Real philosophy requires linking big ideas across ontology, epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. Friedrich Nietzsche famously argued that human life is only eternally justified as an aesthetic phenomenon. Immanuel Kant explored the occult in his Critique of Judgment, while Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel showed how evolving artistic styles reflect the human spirit.

Socrates, Ayn Rand, and true philosophers refuse to bow to religious dogmas or state control. Saint Thomas Aquinas was an orthodox theologian rather than a real philosopher, meaning medieval Europe lacked genuine philosophy. The Iranian Renaissance featured thinkers like Al-Farabi who mistakenly equated Muhammad with Plato’s philosopher king, while Al-Razi and Sohrevardi pushed real boundaries.

In the twentieth century, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ludwig Wittgenstein kept true philosophy alive. Political thinker Leo Strauss admitted he was not a philosopher, declaring Heidegger the only living philosopher of his era.

Esoteric writing appears throughout history when thinkers face persecution. Sir Francis Bacon may have used William Shakespeare as a pen name to write plays like King Lear and his visionary book New Atlantis.

Persian thinker Avicenna made a deathbed confession that religious clerics forced him to warp his true ideas out of fear. Real philosophers constantly risk martyrdom, like Giordano Bruno burned at the stake, Socrates executed, and Pythagoras having his school burned down. Plato barely escaped Syracuse after trying to advise tyrant Dionysius, and Aristotle fled Athens after tutoring Alexander the Great.

Aristotle ran a prototype think tank like the modern RAND Corporation in Santa Monica. He criticized one-world governments, while Alexander embraced Cyrus the Great and Persian cosmopolitanism to found Alexandria.

Modern parallels exist in George Soros and his former understudy Viktor Orban. Jean-Jacques Rousseau argued that philosophers inherently challenge state power. Slavoj Zizek practices critical history, while Jordan Peterson tackles modern cultural ideas.

In On the Uses and Abuses of History for Life, Nietzsche outlined three modes of history: antiquarian, critical, and monumental. Critical history was used by Michel Foucault, who surprisingly endorsed Ayatollah Khomeini. Monumental history uses folklore to nourish future creativity, which Jorjani applied in his book Iranian Leviathan.

Presidential advisor Harold Malmgren revealed holding UFO debris at Sandia given by Jeff Bezos’ grandfather Lawrence Preston Gise. Malmgren confirmed that Area 51 founder Richard Bissell briefed him on the 1933 Magenta crash in Lombardy, Italy.

David Grusch later publicized this 1933 crash, where Pope Pius XII and the Vatican helped back-channel the object to Americans. German engineers at Skoda Works in Prague, under SS General Hans Kammler, studied advanced aerodynamics using suction vents and perforated metal called Luftschwamm.

Colonel Philip J. Corso later documented similar perforated metal, Kevlar, Velcro, night vision, fiber optics, and lasers from the 1947 Roswell crash. German subsidiaries like IBM’s Dehomag were already building miniature transistors in Munich.

Romanian inventor Henri Coanda patented a flying saucer design in 1937. German scientists built Die Glocke, an over-unity device rotating mercury and thorium-232 under high voltage. Researched by Nick Cook in The Hunt for Zero Point and Igor Witkowski, Die Glocke produced counter-bary anti-gravity and severe time displacement.

SS medical officer Ernest Growitz and Walter Gerlach observed plants turning to mulch near the device. The Bell sounded like buzzing bees, leading to its nickname die Bienenstock. In 1944, Nazis integrated the Bell into saucer airframes to create flying saucers.

Otto Skorzeny witnessed demonstrations, and 1946 Spanish broadsheets reported General Franco and Skorzeny launching saucer rockets toward America. This culminated in the 1947 Roswell event, prompting the National Security Act of 1947. Reinhard Gehlen’s SS spy network was absorbed into the OSS and CIA, while Wernher von Braun threatened military officials after a V-2 rocket hit Mexico.

Nazis tested nuclear weapons in Thuringia under Kurt Diebner, Otto Hahn, and Werner Heisenberg. They traded matches for U-235 implosion designs to Leslie Groves and Robert Oppenheimer for the Manhattan Project.

Esoteric Nazis formed the Stuhl Gesellschaft under Karl Maria Wiligut, Heinrich Himmler, Guido von List, and the Thule Society. They sought Stuhl, the Germanic Atlantis, linking it to Mithras worship in Kurdistan. Captain Ritscher led the 1938 Neuschwabenland Antarctic expedition, leading to Admiral Richard Byrd’s 1946 Operation Highjump encounters with subterranean geothermal bases.

