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.

Melinda Leslie has been public with her own abduction experiences for over 18 years. For the last 15 of those years she has been actively researching the involvement of a clandestine group in the lives of abductees. This research into the covert-operations of alien abductees is re-defining both the UFO cover-up and abduction paradigms. She has uncovered an ongoing program of monitoring, harassment and re-abduction of very vulnerable people. Her years of investigation has meant the accumulation of a lot of data and detailed experiences, including her own. The covert-operations that invade the lives of the abductees be the best evidence for both the reality and importance of UFO abduction experiences. Recorded November 5th 2010

A half hour excerpt of Mac's strong clear voice talking about his final book, The Cryptoterestrials. He was always a welcome guest on a wide variety of esoteric podcasts, but this performance on C2C was particularly impressive. He beautifully conveys his insights to a very mainstream audience. He had a way of articulating EXACTLY what I feel in my bones. He said it better and clearer than I ever could. Mac covers a lot in this first half hour, a great intro to anyone unfamiliar with his work. If you listen, you'll be treated to a remarkable set of ideas. You get the sense that George Noory is unwittingly drawn into a deeper place as he talks with Mac. Recorded September 2009

A short posting where I compare the ideas of Mac Tonnies and an essay I wrote about playing with cats and the UFO phenomenon. Included is Mac reading his own curiously similar story. The written post can be found HERE. Recorded 2009

This is an excerpt from my recently published audiobook of The Messenger. It was narrated by Michael Hacker. The foreword was written and read by Richard Dolan. And the introduction and conclusion were read by me.

  This is Chapter Nine, titled Back to Back Reports, and this might be my favorite chapters of this big book.   I am happy to offer up this sample, so you can get an insight into the tenor of the book. I will be posting more samples as a way to promote this audiobook, and these will be easy to find here on my blog.   The audiobook can be purchased on audible.com, the iTunes store and amazon. If you like the book, please leave a review on Amazon. In this new era of publishing, authors are dependent on these reviews.   I need to thank Michael Hacker for his wonderful narration. I sought him out because he has read a long list of audiobooks by John Keel and Brad Steiger, two of my heroes in this fascinating corner of publishing.    This book, The Messengers was a monumental project for me, and it consumed years of my life. It was a blurry time of obsession and dedication, and it was also a time of magic. The book was written in a synchronistic cloud, and that's not an exaggeration. It feels like something outside myself was at play in the writing process.   I have two other companion books, and these make up a sort of trilogy. I am enormously proud of The Messenger series, and each is available in print, in Kindle, and as audiobooks.

Nick talks in depth about his new book FINAL EVENTS. Demons, fundamentalism, occult rituals, secret government think tanks, Alister Crowley, heavy-handed satanic deception and plans for global control all collide together. Recorded September 2010

On October 13th there was a flurry of UFOs reported above Manhattan. We dig into the inevitable hoax revelations following this kind of thing in the mainstream media, the use of deception as media experiments, the nature of the phenomenon and the various controversies surround it, the strange timing of the NYC “sightings” hot on the heels of all of the stories about UFOs, space travel, exoplanets and much, much more.

The blurring of ancient mythology and modern pop culture, with a focus on the UFO experience in these turbulent times. Recorded August 2010.

The author of OUR GODS WEAR SPANDEX tries to unravel the mythic sybology that lurks within our popular culture. Recorded July 2009.

It's not easy to sum up Regan Lee, so a proper introduction is tricky. She has had a lifetime of experiences that defy any simple category.   Regan has been using her skills as a writer to share and explore her experiences. And calling her prolific is sort of an understatement. She has (at last count) upwards of fifteen blogs! Her expertise includes (but not limited to) Women of Esoterica, Painting, Bigfoot, mythology, Contactees, ghosts, hauntings and UFO's. She has a degree in Folklore Studies and Language Arts.   I avoid the term interview because this is much more accurately a conversation, and lemme say that we have a really great one! We cover a lot, and she is full of insights that were downright impressive. After I recorded our talk and we hung up, I immediately sent Regan an email stating: "Should I pay you for playing the role of my therapist?" It's funny, we have so much in common (and some of it is downright weird) that I felt like I this was some sort of psychiatric session where I was trying to figure out what it all means. I'm not sure we come up with any good answers, but there was never a dull moment. Her main blog (the best place to begin) is THE ORANGE ORB. Search out the other 14 blogs from this starting point. Another good one is SAUCER SIGHTINGS, lots of personal experiences and dreams. And for Bigfoot info, FRAME 352.

