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As far as research of the non-physical world is concerned, Simon Duan should have quite a bit of credibility. He began his career in a robustly materialist environment. He has a PhD in materials science from Cambridge university and worked for many years with technology commercialisation. Then he had a paranormal experience at a dentist and began exploring what lies behind the material world.
Simon has developed a theory known as “Platonic computation”, which unifies consciousness, mind and matter. The theory provides an explanation for how matter is derived from consciousness.
According to the theory, this physical world is a finite and malleable simulation, created by consciousness, of which we are aspects, and whose highest form in Simon’s terms is metaconsciousness. Various traditions have given it other names: Brahma, Dao, God.
Metaconsciousness is the ultimate reality. It is contentless but contains infinite potential. Simon has adopted Plato’s term for it: the realm of forms. In the realm of forms, everything is perfect. When a concept is manifested on the physical plane, it becomes a poor copy of the original ideal concept. Thus, in Simon Duan’s model, this 3D universe is assumed to be a simulation, rendered by the “Platonic computer” of metaconsciousness outside of time and space. Multiple other realities are also rendered on different levels.
Thoughts, feelings and memories are in a database – a modern word for the Akashic records. The brain is a display of thoughts, feelings and memories. It’s not the generator.
Psychics can “hack” the codes of the simulation. They can activate their higher selves more easily. For instance, if you can switch off the codes for gravity, you levitate.
Why has this simulation been created?
“Pure creativity wants to experience itself, so it diversifies”, says Simon.
Since the pure creativity of metaconsciousness is the highest aspect of ourselves, it is ultimately we who do it. How do we diversify? We create content.
But some of us are less aware of what is actually going on in this divine game.
“We can choose to be NPCs, non-playable characters, or to be co-creators”, says Simon.
In the latter case, we become conscious that we can shape this world as we wish, or update the simulation.
The game we (our highest aspect) have created is so elaborate that we even forget our true nature when we arrive here.
In order to keep the game interesting, evolution has to happen. The rules sometimes change.
“Then we get a change of perception. In science we call it a paradigm shift.”
Simon Duan thinks physical reality will shift in ways that will force people to awaken, sometimes through disasters and suffering.
“I think this world will become much better, but it will be worse before it gets better”, he says.
He emphasizes that he refers to enlightenment in this particular physical world.
“On other levels we are already enlightened. There is no work to be done there.”
Metacomputics Labs
Simon’s essay “Stop Asking If the Universe is a Computer Simulation”
Simon on X
Anders’ essay that is mentioned
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Marjorie Woollacott was a scientist with a materialist worldview when she, in her 30s, had a spiritually transformative experience. Her heart opened. There was a feeling of total peace and equanimity. She felt at home.After the experience, Woollacott gradually reoriented her research and teaching in physiology and neuroscience towards the nonphysical human experience. Many of her 200 peer reviewed scientific articles are about the effects of meditation.“When we meditate, we begin to let go of our feeling of smallness and separateness to a feeling of interconnectedness with everything else in the world”, Marjorie says.Later, she began looking more fully into the nature of consciousness.In that context, she wants to highlight two scientists-philosophers in particular, Bernardo Kastrup and Federico Faggin (the inventor of the microprocessor).“They show us scientifically why seeing consciousness as fundamental is essential to our understanding of the universe.”Woollacott is co-editor of an anthology that is fresh on the shelves as we record this episode, The Playful Universe. It is about meaningful coincidences, something psychology giant Carl Jung called synchronicities.Cultural historian and archetypal cosmologist Richard Tarnas, who has written the introduction to the book, defines synchronicities like this: observed coincidences, in which two or more independent events, having no apparent causal connection, nevertheless seem to form a meaningful pattern in our lives.Synchronicities are often seemingly trivial. It could be something quotidian you haven’t thought about in 20 years, but when you do, that same thing suddenly appears all around you; in newspapers, signs, things you hear.Another contributor to the anthology, Jungian psychologist and mythologist Roderick Main, describes the evolution of our human understanding of the universe as having gone from enchantment to disenchantment (the scientific revolution) to reenchantment, which is happening now.“Life is still mysterious.” How can synchronicities happen? In Marjorie Woollacott’s view, we are points of consciousness within the universal consciousness, and we are all entangled and co-creating this universe.“Within that playful entanglement, we draw the situations to ourselves that are most important for the unfolding of our paths in this universe.”She also points out that our beliefs create our reality, which means that what we pay attention to in our lives is what we allow to unfold.So, how should we act on synchronicities?“Value them highly and explore them.”Marjorie Woollacott believes we have some kind of guidance from the nonphysical reality. She refers to research she has done on mediumship, where mediums say they are in contact with people from “the other side”.“I saw the incredibly strong evidence about these people communicating with us, telling us things we didn’t know that turned out to be true, and that could help us.”This is documented in peer reviewed papers,Many feel – and claim – that this world is unfair, and not only to themselves but to millions.“I believe it’s a fundamental misunderstanding”, Marjorie says.“But we all have these thoughts. We are both a soul with infinite awareness and a tiny point of awareness. And the tiny point, where our ego resides, is always making judgments about what’s pleasurable, what’s painful, what causes suffering, and what causes expansion. And from that point of view, yeah, things can be really difficult.”“But if we can take the view of the whole, which is our essence, there is probably something we can learn from that moment of pain that will move us forward in our expansion of knowing who we are.”Marjorie’s websiteThe Playful UniverseBio at AAPSBio at Galileo Commission
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Isaac Rodriguez discovered, to his big surprise, that mainstream astrologers never really look up at the sky.As John Lash explained in an earlier episode, tropical (mainstream) astrology isn’t really about the stars. The signs are merely named after star constellations that approximately corresponded with the sectors of the signs a few thousand years ago.Isaac Rodriguez learned about sidereal astrology, the kind that goes by the actual star constellations and takes their apparent movement in the sky into account. With the precession of the equinoxes, the positions of the constellations constantly move – or seem to move, from earth’s viewpoint.If sidereal astrology were to replace tropical astrology as it is used today, the painful problem for people who are into this would be that their birth chart would be completely wrong.“I made up a term for this, ‘astrology collapse disorder’”, says Isaac.But the two models seem to work on different levels. A higher and a lower octave, if you will. Or, Isaac claims, in the divine reality (sidereal) and in a false matrix (tropical).“I see it like this: Tropical keeps you human, sidereal makes you celestial.”The tropical model keeps us in what the Hindus call samsara, the karmic cycle.“And if we stick to that, we will probably stay in the loop longer than if we study sidereal, which is the way to break the cycle.”The Church condemned real astrology but then allowed an astrology that is like a broken clock, according to Isaac.“So we’re living in a false matrix. Tropical astrology is about the very human issues, my love life, my job, my relations, whereas sidereal astrology is about ‘show me my deepest, darkest shadows, show me all, I need to get out of here’.”Tropical astrology has twelve signs. The thirteenth sign is crucial in understanding how to get the “broken clock” to work again. It is a constellation called Ophiuchus, which means the serpent-bearer. In ancient cultures it was associated with a serpent of some kind, like the plumed serpent in Mesoamerican traditions.And it is located right at the Galactic center, where there is a supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A .The Maya called it Xibalba, the crossing.This point was pivotal also to the Gnostics. This is where they located Pleroma, from where Sophia and Christos came.“Could it be that we have a connection to another world through that point? We have to pay attention to that part of the sky”, says Isaac.He tells about the many pieces of evidence for the importance of this point in the universe that you can find in Egyptian temples.Some groups have carried the truth about our immortality and our divine origin through history, and been persecuted for that. But why don’t we all know this? Because we have amnesia. There is probably a purpose for that. We are supposed to learn certain things through the illusion of separation and time.But some people who possess the truth hide it for nefarious purposes, Isaac believes.“The symbolism of the age of Pisces is separation from source. The separated parts are supposed to merge through matter, through the physical. But it has also created the opportunity for manipulation and brainwash.”Correction: Between the 13 and 13:30 minute mark, incorrect information about the name of a Vatican telescope is mentioned.
