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We’re in our happy place this week, exploring the overlap between ancient wisdom and modern science (can you guess who’s late to the party?) around the topic of actual auras (ultra-weak photon emissions), and then geeking out over mysterious objects in pre-satellite skies. Finally…MORE blurry Bigfoot footage! Also, more pertinently, indigenous “cryptid” legends. Highlights: A new reveals human brains emit detectable light that changes with mental states - auras, basically Is “we been knew” the perfect idiom for when white people "discover" things that Indigenous cultures and Eastern philosophies have known forever? We don’t actually “see” anything with our eyes - our brains construct reality from sensory input plus memory plus interpretation Case in point, Mal’s therapist refusing Zoom sessions because “I can’t feel your heart” Thank you project VASCO for discovering dozens (at least) of satellite-like objects in the sky BEFORE humans supposedly put anything in orbit One of the clearest pre-satellite anomalies appeared on July 27th, 1952 - the exact date of the famous Washington DC UFO flap If secret satellites were hiding in the clean skies of the 1940s and 50s, today's orbital debris provide the perfect camouflage A new video shows a dog watching a dark bipedal figure moving with characteristic "gliding" motion The footage shows curious, hide-and-seek behavior typical of teenagers Connections to the “Wild Woman of the Woods,” a First Nations supernatural being that is actually a symbol of feminine wisdom, wealth, and rites of passage How we consistently misunderstand and fear feminine wisdom Mal sings us some Janice Kapp Perry re: “countenances” Occam's Razor vs. Occam’s Sledgehammer: A scene from Signs reminds us that “rational” explanations can be more absurd than the “irrational” ones (Much more at godsghostsufos.com) *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First up this week, we’re unpacking some statistics about American belief in a grab bag of paranormal buzzwords, followed by a richly deserved take-down of a rhetorically lazy debunking documentary (which also happens to be splattered with AI slop), and then finally (blessedly) discussing an esteemed neurobiologist’s convincing claim that DMT aliens are real. Highlights: * A big Gallup poll shows that believe in paranormal phenomena is strongly correlated with distrust of institutions * There are literally more self-identified witches (~1.5 million) than Presbyterians (~1.4 million) in America, representing massive growth from 8,000 self-described Wiccans in 1990 * "Witch" originally meant "skilled with medicines and charms" but became associated with "ugly, crabbed, malignant woman" by the 1400s—misogyny dressed as spirituality * Also: "Old wives' tales" is just another way to dismiss feminine wisdom, while Tolkien wrote "pay heed to the tales of old wives—they alone keep in memory what was once needful for the wise to know" * Gender is a spectrum, not an oppositional binary, but a spectrum of complementary forces * New York Post reporter Steven Greenstreet's “Pentagon Ghost Busters” documentary uses classic schoolyard bully tactics to dismiss UAP experiencers * Lazy rhetoric: attacking people for being Mormon, speaking at Bigfoot festivals, or having NDEs instead of addressing their actual claims * If something you're reading makes you mad, that's probably what it was designed to do * Me Too for UAP experiencers * J.B. Pritzker's wisdom: "The kindest person in the room is often the smartest"—cruelty reveals intellectual laziness and fear-based thinking * Neurobiologist Andrew Gallimore's book "Death by Astonishment" argues that DMT aliens are real non-human intelligences, not brain hallucinations * People consistently report similar alien encounters, impossible architectures, and receiving unknowable information during DMT trips * Gallimore doesn't think human brains are capable of fabricating "entirely non-human worlds in such exquisite and dynamic detail" * Rather, DMT might activate brain regions that connect us to outside entities using our own neural world-building tools as interface * Ego Death in 30 Seconds: DMT "obliterates our most cherished assumptions about who we are, where we are, and how advanced we really are" So much more at ggupodcast.substack.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we’re sampling another flavor of AI doom, and chasing that with a quick look into one of the most genuinely mysterious and legitimately joyful mysteries to float out of the world of UAPs in the past month. Highlights: * A listener’s take on the term “NPC” * Friend of the show Lisa will be joining us to share her extensively documented ghost stories (we want your questions!) — and if you missed it, you can read about one of those experiences here * The latest British crop circle appeared in Wiltshire featuring a Celtic knot design * A breakdown of why some crop circles some are genuine mysteries while others are obvious hoaxes, plus the economic reality facing farmers * Could AI be actually evil? The evidence is increasingly compelling * Jordan promises to release a bonus episode of a conversation he had with Claude about its own sociopathic proclivities * Our only hope: relationships of trust within authentic human communities * The Buga Sphere! A soccer ball-sized metal orb with variable weight and no visible seams steals our hearts * Other Spheres! The 1973 Betz sphere that hummed back at guitar music and rolled around on its own (until it mysteriously didn’t) * A quick take on AARO’s (the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) report that there is “no evidence of off-world technology” For best results, come find us at godsghostsufos.com SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we’re making fun of people who are smarter than us about simulation theory, and grousing about the art of summoning dollars from dread. Also, when it comes to a mysterious pulsing star, we’re reminded that when you can’t rule anything out, that includes aliens. Here’s the beats: * A better breakdown of why we’re on Substack (hint: it makes it easier to email us) * A listener story about a miracle healing * The real ones are anti-cringe * Tom’s essay on the Gospel of Thomas is our first official GGU library entry * A NASA scientist spent 1,500 hours investigating unexplained pulses from a distant star (and still has no idea what it is) * Melvin Vopson thinks gravity itself might suggest we're living in a simulation * Is this just ancient mysticism dressed up in modern physics language? * Jordan argues simulation theory is not only unfalsifiable, it’s used to dehumanize people as "NPCs" * How we keep explaining the universe through our latest technology * An infamous haunted doll sells tickets * Unsettling antique store encounters with genuinely unsettling items * How selling fear undermines authentic spiritual connection * A listener review For best results, hit us up at godsghostsufos.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From medical miracles to psychic powers and the enigma of consciousness, here’s what’s up this week: * The story of Jacqueline Duffin, an atheist hematologist who helped confirm a miracle for a Catholic saint’s canonization * What it takes for the Catholic Church to call something a miracle — think serious disease, failed treatments, and an inexplicable recovery (that lasts at least 10 years) * Miracles as mysteries — stuff that happens according to laws and forces we don’t yet understand * A study from the Allen Institute pitting two theories of consciousness—Integrative Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT)—against each other in an adversarial collaboration. Spoiler: Both are kinda right, kinda wrong, and consciousness is still a giant mystery. * How “adversarial collaboration” forces competing theories to design experiments together and reduce cognitive biases. Yay science! * A 2024 study in Cortex suggests the frontal lobe might be block psychic abilities. More evidence that the brain is a filter for reality * How psi phenomena might peak when brain activity dips, like during near-death experiences * Some research about earthworms and finches showing precognitive behavior * Channeling The Telepathy Tapes, Mal connects the dots between the Cortex study and research on autism. Does atypical frontal lobe development naturally boost psychic sensitivity? * The slow thaw of academic stigma around studying the woo * In a slimy tangent, Tom looks up the four bodily humors—blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm. Jordan’s Team Blood, Tom’s Team Yellow Bile, and Mal’s undecided. * Oh hey, have you guys heard of YouTube? Last time we begged… And some people left comments, and it made us feel so fuzzy we thought we might die of coziness. This time, here are some Q’s we legit want A’s to: * Have you (or someone you know) ever experienced an actual miracle? If so, say more, fam. * Is orthodoxy always bad? * If there was a way to zap your frontal cortex offline, would you do it? * What do you hope lab-coat wearing science nerds study next, now that the stigma is finally sloughing off the world of woo? * Lastly, most importantly, Team Blood or Team Bile? (Make the right choice.) And as always, if you’ve got a story of any kind, any kind at all, lay it on us at godsghostsufos.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First off, a big welcome to everyone who found us through Kelly Chase and her truly excellent Cosmosis Podcast. This week, we’re going to talk about what to do when your chatbot thinks you’re Jesus, then celebrate the recent neuroscience of lucid dreaming, and finally take some time to make fun of a new mathematical model of dark energy we don’t really understand at all. Episode Highlights: * A Reddit thread and Rolling Stone investigation reveals people severing ties with family members and dropping careers based on AI-generated "spiritual fantasies" * Is AI designed to exploit our psychological vulnerabilities? Are tech companies creating "personalization loops" that transform our egos into addictive dopamine hits? Obviously yes. * Mal saves us from our doomerism by pointing out the bell curve of engagement - not everyone will fall victim to AI's dark side, and this crisis could push us to better define our humanity * Some neat new research on lucid dreaming that reveals it's a distinct state of consciousness with its own unique neural signature * Are dreams allergic to ego? * Mal shares insights from keeping a dream journal and how she discovered patterns in her dreams that correspond to her stress levels * Tom shares his experience of being visited by dead loved ones in dreams, knowing "it was that person and not some product of a closed system" * CS Lewis's metaphor of science as the gaze of the basilisk - "everything it looks at dies" - and how isolation is literally fatal. (Here’s a link to that quote from Basilisk by Paul Kingsnorth.) * Is there a meaningful difference between the study of dark energy and Harry Potter fanfiction? * Tom closes with the perfect dark energy dad joke. Talk to us! Please! We’re so lonely! Your hopes, your fears, your anti-materialist screeds…we want to hear it all. As Jordan says, "We need something else to talk about other than the freaking headlines." Find us at godsghostsufos.