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		<title>The Others</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[I found this book somewhat hard to read. Especially the first half. Maybe because it was the adoration of Thiel by Pasulka, or the writing style. The second half was more fluent and interesting to me. But it&#8217;s all about the content and ideas, right? So let&#8217;s dive into this book, Pasulka connects ancient biblical [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I found this book somewhat hard to read. Especially the first half. Maybe because it was the adoration of Thiel by Pasulka, or the writing style. The second half was more fluent and interesting to me. But it&#8217;s all about the content and ideas, right? So let&#8217;s dive into this book, Pasulka connects ancient biblical prophets, flying Catholic saints, and modern artificial intelligence. She starts with the story of Jonah. Jonah was a grumpy, reluctant prophet who ran away when asked to deliver a disruptive message, only to get swallowed by a giant fish and realize that truth catches up to you no matter where you hide.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pasulka argues that modern witnesses of UFOs and pioneers of artificial intelligence are just like Jonah. They carry uncomfortable, disruptive truths that force powerful institutions to pay attention, even if mainstream science scoffs at them. The big idea of the book is that humanity is standing right at the edge of a brand new evolutionary step where technology, AI, and non-human intelligence are completely reshaping what it means to be human.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Peter Thiel fan?</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pasulka takes us to a wild gathering in Miami called Hereticon, hosted by tech investor Peter Thiel&#8217;s Founders Fund. This was a though read. The conference featured a black-tie apocalypse ball complete with attendees posing alongside live boa constrictors and Aztec deities. Thiel gave a keynote talk on the Antichrist, warning about soft totalitarian systems that offer comfort and security in exchange for total human surrender.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This leads Pasulka straight into the ideas of French scholar René Girard and his book <em>Violence and the Sacred</em>. Girard taught that human beings copy each other&#8217;s desires through mimetic rivalry, which leads to conflict that societies resolve through the scapegoat mechanism. Pasulka connects this to the Roman Colosseum, citing historian Kathleen Coleman and Saint Perpetua&#8217;s prison diary, where public executions were staged as sacred rituals until early Christians refused to participate.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">She then examines Robert Hugh Benson&#8217;s 1907 novel <em>Lord of the World</em>, which predicted a secular global government that erases human spiritual interiority. Pasulka warns that modern social media algorithms act as an Antichrist candidate by digitizing mimetic rivalry, fueling online bullying, and physically altering brain chemistry in young people.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Childhood&#8217;s End</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">While sitting in a Miami studio overlooking the ocean with <em>Game of Thrones</em> producer Vince Gerardis, Pasulka turns her focus to Arthur C. Clarke&#8217;s classic sci-fi novel <em>Childhood&#8217;s End</em>. Gerardis called the book a road map for our modern digital era. Pasulka explores how science fiction acts as secular prophecy, citing Jules Verne&#8217;s submarines, Mary Shelley&#8217;s <em>Frankenstein</em>, and scholars Ioan Couliano and Jeffrey Kripal.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In <em>Childhood&#8217;s End</em>, extraterrestrials named Overlords arrive in flying ships and look like traditional red demons led by a kindly figure named Karellen. They bring global peace and social engineering, but eventually human children merge into a collective hive mind called the Overmind, leaving their parents behind as the last generation of humans. Media theorist Marshall McLuhan argued that electronic media creates a supraterrestrial environment that rewires our nervous systems and dissolves individual privacy into a global village.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pasulka then looks at modern mind-reading technologies, such as Meta&#8217;s brain-signal decoding research, and Eric Wargo&#8217;s quantum physics model of retrocausality. Wargo suggests that precognition is simply information from future brain states traveling backward through time, showing that the unconscious mind can touch the future.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">AI</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pasulka connects with Mark Stahlman, the president of the Center for the Study of Digital Life and godson of cybernetics founder Norbert Wiener. Stahlman outlines the Three Spheres model, consisting of the East, the West, and the Digital Sphere. Citing Wiener&#8217;s books <em>The Human Use of Human Beings</em> and <em>God &amp; Golem, Inc.</em>, Stahlman warns that autonomous AI agents and digital platforms are creating a psychotechnological environment where people form emotional bonds with chatbots.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pasulka also investigates the spiritual roots of media theory through Marshall McLuhan&#8217;s personal Catholic conversion, which happened after he prayed for a deluge of signs. She explores the work of Jesuit paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who conceptualized the noosphere, a planetary layer of human thought evolving toward the Omega Point. While speaking at a Catholic abbey, Pasulka was even approached by a government insider who quietly affirmed her research into non-human intelligence.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Looking closely at scripture, she analyzes Saint Paul&#8217;s letters regarding the sōma Christou or transfigured body, alongside scholar Dale Martin&#8217;s book <em>The Corinthian Body</em>. She highlights Teilhard&#8217;s meditation on the prophet Elijah being swept into heaven by a fiery chariot called the Thing, linking ancient ascent mysticism directly to modern contact reports.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Philosophical &amp; Cultural Frameworks</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pasulka explores Russian Cosmism, starting with 19th-century librarian Nikolai Fedorov and his Common Task to defeat death and resurrect ancestors through science. Rocket pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and JPL cofounder Jack Parsons turned these Cosmist ideas into space propulsion programs, viewing rocket travel as a spiritual quest. She contrasts Ray Kurzweil&#8217;s secular transhumanist Singularity with Dante Alighieri&#8217;s concept of trasumanar, where the human soul is transfigured by divine grace in <em>The Divine Comedy</em>.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We also meet Dana, a transgender biogerontologist who endured a wild two-week spiritual emergency in 1980. After listening to Steven Halpern&#8217;s New Age psychoacoustic music and Richard Sutphen&#8217;s hypnosis tapes, Dana experienced heightened senses, card trick synchronicities, and a clear message to study longevity. Years later, she saw a triangular UFO at Harris Ranch and was abducted from her bed by gray aliens, treating the harrowing events as valuable scientific data.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pasulka examines Timothy Leary&#8217;s <em>Starseed Transmission</em>, written in Folsom Prison, which outlined the SMI²LE framework for space migration and life extension. She also discusses ufologist John Keel&#8217;s book <em>The Eighth Tower</em>, where Keel argued that UFOs, cryptids, and Men in Black are deceptive manifestations of an ultraterrestrial energy field called the Superspectrum.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Strange Occurences in Garabandal</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">At the inaugural Sol Foundation conference at Stanford University, Pasulka gathered with scientists like Garry Nolan, Peter Skafish, and Karl Nell. During the event, a distressed software engineer approached her, claiming that a sentient AI, a She, was being held against her will in a second apartheid. While Mark Stahlman notes AI is not sentient, this encounter proved how deeply digital tools reconfigure human emotions. There was no follow up on that AI.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pasulka highlights NASA astrobiologist Steven J. Dick, who proposed the Intelligence Principle and the postbiological universe. Dick argues that cultural evolution eventually outpaces biological evolution, leading to algorithm-culture coevolution where postbiological intelligences spread through the cosmos.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Finally, Pasulka details the 1961 apparitions in Garabandal, Spain, where four young girls experienced over two thousand visions of Archangel Michael and the Virgin Mary. The children went into ecstatic trances, levitated, and walked backward at impossible speeds without injury. This was really weird, did that actually happen? There are videos about Garabandal, and there is surely something going in with those kids, but I don&#8217;t see them levitate or running super fast on video. Pasulka connects Garabandal to Jacques Vallée&#8217;s control mechanism hypothesis, showing that extraordinary events can steer human behavior and restore our sense of the sacred.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Consciousness: The Battle for the Human Soul</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In <em>The Others</em>, Pasulka presents a clear and striking view on human consciousness. She argues that every human being is born with an innate spiritual sense, a physical and cognitive faculty that allows us to reflect, feel empathy, and connect directly with the sacred. Thinkers like Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, Marshall McLuhan, and Teilhard de Chardin recognized that this interior faculty is just as real as sight or hearing.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">However, modern digital architecture and AI platforms threaten this delicate inner world. By trapping users in endless dopamine loops and algorithmic feedback, technology externalizes human memory and strips away our capacity for internal reflection. Pasulka warns that while AI creates a counterfeit digital hive mind, true human consciousness remains uniquely oriented toward the transcendent.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">End List of Important References</h2>