Psychic, experiencer, channel and comedian. A roller-coaster ride into realms within our reach!

Anya continues sharing her life experiences, and she honors us with a channeled session. Recorded December 2009

A wide ranging interview about the direct experience of alien abduction and government harassment form a compelling voice for the reality of this strange phenomenon. One of my very favorite interviews, highly recommended. Recorded September 2010

Adam Gorightly, self proclaimed crackpot historian comes to the rescue. This guy has a wealth of arcane knowledge and an uncanny skill at connecting very divergent dots in the realm of the bizarre. Recorded October 2010

Rich steps out of his role as UFO historian to talk about his latest book titled AFTER DISCLOSURE.

The audiobook for The Messengers is due out very soon. Richard Dolan wrote and read the foreword, and I am sharing it here. 

Connecting with the animal spirit messages, including a oracle reading. Recorded April 2010

A true contactee with an inspired mission on this earth. Author of BLUE STAR. Her book is a heartfelt first person story of contact, and as a sincere plea that we, all of us, need to make a collective choice on how we will proceed in the upcoming years. Miriam has a web site, www.bluestarprophecy.com Recorded September 2009

Chica, properly known as Alexandra Bruce, is the author of a multitude of fascinating books. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of the murky paranormal goings on at the notorious Montauk base as well as the cutting edge quantum sciences. Plus, it is a delight to try and keep up with her rapid fire mind. Recorded September 2010

Paranormal investigator and author of STALKING THE TRICKSTER. Also the author of THE MYSTERIOUS VALLEY and SECRETS OF THE MYSTERIOUS VALLEY. Recorded December 2009 One hour and 23 minutes long, that's 123!

Life experiences with federal investigations, the intelligence community and the paranormal. Recorded August 2010

Analyzing synchronicities with a Ph.D, interpreting the profound. Gibbs is a practicing psychoanalyst with roots as a de facto Jungian, and he diverged from that path to more deeply explore the pragmatic significance of synchronicities. Recorded May 2010

Cynthia is a remarkably warm-hearted person. She is wonderfully open about her extremely strange life experiences. She is known as the ET-Sculpture because of her dedication to creating artwork, that she claims is imbued with extra powers. Audio recorded Aug. 2010

I speak about the intense synchronicities during that month. The month of October 2009 was, without question, one of the most bizarre and impressive things that I've ever experienced.

An audio interview from October 2010. If you’ve found your way to this site, you're probably quite aware of Richard Dolan. He is the author of two great big books, volumes one and two in a series, entitled UFOs and the National Security State. And very shortly there will be a third book on the shelves titled A.D. AFTER DISCLOSURE, The People’s Guide to Life After Contact. 2010 interview with Richard Dolan linked HERE

This is an audio reading of chapter seventeen in the book STORIES FROM THE MESSENGERS. 

Long time reader of the blog Red Pill Junkie read his own essay, and he has a much better voice than I do! This is his foreword to my newest book. Required listening! 

Dr. Karla Turner and her husband Casey Turner talk about their abduction experiences and human surveillance. This presentation is  from 1993. Her work is extremely important to know about and is rarely discussed by mainstream ufologists. She thanks Bob at the beginning of her talk, and that would be Bob Brown who hosted the earlier incarnation of the IUFOC. The podium has "Showboat" logo on it, meaning the conference was in Las Vegas. The youtube video is linked HERE. I have been working to transfer the many youtube presentations by Dr. Karla Turner over to an MP3 audio format. This is a preferable  way to listen to her strong voice. The audio quality is somewhat poor, but the content is riveting. Her husband Elton Casey takes the podium at about the 35:00 time count.