Isaac's websiteThe documentary Code 12Isaac's Youtube channel
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When French filmmaker Anthony Chene first came across a story about a near death experience it clicked. It immediately made sense to him, even though he didn’t grow up in a spiritual home. He wasn’t even sure what a psychic was. But NDEs seemed right.“Yes, it was this world that didn’t make sense. I was in finance, but I barely made any money. I didn’t fit anywhere”, Anthony says.“The idea that this physical world is a tiny part and there are other dimensions beyond the five senses – of course it’s like that.”He suddenly remembered that he had these insights as a child. He remembered that he used to think that every human being could become God by activating something inside.This was a turning point. Anthony was 28 years old and had just begun a mainstream business career, but now he embarked on a completely new journey, documenting spiritual experiences. “I couldn't go back. It was sad, I really wanted to fit in, it felt like a failure. But I couldn't,It was either this, or I would collapse”, he says.The universe planted another idea in his mind, that he must make these videos in English, in the US.“I asked my guides, why? I’m French, I don't even have a work permit in the US.”“But I did it. I went to the US to interview people, again and again.”Anthony thinks it is easier to talk about these topics in English-speaking countries than in France.“The problem is mainly Paris. I live in the south, and it’s easier there. It’s a little bit more open and spiritual. But in Paris it’s all about the analytical mind.”He has noted that things are changing, however, even in the materialist hub of the French revolution.Anthony’s latest, and biggest, project is the recently released NDE documentary ‘Renaissance’, featuring three near death experiencers and three experts on the subject.There is no doubt in Anthony’s mind that consciousness is independent of the brain.“We are all connected. A higher version of us, not the mind, is projecting this reality. My higher self is projecting you right now, and your higher self is projecting me”, he says.In ancient spiritual texts, this reality is often called a dream. In modern times it has been referred to as a matrix, and nowadays it’s popular among spiritually oriented people to talk about a simulation. In Anthony’s mind, all these analogies describe the same thing.“It’s a simulation, but our higher selves planned it before we came here, I think. It’s a simulation with certain checkpoints.” People often say they have a hard time finding out what their purpose is, what they are supposed to do.“But you do know. Deep down you know. Just show up in faith and do what you have to do. It’s very simple. But I have to tell myself that sometimes, too.”Anthony believes we live in crucial times. Things are going to change a lot In the next few years, and very deeply so, he thinks.“Time is speeding up. We are approaching a zero point. Time is going to reset. And it will happen before 2030, I think. But it won’t be the end of the world. It will be the same world, but at the same time very different.”Powerful structures try to suppress knowledge about the afterlife and the true nature of reality. But they will not succeed, according to Anthony.No, it’s pointless. It's only short term. Who we are is not affected by that.
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'Renaissance' on Gaia TV
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Apologies for a technical mishap at the 19:12 mark. I had to switch to a suboptimal camera and mic. But James looks and sounds fine the whole time, which is the most important thing.
Writer, artist and thinker James Tunney is in the classical sense erudite. I have had very few guests, if any, who so effortlessly covers every historical, philosophical and spiritual aspect of the evolution of mankind. He seamlessly wanders from one discipline to the next, and it all comes across as perfectly natural. Which it should be to all of us, of course. The division of reality into different disciplines is an unnatural thing.
A core theme in my interview with James is the choice we have to make in our time: Rediscover our spiritual consciousness or renege our humanness by falling for the siren song of posthumanism and artificial intelligence.
Here are some focal points in our conversation:
The diluted definitions of mythology and philosophy.
There is no hard problem of consciousness.
Psychology is the leftovers from the spiritual world.
The collective Judas of today’s world are those who give away the essence of who they are, what makes them human, to governments and other authority figures.
Human evolution is cyclical “if you want it to be”.
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it mimics itself. Development is a spiral.
There is a connection between ancient cultures in the Mediterranean and the Celtic and Nordic areas.
The fall of humanity: Our focus on materialism.
In an indigenous culture it is easier to connect to the divine. As we have become more technological, it has become more difficult.
Our job is to find our way back to who we are. The rainbow manifests between light and darkness.
Can advanced technology and spirituality exist side by side?
“It’s not impossible, but we’re not on that trajectory.”
You can benefit from high technology if you also have spiritual development.
“Otherwise your society will collapse.”
Most of the AI developers are hostile to perennial wisdom. Many say ‘we are creating God’.