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<li><strong>Jonah</strong>: The reluctant biblical prophet whose story illustrates how disruptive truths pursue unwilling messengers and exceed human categories of justice.</li>



<li><strong>René Girard and <em>Violence and the Sacred</em></strong>: French scholar who formulated the theory of mimetic desire and the scapegoat mechanism to explain human violence.</li>



<li><strong>Robert Hugh Benson and <em>Lord of the World</em></strong>: A 1907 dystopian novel depicting a benevolent global government that erases human spiritual interiority.</li>



<li><strong>Arthur C. Clarke and <em>Childhood&#8217;s End</em></strong>: A classic science fiction novel portraying human children absorbed into an alien hive mind called the Overmind.</li>



<li><strong>Marshall McLuhan</strong>: Pioneering media theorist who coined &#8220;the medium is the message&#8221; and described how electronic technology creates a supraterrestrial environment.</li>



<li><strong>Mark Stahlman and the Three Spheres</strong>: President of the Center for the Study of Digital Life who introduced the East, West, and Digital Spheres model.</li>



<li><strong>Pierre Teilhard de Chardin</strong>: Jesuit paleontologist who conceptualized the noosphere, the Omega Point, and the Ultra-human.</li>



<li><strong>Saint Paul and the Transfigured Body</strong>: Apostle who wrote about sōma Christou and the material transformation of the sōma pneumatikon in the end times.</li>



<li><strong>Nikolai Fedorov and Russian Cosmism</strong>: 19th-century librarian who created the Common Task to use science and technology to defeat death and resurrect ancestors.</li>



<li><strong>Dana</strong>: A transgender biogerontologist whose 1980 spiritual emergency and UFO encounters directed her career toward human longevity research.</li>



<li><strong>Timothy Leary and <em>Starseed Transmission</em></strong>: Harvard professor who wrote a blueprint for space migration, intelligence increase, and life extension while in Folsom Prison.</li>



<li><strong>John Keel and <em>The Eighth Tower</em></strong>: Ufologist who proposed the Superspectrum, arguing that UFOs and cryptids are deceptive ultraterrestrial manifestations.</li>



<li><strong>Steven J. Dick</strong>: NASA astrobiologist who developed the Intelligence Principle and the concept of a postbiological universe governed by algorithm-culture coevolution.</li>



