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1:10

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1:14

Before we dive into today's

1:16

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1:18

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1:20

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1:57

so this month I've been reading a

1:59

book called The End. Omega Project, which

2:02

was written by Kenneth Ring. He was

2:04

a professor at the University of Connecticut

2:06

and a big-time researcher into the world

2:08

of near-death experiences. One

2:11

day he received a copy of

2:13

Whitley Streber's book, Communion, which recounts

2:15

his UFO abduction experience. Dr.

2:18

Ring was getting ready to toss it into

2:20

the garbage because, well, you know, as a

2:22

tenured professor and a respected psychology

2:24

researcher, he was not one to believe

2:26

in little green men. But

2:29

then he noticed a note attached to the

2:31

book. It was written by his own editor

2:33

who worked for the William Morrow agency. The

2:36

note implored Dr. Ring to read the book, stating

2:39

that it was very relevant to his work.

2:42

Dr. Ring wondered, what the heck

2:44

do aliens and UFO abductions have to

2:46

do with near-death research? But

2:48

he trusted his editor, so he sat down

2:50

and devoured the book. It

2:52

led him on a several years-long research

2:55

quest, where he started to make

2:57

connections between not only the

2:59

experiencers of UFOs and NDEs,

3:02

but also the resulting changes in their

3:04

lives after the paranormal experience

3:06

had occurred. Let's

3:09

start by looking at the similarities

3:11

between these experiences. With an

3:13

NDE, people leave their body and

3:15

go to another place, perhaps another

3:17

dimension, where they encounter spiritual beings

3:19

or loved ones who've gone before

3:21

them. Typically, they return

3:23

with a message about loving others and

3:26

a clearly defined personal purpose. With

3:29

an alien encounter, abductees recount being

3:32

pulled out of their homes, cars, or

3:34

camping site and taken into a ship which

3:36

is similar to a different dimension. Here,

3:39

they don't encounter spiritual beings, but

3:41

rather otherworldly beings who also

3:43

give them a message for humanity, which

3:46

is usually about taking care of the

3:48

Earth or preventing nuclear

3:50

war. After the

3:52

encounter, abductees tend to also feel as

3:55

though they have a mission or a

3:57

purpose. Something I found

3:59

really interesting in doing this research is

4:01

how similar both these events are to

4:03

the hero's journey. Deboni

4:05

did several shows about five years ago

4:08

on Joseph Campbell's description of the hero's

4:10

journey where he studied myths

4:12

and likens the arc in these tales

4:15

to our own lives where we feel

4:17

called to do and be something more.

4:20

The hero's journey is broken down into

4:22

several stages. There's a call

4:24

to leave the ordinary world which

4:26

can be refused or answered with

4:29

a near-death experience. You often don't

4:31

have a choice about the near-death

4:33

part but most experiencers report having

4:35

a choice about returning to this

4:37

life. With abductees there doesn't

4:39

seem to be any choice. Nevertheless,

4:42

both experiencers are pulled out

4:44

of the ordinary world. Another

4:46

stage of the hero's journey is meeting the

4:48

mentors. Again, think about the

4:51

NDE people who talk about seeing Jesus or

4:53

Buddha or an angel. Some

4:56

abductees recount horrifying tales of

4:58

being examined by cold, unfeeling, gray

5:00

beings but just as many

5:02

report encountering loving beings who are watching over

5:04

the earth. One of

5:07

the most important steps of the hero's journey is

5:09

finding the treasure and returning

5:11

home to share the treasure with your people.

5:14

For a near-death experiencer, the treasure they

5:16

find is that death is an illusion

5:19

and only love is real and is what matters

5:21

in this life and the next. For

5:24

abductees, the treasure is a little harder

5:27

to define but many report a better

5:29

understanding of the interconnectedness of nature and

5:31

how important it is to take care

5:33

of the planet. Dr.