The powers now attempt to once and for all take control of the populace. This time via the nervous system
“Churchill said already in 1943: The next empire will be the empire of the mind.”
“AI is not merely a tool. It's an entire system. It comes from the military-industrial complex.”
The nation state has been toppled over because that is part of the agenda of the new world order.
(James and I have different views on the virtues of keeping the nation state.)
Migration: Which part is natural and organic, and which part is forced migration for nefarious purposes?
“Dislocation and disorientation makes it easier to impose a top-down agenda.”
Are more or fewer people thinking for themselves?
(James and I are not entirely in agreement about that.)
Now is the time to choose ways.
“Absent an inclusion of genuine spiritual consciousness in our framework, it’s a disaster.”
“We will have to leave some things behind.”
So, dear viewer and listener, buckle up, hit the play button and go with the flow…
James website
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Like most people, writer and filmmaker Jack Kelley thought Plato’s account of Atlantis was just an allegory when he, during a vacation on the Greek island of Santorini, was drawn into a world of research that takes the Platonic story seriously.
Even in that world, however, there are diverging opinions about the location of the lost civilization.
Jack came across the work of Greek engineer and linguist George Sarantitis and thought: “This guy might actually have cracked it.” He made contact, and the collaboration that followed resulted in the newly released documentary The Atlantis Puzzle, based on Sarantits’ groundbreaking findings (watch and give a review here or here).
Taking Plato’s account seriously is controversial.
“The very idea of Atlantis is frightening to mainstream academic researchers. They could easily end up looking like fools. The risk-reward is not there. That keeps a lot of first-class minds from seriously addressing what this subject is really about. And Sarantitis is a first-class mind”, Jack says.
George Sarantitis refused to believe the two Plato dialogues Timaeus and Critias, where Atlantis is discussed, were just nonsense fables. He retranslated the texts and realized that important concepts had been misinterpreted for centuries.
For example, an ‘Atlantic pelagos’ does not mean ‘The Atlantic ocean’. ‘Pelagos’ is a lesser sea. Earlier translators had only made an assumption, because nobody had ever heard of an ‘Atlantic pelagos’.
Sarantitis found a few other things that hadn't been well delineated. For instance, three words for ‘island’ are being thrown around.
This retranslation led him to the conclusion that ‘the pillars of Herakles’, a crucial reference, probably doesn’t mean the strait of Gibraltar, which completely changes the idea of where Atlantis may have been located.
Sarantitis’ surprising hypothesis is that the ‘pelagos’ was a series of navigable inland megalakes in northwest Africa where one could sail to the empire known as Atlantis. It is a fact that there are a series of huge salt lakes in the area that indicate that there was once a large body of water, and we now know that the Sahara was a lot wetter at the time Plato points to.
Then there is the much-talked-about Richat structure, the ‘Eye of the Sahara’, which well matches Plato’s description of the Atlantean capital.
So, if there was a civilization in this area, why did it disappear?
If the extreme climatological changes during the latter part of the Younger Dryas (matches Plato’s time frame) were accompanied by earthquakes, tsunamis and other geophysical disasters, a civilizational collapse is plausible.
Jack engaged preeminent earthquake expert Dr Scott Ashford for the documentary.
“According to Ashford, Plato is accurately describing what the effects of the combination of these natural disasters would have been”, Jack says.
Was Atlantis advanced? In Jack’s mind, it was sort of advanced for its time but probably more of a hunter-gatherer than a bronze age kind of society. He does not subscribe to the more grand theories out there.
But he does give other independent researchers credit for pushing the idea that mainstream academia is ignoring many signs of lost human worlds in lands that are now below water, not just the one Plato is talking about. There are hundreds of ancient flood myths, for example.
“Clearly there were kingdoms, tribes, even empires that we don’t have any names for today”, Jack says.
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Everybody who has looked into parapsychology knows that it is a long-standing scientific discipline and that new fascinating findings are published in scientific journals regularly. Yet there are tenacious materialists out there who still believe that this whole field is woo-woo and pseudoscience. And they are influential.Craig Weiler is a journalist specializing in parapsychology and psi phenomena. He discovered the stubborn and angry skeptics when he was blogging about psi sixteen years ago. And he was taken aback by their arrogant stance.“They were stubborn and irrational. They weren’t looking into science. They weren’t even close. Which was weird, because they said they were defending science”, Craig says.He started studying the skeptics and their behavior and discovered that they always approach things in the same manner. He concluded that they basically represent one personality type.“Key elements are stubbornness, a lack of ambiguity, and great difficulty saying ‘I don’t know’. They have this materialistic background, and everything has to be shoved into that”, Craig says.“It becomes obvious that we are dealing with people with an authoritarian personality type. Lack of ambiguity, hostile tone, arrogance. If you look at what authoritarian personality types are, these people tick an awful lot of those boxes.”How have you been able to assess this?“I ve been arguing with them on social media since 2008. Over time I have had hundreds of conversations with skeptics. I was getting kinda hooked into it. I’ve freed myself of that now, but it allowed me to eventually see them more clearly, not just lock horns with them. It was a bit of a personal journey.”It wouldn’t be so much of a problem if these materialist skeptics weren’t so active and didn’t have so much influence in the public debate. They are organized in outfits like Center for Inquiry and its program Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and they run the Skeptical Inquirer magazine.They control the narrative on psi and other topics at the intersection of science and spirituality in various ways. One of the most salient ways is their iron grip over Wikipedia.An activist group advocating for materialist atheism called Guerilla Skepticism on Wikipedia has virtually gained full control of a couple of thousand articles about psi phenomena and persons studying themThe group, run by former photographer Susan Gerbic, is intent on ridding Wikipedia of anything that in their worldview resembles pseudoscience. They kick out others from the platform.“They make sure there’s nobody there to disagree with them.”Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales himself encouraged GSoW from the beginning to “protect science”.Wikipedia has become the go-to source of information for millions, if not billions of people. Craig Weiler and I agree that idea as such is wonderful. It is only sad that it in some areas has been turned into a propaganda tool.“I want to educate the public: you have to be very careful when you look at these topics on Wikipedia, because you’re literally getting somebody’s quasi religion.”So, what can be done? Craig is part of a group that aims to expose the physicalist “police” on Wikipedia. They are now documenting GSoW’s biased editing, their omissions and their blocking of other editors.There are many other contentious topics that certain skeptics are “policing“ on Wikipedia, such as alternative medicine, the UAP phenomenon and alternative archaeology (lost civilizations), but Craig focuses on his area of expertise.