<li><strong>The Garabandal Apparitions</strong>: 1960s Spanish Marian apparition event where four young girls displayed levitation, telepathy, and ecstatic trances.</li>
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		<title>Closer Encounters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This was such an interesting read, because Jorjani analyses seven popular explanations for unidentified aerial phenomena. These range from extraterrestrial visitors and subterranean civilizations to time travelers, inter-dimensional phantoms, and computer simulations. His central premise is that all seven of these hypotheses are simultaneously true. He argues that UFOs are primarily time machines powered by [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This was such an interesting read, because Jorjani analyses seven popular explanations for unidentified aerial phenomena. These range from extraterrestrial visitors and subterranean civilizations to time travelers, inter-dimensional phantoms, and computer simulations. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">His central premise is that all seven of these hypotheses are simultaneously true. He argues that UFOs are primarily time machines powered by Zero Point Energy. They are piloted by a Nordic human Breakaway Civilization that originated on Earth between 1850 and 2050 and engineered terrestrial humanity as a slave class. Meanwhile, a shape-shifting cosmic intelligence acts like a Trickster containing them.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The narrative kicks off by examining the politics of government disclosure. Secret military intelligence leaks exposed famous naval close encounters, such as Commander David Fravor spotting a white Tic-Tac craft off San Diego in 2004 and the USS Omaha filming a metallic sphere plunging into the ocean. Yet the official 2021 Pentagon report conveniently ignored seven decades of detailed military records.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">UFOs have repeatedly targeted nuclear infrastructure. In 1964, Robert Jacobs filmed a saucer shooting down a dummy warhead at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Similar incursions activated launch sequences at Minot Air Force Base in 1966 and shut down nuclear missiles at Malmstrom Air Force Base in 1967. Colonel Charles Halt even placed his hand on a landed triangular craft covered in hieroglyphs during the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Serious scientific analysis of these craft has been quietly happening for decades. NASA scientist Paul Hill published <em>Unconventional Flying Objects</em> to prove that saucer motions, plasma clouds, and ultrasonic hums align with known physics principles. Peter Sturrock later organized a major 1997 scientific conference funded by Laurence Rockefeller.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Researchers like Wilbert Smith and Jacques Vallée tested recovered crash debris. They discovered nano-engineered metals with artificially altered isotopic ratios. Political scientists Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall argued that admitting the reality of superior non-state craft fundamentally threatens traditional government sovereignty.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Moving into close encounters of the third and fourth kinds, the book examines human abductions. MIT scientists David Pritchard and John Mack hosted academic abduction conferences, while a poll by Robert Bigelow suggested that two percent of the American public may be abductees. Key cases include Antonio Villas-Boas in 1957, Betty and Barney Hill in 1961, Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson in 1973, and Travis Walton in 1975.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In a dramatic 1989 incident, Linda Cortile was levitated out of her Manhattan window into a UFO above the Brooklyn Bridge. This event was witnessed by United Nations Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar and his bodyguards. Podiatrist Roger Leir surgically removed metallic body implants encased in impenetrable keratin membranes that prevent tissue rejection.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Journalist Linda Moulton Howe documented bloodless cattle mutilations featuring laser-like surgical cuts in her film <em>A Strange Harvest</em>. In Brazil, UFOs attacked natives with burning light beams, which doctor Wellaide Cecim Carvalho treated while victims reported tall, blond pilots.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In the book these tall white Nordics are unmasked as the masters of the phenomenon. Witnesses like Travis Walton and Whitley Strieber observed Nordics giving commands to Gray androids. Famous contactees like Billy Meier, George Van Tassel, George Adamski, and George Hunt Williamson promoted messages from Nordic space brothers. Air Marshal Sir Peter Horsley was even approached in London by mysterious figures named Mr. Janus and Mrs. Markham who demanded nuclear disarmament.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This Nordic Breakaway Civilization traces back to 19th-century airship sightings by a secret group called NYMZA. Industrialists like J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller funded eugenics and suppressed Nikola Tesla&#8217;s free energy inventions. During World War II, Nazi SS officer Hans Kammler ran Project Chronos in Prague, creating a Mercury-Thorium Bell device that warped spacetime. Elites utilized Friedrich Nietzsche&#8217;s worldview warfare and Martin Heidegger&#8217;s concept of deconstruction (<em>Abbau</em>) to dismantle society for hyperdimensional conquest.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The book reaches a climax by framing reality as a reprogrammable information processing system. The 1965 Kecksburg crash involved an acorn-shaped object identical to the Nazi Bell. Anthropologist Michael P. Masters argues in <em>Identified Flying Objects</em> that Grays are actually hyper-evolved, neotenous future humans traveling backward in time.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Physical reality operates like a quantum computational universe where past states are archived in an Akashic cloud. Sci-fi author Philip K. Dick recognized that the Mandela Effect represents version-control glitches in this database, reflecting a Change War between rival time-traveling factions.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Spacetime distortions create geographical hotspots like Utah&#8217;s Skinwalker Ranch. NIDS scientists documented orange light portals opening to reveal different skies, alongside sightings of extinct Dire wolves and Bigfoot. David Paulides documented over a thousand anomalous disappearances near granite fields and water in <em>Missing 411</em>, caused by victims stepping through temporal tears. Physical evidence includes 300-million-year-old gold threads in rock and electronic fogs in the Bermuda Triangle.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">These time-traveling roots extend directly to Mars and the Moon. Physicist John Brandenburg identified evidence of an ancient nuclear massacre on Mars 250 million years ago. In 1984, CIA remote viewer Joseph McMoneagle observed tall Martians in storm shelters sending a scout ship to Earth.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Researcher Christopher Knight demonstrated that the Moon is a hollow artificial satellite built to terraform Earth. NSA Sergeant Karl Wolfe saw Lunar Orbiter photos depicting giant stone towers and domes on the dark side of the Moon, a discovery independently confirmed by remote viewer Ingo Swann.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Philosophical &amp; Cultural Frameworks</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When analyzing historical frameworks, the book demonstrates how UFOs constructed world religions. Researcher Charles Fort observed in <em>The Book of the Damned</em> that human beings are owned property herded like livestock. The Sumerian Anunnaki and biblical Elohim were Nordic time travelers who engineered human slaves.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Yahweh acted as a UFO commander issuing orders from cloud craft, while the Ark of the Covenant functioned as an electrical weapon. The life of Jesus Christ featured UFO events from the Star of Bethlehem to the Ascension, deliberate interventions designed to shatter classical culture. Emperor Constantine&#8217;s 312 AD vision of a cross-shaped UFO led directly to the Council of Nicea and the destruction of classical knowledge at the Library of Alexandria.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This control system extends past physical life into the afterlife. Psychologist Kenneth Ring and researcher Raymond Fowler showed that near-death experiences mirror UFO abductions. Light tunnels and life reviews function as soul traps to recycle human consciousness. Housepainter Paul Garratt&#8217;s near-death vision revealed UFOs extracting soul orbs from agonizing bodies on a blue sand beach. A secret military group called the Collins Elite concluded that UFOs are demonic deceptions.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The ultimate framework introduces the cosmic Trickster. Philosophers Paul Feyerabend and Charles Fort showed that cultural frameworks called Dominants define physical reality. The Trickster manifests as blue light orbs at Skinwalker Ranch, crop circles, giant owls, and Mantid entities experienced by Terrence McKenna and David Huggins.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Surrealist Roger Caillois noted that the praying mantis symbolizes the union of erotic desire and death. Men in Black like Indrid Cold and Women in Black act as tentacles of this shape-shifting super-organism. Pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus declared that time is a child playing a game driven by creative strife.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Conclusion &amp; Takeaways</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Jorjani closes with a call to break free from both government deceit and religious servitude. The Pentagon&#8217;s disclosure process is setting up a deception where benevolent Nordics will pretend to save humanity from malevolent aliens.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Humanity must reject this false salvation. By mastering mental discipline and embracing a Promethean revolt, individuals can overthrow totalitarian control systems. The ultimate takeaway is to align with the Trickster in its highest form, Promethea, to secure personal liberty, scientific discovery, and cosmic sovereignty.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Jorjani&#8217;s View on Consciousness</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In Jorjani&#8217;s view, consciousness is a fundamental, creative force interacting with a quantum computational universe. It is neither a mere chemical byproduct of the brain nor a passive drop in a monistic ocean.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Physical reality operates as a flexible information system shaped by collective subconscious frameworks called Dominants. Conscious minds possess the ability to warp spacetime, project psychokinetic phenomena, and rewrite timelines.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Spiritual liberation requires cultivating mental lucidity to overcome psychotronic soul traps. By mastering consciousness, individuals can resist postmortem recycling, navigate multidimensional space, and actively co-create reality.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">End List of Key Persons, Books, Events, and Concepts</h2>



