He did try changing his diet to increase the nutrient density of his food – I’m not sure what that looked like or if it was similar to the ketogenic diet that Pablo had done; but whatever it was, it really didn’t seem to make a big difference. A friend of his mom’s ended up hearing about him, and she had had her own miracle healing in Brazil, so she suggested he go there; when he said that he couldn’t pay for the ticket, she was like, dude, if money is the only thing keeping you from going, I’ll pay. 

So he rented this small room on the outside of town in Brazil, and the first night, he had what he called a dream, but was more like a vision. In fact, nothing about it seemed like a dream, even after he’d woken up – it was so real to him. But in this vision, this woman came out of the bathroom. The light around her, or coming from her was so bright, that he couldn’t see her or make out any detail. And she put her hands on his head. And I’m going to read from the book:

In that moment he felt the most powerful physical sensation that melted from the crown of his head, over his shoulders, and down his body, all the way to his toes. “It was a feeling of pure love, perfection, light, God, whatever you want to call it.  It was like when you get the chills only multiplied by 50 thousand.

Cured by Jeffrey Rediger

So, similarly to Daniel in the previous story, Matt carried this feeling around with him while he was in Brazil. Eventually he returned home for a while. He was actually feeling and doing pretty well. He didn’t know how well, since he didn’t want to get an MRI – basically because he just didn’t want to know. But the community at home in Vermont was a little more negative. They would pressure him to get treatments, even though he knew those made little difference. Another friend of his mom’s heard the story and was like, well, it kind of sounds like going to Brazil did the trick – so maybe you should just go back. So he was like, ok. When he made it back to Brazil, he went to an internet cafe, and met this woman, and basically fell in love at first sight. He was with her from that moment on, and they got married and just made a life for themselves in Brazil.

Two years went by, and he’d been avoiding any diagnostic imaging, I kind of don’t blame him. But he finally decided to get another MRI, and, as you might have guessed, there was really nothing there, not even a brain, just kidding. There was really no sign of a tumor, other than something that could have just been residual scar tissue. To top that, he wasn’t supposed to be able to have children due to the treatments he’d undergone, but he now has two kids, and they’re both super fucked up. Just kidding. He now has two healthy kids; and if you ask him what he attributes his health to, “It was love that healed me. To me, that’s what God is, that’s what life is. That’s what getting better is, it’s love.”

This sounds very suspiciously like someone who has had a very powerful psychedelic experience. Was the experience with the woman under the influence of mushrooms? Is the healing center in Brazil also an Ayahuasca retreat? If so, Rediger gave no mention of that. Perhaps he felt like he couldn’t write it in the book? I have no idea. 

That’s it for this time. See you next time.

E4 Psychism: Phenomena by Annie Jacobsen

In this book, Annie Jacobsen dives into the evidence that the US government funded research into so-called psi phenomenon, including extrasensory perception and remote viewing.

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At first, most paranormy’s like myself get really excited because we think this points to proof that all of this exists (assuming we still need proof), but I want to point out that Annie Jacobsen makes a point of not taking a stance on either the paranormal or normal side in an effort to maintain journalistic integrity.

One interesting point which she brings up when she’s setting the stage for her book is the percentage of people who actually believe in the paranormal:

73% say they have had a supernatural or paranormal experience, and 55% believe in psychic or spiritual healing. Many Americans also believe in extrasensory perception or telepathy (41%); believe that extraterrestrials have visited the Earth (29%); or say they’ve seen a ghost (18%). A minority (27%) do not believe in anything Supernatural [and have dull, meaningless, lives]. This group includes scientific Skeptics, who are also an important part of this story. 

The story begins in Nazi Germany, in May of 1941. Rudolf Hess, who is the deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich, climbs into a fighter bomber, and flies himself all the way to Ireland, where he jumps out of his plane and parachutes into a field. His plan is to surrender and try to broker a deal with England. But surprisingly, when he lands, he was immediately arrested by the English.