Paranormal Daily News (featuring Craig's work)Craig on XCraig on Linkedin
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At the end of our previous conversation (released April 2023), mythologist, modern shaman and author John Lamb Lash and I had a brief exchange about astrology. It revealed an apparent difference in how we view some aspects of it. Some time later, we decided to have another conversation to sort those differences out.So, in this episode John takes a deep dive into some basic misunderstandings about astrology, in particular the fact that zodiacal astrology and astrological ages are two completely different models.Main point: ordinary astrology does not have anything to do with star constellations.“How does astrology work?” John asks me, teasingly.I try to present my view, which of course doesn’t offer a comprehensive explanation.“It’s a trick question”, John says.“I have used astrology for decades, and I can definitely say that it does work. But how? I can assure you, Anders, that no one understands why astrology works. No one.”But the topic of this conversation is not zodiacal astrology, it’s the astrological ages. And John makes clear that the two are not the same kind of phenomenon and cannot be interpreted in the same way, which is a common misunderstanding.It’s not helpful to conflate the astrological ages with the zodiacal signs and their association with certain characteristics, John explains. Doing so creates a lot of confusion.Here is one a-ha insight: Ordinary, zodiacal astrology, in the Western world primarily tropical astrology, is a misnomer, because there are no stars in it, except for the sun. The constellations the signs are named after are not neatly placed within each sign, and not only that, they are moving, one degree every 72 years.“Unfortunately, there is a muddled zone, where the ages, the language and the discourse are confused.”Zodiac astrology and astrological ages are two different operating systems.“The operating system of the signs is about psychology, but when you talk about the operating system of the constellations, you’re talking a combined language of history and myth.”To differ between the two, John has decided to name the ages not by the Zodiac signs, but by the “storybook names” of the constellations: the fishes, the ram, the crab, the lion, etc.“We’ve lost a lot of ancient skywatching knowledge.”Here’s a crucial difference, according to John Lash: The astrological ages are not exactly the same size (length in time). As opposed to the zodiacal signs, the ages are in alignment with the expansion of the constellations, which come in different sizes and have differently sized gaps between them. In some cases there is also an overlap.Are the actual stars influencing us?“It’s not a causal relationship, it’s a mirroring relationship. The constellations are signals. The cosmos is a mirror of the psyche.”Do they have certain properties?“They’re all about lessons. Lessons for humanity.”So. Everybody wants to know about the age of aquarius. There has been a hype for at least 50 years.It turns out the constellation of aquarius (which John calls manitu) is overlapping the age of pisces (the fishes). So when does it actually begin?You’ll get John Lash’s answer in this episode. You’ll also get his interpretation of the lessons we are supposed to learn.Plus, as the cherry on the cake, John reveals something fascinating he found in the Egyptian Dendera Zodiac.
John's website NemetaJohn's book Not In His Image
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Agneta Sjödin is a media celebrity in Sweden. She started out her career as a tv entertainer and to some extent she also worked with journalism. But she was always a seeker, and lately, she has focused on her inner journey, which she has also shared with her fans in several books and in a podcast. She has evolved into something of a Swedish Oprah, if you will.I got to know Agneta earlier this year, and it was obvious that we have similar worldviews and share many thoughts, ideas and musings. It shows in this conversation (I sometimes talk as if I were the guest …)Spirituality was always there, from early childhood, she says. Her father took her to Sunday school. She never became a “proper” Christian, but she kept the spiritual side of it.“I knew I wanted to serve in some way.”Agneta rose to fame early on in her career. Her authenticity and presence made her greatly popular. She mainly hosted entertainment shows but also a morning news show.Do you follow the news today?“No. The news is rehashed, and they don't give you any hope or energy.”One trend Agneta has noticed with certain unease is the demand from activists that you take a stand in every new conflict. As a celebrity, she is particularly vulnerable to it.“The wars today are not only taking place on the ground, they are in people’s heads all over the world”, she says.“As a public figure, you are harassed if you don’t take a stand. Why don’t they demand we take a stand against war in general?”Agneta has become ever more interested in ETs and the UFO/UAP phenomenon. We talk quite a bit about that, and we delve into information about wars in outer space that would be considered controversial to most people.Her latest book, Våga välja nya vägar (Dare to Choose New Paths), focuses a lot on the inner journey. It’s important to find your higher purpose, Agneta points out. But that doesn’t mean to divorce yourself from everyday life.“There is a Zen saying that before enlightenment you chop wood and carry water, and after enlightenment you chop wood and carry water.”Agneta and I agree that pain is inevitable but suffering optional. We suffer when we linger on pain.“But it’s difficult to tell people that they don’t have to suffer. ‘How can I not suffer when the world looks like this?’, they say”Love is the creative force of the universe, but most of us don’t fully realize that.“We live more in fear than in love on this planet. Even if you fall in love, you instantly start worrying: ‘what if he/she leaves me?’.”“I have struggled with relationships”, she says. “But I have had things to learn in that area. I am good at loving myself now.”Is consciousness God?“I don't use that word a lot. But for me it’s more like divine love”, Agneta says.“It's the intelligence of everything. We’re all a part of that intelligence. Nothing ever dies.”In our conversation we also touch on – all too briefly – another topic that both Agneta and I are passionate about, the origins of civilization. She recently visited the enigmatic megalithic site of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey.Agneta's websiteAgneta's booksAgneta on InstagramAgneta on Facebook
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For general info about Mario and his work, check out the first episode with him, including show notes: In this second episode we touch on a few novel issues:✔ Mario and his associates have now found evidence of up to twelve ancient positions of the north pole, including the present one (every shift from one position to the next is associated with an expansion phase, which entails cataclysmic events).✔ The so-called great unconformity in geology is something geologists are reluctant to discuss. It refers to a huge “missing link” in the earth’s layers (rather a massive void): anywhere from several hundred million years up to one and a half billion years of geological history is missing. Periodic expansion could explain this, says Mario.✔ Ice ages are not what we have been taught, a recurring enlargement of the ice sheets around the poles due to colder climate. No, it is basically the same “ice age”, forced to shift position every time the earth is in an expansion phase. Only when the north pole is positioned on land will glaciers build up and eventually form an ice sheet. The last position before this one was on Greenland. Hence the lingering ice sheet there.✔ The earth expands due to two forces that have the same source:• Flares from solar storms add to the planet’s mass in the form of subatomic particles that easily penetrate the crust.• The same solar storms also blast away the earth’s atmosphere, little by little, which causes decompression.✔ The giant floods described in myths and legends may not have been the result of rapidly melting ice caps. The water masses may have erupted from inside the earth. The equivalent of ten oceans of water is trapped in a mineral called ringwoodite in the planet’s mantle.✔ Many independent archaeology and anthropology history researchers over interpret the significance of the Younger Dryas period. While dramatic, it is not even the most dramatic climate event during the latest ice age (latter part of Pleistocene), says Mario.✔ Mario is still working on his magnum opus, the book about his theory on an expanding earth and its surprising connection to evidence for extremely ancient civilizations. Hopefully out in 2025.