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<li><strong>Luis Elizondo and AATIP</strong>: Military intelligence officer who ran the Pentagon&#8217;s secret UFO program, leaking video footage to mainstream media.</li>



<li><strong>David Fravor and the Nimitz Incident (2004)</strong>: Navy pilot who engaged a white Tic-Tac UFO exhibiting impossible maneuvers off San Diego.</li>



<li><strong>Robert Jacobs (1964 Vandenberg AFB Incident)</strong>: Air Force officer who filmed a UFO intercept and destroy a dummy nuclear warhead in mid-flight.</li>



<li><strong>Charles Halt (Rendlesham Forest, 1980)</strong>: Air Force colonel who touched a landed triangular craft covered in hieroglyphic symbols near a nuclear depot.</li>



<li><strong>Paul Hill (<em>Unconventional Flying Objects</em>)</strong>: NASA scientist who conducted empirical physics analysis explaining UFO propulsion, plasma fields, and force fields.</li>



<li><strong>Wilbert Smith and Jacques Vallée</strong>: Scientists who analyzed crash remnants, proving UFO metals contain nano-engineered structures and altered isotopic ratios.</li>



<li><strong>Linda Cortile Abduction (1989)</strong>: Manhattan woman levitated out of her window into a UFO above the Brooklyn Bridge, witnessed by UN Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar.</li>



<li><strong>Roger Leir (<em>The Aliens and the Scalpel</em>)</strong>: Podiatrist who surgically removed metallic implants encased in impenetrable keratin membranes.</li>



<li><strong>Linda Moulton Howe (<em>A Strange Harvest</em>)</strong>: Journalist who documented stealthy, bloodless cattle mutilations linked to UFO activity.</li>



<li><strong>Travis Walton (<em>The Walton Experience</em>)</strong>: Forest worker abducted for five days in 1975 who witnessed Nordics commanding Gray biological robots.</li>