I have been recording my voice for an audio book of Stories from The Messengers. The results have been good, and I am working hard to make it sound professional. This is a high quality 192 Kbits/sec file.

From a post back in 2010. This wasn’t a formal interview, both of us were speculating off the cuff about what might be unfolding. We ended up overlapping the core subjects of both of our ongoing writings and viewpoints. The conversation ended up getting pretty deep, until we were pondering the search for God. Balloons? UFOs? Are these a deep reflection of our place in the universe? (link to the post from 2010)

Chapter 13 from an Audio-book project in the works.

I wrote a novel!

Here's some music the was vital to the creative process!

The novel is THE UNSEEN.

This is an unsettling first-person talk on UFO contact. This is a recording of a presentation by a man using the pen-name John Clark. I read his book (POZAN, 2002) and it is extremely strange and unsettling. You can hear the shaky quality to his voice during this presentation. He seems fragile and uneasy. In the middle of this talk he sort of awkwardly says: "... and then I tried to end it all, and I found myself in a hospital." This dramatic remark says a lot about the intensity of his set of experiences. I met John at the UFO conference where he made this unnerving presentation in 2008. My heart went out to the guy, he seemed deeply troubled by what had intersected with his life. (link)

This is the audio of a talk given by Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John Mack at the International Conference on Altered States of Consciousness in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was recorded October 25, 2002.

The synopsis of the lecture reads: "UFO encounters, near death experiences, shamanic journeys, and spontaneous religious epiphanies all have the power to bring about a significant transformation of consciousness. By this is meant that the experiencers’ worldview, as internalized in the course of their upbringing and inculcation in this culture, is shattered. This, in turn, results in the potential opening of heart and spirit to a wider appreciation of reality and a (re)connection to realms of the sacred and divine. In this lecture I will discuss how this process occurs in specific cases, and its implications for social and cultural change."

I had a transcription made the audio of a hypnosis session from the summer of 2014. I wrote about that extensively at the time, and that post is linked HERE. This was a past life regression conducted by London based therapist Lorraine Flaherty. My goal was to address the source of my bouts of clinical depression, and it was extremely successful. I experienced key moments isn what seemed to have been a past life, and a very sad death. There was a distinct change in the quality of my life that began right when I opened my eyes after the session.  This was not a hypnosis session where we tried to retrieve UFO memories. But, Lorraine did address these issues at the end of my time being hypnotized. I have included the transcript of that portion below.  When we first began, Lorraine asked me if there was anyone else (or any other energy) in the room. She asked me again later in the session, and for the next 25 minutes she asked me questions and I gave my answers. This was focused on my UFO experiences. Reading this and hearing the audio has been fascinating. I cannot in anyway vouch that what I said is true, but what I can say is that it feels truthful. It may not be a literal truth, but more a metaphoric kind of honesty.  (link)

This was the audio on a post from 2010 that had a dead-link. I am re-adding the audio here to make sure all the links are up and live. LINK to the post tiled: Vivid dream and blue orb

I got interviewed by Robert Siegel on NPR's Morning Edition. He got some non-actors to play roles in a very short excerpt of my one-act theatrical work, THE PALINDROME DRAMA. This was a novelty play, with all dialog in palindromes. No UFOs, but it comes in with a tidy 3:33 time count. (link)

This is an audio reading from the recently published book, Hidden Experience.

This is my voice (the author) reading from the book The Messengers. I read the foreword, as well as two short sub-chapters. It runs about 17 minutes. I took it upon myself to read aloud and record it as a short audio file because of my voice. I've had a chest cold over the last week or so, and my normally squeaky voice is much lower.

(link)

This is an audio reading of a single chapter from my ongoing owl book. The text is read by author, playwright, actor and journalist, Ryan Sprague. The chapter is still in progress, and there will be some editing and revisions before publication, but this excerpt should give people an idea of the tone of the project. (link)

I have been recording my voice for an audio book. I am starting with the more recent book, Stories from The Messengers. It is slightly shorter and I hope to have it available before summer. It is slow going and its taking longer than I expected. The results have been good, and I am working hard to make it sound professional. This is a high quality 192 Kbits/sec file.