5:35

Ring also talks about similarities between

5:38

people who report experiences with UFOs

5:41

and individuals who claim they've had an

5:43

NDE. He discovers that people

5:45

who have these mystical occurrences tend to have

5:47

what he calls encounter-prone

5:50

personalities. One

5:52

of the questions that fascinated Ring

5:55

throughout his research is that only one

5:57

in three people who survive a near-death

5:59

experience report having an

6:01

NDE, which made him

6:03

wonder why? Why only one in

6:06

three? Well, his findings show

6:08

that these individuals and

6:10

people who have experiences with UFOs have

6:14

encounter-prone personalities, which certainly starts

6:16

to shed light on why

6:18

only one in three people

6:20

who have been near-death will

6:22

actually have a near- death experience where

6:24

they go to the other side. He

6:27

looked at the research done by UFO researcher

6:29

Leo Sprinkle and his colleague June Parnell,

6:32

who found that on the

6:34

whole, UFO experiences were mentally

6:36

healthy, who tended to lean

6:38

toward a moral self-righteousness. Both

6:41

NDE and UFO experiences

6:45

reported similar physical and emotional

6:47

changes, which we'll discuss more

6:49

a little bit later. What

6:51

I found especially interesting is

6:53

that both NDE and UFO

6:56

experiences exhibited evidence that

6:58

their Kundalini had been activated.

7:01

The Kundalini is said to be a

7:03

form of bioenergy that lies tucked or

7:05

coiled like a snake inside of our

7:08

root chakra at the base of the spine.

7:11

Symptoms of a Kundalini awakening

7:13

include changes in breathing patterns,

7:15

feeling energy currents throughout the

7:17

body, headaches, and feelings of

7:19

ecstasy and cosmic awareness. Now

7:22

the goal of any spiritual person, especially

7:24

a yogi, is to awaken the Kundalini,

7:26

but you want to do so pretty

7:28

slowly. You don't want that snake to

7:30

awaken and just boom, you're

7:33

suddenly aware of other dimensions.

7:36

With NDE and UFO

7:38

experiences, it seems as though they

7:40

do have that sudden experience of the Kundalini

7:43

awakening. And

7:45

when Dr. Ringdove headfirst into

7:47

the childhood experiences of both

7:49

NDE-ers and UFO experiences, the

7:53

similarities were astonishing.

7:56

For starters, both tended to exhibit

7:58

what he calls fantasy

8:00

croneness, meaning that they

8:03

both had a quote, tendency

8:05

to enter into a state

8:07

of wrapped absorption focused on

8:09

a world of self-created fantasy.

8:12

Participants in his research, whether they'd

8:14

experienced an NDE or a UFO,

8:17

said they were prone to daydream

8:19

as kids, had interest in science

8:21

fiction or ghost, and enjoyed a

8:24

rich fantasy life as children. Both

8:27

groups also reported having experienced

8:30

child abuse or trauma. He

8:32

also found that both groups were more

8:35

likely than the average person to report

8:37

being seriously ill at at least one

8:39

point in their childhood.

8:42

Dr. Ring said he believes that having to

8:45

deal with childhood stress or trauma stimulates

8:47

the development of a disassociated

8:49

response style as a means

8:51

of psychological defense, explaining

8:54

that a child exposed to these kinds

8:56

of stressors will have a strong motivation

8:58

to tune out those physical

9:00

or emotional threats. So

9:03

he says that when you have

9:05

a child living in a stressed

9:07

environment who learns to tune it

9:09

out by mentally leaving their mind

9:11

to enter into an alternate or

9:13

fantastical reality, this creates the perfect

9:15

environment for not only psychic and

9:17

paranormal experiences, but also for UFO

9:19

and NDE ones too. He

9:22

writes, what I am suggesting

9:24

is that these individuals are

9:27

what we might call psychological

9:29

sensitives with low stress thresholds,

9:31

and that it is their traumatic childhoods

9:33

that have helped to make them so.

9:37

The UFO-ers and NDE-ers are

9:39

actually the unwitting beneficiaries of

9:41

a kind of compensatory gift

9:44

in return for the wounds they incurred

9:46

growing up, which has allowed

9:49

them to develop an extended range

9:51

of human perception beyond

9:53

normally recognized limits.

9:57

That's fascinating to me. I'm sure you guys

9:59

have. Heard me mention on

10:01

the show so many times.

10:03

I don't find it a

10:05

coincidence that so many mediums

10:07

and psychics have reported having

10:09

at least one difficult parents

10:11

who was emotionally or physically

10:13

abusive or abandoning or just

10:15

plain mean and I've always

10:17

speculated that that me to

10:20

tune in that negative. Parents

10:22

ever changing moods is what triggers

10:24

and strengthens and develop psychic abilities

10:26

and I just love it when

10:28

I can find research to. Back

10:31

that up. So. Basically, Doctor

10:33

Ring is saying that overall all

10:35

of these things. Either.