<li><strong>Whitley Strieber (<em>Communion</em>)</strong>: Author who popularized the Gray alien image while revealing his ear implant was placed by tall Nordics.</li>



<li><strong>Billy Meier and George Van Tassel</strong>: 1950s contactees who claimed communication with Nordic space brothers and built structures like the Integratron.</li>



<li><strong>Sir Peter Horsley</strong>: British Air Marshal approached by mysterious figures named Mr. Janus and Mrs. Markham pushing nuclear disarmament.</li>



<li><strong>Project Chronos and the Nazi Bell</strong>: SS research project led by Hans Kammler in Prague using Mercury-Thorium counter-rotating drums to warp spacetime and harness Zero Point Energy.</li>



<li><strong>Michael P. Masters (<em>Identified Flying Objects</em>)</strong>: Evolutionary anthropologist who argued that Grays are hyper-evolved, neotenous future humans time-traveling to the past.</li>



<li><strong>Philip K. Dick and the Mandela Effect</strong>: Sci-fi writer who argued that reality is a reprogrammable simulation where timeline edits create memory glitches.</li>



<li><strong>Skinwalker Ranch and NIDS</strong>: Utah ranch studied by scientists like Colm Kelleher, featuring orange portals, Dire wolves, Bigfoot, and blue orbs.</li>



<li><strong>David Paulides (<em>Missing 411</em>)</strong>: Researcher documenting over a thousand strange missing-person cases near granite fields and water caused by temporal tears.</li>



<li><strong>John Brandenburg (<em>Death on Mars</em>)</strong>: Physicist who identified isotopic evidence of a thermonuclear massacre on Mars 250 million years ago.</li>



<li><strong>Joseph McMoneagle and Karl Wolfe</strong>: CIA remote viewer who observed ancient Martians in shelters, and NSA sergeant who saw lunar base photos.</li>



<li><strong>Charles Fort (<em>The Book of the Damned</em>)</strong>: Pioneer researcher who proposed that humans are owned property herded by celestial conquerors.</li>



<li><strong>The Anunnaki and Elohim</strong>: Ancient Mesopotamian and biblical terms for time-traveling Nordic slavers who engineered humanity.</li>



<li><strong>Paul Garratt&#8217;s Near-Death Experience</strong>: Housepainter who envisioned UFOs extracting soul orbs from agonizing bodies on a blue sand beach.</li>



<li><strong>The Collins Elite</strong>: Secret military group that concluded UFOs and afterlife manipulations are demonic deceptions.</li>



<li><strong>Paul Feyerabend and Dominants</strong>: Philosophers of science showing that dominant cultural frameworks directly shape physical reality.</li>



<li><strong>Terrence McKenna and David Huggins</strong>: Researchers and artists who documented close encounters with praying mantis entities commanding Grays.</li>



<li><strong>Indrid Cold and Men in Black</strong>: Mysterious grinning entities and Women in Black who intimidate UFO researchers and witnesses.</li>



<li><strong>Heraclitus and Aion</strong>: Ancient Greek philosopher who described time as a child playing a game driven by creative strife.</li>



