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Nick Cook, Insider on UAP/UFO and Ingo Swann – Skeptiko
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The former aviation editor for Jane’s Defence Weekly and author of The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology and Alex Tsakiris discuss Nick’s new book about Ingo Swann, a fundamental figure in remote viewing and the U.S. Army’s Stargate Project in the late 20th century. But the conversation’s not limited […]

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Terje Simonsen, The Future of Parapsychology – Skeptiko
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Alex Tsakiris interviews Terje Simonsen, the author of the excellent work A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal: Our Secret Powers Telepathy, Clairvoyance & Precognition, on where parapsychology has been and where it’s headed. Tsakiris argues that parapsychology has made itself irrelevant because it’s tried to divorce itself from spirituality. Simonsen seems to agree, saying […]

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Dr. Stephen Braude, The Veil of Stupidity – Skeptiko
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Host Alex Tsakiris interviews philosopher, parapsychologist, and editor of the Journal of Scientific Exploration about a variety of topics covered in his latest book Dangerous Pursuits (Anomalist Books). The key quote from Braude that relates to the title of the show: “For people who are skeptical about psi phenomena, it’s almost as if a veil […]

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Greg Moffitt, The Placebo Effect Is Consciousness – Skeptiko
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The core of Greg Moffitt and Alex Tsakiris’s discussion here isn’t exactly phenomenology, rather than theory behind the phenomenology of concepts like dark matter, the placebo effect, among others where science knows something is going on but can not completely explain it. When the pair take that as their cue to make a left turn […]

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Grant Cameron, No Such Thing As Evil ET? – Skeptiko
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Grant Cameron is one of the fun people in ufology. The Presidential UFO researcher and author of the excellent Charlie Red Star: True Reports of One of North America’s Biggest UFO Sightings has been much intrigued by “Consciousness” in his recent work. He and host Alex Tsakiris agree and disagree upon what Consciousness is and […]

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Bruce Fenton, A Better Human Origin Story – Skeptiko
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Only Alex Tsakiris has the brass balls to humor Bruce Fenton’s maverick theories about humanity’s origins. Bucking convention, Bruce argues for humans going into Africa, a connection between the first Americans and Australian aboriginals, and when the Americas were first colonized. Hoo-hah, you scoff? 21st century phrenology? Danniken-esque twisting of evidence? If you’re so cocksure, […]

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Dr. Gregory Shushan, Making The Case For Cross-Cultural NDEs – Skeptiko
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One of the crazy things about near-death experiences is they tend to have similar themes regardless of the age wherein they happened or the culture. Greyfaces will argue the experiencers have one thing in common, humanity, and everyone will see the same thing but color it with their own experiences. On the other hand, those […]

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Courtney Brown, The Future of Scientific Remote Viewing – Skeptiko
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We are not sure we would have picked Courtney Brown to give us the lowdown on the future of remote viewing, as Brown is viewed as a controversial outsider by the “mainstream” remote viewing community itself. To make matters worse, host Alex Tsakiris seems hung up on discussing what he sees as the imminent “Disclosure” […]

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Dr. Philip Goff, Will Academia Get Beyond Materialism? – Skeptiko
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We like to imagine there are mainstream academics doing the work of their bosses, opening up private browsers, connecting to VPNs, and watching their door lest anyone see them visiting The Anomalist or surreptitiously streaming Skeptiko. Perhaps that will give Philip Goff a sense of relief after talking about consciousness and new perspectives with Alex […]

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Gordon White, Is Magic Outdated Tech? – Skeptiko
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Aww yeah, Tsakiris is still at it and welcomes postmodern occultist Gordon White to the podcast to chew the fat on the intersection of magick and advanced science, and its imminent impact upon the 21st century. Now that you’ve been initiated into the deep mysteries, Bernardo Kastrup beckons to you to apprehend The Dawn Of […]

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