What inspired this high ranking Nazi official to jump ship? I wish I could answer that it was because Rudolf Hess had recognized his boss to be a megalomaniacal psychopath, but no–from the data we can see [and, mind you, the official story will not be released until 2041] Hess made the decision to defect…because of astrology. 

Allegedly, while Hess was serving a life sentence in prison, he told a buddy that he defected because he had a prophetic, supernatural, dream. This dream was inspired by the star charts constructed by his two chief astrologers.

So that’s one part of the story. The other part is that a famous witch in Britain, Sybil Leek, faked star charts. I know very little about astrology, so I’m not sure how this would work, but apparently, she created star charts which convinced Hess that he needed to defect.

The British were not above using fake astrology against the US as well. This was before the US had joined the war efforts, and the British felt in desperate need of help from the US; so they started an elaborate fake news campaign using Louis De Wohl, a high profile astrologer at the time, as their muse. De Wohl would make some interesting predictions about happenings with the Nazis, and then the British would feed fake news stories confirming the prediction to the US press. These stories could not be confirmed by the US with the Reich, so they would just get printed.

This really makes one wonder about what sorts of fakeries have been put on in today’s era to sway public opinion. 

After the war was over, there was a bit of an arms race between the US and the Soviet Union. It was somewhat clear that the Nazis had created pretty advanced weapons, and the Yanks and the Commies wanted first dibs. 

While that all might sound purely technological and rational, there was plenty of evidence to suggest that high ranking German officials had put a significant amount of energy, if you will, into the topic of the occult. When the Allies raided Nazi strongholds, they made off with many occult artifacts – 

No one knows which side of the Soviets and Americans got what, but there was certainly a lot of posturing.

Soviets: Oh we’ve got a talisman which allows us to see in the future

US: We’ve got a guy who can bend spoons

Soviets: Oh, well we’ve got a guy who can stop your heart with his mind

US: Yeah, well we’ve got a guy who can stop your mind with his heart

Soviets: That doesn’t make sense

One concerning trend which arose in this post-war era was an interest in mind control and psychic phenomenon.

Apparently, the Russians believed that if they pointed an electromagnetic “ray gun” at an enemy, they could distort the enemy’s perception, maybe give them a case of schizophrenia or the pox, whatever. 

How do we know this? Well, in 1962, the Americans were doing a routine security sweep of their embassy in Moscow. They were really looking for listening devices, but what they found were a series of multiple microwave frequencies aimed directly at the offices of the US Ambassador, and some top officials. They could even tell the building within which these signals were coming from. And, they came up with a lovely pet name for the device which was emitting this signal, “MUTS” or “Moscow Unidentified Technical Signal.” 

So, in the story of what should have happened, the Americans quickly rushed the Ambassador and colleagues off of the premises in an effort to keep them safe and preserve their mental function. But as you may have guessed from the sarcasm dripping from my voice, that’s not what happened. Instead, the US State Dept decided to keep them there, and just watch what happened to them. They even took blood from the officials at the embassy, and they told them that there was a virus going around, and they wanted to test them. They code named this, the Moscow Viral Study.

Meanwhile, back in the states, they setup a faraday cage, and put monkeys in it and blasted them with these rays to see what would happen. The person in charge of this work, Richard Cesaro, was very quickly convinced that the rays would cause internal organ damage; and, possibly of most concern, Alzheimer’s disease.

Back in Moscow, the experiment continued for 2 years. And the only reason it was stopped, was because some civilian officials in the US found out about what was going on. So, finally, someone who wasn’t a sociopath put the brakes on this research. 

Interestingly, there was still a debate about whether these beams were all that harmful. Dr. Samuel Koslov insisted that the beams were just fine. Later, in his journals, he wrote, “The actual physical results were non-existent, but the real psychological trauma (in this case in a group of well-educated and dedicated people) was sad and startling.” 