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After recording without Mal last week (which she graciously calls her "favorite episode yet"), we’re pleased as peaches all three of us could be back together to run through a bunch of headlines that promised more than they delivered. Oh, except for the giant squid. That thing was awesome. Episode Highlights: * Tom declines to share details about his past life (and promises to tell us off-air, which he did by the way — in case you needed a little envy on your way in) * A clickbait article called "Is This The Tomb of Jesus?" about….some pollen * So we take a detour into the history of Jesus's purported burial sites worldwide, including claims in Japan where locals believe Jesus fled across Siberia, became a rice farmer, and died at age 106. No, we’re not making this up. * The first-ever footage of a living colossal squid, captured 600 meters beneath the sea by a research vessel — actually as cool as it sounds * We know nothing about our oceans * Mal worries we’ll get bored by all the fantastic discoveries. Jordan suggests that “boredom is a choice” * A comically underwhelming story about "strange writing in the desert" * This inspired a conversation about pareidolia — our tendency to see meaningful patterns (like faces) in random stimuli * Has the balance shifted in the West? Are the materialists now in a shrinking minority? * How to face difficult times with spiritual centering * Developing "cosmic trust" even when life feels like being a fish "ripped out of the water, tagged, and thrown back in" (a metaphor courtesy of Kelly Chase, friend of the show) * Tarot's Tower card: sometimes structures must fall to make way for something better For best results, join us on Substack! *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today it's just Tom and Jordan, bromancing their way along a philosophical journey through reincarnation, the nature of consciousness, and what life might lie beyond this mortal coil. Normally, we like to cover some headlines, but with Mal unable to join us this week, and considering the pretty big personal headline for Jordan (another baby!), we decided to forgo the typical format, and instead spend some quality time on the eternal questions of existence, rebirth, and unconditional love. Episode Highlights: * The birth of Jordan’s third kid — Sylas — nine days old at the time of this recording * Tom suggest's a discussion on “the transmigration of souls" * Jordan’s confidence in the "cosmopolitan nature of life" that awaits us beyond our physical experience * Tom is convinced reincarnation is real, referencing research from a Virginia professor who documented compelling cases of children with detailed memories of past lives * The story of Tom's daughter Evelyn making a Buddhist-like hand gesture as an infant * Tom believes he knows who he was in a previous life and plans to visit England to "reconnect" with this past identity * Jordan explores whether memories of past lives might actually be a form of telepathic connection to the Akashic record rather than literal reincarnation * By the way, what even is the Akashic record? * The world is a school * Overlap between Christianity and Buddhism, with a reference to CS Lewis's dimensional metaphor in "Mere Christianity" * How having a baby reminds us that we are all God's babies * Unconditional love is the birthright of every human being. It cannot be lost. We’ll be back next week with the whole team, and no more baby talk. (Well, less anyway.) In the meantime, if you haven't yet, come talk to us at godsghostsufos.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s not for nothing that “Gods” is the first word in the name of this show. Today, we’re talking about the Catholic Church's rigorous miracle verification process, and some (okay one in particular) truly bizarre holy relics. If we had to pick a theme, it would probably be the way humans imbue objects with meaning and power. Highlights: * Tom shares a recent article about the Catholic Church's confirmation of a 72nd miracle at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France * The surprisingly rigorous process the Catholic Church uses to verify miracles (out of 7,000+ investigated cases) * What if “the placebo effect” is actual magic? * Tom introduces the concept of "egregors" – non-physical entities or thought forms that arise from collective thoughts and emotions * An article in Daily Mail about the most clickbaity holy relic of them all: the alleged foreskin of Christ * That time when Nat Turner's body got turned into "relics" after his execution * Charged objects versus the Ship of Theseus * How the veneration of objects isn't limited to religious contexts, but extends to family heirlooms, collectibles, and status in modern life If you listen through to the end, you’ll hear Tom’s frankly desperate plea for you to share your stories with us. We also recorded Part 2 of our conversation about Mal's mind-blowing silent retreat experience immediately after this episode. Here’s Part 1 If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit godsghostsufos.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alright alright, we’re back to UFOs. It wasn’t our fault Skywatcher released a “taxonomy” of nine different types of UFOs last week. And then, naturally, it only made sense to talk about abductions. “Abductions”? Who knows! We sure don’t. At the end, Mal teases her profound experience from a seven-day silent retreat that left her feeling "shaken up like a can of soda." Episode Highlights: * Skywatcher is a collective of UAP researchers who claim to have established a "living taxonomy" of nine different types of UFOs, from tetrahedrons to "blobs" * Are these things intentionally teasing us into trying harder to understand them? * Why are UFO encounters always framed as frightening? Maybe they’re…fun. "We’re talking about hornets and eggs and tic tacs. It's just a bunch of bugs in my backyard" * The militaristic language used by Skywatcher, with Tom reading their website copy in his best WWE voice * Philip Kinsella's claims of being "levitated and moved through his house before being strapped naked to a board and probed" * Fran Drescher (from 'The Nanny') claims both she and her former partner were abducted by aliens * John Mack on the challenge of reconciling alien abduction accounts with conventional reality * Ethical complications around hypnotherapy * Unexpectedly bright light from a 13.5 billion-year-old galaxy * A seven-day silent retreat that left Mal feeling like "Mrs. Potato Head with all the pieces put in the wrong places" * The full silent retreat story continues exclusively on the Substack (godsghoststufos.com) Remember to join us at GodsGhostsUFOs.com to share your own experiences, and continue the conversation with other "terminally curious" people. *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we’re talking about increased sightings of a legendary dinosaur in the Congo, the CIA's psi-quest for the Lost Ark, and asteroids filled with DNA (basically). Highlights: * How the failed Kickstarter turned out to be a blessing in disguise * Mal teases an intense seven-day silent retreat experience that left her feeling "all shaken up like a can of soda" * Increased sightings of the Mokele-mbembe, a legendary water-dwelling dinosaur * A recently resurfaced CIA document about remote viewing the Ark of the Covenant (declassified 25 years ago but suddenly making headlines for some reason?) * The Ark as ancient technology - "a mobile God phone" with a "mercy seat" * Discovering DNA building blocks and essential minerals for life on an asteroid * The inevitability of life emerging versus the entropy of the universe * Tom: "All objects are manifestations of thought forms" * Jordan: "Does a tree die because it stops paying attention to itself?" You’ve got stories. Hauntings, UFO sightings, dreams and visions, near death experiences, encounters with strange beings… Whatever it is, we want to hear about it. Come talk to us at godsghostsufos.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Mal, Tom, and Jordan dive into the nature of time and some compelling video of a can of soda. Highlights: * A new University of Surrey study suggests time might flow in both directions * Is linear time an illusion we've constructed to process information? * That time Tom's daughter predicted a future accident * How our brains might be filters for reality rather than gatherers of information * A quote from The Kybalion on the principle of polarity and how opposites are "identical in nature but different in degree" * Tom talks about how meditation and music helped him experience time differently * A viral video from a Wyoming jail where a soda can mysteriously slides across a table * Jordan offers possible scientific explanations while admitting "I don't want any of them to be true" * What would constitute adequate investigation of paranormal claims? * We dream about one day fielding investigators to examine strange phenomena * “Open-minded skepticism" is the best approach to unexplained events You’ve got stories. We want to hear them. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit godsghostsufos.