audio conversation with Jake Kotze

Synchromystic.

I love the term Synchromysticism, it was coined by the young enigmatic film-maker Jake Kotze. From his home in Winnipeg Manitoba, he has creating a series of delightful videos that attempt to define an elusive force that is welling up all around us.

Pop culture is easily dismissed as trite and vapid, and it can be dismissed by those searching for deep metaphysical answers. But hidden within the soup of our mundane movies and TV shows is a path to the divine.

We dig deep into psychedelics, interacting with aliens, crop-circles and transformative experiences all interwoven with synchronicities.

One click download HERE

1 hour / 35 minutes long.

Posted here are a few of Jake's short and mysterious videos. On one level they might seem sort of silly and clever for clever's sake, but on another level (at least for me) they resonate as something deeply profound.

Found media video as a pioneering form of communication.

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Jake’s videos on vimeo. Jake’s video’s on YouTube. Jake’s blog, The Blob. Jake’s written blog posts at the SynchHole.

TEXT added Oct. 23, 2011:

Here is a LINK to a really great interview with Jake done by the late Kent Daniel Bentkowski on his site The Kentroversy Tapes. This was recorded Oct. 22nd, 2007, four years and a day from today.

Christopher Knowles & William Henry

Two of our most impressive thinkers in conversation.

Christopher Knowles and William Henry share their insights in a half hour interview. Mr. Knowles uses his new book, THE SECRET HISTORY OF ROCK 'N' ROLL as a jumping off point toward deeper mysteries. Mr. Henry manages to frame this fascinating conversation into something perfectly transformative.

Listen HERE.

profound essay on LUMINOSITY

Dan Mitchell shares some deeply profound experiences on his blog LUMINOSITY. This is a long and heartfelt post, and I encourage you to read the entire essay.

A short excerpt:
Shortly after 10pm on Tuesday night I felt a strange urge to go outside. ... This urge ... was much stronger than at previous times. So while my kids and my wife slept ... I put on my sweater and walked out the back door. When I turned the corner, I thought for a moment that I saw a deer standing in the middle of my driveway. Deer are not that common in this area, but they do come by every now and then. Then, my vision shifted and I thought I was now looking at a pale-skinned naked kid standing in my driveway which startled me even more. When my mind was finally able to process the image, it became clear that this was one of "them". This being looked incredibly similar to the stereotypical Gray, but not as "science fiction" as they appear in popular culture...

This event lasted less than ten seconds. This being stood about 5 and 1/2 feet tall, had pasty and very smooth skin, with a slightly over-sized head ... I remember saying "whooa!" loudly and putting my hand out almost like I was saying, "don't come a step closer". For about eight seconds it was standing directly in front of me completely still like it was undecided on what to do. It's eyes were huge and reflecting the floodlights behind me. This is why when I first saw it, I thought it was a deer or large animal. The effect in its eyes was so intense that I felt myself begin to momentarily disassociate, but quickly pulled it together. This leads me to believe our natural response is to enter trance states in their presence for our own protection. This may not be something they are intentionally doing.

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Note: The small photo above was used in Dan's posting because he felt it fairly closely matched what he saw in his driveway.

audio interview with Lucretia Heart

“A great wind upon thin glass, shattering your paradigm.”

That haunting quote from Lucretia could sum up the entire two plus hour interview.

Lucretia Heart is a pen name. She shares her abduction and UFO related experiences on a haunting blog titled At Spiral’s End. Her written work is a collection of deeply personal life events. To add to the strangeness, both she and her husband are both abductees, and their parallel experiences are profoundly bizarre. Just so y'know, two experiencers marrying each other is not uncommon.

One-click audio download HERE.

2 hours and 12 minutes long

This interview is a spiraling of topics, and here's just a taste of the topics we cover: The existential challenge of seeing a being in her bedroom while fully conscious as a 16 year old, an unexplained pregnancy, shared experiences with her future husband, contacting Budd Hopkins, the feeling of mission, the information loops among experiencers before email, a relationship with a hybrid being named Diana, Wonder Woman and the Goddess motif, bad wigs, a handsome hybrid being named Ethan, tiny handwriting and the role of blogging.

As a writer, Lucretia has been extremely prolific, there is a huge volume of her experiences posted on her blog. But somehow, we mange to avoid re-telling too much. Our conversation and it’s details is almost entirely composed of events that have never been shared on-line.