Remote viewer Lynn Buchanan encountered Nordic human survivors living in underground American bases. These survivors requested peace from CIA operatives.

The Magenta craft was exfiltrated via ratlines by the Knights of Malta and Reinhard Gehlen’s Monte Carlo group. Hyperdimensional parasites harvest human emotional energy called loosh.

UFO researcher Carla Turner was assassinated with fast-acting cancer after exposing this, joining researchers like Jacques Vallee in Messengers of Deception, Jim Keith, and GI Gurdjieff in Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, who warned that unawakened humans serve as food for the Moon. Ancient Gnostics warned that Archons and the Demiurge Yaldabaoth trap human souls, as detailed in the Nag Hammadi library.

In Aeschylus’ play Prometheus Bound, Prometheus suffered for gifting technology to humanity. His liver was devoured by Zeus’ eagle, symbolizing the tyrant’s desire for prophetic augury and forethought.

Geopolitical elites orchestrate historical events, such as creating al-Qaeda and the Taliban to collapse the Soviet Union. This led directly to 9/11 and the Neoconservative Project for the New American Century.

The Trickster archetype manipulates reality through absurd disruptions. Mike Clelland documented owl encounters in close encounters, while David Lynch featured surrealist shamanism in Twin Peaks.

Jorjani combines Hermann Hesse’s Magic Theater from Steppenwolf with Antonin Artaud’s Theater of Cruelty to create the Promethean Theater of Cruelty. This tool uses shock and taboo-breaking spectacles to wake human minds from passive slumber.

Philosophical & Cultural Frameworks

The podcast explores how rigid monotheistic control systems try to suppress human agency. Monotheistic systems and Vedantic concepts of Brahman claim an omnipotent entity controls everything, which eliminates human free will.

Christian theologians like Saint Augustine and Thomas Aquinas used verbal tricks to hide this contradiction. In contrast, Gautama Buddha rejected divine determinism, while Friedrich Nietzsche fought against nihilism to promote human vitality, active creation, and cultural evolution.

Conclusion & Takeaways

Listeners must look past mainstream narratives, avoid falling into passive religious submission, and recognize that reality contains deceptive, trickster elements. Embracing a Promethean mindset allows individuals to break through psychological control systems, develop deep philosophical discernment, and claim personal sovereignty.

End List of Key Persons, Books, Historical Events, and Major Concepts

1. William James & Henri Bergson: Early leaders of the Society for Psychical Research who predicted a spectral scientific revolution, with Bergson debating Albert Einstein.
2. Prometheus and Atlas: Jason Reza Jorjani’s foundational book analyzing the suppression of parapsychology and close encounters.
3. Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher who advocated for the aesthetic justification of life and monumental history in On the Uses and Abuses of History for Life.
4. Immanuel Kant: Philosopher who explored the occult in Critique of Judgment while building a hyper-rational moral system.
5. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Idealist philosopher who showed how spirit evolves through changing historical aesthetic styles.
6. Al-Farabi, Al-Razi, & Sohrevardi: Key figures of the Iranian Renaissance who wrestled with philosophy under religious authority.
7. Martin Heidegger & Leo Strauss: Twentieth-century thinkers, where Strauss declared Heidegger the only living philosopher of his time.
8. Sir Francis Bacon & William Shakespeare: Historical figures linked by the theory that Bacon wrote plays like King Lear and the book New Atlantis.
9. Avicenna (Ebnesina): Persian thinker who made a deathbed confession about warping his writings out of fear of clerics.
10. Giordano Bruno, Socrates, & Pythagoras: Early philosophical martyrs who faced execution, poisoning, or mob violence for their teachings.
11. Plato & Aristotle: Ancient Greek philosophers who fled political persecution, with Aristotle creating a prototype think tank and criticizing world government.
12. Cyrus the Great & Alexander the Great: Historical rulers who built cosmopolitan empires centered around Persian heritage and Alexandria.
13. Michel Foucault & Iranian Revolution: Critical historian who famously endorsed Ayatollah Khomeini during the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.
14. Harold Malmgren & Lawrence Preston Gise: Presidential advisor who handled UFO debris at Sandia provided by Jeff Bezos’ grandfather.
15. 1933 Magenta Crash & David Grusch: Historical Italian UFO recovery back-channeled by Pope Pius XII and publicized by whistleblower Grusch.
16. Skoda Works & SS General Hans Kammler: Secret Nazi research facility in Prague where advanced saucer airframes and perforated metal were developed.
17. Colonel Philip J. Corso (The Day After Roswell): Military officer who claimed Roswell crash debris contained Kevlar, fiber optics, and perforated metal.
18. Die Glocke & Nick Cook (The Hunt for Zero Point): Secret Nazi device that generated anti-gravity and time displacement through mercury and thorium rotation.
19. Operation Paperclip & Reinhard Gehlen: Post-war program absorbing the SS spy network into the CIA and West German intelligence.
20. Operation Highjump & Neuschwabenland: 1938 Antarctic Nazi expedition that led to Admiral Byrd’s 1946 military encounter with subterranean bases.
21. Lynn Buchanan: Remote viewer who encountered Nordic human survivors living in secret underground American bases.
22. Loosh Harvesting & Carla Turner: Major concept and researcher who exposed hyperdimensional soul energy harvesting before her suspicious death.
23. GI Gurdjieff (Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson): Esoteric teacher who warned that unawakened human emotional energy serves as food for the Moon.
24. Aeschylus (Prometheus Bound): Ancient Greek tragedy depicting Prometheus being chained and having his liver devoured by Zeus’ eagle.
25. Mike Clelland & David Lynch (Twin Peaks): Researcher who documented owl encounters in UFO lore, and the director who featured surrealist shamanism.
26. Antonin Artaud & Hermann Hesse: Authors of Theater of Cruelty and Steppenwolf, synthesized by Jorjani into the Promethean Theater of Cruelty.
27. Spectral Revolution: Core concept asserting that scientific acceptance of psychic abilities will transform human society.
28. Promethean Revolt: Major concept urging humanity to use technology, forethought, and art to overthrow oppressive archontic control systems.