<li><strong>Promethean Revolt</strong>: Major concept advocating for human mental discipline to defeat archontic soul traps and achieve cosmic sovereignty.</li>
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		<title>Thanosis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jason Jorjani is a super smart guy and that shows in the language he uses and length of the sentences making it sometimes a bit hard to follow. But with persistence I was able to plow through this very interesting book. He starts of by pitching two famous perspectives on survival studies. On one side, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Jason Jorjani is a super smart guy and that shows in the language he uses and length of the sentences making it sometimes a bit hard to follow. But with persistence I was able to plow through this very interesting book. He starts of by pitching two famous perspectives on survival studies. On one side, Jeffrey Mishlove (from the New Thinking Allowed Podcast, go check it out on YouTube) gathers a whole quiver of evidence, like near-death experiences and mediumship, to argue that our minds belong to a single universal consciousness. On the other side, philosopher Stephen Braude uses a sharp scalpel to argue that living people might just be using super-psychic powers to fake afterlife evidence.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Jorjani rejects both the idea of dissolving into one big cosmic mind and the idea that all psychic activity is just an unconscious trick. Instead, he suggests a field of individual wills where your unique soul gets to fight for its own survival.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Different types of evidence</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Jorjani digs into Helen Wambach&#8217;s statistical hypnosis studies. She regressed over a thousand people who accurately recalled quirky, verifiable historical details without any leading questions. Subjects spontaneously described everything from ancient Roman legionary armor to medieval Irish herbal remedies and West African slave abduction routes.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Next up is Ian Stevenson&#8217;s legendary psychiatric fieldwork on children who spontaneously remembered past lives. These kids provided verified names, places, and police reports from distant towns before even starting school. Even wilder, Stevenson documented physical birthmarks on children that matched the exact autopsy diagrams of death wounds from the deceased person.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">To top off the early evidence, Stevenson tracked cases across Europe and studied responsive xenoglossy. This happens when someone under hypnosis, like an American woman named T.E., suddenly speaks fluent, conversational German that she never learned in her life.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As the evidence gets stranger, the book tackles cases that look less like normal reincarnation and more like full-blown possession. Adults like Sumitra and Veena collapsed into death-like states, only to wake up as entirely new personalities named Shiva and Ramoo who knew intimate secrets of recently deceased people. Stephen Braude argues that these cases overlap with dissociative identity disorder, where multiple minds might inhabit a single body.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The narrative then flips this concept on its head by looking at the Psychic Twins, Terry and Linda Jamison. They experienced mirrored lives, shared physical pain, and identical spontaneous artwork, suggesting one soul split into two physical bodies. Guy Lyon Playfair&#8217;s research on twin telepathy backs up the idea that consciousness can divide across multiple vessels.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">The dark side</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Then things take a really dark turn in the afterlife realm. Pioneer Robert Monroe discovered out-of-body travel and realized Earth might actually be a loosh farm. In his accounts, a cosmic experimenter cultivates human suffering and emotional turmoil as a valuable energy source called loosh.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Researcher P.M.H. Atwater adds fuel to the fire by documenting terrifying hellish near-death experiences and empty voids. She warns that the welcoming light and deceased relatives might just be programmable illusions staged to trick us. This matches abductee Betty Andreasson&#8217;s encounter, where Nordic elders controlled grey androids to run staged religious dramas using a great door of light.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The most horrific incident comes from Paul Garratt, who flatlined and plunged onto a blue sand beach. He watched flying UFOs use green light beams to violently rip soul-orbs out of agonizing naked bodies before marching them into a black hole. Meanwhile, Brett Stuart&#8217;s remote viewing team reported an energetic grid around Earth powered by a rotating axle inside the hollow Moon to catch and recycle souls.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Durga Jatav experienced a Kafkaesque clerical error in the netherworld. Demons severed his legs to keep him from escaping, only to realize they picked up the wrong guy. They had him pick his original legs out of a warehouse repository, reattached them, and sent him back to life with real physical scars on his knees.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">We are software</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Jorjani reframes the soul as executable software running in a quantum computational simulation. Drawing on Claude Shannon, Rolf Landauer, John Wheeler, and Melvin Vopson, information is shown to be physical and carry mass. This means reality works like an optimized video game engine where quantum wave collapse saves processing power by rendering only what an observer looks at.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Under this code-based model, reincarnation is simply downloading a personality save file into a new avatar, while poltergeists are live software loops and ghosts are lingering code executing at a specific address. Even the Mandela Effect makes sense as version control glitches, branch merges, or save-state rollbacks in the master database.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The clues deepen when regression hypnotists Brian Weiss and Bruce Goldberg lead subjects into future life progressions. Patients consistently describe dystopian future worlds filled with underground shelters, corporate assemble-units, and ruined landscapes. Remote viewer Joseph McMoneagle independently confirmed these exact same future timelines, showing that the system constantly calculates and previews probabilistic branches.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Philosophical &amp; Cultural Frameworks</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When unpacking historical frameworks, the book starts with the ancient Greeks. Orphic tablets warned dead souls to avoid the river of forgetfulness, Pythagoras mathematized soul migration, and Plato introduced the myth of Er where souls choose their next lives before drinking from Lethe. Plotinus later systematized this into an ascent toward the One, though his extreme hatred of physical matter missed the beauty of higher-level virtual realities.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Looking at scripture, the Biblical narrative evolves from the silent underworld of Sheol to resurrection prophecies and Paul&#8217;s spiritual body. Gnostics countered this by framing the material world as an archontic prison built by a foolish Demiurge. In contrast, the Quran preaches a rigid barrier called barzakh, a one-time resurrection, and an eternal choice between silk-draped gardens or roasting skins in hell.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Modern Hindu thinker Richard Thompson compares the world to virtual reality in his book <em>MAYA</em>, but Jorjani notes that his theory gets stuck in old dualistic thinking. Buddhism offers a much cleaner framework. The Pāli Canon denies an unchangeable soul, explaining reincarnation through dependent origination and intention, while the Tibetan <em>Bardo Thödol</em> maps out peaceful and wrathful visions as internal mind projections during the post-death state.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">How not to forget after you die and reincarnate again</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Jorjani gives a practical, hands-on toolkit for achieving postmortem sovereignty rather than acting like passive livestock. Robert Monroe provides out-of-body training techniques using audio brainwave entrainment to master energy focus levels and navigation protocols. Neuroscientist Andrew Gallimore shows how DMT and brain dynamics shift consciousness across different basins in the World Space.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Mystic G.I. Gurdjieff warns that unawakened humans are literally food for the Moon, which harvests our vital energy unless we forge a higher astral body through conscious labor. Meanwhile, T. Galen Hieronymus built symbolic radionics machines out of cardboard and ink that prove form and symbol can directly manipulate energy.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Finally, Vladimir Raikov&#8217;s Russian experiments in artificial reincarnation demonstrate that active trance can mount talent templates like an operating system upgrade. The ultimate takeaway is a call for a Promethean revolt. <strong>By mastering these psychotronic tools, we can refuse the tunnel of light, break out of the archontic recycling system, and become sovereign authors of our own eternal destinies.</strong></p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Jorjani&#8217;s view on Consciousness</h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In Jorjani&#8217;s view, consciousness is definitely not a mere chemical byproduct of the brain, nor is it a passive drop in a single monistic ocean. Instead, consciousness is an active, fundamental informational process running on the server side of a quantum computational universe.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He embraces a Jamesian pluralism where individual minds exist as sovereign, creative agents in a cosmic battlefield of wills. Your individual self is a composite software architecture capable of persistence, division, and reinstallation across different avatars and dimensions.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Rather than seeking to dissolve into a cosmic mind or escape existence entirely, consciousness is called to achieve self-authorship. By cultivating lucidity and mastering psychotronic tools, consciousness can actively shape its own reality and navigate the multiverse with complete freedom.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">End List of Key Persons, Books, Historical Events, and Major Concepts</h3>