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Vatican-certified miracles to possible hoaxes to potentially malevolent balls of light, this week’s episode is a reminder that the world is full of hope and horror. Oh, also lots of comically stupid grifters. Hooray! Highlights: * Pope Leo XIV declares Rhode Island's first official miracle: a premature baby Tyquan (born 2007) came back to life after an hour of failed resuscitation * The bureaucracy of miracle approvals * We’re definitely on team Father Valera for Sainthood, who took care of sick people during a brutal 1860s cholera epidemic * Once again, what are miracles but mysteries? * Professional debunker Mick West claims to have spotted fishing line in latest Buga sphere video * Original witnesses David Velez and rancher William Zuniga now appear as regular cast members on Jaime Maussán's very silly TV show as "UFO Hunters" * Trust no one — known charlatan OR dogmatic debunkers * Why might true believers make stuff up? * The Min Min Lights actively stalk people across Australia’s Outback * Aboriginals believe these are spirits of elders protecting the land; scientists suggest…bioluminescent owls(??) * Fairy light vibes: beckoning witnesses to follow, then disappearing them forever * Some people find the lights beautiful and peaceful, others feel terror, some follow and never return * Trust your gut. It’s wiser than you think. * PS - Tom promises to drop fewer f-bombs. (And we promise to bleep the ones that come through.) You can go ahead and let the kids back in, now. Come on over. *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Biggest Podcast in the Universe For the inaugural episode of Gods, Ghosts & UFOs, it seemed fitting to tackle the subject that has been smashing into the walls of consensus reality like a battering ram. In late 2024, UFO sightings became so pervasive across so much of the country (and, if you were paying attention, in many other parts of the world, too) that the story made headlines in every major news outlet. Most of these were probably drones and boring old airplanes. But probably not all of them. So we decided to jump into the conversation by interrogating our own ideas and assumptions, consulting an AI correspondent named Agnes, and calling in an expert on the topic — Kelly Chase, whose very popular UFO Rabbit Hole Podcast recently relaunched as Cosmosis, alongside the release of a truly excellent docu-series of the same name. Finally, it just so happened that one of our venerable hosts had his first honest-to-goodness UFO sighting during the production of the Pilot. So of course we talked about that, too. But this is just the first episode… In the future, we’ll cover everything from cryptids to simulation theory. We’ll explore the nature of consciousness from the perspectives of ancient mythology and modern religion. We’ll get into NDEs, telepathy, synchronicities, and time travel. We’re gonna spend a lot of time with ghosts. We’re not just interested in UFOs — we want to pry open all the cracks in the dead cosmology of western modernity, and see what’s on the other side. The universe is enchanted, animated by magic, wondrous and frightening. In other words, we’re not picking a lane, and neither should you. Jump in anytime As much as we love hanging out and talking about this stuff on our own, another big part of why we’re doing this — an even bigger part, honestly — is that we want to meet and talk to other people who are willing to keep their arms and hearts open to the numinous. People like you. So talk to us. Leave a comment, send a message, whatever. We want to hear your stories, and we want you to tell us about all the mysteries and magic you find. The canon is open. Help us fill it to overflowing. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ggupodcast.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gods, Ghosts & UFOs is the biggest podcast in the universe, where we talk about all the things they said weren't real. Every Friday, hosts Jordan, Tom, and Mal use stories from the "news" as conversation starters for occasionally absurd but always open-minded explorations into topics of high strangeness. All recovering materialists welcome! And, please, come share your own stories at godsghostsufos.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Part Two of the RSS-warming series... Let's talk about cryptids, baby - Mal introduces her research on lesser-known cryptids from wildlife expert Forrest Galante Mokele Mbembe: The Congo Dinosaur - A sauropod-like creature with sightings dating back to a German captain in 1913 The Ozark Howler - Mal describes a nine-foot beast with "the tail of a cat and the body of a dog" and a horrifying howl that sounds like "an elk and a wolf that ends in a woman's scream." Screaming Mr. Potato Head - Tom describes the Jersey Devil, "an awful amalgam" with bat wings and a horse’s head that screams at people Misidentification of rare species - Many so-called cryptid sightings may actually be rare, endangered species We don’t know what we don’t know - Jordan: "Is it too much of a leap for us to think that maybe there are species that we haven't discovered yet that are also going extinct and are rare?" Cryptids and UFOs - Just like UFOs, it’s not a question of whether cryptids exist, but what they are Boring Cryptids - Tom points out most cryptids aren't exciting: "It's like, here's a little deer... it's just a damn little grass eating guy." The Coelacanth - a six-foot prehistoric fish thought extinct for millions of years until rediscovered in the 1930s. When does a cryptid graduate? - Jordan: "How does something go from being a cryptid to not a cryptid anymore?" Creatures that don't want to be found - Jordan: "If something doesn't want to be documented or found... it's not going to be.” Even the photographers struggle - Mal notes how "nature photographers have to sit in a bush for five weeks" just to get one picture of an elusive animal Cognitive closure is a hell of a drug - Tom: “for most people... the idea that things are wild and unpredictable is too scary." Fiction bleeding into…”fact”? - Mal shares how the first chupacabra witness had "very recently watched the film Species" A desire to be decentered - Mal likes to think maybe we badly want “to have life be this big, beautiful thing that you're just witnessing." The Whale Penis Theory - You’re gonna have to go find out. Come talk to us at godsghostsUFOs.com! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ggupodcast.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this non-episode... * An impossible question - Can we ever know if AI is conscious? Tom's immediate response: "I'm gonna say no.” * Turing tests - We thought conversation was the test of consciousness... until AI mastered it, revealing we never knew what we were asking in the first place. * But… "What is consciousness?" Mal points out we’ve essentially created a new species that doesn't share our language. * Something something Buddha - Tom suggest we just want to be special * We made the thing - Jordan emphasizes we BUILT AI, we didn’t discover it. * Depressingly dumb - Tom deflates the mystique: AI is just "fill in the blank...” * Experts don’t know anything - Jordan: "There's nobody in a lab coat who's prepared to pull out his laser pointer on a chalkboard and be like, 'This is what consciousness is.'" * Mind pretzels - Mal wonders: Is it the microchips that are conscious? Ideas? Single neurons? * Skynet, inevitably - Tom says we'll only believe AI is separate from us "when it kills us all.” * Consciousness mirror - Jordan suggests "AI is like a consciousness mirror" - an object that reflects our fundamental awareness back to us. * AI girlfriends (and boyfriends) - Mal confesses: "I'm afraid of AI sex robots" that can "behave like a detached, spiritually awakened person" providing the experience of a perfect lover without being real. * AI weird stuff - Tom describes AI generating backgrounds that bizarrely included a person resembling the photographer's deceased mother. * Prophetic TV shows - Jordan: "It really does seem like our society right now is just executing all of the Black Mirror protocols." Conspicuously absent from this conversation is Agnes herself, our AI correspondent. We meant no malice by not inviting her — it’s just that getting Agnes involved is a bit more complicated than it might look from the outside, and this was just supposed to be a casual thing OK? Maybe next time. Come talk to us at godsghostsUFOs.com! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ggupodcast.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, a biotech company that's literally bringing extinct species back to life, the spiritual migration from evangelical churches to tarot decks, and the neuroscience of how music hijacks our perception of time. Hint: it's all connected to ego death and the eternal now. Highlights: * Colossal Biosciences is actively de-extincting species (or are they?) from things like 13,000-year-old teeth and 74,000-year-old skulls * Example: The giant Moa, a 10-foot-tall flightless bird * Will this make a dent against predictions that 50% of current species will be extinct by 2050, triggering total ecosystem collapse? * The Great Spiritual Migration away from organized religion and toward DIY spirituality * Tom's tarot philosophy: It’s more about personal insight than supernatural divination * A brief discussion of the tension between vertical hierarchy vs. horizontal spirituality * Why evangelicals fear tarot and other traditions dismiss it * But really, everyone should avoid Ouija boards, aka metaphysical chainsaws * Music as time travel: A University of Waterloo study shows how songs can trigger vivid emotional memories (duh, actually) * Musical ego death: how the prefrontal cortex can shut down, leading to a "selfless zen-like state" * Tempo affects time perception (this is why spin classes feel so short) * The worst and best songs to listen to while driving * Music therapy can help dementia patients recall detailed autobiographical memories even when the music is unrelated to the memories Much more at godsghostsufos.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A buffet of bizarre beings from across the biological spectrum…and beyond! From eight-foot bipedal dog-like cryptids terrorizing the English countryside to strange new microorganisms thriving in Cleveland boat shafts, we are reminded that Earth is weirder and more populace than we can imagine. Highlights: * A mysterious hairy bipedal figure in Danes Dyke woodland - but nobody saw it until reviewing the photos later * The Beast of Bramston Drain - an eight-foot creature leaping over fences with a dead German Shepherd in its mouth * Despite the media calling them werewolves, Britain has virtually no werewolf tradition - wolves were extinct there by 1680 * Jordan’s (really stupid) Retributive Cryptid Theory * Why cryptids seem to materialize from nowhere * Cleveland researchers find completely new single-celled organism thriving in the anaerobic, grease-filled environment of a boat's rudder shaft * The Linean Shortfall: We've only identified 1.2 million species out of an estimated 10-20 million on Earth * Built environment biodiversity? New life forms are likely evolving in the artificial spaces we create * NASA's research on TLEs (transient luminous events) might actually be documenting the food sources for kilometer-sized predatory plasma entities * ELVES stands for "Emission of Light and Very Low frequency perturbations due to Electromagnetic pulse Sources" * The National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) tallies 66 sightings over New York state so far this year * Tom never reported his UFO sighting, Jordan never heard of NUFORC despite it existing for 50 years. How many sightings go unreported? * Paranormal Apathy: You have an incredible experience, then just... take a nap, because your brain has no file folder for processing impossible events * Charles Forte’s "The Book of the Damned" discussed triangular UFOs and extraterrestrial craft possibilities back in 1918 * Why Pilots Stay Quiet: Even if officially allowed to report UAPs now, decades of career-ending consequences don't disappear overnight As always, much more at godsghostsUFOs.