hidden experience audio – Details, episodes & analysis

Karin Austin is presently the Executive Director of the John E. Mack Institute, but a quarter of a century ago she worked with Dr. John Mack to try to understand her contact experiences. In this episode, we dig deep into Dr. Mack's role in this mystery, and also the challenges of what it means to experience something so profoundly strange that it might be impossible to truly understand what that means. She is also working with Rice University as the project manager for the Archives of The Impossible, where she works with Professor Jeffrey Kripal, who should be no stranger to anyone who has made it to this page.

Karin is a thoughtful and passionate voice for the experiencer community. She has worked to share her own deeply personal and complex memories in ways that can be understood, and that can—hopefully—change our world.

LINKS below:

• Excellent interview with Dr Kimberly Engels, HERE.

• A moving presentation about Dr. Mack and the hard work involved in archiving his research materials, HERE.

• Learn more about the Archives of the Impossible HERE.

• Will Bueche talks about his work with the late Dr. John Mack on The Unseen from 2019, HERE.

• Passport to the Cosmos on Amazon, linked HERE.

 

What is Synchromystism? How can you tap into its power and meaning? Chris Knowles, infamous caretaker of The Secret Sun blog talks about the mystery of synchronicity.

His newest book, The Secret Sun Synchromystic Handbook, is an instruction manual for understanding and using the full scope of synchronicity in your daily life. This is a glorious conversation on that ever-present force that surrounds and interacts with all of us. Chris walks us through the finer points of his required handbook. 

• Chris’s newest book: The Secret Sun Synchromystic Handbook.
• Chris’s invaluable blog: The Secret Sun
• We talk about the overt imagery on my bedroom door, more info HERE.
• We also talk about a strange documentary titled C. G. Jung on Alchemy, with an article linked HERE.
• Another excellent interview on the same book with Gordon White on Rune Soup, linked HERE

 

I've been recording myself reading THE UNSEEN for an audiobook, and I want to share what I can along the way. This is a 16-minute excerpt where I read the prologue, and this sets up the rest of the story. It's been a fun challenge to act out the roles and play up the drama. The book has been selling well, and the reviews have been wonderful. As a first-time novelist, I was SO worried that nobody would get the story I was trying to tell. 

Get the book HERE.

 

This is a 14 minute clip of various interview with Mac Tonnies. His voice is strong and clear, and his ideas are just as valid now as they were a decade ago. These clips are introduced by Whitley Strieber. 

More HERE.

Kim is the author of a book titled Beyond My Wildest Dreams, with illustrations by Darryl Anka. She is also the editor of a recent published book titled The Art of Close Encounters which features illustrations and first hand experiences by UFO contactees, along with artwork that depicts their memories. This was decidedly NOT an interview, instead it was a perfectly enjoyable conversation, seemingly without any framework or direction. But, I feel like we covered more ideas more deeply than we ever could have in a standard interview format. (link)

I am perfectly honored to have shared two hours in recorded conversation with Dr. Leo Sprinkle. This man's biography reads like a checklist of every major event in the modern era of UFO research. He is now 80 years old and at the top of his game. And, after a half century of looking into the UFO phenomenon, he is still open minded and optimistic. I envy his child-like outlook in a realm full of deception and terrifying first hand accounts. During this interview Leo says: "The map ain't necessarily the territory." That short phrase sums up a lot of our conversation as well as my personal challenges around the UFO phenomenon. (link)

Marla Frees is a very powerful psychic that palyed an important role in my life. We had a psychic session together in October of 2009 that proved to be rediculously profound. This interview was recorded in April of 2010, as a follow up to our previous session, and as a way to make sense of some ongoing synchronicites in my life. We are both in great form, and we share insights and personal stories. Much less and interview, and much more a conversation! (link)

Andy Colvin witnessed the Mothman as a boy in Charleston West Virginia, and in the aftermath he claims to have had powerful experiences that go well beyond simply seeing a large red-eyed winged creature. And these experiences have followed him to this day. His obsessive role as a researcher has culminated in three books and a 36-hour documentary (that's not a typo) earning him the title The Mothman Photographer. Link

I love the term Synchromysticism, it was coined by the young enigmatic film-maker, Jake Kotze. From his home in Winnipeg Manitoba, he has creating a series of delightful videos that attempt to define an elusive force that is welling up all around us. Pop culture is easily dismissed as trite and vapid, and it can be dismissed by those searching for deep metaphysical answers. But hidden within the soup of our mundane movies and TV shows is a path to the divine. We dig deep into psychedelics, interacting with aliens, crop-circles and transformative experiences all interwoven with synchronicities. His videos can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/user/Seallion#p/u/10/i9kXdfDBlCY

Lucretia Heart is a pen name. She shares her abduction and UFO related experiences on a haunting blog titled At Spiral’s End. Her written work is a collection of deeply personal life events. As a writer, Lucretia has been extremely prolific, there is a huge volume of profound experiences posted on her blog. But somehow, we mange to avoid re-telling too much. Our conversation and it’s details is almost entirely composed of events that have never been shared on-line.