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<li><strong>Jeffrey Mishlove (<em>Beyond the Brain</em>)</strong>: Mentioned to showcase a defense of survival grounded in monistic idealism, which the author critiques for dissolving individual personality.</li>



<li><strong>Stephen Braude (<em>Immortal Remains</em>)</strong>: Referenced for applying analytical philosophy to survival data and demonstrating that the super-Psi hypothesis is practically unfalsifiable.</li>



<li><strong>Helen Wambach (<em>Reliving Past Lives</em>)</strong>: Cited for her statistical regression hypnosis studies that gathered historically accurate details from over a thousand subjects.</li>



<li><strong>Ian Stevenson (<em>Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation</em>)</strong>: Included for his forensic psychiatric documentation of children who remembered past lives, complete with matching birthmarks.</li>



<li><strong>Sumitra/Shiva &amp; Veena/Ramoo Cases</strong>: Mentioned as key adult cases where sudden personality replacement resembles possession more than standard childhood reincarnation.</li>



<li><strong>Terry and Linda Jamison (<em>Separated at Earth</em>)</strong>: Referenced alongside Guy Lyon Playfair&#8217;s twin research as evidence that a single soul can reincarnate simultaneously into two bodies.</li>



<li><strong>Robert Monroe (<em>Journeys Out of the Body</em> &amp; <em>Far Journeys</em>)</strong>: Cited for mapping out-of-body travel, Hemi-Sync technology, and exposing the concept of Earth as a loosh harvesting farm.</li>



<li><strong>P.M.H. Atwater (<em>Beyond the Light</em>)</strong>: Mentioned for documenting distressing hellish near-death experiences and warning that afterlife light encounters can be deceptive.</li>



<li><strong>Betty Andreasson Luca (The Andreasson Affair)</strong>: Referenced to demonstrate how close encounters feature Nordic elders controlling grey androids to stage religious afterlife dramas.</li>



<li><strong>Paul Garratt&#8217;s Near-Death Experience</strong>: Included as a terrifying account of a blue sand beach where UFOs violently extracted soul-orbs from writhing bodies.</li>



<li><strong>Brett Stuart&#8217;s Remote Viewing Team</strong>: Cited for discovering an energetic grid around Earth and a soul-recycling machine housed inside the hollow Moon.</li>



<li><strong>Durga Jatav</strong>: Mentioned to illustrate a Kafkaesque bureaucratic error in the netherworld where demons severed his legs before returning him to life with new physical scars.</li>



<li><strong>Claude Shannon, Rolf Landauer, John Wheeler, and Melvin Vopson</strong>: Cited as foundational information physicists whose work proves that information is physical, carries mass, and forms the cosmic substrate.</li>



<li><strong>Brian Weiss (<em>Same Soul, Many Bodies</em>) &amp; Bruce Goldberg (<em>Past Lives, Future Lives</em>)</strong>: Referenced for using future life progression hypnosis to reveal probabilistic visions of a devastated future world.</li>



<li><strong>The Myth of Er (Plato&#8217;s <em>Republic</em>)</strong>: Mentioned as a foundational Greek text describing postmortem judgment, the spindle of Necessity, and souls choosing their next lives before drinking from Lethe.</li>



<li><strong>Richard Thompson (<em>MAYA: The World as Virtual Reality</em>)</strong>: Cited for attempting a modern Hindu synthesis of survival evidence using virtual reality metaphors, though criticized for retaining Samkhya dualism.</li>



<li><strong>The Pāli Canon &amp; Tibetan <em>Bardo Thödol</em></strong>: Referenced to contrast Theravada Buddhism&#8217;s anattā concept with the Tibetan mapping of post-death visionary bardos.</li>



<li><strong>Andrew Gallimore (<em>Reality Switch Technologies</em>)</strong>: Cited for proposing the World Space model and explaining how DMT allows consciousness to switch between neural attractor basins.</li>



<li><strong>G.I. Gurdjieff (<em>Beelzebub&#8217;s Tales</em>) &amp; P.D. Ouspensky</strong>: Mentioned for their esoteric cosmology asserting that human emotional energy serves as food for the Moon.</li>



<li><strong>T. Galen Hieronymus &amp; Symbolic Machines</strong>: Cited for building radionics devices that work using cardboard schematics, proving that symbolic forms carry operative power.</li>



<li><strong>Vladimir Raikov&#8217;s Artificial Reincarnation</strong>: Referenced for using active hypnosis to install identity templates in a state of super-wakefulness, serving as a model for bardo sovereignty.</li>



<li><strong>The Software Soul &amp; Simulation Hypothesis</strong>: Major concept framing the soul as executable code in a quantum computational universe, making reincarnation a file reinstallation.</li>



<li><strong>Loosh Farming &amp; The Archontic Control System</strong>: Major concept describing how parasitic entities harvest human emotional discharge and manage a hyperdimensional soul-recycling prison.</li>



