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LF256 David J. Moore – UFOs, Reality and Human Evolution Part One

David J. Moore discusses his book Evolutionary Metaphors: UFOs, New Existentialism and the Future Paradigm.
People have been witnessing strange lights and objects in the sky for all of recorded history. Their modern guise as UFOs began in earnest during the 20th century, particularly in the wake of the Roswell incident in 1947. Despite thousands of reported UFO sightings, close encounters, abductions, and even crash landings, physical evidence for the existence of alien spacecraft and their inhabitants is practically non-existent. Shadow government cover-ups are claimed but official disclosure seems as far off as ever.
Other theories propose that UFOs may be inter-dimensional entities, or even individual or collective psychic projections. Whatever their true nature, the question remains – what lies behind them and what do they want? Do they present an existential threat to the Earth or are they merely messengers from some higher intelligence? In urging us to rethink the nature of time and space, and break down the dualistic barriers between mind and matter, are anomalous phenomena such as UFOs forcing us to wake up to a wider reality and if so, what might this mean for the future of humanity?
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LF255 Bernie Taylor – The Hero’s Journey and the Human Race – Part Two

Bernie Taylor discusses his book Before Orion – Finding the Face of the Hero.
This is a two part interview. Part one is here.
The myth of the hero’s journey is at the heart of folklore worldwide among the ancients, indigenous peoples past and present, and even in our modern society as metaphors, allegories, archetypes, and symbols in popular culture. Before Orion explores a deeper root for this myth by looking at how hunter-gatherers viewed themselves within the natural and spiritual worlds.
Taylor proposes that select cave paintings are fundamental pieces in the human journey to self-realization, the foundation of written language, and a record of biological knowledge that irrevocably impacted some of the artistic styles, religious practices, and stories that are still with us. He addresses a profound elephant in the room by opening up uncharted places in our history, exploring ideas unacceptable to mainstream archaeology and anthropology.
Although we have largely lost our fundamental connections to nature, our past, each other and even ourselves, essentially we are the same as our ancient ancestors. Far from being redundant relics of a bygone age, their stories are vitally important in understanding who we are, where we come from and where we are going.
Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’Robert Rich ‘Cave Paintings’
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LF254 Bernie Taylor – The Hero’s Journey and the Human Race – Part One

Bernie Taylor discusses his book Before Orion – Finding the Face of the Hero.
This is a two part interview. Part two is here.
The myth of the hero’s journey is at the heart of folklore worldwide among the ancients, indigenous peoples past and present, and even in our modern society as metaphors, allegories, archetypes, and symbols in popular culture. Before Orion explores a deeper root for this myth by looking at how hunter-gatherers viewed themselves within the natural and spiritual worlds.
Taylor proposes that select cave paintings are fundamental pieces in the human journey to self-realization, the foundation of written language, and a record of biological knowledge that irrevocably impacted some of the artistic styles, religious practices, and stories that are still with us. He addresses a profound elephant in the room by opening up uncharted places in our history, exploring ideas unacceptable to mainstream archaeology and anthropology.
Although we have largely lost our fundamental connections to nature, our past, each other and even ourselves, essentially we are the same as our ancient ancestors. Far from being redundant relics of a bygone age, their stories are vitally important in understanding who we are, where we come from and where we are going.
Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’Robert Rich ‘Cave Paintings’
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LF253 Frank Joseph – The Real War of the Worlds: Military Encounters with Extraterrestrials Part Two

Frank Joseph discusses his book Military Encounters with Extraterrestrials – The Real War of the Worlds. This is a two part interview. Part one is here.
Although close encounters with alien spacecraft are reported as far back as Ancient Egypt, it wasn’t until the 20th century that UFO sightings and extraterrestrial encounters were truly documented, due to advances in technology as well as the vast increase in incidents, particularly with military forces.
Revealing his extensive research, Frank Joseph presents a comprehensive history of armed confrontations between humans and extraterrestrials in the 20th and 21st centuries. He explains how, with the development of atomic bombs and ballistic missiles, the frequency of extraterrestrial intervention in human affairs increased dramatically. He documents incidents both famous and little known, including ‘foo fighter’ sightings and battles with Allied and Axis combatants during World War II, and eye-witness reports from encounters during wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and the ongoing hostilities in the Middle East. He examines evidence for the shoot-down of ‘flying saucers’ at Roswell and other locations, alien sabotage of nuclear weapons, and in-flight abductions of both human crew and aircraft. He explores the evidence for the Battle of Los Angeles, which occurred three months after Pearl Harbor, and the details of Operation Highjump, the U.S. Navy’s alleged defeat in Antarctica by ET forces seventeen months after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, while also uncovering evidence of secret Antarctic German bases.
The author then examines recent examples of alien interdiction in Earthly affairs, such as the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan and the fiery abort of Elon Musk’s Falcon 9 missile launch. Finally, we consider the issue of disclosure and ask, if hard evidence of Earth visitations by extraterrestrial life really exists, will it ever be admitted by those who hold its secrets?
Previous interview with Frank Joseph:Our Dolphin Ancestors
www.ancientamerican.com
Bumper music:Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’Klaus Schulze ‘Zeitgeist’
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LF252 Frank Joseph – The Real War of the Worlds: Military Encounters with Extraterrestrials Part One