First episode with Mario
Mario’s website Antiquity RebornMario’s Youtube channelMario’s email address: [email protected]
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Professor Dean Radin is one of the world’s leading authorities on psychic phenomena. He is the chief scientist at IONS, the Institute of Noetic Sciences.“I don’t like the word ‘paranormal’ when referring to these experiences”, Dean says.“Paranormal phenomena cover such a huge range of things that are strange, that it tends to collapse psychic experiences into things like search for Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster. But psychic phenomena, like synchronicities, are extremely common.”Are psychic phenomena akin to spiritual experiences?“I would say there is an overlap.”The overlap, he explains, is when people say they have felt a strange, very intimate sense of connection with other people or with things elsewhere.“The line between science and spirituality is arbitrary. There is a spectrum.”A synchronicity can be described as ‘smart luck’, as opposed to ‘dumb luck’.“In many ways the kind of research that I do attempts to evoke synchronicities in the laboratory. What some would call a coincidence we would call a synchronicity when we study for instance telepathy”, Dean says.As we record this episode, Dean Radin is conducting an experiment aimed to test the quantum observer effect.“To test it properly it takes an act of subjective awareness of what is going on. It is correlated to brain activity, but it is not physical. Maybe that’s what will break the chain and cause the measurement to actually occur.”“If the results are replicated in lots of different laboratories, it directly informs an outstanding and long standing problem in the interpretation of quantum mechanics.”The ‘Sigil’ experiment, as it is called, is due to be finished by the end of April.The placebo effect is basically the same phenomenon – mind affecting matter.“Can we see differences in the behavior of cells, be it plants or the human body, depending on what people are beaming mentally at them? The answer is yes.”“For everything from photons, to chemical processes, to cells, to small animals, to human physiology and maybe all the way up to the global level, we do see that consciousness seems to be involved at every single stage.”And yet there are so many skeptics, and so many psi researchers are being mocked.“In mainstream science, these things are taboo. I know many academics have these experiences themselves, but you can’t talk about it, at the risk of your career”, Dean says.“Materialism is an extremely powerful worldview. So powerful that it has given rise to the technologies we have today. But it leaves out something.”However, in the last 30 years, the philosophy of idealism has begun to penetrate within the sciences, according to Dean Radin. Idealism posits that consciousness is fundamental and that matter arises from it.“You see it in physics, in psychology, in neuroscience and in mathematics.”There is a materialist ‘police’ that is active on Wikipedia and in public debate. But it is a vociferous minority, Dean thinks.“They are only maintaining the taboo. But taboos don’t last forever. When you talk to academics privately after a couple of beers, everyone eventually reports they have experiences of this kind, and most are actually interested.”So, if idealism is penetrating science and things seem to be changing, what will be the final nail in the coffin for the taboo?Judging from the brief opening in consciousness studies that was seen in the 60s and 70s, Dean thinks the renewed research on psychedelics might be that nail. Another candidate is quantum biology. Scientists now suggest that the brain operates in quantum ways.“That was a very fringy idea 30 years ago.”
Dean’s personal websiteIONS website
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Julia Mossbridge is a scientist in the true sense of the word, a curious and open-minded investigator and seeker. She has balanced beautifully on the perceived border between traditional science and the esoteric realms.
She has created two institutes, whereof one bears the intriguing name The Institute for Love and Time (TILT). It is about creating technologies that support wellbeing related to feeling unconditional love.
How can love and time go together?
“Both are powerful and healing to humans”, Julia says.
On a deeper level, she explains, people experience that when the boundaries of time are removed, the conditions of connection are also removed, which opens the door to unconditional love.
The way Julia describes the experience of time is somewhat at odds with the “live in the now” mantra. We can extend the self in time, she says. And by doing that we break down boundaries.
“It gives you a lot more chances to do good for yourself and the world. It doesn’t have to be all at once. We have all this time.”
“Folks say you can’t do anything about the past, and the future is all about potentialities, so you can only do something about it in the now. The reason this is so enticing is that we’re built to experience free will. So that’s how we’re gonna make a lot of money on self-help books”, Julia laughs.
“I think it’s a racket. I think it makes people look for control rather than take responsibility.”
In reality, we are not in control. Everything we experience has already happened. That has even been measured (the thought of doing something sudden arises after we’ve done it).
“To even come close to being in control, we must extend the definition of ‘I’. To really be in control we must extend it indefinitely to include the whole universe and everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen.”
The Iroquios have a word for this extension: the long body.
Julia Mossbridge has done extensive research on precognition, the intuitive knowledge about a future event. She uses a metaphor: An event that triggers precognition is like a stick in the stream of consciousness. The stick creates a wake, which is the slowly fading memory of the event after it has happened. But on the front end it also creates an area where the “arrow of time” is reversed.
“There's backpressure. The stream of consciousness ‘prepares’ itself to go around the stick.”
Precognition most commonly appears in dreams.
“The conscious mind is like our story of what is happening, but the unconscious mind really has access to all the incoming data from the universe”, Julia says.
She agrees with psychology pioneer William James that the brain is like a filter.
“When your brain is damaged, you're not changing consciousness, you're changing the capacity to receive it.”