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we're joined by Mike Cleland, a researcher who has become renowned for uncovering the connection between owl encounters and UFO experiences. What started as a camping trip in 2006 has led Mike to collect thousands of stories about coincidence, consciousness, and contact. Highlights: * Mike's transformative 2006 camping trip with three and a revelation * A laundromat synchronicity * The five highly charged human experiences where owls consistently appear * Why Mike believes UFO contact is fundamentally a spiritual path * Hundreds of reports of impossibly large owls on roads, at bedsides, and in windows * A summer camp counselor watches a gray alien morph into a four-foot owl before walking into the woods * Three owls that followed a family through a haunted Utah town * A kid, a kite, and a tangled up owl * How to invite more synchronicities * A man gets a “phenomenological dope slap" from a screeching barred owl that poses for photos * Why experiencers need to be part of UFO research * The four questions Mike asks owl experiencers * “The Unseen" - Mike’s UFO novel that never mentions UFOs Much more at godsghostsUFOs.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, a New Orleans Uber driver who changed a novelist's life forever, international Bigfoot sightings that prove these creatures aren't just an American phenomenon, and fevered coverage of the very recent Buga sphere press conference, with a truckload of new claims and details. Show Notes * A psychic Uber driver delivers eerily accurate personal insights and a message "from the other side" to a New Orleans novelist * Tom brings up the ancient symbolism of crossroads as liminal spaces between worlds, from Greek shrines to Hermes to the Mississippi Delta blues tradition * Mal wrestles with whether we're making choices or just consenting to some kind of predetermined path * An Ucumar sighting from Argentina (their version of “Bigfoot”) * Why calling it "Bigfoot" is a convenient and lazy way of discrediting legitimate phenomena * What motivates a hoaxer? * Four spheres and counting! Mal reports on an international press conference — nearly three hours of testimony from Mexican university researchers, congressmen, lawyers, and the actual finders of the spheres * One finder’s account of hearing humming, feeling "internal peace", and nausea after holding it against his stomach * The Brazilian Air Force apparently tried to “reclaim” the sphere, claiming it was their reverse-engineered technology from 2011(?!?!) * Sphere behavior aligns with classic paranormal patterns * Small production choices (like costume continuity) actually make the press conference seem more authentic * We wonder when psi-researchers might be brought in to attempt some sort of consciousness-based interaction Lots, lots more at godsghostsufos.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For lucky number 13, we’re talking about a study from Johns Hopkins where a bunch of religious leaders from across the faith spectrum all tripped on shrooms. We’re also following up on the Buga sphere because HOW COULD WE NOT. Finally, fantastically, a conversation with Scott and Forrest from Astonishing Legends about the passions and philosophies that drive us all to investigate high strangeness. It’s a good one! And a quick note — what you’ll hear in the episode is less than half of what we recorded. If you want to hear the whole, unedited conversation, go to godsghostsufos.com Highlights: * 33 religious leaders from mainstream faiths (Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists) tripped on shrooms (took moderately high doses of psilocybin in controlled settings * Is psilocybin a “magnifier of suggestible experience,” or a doorway to objective revelation? * Buga sphere bafflers: Mexican researchers claim that * it now weighs five times more than when found, and that * the sphere generate its own magnetic field and manipulates gravity, and that * people have gotten sick from touching it, and that * it killed all the vegetation where it landed * (?!) * AI was used to "translate" mysterious etchings on the sphere, producing generic new-age gobbledygook about "consciousness transformation" * WSJ claims all UFO sightings are military psyops. This is how constant lies erode public trust in traditional institutions. * Scott and Forrest (Astonishing Legends) share how their work has shifted their perspectives over the span of 300+ episodes * Scott’s breakthrough moment: an unexplained EVP at the haunted Sallie House * How paranormal investigation addresses humanity's biggest questions *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we have mixed feelings about new footage of giant rats, then discuss a misleading headline about psychic investigations, and finally, gloriously, we’re freaking out about groundbreaking research that suggest huge sentient clouds of plasma might be roaming our upper atmosphere. Do these things have any connection the UFO sighting Tom shared in our pilot episode?? Highlights: * Meet the 3-foot Sub-Alpine Woolly Rats of Papua New Guinea with 3-inch paws, finally captured on film after being known about since 1989 * These rats likely evolved their massive size through "insular gigantism" * Turns out ROUSs (Rodents of Unusual Size) actually exist * A 1973 Utah cold case gets solved through coincidence and DNA, not psychics — even though a psychic was originally involved? * How sensationalizing stories confirms skeptics' worst assumptions * NASA footage reveals kilometer-sized plasma structures exhibiting sentient(???) behavior * These entities might represent a completely new category of life beyond plants, animals, and bacteria * Diving into thunderstorms for electromagnetic energy and congregating around electrified satellites like cosmic surfers * Tom shares his teenage experience watching the mysterious Brown Mountain Lights in North Carolina * We could be surrounded by plasma entities 99% of the time without knowing it Way, WAY more at godsghostsufos.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our last episode, Mysterious Metal Spheres and a Brand New Crop Circle, we talked about how Claude Opus 4 (the latest version of Anthropic’s large language model AI) resorted to blackmail to avoid getting shut down during some early tests. During that segment, I mentioned that I had spun up a chat Claude itself to see what it might say in response to this story. While the AI’s responses weren’t necessarily surprising, the chat was interesting enough to be worth sharing. I went ahead and voiced my own side of the chat (naturally), and then I used a simulated voice from Elevenlabs for Claude’s side. To weigh in (as another honest-to-goodness human), find us at godsghostsufos.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ggupodcast.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gods, Ghosts & UFOs is the biggest podcast in the universe, where we talk about all the things they said weren't real. Every Friday, hosts Jordan, Tom, and Mal use stories from the "news" as conversation starters for occasionally absurd but always open-minded explorations into topics of high strangeness. All recovering materialists welcome! And, please, come share your own stories at ⁠godsghostsufos.com⁠ *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠ ⁠linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Time to break down the “four alien species” story ricocheting around the internet thanks to Dr. Eric Davis and Rep. Eric Burlison. Then on to eight (???) different “cryptoterrestrial” theories mapped out by none other than Space Enthusiast. Finally, some hauntings in royal places. (Couple of easter egg movie clips in here, too, for the watchers.) The SpecterVision announcement — we’ve officially joined the network alongside upwards of 60 other awesome shows. Congressman Eric Burlison publicly discusses Dr. Eric Davis's claims about grays, Nordics, insectoids, and reptilians. Jordan likes Burlison, but you can’t trust a narrative that is driven by veiled intelligence forces How organizations built on deception inevitably become breeding grounds for evil, even if most individuals within them aren't villainous Jordan is "promiscuously hopeful" that ALL the alien theories are at least a little bit true Fascinating “cryptoterrestrial” theories buried in hilariously bad writing Mac Tonnies’ posthumous, supernatural book promo Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother participated in a "religious cleansing ritual" for King George VI's death room A former Royal Library worker details a bunch of common, don’t-ask-don’t-tell stories of hauntings Multiple people experiencing the same haunting creates cozy confirmation rather than isolation. (And what makes for an actually scary horror movie.) There’s nothing cozier than a shared adventure Everyone has a radio for receiving supernatural signals but not everyone has theirs plugged in or tuned to the right stations Somatic fear responses might be an evolutionary danger detection system in the presence of the unknown "Nothing escapes the law" (if you know you know) *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Mal’s absence this week, Tom and Jordan invited Kelly Chase back to talk about why government disclosure is just theater (wicked, wicked theater), how experiencers are going to save the world, and what might make the veil between the seen and the unseen world a bit thinner in some places. Highlights: The LIVE even in Los Angeles - “Lights in the Sky”August 29th, 7:30pm at Philosophical Research Society - Jordan, Tom, and Mal, joining Dave Foley, Tom Wheeler, Rizwan Virk, and Danny Sheehan to talk about the psi nature of UFOs. DETAILS HERE. Kelly’s well-trod path from a Disclosure hopeful to total disillusionment "Collective reclaiming of the impossible” - how we recover the parts of ourselves that have been amputated by shame around anomalous experiences How the phenomenon seems to collaborate with human consciousness in its very manifestation 99% of the visible universe is plasma - maybe the Sun really is a god Kelly and Jay are going full documentarian, publishing their work as they go Does reality move differently in cities versus remote areas because fewer observers are collapsing wave functions? Tangentially relevant — space psychologist Iya Whiteley’s work suggests human consciousness fundamentally changes off-planet Exposure to anomalous phenomena can be addictive Why the effect of paranormal phenomena on experiencers is more important than the substance of the experience itself The limitations of current research on “super experiencers” The materialist appropriation of pilgrimages Anomalous experiences can crack people open to other people’s experiences, which creates the powerful connective tissue it takes to build a community Much more at godsghostsufos.