But enough of the stories from the world of the normys. Now, we get to learn about the original bad boys of Psy: Uri Gellar, Ingo Swann, and Pat Price – no dorkier statement has ever been made.

In the early 70s, Uri Gellar was this handsome and charismatic twenty something in Israel. He claims that he started having abilities at a young age – some examples being that he could bend spoons, and watches would just stop working around him – so he seemed to have some interesting psychokinetic abilities. Some of the tricks he would perform included asking someone to pick a number between 0 and 100 thousand, and then showing them a piece of paper in his hand with that exact number on it. There was a man named Amnon Rubenstein, who was the host of a popular talk show in Israel. He claims that he was pretty skeptical of this type of stuff, but when Gellar performed this exact trick on him, he rapidly became a believer. He had Gellar perform the same trick for his entire family, and sat astonished as Gellar produced pieces of paper which had the exact number that these people were thinking in their heads. 

The way Rubenstein describes this is that Gellar had this ability to plant thoughts into others minds. 

Probably one of the most significant events to launch Gellar’s renown happened in the fall of 1970. He was giving a telepathy demonstration, when all of the sudden, he seemed to be overtaken with, well, basically heart attack symptoms. He even asked if there was a doctor in the house. Then, he told the audience that a historic event had just taken place or was about to, and then he said that the president of Egypt is dead or is about to die. And it turned out, he was spot on correct. This was so shocking, that Gellar really became famous in Israel after this, but then his fame just dwindled, and eventually, he was just playing at nightclubs. So, to the Israelis, Gellar was just a parlor trickster, but to the US CIA, his abilities were potentially of great value, so off to CA he went. And it was here that he met physicist Hal Puthoff at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI).

From there, Gellar was soon to become acquainted with Ingo Swann, another person with special abilities. The story of Ingo Swann should be its own podcast, but I’ll just give a little preamble about how Swann grew to renown. Basically, he volunteered as a guinea pig for the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR). One of the experiments he participated in involved him sitting in a chair, and figuring out what the contents were of a box across the room which was suspended from the ceiling. He claims that he would float out of his body and take a look at what was in the box. The results from this experiment were so astounding, that Swann became an overnight celebrity in NYC. but with the celebrity came gossip. Gossip about his sexual orientation as well as the pornography he wrote. 

This didn’t sit well with Swann, so he decided to head out to Hal Puthoff’s lab at SRI, and really prove what he had. But Swann was a bit thrown off by the very first test he was put to. Puthoff took him into a room, where 9 scientists were standing, and asked him to affect the readings of a magnetometer. The output from this machine was like that classic pen drawing on paper as it scrolls by – like a lie detector. At the moment, the output was just a straight line because the machine had been set to not detect quarks, it’s primary function. 

But when Swann asks where the actual machine is, he finds out that it’s 5 feet below encased in cement. He starts to get angry, how am I supposed to affect something, and I’m not even sure what it is. This is stressful because people are already laughing at him in NYC, and he really wants to prove himself. So he starts probing around below with his mind. He does something, and asks if that had any impact – it does not. He can see that two of the scientists are smirking, and this is really building the tension he feels. Then he gets an idea, and asks for some paper to draw on. He draws what he thinks is the magnetometer, and points to a part of it and asks, is that the Josephson’s junction. If so, I think I can see it quite well.” 

Immediately, when he says this, the reading from the magnetometer jumps. All eyes in the room move to it. It moves a bit more, and Swann asks if that’s an effect. Puthoff asks him to repeat it once more, and he does. Everyone in the room is stunned, and two of the scientists just run out of the room. One of them is so freaked out that he hits his head on a structural support on the way out.