She is also in agreement with the theories of cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman, who describes physical reality as an interface, where living beings are “conscious agents”. If we were to look “under the hood” (which may be what enlightenment entails), we would see a completely different reality that doesn’t make sense in the physical world.
Mossbridge also delves into what AI does to us, and with us, and what we can do with AI.
“Human potential is going to explode with AI if we do it right. It can be a partner in our evolution. We are in this together.”
Julia’s bio:
Affiliate professor in the Dept. of Biophysics and Physics at University of San Diego
Senior consultant with Tangible IQ
Co-founder of TILT: The Institute for Love and Time
Founder of Mossbridge Institute
Author and co-author of multiple books and scientific articles related to time travel, artificial intelligence and unconditional love
PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders (Northwestern University)
MA in Neuroscience (UC San Francisco)
BA in Neuroscience with highest honors (Oberlin College)
Julia on Linkedin
Julia on Medium
The Institute for Love and Time (TILT)
The Mossbridge Institute
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Why are we so afraid to die, I ask afterlife expert, researcher, coach and writer Craig Hogan.“It’s a misunderstanding. People think this life is all there is. But we don’t die. Transition happens seamlessly. There is no pain.”Craig Hogan and his associates try to teach people about this.If we knew we were immortal, we would arguably live our lives differently. We wouldn’t pursue things selfishly. We would realize we are on this journey together with the people around us.There are innumerable reports from people who have been in contact with deceased loved ones.Craig has himself had many experiences in which he has communicated with the other side.There are also many widely known accounts of contacts with the afterlife, such as the ones of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, Raymond Moody and J.B. Phillips.Anybody can get in touch with the deceased, says Craig Hogan. You don’t have to go through a medium. But you need to go into a meditative state and empty your mind. Ask a question or make a statement to the deceased person you want to contact.“You will get responses immediately, in one chunk, not in words. It’s telepathic”, says Craig.So what is the afterlife like?“We need consistency, so it’s very much like our earth life. People have bodies. There are houses and streets and different cultures and nationalities. People first use the language they are used to, but after a while they drop language, because they don't need it. It is like earth but without the problems. There is no old age and no ailments.”When we pass, we don’t actually go anywhere, Craig explains. It’s already here. It’s all about a change of focus. It's like changing the frequency on the ‘life radio’.For some there is a ‘second death’. These people don’t understand that they have passed at first. Or they don’t want to leave the earth plane for some reason – they may have unfinished business, or they don’t want to leave the sensual pleasures, or they are afraid they are going to go to hell.“So they stay earthbound for a while. They walk around, ride buses, and go to church. Some become poltergeists.”“Then there is another category of almost demonic influences. These are negative thought forms produced by people or groups of people who want to impede other people’s progress because of the anger and violence that exist on earth.”But eventually, all go to life after this and get to have a respite. There is no hell.“This earth plane is a school. The purpose is to teach us lessons. We are growing in love and compassion”, says Craig.Before we are born our souls and guides get together and plan the circumstances and the kinds of struggles we will have in life. Afterwards we can share our learning with others that are within our higher self.Reincarnation is misunderstood, according to Craig. We stay the individuals we are, but we are part of a higher self which has thousands of people in it.When a new life is planned, the planning group will take pieces from other lifes, so that the new person will learn lessons that were not previously learned. That is where past life regression comes from, Craig explains. Lives are intertwined. You tap into experiences of another life.“So, we don’t come back as some other person.”Humanity once knew about the afterlife but forgot. However, when we regain that knowledge, it will be on a higher level. We have understandings today that humankind has never had, Craig points out.“We are in the most mature state of understanding the life after this life. We are going far beyond the insights we used to have.”Within a few centuries, a new kind of earth will arise, he thinks.“There is no need to feel fear about the end of this life. There is no end.”
Craig's organization Seek Reality
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The ancient Maya taught that consciousness is primary, and that matter is the manifestation of a thought, if you will, that arose in the all-encompassing primordial consciousness.
This knowledge is at the core of the work of Carl Johan Calleman. He is originally a trained biologist and chemist, but he has dedicated most of his career to studying the wisdom of the Maya and has written eight books on the subject.
There is a hidden meaning behind the mythical plumed serpent, theme of the Kukulcan pyramid in Chichen Itzá, Carl Johan explains:
Consciousness has expressed itself gradually in the universe – it has come in nine waves.
The first wave was what modern science calls the Big Bang.
This worldview means that evolution undoubtedly takes place, but it is purposeful, not random.
“Established science has been fighting this idea of a living universe for a long time”, says Carl Johan.
Why do the structures of the universe on all levels hold together? Because there is an underlying purpose, and because the universe is holographic: an atom is subordinate to a molecule, which is subordinate to a cell, which is subordinate to a whole organism, which is subordinate to a planet, a solar system, a galaxy and so on.
“Otherwise everything would be just floating around in a soup of nothingness.”
Evolution is quantized, as Calleman sees it. It takes quantum leaps, namely in the form of the Mayans’ nine waves, which in turn have peaks and valleys.
This entails that technically advanced civilizations could not have existed before the sixth wave, which was activated in 3,115 BCE.
“Yes, this is what you should expect if you adhere to the idea of a quantized evolution. It should not happen gradually.”
With every new wave, a new state of consciousness becomes downloadable. The human mind changes.
The peaks and valleys correspond to creative and destructive periods in humanity. The rise and the collapse of empires, for instance.
The ninth wave is the final one. And it is already here. Forget the trope around 21 December 2012 – the ninth wave was activated in March of 2011. That year was indeed eventful.
All the earlier waves are still running. Not every human and not every other organism will be fully influenced by the most recent wave. Some remain in a lower vibration. Myriad animals and plants that came into creation with earlier waves are still here.
But the ninth wave makes it possible to reach peak consciousness.
“That’s where we’re meant to go. That’s the highest frequency.”
This ascension, as some call it, will be easier for the younger generations, Carl Johan Calleman thinks.
“They will be able to create peace and unity, a form of heaven on Earth. But the time period until that happens will be very difficult. Maybe we will see a global dictatorship.”