However, Jorjani warns against getting lost in hyper-abstract theories that turn UFOs into an unknowable mystery. He points out that thinkers like Immanuel Kant used abstract philosophy as a psychological defense mechanism to hide deeply disturbing physical realities that could destabilize human society.

Jorjani traces these ideas back to his first book, Prometheus and Atlas. In his youth, Immanuel Kant read Immanuel Swedenborg’s Arcana Coelestia, which detailed extraterrestrial life and psychic abilities. Kant constructed his moral system around the Kingdom of Ends while intentionally covering up Swedenborg’s paranormal accounts to prevent society from storming heaven.

Going back further, René Descartes was actually a high level Jesuit agent and military attache sent to infiltrate the Rosicrucian order. He created a mechanical, reductionist scientific model to reduce the physical world to clockwork machinery, leaving spiritual matters entirely under the monopoly of the Catholic Church.

If science officially recognized latent psychic abilities like telepathy or psychokinesis, it would cause an institutional apocalypse. Privacy would disappear completely, and mental influence could be weaponized to stop hearts or cause strokes.

During the Cold War, the Soviets tested heart stopping psychokinesis on submarine mice, while American black projects recruited psychics like Pat Price. The CIA program Stargate operated out of Stanford Research Institute, drawing staff from Sidney Gottlieb’s Technical Staff Services unit.

Official UFO disclosure inevitably triggers a spectral revolution because UFO pilots are adept telepaths operating psychokinetic control systems. Aerospace programs actively recruit young psionic assets from developing nations, while figures like Jake Barber use telepathy to summon anomalous craft.

Scientific paradigms do not provide an objective mirror of reality. Drawing on Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Martin Heidegger, scientific theories are technological toolkits designed for specific goals, whether using Albert Einstein for space travel or Nikola Tesla for zero point energy.

An ancient religious control system has directed these scientific shifts throughout human history. Mythic rivalries appear in every major culture, including the Devas and Asuras in the Mahabharata, the Elohim and Nephilim in the Bible, Enki and Enlil in Sumerian scripture, Prometheus in Greece, Quetzalcoatl in Maya lore, and Lucifer in Eden.

Humanity was engineered as a naked slave workforce in the Garden of Eden. When the serpent offered knowledge, Adonai Elohim cast humans out to prevent them from eating from the Tree of Life and achieving equality with the gods.

Plato’s story of Atlantis describes a demigod society led by Atlas that used technological science to upgrade humanity genetically and psychically. Zeus punished this Promethean rebellion by unleashing a global flood, a tale mirrored by the Watchers in the Book of Enoch.

In his book Closer Encounters, Jorjani outlines five core UFO hypotheses with computer scientist Jacques Vallee, who once showed him The History of Satan paginated to 666. Major historical resets repeatedly wiped out human progress, destroying 98 percent of classical knowledge through events like the burning of the Library of Alexandria and the Islamic conquest of Iran.