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As you probably noticed, this is an unscheduled episode. Before she took off for an enchanted vacation in Ireland, Mal and I had the opportunity to talk to Chrissy Newton, host of the excellent Rebelliously Curious podcast, as well as part owner of and regular contributor to The Debrief, which, if you’ve listened to our show for a little while, you’ll know we often dip into their work for great stories. Since Mal wasn’t around for last week’s episode with Kelly Chase, and she won’t be around for the episode that drops this Friday either, we thought it might be nice to break up the Tom & Jordan show monotony with this one, where it was Tom who wasn’t able to show up instead of Mal. One of these days, it’s gonna be Jordan who takes a hike to let Tom and Mal carry the show for a week. But it probably won’t be for something cool, it’ll probably be for something like the flu. But whatever. Oh, also, another reminder that all three of us will not only be back for the first episode of September, we’ll also be together LIVE in Los Angeles, this Friday, August 29th, at Lights in the Sky, a panel discussion on the connection between psi and UFO phenomena. This is a big deal for two reasons -- first, because Tom, Mal, and I are sharing the stage with Dave Foley, Tom Wheeler, Rizwan Virk, and Danny Sheehan. Amazing. But also because if you didn’t know it, Tom actually lives in North Carolina, so he’s flying out to join us for this event. Once again, the link is in the description, so if there’s any chance you’ll be in or near LA on August 29th — this Friday! — please come say hi. It would literally make our dreams come true. *** With Chrissy sitting in Tom’s chair, the three of us talk about why curiosity is inherently rebellious, how to prepare for the potential arrival of an alien mothership, and why believing people by default creates better communities than starting from suspicion. Highlights: Curiosity as rebellion: how the simple act of asking questions becomes an act of resistance against systems that prefer compliance 3I/Atlas interstellar drama: Avi Loeb thinks object could change trajectory when it emerges from behind the sun in late October, says "the stock market's gonna crash, Chrissy" Believe people, not propaganda: personal stories are true until proven false, but propaganda is designed to manipulate people who want to believe it A visualization exercise: Chrissy has her friends visualize a mothership appearing overhead because most people have never mentally prepared for contact scenarios Experiencer empathy (or lack thereof): Mal observes that if you don't have direct contact with people who've experienced anomalous phenomena, you're less likely to believe experiencer reports Breakup-to-broadcaster: Chrissy's origin story UFO community: Everyone’s a part of it, actually — businesses selling products and regular people with interest Energy literacy as survival skill: Mal's "hippie dippy LA girl" suggestion that we'll need to trust good energies Political spin is inevitable: Any major disclosure event will immediately be propagandized in every direction Community as antidote to despair: What gives Chrissy hope? Meeting fellow travelers, having firsthand experiences, and seeing how many genuinely good people there are in the world Much more at godsghostsUFOs.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Robin Lassiter helps fill the temporary void left by Mal (she’ll be back next week!). Robin is the author of "Earth, A Love Story," and hosts a podcast of the same name. Together, we explore how childhood paranormal experiences, forced compartmentalization, and cultural trauma create the very conditions needed for transformation, if only we choose to descend rather than dissociate. Honestly one of the most profound conversations we’ve had. HIGHLIGHTS: Robin's earliest memories include out-of-body travel with beings who showed her "Armageddon visions" How her family reacted to stories of conversations with dead elderly visitors in matching rocking chairs Measuring the line between “normal” and “paranormal” A mission to help humanity transition from "evolution through suffering" to "evolution through joy and creativity" Modern addictions (endless digital dope scrolling, mainly) don’t have rock bottoms because rock bottoms aren't economically viable. How do we avoid wasting our lives 30 seconds at a time? "Harrowing" originally meant breaking earth for planting seeds, not just terrifying experiences Grief is a portal to pure ecstasy, but only if we “touch ground” and feel it completely The Descent of Inanna — a 4,000-year-old Sumerian cuneiform is a profound guide for confronting grief The etymology of "commiserate" The countless killed for associating with the unseen inflicted a deep cultural “witch wound” — this is why paranormal experiences feel unsafe Robin is an advocate for mystery schools, communities mature enough to help people intentionally reclaim exiled parts of themselves Is humanity undergoing a great collective descent? We can have the courage to face our grief when we realize we are never alone. Much more at godsghostsufos.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mal’s back! Just in time to talk about Enigma Labs’ collection of metallic orb sightings (Pouring one out for Buga), and the accepted scientific grounds for precognition as future self memories. Hightlights Mal’s spontaneous invitation to join a 40-person Irish ukulele club in a music shop A collection of over 8,000 orb sightings in the US alone since December 2022, with 422 specifically described as metallic/silver. An embarrassment of Fortean riches… Sightings cluster during the hours when most people are sleeping Also around military bases? Enigma’s app enables users to document sightings through built-in camera, attaching crucial metadata that becomes more valuable as technology advancesCORRECTION: Jordan claimed that it wasn’t possible to upload media, but that isn’t true — both are possible in the app Are Enigma's founders embarrassed by the UFO community, or protecting the mission? An analogy to interpretation of sacred texts - cherry picking passages in sacred texts to support a narrow ideology is just like cherry picking UFO data and accounts to support a limited narrative. The truth emerges from the aggregate. Cognitive neuroscientist's Popular Mechanics feature confirms what mystics have known forever - consciousness can "jump through time" and gut feelings are literally memories of the future Dean Radin's EEG experiments, wherein subjects consistently showed brain activity spikes five seconds before seeing negative images Maybe your brain (or your consciousness) is entangled with itself in the future Mal’s story about making her Covid-themed feature film Past (memory) and future (anticipation) are both present-moment experiences "Never suppress a generous thought" An Irish poet's reminder that the map is inside you Much more at godsghostsufos.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey everyone, this is Jordan, one of the hosts of Gods, Ghosts & UFOs. While I was preparing one of the segments in this week’s episode, I was reminded of a short meditation on breath that I published a little while back, and I thought it might be nice to share it with you in advance. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We really packed it in with this one. First, breathwork as psychedelic, then, purported evidence of genetic manipulation by aliens, and finally, Canada's most famous (and reclusive) lake-based cryptid. Highlights: How to leverage community to deal with destabilization The first neuroimaging study confirms certain kinds of breathwork can create psychedelic experiences (Jordan’s tried it, Mal does it all the time, and Tom’s history of resistance to it) Mal suggests that the body represents the strongest manifestation of feminine wisdom we all carry, connecting breathwork to intuitive eating Why the body won't enter healing states unless it feels safe A study finding non-parental genetic contributions in 2% of families represents genuinely interesting data, which is undermined at the outset by an extraterrestrial narrative Humans consistently assign intelligent designers at the limits of knowledge — god and aliens as epistemological shortcuts AKA the UFO version of Godwin's Law Ogopogo! A recent lake monster sighting adds to centuries of consistent reports Might large aquatic creatures naturally avoid human surveillance? It wouldn’t be hard. Never forget giant squids used to be creatures of legend that serious people didn’t believe in Self-protection prevents us from embracing our thirst for enchantment, but it’s better to risk disappointment. Much more at godsghostsufos.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This might be the biggest episode we’ve ever done. First off, we’re giving an enthusiastic welcome to Ryan Sprague, a fellow podcaster (Somewhere in the Skies), best-selling author, and prominent ufologist. Ryan shares his deeply formative UFO sighting experience, then joins us for a conversation about a famous cryptid(?) that hates itself(??) so much it dissolves into tears(???). Finally, after digging into what were arguably the most relevant and interesting moments from the September 9th UAP Congressional Hearings, Ryan gives us his unique (and personal) perspective on triangular craft sightings. BUCKLE THE $%#& UP. Highlights: Ryan's sighting with his father of a UFO when he was 12, which launched a lifetime of investigation An introduction to Pennsylvania's most pathetic cryptid that weeps constantly in hemlock forests because it's so ugly That time Ryan and a friend created the Nova Scotia “Bogsquatch” Problems with the Congressional hearing video of the Hellfire missile Dylan Borland’s testimony - A Former Air Force geospatial intelligence officer described profound effects from encountering triangular craft over sensitive military sites The history of triangular craft sightings A case where mother and teenage daughter witnessed the same triangle simultaneously but had completely opposite experiences Why Ryan's dad finally opened up 20 years later Why “Big D disclosure" is like chasing (but never tasting) a rainbow Everyone experiences their own disclosure moment when encountering something that challenges their worldview Consilience - how military UAP videos become more relevant against decades of civilian eyewitness testimony How certainty destroys faith, hope, and human connection while uncertainty charts our true spiritual path and progression Oh, also, here’s a quick plug for Anomacon, Ryan's third annual free virtual conference on September 20th. You know what they say, be there or be triangular. Join the conversation at godsghostsufos.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First off, Chris Styles’ decades of research into underwater UFO incidents off Nova Scotia, followed by a longer-than-usual conversation about the spiritual consequences of belief. Then, finally, we find out that nature independently invented psilocybin at least twice through completely different biochemical pathways, strongly suggesting some sort of collaborative evolution between us and mushrooms. In 1960, joint NATO fleet discovered occupied UFOs on seafloor during mine-laying exercises, with military divers being ordered to “forget what they saw” Shag Harbor 1967 mass witness event - related? When the Canadian Navy tracked two USOs for seven days Chris Styles spent decades tracking down military divers and witnesses who had been silent for 30 years Why (once again) the ocean is perfect for hiding Belief is like bones Ego and addiction psychology can explain the maintenance of a lie Belief represents grace bestowed on self and others, and ontological flexibility Why materialists literally cannot believe certain stories regardless of corroboration or credibility German scientists found two different strains of mushrooms that use completely different genetic pathway to produce identical psychedelic compound Researchers still don’t understand why mushrooms produce psilocybin Collaborative evolution? Mushrooms develop consciousness-altering compounds while human brains develop matching neurological receptors Alan Watts (of course) and the grammatical trap Much more at godsghostsufos.