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Geophysicist Bob Schneiker stumbled upon the debate about the age of the Sphinx by chance. He got hooked, and the more he found out, the more convinced he became that Robert Schoch and other maverick researchers are wrong about the dating.“I was surprised to know that Schoch used erosion on the Sphinx as evidence of an older civilization than the dynastic Egyptians”, Bob says.The geology and the surface patterns have been interpreted wrongly, according to Schneiker. The geological history of the area reveals that the Sphinx cannot be older than about 5,500 years, he claims.Schneiker (and others) conclude that the Nile flows during the African humid period 12,000 to 5,500 BCE would have inundated the Sphinx and consequently destroyed its brittle limestone, had it been carved out during that period. (Not all studies conclude that the water table of the Nile actually got that high, however.)Another site Bob has looked into is Göbekli Tepe. He agrees that this construction has upended much of what archaeologists used to believe about our past. But he points out that it cannot be linked to the Younger Dryas and its purported cataclysm, because it is probably much older than that.This also goes for the channeled Scablands in the northwestern USA, another place that some alternative researchers tie to the Younger Dryas.Certain “smoking guns” indicate that something very dramatic happened on the planet during that period, like the ubiquitous “black mat” soil layer and the sudden disappearance of megafauna. One mainstream theory regarding the latter is overhunting by humans. Schneiker concurs with that theory.He is not as impressed as most other independent researchers by advanced megalithic sites like Giza, Baalbek, Ollantaytambo, Sacsayhuaman, Tiwanaku and Easter island.“Most of them are not that old”, he says.Scientists and researchers on all sides have blind spots. Bob is an honest truth seeker, just like the independent researchers he challenges. It’s likely that he sees things they haven’t acknowledged. Which is interesting, because they often point out that because of the fact that academia stonewalls its research, the only ones who can push the boundaries are the mavericks.“Yes, that happens, but how many mavericks do we not hear about because their ideas are so crazy?”__________✅ ResourcesBob's website• Alternative researchers that Bob challenges:Randall Carlson's Youtube channel Robert Schoch's website
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Climate catastrophism displays all the core features of a cultural entity, says Andy West, author of The Grip of Culture.Other cultural entities are religions, ideologies, sometimes cults and even strong philosophies. The underlying behavior is identical. You can measure it, and that is what Andy has done.“This comes from a deep behavioral legacy from our evolutionary past. We are very susceptible to groupthink.”Andy’s most groundbreaking finding is that there is a close connection between religiosity and climate catastrophism. The correlation is almost perfect. But it is perhaps not intuitive:When unconstrained questions are asked about climate change, a large majority of people in religious countries will answer that it is dangerous, whereas a large majority of people in secular countries will be less worried. When constrained questions are asked, i.e. questions about the need to take action in different ways, the situation is exactly the opposite.A culture is always based on stories. If it were based on facts and truths, it would not be a culture.“If you want to glue millions of people together, it’s not good to use rationality, it is actually better to bypass it and use emotion. If you base it on rational arguments, people will have different opinions or different angles on it.” The further distanced from truth, the better cultures work. Especially if authorities are on their side. If someone questions the culture, “it’s bonkers”. End of argument.“Climate catastrophism detached from science a long time ago”, Andy says.Al Gore’s climate film An Inconvenient Truth from 2006 was a turning point.“It was completely full of classic cultural memes. I started to research what was behind. I quickly realized it had left science already then.”Are there elitist agendas?“Yes, but they’re not the prime cause. The prime cause is the culture, and the agendas have effectively taken advantage of the culture.”Andy points out that cultures are not bad per se. They are inevitable, and they can be either detrimental or beneficial. Civilizations are based on cultures. Without cultures, no team spirit.Isn’t the climate disaster narrative a useful crisis for leaders who want to exert control?“It’s not wrong, but it’s not exactly right either. Leaders have taken advantage of it as it has grown.”Andy has found that the US is a special case. It isn’t possible to just test two cultures, religion and climate catastrophism, in America as in most other countries. What complicates things is the Democrat/Liberal and Republican/Conservative tribalism“So the US effectively has four cultures. It ends up being a worst case scenario. Everybody is behaving culturally.”Will this new culture, climate catastrophism, come to an end, and if so, when and how?“It’s in all our institutions and all our policies. It’s in the heads of millions of people. It’s not going to go away easily or quickly. I think it will evolve and change over time, like it has already.”Andy's bookAndy's X account Climate Etc blog
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The word prodigy comes to mind when you learn about the young Polish independent researcher and writer Aleksander Czeszkiewicz.Already as a child, he read heaps of books about our distant past and scrolled through ancient texts, and increasingly he also delved into spiritual traditions.“I was interested holistically in the universe, the earth, and history. At school everything was uninteresting to me. There was no place for imagination. At home I could speculate about the existence of Atlantis. I was free. At school, I was not free”, says Aleksander.At 17 he wrote the first book of his own, which he entitled Deja Vu – Has Everything Already Been? He had to wait until the age of 18 to publish it because of legal requirements. The year after, he translated it to English himself.The idea of constant progress, that we are at the peak of civilization, is fairly new. Centuries ago, the point of view was rather that we had fallen from an earlier golden age.“There was also the more neutral idea that human development is cyclical. This was prominent in ancient Greece and ancient India”, Aleksander explains.The Vedic cycles are called yugas.“With all the scientism, materialism and atheism, I think our time resembles the description of the Kali yuga, the dark age of materialism, in the ancient hindu tradition.”The Mahabharata pinpoints a date for the start of the latest Kali yuga: the 18 February 3102 BCE, which happens to coincide with the beginning of the civilizations whose legacy we are still in.But there are yogis who believe we may be in the intermediate Dvapara yuga.Before the archaeological discoveries in the 1800s, we knew nothing about ancient Egypt, Sumer or other early civilizations. The texts about them were considered fairy tales.“What if we are in a similar situation now, when we make so many more discoveries? Maybe we will find evidence for Atlantis?”Homo sapiens has been around for at least 200,000 years. It is not likely that we remained cavemen for 95 percent of that time and then suddenly decided to build civilizations, Aleksander thinks.“There are so many known historic texts from Greece, Egypt and the Arab world that tell us straight out that there were mighty kings and civilizations tens of thousands of years ago.”Most flood myths – and there are many all over the world – can be correlated to the geologically dramatic end of the last ice age.Will you be able to dig up even more conclusive evidence of lost civilizations than the many independent pioneers you are leaning on today?“I think what has been uncovered is the tip of the iceberg. To think we know it all is arrogant. I personally love diving into old texts. They show such a holistic picture of everything. But of course I also want to explore the physical remains.” Aleksander’s book is only the beginning of his research, he says.“My next project will be of a more metaphysical and philosophical nature. A spiritual exploration.”Aleksander thinks many of our current problems relate to the fact that we never yield, stop and let ourselves relax, feel in and listen inwards.“We should not only chase results. We need to be here now. The grinding mindset is toxic.”He foresees a huge paradigm shift as a result of an expanded human consciousness.In his view, society is tarnished by a kind of modern ”satanism”: Some want to exert control and keep others down.Aleksander is planning on publishing his second book later this year.Aleksander's book His website (int)His Youtube channel