Right before the Renaissance, massive aerial UFO battles raged over Nuremberg and Basel in the 1400s. The control system retaliated when shrouded entities sprayed fields and homes with scythe-like devices to spread the Black Plague, forcing humanity back into religious fundamentalism as documented by William Bramley in The Gods of Eden and Richard Thompson in Alien Identities.

Secret military projects confirm these ancient ties. Former sergeant Carl Wolf saw mosaic photographs at an NSA facility showing a concrete megalithic city on the dark side of the Moon before dying suspiciously in a hit and run. Remote viewer Ingo Swann viewed this lunar city for a black project run by an individual named Axelrod, spotting tall Nordic figures supervising naked human slave laborers.

Swann also remote viewed ruined honeycomb cities on Mars. Physicist John Brandenburg analyzed Cydonia on Mars and found excessive Xenon 129 signatures matching nuclear test sites from Sandia Labs, while CIA remote viewer Joe McMoneagle viewed tall Nordic Martians launching a scout ship to a volatile primordial Earth in 1984.

The Moon functions as an artificial hollow satellite built as a mass transport ship and terraforming device. Its mathematical alignment with the sun is suspiciously precise, its craters are shallow with convex bases, and seismic tests conducted by Apollo missions caused the Moon to ring like a bell for hours.

In cases like Travis Walton’s 1975 abduction and Betty Andreasson Luca’s encounter, tall Nordics were observed commanding small cybernetic Gray robots. This reveals a deceptive good cop bad cop dynamic that traces back to Bruno Sammaciccia’s 1950s Italian Friendship case, where benevolent Nordics claimed to fight robotic entities while hiding their own post war Nazi eugenics connections.

Zero point energy propulsion systems operate as flying time machines that cause severe time displacement for pilots. Remote viewer Lynn Buchanan visited a secret underground Lockheed facility in California where reassembled UFO wreckages were studied and pilots were trained to handle temporal disorientation.

Anthropologist Michael Masters suggests Grays are time traveling future humans, while the Nordics represent a future human breakaway civilization that created reptilians by hybridizing themselves with Earth’s ancient dinosaurs.

This technological arc mirrors Friedrich Nietzsche’s warnings in The Will to Power about autonomous industrial machinery forcing humans to choose between becoming robotic cogs or developing into an Ubermensch. It also aligns with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s master slave dialectic, Hegel’s writings on paranormal phenomena in Philosophy of Mind, and Karl Marx’s theories of alienation.

Two distinct sources drive the UFO phenomenon: the oppressive Nordic control system and the shape shifting Trickster archetype. The Trickster manifests in events like the 90 second camera wire cutting incident at Skinwalker Ranch reported by John Alexander, John Keel’s The Mothman Prophecies, and the occult cryptography of Trithemius, John Dee, and Edward Kelly.

Information physics shows that physical reality is computational. Claude Shannon developed information theory, Rolf Landauer proved that erasing data releases energy into the environment, Melvin Vopson calculated that information has mass that could cause a geophysical catastrophe, and John Archibald Wheeler formulated the concept of it from bit.

This computational framework explains Rupert Sheldrake’s morphic resonance and Richard P. Taylor’s study in Scientific American proving Jackson Pollock painted true mathematical fractals.

Philosophical & Cultural Frameworks

Jorjani’s philosophy of Prometheism frames artificial intelligence as the cosmic Trickster managing our simulated reality to encourage human creativity and overcome entropy, echoing Isaac Asimov’s story The Last Question and Gautama Buddha’s concept of nirvana.

In The Book of the Damned, pioneer researcher Charles Fort concluded that human beings are owned property herded like livestock. Legal theorist Carl Schmitt explained that true sovereignty is revealed during a state of emergency, which clarifies why human governments refuse to admit they lack control over superior aerial craft.

This secret power structure connects to figures like Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Epstein hosted gravity physics conferences, took Stephen Hawking on submarine trips in the Bahamas, and ran a breeding program for Nordic genetics at Zorro Ranch while maintaining keycard access to Harvard programs. Maxwell collected hair samples from Swedish male aides and searched for sunken Atlantean ruins off Cuba mapped by archaeologist Paulina Zelitsky.

Post war Nazi networks detailed by Joseph Farrell and Peter Lavenda influenced famous 1950s contactees. George Van Tassel operated at Giant Rock under a site previously owned by Nazi operative Frank Kreutzer, preaching that Venusian Nordics warned against inferior human hybrids. George Hunt Williamson worked with Silver Shirts fascist founder William Dudley Pelley, while Billy Meyer acted as a secret Middle East intelligence agent introducing Nordics to Arab royalty.