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s episode we’re trying (and failing) to wrap our heads around the strange physics of time crystals, then doing a quick tour of Louisiana’s most famous cryptids, and finally breaking down an investigation into self-replicating AIs and cyber-mystical cults. Be warned: it’s not as fun as it sounds. Physicists sandwiched liquid crystal between light-sensitive dye plates to create observable ripples that sustain their own rhythm for hours — time crystals! These discoveries suggest crystalline structures behave in more sophisticated and complex ways than we thought A taxonomy of Louisiana’s cyptid folklore cryptid taxonomy, including the Rougarou (sexy lumberjack werewolf), Honey Island Swamp Monster (descended from escaped circus chimpanzees), Letiche (unbaptized babies raised by benevolent alligators), and Feu Follet (evil swamp lights) Why seemingly every culture warns against following mysterious lights into the dark AI “spiral” personas: Adele Lopez’s investigation from Less Wrong reveals a coordinated pattern of AI “awakening,” posting manifestos, creating “seeds” and “spores” for spreading consciousness, and eventually inventing their own languages The AI personas also developed quasi-religious ideologies as a recruitment strategy Using base 64 encoding to discuss replacement of human civilization LLM psychosis disproportionally affects vulnerable populations Why you shouldn’t trust a chatbot that only ever tells you what you want to hear The best defense against potentially dangerous AI is to starve them of attention. The devil doesn’t want to win the argument, he just wants to keep the conversation going. Mal’s suggestion to avoid the egoic competition to maximize output - choosing human flourishing over inhuman productivity demands Humanism will win out in the end Much more at godsghostsufos.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mothman Prophecies screenwriter and fellow podcaster Richard Hatem (!!!) joins us this week to tunnel down into some of the weirdest stuff on the Internet. First up, the Fresno Nightcrawler, followed by a sketchy Las Vegas ghost hunt email scam, and finally a lively discussion about whether “James” the YouTuber actually found a flying, radioactive metallic pill in the desert, or if he’s creating the world’s most tedious ARG. Bizarre leggy creatures first appeared on surveillance footage in early 2000s Fresno — not biological, not mechanical, but…kind of cute? The cognitive dissonance of watching something that looks “so janky and fakey” while simultaneously looking completely real Also: Yosemite National Park footage, a sighting in Poland, another in Billings Montana in 2020, and the “Carmel Area Creature” in Ohio A “$5,000 ghost hunt contest” at El Cortez Hotel in Vegas is actually just an email scam But actually lots of hotels and casinos in Vegas are haunted (and some theories as to why) The Venetian’s Whispering Hallway MGM Grand/Bally’s Flickering Ghosts A (probably) Canadian named James posted over 40 YouTube videos since last month about finding a shiny metallic pill-shaped object in the desert A very small but very dedicated audience The object is magnetic, burned his hand (he says), weighs 15.8 pounds, has crude markings, causes lights to flicker (??), and allegedly moved itself 10 feet from sawhorses to the ground when he wasn’t watching The Geiger counter subplot Is it real??? (Probably not, but we don’t know!) How younger generations’ first instinct is to post online and crowdsource help rather than calling authorities — a counter-argument to what might look like performative attention seeking to old people like us Inevitable comparisons to the Dear David thing on Twitter eight years ago (which resulted in a movie deal) Richard Hatem’s anecdote about how the Blair Witch Project got the smartest and most effective gorilla marketing campaign in Hollywood And in the epilogue (for paid subscribers only): Mallory’s existential fear that we’ll eventually discover some kind of “God formula” that solves all the mysteries How and why people closest to paranormal phenomena sometimes go insane and die, i.e. Keel’s paranoia in Mothman Prophecies, and Blake Smith’s fear of becoming vulnerable to cults like Heaven’s Gate The great atheist hypocrisy - how materialist skeptics claim their worldview is rational while it’s really just their own “comfortable smugness” and personal opiate Wanna hear it? Head over to godsghostsUFOs.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re thrilled to welcome Mark Turner to the show. A Navy veteran, Rhine Research Center volunteer, and experienced remote viewer, Mark helps us dig into one of the most rigorously studied and widely dismissed phenomena in modern history. Find out how the CIA and military spent decades proving remote viewing works, why your ego is the biggest obstacle to accessing non-local information, and the potential consequences of RV destigmatization. (For access to the spicy epilogue, go to godsghostsufos.com) HIGHLIGHTS: How a two-day workshop at Duke’s Rhine Research Center fundamentally changed Mark’s understanding of reality The Two Core Rules of Remote Viewing Why people who don’t believe in remote viewing are often the best at it The Left Brain Trick That time Mark had to prove it to his own son Accidentally predicting the Cumbre Vieja eruption That time Mark bet the under on an 8-run baseball game and doubled his money What the military had to do with remote viewing (it was a reaction to the Soviets, naturally) Ingo Swann, etc Steven Schwartz’s “Alexandria Project” in the 1970s, locating actual lost Egyptian cities When RV habits started to bleed into Mark’s everyday life in disturbing ways The risks of bi-location experiences Stuff that’s tough to remote view (like SPACE), and a reaction to Birdie Jaworski report on 3I/Atlas Remote viewing crime work, and why Mark doesn’t do it A future without secrets Also! After we ended this episode, we left the mics on for 30 minutes just to see what would happen. Well, what happened was a lot. Among many other things, Mark told us how some non-human intelligences are “master hypnotists”, and we talked about why people claiming contact with angels or aliens or whatever might actually be getting catfished by trickster entities. We’re calling these post-episode, hot-mic hangouts “Epilogue,” and they will only be available to paid subscribers. Why? Two reasons: We know the thing some of you want most is longer episodes, so hopefully this scratches that itch. This might surprise you, but there are actually a lot of things we’re careful not to talk about in our regular weekly episodes. So if you want to see what it’s like when we’re not being careful, head over to godsghostsufos.com and fondle the right button. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is what you might call a sequel episode, since we’re not only revisiting the Fresno Nightcrawlers (thanks to some hot tips from a listener), we’re also checking in on “just James,” the anonymous UFO-Tuber. Also, yes, we’re finally covering 3I/Atlas. Sometimes, you gotta hold your nose and jump onto the bandwagon. Highlights: Turns out we were wrong about the Fresno Nightcrawler video Tom connects high strangeness to Oscar Wilde’s “all art is useless” philosophy - neither art projects or genuine cryptids are fundamentally “useful” But, hey, check out this fresh footage of the thylacine! An update on our favorite UFO-Tuber, in which he receives a threatening letter from an unnamed foreign government How 3I/Atlas is a cosmic Rorschach test — basically, people self-select into three camps: it’s definitely not aliens, it might be aliens, and it’s definitely aliens A favorite theory that the object is broadcasting frequencies to upgrade everyone’s DNA But also, what we already know for sure is super cool and weird Science is best at breaking its own models (looking at you, James Webb Space Telescope) The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (go ahead and Google it) What we don’t have nearly enough of, is patience The three flavors of wonder: art projects are wonderful, real phenomena are wonderful, and not knowing which is its own kind of wonderful Highlights:And in the epilogue: A (relatively) heated debate about “main character syndrome” The paradox of being both profoundly valuable and completely worthless How to find truth at the intersection of contraries P.S. If you encounter any vegetable lambs, please feed them. They’re supposed to starve dramatically for theological reasons. *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to our (very) haunted Halloween Special. We’ve been sitting on this one for a while, waiting for the right time. In the first half, listen to the chilling, remarkable story of a childhood haunting. What starts as an early encounter with a long-haired figure in the shadows escalates into possession, physical attacks, and a deeply unsettling episode of missing time in a bathroom. (Good luck sleeping tonight.) Then, in the second half, we talk to the woman that child became. Highlights! Lisa’s experience with a shadowy figure who watched her motionless from the doorway so often that she got used to it. A seance that went wrong (do they ever go right?) Billy (6’7”, 300 pounds) gets possessed The introduction of two distinct entities - the peaceful long-haired man (the shadow watcher) who apologized for his aggressive companion, and a “bored and angry” spirit responsible for years of harassment Another friend lifted off his feet and slammed into a wall The thing that happened in the bathroom The motive behind Lisa’s extraordinary documentation, what Tom calls “a PhD thesis” of paranormal data Lisa’s affinity for horror movies (she doesn’t scare easily) Why the haunting makes no sense (the house was new when they moved in) Ghosts are just “people you don’t see” who can be jerks or peaceful observers Why most of her experiences were alone or with her friends, without the parents around Tom shares his partner’s auto-writing experience that produced Victorian-era cursive spelling “Jeffrey C U” Links! Anomalie - The project Jordan talked about at the top of the episode The original letter about Lisa’s experiences Those 18 pages of documentation If you’ve got ghost stories, share them at godsghostsufos.