10:37

Having a serious illness as a kid

10:39

or. Having some stress and

10:42

severe stress and trauma and

10:44

your childhood. Or just

10:46

feeding prone to see to see

10:48

an imaginary friends and watching Scooby

10:50

Doo and unsolved mysteries. All of

10:53

those things combined helped. To

10:55

create what he calls in

10:57

encounter prone personality. Something.

11:00

Else he found is that a large

11:02

number of people claiming to have encountered

11:04

a Us though were naturally psychic. You.

11:07

Have a researcher. Jedi Randall

11:09

also discovered that many Us

11:11

all people had a plethora

11:13

of paranormal experiences throughout their

11:15

lives. Doctor Rings own

11:17

research has. Shown that after and

11:19

envy people tend to be more

11:22

psychic. And ears and

11:24

Us hours, he says are

11:26

also especially susceptible to altered

11:29

states. Of consciousness. Many said

11:31

things like. I feel as

11:33

though I've always been able to hypnotize

11:36

myself. Or sometimes I have blink spells

11:38

when I do things without being aware

11:40

of what I've done. And

11:42

I can zone out easily like when. listening

11:45

to music or being lost in

11:47

thought. In fact,

11:49

in both groups, A large majority

11:51

reported having psychic experiences as

11:53

children. he also said

11:56

that both groups as children were

11:58

sensitive to non ordinary realities.

12:01

Don't you love the way psychologists and

12:04

scientists word all these fancy things,

12:06

non ordinary realities. Basically he's saying

12:08

as kids they were able to

12:10

see ghosts and maybe have imaginary

12:13

friends. He also talks

12:15

about the psychophysical effects both

12:17

ND ears and UFOs encounter

12:20

as a result of their experiences. A

12:23

psychophysical change he says refers to

12:26

an altercation that involves both mind

12:28

and body. Some of

12:30

these changes include an increased

12:32

sensitivity to light, sound, humidity

12:34

and alcohol. Others might

12:37

report changes in their overall

12:39

body temperature or blood pressure. Many

12:41

reported having an expanded mind,

12:44

such as an awareness of altered states

12:46

of reality, while others

12:48

report an increase in

12:50

paranormal functioning, like telepathy,

12:52

precognition and telekinesis. He

12:55

also found that both groups of

12:58

experiences reported feeling energy on a

13:00

much deeper level, meaning they

13:02

could feel shifts in the emotional energy

13:04

of themselves and people

13:06

around them. Dr.

13:09

Ring writes extraordinary encounters appear

13:12

to be the gateway

13:14

to a radical biologically

13:16

based transformation of the

13:18

human personality. I

13:20

mean, that's huge, right? When you think about

13:23

it, and what would cause that?

13:25

What would cause these changes in

13:27

not only your emotional and spiritual

13:29

state of being, but also your

13:32

physical state of being? Is it

13:34

leaving the earth? Is it leaving

13:36

this gravity dense based earth? I

13:39

don't know. He found

13:41

that after these experiences, both groups,

13:43

whether we're talking about near death

13:46

experiences or UFO abductees, were

13:48

more altruistic, had a

13:51

greater concern for humanity, and

13:53

a big increase in spirituality, with

13:56

most reporting that they were less

13:58

religious after their encounter. but

14:00

much more spiritual. They

14:03

both had a decreased interest in materialism

14:05

and a greater self-acceptance

14:08

for themselves and overall improvement in

14:10

love for others. So

14:13

that's pretty amazing to think about,

14:15

isn't it? These people came back

14:18

from these life-altering,

14:20

life-changing experiences and

14:22

for the most part reported

14:25

some remarkable improvements in

14:27

their lives and in how they saw themselves in

14:29

the world around them. Let's

14:32

take a quick break and when

14:34

we come back we'll look at

14:36

how these experiences change people's spirituality

14:38

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14:41

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Welcome back. Let's dive into Dr.

15:53

Ring's research which shows an increase

15:56

in what he calls

15:58

religious universalism. with

16:00

UFOers talking a lot about

16:02

expanded consciousness and NDEers

16:04

talking about love for one

16:07

another. He quotes

16:09

UFO experiencers as saying things like,

16:12

I believe the changes I've undergone

16:14

since my UFO experience are part

16:16

of an evolutionary unfolding of

16:19

humanity. And another

16:21

one said, evolutionary forces are

16:23

at work to transform humanity

16:25

at large into a more

16:28

self-aware, spiritually sensitive

16:30

species. Dr.