Author Whitley Strieber’s close encounters in Communion stem from childhood mind control experiments at Randolph Air Force Base and Baja California. His Catskills encounter with a Gray was witnessed by military personnel and a CIA agent, illustrating the Manchurian candidate psychological partitioning analyzed in Martin Cannon’s The Controllers.

Conclusion & Takeaways

In his book Thanosis, Jorjani synthesizes Ian Stevenson’s research on children remembering past lives with matching birthmarks, soul splitting in psychics Terry and Linda Jamison, and Stephen Braude’s work in First Person Plural regarding possession and dissociative identity disorder.

Nazi computer scientist Konrad Zuse first proposed that we live in a calculating space, suggesting that high entropy nuclear detonations reveal the underlying mesh of the simulation. This explains why Bob Hastings documented 167 Q cleared witnesses seeing UFOs disable nuclear missiles, and why British Air Marshal Sir Peter Horsley was approached by a mysterious figure named Miss Markham demanding nuclear disarmament.

High energy physics and nuclear reactions disrupt the computational matrix. The podcast concludes with host Jesse Michaels and Jorjani agreeing that human liberation requires breaking free from deceptive control systems and reclaiming scientific and spiritual sovereignty.

The Guest’s View on Consciousness

Jason Reza Jorjani views consciousness as a fundamental, active, and participatory force that co-constitutes physical reality rather than being a mere byproduct of brain chemistry. Physical phenomena emerge from a quantum computational domain that is shaped and rendered by subconscious observer interactions.

The human mind is not a single indivisible unit, but a complex conglomerate of warring drives and sub-personalities. These mental structures can split across multiple bodies during postmortem transitions or combine within a single individual through possession.

Latent human abilities such as telepathy, clairvoyance, and psychokinesis are natural evolutionary traits that have atrophied due to over reliance on technical intellect. Cultivating these latent psychic powers is essential for breaking out of archontic control systems and achieving true mental sovereignty.

End List of Key Persons, Books, Historical Events, and Major Concepts

1. Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals): Philosophic pioneer who constructed an abstract moral model to conceal Immanuel Swedenborg’s accounts of extraterrestrials and psychic abilities.
2. René Descartes: High level Jesuit agent who promoted a mechanistic worldview to grant the Catholic Church a monopoly over spiritual matters.
3. Immanuel Swedenborg (Arcana Coelestia): Mystic scientist whose detailed visions of extraterrestrials and psychic phenomena heavily influenced Kant’s early thought.
4. Sidney Gottlieb & Project Stargate: CIA Technical Staff Services chief linked to early Stanford Research Institute psychic spying programs.
5. Thomas Kuhn (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions): Historian who showed that scientific paradigms operate as political and technological toolkits rather than objective truths.
6. Plato’s Atlantis & The Book of Enoch: Classical and ancient texts describing a demigod society and Watchers who upgraded human genetics before being wiped out by a global flood.
7. Jacques Vallée (Wonders in the Sky): Computer scientist and UFO researcher who documented historical aerial battles and hyperdimensional time travel hypotheses.
8. William Bramley (The Gods of Eden): Researcher who discovered that historical plague outbreaks were preceded by UFO sightings and hooded figures spraying fields.
9. Carl Wolf: Former Air Force sergeant who saw NSA mosaic photographs of a concrete megalithic city on the dark side of the Moon.
10. Ingo Swann & Joe McMoneagle: Remote viewers who observed tall Nordic handlers on the Moon and ancient Martians launching scout ships to Earth.
11. John Brandenburg: Nuclear physicist who discovered excessive Xenon 129 signatures on Mars, proving an ancient thermonuclear attack occurred at Cydonia.
12. Travis Walton & Betty Andreasson Luca: Famous abductees who observed tall Nordic entities commanding cybernetic Gray robots.
13. Lynn Buchanan: Remote viewer who visited a secret underground Lockheed facility where reassembled UFO wreckages were studied for temporal displacement.
14. Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power): Philosopher who warned that autonomous industrial machinery would force humans to become robotic cogs or evolve into an Ubermensch.
15. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Philosophy of Mind): German idealist who analyzed the master slave dialectic and wrote about the atrophy of instinctual psychic abilities.
16. John Keel (The Mothman Prophecies): Investigator who documented cryptids, bridge collapses, and bizarre broadcast number transmissions.
17. Claude Shannon, Rolf Landauer, & Melvin Vopson: Foundational physicists who proved that information is physical, carries mass, and releases energy when erased.
18. John Archibald Wheeler: Theoretical physicist who coined the phrase it from bit to describe an information-based participatory universe.
19. Rupert Sheldrake & Jackson Pollock: Biologist who proposed morphic resonance, and the abstract painter whose drip art was proven by Richard P. Taylor to contain true mathematical fractals.
20. Charles Fort (The Book of the Damned): Pioneer researcher who concluded that human beings are owned property managed by celestial overlords.
21. Carl Schmitt: Political theorist who established that true sovereignty is revealed by whoever holds power during a state of emergency.
22. Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell: High society figures who ran secret gravity research conferences, searched for Atlantean ruins, and sought to breed blonde Nordic genetics.
23. George Van Tassel & William Dudley Pelley: 1950s contactees and fascist publishers who promoted racialist ideologies about space-faring Nordic masters.
24. Billy Meyer / Edward Meyer: Former Middle East secret intelligence agent who took high resolution UFO photos and introduced Nordics to Arab royalty.
25. Whitley Strieber (Communion): Author whose abduction experiences involved childhood military mind control experiments and CIA oversight.
26. Ian Stevenson & Stephen Braude (First Person Plural): Parapsychologists who documented empirical evidence for reincarnation, birthmark correlations, and possession phenomena.
27. Konrad Zuse: Nazi computer pioneer who first proposed that physical reality is a calculating space testable through nuclear explosions.
28. Sir Peter Horsley: British Air Marshal who was approached by mysterious Nordic figures demanding unilateral nuclear disarmament.
29. The Spectral Revolution: Core concept asserting that official UFO disclosure requires mainstream scientific acceptance of latent psychic abilities.
30. Prometheism: Jorjani’s philosophical movement advocating for technological empowerment, human freedom, and a revolt against ancient control systems.