So it wasn’t long after this that the CIA knocked on Hal Puthoff’s door and became heavily involved in the research going on at SRI. But the CIA was skeptical, and they were going to introduce their own controls into the matter. During one session with Ingo Swann, he was again identifying objects which were hidden in a box. One of the CIA officials thought that maybe they were cheating, so he decided to introduce his own test. So he went outside and caught a live brown moth, put it in a box, and asked Swann to ID. Swann said, “I see Something small, brown, and irregular, sort of like a leaf or something that resembles it. Except that it seems very much alive, like it’s even moving.”

Sounds like a brown moth to me.

This is pretty striking evidence in my mind, but I thought for a moment, what if the CIA made the story up, in an effort to mislead the Soviets. This is a possibility, but the author did pull this story from documents which were classified at the time, so this wasn’t exactly broadcast to the media. 

This is where Uri Gellar jumps back into the story. He arrives at SRI and is subjected to a battery of psychic tests from Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ for around 9 days. They report all sorts of amazing capabilities which Gellar has, but analysts from the CIA look into these results and think that Targ and Puthoff are being completely fooled by Gellar. The author doesn’t make it totally clear of any examples of tests which were affected by poor experimental conditions, she just labels what the poor experimental conditions were. This includes 1. Loose laboratory controls, 2. Skewing of data, and 3. This idea that the fact that the scientists conducting the experiment already have expectations which are affecting the results. The skewing of data is the most concerning issue listed here. I would really have liked to have seen some examples of this.

So by the summer of 1973, there was still some skepticism coming from the CIA towards SRI regarding whether they really were demonstrating psy phenomena. This was when Ingo Swann came up with an idea to use coordinates on a map. He could float his consciousness over to those coordinates, and describe what he saw. Puthoff suggested this experiment to Kit Green at the CIA, and Green agreed to it. 

And, as a little introduction to who Kit Green was, he was basically there to figure out what neurophysiologic components spurred psy phenomena. But he was pretty skeptical that anything was really going on, like many others at the CIA. One day, though, he received a call from Puthoff. Now, he’s sitting in his office in the CIA where he works on highly classified projects. Puthoff tells him that he has to greenlight this work because Gellar really can see things at a distance. Green says something like, no he can’t. Puthoff has Gellar in the office with him, so he hands the phone to Gellar. Gellar then suggests that Puthoff pick a book from his shelf, and open up to a page in this book. Green flips to a page which has a cross section of a brain on it, and Green had written on this page, “Architecture of a viral infection.” over in the SRI offices, Gellar draws a pan of scrambled eggs, and says that he has the word “architecture” coming in strong. How in the world could he have known that? Now this experience opens Green’s mind up a little bit more to the idea that something real was actually going on over at SRI.

Fast forward to the first remote viewing experiment using map coordinates in May of 1973. Puthoff suggests this experiment to Green. Green then thinks that a great fraud protection scheme is to get the coordinates for the experiment from a guy down the hall who doesn’t know anything about what the experiment is. This guy, by the way, went by the name Russ, and Green didn’t even know his real name because his security clearance was so high. Russ provides coordinates, and over at the SRI, Swann is sitting in a faraday cage when he hears them. He remote views to the place. Here is his first description:

There seems to be some sort of mounds and Rolling Hills, there is a city to the north. This seems to be a strange place, somewhere like The Lawns one would find around a military base, but I get the impression that there are either some old bunkers around, or maybe this is a covered Reservoir. There must be a flagpole, some highways to the West, possibly a river over to the Far East, to the South more City.

Phenomena by Annie Jacobsen

Swann then goes home, and the next morning, he has more images which he has captured. He draws a picture of the area which is much more detailed, and he says that he gets the impression that there is something underground, and he wonders if it is a former nike base (which is a missile launch center). He describes a circular drive with a flagpole. A circular building, and then two rectangular buildings and a smaller square one. It’s very plausible, since Swann was no longer being monitored, that he could have cheated. The nature of the cheating was unclear to me, though. Could he have driven to the location and scoped it out in one night? He definitely could have looked it up on a map, but some of the detail I am skeptical he could guess. 