16:33

Ring says all groups imply that

16:36

we are in the midst

16:38

of an evolutionary spurt toward

16:40

greater spiritual awareness and higher

16:42

consciousness, and that the

16:44

occurrence of UFO and NDE experiences

16:46

is an integral part

16:48

of this progression. His

16:51

findings also showed that there are

16:53

higher forces orchestrating these

16:55

experiences and that they

16:58

are meant to awaken individuals to the

17:00

existence of a cosmic plan for life

17:02

on Earth. Wow. Now,

17:05

there are some minor differences here. He writes,

17:08

those who have had or become

17:11

interested in NDEs are

17:13

inclined to see a spiritual meaning

17:15

to near-death experiences, specifically

17:17

to spread God's love. Our

17:20

UFO sample, on the other hand,

17:22

is much less likely to endorse

17:24

this opinion because their focus is

17:26

more on consciousness and taking care

17:29

of the planet, whereas near-death experience

17:31

people tend to focus more on

17:33

God, higher power, and love. Ring

17:37

then talks about another interesting similarity

17:39

between both types of experiencers, and

17:43

that is the electrical

17:45

sensitivity syndrome, where

17:47

electrical stuff like watches, car

17:49

batteries, lights, and computers

17:51

will break when these sensitive people

17:54

are around them. One

17:56

woman reported that she broke her expensive

17:59

stereo system by touching it. Another

18:01

said computers and vacuums just don't work

18:04

around him. Many report

18:06

light bulbs blowing up or street lamps

18:08

blinking out as they walk past. So

18:11

this is occurring with both people who have had

18:13

encounters with UFOs and

18:16

people who have had near-death experiences.

18:19

As Dr. Ring looks into this, he

18:21

again finds some interesting things. First

18:24

of all, about 80% of experiencers

18:26

reporting this electrical sensitivity are

18:28

women. They also tend to

18:31

have more allergies than the average person. Studies

18:33

also show they tend to be

18:36

more emotional, have an increased

18:38

sensitivity to sound, experience

18:40

mood fluctuations, and many

18:42

claim to have psychic and healing abilities.

18:45

While researching these commonalities, Dr. Ring

18:47

couldn't help but associate it with

18:50

the weird electrical stuff that happens

18:52

when people report seeing a UFO,

18:55

such as car engines shutting off

18:57

on their own, radio dials spinning

18:59

or turning off only to start

19:01

up again once the UFO leaves.

19:04

This made him wonder if

19:06

ND ears and UFOs experience

19:09

some kind of electromagnetic change in

19:11

their bodies. And

19:13

I mean, could that also lend

19:15

some reason as to why they

19:17

have these physical changes in their

19:20

bodies too and heightened psychic abilities?

