Say an authority figure in the humanities like Jeffrey J. Kripal gets it wrong about any of the people he uses as examples to back up his theory, does it doom his theory? Does it call him into question as a researcher or is it acceptable and expected that most every researcher will get it wrong sometimes? What is important about studying mystical phenomena in the first place given that it is to be engaged with personally to have any meaningful effect in one's life? And how can we tell if someone...
Nov 27, 2024•45 min•Ep. 108
Because the Paratopia podcast just wasn't enough, Paratopia Live was born. Here Jeff Ritzmann, Jeremy Vaeni, and the official unofficial third host, Lee Townsend, talk about their high strangeness experiences and take calls live! Help keep Our Undoing Radio going. Donate whatever small amount you can today at: www.ko-fi.com.jayvay
Nov 24, 2024•2 hr 2 min
Dr. Tyler Kokjohn, now-retired Professor of Microbiology at Midwestern University and Project Core researcher, joins Jeff & Jer to talk about the latest developments in sci tech that will once and for all tell us whether there are alien hybrids, starseed, and Indigo children among us. Also, he talks about his time at his first UFO conference over the weekend, the UFO Congress in Arizona. But most intriguing of all, he speaks candidly about his being a reformed debunker and gives us some real...
Nov 22, 2024•2 hr 20 min
How do we arrive at authority sources for topics of Mystery where, frankly, the alleged authority figure could be lying or nuts? Speaking of nuts, can the paranormal or the spiritual drive an experiencer insane? Is host Jeremy Vaeni lying or nuts? If not, how did he pull through unscathed? How can we have real discernment in any of this? This is more of Tom Cheetham and Jeremy Vaeni in dialogue. And this conversation is framed around Jeffrey J. Kripal's new book, How To Think Impossibly. Want mo...
Nov 20, 2024•40 min•Ep. 107
Because the Paratopia podcast just wasn't enough, Paratopia Live was born. Here Jeff Ritzmann, Jeremy Vaeni, and the official unofficial third host, Lee Townsend, talk about their high strangeness experiences and take calls live! Help keep Our Undoing Radio going. Donate whatever small amount you can today at: www.ko-fi.com.jayvay
Nov 17, 2024•2 hr 22 min
Chris Carter, author of Science And The Near-Death Experience, joins The Jeff & The Jer to talk about near-death experiences, Persinger's so-called God Helmet, and the skeptics' very vocal reaction to his work. Also, he fields questions from listeners who wrote in on our message board, as well as Dr. Tyler Kokjohn who wrote us privately. In fact, they had a nice exchange on our message board, which Jeremy will read and comment on during the afterchat. (originally aired: 02.23.2012) To learn ...
Nov 15, 2024•2 hr 13 min
The conversation with Tom Cheetham continues, answering such questions as: Do Henry Corbin’s angels fit in here anywhere? What clarity is? Is there REALLY no path to Truth? Why do so-called "enlightened" people build monuments in time and call that timelessness? Done here? Visit Tom on substack. Take his classes. Read his essays. He's approachable. Say, "Hi." https://tomcheetham.substack.com/
Nov 13, 2024•33 min•Ep. 106
Our chat with Tom Cheetham starts to cook.... Are religious states reducible to psychedelic trips? Do people experience death of self on psychedelics? What is the difference between death of self and being torn apart and pieced back together as a shaman? Is Jeremy Vaeni in agreement with Henry Corbin about Truth with a capital T and beings living from Truth’s 1st-person point of view? Whew! All that and more in about half an hour!
Nov 06, 2024•31 min•Ep. 105
It's Halloween! Time to celebrate Jeff Ritzmann on his favorite holiday. How do we do that this year, you ask? By talking to two guests we never had on Paratopia whom Jeff would have loved engaging with: Mike Fiorito, author of For All We Know, a surprising and excellently-written novel about UFOs that runs in the direction of consciousness over materiality. And Allison Jornlin, co-creator of American Ghost Walks tours and blogger/creator for ParanormalWomen.com, who talks about hauntings in sur...