So perhaps now, as you’re listening, you might think, well, he might have driven there overnight, and then made some guesses about the underground part…I’m still not really sure if I believe any of this. If any of you are still skeptical, listen on

I now introduce you to Pat Price. Six months before this remote viewing experiment, Pat Price was selling Puthoff a Christmas tree, and suggested that he could help with the experiments they were doing at the SRI. Puthoff listens to him and is like, “sure you can, crazy cakes.”

Well, the day after Swann provides his results, Puthoff is sitting in his office and he gets a call from Price. Now, this is around 6 months after their first encounter, and it seems so coincidental to Puthoff that Price would call him at this time, that he just gives him the coordinates as well. 

The next day, Price mails in his viewing report. He includes a lot of detail, such as the weather in the sky above the site. Then, he describes a site which he thinks may be a former missile site – like what Swann had mentioned. Price then goes into even more detail:

Area now houses record storage areas, microfilm, file cabinets, as you go into underground area through aluminum roll up doors, first areas filled with records. Rooms about a hundred feet long, 4 feet wide, 20 foot ceilings.

Phenomena by Annie Jacobsen

Then Price gives a description as though he was able to get into the underground facility. He describes things like file cabinets with security locks, several bays with computers, and communications equipment. The level of detail he provides is so extensive, that Puthoff is like, “am I being punked?” He wonders if the CIA has planted this guy. He then asks Price to provide more specific information – i have no clue why. Price ends up giving him details like names and other code words he finds. He even figures out that the name of the place is Sugar Grove. 

Puthoff doesn’t really know what to do with this information, but it doesn’t escape him that Price and Swann both have provided views with some common characteristics. He ends up submitting only Swann’s info to Green at the CIA. Green provides the views to Top-Secret Russ, and Russ says, “What a stupid imagery system you’re working on.” It turns out none of the detail was accurate, the circular driveway, the flagpole, everything. The site was actually only Russ’ summer cabin in West Virginia.

So Green calls Puthoff to tell him the news, and as they are hanging up, Puthoff says, “That’s too bad. The other guy saw the same thing.” He then tells Green all about Pat Price’s remote viewing experience. This doesn’t sit well with Green, so he just decides to take a trip out to West Virginia to see for himself. He gets to the site, sees the cabin, and just decides to drive up the gravel road a little further. And what does he find, but a top secret military base called the Naval Radio Station, Sugar Grove. Here’s a quote from Kit Green in the book:

The names on the folders were correct, referring to the names provided by price. The measurements of the details was correct. The location of the doors and the elevator, the number of floors, where the cabinets were located. The color of the cabinet was correct, it didn’t take judging, it didn’t take statistical processing it was all correct.

Phenomena by Annie Jacobsen

It was so correct, in fact, that the CIA security officers launched a full investigation into the possibility of a treasonous violation of the Espionage Act. Everyone was cleared of course. 

So Top Secret Russ didn’t know his house was down the road from a top secret military base! That’s the coincidence of all coincidences.  This makes me think there are top secret military bases just everywhere

Welcome to Tiny Town, Virginia! Population 3018. If you go down first street, you’ll find our Dairy Queen, Over on the left there, you can see our first Methodist church, oh and down that abandoned looking dirt road is a top secret military base. But make sure you don’t mention it to anyone, that would be treason, punishable by death. Make sure to stop by our visitor center.

So, I’m going to stop there. The book actually has quite a lot more fascinating detail, so if you think what I’ve covered is interesting, you might want to pick it up.

See you next time, Some bat-shit time, same bat-shit place

E7 Miscellaneous: My Awakening Story by Savanna Steele

This is a podcast just about me and why I am here talking about paranormal stuff. I talk about what I have experienced, including an EVP which I discovered in episode 6! I wasn’t even interested in EVPs until that happened – and that’s the least interesting thing to happen. Enjoy!

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