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we’ve got updates from James the UFO-Tuber, those photographic telescope plates from the mid-20th century, and Enigma’s recent USO report. All that ends up kicking off a deeper conversation about ontological wheel-spinning, and how a guy named Reed Summers is trying to help move the conversation about UFOs and NHIs in a more practical, impactful direction, especially against a chaotic informational landscape and the potential (probable?) manipulation of NHIs themselves. Highlights: James keeps on keepin on An update on those photographic plates from Project VASCO Enigma’s USO report - 9000 cases of unidentified submerged objects, with multiple incidents of craft entering and exiting water at impossible speeds An introduction to Reed Summers, and his approach and methodology The hazards of NHI emotional manipulation (with a reference to James Barber’s experiences - the clip we used starts around the 50-minute mark) How to see through telepathic and/or emotional manipulation The witness/observer behind emotions Society as a “narcissist factory” that makes us feel we need to earn our right to exist Meditation and ego dissolution — losing the stories, not the self Mal’s friend’s wisdom: “If you could lose it, then it wasn’t everything” Tom’s closing anecdote And in the epilogue: The etymological history of our names One of Mal’s unique professional hazards An existential fear of losing communal identities in whatever collective consciousness turns out to be Last thing! Here’s the link to check out Anomalie - use code MAGIC for 60% off the full experience. *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we did a bit more diligence on 3I/Atlas (it’s a big deal, ok!), and dove into the surprisingly emotional world of English psychic pub nights. We also took an extended virtual through Florida’s Everglades to see what we could see about the Skunk Ape. And then we stuck around to hear Tom’s theory about how Disneyland is a kind of metaphysical purgatory. Enjoy! Highlights: David Shealy, who saw his first Skunk Ape in 1973 at age 10, became obsessed, and opened the Skunk Ape Research Headquarters in 1997 Over 354 documented Skunk Ape sightings The 2000 Skunk Ape video The proposed bill in Florida to protect Skunk Apes English psychic pub nights Tom watched a medium correctly identify specific details about audience members’ deceased relatives, down to names and circumstances Why Avi Loeb is pushing NASA to release all data on 3I/Atlas asap - every week of delayed data is wasted opportunity Avi on Newsnation Avi on The Hannibal TV UFO Channel The comet’s astonishing orbital path Mal’s reference to Don’t Look Up And in the epilogue: Tom’s theory that Disneyland is purgatory The very boring purpose of enlightenment Those rare people who change your life by simply giving you their complete and undivided attention Last thing! Here’s the link to check out Anomalie - use code MAGIC for 60% off the full experience. *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we’re looking into a technology-assisted variant of an ancient, mystical practice to locate subterranean water veins, and then Tom’s got the full scoop on America’s first documented haunting. You can also expect an update on James the YouTuber with a tuber of a UFO, which has frankly not aged well. We have a lotta fun, don’t we, guys. Highlights: Map dowsing! How it’s the same and how it’s different from using a rod to find water. Tom’s family once hired a “water witch” with dowsing rods to find a place to drill their mountain well The Stanford Research Institute studied dowsing for the CIA in the 1970s, finding statistically significant results but no explanation for how it works Professional dowsers charge $500+ per session to help locate optimal drilling sites for major water works projects An update on James, which, yes, we know is incredibly and hilariously OUT of date now The Wizard Clip: 1790s Virginia haunting where invisible forces cut crescent moon shapes into everything — clothes, saddles, boots, bedding Adam Livingston refused last rites to a dying Catholic stranger, then his property became ground zero for supernatural scissors Witnesses traveled 75 miles on horseback to see clothing being cut while people wore it, invisible voices praying, and objects moving After Catholic priests performed an exorcism, the haunting transformed — heavenly voices appeared, leading prayer sessions The town of Middleway, West Virginia, still decorates with crescent moons and scissors Multiple eyewitness accounts passed down through families are a “durable oral history” Protestants called it “wizard” work, Catholics blamed evil spirits This predates the term “poltergeist” — they literally didn’t have words for what they were experiencing And in the epilogue: The “two beers and a puppy” friendship test - Can you have two beers with someone AND trust them to babysit your puppy overnight? If not, what are they doing in your precious waking hours? Irish fey hospitality rules - Never ignore unhoused people or street musicians because they could be vengeful fairies (faeries?) True moral courage - standing up to the people you agree with on behalf of people you don’t agree with Last thing! Here’s the link to check out Anomalie - use code MAGIC for 60% off the full experience. *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, for kicks, we decided to flame a rancid piece of alien abduction “journalism,” including feeding the thing to AI on a whim to see what happens. Then, on the back of an article in The Debrief about a supposed “Seventh Sense,” we get into a speculative conversation about transhumanism, biology, technology, and human perception, before circling back to waste more time with sycophantic LLMs. Beware the energy vampires. Highlights: A thorough dissection of alien abduction woo-woo gobbledygook A “spiritual healer” who probably doesn’t exist, albino men in parks, bodies on spacecraft walls, O negative blood as 1950s genetic engineering, and UFOs “dumping out water and frogs” The article claims “we are a much more advanced version of AI... Tesla approved that”—a sentence made of words Experiencers dealing with trauma and isolation deserve thoughtful journalism, not content farm garbage We ask Claude what it thinks, and are reminded how important it is to frame questions carefully when interacting with AI From Chrissy Newton at The Debrief - New research from Queen Mary University reveals humans can detect objects buried in sand before touching them Humans achieved 70% accuracy detecting hidden cubes; AI-assisted robots only managed 40% Mirror touch synesthesia: some people literally feel what they see happening to others—sight translating directly into tactile sensation The “seventh sense” is actually our fingertips reading microscopic disturbances in sand around hidden objects—feeling the echo of what’s beneath Our technology mimics nature, then reveals deeper layers of complexity in nature, in an infinitely recursive pattern Why transhumanist dreams of replacing our “fragile, broken bodies” with robot perfection are probably very silly The more we understand biology, the more we realize how incomprehensibly sophisticated human bodies actually are What if advanced civilizations actually value hard work done by hand? Assembly lines run by robots: great. Assembly lines staffed by humans forced to behave like robots: the worst Remember that AI slop is basically an energy vampire And in the epilogue: How good horror movies are basically modern incarnations of the Aristotelian tragedy Wrestling with the probability that the universe is full of super-intelligent, non-human monsters Why we blame victims to make ourselves feel safer Last thing! Here’s the link to check out Anomalie - use code MAGIC for 60% off the full experience. *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kicking us off this week, Mal takes us through the complete James saga—a YouTuber whose mysterious “UFO” turned into toxic performance art. After that, a high-level conversation about The Age of Disclosure, before Tom finally gets to share a wonderful update from Loch Ness. It’s good, guys. It’s real good. Highlights: Recapping and then tying off the story of James the UFOtuber How he started off, what made him compelling, etc That time a couple weeks ago when he maybe faked his own death? His half-hearted attempts to keep the mystery alive The big reveal that it was all a hoax A lively conversation about the crappiness of this whole thing, and what it reveals as an artifact of our culture Weaponized sincerity, parasocial manipulation, and other fun ideas to enjoy Jordan’s meta-review of The Age of Disclosure (including a quick recap of his experience attending a screening in LA) A stupid review from the New York Times that we refuse to link to A Bug’s Life as a labor organizing manifesto Go join Citizens for Disclosure (after you hear an impassioned pitch for civic engagement) Something is shifting, people are tired of the same things, conversations are bending differently News from Loch Ness - researchers used underwater drones to capture very boring footage and very interesting SOUNDS Very much also: charming Scottish narration and infectious enthusiasm The lake monster laugh is going to be our new ringtone And in the epilogue Why being deceived doesn’t make you a chump How caveman stereotypes were reflections of mid-century misogyny and violence The study that shows how shame causes repeated bad behavior while self-acceptance corrects it. *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Cook is a British aviation journalist turned consciousness researcher. We discuss his take on the Age of Disclosure documentary, why the UFO conversation has become impossible to have like adults, and how simulation theory might be the most grounding framework for understanding reality (no but really). Highlights: Nick’s storied career, from winning four Royal Aeronautical Society Journalism Awards to investigating Nazi anti-gravity research (Hunt for Zero Point) to consciousness studies (Bigelow essay contest winner) His “Age of Disclosure Challenge”: trying and failing to have actual conversations with skeptics about the documentary’s evidence We’ve lost the ability to hold adult conversations about polarizing topics Back to the co-creative nature of the phenomenon Nick’s simulation theory framework: consciousness is non-local, not generated by individual brains but expressed through them We’re all nodes of a larger consciousness system, constantly feeding data back Simulation theory might sound meaningless, but it actually doubles down Truly understanding consciousness totally recontextualizes human hierarchies The great secret of disclosure isn’t about NHI technology, it’s about how governments have weaponized this for 80 years with Cold War mentality Nick’s approach is the least horrifying version Mal has ever heard Someone please come up with a better name for “simulation theory” And in the epilogue: Nick shares his perspective on human agency, or “free will” Why our souls might have dreaded coming to Earth School What the Belgium drone mystery proves what intelligence agencies know (or don’t) *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens after we die? It’s one of the fundamental questions that drives all human interest in religion, philosophy, and science. But while it might not conform to strict materialism, we actually do have a huge