Frank Joseph discusses his book Military Encounters with Extraterrestrials – The Real War of the Worlds. This is a two part interview. Part two is here.
Although close encounters with alien spacecraft are reported as far back as Ancient Egypt, it wasn’t until the 20th century that UFO sightings and extraterrestrial encounters were truly documented, due to advances in technology as well as the vast increase in incidents, particularly with military forces.
Revealing his extensive research, Frank Joseph presents a comprehensive history of armed confrontations between humans and extraterrestrials in the 20th and 21st centuries. He explains how, with the development of atomic bombs and ballistic missiles, the frequency of extraterrestrial intervention in human affairs increased dramatically. He documents incidents both famous and little known, including ‘foo fighter’ sightings and battles with Allied and Axis combatants during World War II, and eye-witness reports from encounters during wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and the ongoing hostilities in the Middle East. He examines evidence for the shoot-down of ‘flying saucers’ at Roswell and other locations, alien sabotage of nuclear weapons, and in-flight abductions of both human crew and aircraft. He explores the evidence for the Battle of Los Angeles, which occurred three months after Pearl Harbor, and the details of Operation Highjump, the U.S. Navy’s alleged defeat in Antarctica by ET forces seventeen months after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, while also uncovering evidence of secret Antarctic German bases.
The author then examines recent examples of alien interdiction in Earthly affairs, such as the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan and the fiery abort of Elon Musk’s Falcon 9 missile launch. Finally, we consider the issue of disclosure and ask, if hard evidence of Earth visitations by extraterrestrial life really exists, will it ever be admitted by those who hold its secrets?
Previous interview with Frank Joseph:Our Dolphin Ancestors
www.ancientamerican.com
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LF251 Mark Stavish – Egregores: The Occult Entities That Watch Over Human Destiny

Mark Stavish discusses his book Egregores – The Occult Entities That Watch Over Human Destiny.
Do you know your own mind? Do you make your own decisions? Are you in control of your life? Or has someone or something else taken over? Beneath a veneer of rational choices, are you really in control of anything at all?
One of most important but little known concepts of Western occultism is that of the egregore, an autonomous psychic entity created by a collective group mind. An egregore is sustained by belief, ritual, and sacrifice, and relies upon the devotion of a group of people, from a small coven to an entire nation, for its existence. An egregore that receives enough sustenance can take on a life of its own, becoming an independent deity with powers its believers can use to further their own spiritual advancement and material desires.
Presenting the first book devoted to the study of egregores, Mark Stavish examines the history of egregores from ancient times to the present day, with detailed and documented examples, and explores how they are created, sustained, directed, and destroyed. Stavish provides instructions on how to identify egregores, free yourself from a parasitic and destructive collective entity, and destroy an egregore, should the need arise. Revealing how egregores form the foundation of nearly all human interactions, the author shows how they have moved into popular culture and media – underscoring the importance of intense selectivity in the information we accept and the ways we perceive the world and our place in it.
Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’John Carpenter ‘The Fog OST’
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LF250 Martin Demant Frederiksen – Why Do We Exist?

Martin Demant Frederiksen discusses nothing.
Why is there something rather than nothing? Wouldn’t nothing have been much simpler than something? But can nothing actually exist? Has there, in fact, always been something? Although answers to the vast, unfathomable mysteries of existence seem as distant as ever, we remain as compelled to seek them as countless generations before us. Indeed, as a species, we seem unable to truly thrive without some overarching purpose.
However, in a challenge to this eternal existential quest, Frederiksen pauses to ask ‘What goes missing when we look for meaning?’ In seeking some ultimate purpose to life, the Universe, and everything, do we devalue or even deny the present moment, the instant immediacy of where we are right now? Furthermore, given the strife and conflict caused by competing world-views – religious, secular, spiritual, scientific, and more – is there something to be said for an acceptance of futility, an embrace of meaninglessness, or even the active negation of any and all notions of cosmic teleology? After all, denial of meaning needn’t necessarily mean nihilism.
Like so many civilizations of the past, we live in a time of crisis. Contemporary culture is caught in a corpse-strewn cul de sac, a war zone of competing cosmologies, ideologies, and dogma. There are two ways out of this destructive dead end – turn back or break through – but no guarantee of either. One thing however is certain; what we affirm or deny in thought or in deed – individually and collectively – has an affect. Even if we choose not to decide, we still have made a choice.
Martin’s latest book is An Anthropology of Nothing in Particular.
Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’Stanislav Shevchenko ‘Conscientia’
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LF249 Chris Nineham – How the Establishment Lost Control

Chris Nineham discusses his book How the Establishment Lost Control and the political, economic, and social turmoil of our time.
From the Scottish independence referendum to the Brexit debacle, and the shock election of Jeremy Corbyn as UK Labour leader and Donald Trump as US President, the post-war consensus is breaking up. This turmoil testifies to an insurgent mood amongst great swathes of the population both at home and abroad. How the Establishment Lost Control attempts to explain these dramatic developments and to show how they question received notions about politics, history, and how change happens. Above all they challenge widespread assumptions about the resilience of elite hegemony, the influence of conventional structures of thought, and the ability of the mass of the population to think autonomously in a post-ideological age.
At the close of the 20th Century, we were told and millions of us believed that the neoliberal new world order was here to stay and that it was simply a matter of time before its now incontrovertible benefits touched all corners of the globe. The polarization, upheaval, and often chaotic events of the early 21st Century, however, portend a very different future teeming with threats and uncertainty. But within this flux and deep doubt there also exists the potential for positive change, should we choose to seize the moment.
Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’
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LF248 Mark Corske – Engines of Domination: Political Power and the Human Emergency

Mark Corske discusses his film Engines of Domination – Political Power and the Human Emergency.
Is political power – armed central authority with states and war – really necessary for human society? Or is it a tool that ruling elites use to live at the expense of everyone else? Engines of Domination offers a theory of political power as a tool; an engine that converts human energy into power and privilege for the rulers. Invented in the Bronze Age and ruthlessly refined for six thousand years, today this engine threatens to destroy our world in a human emergency of converging political and economic crises, resource depletion, and environmental destruction. Applying his theory of political power to Western history, Corske makes a passionate argument that there is only one way to respond to this emergency: Armed central authority must be abolished, giving way to a world of peaceful voluntary communities. Six thousand years of violence and chaos, of abusive power and plundered privilege, is more than long enough. It’s time for something better.
Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’Brad Fiedel ‘The Terminator OST’
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LF247 Gary Lachman – Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump

Gary Lachman discusses his book Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump.
Millions of people were shocked, surprised and even horrified by Donald Trump’s election as the 45th President of the United States. From the outset his detractors considered his candidacy little more than a sick joke; a populist publicity stunt designed simply to further his own career at the nation’s expense. Behind the public facade, however, unseen forces were at work and as the campaign wore on, those convinced of Trump’s imminent failure became less and less sure of themselves. His victory turned their world upside down. As pathetic as Hillary Clinton’s campaign was, something else was needed to explain Trump’s seemingly unlikely triumph. But just what might account for this polarising paradigm shift?
Invisible to most, within the concentric circles of Trump’s regime lies a cabal of occultists, power-seekers, and mind-magicians whose influence is on the rise. Did the power of positive thinking and the much-vaunted practice of ‘manifesting’ help put Trump in the White House? Are there any other hidden powers of the mind at work in world politics today? In Dark Star Rising, Lachman lifts the lid on magical and esoteric ideas that are impacting political events right across the globe. From so-called New Thought to Chaos Magick and far-right esotericism, we follow a trail of mystic clues that involve, among others, positive thinking pioneer Norman Vincent Peale, Objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand, Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Alt-Right, Pepe the Frog, and various domineering gurus and demagogues.
We have now entered a mind-bending matrix of occult politics where post-truths and alternative facts proliferate and where change is the only certainty. In the early 21st Century, the borders between fantasy and reality have begun to blur and break down. If anything can be said with any conviction it is that there will be much more chaos to come.
Previous interviews with Gary Lachman here.
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