When UFO enthusiasts think back to the origins of the modern UFO Phenomenon, the decade of the 1940s certainly stands out. Of course this was the decade that saw the Roswell event reportedly happen: when a craft, apparently piloted by beings who were decidedly non-human, crashed into the desert of New Mexico. Rumors of crash retrievals, attempts at reverse-engineered technologies, and the recovery of alien bodies of course swirl around the historical account of this famous event; an event now se...
May 23, 2021•29 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast For some time now here on the Point of Convergence podcast, we've been discussing the many ways that various forms of high strangeness tend to, well, converge. As we've discussed previously, often that means an individual who's experienced one form of high strangeness is quite likely to have experienced others as well. The crossover effect, as one might call it, involves everything from NDEs (near death experiences), to contact with deceased, discarnate human beings, to OBEs (out of body experie...
May 16, 2021•30 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast In recent months former Department of Defense employee Luis Elizondo, who ran the Pentagons UFO program, known as AATIP, or The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, has made comments pinpointing experiences where senior Department of Defense officials attempted to shut down further investigation into UFOs, or, as they have been rebranded in government circles, unidentified aerial phenomenon, simply for reasons that amount to a prejudice stemming from religious fundamentalism. And un...
May 09, 2021•31 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast When we look back at the history of the topic collectively referred to as high strangeness, its clear that, for a long time, various phenomena were studied as distinct fields of inquiry. And often, so-called ghost-hunters, bigfoot investigators, and UFO researchers were distinct groups of people, who kept to their own lane, so to speak. As weve discussed previously on the Point of Convergence podcast, over time it has become clear that this is likely not the best way to approach these topics, be...
May 02, 2021•30 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast Not all that long ago it seems, the notion that our world may actually be a simulation, a massively and masterly orchestrated virtual reality, seemed a notion best left to science fiction writers. In fact, the idea didnt even really gain traction until our own video game technology rendered with high definition graphics cards, and powered by code bases that included full-on physics engines grew to be so immersive and realistic, that people began extrapolating outwards, wondering if one day perha...
Apr 25, 2021•29 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast When it comes to proposed hypotheses offered to explain the intelligence behind the UFO Phenomenon, the extraterrestrial hypothesis is still the most common idea put forth. For the majority of the population, when confronted with the notion that a non-human intelligence is supposedly here, traversing the skies above our heads in technologically sophisticated craft that run circles around our most cutting-edge aerospace offerings, space aliens still seems like the logical explanation. In fact, fo...
Apr 18, 2021•26 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast For almost as long as human beings have been attempting to document and study what is often collectively termed high strangeness, it has been assumed that various phenomena should be studied separately, as distinct fields of inquiry. Thus, when researchers wanted to conduct research and/or look for evidence suggesting human consciousness could survive bodily death, they would do so by isolating factors only related to that particular inquiry. And if, for instance, another group of researchers wa...
Apr 11, 2021•26 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast Believing intelligent non-human life exists elsewhere in the Cosmos is one thing. That notion now has widespread acceptance, even amongst die-hard scientific materialists. But believing that non-human intelligence is here , in our very own backward, so to speak, is something else entirely. For many, that notion flies in the face of common sense. Taking it a step further, believing widespread accounts of alien-human contact, and even of abductions of people from the cozy comfort of their bedrooms...
Apr 04, 2021•30 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast For almost as long as human beings have been looking up and spotting strange aerial vehicles making astonishing maneuvers in our skies, people have been reporting a parallel experience that in most peoples minds, is even stranger. I speak of direct contact with the supposed intelligence controlling these advanced craft. Sometimes the contact comes in the form of remote, telepathic communication where human beings find themselves being communicated with by an apparently non-human intelligence not...
Mar 28, 2021•27 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Even before H.G. Wells wrote his classic War of the Worlds , depicting an alien invasion on behalf of a technologically superior civilization from Mars, human beings have looked to the skies meaning, more specifically, outer space as the obvious source for visitation from a group of Others. As weve grown in our understanding of just how discombobulatingly vast our Cosmos is, populated by countless galaxies, each containing untold numbers of star systems and planets, that assumption has seemed al...
Mar 21, 2021•26 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast In the long-running history of the UFO Phenomenon, numerous aspects of encounters with these Others stretch our imaginations to the breaking point, pushing the outer limits of our capacity to even conceive of technologies that could accomplish what our eyes and others senses are telling us were apparently witnessing. In terms of the demonstration of evidently advanced technology, the craft controlled by this supposedly non-human intelligence make maneuvers that are not only death-defying, but th...