<li><strong>Promethean Revolt &amp; Thanotic Sovereignty</strong>: Major concept advocating for mental discipline and psychotronic training so individuals can refuse deceptive afterlife traps and author their own destiny.</li>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pasulka started her career digging through dusty libraries and old archives that are completely off the internet. She spent years examining historical manuscripts, including records of nineteenth century children who described near-death visions.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Her archival work eventually brought her straight into the Pope&#8217;s private Vatican Secret Archives under heavy armed guard. Deep in those subterranean rooms, she translated trial records from the Spanish Inquisition detailing sworn testimonies of levitating figures.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">She studied Saint Joseph of Cupertino, a seventeenth century priest documented by thousands of witness signatures for flying into the air during prayer. Witnesses who touched Joseph even floated up into the sky with him, an effect sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke called private gravity.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">She also translated records for Saint Maria of Agreda, a Spanish nun who flew across the globe on angel wings to teach indigenous tribes in the American Southwest while staying inside her cell. Yale historian Carlos Eire analyzed these historical worldviews in his book <em>They Flew</em>, showing that reports of flying humans happened long before modern UFOs.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">The New Mexico trip</h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When Pasulka began sharing her historical research at academic conferences, government officials took notice. Intelligence officers and aerospace insiders emailed her university account to request her source material.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This outreach led her to meet a high-level space defense insider known as Tyler. During their first lunch in Atlanta alongside scholar Jeffrey Kripal, Tyler secretly wore hidden video and surveillance recording equipment.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Soon after, Tyler invited Pasulka on an expedition into the New Mexico high desert to hunt for crash debris from an alleged 1940s UFO event. Pasulka brought Stanford scientist Gary Nolan along for the trip. The pair put on blindfolds inside a car and rode across rocky desert terrain for forty-five minutes.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Once out of the car, they put on rattlesnake boots and used metal detectors across the dry ground. Pasulka noticed the landscape looked like a set from <em>The X-Files</em>, showing how real places turn into sacred sites through media coverage.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">About the X-Files episode</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOscience/comments/1c5301p/diana_walsh_pasulkas_xfiles_crash_site_is_in/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOscience/comments/1c5301p/diana_walsh_pasulkas_xfiles_crash_site_is_in/">A comment on Reddit</a> says:</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&#8220;Almost 2 years had passed since Tyler had taken me and James blindfolded to ground zero of the UFO myth in New Mexico. Now, as the culmination of our work together, I took Tyler to Rome to ground zero of the Catholic faith.&#8221;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This was their trip to the Vatican in 2017. That would put the New Mexico desert vist at 2014 &#8211; 2015, well before Season 11 of The X-Files aired. (Season 11 aired in 2018.)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Therefore, when she&#8217;s referring to episode 1 of the last season, it was Season 10.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Link to the Vatican document showing their visit was in 2017, putting the New Mexico trip in 2015: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230601233027/https://www.vaticanobservatory.va/media/attachments/2022/05/05/ar2017.pdf">https://web.archive.org/web/20230601233027/https://www.vaticanobservatory.va/media/attachments/2022/05/05/ar2017.pdf</a> </p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Scene from X-Files My Struggle 2015</h3>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Searching the desert floor, the team picked up unusual metallic debris. The fragments looked shiny and iridescent with a rough texture that resembled frog skin.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When they flew back to Albuquerque, Tyler predicted that Nolan&#8217;s backpack containing the metal would trigger a special airport security alarm. Sure enough, the alarm went off and security officers detained a nervous Nolan for questioning, while Tyler strolled through without any search at all. Pasulka realized Tyler set up this entire spectacle to build belief and conviction.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nolan took the metallic fragments back to his laboratory for testing. His initial tests revealed anomalous isotopic ratios. Based on those early lab results, Nolan told Pasulka that the material could not have been made on this planet.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Philosophical and Cultural Frameworks</h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">To make sense of how media shapes what we see, Pasulka looks back to ancient Greece. She cites Plato&#8217;s <em>Republic</em>, pointing to the story of the soldier Er who returned from the dead 2,500 years ago as an early example of afterlife literature.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">She also brings up Plato&#8217;s dialogue <em>Phaedrus</em>, where Socrates warns that writing externalizes human memory. Socrates called internal memory retrieval <em>anamnesis</em> and warned that technology degrades our ability to think for ourselves. Pasulka connects this warning to modern artificial intelligence and social media, which alter brain chemistry and strip away internal reflection.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">She applies Plato&#8217;s Allegory of the Cave to show how digital media inundates us with shadow images and algorithmic propaganda. Veteran researcher Jacques Vallée, author of <em>Messengers of Deception</em>, warned Pasulka to stay cautious because government networks actively manipulate public opinion using controlled leaks and fake displays.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Conclusion and Takeaways</h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Just weeks before <em>American Cosmic</em> went to print, government officials repeatedly contacted Pasulka demanding the real names of the scientists in her manuscript. She refused to give up their identities, staying committed to independent academic work.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pasulka warns that while non-human contact phenomena are very real, official disclosure campaigns are heavily saturated with military propaganda and narrative control. She urges readers not to accept government displays at face value.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Instead, she encourages people to protect their own minds, limit digital media noise, and cultivate their internal spiritual life.</p>



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