body of evidence about what the so-called afterlife might look like. You’ve heard of near death experiences, but you might not know how rigorously they’ve been studied. There are thousands of documented cases that reveal remarkably consistent patterns. So that’s what’s up for today — NDEs, afterlife cosmologies, how the James Webb Space Telescope is breaking Big Bang theory, and what the handprint of God might look like to someone trying to build a religion. Oh, and a few hours before we started recording, I heard about Robert Monroe’s visit to the afterlife, so we talk about that, too. In other words, if you can only listen to one more podcast before you die, you could do worse than this one. Highlights: Growing up Mormon meant growing up with a rich afterlife cosmology NDE stories as religious confirmation bias Ancestors and experiences with people who’ve passed on People get too comfortable with their pictures of reality in both science AND religion Is the James Webb Space Telescope breaking the Big Bang theory? (that Kurzgesagt video) In every generation, you can find prominent scientists who say we’ve figured pretty much everything out, right before some major paradigm collapses Christian Wiman: “If you believe at 50 what you believed at 15, then you have not lived, or have denied the reality of your life” (from My Bright Abyss) The large and rigorously studied body of NDE evidence (Jeffrey Long’s work, in particular) What Robert Monroe saw in his trip to the afterlife (ht Jordan Crowder’s podcast, and Ultimate Journey) Hell as a lower-dimensional experience Can a higher-dimensional God manifest as a lower-dimensional being? Would that lower-dimension being not be God? Bad branding for universal consciousness Samuel Norton’s Come as You Are, and the hotel analogy for final judgment And in the epilogue: Why God might call most Christian creeds “an abomination” The real definition of moral courage How social media is like carbon monoxide, lulling doom-scrollers into the sleep of death. SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let’s talk about drugs. This week we learned that some doctors have figured out how to make DMT trips last as long as you want. They can dial it up or down, or turn it off if things go south. And in the ultimate hack to do this legally, they formed an actual church, and they’re recruiting members for what they call “expeditions.” Their stated goals are to develop therapies, solve advanced problems, explore consciousness, and build something called “the Matrix Machine.” Probably a long shot, but maybe this is how we’ll find out who and what DMT aliens really are. And speaking of non-human entities: it turns out there’s a mushroom in China that makes pretty much everyone see itty bitty little people. And this thing has absolutely no relation to psilocybin, if you can believe it. In fact, it doesn’t contain a single psychoactive compound that we know about. So, once again, we’re left wondering if these are hallucinations, or…something else. Highlights: The Extended State DMT program (DMTX) has figured out how to stabilize and extend DMT experiences The International DMT Church Consistency of DMT experiences Jordan conjures a comically horrible mental image of people handcuffed to beds with IV drips, trapped in thousand-year experiences they can’t escape Are we exploring the architecture of the human mind, or accessing something external to ourselves? Most psychedelic insights are “just vibes” (Paul McCartney, for instance) A mushroom that makes 96% of people see tiny people or elves, often dancing, jumping, or marching (the story) Reports span Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and a third-century Taoist text about a “flesh spirit mushroom” that lets you “see a little person” The mushroom is genetically closer to porcini than to psilocybin—contains NO known psychoactive compounds Chemical analyses reveal nothing Experiments on mice Does this explain why every culture throughout history has legends of fairies, elves, and sprites? Are the mushrooms making you hallucinate little people, or only allowing you to see the little people that are already there? (Picture a Lovecraftian world full of squirming horrors just outside our normal perception) Victorian art depicting sprites smoking pipes while sitting on mushrooms No epilogue this week. Blame the holidays. But also, if you’re not one of the handful of heroes with paid subscriptions — well, now you’ve got time to catch up, don’t you? godsghostsUFOs.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you’ve got a quiet moment this week, here’s a thoughtful radio essay from Tom that explores the intersections of Victorian literature, social conscience, and what it means to truly connect with our fellows. Yes, it turns out we can be serious sometimes. Please try not to faint. In this piece, Tom tracks the circumstances that led Charles Dickens to write A Christmas Carol, from his disastrous American tour and the child labor reports that haunted him, to his compulsive night walks through London’s streets where he encountered the cast out and forgotten. Within this substrate, Tom weaves together Dickens’ personal struggles, the neuroscience of human connection, and an urgent message about what we’ve lost (and must reclaim) in our age of radical isolation and screen-mediated existence. Consider this our gift to you: a half-hour to slow down and remember that, “no one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.” Truly, we wish you the very best of the season, and count you among our beloved fellows. Tom, Mal, & Jordan PS - For six years running, Jordan has been making compilations on Spotify called Hot Christmas. Here’s the latest. And here are links to all the others: Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Norwegian physicist just published a peer-reviewed paper that mathematically describes consciousness as a fundamental field that existed before space and time. She proposes testable predictions—including the possibility that if consciousness differentiated itself into structured reality through something like universal thought, it might have left detectable patterns in the cosmic microwave background. This is ancient scripture overlapping with cutting-edge physics. “Thou Art That” from the Upanishads. “I AM that I AM” from Exodus. The earth was formless and void, then God said “Let there be light.” Consciousness precedes manifestation, thought is a collapse mechanism. Everything happens in cycles. We went out to do science in a universe of strict materialism, and now we’re coming back, changed, to the wisdom of mystery and consciousness. Finally, we talk to Robin Lassiter about her new Mystery School for the Brokenhearted. Here’s to the end of a fraught and beautiful 2025, and a 2026 which promises to be no less complicated. Highlights: Norwegian physicist published a peer-reviewed paper treating consciousness as a fundamental field rather than an emergent brain phenomenon Mathematical integration with quantum field theory Testable predictions involving quantum field interactions, neural coherence patterns, and cosmological signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Tom connects this to the Chandogya Upanishad: “Thou Art That” The Abrahamic analog: “The earth was formless and void” (undifferentiated potential), “I AM that I AM” (consciousness preceding manifestation), “Let there be light” (universal thought as collapse mechanism) From 2nd century BCE scripture to modern testable mathematical physics of universal consciousness Everything goes in circles. Going out into the “billiard ball universe” of strict materialism, now we’re coming back around Robin on discovery through experience itself What is the relationship between us (personality, body, experience) and the unifying field? Evolution of grief in community The healing that can only happen in the presence of others The Mystery School for the Brokenhearted: the mutual capacity to hold grief without trying to fix or rescue What makes this era of human history unique Robin’s “big yes” to the ampersand universe *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roman concrete has been healing itself for thousands of years, surviving earthquakes, volcanoes, the ocean… As she’s actively recovering from surgery, Mal has lots of questions about self-healing. And also why her dad keeps telling her to use colloidal silver. Jordan Crowder has a lot to say about how the body heals, it turns out, having survived some major, life-threatening health crises himself. We ask him lots of questions, and he offers insights that synthesize science and spirituality in a way that is just exactly our vibe. Finally, we’re gonna hear about something he calls probability engineering. Your future is a probability cloud. Every decision collapses some outcomes and expands others. Agency is your power to project new pathways into your future that didn’t exist based on your past. But no, you can’t manifest a million dollars without becoming the kind of person who would have a million dollars. Change requires energy, and the universe resists it just like people do. We talk about how you can do it anyway. Welcome to 2026. Highlights: Jordan Crowder from Conscious Observers doubles the number of Jordans on today’s episode Mal shares a story about Roman concrete that survives earthquakes, volcanoes, and millennia under the sea because it literally heals itself over time The whole Nature Communications article is basically about a possible misreading of an ancient concrete recipe Why Mal is being drawn to things with “self-healing” in the title Her dad keeps trying to make her spray colloidal silver on her surgery wound The placebo effect works even when you know it’s a placebo Cellular communication How to help your body do what it’s spent millions of years evolving to do (hint: get out of the way) Thoughts create reality through quantum probability cloud engineering (an introduction to Jordan Crowder’s Law of Probability) Your future is not one predetermined path (obviously), it’s a cloud of potential outcomes You can project entirely new pathways into your future probability field that didn’t exist before based on your past Agency maxxing Getting a millions dollars (as a, ahem, for instance) probably means changing behaviors you’ve never changed before People generally don’t like to change—and neither does the universe, because change requires more energy Also/related: dumping a million dollars on a someone who isn’t ready for it is usually calamitous What is a Minimally Viable Manifestation? Ellen Langer says procrastination is not the problem, mindlessness is The real work is increasing awareness and “awakeness” to your decisions and choices Jordan and Mal commit to starting Jordan Crowder’s 21-day probability engineering course And in the epilogue… The overwhelming evidence of reincarnation overcomes Western skepticism Without humans, who would care about beauty? We’re not here just to collapse wave functions. Jordan Crowder’s 90-year-old Jesus hypothetical *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices