00:00:00 Introduction: Forays into hyperspace

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In this conversation, Karl Friston unpacks epistemic trust in everyday terms—how our brains decide who to learn from and what to believe amid deepfakes, polarized media, and belonging needs. We explore why “learning gates” open with felt safety and shared narratives, how attachment histories bias trust, and why body signals are critical red flags for [...]

He describes the concept of a virus of the mind, infecting all of humanity. He references the native Cree term Wetiko. However, it could be thought of as Satan or Ahriman or the Archons. In Jungian terms, it involves a projection of one’s own shadow onto elements of the world at large. It is a [...]

Deepak shares how artificial intelligence (AI) can become a tool for awakening rather than destruction. While acknowledging that technological progress has surpassed our emotional and spiritual evolution, he offers insight into how we can utilize AI to support our own movement toward wisdom, compassion, and dharma. Used consciously, it can help us remember who we [...]

She describes how, while attending a psychokinetic training program in Russia, she developed a severe injury to her spine. Upon returning to the United States, immediate surgery was recommended. Nevertheless she attempted, with little success, to treat her condition using holistic methods. In February 2020 she experienced an unusual “more than lucid” dream. Within days, [...]

He describes his own unique path through life – starting with mystical and psychic experiences from childhood. Following his inner promptings, he dropped out of college and spent weeks alone in a tent in the woods. With only $35 in his pocket, he travelled to Las Vegas, Nevada, in order to connect with the spiritual [...]

Here he will review UFO sightings at numerous nuclear missile launch sites. In some cases, these sightings were associated with either activation or deactivation of missile launch sequences. He will also describe personal encounters he has experienced since childhood with ostensible non-human entities. He suggests that these entities are closely monitoring the development of nuclear [...]

Darcy discusses his latest explorations into the intersections of psychic phenomena, remote viewing, and UAP encounters. He shares insights from two decades of research, revealing how consciousness, telepathic communication, and nonhuman intelligence may all be connected. Weir also delves into the ethical dangers, grifters, and cult-like dynamics emerging within the modern UFO disclosure movement.

Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired Magazine. He posits that our increasingly complex and autonomous machines and systems are becoming indistinguishable from living things. The “neo-biological civilization” is one where the principles of biology—such as decentralized control, evolution, and error-honoring institutions—are necessary to design and manage our technological and social systems. This [...]

He acknowledges his role as a magician conjuring a world in which the human race will enter conscious communication with the spectrum of beings he refers to as “the visitors”. He frankly admits that this is not a task he can accomplish by himself. However, there is a large underground of support. He emphasizes a [...]

Kevin Cann explores MetaTheurgy as an expansion of ancient theurgy, reframing ritual, consciousness, and wonderworking through the contemporary lens of his system, Platonic Surrealism. He explains how human beings function as interfaces between awareness, potentiality, monadic consciousness, and the physical world, offering practical methods to restore agency in a postmodern culture marked by alienation. Cann [...]

He describes his work in the field of energy medicine — including the use of a variety of electromagnetic devices that he invented, researched, and patented. In particular, he focuses on pulsed electromagnetic field technology. He also describes his work in the area of spiritual energies, including medical intuition, communication with spirit beings, and reincarnation. [...]

George Leonard was an aikido black belt and creator of the Leonard Energy Training system. He served as a senior editor of Look magazine and as president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. He authored numerous books, including Education and Ecstasy, The Silent Pulse, The Ultimate Athlete, The Transformation, and Walking on the Edge of [...]

He explains how he came to work with and participate in the ceremonies of native American shamans. In particular he describes his relationship with Wallace Black Elk and also Godfrey Chipps. He speculates that he may have been a Lakota shaman named Hollow Horn in a previous lifetime. He recounts many eyewitness stories regarding medicine [...]

She describes a year long project, paid for by a consulting client, in which she endeavored to establish telepathic communication with a variety of non-human, presumably extra-terrestrial or extra-dimensional, entities. Admittedly, the results of this effort are highly speculative. However, she was surprised at how extraordinarily real the experience felt. A spreadsheet describing the characteristics [...]

He explains that his own paranormal personal history exploration has led him to investigate odd memories associated with ostensible alien encounters. To do so, he sought the help of a hypnotherapist specializing in such cases. He also reached out to an old friend who shared one such experience. In addition to recovered memories, he describes [...]

He discusses the impact of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. He explains the origin of the American liberal and conservative traditions in the war of pamphlets between Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke. Over time, both liberal and conservative positions tend to reverse. Many examples are provided. He explains the influence of native American culture [...]

Glenn Aparicio Parry explores love as the primordial force underlying nature, consciousness, and the cosmos itself. He describes how ancient wisdom traditions, indigenous worldviews, and modern physics all point toward love as the vibration that restores wholeness amid strife. He also reflects on time, ritual, the moon, and the evolution of human consciousness as pathways [...]

Here he maintains that science is continually evolving. He draws upon examples from cosmology and black holes to make this point. He also reflects on his relationship with Stephen Hawking who was his faculty advisor and mentor. He suggests that science will not be complete until it can incorporate both mind and spirit.

Joanna explores the connection between UFO and UAP encounters and ancient esoteric goddess traditions, emphasizing how interdimensional beings may guide human spiritual evolution. She discusses her own lifelong liinal experiences alongside global apparitions such as Fatima, linking them to higher states of consciousness and Gnostic teachings. Kujawa also warns against ideological dangers surrounding AI, suggesting [...]

Jason Gregory explores the essence of Taoism, emphasizing its critique of social conditioning and its guidance toward naturalness, spontaneity, and effortless being. He explains how Taoist ideas intersect with Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, and wider metaphysical traditions, revealing a shared vision of an undivided reality beneath cultural structures. Gregory also discusses practices such as wu wei, [...]

Here he explains that he began having lucid dreams as a child and has now made a profession of studying such dreams and facilitating others in experiencing them. For the most part, he recognizes that lucid dreaming is a way of exploring the depths of one’s own psyche – although it can also be viewed [...]

He discusses a constellation of philosophical perspectives – going back to Nietzsche, Husserl, and Heidegger – and their implications for science in general and parapsychology in particular. The discussion is also peppered with references to feminism, psychoanalysis, marginalized social groups, post-structuralism, and the European Enlightenment. He points out that William James was, essentially, a phenomenologist.

Here he describes different approaches taken to the realm of spirits by scholars in anthropology. He recalls his own fieldwork studying spiritualist mediumship in the United Kingdom. He presents various cases suggesting that spiritual entities are part of the natural world. However, he acknowledges that it is exceedingly tricky to distinguish between living agent psi [...]

Simon Duan discusses his hypothesis of Platonic computation, a postmaterialist model proposing that consciousness, mind, and matter emerge from a deeper non-physical realm of forms. He explains how this framework may illuminate the enigmatic Dodleston Messages, a decades-old case involving anomalous communications that appear to originate from both the past and the future. Duan explores [...]

She describes the many historical descriptions of spirit materialization, observed under well-controlled conditions by experienced researchers such as Nobel laureate Charles Richet. She acknowledges that such phenomena are ostensibly unbelievable, no matter how well-attested. She describes her own experience witnessing such phenomena in the presence of the spiritualist circle in England centered on the physical [...]

Steve explores how mainstream media handles stories of the unexplained and why skepticism and belief often clash in reporting the paranormal. He discusses his investigations into lucid dreaming, after-death communication, and the psychological challenges that follow extraordinary experiences. Volk shares how personal encounters—from family hauntings to precognitive dreams—reshaped his understanding of reality and journalism’s responsibility [...]

He explains that the many tests performed with regard to Bell’s Theorem in physics have now clearly demonstrated that what we conventionally consider the objective world does not exist independent of our own observations. This is a serious problem for metaphysical materialism. However, it is easily reconciled by the metaphysics of the nineteenth century philosopher, [...]

Kelvin Chin discusses his spontaneous memories of past lives, describing how these experiences emerged naturally over decades through meditation and deep relaxation. He explains how these memories span multiple eras, cultures, and even non-human forms, offering insights into consciousness, the afterlife, and the continuity of mind. Kelvin also emphasizes the practical value of such experiences [...]

Arnaud explores the neuroscience of mind wandering, explaining how spontaneous thought arises, why it is universal, and how it relates to meditation and brain networks. He discusses the default mode network, metacognition, and how awareness of wandering thoughts reveals the dynamic nature of consciousness. Delorme also shares practical insights into tuning the mind through meditation [...]

He shares some insights into the life and poetry of the great Sufi master, focusing especially on the unique relationship between Rumi and his spiritual lover and mentor, Shams of Tabriz. Through careful analysis, he explicates various lines of poetry that have seemed awkward or disconnected to critics. He illuminates the unique stages of ecstasy [...]

Stephen A. Diamond, PhD, is an American clinical and forensic psychologist, a former pupil and protégé of Dr. Rollo May, and notable author of Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil and Creativity. His work focuses on the psychological topics of anger, violence, evil, mental illness, and the daimonic.

Lauren describes how mediumship can transform grief into continuing bonds of love. She gives insights on how mediums can receive accurate and detailed information from the spirit world. Lauren describes practical steps to communicate with loved ones in the spirit world, including how to ask for specific signs and messages, and the role of dreams [...]

He describes his long-standing interest in the field of medical intuition for the purpose of diagnosis. He points out that the best medical intuitives with whom he had worked had comparatively rare natural abilities. He speaks about his own approach to intuition as it pertains to the development of new approaches to healing. He speaks [...]

Regardless of the physical reality of UFOs, says Jacques Vallée, PhD, the fact that people believe they have experienced contact with alien entities is an appropriate subject for scientific scrutiny. Vallée is a computer scientist, UFO researcher and author whose books include Challenge to Science, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, The Edge of Reality, The Invisible [...]

Sarah Janes discusses the ancient history and cultural significance of dreaming, lucid dreaming, and dream incubation as initiatory practices for insight, healing, and guidance. She explores how early civilizations, from Egypt to Anatolia and Greece, used dreams as portals to the sacred, sources of prophecy, and catalysts for transformation. She also describes her contemporary work [...]

He explains that he is using the term hypnagogia to describe explorations of one’s psychic depths including, but not limited to, states associated with sleep and dreaming. He shares a number of his own hypnagogic journeys – starting at the age of five. He discusses the sense of dread that sometimes accompanies these encounters with [...]

She explains that, since early childhood, she has experienced beings of light as well as energy patterns around people. This led her to search for both answers and practical applications. Her film, Superhuman, offers a synthesis of scientific and philosophical interpretations — as well as on-camera practical demonstrations of extrasensory perception and psychokinesis. 

Here she describes magical practices dating back to neolithic times in Britain. She explains that certain sites were used for burials, initiations, and ritual activities. These were carefully coordinated with the seasons and the movement of celestial bodies. She describes her own experience inside an ancient chamber of initiation. She also discusses how people’s experience [...]

The late philosopher Huston Smith is emeritus professor of philosophy at Syracuse University. He has also taught at M.I.T. and at U.C. Berkeley. He is author of The World’s Religions, The Primordial Tradition and Beyond the Post-Modern Mind. Here he points out that we confront three essential relationships with nature, with other people, and with ourselves, and that [...]

He explains how, as a meditation teacher, he came to see telekinesis (another term for psychokinesis) as a clearly visible way to demonstrate the psychic powers of the human mind. It took him many months to cultivate this ability himself, but it can often be imparted to others within a few hours. The deeper significance [...]