Two gaunt actors with blue eyes and defined cheekbones are referenced to describe the tall being named Ethan.

The mysterious Ethan shows up as a key figure in the conversation. There are two postings about Ethan that are hinted at in the audio, but not fully explained. One is titled Are you ready for Armageddon? and the follow up is A letter to Ethan. In my opinion, both are required reading.
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Audio interview with Melinda Leslie

Melinda Leslie has been public with her own abduction experiences for over 20 years. For the last 18 years she has been actively researching the involvement of a clandestine group in the lives of abductees.

MILAB is an acronym for Military Abduction, and RE-ABS is an acronym for Re-Abductions. There is an important difference, and it is addressed in this audio interview.

One-click download HERE

2 hours and 39 minutes long

This research into the covert-operations of alien abductees is re-defining both the UFO cover-up and abduction paradigms. She has uncovered an ongoing program of monitoring, harassment and re-abduction of very vulnerable people.

Her years of investigation has meant the accumulation of a lot of data and detailed experiences, including her own. The covert-operations that invade the lives of the abductees be the best evidence for both the reality and importance of UFO abduction experiences.

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More resources:

This is a long interview, but there is still a lot more important info out there, and I strongly recommend visiting the links below.

Tim Binnall’s excellent interview from 2006. Melinda share a lot of her personal experiences.

Coast to Coast with Melinda and Niara Isley.

Coast to Coast with Melinda and Whitley Strieber.

Coast to Coast with Melinda and Joe Montaldo.

I also want to direct you to an excellent report from Melinda titled: RE-ABS: Not MILABS, and subtitled; How the Covert-Ops' Reverse Engineering of Extraterrestrial Abductees Shifts the Abduction Paradigm.

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NOTE:

If anyone has difficulty downloading this podcast, please visit the PODBEAN site HERE. And if you feel it would be easier if this large file was re-published as two smaller sized files, please let me know. Thanks, Mike C!

diet soap podcast

I'm part of an interview with Doug Lain now posted on his podcasting site DIET SOAP. We spoke about synchronicities, UFOs and the more bizarre aspects of the "experiencer" phenomenon. Doug is fiction writer, and very much a poet in the way he looks at complex issues. This mindset allows him to dig a little deeper into things that sit at our periphery.

The episode is intermixed with audio clips from Budd Hopkins and John Mack, as well as Doug reading from some of his own work. It's inspiring to listen to someone who takes on the role of an artist in the podcast format.

Doug also did a really good two part interview with Budd Hopkins, and during those episodes he shares some of his own experiences. Part ONE and part TWO.

now on iTunes

The arsenal of Hidden Experience interviews (and other musings) are now available on iTunes. Over 24 hours of audio, all set up for easy downloading. Your iPod will take on a heightened aura of enigmatic intensity.

Just one click away, right HERE.

a comrade starts a new blog

There is a blogger with the pen name Lucretia Heart that I've written about and linked to on this site. She is also an experiencer with a very powerful set of memories. She'll post essays about her alien abduction experiences, but they are interspersed with other more "normal" stories. So any reader interested in her more bizarre postings is required to dig thru her site a little bit.

But, she has (finally!) started blog dedicated specifically to these decidedly strange experiences. This essential reading is now archived on a site called SPIRAL'S END.

She writes:

"I've had a lot of people interested in the freakier aspects of my full personal online journal. Given this, I've decided to start a version of that journal that concentrates solely upon the paranormal-- especially the alien abduction aspects of it... I'll be adding new entries as well as entries previously posted to my other journal."

This woman has had some frightfully profound experiences. And to make things more compelling, she is an excellent writer. When she says something, I pay very close attention.

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audio interviews on a podcast site

All the audio downloads on this site are now stored and cataloged on a separate website, specifically set up for podcasting. I hope this makes it easier for anyone trying to search out the interviews and personal musings found on hidden-experience.

Presently there is well over 24 hours of listening available HERE.

There is also a LINK on the side bar (at the right) noted as Hidden Experience Audio.

LUMINOSITY

A "police sketch" done by me from a description from Dan Mitchel. He sent me a rough drawing and a photo of his driveway. Double click for a high-rez view.

I just read a very vivid posting from Dan at LUMINOSITY. This first-person narative is required reading. Linked HERE, and a follow-up story HERE.