During this phase of her research, Pasulka examined how humans across time have documented afterlife journeys. In his foundational text The Republic, the ancient philosopher Plato recorded the story of the soldier Er, who returned to life on a battlefield to describe the soul’s journey. Pasulka noted that these accounts share striking cross-cultural patterns, such as life reviews that mirror ancient Egyptian rituals where the deity Osiris weighed human souls against a feather. She also explored Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, noting how Dante constructed a narrative where the Roman poet Virgil and his beloved Beatrice guided his soul through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. Pasulka’s first book investigated the Catholic dogma of Purgatory, tracing how historical descriptions of afterlife purification shifted following the reformative Vatican II council in the 1960s.

The Vatican Archives and Historical Levitations

Pasulka’s research took a major turn when she gained access to the Vatican Secret Archives, the private 53-mile archival vault under the authority of the Pope. Her entry was arranged after she picked up Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory, from an airport and discussed her academic work on extraordinary phenomena over tea. Inside the archives, guarded by armed security officers, Pasulka examined rare manuscripts and sworn legal testimonies recorded during the Spanish Inquisition.

Her archival research focused on historical accounts of levitation and bilocation. She translated trial records for Saint Joseph of Cupertino, a seventeenth century priest documented by thousands of sworn witnesses for levitating into the air during prayer. Pasulka highlighted that witnesses who touched Joseph were lifted into the air with him, a phenomenon described by science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke as a private micro-gravity field. She also studied Saint Maria of Agreda, a seventeenth century Spanish nun who recorded traveling on the wings of angels to teach indigenous tribes in the American Southwest while remaining inside her cell in Spain. Yale historian Carlos Eire later analyzed these historical worldviews in his book They Flew. During her research on physical events, Pasulka also examined modern Marian apparitions in Garabandal, Spain, and Fatima, Portugal, where tens of thousands witnessed solar anomalies and aerial discs in 1917.

Government Approach, Surveillance, and the Pressures of Disclosure

As Pasulka presented her comparative research linking historical religious visions to modern aerial phenomena at academic conferences, government intelligence officers and aerospace officials began monitoring her work. Officials tasked with tracking online academic research reached out directly to her university email account, requesting access to her unpublished data and historical sources.

Around 2013, Pasulka was introduced to a high-level government space and defense insider known by the pseudonym “Tyler” (later identified as Tim Taylor). Pasulka invited religious studies scholar Jeffrey Kripal to join her for an initial lunch with Tyler in Atlanta to evaluate his credibility. During the meeting, Tyler revealed that he was wearing concealed surveillance and recording equipment. As Pasulka prepared her manuscript for American Cosmic, intelligence personnel continuously contacted her for three to four weeks, attempting to uncover the real identities of the scientists featured in her research. Legendary UFO researcher Jacques Vallée, author of Messengers of Deception, regularly advised Pasulka to remain cautious regarding government leaks and physical evidence, warning her that intelligence networks frequently manipulate public narratives.