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When Lant Pritchett worked as a development economist (many years at the World Bank), he noted the approach was very place centric. It was about how to develop Senegal, India, Nigeria etc. Mobility was not a big deal.“I realized gradually that the mobility of people across places could be at least as big a way for people to improve their well being as the efforts to improve places”, says Lant Pritchett.“The wage differentials, which are driven by productivity differentials, are so huge that the ability of people to move from low productivity to high productivity places is far and away the largest way to improve human well being.”Lant co-founded the advocacy and action group/think tank LaMP to promote labor mobility. The acronym stands for Labor Mobility Partnerships.The economic development models that were developed some decades ago got one thing completely wrong: productivity didn’t converge. Education, health and even capital per worker converged, but productivity didn’t.“Productivity isn't primarily about knowledge, it's about complex features that we now call institutional, political and social.”The a-ha insight is that the world has people in poor places, not poor people.“It’s simply hard to make a person productive in rural Ethiopia, and there's no magic bullet.”To many people, the term migration brings up images of people moving permanently and acquiring new roots. But if the world could achieve well-organized and orderly temporary labor mobility on a scale that is an order of magnitude larger than today, this could bring tremendous benefits, according to Pritchett.Calculations show that the gains would be at least 20 times the size of the ODA in the world.In the migration discourse the elephant in the room is the fact that the labor force is shrinking rapidly in the rich parts of the world, relative to the aged population.How to deal with this demographic transition if you only talk about permanent migration and refugees?“You can’t. The only way is to open a third question: who are we going to allow to live and work on our sovereign territory, without any expectation they are becoming citizens?”Is the temporary nature of this mobility meant to appease those who worry their national identity is being threatened? In a way, Lant says.“But appease is a stronger word than we need. It's not just a necessary appeasement objective, it’s a legitimate objective to want to preserve a sense of 'spanishness' or 'englishness', even if those are socially constructed and imagined identities.”What about the risk of brain drain in the countries that provide the labor force?“Brain drain gets attention because it rhymes”, Lant says smilingly.“There is not much analytical foundation for the claim. If we used the rhyme cortex vortex, brains moving round in a circular way, we would have a more accurate and interesting picture of what is going on.”Isn’t living where you want as basic a right as free speech or religious freedom? Are we primarily humans or are we primarily citizens?“Ah, there's the rub of it.”“I think the conversation on open borders versus closed borders is silly. Open borders is not politically how the world is going to be organized in the foreseeable future. And there is something unique, valuable and important about maintaining identities.”“But these identities can change over time, and they can be inclusive.”
Lant’s websiteLant’s scientific paper “The political acceptability of time-limited labor mobility: Five levers opening the Overton window” LaMP:Hein de Haas’ book “How Migration Really Works”
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Mary Reed was a staunchly agnostic healthcare executive in Washington DC when she began venturing uncontrollably into mystical realms in the company of divine masters.
”I went into the body and the being of Jesus on the cross at the moment of crucifixion. As an agnostic, that was wildly out of the blue. But in that experience, which went on for three and a half hours, I got all of this information about humanity and what is happening in our world”, Mary says.
Deeply confused by events like this, she moved to the Himalayas and spent seven years coming to terms with her unexpected abilities.
The first ”voice in her head” (not really a voice) appeared in 2000. Since 2020 Mary also channels lessons from a collective of divine beings called Consensus, which presented itself to her.
Today Mary considers herself a mystic wisdom guide. Despite certain transformative events, arriving at that place has been a gradual process.
”It just keeps coming.”
It takes many years to integrate a spiritually transformative experience, which every NDEer can attest to.
Mary is the author of the award-winning memoir Unwitting Mystic, and the sweeping newest release, Humanity’s Epic Awakening.
In the latter, Mary explains that the awakening we are about to experience (and are already beginning to experience) will entail the end of many deeply rooted human ideas, such as hell.
”What we are waking up to is already here. We are just not aware of it yet. But we will be soon.”
The most central part of her message, she says, is that nothing should be rejected. The old paradigm of good and bad inherently always puts us in conflict.
”We label certain things bad and want them to go away. It’s like wanting one part of us to go away. No bad you see in the world today just happened. It’s being recycled.”
Mary saw this extremely clearly when she had a vision of a block sitting in her stomach. It was the collectively rejected block of pain of all of humanity.
”This pain does not want to be rejected, it wants to be embraced”, Mary says.
”Awakening isn’t intended to be a polite experience, it’s intended to be an honest experience.”
Mary’s website
Mary’s book Humanity’s Epic Awakening
Mary’s book Unwitting Mystic
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This is part two of my conversation with Michael Le Flem about Atlantis. For basics about Michael and his book Visions of Atlantis, see show notes for part one (episode 114):
In this episode, we dive deeper into the details of what has been told and written about Atlantean science, technology and worldview, not least by the two unconventional sources Frederick Oliver and Edgar Cayce.
Experts have tried to debunk their methods – Cayces in particular – but it has proved to be impossible to explain how they know certain things.
We also talk about the often hollow arguments from skeptics.
Why do people find evidence for the lost civilization almost everywhere? Because Atlantis was said to have been an empire, not unlike the British empire.
Why hasn't any evidence of advanced technology been found? Because nothing advanced would survive the test of time – except stone structures, and those abound. The evidence is actually staring us in the face.
There are also fascinating similarities between languages on either side of the Atlantic.
Michael’s websiteMichael’s book Visions of Atlantis
The Edgar Cayce organization AER
Frederick Oliver’s book A Dweller on Two Planets
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