19:23

He quotes a research done by Edgar Wilson who

19:25

said, humans seem

19:27

to possess an extremely complex

19:29

biomagnetic energy field that operates

19:32

outside of the confines of

19:34

the nervous system alone. He

19:38

also cites the work of another doctor

19:40

named Robert Becker who said, living

19:42

things may now be viewed

19:45

as basically electromagnetic in nature,

19:47

possessing an internal organized

19:50

analog type DC electrical

19:52

system that regulates the

19:54

basic functions of growth and

19:56

healing, provides the basic

19:58

operational level for brain ache, and

20:01

produces magnetic fields of a

20:03

specific nature that are detectable

20:05

outside of the body. All

20:08

living things are intimately tied to

20:10

the natural geomagnetic fields of the

20:12

Earth. Dr. Ring

20:14

believes that this intimate relationship

20:17

between the Earth's geomagnetic field

20:19

and living organisms stimulated

20:22

a re-evaluation of

20:24

the relationship between electromagnetic fields

20:27

and psychic phenomenon and

20:29

showed a firm link between them. Now

20:32

something else I found interesting is

20:34

that he compares the NDE and

20:37

UFO experiencer to a modern

20:39

day shaman. He

20:41

quotes Carol Zaleski as saying

20:43

abductions may represent a particularly

20:46

contemporary form of the shamanic

20:48

journey. Perhaps the

20:50

other world journey motif is camouflaged

20:52

in the modern lore of space

20:54

travel which like the fantastic

20:56

voyage legends of the past exemplifies

20:59

what might be called the lure of

21:01

the edge. And

21:03

then Ring writes this passage I really wanted

21:05

to share with you. He

21:08

says these persons our

21:11

extraordinary experiencers are I

21:13

believe the true visionaries

21:15

of our time, the bearers of

21:17

the emerging myth of the 21st

21:20

century calling us to a cosmic

21:22

centered view of our place in

21:24

creation. A myth

21:27

that has the power to

21:29

ignite the fires of a

21:31

worldwide planetary regeneration and

21:34

thus save us from the icy

21:36

blast of a nuclear winter. Did

21:40

you get all that? I mean

21:42

that's that's heavy stuff we're talking about. I

21:45

never really looked at an NDE or a

21:48

UFO experience that way have you? I mean

21:50

I never thought to consider

21:53

that these experiencers are cosmic

21:55

travelers helping us herald in

21:57

an expanded collective consciousness. It's

22:00

really a beautiful thing to ponder, though. For

22:04

the end of the book, Dr. Ring sums up

22:06

his thesis by saying where

22:08

he believes were headed as a

22:10

global society. He says

22:12

that in the future, the world of

22:14

the dead and the world of the living are

22:17

ones between which there may

22:19

eventually no longer be a

22:21

sharp distinction. Veils

22:24

will be lifted from the face of the

22:26

nonphysical, and we ourselves

22:28

will become diaphanous beings with bodies

22:30

of light. I

22:34

just want everyone to think about that a minute. So

22:36

what he's saying is that

22:39

beyond these UFO experiencers and

22:41

these NDE experiencers having all

22:43

these things in common, similar

22:45

childhood experiences, an interest

22:48

in fantasy and paranormal

22:50

stuff, and having

22:52

the sensitivity to light and electricity,

22:54

in addition to all those similarities,

22:57

he's saying they share another similarity,

22:59

and that is they are cosmic

23:01

travelers just like Campbell's hero's

23:03

journey. They are chosen

23:05

to be sent to

23:08

this other place and returned to us

23:10

with these gifts, this treasure, that

23:12

is designed to help us as

23:14

a whole expand, raise, awaken our

23:16

consciousness to a new level of

23:18

being. I mean,

23:20

that's big. He

23:23

goes on to say that the increasing

23:25

fascination with and immersion in the domain

23:28

of extraordinary encounters may

23:30

well lead to the shamanizing of

23:32

modern humanity. He

23:34

says that we began through physical

23:36

evolution to cultural evolution,

23:39

but now we're moving

23:41

into an age of

23:43

emotional evolution. Dr.

23:45

Ring writes, as cultural evolution has shaped

23:48

our planet's destiny for the past 10,000

23:50

years. There

23:52

has also been evidence of a third

23:54

form of evolution, the evolution

23:57

of consciousness itself. could

24:00

be in the beginning stages of a

24:02

major shift in levels of consciousness that

24:05

will eventually lead to humanity's being able

24:07

to live in two worlds at

24:09

once. This is

24:11

precisely what shamans do in traditional cultures

24:14

and it may be what humanity as

24:16

a whole is currently learning to do

24:18

as a result of

24:21

its increasing familiarization with

24:23

extraordinary encounters. Let's

24:26

just stop and think about that

24:28

a moment. Could it be that

24:30

our continued interest and dare I

24:32

say grudging acceptance by society at

24:34

large of paranormal things like

24:36

ghosts and psychics the afterworld and

24:38

off-planet beings are helping us

24:40

to grow as a species? I mean

24:44

guys if that's true this means

24:46

that simply by listening to this podcast

24:48

you're doing your part to help humanity's

24:51

heart and consciousness grow and evolve. Okay

24:55

all joking aside it is

24:57

an astounding thing to contemplate. Perhaps

24:59

all this strangeness going on in places

25:02

like Skinwalker Ranch, Roswell, Rendlesham

25:04

Forest, the Marion Apparitions,

25:06

UFO Abduction, sightings of

25:08

Bigfoot, Nessie or Dogman

25:11

are actually occurring to help us

25:13

expand our viewpoint open our eyes

25:15

to something more something deeper and

25:17

higher and more loving than anything

25:19

we've known. Oh that's

25:22

a lot to think about. Let's take

25:24

another very quick break and we will

25:27

be right back to talk about what

25:29

Dr. Ring discovered about the power of

25:32

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North Illinois. Okay, welcome back. So

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at the end of the book, Dr. Ring

26:14

talks about one of my favorite topics, the

26:16

imaginal realm. So stay with me

26:18

here because it's a lot to unpack. He

26:21

says the alchemist of old

26:23

called it imagination vera, meaning

26:25

true imagination, which is

26:28

a super sensible reality that

26:30

can be directly reached through

26:32

things like Kundalini rising, shamanic

26:34

journeying, and maybe he

26:36

speculates just maybe through

26:38

NDE and UFO experiences.