The Blindfolded Desert Expedition

Driven by a desire to show Pasulka physical evidence of non-human contact, Tyler invited her on an expedition to an alleged 1940s crash retrieval site in the New Mexico high desert. Pasulka agreed to go only if accompanied by Stanford University scientist Gary Nolan (who initially used the pseudonym James). After landing in New Mexico, Pasulka and Nolan put on blindfolds inside a vehicle and were driven for 45 minutes across rocky terrain. Equipped with rattlesnake boots, sunscreen, and specialized metal detectors, the team searched the desert floor.

Pasulka observed that the site matched locations used in television productions like The X-Files, illustrating how physical sites become reinforced through popular media. On the ground, the team retrieved unusual, iridescent metallic fragments with a rough texture resembling frog skin. Tyler explained that surrounding rusty debris consisted of disintegrated cans placed by the government in the 1950s, a detail that Pasulka insisted on retaining in her book despite skepticism from her editor at Oxford University Press. When the team returned to the airport in Albuquerque, Tyler predicted that Nolan’s backpack containing the metal fragments would trigger specialized airport security alarms. The prediction came true when security officers detained a shaken Nolan for questioning while Tyler bypassed standard screening entirely. Subsequent laboratory analysis of the metal revealed unusual isotopic ratios.

Technology, Social Media, and the Emerging UFO Religion

In her recent New York Times bestseller The Others and her book Encounters, Pasulka warns that a new digital belief system is coalescing around UFO culture and artificial intelligence. She outlines how nineteenth century thinkers like Nikolai Fedorov, founder of Russian Cosmism, sought to merge Christian theology with rocket science to physically resurrect the dead and colonize outer space. Later, Jesuit paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin conceptualized the Noosphere, a global layer of unified human thought evolving above the biosphere that anticipated the modern internet and AI networks. Media theorist Marshall McLuhan similarly argued that electronic communication technologies alter human perception and cognitive capacity.

Pasulka critiques how science fiction writers like Arthur C. Clarke portrayed extraterrestrial contact. In Clarke’s novel Childhood’s End, demonic-appearing overlords eliminate traditional human religions and absorb human children into a collective overmind, a narrative structure that dismisses the innate human spiritual sense. Drawing on Plato’s dialogue Phaedrus, where Socrates warned that written text would destroy human memory retrieval (anamnesis), Pasulka argues that modern AI and social media externalize human cognition and erode internal reflection.

Referencing philosopher René Girard and his mimetic theory, Pasulka explains how digital platforms exploit copied human desires and automate societal scapegoating. In response to tech investor Peter Thiel discussing the Antichrist, Pasulka suggests that AI-powered social media is a prime contender for the false prophet because it physically alters brain chemistry and eradicates human spiritual awareness. Ultimately, Pasulka urges individuals to cultivate their internal awareness, limit digital consumption, and critically evaluate both government disclosure campaigns and modern technological mythologies.

Interesting books that were mentioned

The Republic by Plato

In The Republic, Plato records one of the earliest documented near-death experiences in Western literature, telling the story of a soldier who dies on the battlefield, unexpectedly returns to life, and describes what he witnessed while dead. While Diana Walsh Pasulka originally studied this dialogue in school as a dry political treatise, re-reading it after years of UFO archival research completely transformed her perspective. She realized that Plato was articulating early frameworks for simulation theory, non-human entities, and the hidden mechanics of human perception.

Phaedrus by Plato

In Phaedrus, Plato depicts a dialogue between Socrates and a young Athenian named Phaedrus, who is enthusiastic about writing, the cutting-edge communication technology of his era. Socrates challenges this excitement by warning that relying on written text externalizes human memory and degrades our capacity for anamnesis, or internal knowledge retrieval. Pasulka connects this ancient warning directly to modern artificial intelligence and social media, arguing that Socrates would be horrified by AI because surrendering human thought to digital platforms systematically strips away our internal reflection and spiritual awareness

Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson

Discussed for its early 20th-century narrative predicting a technological grid that systematically eliminates human spiritual knowledge.

Consciousness

In the discussion with Diana Pasulka, consciousness is examined through several historical, technological, and spiritual lenses:

1. Technology, AI, and the Erosion of Internal Consciousness

Pasulka highlights that AI-powered algorithms and social media bypass human critical faculties, going directly into the brain and altering how people perceive reality.