Nov 01, 2024•2 hr 24 min
In the third installment of this unique longform dialogue, Tom Cheetham takes us on a deep dive into the imaginal with Henry Corbin, Jeffrey Kripal, gnostism, angels, and … Is Jeremy Vaeni Moses? Once that's answered, we circle back to Tom’s iboga experiences in South America as touched upon last episode. Connect with Tom at his As Variously As Possible substack: https://tomcheetham.substack.com/ Keep Our Undoing Radio going by donating here: www.ko-fi.com/jayvay...
Oct 30, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 104
Because the Paratopia podcast just wasn't enough, Paratopia Live was born. Here Jeff Ritzmann, Jeremy Vaeni, and the official unofficial third host, Lee Townsend, talk about their high strangeness experiences and take calls live! Help keep Our Undoing Radio going. Donate whatever small amount you can today at: www.ko-fi.com.jayvay
Oct 28, 2024•2 hr
Marco, a relatively new listener, has answered the call for listener-based episodes. Here he narrates in great detail his bouts of missing time. This is a rare case of someone having missing time with absolutely no inkling of why. Unrelated to this, the town he recently moved to has a history of experiencing a booming sound phenomenon called “Seneca Guns.” We will learn as much as can be known about the Seneca Guns from him here as well. (originally aired: 02.16.2012)
Oct 25, 2024•2 hr 4 min
When you grow up with strictly materialist parent, then end up spending most of your adult life in science, how do you break free to be a kid again? That’s the rough through-line of this conversation with Tom Cheetham that winds through numerous topics from channeling Henry Corbin, to guns and dominion, to the plant medicine iboga. Connect with Tom at his As Variously As Possible substack: https://tomcheetham.substack.com/ Get more content like this from: www.ourundoing.com...
Oct 23, 2024•53 min•Ep. 103
Highlights of this week's ye olde live show include The Jer having some strange happenings going on in the night at his new digs in Hawaii and a fundamentalist Christian caller trying to thump the Bible... oh.... let's say fairly unsuccessfully. keep this crap churning in the toilet. Donate your money now: www.ko-fi.com/jayvay
Oct 20, 2024•2 hr 2 min
Dr. Kirby Surprise, author of Synchronicity: The Art of Coincidence, Choice, and Unlocking Your Mind joins us to talk about what synchronicity is, what it is not, and how you can normalize it in your life. But it doesn't end there. Jeff and Jer bring Dr. Surprise down the rabbit hole of alien abductions and spirituality to see if his work is applicable to Paratopian findings. And you know what? The answer is... yes. All of this leads to a spectacular afterchat where the hosts flesh out some star...
Oct 18, 2024•2 hr 10 min
Tom Cheetham is the author of five books on the imagination in religion, psychology and the arts, and one book of poetry. He is largely recognized as the go-to scholar on the life and work of famed French philosopher and scholar of Islamic philosophy, Henry Corbin. He is a Fellow of the Temenos Academy in London, teaches online, and lectures regularly in Europe and the Americas. And now, he is here to engage with us through Our Undoing Radio for what will undoubtedly be a blockbuster of a season...
Oct 16, 2024•37 min•Ep. 102
In true Project Core fashion, psychic experiencer Joe Gooch gives us a chronological checklist of the high strangeness experiences in his life. Together with Jeff & Jer, he fleshes them out in what is easily the most fun the hosts have had in a long time on Paratopia! (originally aired: 02.02.2012) Please check out Joe’s hilarious one-man sketch comedy at: https://www.youtube.com/@MrJoeGooch
Oct 11, 2024•2 hr 23 min
The Jer moves to Hawaii. He has some nifty visionary experiences. Plus, the then-latest in UFO news, something about MUFON, and, of course, taking calls from listeners. This live show's all over the map! Wanna support him/me in Hawaii? Head on over to here: www.ko-fi.com/jayvay
Oct 06, 2024•2 hr 2 min
Thomas Fusco, author of Behind The Cosmic Veil: A New Vision of Reality, walks us through supergeometry and his grand unifying theory of everything. But first... a funny thing happened on the way to our forums: they got shut down preemptively by The Jeff. How did it come to this? The answer is part assault on free speech/part ufological cover-up from within ufology, and you will hear all about it. To learn more about Thomas Fusco and order his book, please visit: www.cosmicveil.com...