Mar 14, 2021•29 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. John Mack was a one-of-a-kind individual, whos pursuits and interests were as varied as the kinds of responses he garnered from various elements of both the public and institutional academia. His day jobs included that of a psychiatrist, a writer, and a professor. Most famously Mack was the head of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. As destiny would have it, Mack stumbled across one of the greatest secrets of our time if not of the entire history of humanity: namely: the...
Mar 07, 2021•27 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast Slowly but surely, and with increasing pace in recent years, the human population is waking up to the idea that our world is being visited by intelligence(s) from "elsewhere". As our sensor systems grow ever more refined with each technological iteration, and the planet becomes increasingly populated with increasingly high definition cameras, the evidence for the presence of these "Others" will undoubtedly only grow - forcing, at some point - you would imagine - a true reckoning by human civiliz...
Feb 28, 2021•26 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast For decades now, many if not most people across the globe have wondered, who else is out there? Are we alone? Can our species really be the only intelligence in the immensity of the Cosmos? And as our understanding of the mind-boggling vastness of the physical universe has grown exponentially over time, along with the development of a much more nuanced fine-tuned understanding of just how many galaxies, star systems and planets that likely entails, the preposterousness of the notion that were al...
Feb 21, 2021•30 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast When one considers the history of the UFO Phenomenon, both recent and going well back to the middle part of the 20th century, one thing is clear: subterfuge is an ongoing and ever-present element of the entire enterprise. When these elusive craft are seen, its often at night and, on average, in less densely populated areas. When they are spotted over city centers, some people will see these unidentified aerial phenomena, while others will not because on top of being elusive, the intelligence beh...
Feb 14, 2021•29 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Jacques Vallee is often considered ufologys gold standard. By bringing the entire scope of human history to bear, hes taken the discussion of the UFO Phenomenon to another level. While Vallee began his career as a UFO researcher championing the idea that these aerial vehicles were spacecraft being piloted either by beings from another non-human civilization, or via their representative artificial intelligence, he eventually grew to reconsider and doubt that hypothesis. Today, while he doesnt...
Feb 07, 2021•24 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Here on the Point of Convergence podcast weve been discussing how various categories of whats often referred to as High Strangeness seem to overlap. Many of the same people who experience something like, say, precognition, have also seen a UFO in the sky, or sensed mysterious presences nearby, apparently just beyond perception via our visual field. Remote viewing, known more colloquially as clairvoyance, is another of these categories. And like other contact modalities weve discussed, entangled ...
Jan 31, 2021•28 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Amidst the ongoing surge of interest regarding reports of elusive UFOs/UAPs that are being seen by the military and civilians alike, many seem to have missed the fact that a movement has emerged over the last couple of decades, geared specifically towards taking the front foot in the relationship with these mysterious Others. CE-5, which is short for close encounters of the fifth kind, is all about human beings initiating contact and communication with these non-human intelligence(s). CE-5 seeks...
Jan 23, 2021•35 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast In the 4th episode of the Point of Convergence podcast, ExoAcademian discusses both some of the stubborn challenges as well as some of the unique opportunities that exist when studying an enigmatic topic such as UFOs and the Phenomenon. How can we make headway when studying non-human intelligence(s) apparently able to manipulate perception, consciousness and even the supposed constants of the natural world?
Jan 17, 2021•25 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast In this, the 3rd episode of the Point of Convergence podcast, ExoAcademian reviews and explores the results of the Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial and Extraordinary Experiencers, international, multi-cultural and multi-lingual, Experiencer Research Study. This is the largest study of its kind ever conducted, and offers results that may prove confounding to some, and encouraging to others, on the nature of UFOs, the Phenomenon, non-human intelligence, and reality ...
Jan 10, 2021•29 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast In this, the second installment of the Point of Convergence podcast, ExoAcademian engages with Richard Dolan's new and compelling book: "The Alien Agendas: A Speculative Analysis of Those Visiting Earth". Who are these intelligences? Where are they from? And, perhaps most important of all, what are their intentions as it pertains to planet Earth and humanity?
Jan 03, 2021•31 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast In this inaugural episode of the Point of Convergence podcast, ExoAcademian discusses how ufology: the study of UFOs and the Phenomenon, really belongs within the scope of a much larger question, addressing the very nature of reality itself. And this is because UFO sightings and contact with non-human intelligence share certain core features of "high strangeness" seen in related topics such as remote viewing, near death experiences, out of body experiences, PSI contact, sightings of apparitions,...
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