26:42

He says that we are moving into

26:44

this new level of expanded consciousness propelled

26:47

by extraordinary experiences such as

26:49

an NDE or UFO encounter.

26:52

Dr. Ring writes that this will be the

26:54

result of an expanded ability on the part

26:56

of human beings for imaginal vision. Humanity

27:00

will be led back to its true home

27:02

in the realm of the imagination where

27:04

it would be liberated to live in the

27:06

mythic time and no

27:08

longer incarcerated in the doomed

27:10

prison of historical time. He

27:14

mentions the work of Terrence McKenna who's

27:17

written a lot about psychedelic shamanism and

27:20

he believes that our dream life is

27:22

really a parallel reality

27:24

that could be more real in many

27:26

ways than our conscious daily world. And

27:30

if any of you read my book on

27:32

soul traveling through dreams, the awake dreamer,

27:34

that's exactly what I believe too. Dr.

27:38

Ring writes that we are coming more

27:40

and more to exist in a world

27:42

made by the human imagination. That

27:47

sentence really stood out to me. Let

27:49

me repeat it. We are coming

27:51

more and more to exist in

27:53

a world made by the human

27:55

imagination. This is something I have

27:57

long believed and to see scientists

28:00

and psychologists and researchers back

28:02

this up is really validating.

28:05

What you think, what you imagine,

28:07

what happens in your interior world

28:10

will be mirrored in your daily

28:12

world. I want you to really

28:14

ponder that and start to observe the truth of that

28:16

statement in your own life. For

28:18

example, if you complain nonstop about your

28:21

job, you're going to keep paving your

28:23

job. And

28:25

you're going to attract all

28:27

sorts of negative experiences and

28:30

encounters to validate your belief that

28:32

your job sucks. But if

28:34

you shift your interior world to

28:36

a different imaginal view, such

28:39

as loving your job or accepting a

28:41

new happier job, suddenly your

28:43

experiences will shift to reflect

28:46

this. Start to see

28:48

this in your world too. It's

28:50

almost magical. And it's

28:52

why I can't wait to teach

28:54

my manifesting webinar because that's what

28:57

it's all about, is shifting your

28:59

interior world and your interior thoughts

29:01

to help you manifest that

29:03

positive imaginal world in the

29:05

reality. I have

29:09

a friend who constantly says, I never get sick.

29:12

She really does. She says it all the time. Well, I never

29:14

get sick. And you know what? She doesn't. But

29:16

a few weeks ago, she started sniffling a little

29:18

and I said, Oh, no, are you getting that

29:20

cold that everyone's getting? And she

29:22

said, Nope, I never get sick. This will

29:25

be gone by tonight. And it

29:27

was, I saw her at the gym

29:29

the next day and she was fit, fine, ready

29:31

to go perfectly healthy. It's

29:34

amazing how much our interior thoughts

29:37

are mirrored in our lived

29:40

reality. It's a powerful,

29:42

powerful concept. Okay,

29:45

back to Dr. Ring's work. In

29:47

addition to mentioning Terence McKenna's work,

29:49

he also looks at Michael Grasso's

29:51

research into the collective or universal

29:54

consciousness, which he calls the

29:56

mind at large. Grasso writes

29:59

my contention. is that these

30:01

different forms of contact are related

30:04

and that in all likelihood a

30:06

single source of intelligence is using

30:08

whatever openings it can find to

30:11

penetrate our collective mind and

30:14

modify our basic ideas of

30:16

how reality works. So

30:20

again to put that in normal language

30:22

he's saying that he believes encounters with

30:24

off-planet beings are occurring simply

30:27

to elevate and open the

30:30

collective mind, the mind at large,

30:32

the universal consciousness to

30:34

a different idea, a different way

30:36

of looking at how reality works. Dr.