Oct 04, 2024•2 hr 29 min
The Jeff reveals more details about his shrouded friend from another dimension--live! Plus some other stuff. Now pay me: www.ko-fi.com/jayvay
Sep 29, 2024•2 hr 1 min
Colin Reid, who did a fascinating two-part listener episode back when we tried that experiment, returns to Paratopia, this time to be interviewed by the Jeff & Jer. This is one of those mind-opening discussions that taps into just how weird and wild the paranormal and occult are... and yet they both follow the same simple patterns we find in spiritual awakening, and both use rather mundane imagery, which somehow—by design or not—stimulates our growth. (originally aired: 01.19.2012)
Sep 27, 2024•1 hr 32 min
In this, the final episode of Our Undoing Radio Season 10, we learn what the title asks: Whether or not the universe is self-aware. Host Jeremy Vaeni had the big "I Am" awakening of seeing and being all things in the universe coming alive at the same time. Of all the types of consciousness he experienced in that timeless moment, one thing he did not experience was a self-conscious universe. Why? The answer is pure revelation. Keep the revelations coming. Donate to keep Our Undoing Radio and all ...
Sep 25, 2024•49 min•Ep. 101
In this ye olde live show, Jeff, Jer and Lee discuss evidence for what Jeff's shrouded man showed him in regards to what particles look like, artificial intelligence, someone anonymously trying to get our message board taken down on behalf of David Jacobs and Budd Hopkins, and, naturally, much, much more. Enjoying this program? Yeah? Great. Then do your job and pay me: www.ko-fi.com/jayvay . Also, if you sign up there, you'll be first to know when I go live (for real live) on Youtube....
Sep 22, 2024•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 102
Jeff & Jer make good on their promise to keep up with the transformative experiences of ghost researcher Rachel Baker. A lot has happened in the past few months. For one, she is no longer a ghost researcher and has stepped down from her position at MRIPA. For another, she is no longer Rachel Baker, she's Rachel Weinrich. Something is changing in her and it is changing rapidly. This one's about religion, spirituality, compassion, and complacency. In short, it's a conversation about thought co...
Sep 20, 2024•2 hr 2 min
Do we need objective corroboration for subjective spiritual events? How does mindfulness stack up against the self dissolving? What do people who are way into psychedelics have in common with Jesus freaks? Yeah. This one has everything. However you feel about mindfulness, be mindful of keeping Our Undoing Radio going. This is getting harder and harder to maintain without advertising dollars. Please donate whatever small amount you can today at: www.ko-fi.com.jayvay Lastly, here is a link to the ...
Sep 18, 2024•39 min•Ep. 100
A very special episode for our 150th and the first show of the new year: Whitley Strieber gives Paratopia an exclusive first interview on his (then) new book, Solving the Communion Enigma! Jeremy is in a far flung land of sun and fun, so Jeff flies solo with Whitley about the nature of fear and overcoming it, connections to the mystical experience, Jeff's "Fractal Paragraphs," and the fascinating potential connection of the Visitors to the dead. This is a Paratopia episode not to be missed, and ...
Sep 13, 2024•1 hr 28 min
Anger. It's all the rage. It has been from the beginning of us. First, let's read all about it. Then, let's see it in action. Finally, let's please the abuser by donating whatever we can to him at: www.ko-fi.com/jayvay .
Sep 11, 2024•25 min•Ep. 99
Jer talks about having the sea in him. Jeff talks about his Shroudman encounters. Somehow, Lee Townsend never calls a psychiatrist. Please help keep Our Undoing Radio going. Donate whatever small amount you can today at: www.ko-fi.com.jayvay
Sep 08, 2024•2 hr 1 min
Jeff & Jer take a look back at some of the episodes from 2011, talk about what they need to follow up on, and discuss future dirctions for the show. But first, they dive into some of the deep, unnspoken issues surrounding crop circle research, the fallout from Episode 144: Echoes In A Yawning Chasm, and predictable sets of human reaction to Mystery. Let's start the new year right. Here is the link to the most highly-acclaimed apolitical, nonsectarian charity on the planet whose only discrimi...
Sep 06, 2024•2 hr 14 min
Why would a guy like Jeremy Vaeni vote for a thing like president? We'll find out. But first... and last... let's learn a little something about stingy critters and other insects' cycles, as well as our own. Enjoy this program? Wanna keep it going? Please donate today at: www.ko-fi.com/jayvay .
Sep 04, 2024•36 min•Ep. 98