An excerpt:

For the first time in my nearly 35 years, I have seen a solid "craft" at less than 20 feet and in a perfectly lucid state early this morning. This is absolutely unprecedented and I am still in a curious inward state because of the experience. Whether this was something that was beamed into my mind, I cannot say for certain.

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impromptu session with Christopher Knowles

Even mainstream TV news tries to figure out what's in the sky.

This morning I was posting links the facebook page that accompanies The Secret Sun blog. I was concerned about the curious UFO reports from New York City on October 13th. Christopher Knowles was commenting as fast I was posting, and I finally emailed him and asked, “Do you wanna talk about this?” And he replied, “You wanna do a quickie podcast on it?” Within minutes we had our headsets on and we were logged into skype.

This wasn’t a formal interview, both of us were speculating off the cuff about what might be unfolding. We ended up overlapping the core subjects of both of our ongoing writings and viewpoints. The conversation ended up getting pretty deep, until we were pondering the search for God.

Balloons? UFOs? Are these a deep reflection of our place in the universe?

We contemplate much, and conclude nothing.

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audio download / 1 hour 11 minutes

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We dig into the inevitable hoax revelations following UFO reports in the mainstream media, the use of hoaxes as media experiments, the nature of the phenomenon and the various controversies surround it, the strange timing of the NYC "sightings" hot on the heels of all of the stories about UFOs, space travel, exoplanets and much, much more.

Want more? Here are some links that will make things even murkier.

~ Audio interview with Stanley Fulham on Oct 16th. Podcast by Bill and Nancy Birnes. This was three days after the event.

~ UFO Disclosure Countdown Clock. This blog has been carefully logging info about the events of 10/13. This site also has a good collection of youtube clips take that day by people on the street as well as from mainstream TV news.

~ This youtube video makes a good case that what was seen were simply yellow balloons released in times square.

~ New York news report of the publicity event the same day in Times Square with (curiously) yellow balloons overtly featured in the photo and the text.


~ Video interview with Stanley Fulham the author of the book that predicted the events of 10/13. This two part youtube video is hosted by UFO researcher Randy Kitchur


~ Radio interview with a witness, as well as Jim Marrs. There is an excerpt from this interview at the end of the audio file with Chris Knowles.

~ An Associated Press report about a “gas leak” at the radar tower, and an evacuation of the facility. This curious event affected all three of NY’s major airports. Internet murmurings followed.

~ This interesting article about the mysterious "gas leak" from a VERY questionable source, that being Michael Salla.

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Extra text from Feb. 1st 2012:

Here's an interesting follow up in a recent news article that contradicts the "balloon" explanation. Linked HERE.

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audio conversation with Adam GoRightly

Adam and Robert Anton Wilson.

Adam GoRightly, self proclaimed crackpot historian comes to my rescue. This guy has a wealth of arcane knowledge and an uncanny skill at connecting very divergent dots. We tried to create some clarity with some contradictory phenomenon, but the outcome was something ever more perplexing. So it goes in this murky realm.

one-click download HERE.

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Audio download / 1 hour 45 minutes

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The loose framework of this interview was all set around these points:

UFOs, occult rituals, secret government involvement, mind-control and the overlapping of hidden dimensions. And lets toss psychedelic drugs in there too just to round things out.

In an attempt to peer into this foggy real, we travel all over the map, touching on Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Arnold, Jack Parsons, Robert Anton Wilson, Terence McKenna, The book of Enoch, Philip K. Dick, Nick Redfern, the Maury Island Event, Doris Lessing, George Adamski, George Van Tassel, the star Sirius, James Shelby Downer, Christopher Knowles, Jim Keith, Ken Thomas, Farah Yurdozu, Kenneth Grant, Allen T. Greenfield, vivid dreams, astral projection, Chica Bruce, the Montauk project, Aaron MacCollum, reality tunnels, dimensional overlaps, ritual magik, Preston Nichols, Peter Moon, Stewart Swerdlow, disinformation, Project Monarch, Brice Taylor, Cathy O’Brien, Dick Cheney, giant shape shifting Reptilians, synchronicities, Neara Isley, Melinda Leslie, Whitley Strieber, Geroge Gurdjieff, Andrew Colvin, Mothman, John Keel, psychic abilities, Walter Bosley, Barbara Lamb, Anya Briggs, channeling, Go-Go dancers ... and (yes) Charlie Mansion.

Want more? Plenty of links below:

Adam’s blog.
Adam’s website.
Adam’s books.