30:41

Ring also mentions famous UFO

30:43

researcher Jacques Vallee. If

30:45

you guys are interested in this stuff and

30:47

you haven't read Jacques Vallee I

30:49

highly encourage it. I

30:51

read his book Passport to Magonia. It's

30:54

a great read. So he

30:56

quotes Jacques Vallee as saying he

30:58

believes that UFOs are part of

31:00

a control system helping to regulate

31:03

belief systems, cultures and even human

31:05

evolution. He mentions

31:07

Karl Rashky who says these experiences

31:09

are visited upon humanity to lose

31:11

it from the fetters of its

31:14

encrusted habits of thought and action,

31:17

freedom from which is absolutely essential.

31:19

If the next state of humanity

31:21

and the reclamation of the planet are to

31:23

occur. And check

31:25

this out. Rashky believes aliens

31:28

are visiting us as agents

31:30

of cultural deconstruction, not

31:32

destruction, deconstruction. He

31:35

says our interest in them

31:37

should center on how the

31:39

spreading and deepening convictions about

31:41

them subtly yet irreversibly remold

31:44

not just peripheral religious or

31:46

metaphysical ideas but entire constellations

31:48

of cultural and social

31:50

knowledge. In this connection UFOs

31:52

can be depicted as ultra

31:55

terrestrial agents of cultural

31:57

deconstruction. Ring

32:01

concludes his research by saying that

32:03

we will most likely never know

32:05

why some people have NDEs and

32:07

encounters with UFOs. He

32:09

says, but we are meant to be baffled. Only

32:12

by confronting and yielding to the

32:14

unknowable, by rigorously avoiding

32:16

both the temptation to deny or

32:19

explain away these phenomenon or to

32:21

try to find some conventional explanation

32:23

for them, can we evolve

32:26

into consciousness where the dream of Earth

32:28

becomes a reality. The

32:31

fate of the Earth and our future evolution

32:33

as a species depend on

32:35

our unflinching and dedicated determination

32:38

to open ourselves up to

32:40

their healing energies. Wow,

32:43

guys, I gotta tell you, this book

32:45

and the research that he led me

32:47

to really opened my eyes to some

32:50

new ways of thinking about these encounters.

32:53

I really enjoy doing the research for this show

32:55

and contemplating a whole new

32:57

way to look at NDE and

32:59

UFO encounters. For starters, I

33:01

hadn't considered the many similarities between

33:03

the two experiences, but

33:06

I never thought about these

33:08

encounters as being orchestrated

33:10

by extraterrestrials or higher

33:12

spiritual beings or the universal

33:14

mind as a way to elevate

33:16

humanity's consciousness to the next level.

33:20

All I can say is that when I read the news and

33:23

I see all the greed and chaos and violence

33:25

going on, sometimes I think,

33:27

damn, we are slow learners on

33:29

this spiritual journey in this Earth

33:31

school. But then

33:34

I read books like this one, The Omega Project,

33:36

and I remember that, sure, it's

33:38

a slow progress, but it's still

33:41

progression forward to a better world,

33:43

a kinder, more compassionate universe. Last

33:47

week a friend asked me, what be the light means?

33:50

She said, why do you end every show with that? What does it

33:52

even mean? And I said,

33:54

well, for me, to be the light means to do

33:56

whatever you can to light up your corner of the

33:58

world. To be your light. a ray

34:00

of light in someone's day, or

34:03

a beacon of hope for a friend, but

34:05

especially for yourself, too. And

34:08

that's how we're going to help elevate the consciousness

34:10

of this world to a higher vibration. This

34:13

week, perform a random act of kindness,

34:15

leave a crystal for someone to find,

34:17

give your delivery driver a bottle of

34:19

water or a gift card to a

34:21

local coffee shop, call a friend

34:23

just to tell them you love them. We

34:26

do these things to be the light, to

34:29

help raise our vibrations. Plus,

34:32

I'd prefer to be the light from the

34:34

safe confines of my cozy beach town, rather

34:36

than from a near-death experience or an

34:39

encounter with a little gray alien holding a

34:41

probe. Just saying. So

34:44

I'll wrap up for this show

34:46

by saying, be the light for

34:48

yourself and others, and

34:51

to avoid being abducted by aliens. Hope

34:54

you enjoyed this episode. See you next time. Thanks

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