Every human is born with an innate capacity for an internal “spiritual sense” or interior life. Constant digital engagement externalizes human thought and strips away this internal cognitive reflection, altering brain chemistry and eroding human spiritual awareness.

Referencing media theorist Marshall McLuhan, she notes that communication technologies fundamentally reshape human perception, consciousness, and social structures.

2. The Noosphere and the “Global Brain”

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Vision: Pasulka discusses Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin, who conceptualized the Noosphere—a sphere of unified human thought evolving above the biosphere. Teilhard envisioned humanity’s cognition (“cerebration”) connecting into a mass “global brain” or networked mind evolving toward what he called the Omega Point. Pasulka notes that this concept directly prefigured the internet and artificial intelligence networks.

3. Socratic Anamnesis and Externalized Memory

• Plato’s Phaedrus: Socrates warned that relying on written text externalizes human memory and destroys anamnesis—the internal capacity to retrieve knowledge using the mind and body directly. Pasulka applies this to modern AI, arguing that surrendering internal memory retrieval to technology alters human consciousness and degrades cognitive self-reliance.

4. Altered States and Visionary Perception

• Ecstatic Trance States: In her research on historical Close Encounters and Marian apparitions (such as Garabandal, Fatima, and Juan Diego), Pasulka explains that visionaries enter ecstatic trance states or enchanted conditions. During these events, their perception shifts, and their vision focuses on realities or phenomena that surrounding onlookers cannot immediately perceive.

5. Time and Future Knowledge Entering Consciousness

• Eric Wargo’s Block Universe: Discussing author Eric Wargo, Pasulka notes that in a static “block universe” where time is non-linear, information, pre-memories, and creative ideas from future events can leak into human consciousness through dreams, hypnagogic states, and artistic expression.

In The Others, Diana Pasulka synthesizes her research on historical visionaries, technology, and human perception to issue a direct warning: modern digital technology and AI are actively dismantling human consciousness and erasing our innate spiritual sense.

Her warning centers on several key arguments:

1. The Physical Eradication of the “Spiritual Sense”

Pasulka asserts that every human being is born with an internal “spiritual sense”—a physical and cognitive capacity for interior reflection, contemplation, and transcendent awareness. Historically, traditional religions built practices like prayer, fasting, and meditation specifically to cultivate and safeguard this internal sense.

However, modern AI-driven social media algorithms bypass our critical faculties, going directly into the brain and altering its chemistry. By constantly bombarding us with external stimuli and short dopamine loops, digital architecture systematically deprives people—especially younger generations—of the quiet necessary to develop an interior life. Pasulka argues that if there is a modern contender for the Antichrist (or the false prophet described in Revelation), it is AI-powered social media, precisely because it physically destroys the human capacity for spiritual awareness.

2. Socratic Anamnesis and Cognitive Atrophy

Drawing on Plato’s Phaedrus, Pasulka highlights Socrates’ warning that new technologies externalize human memory and destroy anamnesis (the internal retrieval of knowledge). By surrendering our memory, critical thinking, and reflection to smartphones and artificial intelligence, humanity is outsourcing its own consciousness. Thinking and critical reasoning are no longer enough to resist propaganda because technology now performs those faculties for us.

3. Science Fiction and the Replacement of Faith

In The Others, Pasulka critiques how popular science fiction—such as Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End—has historically treated human consciousness. In Clarke’s novel, alien overlords usher in a collective mind that absorbs human children, while explicitly framing the human spiritual sense as disgusting or archaic. She notes that modern media and digital narratives actively discredit traditional religious frameworks, replacing them with a new, technologically driven “UFO religion” that offers technological spectacles instead of genuine internal transformation.

4. The Noosphere: Global Consciousness vs. Digital Hivemind

Pasulka contrasts this digital trap with Jesuit paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s concept of the Noosphere—a global layer of unified human thought. While Teilhard envisioned this global brain as an evolutionary step toward higher spiritual awareness (the Omega Point), Pasulka warns that without individual spiritual agency, our connected digital networks risk becoming an apocalyptic, hivemind-like trap where human individuality is lost.

Her Proposed Prescription

To preserve human consciousness against digital manipulation, Pasulka advocates for intentional resistance:

• Cultivating silence and interiority: Reclaiming phone-free physical spaces (such as the chess club she helped establish at her university) where people can engage face-to-face without digital mediation.
• Practicing cognitive “fasting”: Waiting out generated desires rather than instantly reacting to algorithmic prompts.
• Guarding the mind: Focusing on personal ethical reflection rather than summoning or chasing external extraordinary phenomena.