Adam’s podcast series.
Adam on Binnall of America.
Adam’s article titled Ritual Magic, Mind Control and the UFO Phenomenon.

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This clip features the quote from Terence McKenna that we reference in the interview. It starts at about the 7:40 time count.

a rare look behind the scenes of the Hidden Experience world headquarters

Alas, this was shamelessly lifted and plagiarised from Mac Tonnies blog, Post Human Blues. I encourage everyone to get lost in this delightful collection of postings.

an owl crosses my path

To better understand this little event, I need to share something relevant. At the end of last summer I had seen so many owls, that I needed a way to quantify what I was seeing. It was exasperating, and finally I overtly stated to the universe that I would only pay attention to owls that CROSSED MY PATH. I said it out loud as a declaration. For reasons unknown, right after that, all my owl sightings involved them crossing my path.

There is a bike path right in front of my house that goes straight into the center of the little town I call home. Two days ago, in the late afternoon I saw my old girlfriend from exactly a decade ago, she was jogging with a her three kids the bike path (I’ll call her Carol, not her real name). Two of her children were on bikes and the youngest was in a stroller. I rode my bike slowly along side Carol, and we chatted. Her only daughter (about 8 years old) was on a bike a little ways in front of us.

At one point, her little son said he had cold hands and she pulled out a pair of gloves for him - and at the same time we both realized that I had given her those gloves as a gift a decade ago!

We both talked about all the animals we had seen recently (moose, badgers, coyotes, foxes) and I told her that I’ve been seeing a LOT of owls. Less than two minutes later I saw an owl fly ACROSS OUR PATH and land on a low branch in a tree just a little ways in front of us. I was the only one who saw it, and in the way the bike path turned, I only caught a brief glimpse. This happened near a bridge in small stretch of cottonwoods. I whispered to the two children who didn't see it, and we all quietly walked toward the tree until we were right up close. It was right next to the Teton Creek, right along side of the bike path.

It was a handsome Great Horned Owl, a little less than 18" tall. It had those iconic "cat" tufts that look like ears, and electric bright yellow eyes. This was an unusual sighting in the daylight, and I think this is as close as I have ever been to a perched owl. I'm not kidding, it was probably 15 feet from where we stood on the bike path!

It stared down at us for about a minute, and then casually flew off. It felt like it was posing for us. Everything about the experience was beautiful.

I'll add after the owl flew off, the daughter was asking over and over and over, "Mom, do you love Mike?" This wasn't awkward at all, it was entirely endearing.

Carol and her daughter (who was right up close to the owl in the tree) both show up in the fourth posting on this blog. My friend Kristy held this little girl's hand on the hiking trail the morning after we saw the 3 owls (the first time) in 2006. I’ll add that we all saw a big beautiful moose that morning!

Carol shows up HERE too, in an experience that I can only call psychic.

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audio conversation with Richard Dolan

No, that's not a publicity photo from ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, that's Bryce Zabel and Richard Dolan, co-authors of A.D. After Disclosure.

If you’ve found your way to this blog, you're probably quite aware of Richard Dolan. He is the author of two great big books, volumes one and two in a series, entitled UFOs and the National Security State. And very shortly there will be a third book on the shelves titled A.D. AFTER DISCLOSURE, The People’s Guide to Life After Contact.

Richard worked with co-author Bryce Zabel, and the content is a speculative look at what seems to be the inevitable event that will change everything, the admission by the big boys in power that, yes, the UFO phenominon is real. It's a bold undertaking to try and speculate about what the future will hold. But, they’ve created an impressive work that makes for a sort of road-map of challenges and hurdles.

Their website for A.D. features excerpts from the book, as well as a series of follow up essays. Rich also has a site called Keyhole Publishing, this serves as the homepage for his other two self published books on the history of the modern UFO age.

To hear Bryce Zabel talking about the same book, here he is on the OPEN MINDS podcast.

Rich has done oodles of interviews over the years, and they are easily searched out on the internet. He recently spoke with Tim Binnall on Binnall of America, and that’s linked HERE, and an older interview HERE.

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Dinner at the UFO Conference in Lauglin Nevada, February 2010.

From Left to right: Natascha, me (looking serious), Karyn and Richard Dolan. Also, in the lower right corner is Jeremy Ray's hand.

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The book After Disclosure is now available. You can order it from the A.D. site.

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